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The Pot Beater
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John Soane [signature] author of "Designs of buildings"
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John Soane [signature] author of "Designs of buildings"
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John Soane [signature] author of "Designs of buildings"
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John Soane [signature] author of "Designs of buildings"
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1819 May 24-1844 January 19
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John Soane, Esq.
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John Soane, Esq.
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Ornamental fish
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Collage of images from The Nest at W. 133rd Street. (December 23, 1923)
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Glubokoe (1956)
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Henry Norman Hudson note
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Elizabeth Fries Ellet letter
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Rufus Wilmot Griswold letter to E.A. Duyckinck
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George Washington Greene letter
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Letter to E.A. Duyckinck (inside flyer)
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James Kirke Paulding note
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Joseph Story check
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Levi Woodbury note
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Lydia H. Sigourney poem, “Death of an Infant”
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Hezekiah Niles check
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Edward Robinson letter to E.A. Duyckinck
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Edward Everett letter
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William Cullen Bryant letter to A. Hopkins
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Fitz-Greene Halleck letter to William L. Anthony (?)

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Weltchronik
14 items
The tragedy of the Negro in America : a condensed history of the enslavment, sufferings, emancipation, present condition and progress of the Negro race in the United States of America.
14 items
Seiro Bijin awase sugata kagami = A mirror of beauties of the Green House.
17 items
Voeux du Paon
17 items
[Vignettes, titres, frontispieces.]
25 items
Pervaia vystavka rossiiskago narodnago uzornago shit'ia, ustroennaia v 1883-1884 g. K. Dalmatovym v S. Peterburgie.
20 items
Al'bom ofitserskikh polkovykh grupp. Gvardeiskii korpus.
28 items
Pilgrimage of the soul.
33 items
Fifth Avenue, New York, from start to finish
84 items
The American anti-slavery almanac
55 items
Album of photographs of Japan].
67 items
Renaissance and medieval manuscripts collection, ca. 850-ca. 1600.
1,537 items
Charles Dickens collection of papers, (1833-1909)
301 items
Bookbinding : books bequeathed by William Augustus Spencer.
705 items
The Caucasus: an album of photographs
274 items
Photographs of the Catskill water supply system in process of construction
310 items
General Dance Video Archive
376 items
Mikhail Baryshnikov Video Archive
497 items
The birds of America, from drawings made in the United States and their territories
506 items
De la bataille judaïque
534 items
Magazin DP
1,360 items
Sophia Peabody Hawthorne collection of papers
1,560 items
Thomas Addis Emmet collection
4,576 items
The Buttolph collection of menus
18,964 items
Isadora Duncan : studies.]
11 items
John Cage Music Manuscript Collection
44 items
Twenty-two original drawings
65 items
Yizkor Book Collection
121 items
Duyckinck family papers
961 items
Samuel Adams papers
1,247 items

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Photography Collections See More

Bill Barvin Location Photograph Archive
213 items
Morris Rosenfeld Photographs
260 items
Walter Silver photographs
2,431 items
Dinanda Nooney Brooklyn photograph collection
576 items
New York Subways
42 items
Martha Swope photographs
28,089 items
Outer Boroughs: New York beyond Manhattan
86 items
Billy Rose Theatre Collection photograph file
49,124 items
Photographs from the American country woman series
46 items
Variety, vaudeville & burlesque.
189 items
Photographic views of New York City, 1870's-1970's, from the collections of the New York Public Library
34,747 items
New York Public Library photographs
30 items
Friedman-Abeles photograph collection
27,397 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
9,194 items
Kenn Duncan Photograph Archive, ca. 1960-1986
6,959 items
Russia and Eastern Europe in Rare Photographs, 1860- 1945
5,086 items
Vandamm theatrical photographs, 1900-1957.
3,137 items
Photographs of Indonesia
1,841 items
White Studio theatrical photographs
1,620 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
1,501 items
Photographic views of the United States
1,327 items
Asia and the Eastern Pacific Rim in Early Prints and Photographs
1,156 items
Photographs taken by inspectors of the New York City Tenement House Department
1,102 items
Farm Security Administration Photographs
2,581 items
Collection of photographs of New York City
813 items
Photographs of General Motors and Chrysler car and truck models, 1902 - 1938.
734 items
Metropolis: New York City Water and Transit Infrastructure in Photographs
669 items
The Luso-Hispanic New World in Early Prints and Photographs
651 items

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Italian master prints
385 items
German master prints
283 items
William Blake: Illuminated Books
89 items
Farm Security Administration Photographs
2,581 items
Charrington set : a collection of prints by Giovanni Battista Piranesi.
104 items
The Green Book
22 items
Changing New York
344 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
95 items
Farm Security Administration Collection.
219 items
Renaissance and medieval manuscripts collection, ca. 850-ca. 1600.
1,537 items
A. G. Spalding Baseball Collection
572 items
Pictorial description of Broadway
94 items
Album de la construction de la Statue de la Liberté.
15 items
Photographs of Ellis Island, 1902-1913.
49 items
American popular songs.
4,724 items
Walt Whitman papers, 1854-1892
658 items
Robert N. Dennis collection of stereoscopic views
42,202 items
Anne Wagner album, 1795-1834
168 items

Collections About New York City See More

Photographic views of New York City, 1870's-1970's, from the collections of the New York Public Library
34,747 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 1939-1940 records
13,599 items
Atlases of New York City
11,685 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
1,382 items
Doors, NYC.
3,122 items
The Eno collection of New York City views
708 items
Changing New York
344 items
Collection of photographs of New York City, 1931-1942
335 items
Metropolis: New York City Water and Transit Infrastructure in Photographs
669 items
Fifth Avenue, New York, from start to finish
84 items
New York World's Fair 1964-1965 Corporation records
86 items
Photographic negatives of the New York City Tenement House Department, 1902-1914
69 items
Street views of New York City.
69 items
New York (City) Museum of Modern Art photographs
72 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
1,444 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
New York City theater marquees, 1997- .
80 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 items

Fashion Collections See More

André Fashion Illustrations from NYPL's Picture Collection
1,246 items
Creators Studios fashion illustrations
1,067 items
modes féminines du XIXe siècle, interprétées en cent pointes sèches aquarellées au pinceau, 1801-1900
105 items
Ladies' dress shoes of the nineteenth century
24 items
The history of the feminine costume of the world, from the year 5318 B.C. to our century
234 items
mordant dyestuffs of the farbenfabriken vorm. Friedr. Bayer & Co., Elberfeld, and their application to printing and dyeing.
52 items
spring book of B. Kuppenheimer & Co. : illustrating a new century of clothing-radically different from the old-and incidentally depicting the more striking changes in men's wear during the past one hundred years.
30 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 items

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Ornament and Pattern: Pre-Victorian to Art Deco
3,607 items
Pictures of Science: 700 Years of Scientific and Medical Illustration
299 items
Classic Illustrated Zoologies and Related Works, 1550-1900
7,956 items
Insectes: vingt planches en phototypie coloriées au patron, donnant quatre-vingts insectes et seize compositions décoratives.
22 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]
2,506 items
Holiday postcards
1,862 items
William Blake: Illuminated Books
89 items
[Scrap book of Russian bookjackets, 1917-1942].
656 items
monumenti dell'Egitto e della Nubia disegnati dalla spedizione scientifico-letteraria toscana in Egitto; distribuiti in ordine di materie interpretati ed illustrati dal dottore Ippolito Rosellini.
407 items
Dress & Fashion: Design & Manufacture
566 items
Playing cards: Engineering.
52 items

Nature Collections See More

viviparous quadrupeds of North America
153 items
natural history of the amphibious carnivora, including the walrus and seals, also of the herbivorous cetacea, &c.
33 items
pigeons, par Madame Knip, nee Pauline de Courcelles paintre d'histoire naturelle ... Le texte par ... Themminck.
88 items
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
botanique mise à la porteé de tout le monde; ou, Collection des plantes d'usage dans la médecine, dans les alimens et dans les arts.
474 items
Photographs of British algae: cyanotype impressions
285 items
The birds of America, from drawings made in the United States and their territories
506 items
The birds of Europe
463 items
birds of eastern North America; with original descriptions of all the species which occur east of the Mississippi River, between the Arctic circle and the Gulf of Mexico, with full notes upon their habits, etc.
33 items
Butterflies of the eastern United States and Canada, with special reference to New England. By Samuel Hubbard Scudder.
99 items
common objects of the sea shore : including hints for an aquarium
13 items
common objects of the sea shore : including hints for an aquarium.
13 items
deer of all lands; a history of the family Cervidae living and extinct, by R. Lydekker.
28 items
fishes of North America that are captured on hook and line. With eighty colored plates made from oil portraits of living fishes before their color tints had faded. By William C. Harris ... Volume I.
44 items
The natural history of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands...2nd ed.
227 items
natural history of Washington territory and Oregon, with much relating to Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, Utah, and California ... being those parts of the final reports on the survey of the Northern Pacific Railroad route, relating to the natural history...
60 items
natural history of fishes of the perch family.
36 items
new and heretofore unfigured species of birds of North America.
75 items
new natural history, by Richard Lydekker ...
114 items
zoology of Captain Beechey's voyage
46 items
zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Samarang; under the command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher ... during the years 1843-46. By John Edward Gray ... Sir John Richardson ... Arthur Adams ... Published under the authority of the Lords' Commissioners of the Ad...
2 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
Zoology of New York; or, The New York fauna [Series: Natural history of New York]
336 items
Butterflies of North America.
161 items
Cabinet du petit naturaliste, par Mad. D*** ...
14 items
Catalogue of the chiroptera. By G.E. Dobson.
31 items

Gay & Lesbian History See More

Diana Davies photographs
366 items
Particular Voices: Portraits of Gay and Lesbian Writers
203 items
Barbara Gittings and Kay Tobin Lahusen gay history papers and photographs
914 items
International Gay Information Center collection
254 items
Mattachine Society, Inc. of New York records
4 items

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Martha Swope photographs
28,089 items
Kenn Duncan Photograph Archive, ca. 1960-1986
6,959 items
Friedman-Abeles photograph collection
27,397 items
Vandamm theatrical photographs, 1900-1957.
3,137 items
White Studio theatrical photographs
1,620 items

Poster Collections See More

Turn of the Century Posters
2,027 items
Posters : arranged by artists.
836 items
Magazine posters
275 items
Posters: American book posters.
220 items
Posters of the Russian Civil War, 1918-1922
213 items
Posters. New York, 1890s-1907.
115 items
Harold M. Fleming papers
109 items
Newspaper posters.
108 items
Collection of Russian and Ukrainian posters, 1917-1921.]
103 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
Magic Scrapbooks: separated posters
20 items
Circus and magic posters
17 items
Billy Rose Theatre Division posters
12 items
Posters for books and magazines.
2 items
Broadsides, posters and playbills
1 item
Posters: arranged by artists.
1 item
[Posters by Jacob Kazaks.]
1 item
Exhibition and Retail Shop Poster Collection
2 items
Poster Collection
10 items
true history of Deacon Giles' distillery. Reported for the benefit of posterity ...
1 item

Maps & Atlases See More

Atlases of New York City
11,685 items
Atlases of the United States
3,840 items
Maps of Asia
64 items
Charting America: Maps from the Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection and Others
3,411 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
1,832 items
Maps of Europe
40 items
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. Illustrated with maps and portraits. For the use of young persons. By Edward Baldwin, Esq., author of Fables, ancient and modern.
8 items
Maps used by General Butterfield on the battlefields of the Civil War, 1861-1865
3 items
history of the colonization of Africa by alien races, by Sir Harry H. Johnston ... With eight maps by the author and J.G. Bartholomew.
6 items
Maps, Arctic regions
1 item
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 item
military and topographical atlas of the United States; including the British possessions & Florida.
1 item

Book Art and Illustrations See More

Ehon: the artist and the book in Japan
1,969 items
Bookbinding : books bequeathed by William Augustus Spencer.
705 items
Genji Monogatari Emaki
33 items
[Collection of book jackets]
2,506 items
Sonan gafu = The Sonan album.
32 items
Children's book illustrations
115 items
Horae.
39 items
Tōkaido gojūsan tsugi no uchi
57 items
[Scrap book of Russian bookjackets, 1917-1942].
656 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
11,629 items
William Blake: Illuminated Books
89 items
Kaishien gaden = The mustard seed garden painting manual.
164 items
Siyar-i Nabî = Life of the Prophet
133 items
Ise Monogatari Emaki = Tales of Ise
109 items
cleres et nobles femmes.
78 items
Momoyogusa = Flowers of a Hundred Generations.
76 items
Minchô shiken (The Colored Inkstone of the Ming Period).
65 items
Tsuki hyakushi = 100 Aspects of the Moon.
56 items

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