Valentine's manual of old New York . oncerning the one hundred and seventy-five por-traits, and nothing was known concerning the monuments,except the information contained in the inscriptions, andthese in many cases were lacking. In order to establishthe time and method of acquisition, the year painted, andname of the artist, a thorough search was made throughthe proceedings of the Common Councils of New Yorkand Brooklyn, which was corroborated and supplementedby an examination of the books in the office of the Comp-troller. To procure the biographical data concerning thesubjects and artists,
Valentine's manual of old New York . oncerning the one hundred and seventy-five por-traits, and nothing was known concerning the monuments,except the information contained in the inscriptions, andthese in many cases were lacking. In order to establishthe time and method of acquisition, the year painted, andname of the artist, a thorough search was made throughthe proceedings of the Common Councils of New Yorkand Brooklyn, which was corroborated and supplementedby an examination of the books in the office of the Comp-troller. To procure the biographical data concerning thesubjects and artists, every available source of informationwas made use of, such as descendants, wills, and letters ofadministration, newspaper files, genealogies, and biograph-ical dictionaries almost without number. As much timewas devoted to the investigation as could be spared fromthe regular work of the Commission, so that this catalogueis the culmination of several years work. The cataloguefor the Borough of Manhattan was published in 1904, [ 330 ]. An old Fire Tower in Mt. Morris Park. One of the last relicsof Volunteer Firemen days. OF OLD NEW YORK and a similar list for the Borough of Brooklyn was pub-lished in 1905. In the year 1902 the Commission began also to as-semble a reference library, primarily for the use of itsmembers, but also for the use of the public. Naturally,this library is limited in the scope of the subjects, dealingmostly with art, artists, architecture, sculpture, city plan-ning and history of New York City. It now consists ofabout 1,000 volumes. The Commission also has collected and has on file inits office one thousand photographs of views, in Americanand foreign cities, dealing chiefly with civic improvement. In 1913 the Commission engaged an expert to photo-graph fifty Colonial buildings still standing in the vari-ous boroughs of New York City. These photographs areon file in the Art Commission library and have been fre-quently consulted by architects and others. Thi
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