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Berg Collection of English and American Literature
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Sophia Peabody Hawthorne collection of papers
1,560 items
Nathaniel Hawthorne collection of papers, 1694-1931 bulk (1817-1864)
420 items
Berg Collection portrait file
399 items
Gertrude Stein, part of a life in pictures
248 items
Europe: a Prophecy
24 items
The king and queen of hearts: with the rogueries of the knave who stole the Queen's pies
18 items
America: a Prophecy
18 items
Illustrations for Mark Twain's "Following the Equator" (1897). Original drawings
11 items
Billy Rose Theatre Division
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Billy Rose Theatre Collection photograph file
57,038 items
Friedman-Abeles photographs: [legacy collection]
39,836 items
Martha Swope photographs
50,876 items
Kenn Duncan Photograph Archive, ca. 1960-1986
7,040 items
Vandamm theatrical photographs, 1900-1957
3,727 items
White Studio theatrical photographs
2,233 items
Circle in the Square papers
1,101 items
Billy Rose Theatre Division scrapbooks
439 items
Dorot Jewish Division
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David bar Pesah Mahzor (Germany)
1,154 items
Picturesque Palestine, Sinai and Egypt
626 items
Don Ferrante Maḥzor
2 items
American Jewish Committee Oral History Collection
352 items
The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt and Nubia: From drawings made on the spot
252 items
Yiddish theater collection
410 items
Voyage d'exploration a la mer Morte, a Petra, et sur la rive gauche du Jourdain
84 items
Jerusalem explored, being a description of the ancient and modern city
64 items
General Research Division
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The Vinkhuijzen collection of military uniforms
31,267 items
Collection of book jackets
2,505 items
Obshchii gerbovnik dvorianskikh rodov Vserossiiskiia Imperii, nachatyi v 1797m godu
1,605 items
Magazin DP
1,360 items
Khudozhestvennyia sokrovishcha Rossii
1,003 items
Denkmaeler aus Aegypten und Aethiopien nach den Zeichnungen der von seiner Majestat dem Koenige von Preussen Friedrich Wilhelm IV nach diesen Landern gesendeten und in den Jahren 1842-1845 ausgefuhrten wissenschaftlichen Expedition ...
932 items
Automobiles: Manufacturers catalogues
804 items
Photographs of General Motors and Chrysler car and truck models
585 items
George Arents Collection
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Cigarette cards
49,720 items
Tobacco, its history and associations: including an account of the plant and its manufacture; with its modes of use in all ages and countries
389 items
Kate Greenaway's almanack for ....
14 items
Drawings, engraved plates, printed excerpts, etc. of tobacco interest from the 18th and 19th century, especially assembled for George Arents, Jr.
173 items
Album of Turkish Costume Paintings
87 items
Sporting sketches: consisting of subjects relating to sports of ... the whole illustrative of landscape scenery
62 items
Les fleurs animées
57 items
Lilliputian characters
17 items
Jerome Robbins Dance Division
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Photographs of Indonesia
1,812 items
Denishawn Collection: Photographs, nos. 1-3796
949 items
Joffrey Ballet slides
700 items
Bhutan Dance Project, Core of Culture
649 items
Merce Cunningham Video Archive
775 items
Cia Fornaroli Collection
389 items
Prints depicting dance
2,489 items
General Dance Video Archive
1,175 items
Manuscripts and Archives Division
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Benjamin K. Miller collection of United States stamps
5,505 items
Thomas Addis Emmet collection, [legacy collection]
4,408 items
Samuel J. Tilden papers
1,561 items
Renaissance and medieval manuscripts collection
1,476 items
Schwimmer-Lloyd collection
752 items
Barbara Gittings and Kay Tobin Lahusen gay history papers and photographs
574 items
Wilberforce Eames Babylonian collection
437 items
Diana Davies photographs
3,845 items
Map Division
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Atlases of New York City
11,722 items
Atlases of the United States
3,868 items
Maps of New York City and State
2,059 items
Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection of English maps, charts, globes, books and atlases
1,252 items
Spezialkarte der Osterreichisch-Ungarischen Monarchie
774 items
Maps of North America
3,345 items
Atlases, gazetteers, guidebooks and other books
572 items
Maps of Asia
83 items
Milstein Division of U.S. History, Local History and Genealogy
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Photographic views of New York City, 1870's-1970's, from the collections of the New York Public Library
34,742 items
Photographic views of New York City, 1870's-1970's, from the collections of the New York Public Library. Supplement.
1,569 items
Photographic views of the United States
1,326 items
Photographs taken by inspectors of the New York City Tenement House Department
1,102 items
Staten Island post cards
766 items
Collection of photographs of New York City, 1931-1942
335 items
The World's loose leaf album of apartment houses: containing views and ground plans of the principal high class apartment houses in New York City, together with a map showing the situation of these houses, transportation facilities, etc.
304 items
Apartment houses of the metropolis
301 items
Music Division
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Joseph Muller collection of music and other portraits
6,247 items
American popular songs
4,930 items
Sheet music of songs from various musicals, plays, movies, and television (M.C. file)
428 items
Mendelssohn Family letters
76 items
Popular instrumental sheet music
18 items
The Bruno Walter papers
24 items
War songs
10 items
Frédérique Petrides papers
7 items
New York Public Library Archives
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New York Public Library Visual Materials
2,338 items
Architect records
2 items
Lenox Library records
1 item
Edwin Hatfield Anderson records
4 items
Astor Library records
4 items
Artifacts and Memorabilia Collection
2 items
Free Circulating Libraries records
1 item
Research Libraries, Jewish Division Records: Chief, Joshua Bloch External Organization Files, 1937-1954
1 item
Pforzheimer Collection
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Fables, ancient and modern. Adapted for the use of children. By Edward Baldwin, Esq. ...
72 items
Gaffer Gray: or, The misfortunes of poverty, a Christmas ditty, very fit to be chanted at Whitsuntide
15 items
Compositions from Shelley's Prometheus unbound
13 items
Mounseer Nongtongpaw: A new version
13 items
The pantheon: or Ancient history of the gods of Greece and Rome. Intended to facilitate the understanding of the classical authors, and of poets in general. For the use of schools, and young persons of both sexes. By Edward Baldwin, Esq.
13 items
Prince Dorus, or, Flattery put out of countenance: a poetical version of an ancient tale, illustrated with a series of elegant engravings
10 items
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle: visual materials
106 items
The history of England: for the use of schools and young persons
10 items
Rare Book Division
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The Buttolph collection of menus
19,236 items
Oscar Lion papers
833 items
Description de l'Égypte: ou, Recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont été faites en Égypte pendant l'expédition de l'armée française
902 items
W. Dieter Zander Menu Collection
680 items
Scrap book of Russian bookjackets, 1895-1949
656 items
Drevnosti rossiiskago gosudarstva
509 items
Traité des arbres et arbustes que l'on cultive en France en pleine terre
502 items
Les liliacées
495 items
Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound
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Arthur Bell Collection of Recorded Interviews, 1970-1980
40 items
Edison album
31 items
George Antheil Collecton of Sound Recordings
12 items
The Voice of the Victor
9 items
Sociedad Fonográfica Española Cylinder Recordings
1 item
General Audio Collection
42 items
Tom Scott audio collection
86 items
The Sonora bell
3 items
Schomburg Art and Artifacts Division
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Works Progress Administration (WPA) Art
116 items
Painting and Sculpture Collection
31 items
Oxmantown Collection of West African Art
1 item
Mr. and Mrs. Marc Grumet Collection
2 items
Poster Collection
80 items
Works on paper collection
39 items
Art and Artifacts Division Button Collection
48 items
Abolitionists coins
1 item
Schomburg Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division
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Liberia
305 items
The Negro in the New World
167 items
Men of mark: eminent, progressive and rising
88 items
Côte occidentale d'Afrique : vues, scènes, croquis
84 items
The great South
82 items
Au sud de l'Afrique. Avec 150 dessins et croquis de l'auteur
74 items
The earth and its inhabitants, Africa
69 items
Kelly Miller's history of the world war for human rights: being an intensely human and brilliant account of the world war and why and for what purpose America and the allies are fighting and the important part taken by the Negro, including the horrors ...
67 items
Schomburg Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division
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Twentieth century Negro literature, or, A cyclopedia of thought on the vital topics relating to the American Negro, by one hundred of America's greatest Negroes.
120 items
Grenada Plantation Records
109 items
Travels in Ethiopia, above the second cataract of the Nile; exhibiting the state of that country, and its various inhabitants, under the dominion of Mohammed Ali ; and illustrating the antiquities, arts, and history of the ancient kingdom of Meroe
90 items
One hundred years of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
80 items
Sermons, addresses and reminiscences and important correspondence, with a picture gallery of eminent ministers and scholars
73 items
Noted Negro women : their triumphs and activities
67 items
The American anti-slavery almanac
55 items
The Afro-American press and its editors
54 items
Schomburg Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division
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Patrick Kelly collection of audio-visual recordings
11 items
The sound of Harlem
2 items
Schomburg Photographs and Prints Division
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Stereograph collection
849 items
Farm Security Administration Collection
221 items
Military
157 items
Portrait collection
383 items
Helen Armstead-Johnson photograph collection
123 items
Views of British Guiana; album
63 items
Views of Jamaica
51 items
Vues D'Afrique
39 items
Spencer Collection
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Xanten Bible
4 items
Photographs of British algae: cyanotype impressions
392 items
Kaishien gaden
164 items
Fables
150 items
Mukashigatari shichiya no kura
135 items
Shâhnâmah
135 items
Tarjumah-i Shâhnâmah [Translation of Shâhnâmah into Turkish]
130 items
Ise monogatari
2 items
Wallach Division: Art & Architecture Collection
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Posters: arranged by artists
866 items
A collection of the dresses of different nations: antient [sic] and modern. Particularly old English dresses; after the designs of Holbein, Vandyke, Hollar and others, with an account of the authorities from which the figures are taken, and some short ...
492 items
Die Ausstellung von Meisterwerken muhammedanischer Kunst in München, 1910
365 items
Monuments français inédits pour servir à l'histoire des arts depuis le VIe siècle jusqu'au commencement du XVIIe: Choix de costumes civils et militaires, d'armes, armures, instruments de musique, meubles de toute espèce, et de décorations intérieures e...
302 items
Magazine posters
275 items
Les Maîtres de l'affiche: publication mensuelle contenant la reproduction des plus belles affiches illustrées des grands artistes, français et étrangers
260 items
Königl. Bayer. Pinakothek zu München und Gemälde-Gallerie zu Schleissheim. Mit seiner Majestät des Königs von Bayern allerhöchster Genehmigung in lithographierten Abbildungen
234 items
The history of the feminine costume of the world, from the year 5318 B.C. to our century
234 items
Wallach Division: Photography Collection
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Robert N. Dennis collection of stereoscopic views
42,204 items
"The Pageant of America" Collection
7,085 items
Detroit Publishing Company postcards
5,781 items
Doors, NYC
3,122 items
Farm Security Administration Photographs
26,025 items
The A. G. Spalding Baseball Collection
579 items
Dinanda Nooney Brooklyn photograph collection
576 items
The people of India
486 items
Wallach Division: Print Collection
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Print Collection portrait file
71,656 items
Emmet Collection of Manuscripts Etc. Relating to American History
8,980 items
Samuel Putnam Avery Collection
3,341 items
Publisher's proofs of the publications of L. Prang & Co., and scrapbooks of colored advertising cards, published by L. Prang & Co. and other firms
1,808 items
Alexander Anderson scrapbooks
1,130 items
I. N. Phelps Stokes Collection of American Historical Prints
793 items
The Eno collection of New York City views
709 items
William Hogarth: prints
452 items