Past Issues
July 16, 1998 |
THE LIFE OF WILLIAM WALLACE TOOKER William Wallace Tooker, 1848-1917, Long Island's pioneer ethnographer, was 50 years old in 1898 when he sold his famous collection of eastern Long Island Algonquian artifacts, 1,242 of them - 19 a gift from Tooker. The Brooklyn Eagle and the benefactors of the Museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, which would become the Brooklyn Museum of Art, recognized the value of his unique collection and raised the money to preserve it. It was a bittersweet accomplishment for Tooker. To be able to write about the collection he had spent his life amassing, he had to part with it. The price was $3,000 ($50,000 in today's dollars), rather than the $5,000 he had been hoping for.
THE TASTE OF HISTORY
What's In A Name?
WYANDANK'S DEED TO LION GARDINER, OF SMITHTOWN
SOMETHING FISHY: THE JAMES T. ABBOTT
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