Fashion, The High Life, and "The Duties of Married Females": 19th...
The Art & Architecture Collection has a large collection of women’s (and some men’s) 19th century fashion-plate periodicals. While French fashion dominated the 19th century this post features a...
View ArticleBefore Kermit, There Was Catesby
There's a whole lot of Muppet talk around the Library these days, because the Library for the Performing Arts has opened their newest exhibition, “Somebody Come and Play:” 45 Years of Sesame Street...
View ArticleNYPL Ask the Author: Mark Strand
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View ArticleJourney to the Center of the Library: Rare Books and Provenance
Image Credits: Rare Book Division. New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox, Tilden Foundations. Map created with Scribble Maps.
View ArticleEastern Conference of Homophile Organizations, 1964
To read further on the arc of LGBT civil rights struggles in the U.S. check out:Dudley Clendinen and Adam Nagourney. Out for Good: the Struggle to Build a Gay Rights Movement in America.David...
View ArticleSpies Among Us: World War I and The American Protective League
In the wake of the United States’ war declaration against Germany on April 6, 1917, dozens of extralegal vigilance organizations such as the Knights of Liberty, American Rights League, Boy Spies of...
View ArticleHappy Birthday, Moby-Dick!
Moby-Dick was published in England on October 18, 1851 (its United States publication fell almost one month later, on November 14). And in the one and a half centuries since, it has inspired countless...
View ArticleClass Act: Researching New York City Schools with Local History Collections
Bibliography Address of the Roman Catholics to their fellow citizens of the city and state of New York. New-York, 1840.Andrews, Charles C. The history of the New-York African free-schools, from their...
View ArticleConducting Genealogical Research Using Newspapers
Bronx County Historical SocietyBrooklyn Historical SocietyBrooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn CollectionHistoric Richmond TownNew York Historical SocietyNew York State LibraryThe Newark Public...
View ArticleJane Smiley on the NYPL Podcast
The New York Public Library Podcast brings you the best of the Library's author talks, live events, and other bookish curiosities. In our most recent episode, author Jane Smiley visited NYPL for Books...
View ArticleSharing Is Caring: A Photographic Locket of Mr. and Mrs. General Tom Thumb
The Photography Collection has recently acquired a rare brass locket containing twelve miniature albumen prints of the famous couple made shortly after their wedding. The locket includes portraits by...
View ArticleMedium Rare: Ghostly Stories from Rare Books
On Halloween, we pull back the curtain between real and unreal, reveling in the spooky, mysterious, and inexplicable. What better way to celebrate the holiday than communing with the spirits and ghosts...
View ArticleImagining Ichabod Crane: Illustrated Editions in Rare Books
Halloween approaches here in the Rare Book Division, and in addition to planning my costume (I'll be dressing as a librarian, naturally), I've also been exploring Washington Irving's classic and...
View ArticleThe Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel is synonymous with luxurious accommodations. Guests expect excellence in surroundings, room service, food and entertainment. One hundred years ago, white glove service was...
View ArticleMore of Our Favorite, Most Absorbing, Compelling, and Pleasurable [True!]...
A few months ago, the NYPL Milstein Division of United States History, Local History & Genealogy put our collective local history obsessive minds together to bring you a list of our favorite NYC...
View ArticleFrom Stage to Page with the Cranach Press's Hamlet
The Weimar Republic brought a period of prolific creativity to Germany in the years between World Wars I and II, with art, theater, music, and literature all experiencing a golden age. Fine press...
View ArticleAbsolute Sale! NYC Land Auction Catalogs in the Map Division
All of our print collections can be identified through searching our catalog or through consulting our old-school hard copy catalog that we keep at the reference desk in our reading room. Searching by...
View ArticlePodcast #37: Richard Ford on Becoming a Reader and Finding a Voice
The New York Public Library Podcast brings you the best of the Library's author talks, live events, and other bookish curiosities. In our most recent episode, we were lucky to be visited by Richard...
View ArticleEvacuation Day: New York's Former November Holiday
Materials on other historic New York City holidays and celebrations can be found through the following subjects:Holidays -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.Parades -- New York (State) -- New...
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