Avant-Garde Periodicals Meet Digital Archives
The Library's research collections of little magazines and avant garde journals are tremendous and as curator for small press materials I was excited to attend “Remediating the Avant Garde: Magazines...
View ArticleA Black Tulip Comes to the Pforzheimer Collection
Here at the Pforzheimer Collection, our big acquisition of the year is a black tulip, one of the rarest items in the Shelleyan world: Original Poetry by Victor and Cazire, 1810, Shelley's first book of...
View ArticlePresentación del Nican Mopohua y Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe
Esta es la traducción del blog en ingles de Thomas Lannon.Lengüetas primarias. Entre los muchos tesoros de la Biblioteca Pública de Nueva York estan los documentos que aparecieron cuando el Nuevo Mundo...
View ArticleA Black Tulip Comes to the Pforzheimer Collection, Part 2
…To continue: you will recall that I was embarking on an attempt to explain the note at the bottom of p. 11 of Original Poetry byVictor and Cazire in the copy owned by the New York Public Library. To...
View ArticleA Prophecy Before Our Time: The Gay Men’s Health Project Clinic Opens in...
Guest post Perry Brass.By 1973, after the Gay Men’s Health Project Clinic, the first clinic for gay men on the East Coast founded by Leonard Ebreo, Marc Rabinowitz, and myself, had been operating for a...
View ArticleOur Favorite, Most Absorbing, Compelling, and Pleasurable [True!] Tales of...
The NYPL Milstein Division of United States History, Local History & Genealogy recommends our favorite, most readable, most memorable New York City nonfiction. These are the true stories of New...
View ArticleStefan Zweig's New Life
Stefan Zweig is experiencing a major comeback in the English-speaking world. The works of fiction of this Austrian Jewish writer (1881-1942) are being reissued in new translations, including his novels...
View ArticleThe Battle of Antietam in Maps: An Interview with Researcher Jamesina Thatcher
In 2013, Jamesina Elizabeth Thatcher received a scholarship award from the Save Historic Antietam Foundation (SHAF), a non-profit battlefield preservation organization. Preservation efforts began at...
View ArticleCan You Help Find the Descendants of Seneca Village?
A story from NPR's blog, The Lost Village in New York City, about Seneca Village, describes how historians have been unable to trace any of the descendants of the people who lived there....
View ArticleHistorical Maps in Minecraft
At a recent internal hacking event here, NYPL Labs developer Paul Beaudoin recruited me into an interesting project: transforming one of the library's 20,000 digitized historical maps into the...
View ArticleUncovering the Truth: Helen Bernstein Book Award 2014
Each year since 1988, the Library has awarded Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism to a journalist for a work of in-depth, investigative reporting. Over 100 non-fiction books were...
View ArticleGodzilla: Monster, Metaphor, Pop Icon
Although Godzilla had become something of an action hero for children in the '60s and '70s (the time of the Hanna-Barbera cartoon I loved so much) by 1985, cold war tensions had intensified and it was...
View ArticleThe True Delights of Penny Dreadfuls
What’s not to love about Showtime’s new gothic series Penny Dreadful? It features Doctor Frankenstein and his monster, Dracula’s Mina Harker, and Wilde’s Dorian Gray, along with séances, ancient...
View ArticleSherlock Holmes at the Library
With the recent appearance of several movies and television series based on the stories of Sherlock Holmes, the popularity of the enigmatic detective does not appear to be slowing down one bit.The...
View ArticlePicturing Walt Whitman
The life and work of Walt Whitman (May 31, 1819 - March 26, 1892) are prodigiously documented in the Oscar Lion Collection, held in the New York Public Library's Rare Books Division. This daguerreotype...
View ArticleCulinary Delights in Lady Anne Percy’s Receipt Book
Nearly four hundred years later, this satisfying dish is prepared today in much the same way. While recent versions usually begin with cutting the meat into pieces and browning it in a skillet, this...
View ArticleDocumenting Tiananmen Square
Twenty-five years ago, the world watched Beijing's Tiananmen Square, as demonstrations by Chinese citizens rallying for democracy drew the attention of Chinese military, with deadly results. Long after...
View ArticleSwan Song
What keeps a person in the same job for thirty-seven years? Necessity? Loyalty? Love? Madness? Maybe all of these.A few years ago, when I still lived in Manhattan and could walk to work, I never...
View ArticleBloomsday in the Berg Collection
James Joyce's Ulysses is a novel unique in the history of English literature, perhaps all literature, in that it has a day dedicated to its celebration all over the world. So extraordinary was the...
View ArticleFrom the Archives of the Century: The Century Foundation & NYC, Part I
In 2012, the Manuscripts and Archives Division acquired the records of the Century Foundation, a non-partisan research institute based in New York City previously known as the Twentieth Century Fund...
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