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Over 1,000 maps of North America focusing on the Middle Atlantic region, from the earliest printed portrayals to the close of the 19th century, are presented from The Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division's holdings.
This nautical chart (Digital ID: 481134 ) from Samuel Thornton's The sea-atlas : containing an hydrographical description of most of the sea-coasts of the known parts of the world (1702-1707) depicts Long Island and parts of "New England, New York" and "east New Iarsey."
12.06.2007
Hundreds of images in this month's featured collection, including designs, lithographs and ephemera, illustrate the rich history of Italian dance.
This digital presentation is based on "500 Years of Italian Dance: Treasures from the Cia Fornaroli Collection," an exhibition presented October 2006 - January 2007, at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
This color lithograph (Digital ID: 1515952) by Niccolo Sanesi (1818-1889) depicts Sofia Fuoco (1830-1916), costumed as a peasant.
10.09.2007
The Albert G. Spalding Collection includes photographs, prints, drawings, caricatures, and printed illustrations related to baseball and other sports gathered
by the early baseball player and sporting-goods tycoon A. G. Spalding. This collection includes 19th-century studio portraits
of players and teams of the day, rare images, photographs, and original drawings.
This image (Digital ID: 55688) is of Dan Casey, Charlie Bastian and a trainer.
09.04.2007
This month's collection features many of the earliest and most
important historical photographs representing the exploration of the American west.
The locations and photographers include mammoth views of Yosemite
Valley by Carleton E. Watkins and Charles L. Weed, the route of the Union Pacific Railroad through
the Rocky Mountains by A.J. Russell, and others.
This image (Digital
ID: 435071), entitled "The Valley, From The Mariposa Trail," is from Charles L. Weed's
Yosemite views (1864).
08.08.2007
Family Tree Magazine has recently named Digital Gallery as one of the 101 Best Web Sites for 2007, under the "History Havens" category.
More from Family Tree Magazine:
...for our eighth annual 101 Best Web Sites, we've decided to revisit our "classic" compilation and present not the best new sites or the best undiscovered sites or what have you, but the best of the Web - period. The sites listed here represent our picks for the 101 most valuable spots to spend your genealogical time online. Read more.
07.19.2007
The thousands of items in this month's featured
collection are a sampling of an archive of more than 75,000 images of
theatrical personalities and productions in the Billy Rose Theatre Collection.
The Vandamm archive documents three decades of theatrical history in New York.
Hallmarks of the Vandamms' collective work are the beautiful compositions
they achieved and the flattering images they created. This image (Digital
ID: 1148371) of Clifton Webb and Tamara Geva is from the New York production
of "Three's a Crowd" at the Selwyn Theatre
in 1930.
07.10.2007
Among the riches of The Research Libraries is an enormous collection of
pre-1920 illustrated zoologies from Europe and the Americas. Not generally
well known, these impressive holdings are comparable to those in specialized
natural history libraries. This month's featured
collection contains several thousand images from illustrated books from
the 16th century to the early 20th depicting the fish, birds, and animals
of the world.
This image (Digital ID: 429318) of a striped red mullet is from The natural history of British fishes ... an extensive selection of accurately finished coloured plates (1802-1808) by
E. (Edward) Donovan.
06.04.2007
American master photographer Berenice Abbott (1898-1991) is probably best known for Changing New York, her 1935-1938 Federal Art Project documentation of the city's rapidly changing built environment.
This featured collection contains hundreds of black and white photographs from her work. In 1939, Berenice Abbott wrote that Changing New York had been intended
"to preserve for the future an accurate and faithful chronicle in photographs of the changing aspect of the world's greatest metropolis, ...
a synthesis which shows the sky-scraper in relation to the less colossal edifices which preceded it, ... to produce an expressive result in
which moving details must coincide with balance of design and significance of subject."
This image (Digital ID: 482799), taken October 03, 1935, is of the Blossom Restaurant at 103 Bowery, Manhattan.
05.02.2007
This month's collection features several thousand prints and photographs
contained in works from the 17th century to the beginning
of the 20th century, including classics of illustrated travel and regional archaeology,
as well as the Library's earliest works of photography in the Middle East region.
These selections offer resources for exploring Western impressions of the Middle East
in that era through the lens of practitioners of the new medium of photography. This
19th-century image taken by Félix Bonfils, Sphinx at Gizeh (Digital ID: 82626), is from
Views of Egypt, Palestine and Syria.
04.03.2007
Several rare and unusual published resources
of interest to students of western dress and fashion from the 19th to the early 20th-century.
Includes historical surveys as well as manufacturers' booklets and sample swatch catalogs.
This image (Digital ID: 105978) is from
Ladies' dress shoes
of the nineteenth century (published 1900).
03.05.2007