Deseret Evening News | 1901-04-12 | Page 5 | N. Y. Public Library

N y V nt I Valuable Old Gluts Ii hi 1 Made New York April n a meeting m of ot the he trustees trustee of or the New e York public II It 1 the lie til following selected gifts were vere Wert announced A 1 collet of engravings photo photographs graphs anti and ani drawings from Charles Chance D V I Curtis numbering about 2000 20 and nn rep representing representing corll resenting of ot tf early tor Italian and Spanish paintings painting the tile works of ot mid his school from rol William McDowell a portrait of ot Samuel J Til TH Tilden den painted by ii b the 1st II ite Matthew Wll 1 soil Hun un and which nta Mr I r at about M 50 6 years ean of or age Is the he one on which Mr Ir TIlden wished to be ue cnown knon and In history William F hiI er presented to the he library a large richly bound volume containing portraits of ot French person personages personages ages who figured prominently In the part purt that Franco France took tok In the tl war with Wih I Ingland nd which was al precipitated by time the th American revolution The em tm embrace brace King iCing 1 Louis 1111 XVI anti and Lafayette The library has hn also nilo acquired by b nut pur chase base a collection of ot the addresses of ot 1 the he governors of h hil his mj province ot of f New York from to t 1731 anti also the he mc of ot the central assembly dur dun lag nr that period