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Wheelwrights
A law regulating Negroes & slaves at night
Gang of slaves journeying to be sold in a southern market
The levee at Cairo, Illinois
Making salt at Saltville
The wedding long ago
Kitchen ball at White Sulphur Springs
Slaves in front of a cabin
Negroes for sale
Sale from Maryland and Virginia
A slave - coffle passing the Capitol
Young and likely
Exterior view of Price, Birch & Co., dealers in slaves
Idealization of the South
The Detroit River, at Detroit, Michigan, in 1850, the favorite place for fugitives to cross into Canada
Notice to Colored people
![Anti-Slavery Meeting on the [Boston] Common](https://images.nypl.org/index.php?id=DS_001G004P&t=t)
Anti-Slavery Meeting on the [Boston] Common
Advertisement from J.M. Wilson for sale of Maryland and Virginia Negroes
Whipping in America and in the 19th century
Cover page of The Liberator
The Road to Liberty
Gone off with the Yanks
Sale of valuable slaves, by Hewlett & Bright, New Orleans
Slave badges and free badge, Charleston Museum, Charleston, S.C.
Runaways
Recently Digitized and Updated Collections See More
Photographs of British algae: cyanotype impressions
392 items
The Black Experience in Children's Books: Selections from Augusta Baker's Bibliographies
153 items
Scrapbooks of New York City views
3,118 items
Li ji ji shi: er shi wu juan
26 items
Women of distinction: remarkable in works and invincible in character
50 items
Collection of ledgers and cash books covering the period 1891-1925
8 items
Sketchbook archive
3 items
Bungalow magazine
37 items
Japanese prints
827 items
Six Patriotic posters for the First World War
6 items
B'nai B'rith messenger
726 itemsNew York City directories
156 items
Century Company records
15,743 itemsMaps of North America
3,341 items
Jules Fisher collection of Jo Mielziner Designs
102 items
Patrick Kelly collection of audio-visual recordings
11 items
National Dance Institute Video Archive
538 items
Yizkor Book Collection
645 items
TAG Foundation Video Archive
91 items
Yaddo records
154 items
Yiddish theater collection
410 items
Wadleigh High School Yearbooks
35 items
Morris Huberland
9,247 items
Weltchronik
725 items
The Villager
1,356 items
Duyckinck family papers
1,009 items
Prints depicting dance
2,446 items
Martha Swope photographs
50,718 items
Collection of photographs of New York City, New York State and more by Max Hubacher
785 items
Winnie-the-Pooh stuffed animals
16 items
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Digital Collections Print Store
Decorative prints for purchase: choose from archival prints framed art stretched canvas vintage wood and wall murals.
Photography Collections See More
Halloween
35 items
Bill Barvin Location Photograph Archive
215 items
Morris Rosenfeld Photographs
260 items
Walter Silver photographs
2,599 items
New York Subways
42 items
Martha Swope photographs
50,718 items
Outer Boroughs: New York beyond Manhattan
86 items
Billy Rose Theatre Collection photograph file
56,964 items
Photographs from the American country woman series
29 items
Variety, vaudeville & burlesque
185 items
Photographic views of New York City, 1870's-1970's, from the collections of the New York Public Library
34,741 items
New York Public Library photographs
30 items![Friedman-Abeles photographs: [legacy collection]](https://images.nypl.org/index.php?id=4038999&t=r)
Friedman-Abeles photographs: [legacy collection]
39,838 items
Drugstore Photographs, Or, A Trip Along the Yangtze River, 1999, by Dylan Stone
25,428 items
The Middle East in Early Prints and Photographs
5,693 items
Kenn Duncan Photograph Archive, ca. 1960-1986
7,039 items
Russia and Eastern Europe in Rare Photographs, 1860- 1945
2,642 items
Vandamm theatrical photographs, 1900-1957
3,726 items
Photographs of Indonesia
1,795 items
White Studio theatrical photographs
2,230 items
Photographic views of New York City, 1870's-1970's, from the collections of the New York Public Library. Supplement.
1,569 items
Dance in Photographs and Prints
16 items
Photographic views of the United States
1,326 items
Asia and the Eastern Pacific Rim in Early Prints and Photographs
599 items
Photographs taken by inspectors of the New York City Tenement House Department
1,102 items
Farm Security Administration Photographs
24,376 items
Collection of photographs of New York City
813 items
Metropolis: New York City Water and Transit Infrastructure in Photographs
393 items
The Luso-Hispanic New World in Early Prints and Photographs
412 items
Barbara Gittings and Kay Tobin Lahusen gay history papers and photographs
574 itemsEarly American Manuscripts Project See More
James Madison papers
368 items
Boston Committee of Correspondence records
258 items
Thomas Jefferson papers
58 items
Richard Henry Lee letters
17 items
Philip Mazzei papers
26 items
Alexander Hamilton papers
40 items
Henry Knox papers
32 items
Silas Deane letters
11 items
Joseph Hawley papers
40 items
Theodorus Bailey Myers collection
1,804 items
Hugh Gaine papers
12 items
Schieffelin family papers
6 items
Society of Tammany, or Columbian Order records
8 items
Alexander Anderson papers
2 items
Gerry-Townsend papers
7 items
Robert Morris papers
50 items
Samuel Adams papers
1,247 items
Abraham Yates, Jr. papers
245 items
Livingston family papers
56 itemsPublic Domain Picks See More
William Blake: Illuminated Books
18 items
Farm Security Administration Photographs
24,376 itemsThe Green Book
23 items
Changing New York
2,183 items
Indian coloured drawings: a collection of 177 original paintings on "talc," etc., with 17 engravings, illustrating costume, vehicles and trades in India
178 items
Works Progress Administration (WPA) Art
116 items
Farm Security Administration Collection
221 items
Renaissance and medieval manuscripts collection
1,475 items
Album de la construction de la Statue de la Liberté
15 items
Photographs of Ellis Island, 1902-1913
49 items
American popular songs
4,930 items
Walt Whitman papers, 1854-1892
658 items
Robert N. Dennis collection of stereoscopic views
42,205 itemsCollections About New York City See More
Collection of photographs of New York City, New York State and more by Max Hubacher
785 items
Photographic views of New York City, 1870's-1970's, from the collections of the New York Public Library
34,741 items
Photographic views of New York City, 1870's-1970's, from the collections of the New York Public Library. Supplement.
1,569 items
New York World's Fair 1939 and 1940 Incorporated records
13,630 itemsNew York City directories
156 items
Trow business directory of the boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx, city of New York
2 items
Atlases of New York City
11,710 items
Photographs taken by inspectors of the New York City Tenement House Department
1,102 items
Streetscape and Townscape of Metropolitan New York City,1860-1942
496 items
Doors, NYC
3,122 items
The Eno collection of New York City views
709 items
Changing New York
2,183 items
Collection of photographs of New York City, 1931-1942
335 items
Metropolis: New York City Water and Transit Infrastructure in Photographs
393 items
Fifth Avenue, New York, from start to finish
84 items
New York World's Fair 1964-1965 Corporation records
91 items
Street views of New York City
69 items
New York (City) Museum of Modern Art photographs
133 items
Album of photographs showing construction of the cable road on Broadway, New York City, in 1891
56 items
Photographic views of the construction of the New York City subway system, 1901-1905
31 items
Album of photographs depicting the construction of the Broadway line, New York City Subway
27 items
"Classic Six:" New York City Apartment Building Living, 1880s-1910s
689 items
Portraits of immigrants at Ellis Island, New York
14 items
Staten Island post cards
766 items
Collection of photographs of East River and Hudson River piers, Manhattan
99 items
Drugstore Photographs, Or, A Trip Along the Yangtze River, 1999, by Dylan Stone
25,428 items
Collection of photographs of New York City
813 itemsFashion Collections See More
André Fashion Illustrations from NYPL's Picture Collection
1,246 items
Creators Studios fashion illustrations
1,067 items
Ladies' dress shoes of the nineteenth century
24 items
Enter. Wash dress fabrics, MDCCCCIIII.
14 items
Imported French fabrics, E. Meyer & Co., Paris; fall, 1930-1931.
12 items
Newest styles for men
95 itemsCollections for Designers See More
Ornament and Pattern: Pre-Victorian to Art Deco
951 items
Pictures of Science: 700 Years of Scientific and Medical Illustration
16 items
Classic Illustrated Zoologies and Related Works, 1550-1900
2,990 items
Kaleidoscope: ornements abstraits : quatre-vingt-sept motifs en vingt planches
21 items
Suggestions pour étoffes et tapis : 60 motifs en couleur.
22 items
Collection of book jackets
2,505 items
Holiday postcards
1,860 items
William Blake: Illuminated Books
18 items
Dress & Fashion: Design & Manufacture
24 items
Playing cards: Engineering
52 itemsNature Collections See More
Livre de divers animaux pour dessus de portes par les meilleurs maitres.
12 items
Moths and butterflies of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains; with over 400 photographic illustrations in the text and many transfers of species from life, by Sherman F. Denton
163 items
Photographs of British algae: cyanotype impressions
392 items
Thesaurus imaginum piscium testaceorum; quales sunt cancri, echini, echinometra, stellae marinae, &c. ut et cochlearum ... quibus accedunt conchylia, ut nautilus, cornu Ammonis, & conchae univalviae et bivalviae ... denique mineralia ...
63 items
Voyage autour du monde sur la fregate la Venus, pendant les annees 1836-1839: publie par ordre du roi, sous les auspices du ministre de la marine
112 items
Wild animals and birds: their haunts and habits
48 items
Zoological researches in Java, and the neighbouring islands
74 items
Butterflies of North America
161 items
Cabinet du petit naturaliste, par Mad. D*** ...
14 items
Characteristic sketches of animals, principally from the Zoological Gardens, Regent's Park
35 items
Engravings of lions, tigers, panthers, leopards, dogs, &c., chiefly after the designs of Sir Edwin Landseer, by his brother, Thomas Landseer. Printed from the original plates, pub. between 1823 and 1828
40 items
Exotic moths
34 items
Fauna boreali-americana, or, The zoology of the northern parts of British America : containing descriptions of the objects of natural history collected on the late northern land expeditions, under command of Captain Sir John Franklin, R.N.
118 items
Groups of cattle, drawn from nature, by T.S. Cooper. 1839.
33 items
Histoire naturelle des mammiferes, avec des figures originales, coloriees, dessinees d'apres des animaux vivans; publie sous l'autorite de l'administration du Museum d'histoire naturelle, par M. Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire ... et par M. Frederic Cuvier....
361 items
Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de paradis et des rolliers, suivie de celle des toucans et des barbus: par Francois Levaillant....
116 items
Histoire naturelle des poissons
42 items
Histoire physique, politique et naturelle de l'ile de Cuba
181 items
Historiae naturalis de quadrupetibus libri
76 items
Humble creatures; part I. The earthworm, and the common housefly. In eight letters
10 items
Ichthyology of South Carolina. Vol. I.
29 items
Illuminerade figurer till Skandinaviens fauna
204 items
Illustrations of Indian zoology: chiefly ... from the collection of Major-General Hardwicke ...
210 items
Illustrations of exotic entomology, containing upwards of six hundred and fifty figures and descriptions of foreign insects, interspersed with remarks and reflections on their nature and properties
154 items
Illustrations of the birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British and Russian America: Intended to contain descriptions and figures of all North American birds not given by former American authors, and a general synopsis of North American ornithology, 1...
51 items
Interesting Selections from Animated Nature
122 items
American entomology : or description of the insects of North America, illustrated by coloured figures from original drawings executed from nature
58 items
American natural history. Part 1.--Mastology
56 items
Animate creation : popular edition of our living world, a natural history
108 items
Études d'animaux
105 itemsGay & Lesbian History See More
Diana Davies photographs
3,837 items
Barbara Gittings and Kay Tobin Lahusen gay history papers and photographs
574 items
International Gay Information Center collection. Photographs
252 items
ACT UP New York records
146 items
Gran Fury collection
143 items
Particular Voices: Portraits of Gay and Lesbian Writers by Robert Giard
204 items
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender periodical collection
6 items
Frank Thompson photograph albums
22 itemsAcclaimed Theatrical Photographers See More
Martha Swope photographs
50,718 items
Kenn Duncan Photograph Archive, ca. 1960-1986
7,039 items
Friedman-Abeles photographs: [legacy collection]
39,838 items
Vandamm theatrical photographs, 1900-1957
3,726 items
White Studio theatrical photographs
2,230 itemsPoster Collections See More
Turn of the Century Posters
86 items
Posters: arranged by artists
865 items
Magazine posters
275 items
Posters: American book posters
220 items
Newspaper posters
108 items
Collection of Russian and Ukrainian posters, 1917-1921
104 items
Commercial posters
74 items
Posters: exhibition, exposition, calendar
51 items
Posters from the New York Sunday Herald, 1895-1896
39 items
Posters, by Will Bradley
28 items
Magazine posters
19 items
Circus and magic posters
17 items
Billy Rose Theatre Division posters
31 items
Posters for books and magazines
2 items
Broadsides, posters and playbills
1 item
Posters by Jacob Kazaks
1 item
Poster Collection
80 itemsMaps & Atlases See More
Atlases of New York City
11,710 items
Atlases of the United States
3,867 items
Maps of Asia
83 items
Charting America: Maps from the Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection and Others
2,575 items
Maps of Africa
2 items
Picturing America, 1497-1899: Prints, Maps, and Drawings bearing on the New World Discoveries and on the Development of the Territory that is now the United States
1,933 items
Maps of Europe
48 items![Printed maps of Russia and neighboring lands, including city plans of Saint Petersburg, from the 17th to the early20th century].](https://images.nypl.org/index.php?id=2003589&t=r)
Printed maps of Russia and neighboring lands, including city plans of Saint Petersburg, from the 17th to the early20th century].
1 item
History of Greece: from the earliest records of that country, to the time in which it was reduced to a Roman province ...
8 items
Maps of South America
4 items
F. W. Putzger's Historischer Schul-Atlas zur alten, mittleren und neuen Geschichte : in 66 Haupt- und 63 Nebenkarten
1 itemBook Art and Illustrations See More
Ehon: the artist and the book in Japan
1,080 items
Books bequeathed by William Augustus Spencer
125 items
Genji Monogatari Emaki
33 items
Collection of book jackets
2,505 items
Sonan gafu
32 items
Children's book illustrations
1,987 items
Horae
6 items
Tōkaido gojūsan tsugi no uchi
57 items
Posters: American book posters
220 items
Icons and Images of Cultures: Plate Books from the Russian Empire, Early Soviet Russia, and Eastern Europe, 1730-1935
4,533 items
William Blake: Illuminated Books
18 items
Minchô shiken
65 itemsExplore Further
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