Records of Meetings 



Meetings of the Association . 

 regular meeting, october 20, i917 



The meeting was held in the assembly hall of the Museum, 154 Stuy- 

 vesant Place, Staten Island. 



President Howard R. Bayne in the chair and eighteen persons present. 



The minutes of the annual meeting of May 19, 1917, were read and 

 approved. 



The president, in order that a record be entered on the minutes, made 

 formal announcement of the laying of the cornerstone of the new mu- 

 seum building only a few hours previously (Saturday afternoon, October 

 20, 1917) and expressed the hope that as full an account as possible of 

 the function and its attendant ceremonies would be, later,' prepared for 

 publication in the Proceedings. (See this issue, p. ^^.') 



Dr. Arthur Hollick exhibited and discussed two interesting museum 

 accessions, as follows : 



I. A lithograph, 3 ft. X 2 ft. in size, entitled Panorama of the Harbor 

 of New York, Staten Island and the Narrows. The printed text in connec- 

 tion with it is : " Published by Goupil & Co., 366 Broadway, New York. 

 Drawn from Nature & on Stone by John Bornet. Print by Nagel and 

 Weingartner N. Y. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 

 1854 by Nagel and Weingartner in the Clerk's Office of the District Court 

 of the Southern District of N. Y." 



This is the item mentioned in the August issue of the Bulletin, and 

 secured through the generosity and prompt action of Mr. Charles D. 

 Durkee. It is the largest and in several of its features one of the most 

 interesting of the many views of Staten Island included in our collection 

 of old prints and engravings issued prior to days of photography. Certain 

 of the topographic features are more or less exaggerated, but almost every 

 prominent residence of the time when the picture was made is faithfully 

 depicted in every architectural detail, especially those at Clifton, which 

 locality is the initial point of view of the picture. 



It may also be of interest to compare it with this smaller colored litho- 

 graph included in our collection, entitled " The Narrows, New York Bay. 

 From Staten Island," published by Currier and Ives, 152 Nassau street, 

 New York. This view is taken from the top of Pavilion Hill, Tompkins- 

 ville, looking toward the Narrows, and therefore represents a viewpoint 

 opposed to the other. It is not dated; but inasmuch as the fort at the 



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