William Stannard’s The Art Exemplar (London, 1859?) is a mid-nineteenth-century encyclopedia of illustration processes. In addition to describing traditional processes, such as etching and wood engrav...
This collection of over 2,000 photographic negatives depicts buildings and street views in New York City and vicinity in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It showcases the work of Rob...
"The Burr McIntosh Photograph Collection spans the period from 1898 to 1910 and documents McIntosh's work as a photographer of prominent figures in the arts, society, and politics, many of whom were h...
"The five works in this collection are among the very few texts that provide information about the now-extinct language of the Timucua, a Native American people who once lived in a large area of north...
The extensive photograph collections at the New-York Historical Society are particularly strong in portraits and documentary images of New York-area buildings and street scenes from 1839 to 1945, alth...
The Pilsudski Institute of America is a non-profit organization incorporated in the State of New York and was established on July 4, 1943 in New York City as a major research, archival and science ins...
The White Plains Public Library is a prime site for community memory and we hold a rich set of materials in the White Plains Collection. The collection includes books, photographs, maps, oral historie...
The Center Records Collection comprises 86 editions of Center publications, ‘The Center Voice’ and ‘Center Happenings’. The first edition of The Center Voice was published in 1985, soon after the foun...
The Bar Guide Collection comprises three NYC Gay Guides. These are among the earliest Gay Guides held by the National History Archive. Guides such as these assisted Gays and Lesbians, especially those...
The Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture Collection includes 101 promotional cards featuring original artwork that documents musical performances, gallery exhibitions and art installations that have t...
This is a collection of local history materials relating to the town of Greenburgh, located in Westchester County, New York. The collection includes page images from "Atlas of the Hudson River Valley,...
Founded in 1979 by the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade (VALB), the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives (ALBA) is a non profit national organization devoted to the preservation and dissemination o...
This collection consists of 177 hand drawn and printed posters from the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry (SSSJ) Records. Founded in 1964 by Jacob Birnbaum, SSSJ was a pioneer in the movement to oppos...
The 223 objects in this collection consist of digitized archival materials are from the George A. Wingate, John B. Johnston, and Patrick Quinn Scrapbooks contained in the Records of the Brooklyn Democ...
This collection is a collaborative project between the Mina Rees Library, the Seymour B. Durst Old York Library, and the Gotham Center for New York City History, is a montage of 246 images of Thirty-f...
This collaborative collection of 250 objects brings together archival materials from Manhattanville College and The College of New Rochelle documenting the history of the National Federation of Cathol...
Manhattanville College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college, located in Purchase, New York. Since Manhattanville’s inception in 1847, its founders have bequeathed its mission, vision and h...
This collection consists of 580 objects from the Frances Mulhall Achilles Library at the Whitney Museum of American Art. The Library serves as a comprehensive research collection in the field of twent...
The Whitney Studio Club and Galleries Collection, a project funded through the generous support of the Leon Levy Foundation, brings together 998 of the Whitney Museum’s earliest documents. In 2010, ar...
The Brooklyn College Student Handbill Collection is comprised of materials that document what took place on the campus of Brooklyn College over the years. The 279 handbills demonstrate the students in...
"Maria (""Minnie"") Gerard Messenger was a philanthropist from Great Neck, Long Island; she was born on 29 May 1849 and died on 27 May 1937. She was the daughter of Brooklyn merchant and banker, Thoma...
The Fulton Street Trade Card Collection consists of 245 late 19th and early 20th century illustrated trade cards, all emanating from businesses in Brooklyn's historic commercial thoroughfare. The card...
The New York Bureau of Municipal Research (BMR), later the Institute of Public Administration (IPA), was a private, non-profit, educational and consulting organization formed by civic-minded plutocrat...
This collection of 364 objects is composed of selected archival materials and museum holdings from The General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of New York (GSMT). Founded in 1785, The G...
The Lesbian Herstory Archives is home to the largest collections of materials about lesbians in the world. Our photo collection, which we are now starting to digitize, reflects the growth of the Archi...
