Collection context

Summary

Creator:
Trell, Bluma L., 1903-1997
Abstract:
Handwritten and typed drafts of a publication along with notes, drawings, and photographs of coins and ancient sites. Includes a card index to ancient coins containing information such as place and ruler. Some cards have photographs.
Extent:
2 cubic feet (10 boxes)
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Bluma L. Trell publication draft and coin index, undated, Archives, American Numismatic Society.

Background

Scope and Content:

Handwritten and typed drafts of a publication along with notes, drawings, and photographs of coins and ancient sites. Includes a card index to ancient coins containing information such as place and ruler, some with photographs.

Biographical / Historical:

Bluma L. Trell (1903-1997) of New York City was a professor and expert on Greece. At the age of 21 she received a law degree from New York University and for the next decade she maintained a private practice. She ultimately abandoned law, returning to NYU to earn a bachelor’s degree in 1935 and a doctorate in 1942. She began to develop an interest in the study of the depictions of buildings on ancient coins and did much of her research at the American Numismatic Society, which resulted in works such as her dissertation, Architictura Numismatica: The Temples in Asia Minor, and Coins and Their Cities: Architecture on the Ancient Coins of Greece, Rome and Palestine (coauthored with Martin Price, 1977). She began teaching at NYU in 1959 and retired as a full professor in 1972.

Access

RESTRICTIONS:

Collection open to all researchers.

TERMS OF ACCESS:

Copyright restrictions may apply. Permission to publish or reproduce must be secured from the American Numismatic Society.

PREFERRED CITATION:

Bluma L. Trell publication draft and coin index, undated, Archives, American Numismatic Society.

LOCATION OF THIS COLLECTION:
75 Varick Street, 11th floor
New York, NY 10013, United States
CONTACT:
archives@numismatics.org