Ben Franklin on Cooking Turkey... with Electricity
On Thursday, households across America will gather to celebrate Thanksgiving, with turkey taking pride of place on our Thanksgiving tables. Baste, brine, deep-fry? (But not frozen, please!) The...
View ArticleFashion, The High Life, and "The Duties of Married Females": 19th...
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View ArticleAngularJS E2E Testing for the New Locations Section
The new Locations section of nypl.org is built with AngularJS, a JavaScript framework in which testing is integrated into the application development process. As the project involved large data sets...
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Conflict/Resolution and Changing Geographic Realities in the Peace of the Map...
Newly installed in the Map Division’s exhibition case are three not-so-new maps demonstrating the role that maps play, years after their informative, current-events function, in documenting histories...
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Where Did Times New Roman Come From?
The evolution of Times New Roman, with historical precedents Top: Gros Cicero, from Surius’ Commentarivs Brevis Rervm In Orbe Gestarvm. Middle: Plantin, from H.G. Wells’ Tono-Bungay. Bottom: Times New...
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You Must Remember This: The Jeff Kisseloff Oral History Interviews
On a beautiful Wednesday morning in 1904, six year old Edna Doering left her apartment in the East Village with her mother, and two elder siblings. Her mother carried a shiny tin lunch box for the...
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A Birthday Huzzah for Mr. Ford Madox Ford
December 17 marks British author, editor, and all-around literary icon Ford Madox Ford’s 141st birthday. To celebrate the occasion, I explored his writings in the Rare Book Division—and found some...
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Charles Dickens and His Christmas Stories
Christmas approaches, and at this time of year many of us will read, listen to, or watch adaptations of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, in Prose: Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. This story, now...
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Aylmer Bourke Lambert and the Most Princely of Pines
Aylmer Lambert, from Description of the Genus Pinus. Image ID: 1114097Evergreens, pines, conifers. As the year draws to a close, many of us have welcomed these needly trees into our homes as part of...
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A Photographic Bible Fit for a Queen
Francis Frith, The North Shore of the Dead Sea, printed in The Queen's Bible (1862-63)Francis Frith, The Pool of Hezekiah, Jerusalem, printed in The Queen's Bible (1862-63)Between 1856 and 1860, the...
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From Paper Maps to the Web: A DIY Digital Maps Primer
*/ I was invited to the National Library of Colombia’s 2nd Digital Book Week as a speaker and to give a workshop on digital mapping tools. I thought it would be useful to share that workshop since it...
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What’s Your Story? Conducting Interviews for Genealogical Research
Radio News Reel Interview, Image ID 1677379Family history research often begins with an interview. Speaking with your family to discover names, dates, locations, and important life events is one of the...
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The Changing Face of Times Square
Undated aerial image of Times Square shows the impact of lights in the "crossroads of the world." Image ID: 1558469Before there was a Times Square, the uptown intersection of Broadway and Seventh...
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Then & Now: Dinanda Nooney in 1970s Brooklyn
Johnny Redd's shop, V.I.P. 416 Waverly Ave., Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. April 6, 1978.In 1976, 416 Waverly Avenue in Brooklyn was the address of two incongruous but similarly named businesses: VIP Sewer...
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Glimpses of Alice
To celebrate Lewis Carroll’s upcoming birthday—and my un-birthday!—let’s venture down the rabbit hole to explore depictions of Alice, his most famous creation, here at The New York Public...
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More Nordic Noir
With the bleakest part of the winter now upon us, some readers may be craving a feast of Scandinavian noir. Jeremy Megraw's excellent blog post from 2013 covered a lot of this chilly ground, but here...
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Juana Vargas "La Macarrona:" A Flamenco Treasure
As a member of the Wertheim study, I was honored to be invited to write a blog post about the Library's significant holdings related to flamenco. The footage of Juana Vargas "La Macarrona" (1870-1947),...
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Short-Term Research Fellowship: Evert A. Duyckinck's Social Network
During the middle of the nineteenth century, changes in transportation and communication systems extended New York City’s geographic reach giving its cultural productions a truly national audience....
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Recent Acquisitions in the Jewish Division: February 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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Public Eye: The Photography of Helen Levitt
Helen Levitt (American, 1913–2009), Untitled, ca.1940, gelatin silver print The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs. © Estate of Helen LevittHelen Levitt was one of this...
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