#nypl digital collections

[petsincollections]

Bears. Alexander Anderson scrapbooks

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection, The New York Public Library. "Bears." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1794 - 1870. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/f9030b00-c5d5-012f-f33d-58d385a7bc34

[kingsbridgelibraryteens]

Literary NYC: A Stone Book Reader in Washington Heights!

This creature, one of several that are either called “gargoyles” or “architectural grotesques,” depending on which source you’re using, can be found on the outside of an apartment building on the corner of W 181st Street and Fort Washington Avenue. Just find the corner that has the Hudson View Restaurant … and then LOOK UP:

You can learn more about the history of this building, known as the Nathan Hale Apartments, back when it looked even fancier, in the New York Public Library’s Digital Collections!

[keepersofnostalgia]

One of my favorite people to turn on while I'm cooking...Ms. Maxine Sullivan, photographed possibly in the early 1940s.

Sullivan sang with everyone from Claude Thornhill to Louis Armstrong to Jimmie Lunceford. She also sang with her husband of two years, John Kirby, and had an orchestra of her own.

You can listen to the smooth vocals of Maxine Sullivan on this week's episode of WINE-DOWN SUNDAYS - TONIGHT at 9PM EST on AG Marie TV.

[New York Public Library Digital Collections]

[snowrassa]

i am NORMAL about pretty boy lancelots

[image-junkie]

Alen MacWeeney, New York City Subway, 1977. Gelatin Silver Prints. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, New York Public Library Digital Collections.

[cuties-in-codices]

cute creature

in a book of hours, france, ca. 1450-1500

source: New York Public Library, Manuscripts and Archives Division, MssCol 2557, MA 50, fol. 95r

[heaveninawildflower]

Chrysanthemums (Japanese, 1826 - 1840) from a sketchbook by Ariyoshi Kondo.

Image and text information courtesy NYPL Digital Collection.

[determinate-negation]

Aerial survey, Manhattan Island, 1921

NYPL Digital Collections

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Would you happen to have any images of the High Bridge?

See below. The bridge, which is for pedestrians only, crosses the Harlem River from Manhattan to the Bronx.

The two photos above are from 1923.

The photo above, taken from the water tower, is from 1934. Photographer was Percy Loomis Sperr.

Finally, the postcard above, by the Union News Co., is from sometime between 1915 and 1930.

All photos from NYPL

If you want to see more, this is a link to the NY Public Library's digital collections, which you can search.

[drmopp1966]

ik only like three people care about all these she loves me posts

but i found more stuff!!

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/search/index?utf8=✓&keywords=She+loves+me

nearly 200 photos from the original broadway production!!!

the set is ✨GORGEOUS✨

[tedhead]

Maggie Smith in the stage production New Faces of 1956, via the NYPL Digital Collections.

[gradientdescent-does-it-all]

I don’t see why art practice should be boring, hmm?

Study referencing another of the incredible series of promotional photos for 1978 Dracula starring Jeremy Brett and Margaret Whitton. Bless the NYPL digital collections for preserving this important piece of theatrical history.

[lonesomedreamer]

Nichelle Nichols in rehearsal for a 1961 production of the musical “Kicks and Co” in Chicago

Open images in a new tab or click through to the NYPL Digital Collections page for much larger/HD versions (and more pictures)!

[sweatermuppet]

found this in the NYPL digital collections and thought "that's swestermuppet when he's old"

gonna make me cry

[snowrassa]

Usher, Part 2 | Lights Out | Usher, Part 3

Ghost Quartet fabricated film stills using public domain images from the NYPL Digital Collection

Sources: 1. The common method of removing stones from cut-over land is by use of the crowbar. 2. Blackened stumps of trees and ugly snags cover the slopes leading to Mount Hood, Oregon3. Side wall of old house dating from early nineteenth century showing details of construction. 4. Interior work : construction of a room, showing the completed brickwork of the walls, windows and ceiling. 5. Stained glass windows in church at Woodstock, Ohio