The Rosetta Stone CensusPhilomathean Society · 1858
Individual census record · C049

Newark Public Library Copy · Newark, New Jersey

The inscription identifies Rev. Henry William Ducachet; its date falls on his sixty-second birthday. The occasion and the transfer to Newark are unrecorded. Newark’s finding list establishes custody by March…

RepositoryNewark Public Library
LocationNewark, New Jersey
Shelfmark / Call Number493.1 R728 P54 ↗
BindingOriginal brown publisher-issued boards with gold decoration; later cloth-tape spine replacement.
Ownership EvidenceFront-endpaper inscription: “H. W. Ducachet D.D.” with the date February 7, 1859. Newark accession numbers and Free Public Library stamps occur on the preliminary leaves, page 23, and the final unnumbered page. The title appears in Newark’s second supplemental finding list of books added between March 1893 and March 1896.

Provenance Chain

Rev. Henry William Ducachet → unresolved gap → Newark Public Library, by 1896

Provenance Narrative

The inscription identifies Rev. Henry William Ducachet; its date falls on his sixty-second birthday. The occasion and the transfer to Newark are unrecorded. Newark’s finding list establishes custody by March 1896.

Sources and Documentation

Newark Public Library correspondence and twenty-eight copy-specific photographs; Newark finding list, second supplement; and St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church historical records; 1859 Catalogue of Members of the Philomathean Society, distinguishing the honorary member Rev. Henry William Ducachet from Henry William Ducachet Jr.

People in This Copy

  • Henry William Ducachet
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