The E-Sylum:  Volume 7, Number 50, December 12, 2004, Article 6

EDITOR DOES AN ANS LIBRARY FLY-BY

  On Monday, December 6 your editor was in New York City 
  on business.  My meeting a travel schedule didn't leave
  much free time, but from about 4 to 5 pm I visited the 
  library of the American Numismatic Society at the 
  society's new headquarters in lower Manhattan.  A quick 
  subway ride whisked me to the location from Times Square. 
  After signing in with the guard I took the elevator to 
  the fifth floor and was met by ANS librarian Frank 
  Campbell.   He's very busy these days while trying to 
  hire someone to fill the vacant Assistant Librarian 
  position.    While Frank finished his workday I browsed
  the U.S. section of the rare book room on the sixth
  floor.  Here are some of the volumes I saw:

  The spine on the first volume which caught my eye read: 
  "Low's Hard Times Tokens / Descriptions / Adams"  
  Inside were sheets of loose-leaf three-ring notebook 
  paper mounted at the edge for binding.  Each page had 
  two or three photos of tokens pasted in, along with
  typewritten descriptions of the tokens.  

  Nearby was a deluxe, interleaved and gilt-edged version 
  of the Adams-Woodin work, "United States Pattern, Trial 
  and Experimental Pieces" bound in red cloth.  Inside 
  was an inscription dated April 15, 1913, reading "To The
  American Numismatic Society with the compliments of 
  William H. Woodin and Edgar H. Adams."

  Baker, Fred A., "A Brief on the Power of Congress to 
  Coin Money"  This State of Michigan Supreme Court brief 
  was published in 1899.

  A very interesting item I wished I'd had more time to 
  review was a handwritten manuscript labeled "Numismatic 
  Miscelleny."  It was bought by the ANS for $2.10 from
  the July 18, 1913 Thomas Elder sale (lot  181).   The 
  sale catalog attributed the authorship to Montroeville 
  Wilson Dickeson.

  Another nearby item was a bound volume of "rubbings of 
  rarities" by J.N.T. Levick.

  Back on the fifth floor on my way out, I noticed a new
  book I had been unaware of, "My First Eighty Years by 
  Michael Grant.   A prolific numismatic author, Grant 
  passed away earlier this year and we published portions
  of his obituary here in The E-Sylum.

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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