Image Text 2 Items Board of Commissioners of the Central Park draft resolution, June 1863 Draft resolution of the Commissioners of Central Park to set apart and appropriate to the New-York Historical Society the building known as the New York State Arsenal. View Item
Text Dr. Osgood draft resolution presented to New-York Historical Society Executive Committee, May 19, [1863] Draft resolution adopted at the Executive Committee meeting on May 19, 1863 appointing Luther Bradish, Andrew Warner, and Benjamin H. Field to a special committee "to consider the subject embraced in the foregoing resolution from the Society, and to report a plan of action to this Committee as soon as possible". View Item
Image Text 2 Items Document No. 1. Board of Commissioners, Central Park, April 10, 1862 Copy of the Act to improve the Central Park in the City of New York, passed by the New York State Legislature on March 25, 1862. Followed by minutes of the meeting of the Board of Commissioners of Central Park, Thursday, May 11, 1865, with preamble and resolutions regarding the appropriation of the New York State Arsenal to the New-York Historical Society. View Item
Text Draft resolution regarding the act of the New York State Legislature to improve the Central Park, passed March 25, 1862, undated Resolves that Frederic De Peyster, President of the New-York Historical Society, and Jonathan Sturges communicate with the Board of Commissioners of the Central Park to execute a proper conveyance or instrument under the act of the New York State Legislature. View Item
Text Extract from New-York Historical Society Executive Committee minutes, August 14, 1860 Resolution to form a committee with a view to "secure the State Arsenal and adjoining ground in the Central Park for the Museum of the Society". View Item
Image Collection 141 Items Proposed Central Park building, 1860-1876 Documents concerning the New-York Historical Society's eventually unsuccessful attempt to establish a Museum of Antiquities, Science, and Art on the site of the Arsenal in Central Park. The series includes the minutes of the Building Committee formed in 1863 to pursue the Central Park initiative. The minutes, which run until January 1867, have introductory entries transcribing earlier related documents, beginning August 14, 1860. View Collection
Text Copy of New-York Historical Society Committee on Audubon Drawings resolution, May 14, 1863, with Frederic De Peyster certificate, June 1, 1863, verso View Item
Text Copy of New-York Historical Society Committee on Audubon Drawings resolution, May 14, 1863, with Frederic De Peyster certificate, June 1, 1863, recto View Item
Image Text 2 Items Copy of New-York Historical Society Committee on Audubon Drawings resolution, May 14, 1863, with Frederic De Peyster certificate, June 1, 1863 Resolution and authorization to purchase Audubon watercolors for $4,000. View Item
Text Andrew Warner extract from New-York Historical Society meeting minutes, April 7, 1863, page [4] View Item
Text Andrew Warner extract from New-York Historical Society meeting minutes, April 7, 1863, page [3] Not captured. View Item
Text Andrew Warner extract from New-York Historical Society meeting minutes, April 7, 1863, page [2], blank Not captured. View Item
Text Andrew Warner extract from New-York Historical Society meeting minutes, April 7, 1863, page [1] View Item
Image Text 4 Items Andrew Warner extract from New-York Historical Society meeting minutes, April 7, 1863 Resolution to appoint a committee "to carry into effect the suggestions of the Executive Committee with reference to the purchase of the Audubon Drawings, and to secure them for the Society, if possible, by obtaining special subscriptions for that purpose of the amount required". View Item
Text New-York Historical Society Special Committee on the Audubon Drawings report to the Executive Committee, March 10, 1862 [i.e. March 10, 1863], page [16], blank View Item
Text New-York Historical Society Special Committee on the Audubon Drawings report to the Executive Committee, March 10, 1862 [i.e. March 10, 1863], page [15], blank View Item
Text New-York Historical Society Special Committee on the Audubon Drawings report to the Executive Committee, March 10, 1862 [i.e. March 10, 1863], page 14 View Item
Text New-York Historical Society Special Committee on the Audubon Drawings report to the Executive Committee, March 10, 1862 [i.e. March 10, 1863], page 13 View Item
Text New-York Historical Society Special Committee on the Audubon Drawings report to the Executive Committee, March 10, 1862 [i.e. March 10, 1863], page 12 View Item
Text New-York Historical Society Special Committee on the Audubon Drawings report to the Executive Committee, March 10, 1862 [i.e. March 10, 1863], page 11 View Item
Text New-York Historical Society Special Committee on the Audubon Drawings report to the Executive Committee, March 10, 1862 [i.e. March 10, 1863], page 10 View Item
Text New-York Historical Society Special Committee on the Audubon Drawings report to the Executive Committee, March 10, 1862 [i.e. March 10, 1863], page 9 View Item
Text New-York Historical Society Special Committee on the Audubon Drawings report to the Executive Committee, March 10, 1862 [i.e. March 10, 1863], page 8 View Item
Text New-York Historical Society Special Committee on the Audubon Drawings report to the Executive Committee, March 10, 1862 [i.e. March 10, 1863], page 7 View Item
Text New-York Historical Society Special Committee on the Audubon Drawings report to the Executive Committee, March 10, 1862 [i.e. March 10, 1863], page 6 View Item
Text New-York Historical Society Special Committee on the Audubon Drawings report to the Executive Committee, March 10, 1862 [i.e. March 10, 1863], page 5 View Item
Text New-York Historical Society Special Committee on the Audubon Drawings report to the Executive Committee, March 10, 1862 [i.e. March 10, 1863], page 4 View Item
Text New-York Historical Society Special Committee on the Audubon Drawings report to the Executive Committee, March 10, 1862 [i.e. March 10, 1863], page 3 View Item