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Reintroducing the Boston Committee of Correspondence Records
Looking back on the Revolution in 1815, John Adams remarked that “The History of the United States never can be written” without the records of the Boston Committee of Correspondence. When it was...
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Joseph Hawley Papers Digitized
As part of the Early American Manuscripts Project, the Library has just digitized and made available online the Joseph Hawley papers. Hawley was a lawyer, legislator, and militia officer from...
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Printing Women: Sara Sanders
Untitled Chair #1, Sara Sanders, Lithograph, 2010.While the exhibition Printing Women focuses on Henrietta Louisa Koenen’s (1830–1881) collection of female printmakers from the 16th to 19th centuries,...
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Books We Know by Heart
Reading a book aloud to a child is one of life’s sweetest pleasures, and children sometimes ask to repeat the experience with the same book over and over.And over.And over.And over and over and over...
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Founding Firefighters: Volunteer Firefighters and Early American...
The Chelsea Fire Club formed in late 1788 to “more effectually… preserve & secure the goods & the prosperity of its members, as well as that of the rest of the good people of Chelsea, from...
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Evelyn Waugh and His "Most Offensive Work"
NYPL Digital Collections, Billy Rose Theatre Division.October 28 marks the birthday of Evelyn Waugh: novelist, journalist, biographer, professional curmudgeon. He was a versatile author whose work in...
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How to Research Dutch Ancestors
Dutch folk dancers and singers, New York World's Fair, 1939. Image ID: 1673859Led by English explorer Henry Hudson, the Dutch first arrived in the land now known as New York City in 1609. The Dutch...
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Emigrant City: Two Stories
Emigrant City is a project by New York Public Library’s NYPL Labs, in cooperation with the Library’s Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy, and the...
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The Legacy of a Librarian: Carolyn Ulrich's Little Magazines
Princeton University Press, 1946University of Chicago Press, 2015The publication of a wonderful new bookThe Little Magazine in Contemporary America (University of Chicago Press, 2015), is a unique...
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The United States of Fredonia?
“It was a great oversight” of the Constitution’s framers that they did not give the United States a “proper name.” So claimed Samuel Latham Mitchill in an 1803 broadside. A doctor by training, Mitchill...
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Happy Birthday to Everyone's Favorite White Whale
From Charles Scammon's Marine Mammals of the North-western Coast of North America, 1874Saturday, November 14 marks the 164th anniversary of the publication of Melville's masterpiece, Moby-Dick. In...
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Recent Acquisitions in the Jewish Division: November 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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Remembering Manhattan's Little Syria
A Syrian Arab at Ellis Island, 1926. Image ID: 212138Centered on Washington Street and Rector Street on the west side of Lower Manhattan, was once a neighborhood known as Little Syria. Located near the...
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Celebrating Transgender Jews
In honor of Transgender Awareness Week, the Dorot Jewish Division celebrates transgender Jews with these inspiring stories and recommended reading.Youth Leading the WayThe Forward recently honored...
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The Ultimate E-Alike Gift Guide
During the holiday shopping season, the weather outside may be frightful — not to mention the crowds and the credit card statements — but your NYPL library card is so delightful! In addition to...
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Top 9 Documents from the Boston Committee of Correspondence Records
Two-hundred and forty-three years ago today, November 30, 1772, the Boston Committee of Correspondence (BCC) undertook a major step (#2 on this list) in organizing resistance to British policies. The...
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Landsmanshaftn in New York: A Quick Online Guide
From dances and banquets to health insurance and free loan societies, landsmanshaftn helped immigrants in New York and many U.S. cities. Landsmanshaftn are Jewish community organizations of immigrants...
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Using Postcards for Local History Research
Smith's Infirmary Hospital, Staten Island. Image ID: 104755 Postcards are a fantastic visual resource for a place’s past that are often underutilized by scholars. They offer rich evidence of culture...
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You Buy Art, We Buy Bonds: Art Galleries in NYC during WWII
On August 10, 1941, as war raged in Europe, NY Times art critic Edward Alden Jewell quoted art dealer Sam Kootz on the wartime art scene: “Galleries need fresh talent, new ideas. Money can be heard...
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Recent Acquisitions in the Jewish Division: December 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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