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Contains finding aids for over 10,000 unique collections (digitized and non-digitized) in almost every conceivable format.
Discover NYPL's world-renowned research collections, featuring more than 46 million items. Plus, access materials from library collections at Columbia University, Harvard University, and Princeton University.
The Library's digitized collections are available as machine-readable data: over 1 million objects and records for you to search, crawl and compute.
Brings together the riches of America's libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world.