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David Wagstaff collection

 Collection
Call Number: MS 541

Scope and Contents

The collection of logbooks and ship's papers gathered by David Wagstaff, plus correspondence and reports concerning the Canadian salmon industry and student notebooks of Philip Kearny (1815-1862) and Thomas Richmond (d. 1859) when they were students at Columbia.

Dates

  • 1810-1935

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

The materials are open for research.

Existence and Location of Copies

The logbooks and equipage inventories are also available on microfilm as part of Hist. MSS Film 21.

Conditions Governing Use

Copyright status for collection materials is unknown, though much of the material in this collection is likely in the public domain. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.) beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of David Wagstaff and the Wagstaff estate.

Extent

2.5 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

English

Catalog Record

A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog

Persistent URL

https://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0541

Abstract

The collection of logbooks and ship's papers gathered by David Wagstaff, plus correspondence and reports concerning the Canadian salmon industry and student notebooks of Philip Kearny (1815-1862) and Thomas Richmond (d. 1859) when they were students at Columbia.

Biographical / Historical

David Wagstaff: broker and sportsman; B.A. Harvard, 1905; partner in the N.Y.C. brokerage firm of Dominick & Dominick, 1915-1929; collected sporting books, paintings, and prints which he later donated to the University of Virginia and Yale University.

Title
Guide to the David Wagstaff Collection
Status
Under Revision
Author
compiled by Thomas J. Connors
Date
August 1980
Description rules
Finding Aid Created In Accordance With Manuscripts And Archives Processing Manual
Language of description note
Finding aid written in English.

Part of the Manuscripts and Archives Repository

Contact:
Yale University Library
P.O. Box 208240
New Haven CT 06520-8240 US
(203) 432-1735
(203) 432-7441 (Fax)

Location

Sterling Memorial Library
Room 147
120 High Street
New Haven, CT 06511

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