Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Sherman, Augustus F. (Augustus Francis), 1865-1925.
2. Levick, Edwin, 1868-1929.

Description

1. 6.81 linear feet (11 boxes, 1 oversize folder.)

Summary

1. The William Williams papers contain correspondence, reports, notices, photographs, scrapbooks, a guest book, watercolors and other items from his terms as Commissioner of Immigration at Ellis Island and Commissioner of New York City’s Dept. of Water Supply, Gas, and Electricity.

Subject

1. Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.)
2. Public utilities > New York (State) > New York
3. Visitors' books
4. New York (N.Y.) > Dept. of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity
5. Ellis Island (N.J. and N.Y.)
6. New York (N.Y.) > Emigration and immigration
7. Photographs
8. Municipal officials and employees
9. Immigrants > New York (State) > New York
10. Scrapbooks
11. Williams, William, 1862-1947
12. Watercolors (paintings)

Genre/Form

1. Photographs.
2. Scrapbooks.
3. Visitors' books.
4. Watercolors (paintings).

Call number

1. MssCol 3346

Access (note)

1. Advance notice required for use. Apply at http://www.nypl.org/mssref
2. Microfilm, digital images, and copy prints must be used in lieu of originals when available.
3. Original photographs available only by written permission of the Curator of Manuscripts.

Additional formats (note)

1. available on microfilm;
2. Copy prints of all photographs available for consultation.
3. Augustus F. Sherman and some Edwin Levick photographs available in NYPL Digital Gallery.
4. Augustus F. Sherman photographs appear in Mesenhöller, Peter. Augustus F. Sherman: Ellis Island Portraits, 1905-1920 (New York: Aperture, c2005).

Source (note)

1. Williams, William - Estate

Biography (note)

1. William Williams (1862-1947), a New York City lawyer, was Commissioner of Immigration for the Port of New York at Ellis Island for two terms, 1902-1905 and 1909-1913, and Commissioner of the New York City Dept. of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity, 1914-1917.

Processing action (note)

1. Cataloged

Author

1. Williams, William, 1862-1947.

Title

1. William Williams papers, 1902-1943, (bulk 1902-1917).

Additional formats

1. Boxes 1 and 2, scrapbooks and Augustus F. Sherman photographs available on microfilm; New York Public Library; *ZL-445
2. Copy prints of all photographs available for consultation.
3. Augustus F. Sherman and some Edwin Levick photographs available in NYPL Digital Gallery.
4. Augustus F. Sherman photographs appear in Mesenhöller, Peter. Augustus F. Sherman: Ellis Island Portraits, 1905-1920 (New York: Aperture, c2005).

Access

1. Advance notice required for use. Apply at http://www.nypl.org/mssref
2. Microfilm, digital images, and copy prints must be used in lieu of originals when available.
3. Original photographs available only by written permission of the Curator of Manuscripts.

Biography

1. William Williams (1862-1947), a New York City lawyer, was Commissioner of Immigration for the Port of New York at Ellis Island for two terms, 1902-1905 and 1909-1913, and Commissioner of the New York City Dept. of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity, 1914-1917.

Finding aids

1. Finding aid available in repository and on internet: http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/rbk/faids/williamsw.pdf

Location of other archival materials

1. Related collections include the William Williams Collection of Photographs of Ellis Island, Photography Collection, New York Public Library.

Connect to:

1. NYPL Digital Collections
2. Finding Aid

Occupation

1. Municipal officials and employees.

Added author

1. Sherman, Augustus F. (Augustus Francis), 1865-1925. Photographer
2. Levick, Edwin, 1868-1929. Photographer

Research call number

1. MssCol 3346