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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
Thousands of historical menus comprising a collection of more than 25,000 items were gathered by Miss Frank E. Buttolph (1850-1924), a somewhat mysterious and passionate figure, whose mission in life was to collect menus.
This image (Digital ID: 475260) is from an 1900 menu for Child's Lunch Rooms, which had locations in New York City on
Broadway and on 19th Street. Clam chowder was 15 cents on Fridays.
02.02.2007
More than 2,000 manuscript
pages and associated illuminations dating from the 9th through the 16th centuries give vivid testimony to the
creative impulses of the often nameless craftsmen who continually discovered new ways of animating the contents
of hand-produced books. This image (Digital ID: 427272) is from
a Psalter
created in the 12th century.
01.08.2007
Thousands of photographs of Indonesian costumes, theatrical performances, and dance movements, taken by scholar Claire Holt (1901-1970) and others, were collected by Holt in her travels through the region in the 1930s and later.
This image (Digital ID: 1107087) of a battle dance was taken in 1931.
12.01.2006
More than 1,000 images from 1,200 years of Japanese book art, including Buddhist sutras, painted manuscripts, portraits,
landscapes, calligraphic verse, photographic books, drawings, and woodblock prints, are presented in this month's featured collection.
A major exhibition, Ehon: The Artist and the Book in Japan, is also being presented at The New York Public Library from October 20, 2006 to February 4, 2007.
This image (Digital ID: 1504492) by Kitagawa Utamaro (1753?-1806) is from
Shiohi no tsuto (Second Edition, 1789), commonly known in English as The shell book.
11.28.2006
We have recently reached a significant milestone in creating a digital library for the 21st century:
more than half a million images from The New York Public Library's collections are now accessible through
NYPL Digital Gallery.
Since this site was launched last year,
the Digital Library Program has added almost 250,000
more images while continuing to improve
the site's user-friendly features.
11.01.2006
This month's collection features early Soviet posters,
placards, and broadsides. NYPL's holdings represent one of the largest assemblages of such posters outside of Russia.
This image, I. Nivinskii. Zhenshchiny, idite v kooperatsiiu. [Women, Go into Cooperatives.] (Digital ID: 416748),
is from the collection of posters in the Harold M. Fleming papers.
10.18.2006
This month's featured collection
contains hundreds of photographs, prints, and drawings offering a selective
view of the history of Native American portraiture, including works by George Catlin,
Edward S. Curtis, Karl E. Moon, and others.
This image (Digital ID: 479898) by Karl
Bodmer of a Moennitarri warrior in the costume of the Dog dance
is taken from Voyage dans l'intérieur de l'Amérique du Nord,
... 1832, 1833 et 1834, par le prince Maximilien de Wied-Neuwied, published 1840-1843.
09.12.2006
More than 1,400 images
from illustrated pattern books, scrapbooks, and other primary sources, dating
from the late 18th to early 20th-centuries, feature interior decoration, furnishings,
furniture patterns, and views relating to the Empire and Regency Styles.
This image (Digital ID: 1211877)
is of an Empire Style clock from French
Goldsmith's Designs, ca. 1800.
08.01.2006
This month's featured collection guide presents over 500
prints and photographs offering the complete content of a wide range of selected image collections
and illustrated monographs: Hudson River mansions, including
Washington Irving's home and vicinity
in the 1860s; street views by Alice Austen from 1896; a panorama of
Fifth Avenue from 1911,
and more.
07.03.2006
Hundreds of photographs and prints,
in albums and rare published volumes, present the territories and countries associated with Portugal
and Spain in the New World, from Mexico to Argentina, and parts of the Caribbean.
This image (Digital ID: 111386) of an Aztec calendar is
taken from Cités
et Ruines Americaines, published 1862-1863.
06.01.2006
Over 1,000 images, from the 16th to the 20th-century, draw upon a wide range of published
engineering rarities and related original holdings. The selection highlights a diverse
range of illustration primarily in civil and mechanical engineering found in the NYPL Science,
Industry & Business Library's Parsons Collection. This image (Digital ID: 1108645) is from
Della trasportatione dell'obelisco vaticano et delle
fabriche di nostro signore papa Sisto V fatte dal cavallier Domenico Fontana, architetto di Sva Santita, libro primo (1590).
05.08.2006
April's featured collection contains several thousand photographs of actors and actresses, in character and as themselves, from the 19th century to recent years.
These images from the Billy Rose Theatre Collection of the NYPL Library for the Performing Arts include - in addition to theatre and Hollywood publicity stills, circus photographs,
and vaudeville productions - many rare photographs from the early years of cinema.
This image depicts Broadway and Hollywood actress Marion Davies (Digital ID: TH-07436).
04.03.2006
At Museums and the Web 2006 - "the international conference for culture and heritage online"
- NYPL Digital Gallery was chosen winner for Best
Research Site at the annual Best
of the Web awards. An international panel of museum professionals selects
winners each year from nominated sites in categories such as On-line Exhibition, Education,
and Research. Websites nominated in the Best Research Site category should
"support research on ... collections and provide excellent resources for researchers
from any discipline."
What the judges said about Digital Gallery:
A rich information portal with wide ranging content available for easy use by the researcher, student and/or casual viewer.
Huge amount of information... Not only is the depth of content superb, the functionality of the search engine is exemplary.
This is a fascinating site that is easily searched and makes a wealth of information instantly available.
Past winners in this category have included the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Timeline of Art History, Tate Online, and the Theban Mapping Project.
03.25.2006
The New York Public Library now offers high-quality prints in various sizes, with custom framing options, for online purchase. Our new ordering interface allows customers to choose any of over 450,000 Digital Gallery images, including historic photographs and maps.
Customers can now choose imagery and customize requested images. An online cropping tool allows users to select all or part of an image, which is then reproduced on archival quality Fuji Crystal Archive matte paper. The Library has selected Pictopia, Inc. as its digital reprint partner. For more information about ordering prints online, see the description of this new service.
03.08.2006
The New York Public Library launched NYPL Digital Gallery in early March,
2005. The site currently provides access to over a 450,000 images digitized
from primary sources and printed rarities in NYPL collections, including illuminated
manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs,
illustrated books and printed ephemera. In the 12 months since its launch NYPL
Digital Gallery has logged over 27 million page views by visitors from over
90 countries.
This website helps to fulfill the traditional mission of The New York Public Library to select, collect, preserve, and make accessible "the accumulated wisdom of the world, without distinction as to income, religion, nationality, or other human condition." It offers broad public access to a wide range of historical and cultural documents that "enable individuals to pursue learning at their own personal levels of interest, preparation, ability and desire, and help ensure the free trade in ideas and the right of dissent."
03.03.2006
This featured collection contains over 1,000
prints and photographs (mostly albumen, hand-colored albumen and gelatin
silver prints) of East, Southeast and South Asia from the 18th century to the
early 20th century, drawn from portfolios, photographic albums, photographically
illustrated books and archival collections. This image, View
on the Tokaido beyond Odowara, Hakoni Mountains in the distance (Digital
ID 118896), appears in Felice Beato's Views
of Japan, which was published in the 1870s.
03.02.2006
With the recent addition of over 30,000 digitized items
from the Mid-Manhattan
Library Picture Collection, NYPL Digital Gallery now provides access to
over 440,000 images. Since its creation in 1915, the Picture Collection at
the Mid-Manhattan Branch of the New York Public Library has met the needs of
New York's large community of artists, illustrators, designers, teachers, students,
and general researchers. Covering over 12,000 subjects, the Picture Collection
is an extensive circulating collection and reference archive, the largest of
its kind in any public library system. Digitized Picture Collection items include
an assortment of images from from books, magazines and newspapers as well as
original photographs, prints and postcards. These images were originally digitized
for the Mid-Manhattan Library's NYPL
Picture Collection Online website.
02.01.2006
NYPL Digital Gallery was profiled in a number of recent publications, and has appeared in several end-of-the-year "best of the web" issues. College & Research Libraries News, The Times (London), Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, EContent Magazine (annual "EContent 100" issue), Print: America's Graphic Design Magazine (annual "Interaction Digital Design" issue), and Reference & User Services Quarterly are some of the publications which have recently reviewed the Digital Gallery. Here's what some have said:
An immense treasury of images....Our own British arts and archive institutions would do well to follow its ambitious example.
The Times (London)
NYPL Digital .... is a genuine pleasure to wander through.
College & Research Libraries News
For those who cannot be in New York, this is the next best thing. This invaluable resource should be bookmarked by every researcher and teacher....Highly recommended.
CHOICE ("WEB IX: Current [Web] Reviews for Academic Libraries")
This collection is perhaps second only to the American Memory project in the number of historical images online.
Reference & User Services Quarterly
Public libraries represent more egalitarian access to content .... Digital Gallery provides an excellent example of this ideal.
EContent Magazine
Stupendous collection of free images. Hooray for the NYPL for recognizing what the P in their name stands for.
Cabinet Magazine
01.12.2006
A random image is now included - with links to the image and its source - on all Library Division pages in the Gallery. These images are selected from all items in a Library Division, and a new random image is displayed each time the page is loaded. This feature provides a digital corollary to the physical experience of serendipitously browsing library holdings (an activity which is often not possible in the Research Libraries' closed stacks) and showcases the extraordinary variety within NYPL digital collections. All Gallery Collection Guides with holdings from a particular Library Division are now also linked from Library Division pages.
12.01.2005
![Walt Whitman (1819-1892). Proto-Leaf [title page] in Whitman's Leaves of Grass Blue Book (1855). Digital ID: 484427](explore/image/462.jpg "Walt Whitman (1819-1892). Proto-Leaf [title page] in Whitman's Leaves of Grass Blue Book (1855). Digital ID: 484427")
Over 1,000 items, including manuscripts, printed works, and portraits of Walt Whitman (1819-1892),
the leading American poet of the 19th century. This digital collection guide complements NYPL's Fall 2005 commemorative exhibition, "I Am With You": Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass (1855-2005).
This image (Digital ID: 484427) is of the annotated title page from Whitman's "Leaves of Grass Blue Book" (1855).
09.09.2005
More than 1,300 digital images depict elevation views and floor plans for middle and upper class apartment buildings from New York City's pre-World War I residential building boom.
This 1910 image (Digital ID: 1157576) depicts a typical floor plan of the Hendrik Hudson Apartments.
07.19.2005
NYPL Digital Gallery has hosted over one million visitors (total user-sessions) in the four months since launching March 3, 2005.
The site has also served over 43 million image requests.
07.10.2005
In its annual survey of Internet websites, Time Magazine named NYPL Digital
Gallery one of "10 Cool Sites" overall (Time
Magazine, June 27, 2005, Print Edition) and one of the "50 Coolest
Websites" of 2005 (Time.com
Web Edition). Past awardees have included the BBC, Bloglines.com, PBS.org,
Whitney.org, Gawker.com and Idealist.org.
What Time said about Digital Gallery:
Time.com's annual survey of the Web's most useful and interesting sites spotlights both great newcomers and veterans with new tricks. Here are 10 of the best .... Lose yourself in this vast collection of rare prints, manuscripts, vintage maps and other artifacts from the New York Public Library.
06.27.2005
This month's featured
collection guide includes over a thousand images from nearly 100 volumes
on decorative art and surface ornament. This image by E.A. Séquy (1890
- 1985), "1. Papilio philoxenus, Inde; 2. Troides priamus-poseidon, Nouvelle Guinee..." (Digital
ID: 74803), is from Papillons : vingt planches en phototypie coloriees
au patron, donnant 81 papillons et 16 compositions decoratives.
06.05.2005
The Gallery was recently reviewed by the Internet Scout Project and the Christian Science Monitor.
Lovers of historical and cultural ephemera should prepare themselves for this website, which has been years in the making and is an absolute gem for anyone interested in the potential of large-scale digital galleries.... both elegant and easy to use.
Internet Scout Project
You can be excused for wondering if you've inadvertently linked your way into the British Museum or Library of Congress...Artifacts range from the middle ages to the mid-20th century..... A staggering collection with navigational options that are more than up to the task.
Christian Science Monitor
06.01.2005
This collection guide features
thousands of examples of the covers of popular American sheet music from 1890-1900.
This image depicts the circa 1893 song sheet, She
is my picnic girl / words and music by Harry Connor (Digital ID: 1157576).
05.04.2005
This month's choice features
thousands of art and scientific prints, illustrating medicinal plants, spectacular
garden flowers, exotic tropical blooms and other plant-life. The image by George
Brookshaw (1751-1823), Morella, Caroon and the Cherry introduced by Mr. Reynolds
of Brentford (Digital ID: 1107545), is taken from Pomona
Britannica, published 1812.
04.01.2005
NYPL Digital Gallery was recently profiled by ResourceShelf.com:
An amazing new digital image repository.... It could really be frustrating to try and make your way through all this stuff if the browsing and searching functions weren't so good.... (Read the entire review)
03.15.2005
This featured collection surveys
hundreds of American posters printed from 1893 through the first years of the
20th-century This highlighted
image from a Harper's March issue was created by Edward Penfield
(1866-1925).
03.03.2005
