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Drexel Collection
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The Drexel Collection is a collection of over 6,000 volumes of books about music and musical scores owned by the Music Division of The New York Public Library. Donated by Joseph W. Drexel in 1888 to the Lenox Library, the collection, located today at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, is rich with materials on music theory and music history as well as other musical subjects. It contains many rare books and includes a number of significant 17th-century English music manuscripts.
Bust of Joseph W. Drexel by John Quincy Adams Ward (1889), located at the 3rd floor entrance of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Bust of Joseph W. Drexel by John Quincy Adams Ward (1889), located at the 3rd floor entrance of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Joseph William Drexel
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Joseph William Drexel was a banker, philanthropist, and book collector.
1877 portrait by Jacob H. Lazarus
1877 portrait by Jacob H. Lazarus
1889 bust of Drexel by John Quincy Adams Ward at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
1889 bust of Drexel by John Quincy Adams Ward at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts