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Yiddish Theater Posters of the 1890s
The New York Public Library’s Digital Collection includes Yiddish theater posters dating back more than a hundred years. These ephemeral pieces, with their bold titles, portraits of actors, and...
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Jersey Genealogy: A Research Guide Using Local History Collections
Atlas of Hudson County, Bayonne, NJ. 1919. Image ID: 3991145“: a local pride; spring, summer, fall and the sea; a confession…” - William Carlos Williams, Paterson.In 1609, Dutch explorer Henry Hudson...
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Beyond the Title Page: Watermarks, Colophons, and Publishing Dates
This project started as a comparison of copies of a series of beautifully illustrated books on fashionable dress, trades’ dress, and ethnic costume at New York Public Library held in both the Art and...
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20 Reasons Why You Should Write Your Family History
Hungarian Family at Ellis Island, all of whom were deported. 1905. Image ID: 417071If you have done any family history research, such as looking for records on Ancestry.com and FamilySearch.org or...
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The Archive in the White Suit: The Tom Wolfe Papers Now Open
The papers of writer Tom Wolfe are now available for research in the Manuscripts and Archives Division of the New York Public Library. A description of the Tom Wolfe papers, along with an index to...
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Jüdischer Frontsoldaten: German-Jewish Soldiers in WWI
As the World War I exhibit "Over Here: WWI and the Fight for the American Mind" in the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building is just steps away from the Dorot Jewish Division, I wondered what in our...
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Love Letters 101: Epistolary Lessons from Rare Books
At its heart—pun intended—Valentine’s Day is about letting loved ones know you care about them. The words of famous besotted correspondents fill our shelves—the Rare Book Division alone holds printed...
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Del papel a la web: haz tus propios mapas interactivos.
*/ Esta es una traducción de “From Paper Maps to the Web: A DIY Digital Maps Primer” realizada por Daniela Schütte, coordinadora del proyecto Memoria Chilena de la Biblioteca Nacional de Chile.NOTA:...
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Bill Barvin's Location Photography
Avenue D Laundromat. Image ID: 5211665I first heard the name Bill Barvin almost by accident, when by chance a colleague remembered the existence of a large photographic collection belonging to the...
View ArticleRecent Acquisitions in the Jewish Division: March 2015
The following titles on our Recent Acquisitions Display are just a few of our new books, which are available at the reference desk in the Dorot Jewish Division. Catalog entries for the books can be...
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Street Prostitute, Fort-Monjol, April 19, 1921, by Eugène Atget
Eugène Atget (French , 1857–1927). Fort-Monjol, fille publique faisant le quart, 19e. Avril 1921 [Fort-Monjol, prostitute looking for clients, April 19th, 1921]. Albumen silver print. NYPL, The Miriam...
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Lawmen and Badmen: The Tin Star of the Old West
Gunslinger in the Church. Lobby card. Image ID: G98F842_002.In the old movies about the Old West, when grizzled, chawing, cussing, murdering highwaymen ride into town and disturb the peace, from behind...
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Why Is New York City Called the Big Apple?
View of Manhattan from Fulton Street circa 1935. Image ID: 482681New York is a city of nicknames. The City That Never Sleeps, Empire City, The City So Nice They Named It Twice… and of course Gotham,...
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Ask the Author: Frank Bruni
Frank Bruni comes to Books at Noon next Wednesday, March 18 to discuss his latest work, Where You Go Is Not Who You’ll Be: An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania. We asked him six questions about...
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Matzah and Melodrama: Nahum Stutchkoff's Yiddish Song Lyrics
Planter’s High Hat Peanut Oil sponsored Stutchkoff’s radio comedy “In a Yidisher groseri” (In a Jewish Grocery), broadcast on Sunday afternoons in the late 1930s on WEVD radio. Ad from “Teater un radio...
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Ask the Author: T.C. Boyle
T.C. Boyle comes to Books at Noon next Wednesday, April 1 to discuss his latest work, The Harder They Come. We asked him six questions about what he likes to read.When and where do you like to read?I...
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Fairy Tales With a Twist
Fairy tales are big again. With the release of Disney's Cinderella and the popularity of the TV show Once Upon a Time and the movies Maleficent and Into the Woods, fairy tales are in the news...
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A Quick Guide to Jewish Periodicals
Historical Jewish Periodicals OnlineNewspaper. George Arents Collection. Image ID: 1190564TitleLanguageDatesLocationSourceAufbauGerman1934-2004New York, NYInternet Archive/Leo Baeck InstituteAmerican...
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Madame du Châtelet and Fighting the Invincible Force
When we seek to recognize and champion women in history, often we must look for the echoes of their presence. Barred by expectation or explicit prohibition from many outlets for expression and renown,...
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Podcast #54: Jeffrey Deitch on Art and Spectacle
Subscribe on iTunes.Jeffrey Deitch may best be known for his visionary gallery Deitch Projects, but now the artist-curator-dealer is adding a new title: writer. In honor of the release of his book Live...
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