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Things to Do in New York City with Kids: Time Travel Edition
Children waiting for a vendor outside of Central Park. Image ID: 1558534The Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy has long collected travel guidebooks as...
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The Right Stuff: Finding the Best Biography Database for Your Research
Biographies can serve many purposes: they can be the product of extensive research, the means to understanding a time period or event more thoroughly, the inspiration for new creative work (hello,...
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Elizabeth De Hart Bleecker Diary, June 24, 1802
“A very fine day - being St. John’s Day it was celebrated by the ancient and honorable order of Free Masons - they form’d a Procession and walk’d through some of the streets to Trinity Church, where an...
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Introducing Explora
Though summer vacation has just begun, it's never too early to look toward the fall and the beginning of another school year. To help you get ready, the Library's Articles & Databases page now...
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Mary Katherine Goddard's Declaration of Independence
*/This is how most Americans in the revolutionary period found out who actually signed the Declaration of Independence.Goddard Broadside, Theodorus Bailey Myers Collection, NYPL Manuscripts and...
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The Writing on the Wall: Documenting Civil War History
As June turned into July in 1863, the residents of Vicksburg, Mississippi faced an increasingly dire summer. Union troops surrounded the city in a siege that had begun on May 18th. Ulysses S. Grant's...
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Ports of Embarkation and Arrival: Brief Passages in U.S. Immigration History
St. Brendan holding mass on the back of a whale. Image ID: ps_rbk_cd14_210Population MovementsIn recent weeks, as the end of Immigrant Heritage Month neared, trends in political news headlines seemed...
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Recent Acquisitions in the Jewish Division: July 2016
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.Changing the Immutable: How Orthodox...
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Genealogy Tips: Searching the Census by Address
Ever wondered who lived in your home before you? Perhaps it was someone famous? Or someone infamous. Maybe you have tried searching for your great-grandparents in old census records, but you are having...
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Stonewall in Pictures
The announcement of President Obama's recent designation of the site of the June 28, 1969 Stonewall uprising as a national monument prominently featured LGBT historical materials from the Library's...
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Cullman Center Recommends: 15 Books for Summer Reading
Since it opened in 1999, the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers has had seventeen classes of fellows in residence at The New York Public Library. These gifted independent...
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New York on the Front Line: The Black Tom Island Explosion, July 1916
Aerial view of the Statue of Liberty, 1912. Black Tom Island can be seen in the background on the right. Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy. Image ID:...
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Elizabeth De Hart Bleecker Diary, Summer 1803
“Mama, Mary and Anthony went to Morris Town — Mama has not been very well for some time past, and she has gone to try if change of air will be of service to her”—Elizabeth De Hart Bleecker, July 27,...
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Hannah Lawrence Schieffelin and Women's Experiences in Revolutionary America
Hannah Lawrence Schieffelin was, in many ways, an exceptional woman. A prodigious poet, she used her talents to provoke the British by depositing, anonymously, her mocking, anti-British poem in front...
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The First Photograph Taken in Absolute Darkness
by Elizabeth Cronin and Zulay Chang, Photography Collection.The “First Picture taken in absolute darkness,” dated October 7, 1931 on verso. Used with permission from Kodak. Accession number/Call no.:...
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Now Screening: Around the World in 22 Periodicals
Now Screening highlights NYPL's recent electronic resource acquisitions. This month: the digital runs of several national and international newspapers and magazines. Publishers Weekly Digital Archive...
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Recent Acquisitions in the Jewish Division: August 2016
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.Between Tel Aviv And Moscow: A Life Of...
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Genealogy Tips: Probate Records in New York
Funeral for Judy Garland. 1969. NY Times.“Impressed with the uncertainty of Life and anxious to arrange my worldly affairs…”Probate records are often gainful resources in genealogy research, yielding...
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Gold Medal Magazines
Opening ceremonies are a few days away, and so the eyes of the world are turning to Rio and the beginning of the 2016 Summer Olympic Games. With dozens of events, some more obscure to American viewers...
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Women in Translation Month: Yiddish
August is Women in Translation Month. Celebrate Yiddish women writers in English translation with poetry, fiction, memoirs, prayers, and cookbooks from the Library’s collection.Translator, poet and...
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