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Geoffrey Ward collection on Ferdinand Ward and the Ward family

Title
Geoffrey Ward collection on Ferdinand Ward and the Ward family, 1825-2012.
Author
Ward, Geoffrey C.

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box 21Mixed materialRequest in advance MssCol 22284 box 21Schwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328
box 20Mixed materialRequest in advance MssCol 22284 box 20Schwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328
box 19Mixed materialRequest in advance MssCol 22284 box 19Schwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328
box 18Mixed materialRequest in advance MssCol 22284 box 18Schwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328
box 17Mixed materialRequest in advance MssCol 22284 box 17Schwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328
box 16Mixed materialRequest in advance MssCol 22284 box 16Schwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328
box 15Mixed materialRequest in advance MssCol 22284 box 15Schwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328
box 14Mixed materialRequest in advance MssCol 22284 box 14Schwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328
box 13Mixed materialRequest in advance MssCol 22284 box 13Schwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328
box 12Mixed materialRequest in advance MssCol 22284 box 12Schwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328
box 11Mixed materialRequest in advance MssCol 22284 box 11Schwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328
box 10Mixed materialRequest in advance MssCol 22284 box 10Schwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328
box 9Mixed materialRequest in advance MssCol 22284 box 9Schwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328
box 8Mixed materialRequest in advance MssCol 22284 box 8Schwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328
box 7Mixed materialRequest in advance MssCol 22284 box 7Schwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328
box 6Mixed materialRequest in advance MssCol 22284 box 6Schwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328
box 5Mixed materialRequest in advance MssCol 22284 box 5Schwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328
box 4Mixed materialRequest in advance MssCol 22284 box 4Schwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328
box 3Mixed materialRequest in advance MssCol 22284 box 3Schwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328
box 2Mixed materialRequest in advance MssCol 22284 box 2Schwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328

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Description
8.4 linear feet (21 boxes)
Summary
Geoffrey Ward is the author of A Disposition to Be Rich, a biography of his great-grandfather, Ferdinand Ward, who ran a fraudulent Wall Street investment firm from 1880 to 1884. The Geoffrey Ward collection on Ferdinand Ward and the Ward family (1825-2012) consists of material collected and created by Geoffrey Ward in preparation of the book. The collection documents the activities of Ferdinand Ward and his extended family from the 1810s to 1949 through original family correspondence, legal documents, newspaper articles, and Geoffrey Ward's research notes, among other materials.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Correspondence.
  • Research notes.
Access (note)
  • Advance notice required. Apply at http://www.nypl.org/mssref.
Source (note)
  • Purchased from Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, Inc., 2013.
Call Number
MssCol 22284
OCLC
890395922
Author
Ward, Geoffrey C.
Title
Geoffrey Ward collection on Ferdinand Ward and the Ward family, 1825-2012.
Restricted Access
Advance notice required. Apply at http://www.nypl.org/mssref.
Source
Purchased from Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, Inc., 2013.
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Research Call Number
MssCol 22284
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