Matches in Harvard for { ?s ?p This collection contains the papers of William Croswell (1760-1834; Harvard AB 1780), a Boston cartographer, educator, and Harvard Library cataloger, dating from 1776 to 1834. A substantial portion of the collection chronicles Croswell's lifelong financial difficulties, psychological issues, and poor health, and from 1821 until shortly before his death in 1834, his repeated and unsuccessful attempts to receive financial compensation from the Harvard Corporation for his work on the University's library catalog. The collection also includes materials that touch upon Croswell's work as a school teacher in Massachusetts, New York, and England between 1780 and 1808; as a cartographer and scholar; and as an employee working on a catalog of the Harvard College Library from 1812 to 1821.. }
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- catalog abstract "This collection contains the papers of William Croswell (1760-1834; Harvard AB 1780), a Boston cartographer, educator, and Harvard Library cataloger, dating from 1776 to 1834. A substantial portion of the collection chronicles Croswell's lifelong financial difficulties, psychological issues, and poor health, and from 1821 until shortly before his death in 1834, his repeated and unsuccessful attempts to receive financial compensation from the Harvard Corporation for his work on the University's library catalog. The collection also includes materials that touch upon Croswell's work as a school teacher in Massachusetts, New York, and England between 1780 and 1808; as a cartographer and scholar; and as an employee working on a catalog of the Harvard College Library from 1812 to 1821.".
- catalog description "This collection contains the papers of William Croswell (1760-1834; Harvard AB 1780), a Boston cartographer, educator, and Harvard Library cataloger, dating from 1776 to 1834. A substantial portion of the collection chronicles Croswell's lifelong financial difficulties, psychological issues, and poor health, and from 1821 until shortly before his death in 1834, his repeated and unsuccessful attempts to receive financial compensation from the Harvard Corporation for his work on the University's library catalog. The collection also includes materials that touch upon Croswell's work as a school teacher in Massachusetts, New York, and England between 1780 and 1808; as a cartographer and scholar; and as an employee working on a catalog of the Harvard College Library from 1812 to 1821.".