Name/Title
Possession of the Document.Entry/Object ID
2016.2.99zDescription
... possession of the document.
Lucky in Niles
Linda McGinnis, public relations coordinator for the Niles McKinley Memorial Library, said officials there have been lucky when it comes to the extensive collection of memorablia associated with the former president.
"We've never had anything stolen." she said.
She said the local collection does not have a copy of Czolgosz's court dockets, but the library did acquire his police mug shot within the past year.
Patrick Finan, director of the library, said the mug shot was purchased from a children's museum in Indiana.
"There was a woman whose father was a police officer in Buffalo and was in the precinct house when Czolgosz was brought in," he said. '"He took possession of one of the photographs."
The officer took the picture -- one of only three of four known to exist, Finan said -- when his family moved to Indiana. The photograph was included in a donation of yearbooks and other items his daughter made years later to the children's museum.
Will be moved.
The mug shot and several other pieces of the collection will be moved from the library to the McKinley Home and Research Center on South Main Street when it opens in early May, McGinnis said.
A dedication ceremony for the center, which is on the site where McKinley's birth home was located, is set for May 4, McGinnis said.Collection
BlaneyAcquisition
Accession
2016.2.0Source or Donor
Eileen B. BlaneyAcquisition Method
Gift