Death Notices from the New York Evening Post, 1801-1890

Death Notices from the New York Evening Post , 1801–1890 contains tens of thousands of death notices published in this newspaper for almost the entire nineteenth century. Gertrude A. Barber, a prolific transcriptionist of the early twentieth century, compiled these records between 1933 and 1947. This typescript comprises fifty-five volumes, each with a separate surname-only index, and we present them here in a fully searchable electronic format for the first time.

The original typescripts are kept in the R. Stanton Avery Collection at NEHGS, call number NYC 15 14.

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