In two volumes, here’s the easiest way to begin a search for contemporary accounts of a notable person. The listings will lead you to every New York Times’ mention of a person, grouped into a single entry under that person’s name, instead of under multiple entries for every year. Note that the listings refer to references in the NYT Index, and not to the pages of the paper itself, so you need to use this in conjunction with the NYT Index. Nonetheless, it beats hunting through a whole century of indices to find references to a by-gone person of note.
