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Series: Library accession register books, 1859-1995 1.75 cubic feet (11 bound items)

Consists of eleven library accession register log books. The amount of information varies, but they generally provide accession number, accession date, author, title, publisher, publication date, binding type, source of accession, cost, and remarks. These books were the official record of library accessions beginning in 1859, the year following the Society’s founding in 1858. Books 4 through 9 are American Library Association standard accession-books, produced by the Library Bureau, and contain detailed rules for accessioning and lists of abbreviations to be used. Two of the books (6 and 7) overlap in the years covered.

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Series: Miscellaneous development and membership records, 1866 - 1989 1 cubic foot (2 boxes and 2 oversized bound items)

Various materials relating to the Society’s publications, membership, and fundraising, including the purchase and distribution of medals and publications and records of publications sent to members. Includes Joseph N.T. Levick’s annotated copy of the first volume of the American Journal of Numismatics (AJN) (1866), along with the original circular announcing the publication’s debut (pasted in) and accounts and lists relating to coin purchases either for him personally or for the Society. (It was Levick who first proposed the publication of AJN and he served as its first editor.) Also of note is correspondence relating to the purchase and distribution of Albert Frey’s Dictionary of Numismatic Names (1917-1918); correspondence regarding the efforts to raise funds to purchase the Swedish coin collection of Robert Robertson (1929.103), and subscription forms and letters for the School for Coin and Medal Designing and Die Cutting and for two of the Society’s earliest medals: Membership (1875-1880) Charles E. Anthon (1884).

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Mostly bound notebooks used to record and organize work in the library such as binding, cataloging, and accessioning. Also includes a three-ring bound and typed “List of Books on Numismatics” (1912) possibly relating to a plan mentioned by Archer Huntington who desired a list of all numismatics works ever published (see Early Library Correspondence series), library reports (1948-1949), and a library visitors log (1988-2003).