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Occupations - Peddlers - Clothing - Sidewalk merchant.
Occupations - Peddlers - Clothing - Sidewalk merchant.
Newspapers - China Daily News Series No. 6.
Daikoku entertaining an oiran by a juggling feat, balancing his white rat and his mallet on the end of a pipe
A young man and a girl throwing pottery saucers (kawarake) from the veranda of Kiyomidzu Temple
Newspapers - China Daily News Series No. 5.
Newspapers - China Daily News Series No. 4.
The oiran Takigawa of Ogiya
Large head and bust of a woman with a black hat
Large head and bust of a young man with a falcon
Large head and bust of a woman looking at a doll dressed to represent a boy dancing the Lion Dance (Shishi Odori)
Large head and bust of a women writing a poem
Large head and bust of a woman in a bath robe
Large head and bust of a woman hanging up a lantern
Large head and bust of a woman adjusting one of her hair pins
Large head and bust of a woman reading the program of the Grand Kubuki
The oiran Hanaogi of Ogiya and her kamuro
An oiran showing a pet white rat to her kamuro
The geisha Tojin (Foreigner), Shishi (Lion) and Sumo (Wrestler) attired as actors in a Niwaka or burlesque theatrical performance in the streets of the Yoshiwara
Head and busts of performers in a niwaka or burlesque procession in the streets of Yoshiwara
Portrait of the Oiran Sugawara of Tsuruya
Three Yoshiwara women at a chrysanthemum show
Group of four Yoshiwara women in a room in a joroya. Two are looking up famous poems in books, a third is writing them upon narrow slips of colored paper (tanjaku), and the fourth is tying them upon a bamboo tree, which is thus being decorated fo rthe Tanabata festival (seventh day of the seventh month)
Group of four Yoshiwara women on the veranda of joroya. One is playing with a kitten, one is reading a letter and the others are discussing it with her
Three Yoshiwara women on the veranda of a joroya, admiring the autumn full moon
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The Black Experience in Children's Books: Selections from Augusta Baker's Bibliographies
302 items
Scrapbooks of New York City views
1,003 items
Li ji ji shi: er shi wu juan
26 items
Women of distinction: remarkable in works and invincible in character
49 items
Collection of ledgers and cash books covering the period 1891-1925
14 items
Sketchbook archive
6 items
Bungalow magazine
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Japanese prints
4 items
Six Patriotic posters for the First World War
12 items
B'nai B'rith messenger
1,452 items
New York City Directories
270 items
Century Company records
30,263 items
Italian master prints
1,580 items
German old master prints
1,473 items
Maps of North America
5,786 items
Federal Theatre Project Productions Theater Stills Collection
260 items
Jules Fisher collection of Jo Mielziner Designs
204 items
Patrick Kelly collection of audio-visual recordings
22 items
National Dance Institute Video Archive
749 items
Yizkor Book Collection
1,281 items
TAG Foundation Video Archive
135 items
Yiddish theater collection
720 items
Wadleigh High School Yearbooks
70 items
Morris Huberland
18,401 items
Weltchronik.
1,433 items
Gansevoort-Lansing collection
20 items
The Villager
2,608 items
Duyckinck family papers
1,700 items
Prints depicting dance
2,514 items
Martha Swope photographs
50,641 items
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Halloween
35 items
Bill Barvin Location Photograph Archive
213 items
Morris Rosenfeld Photographs
260 items
Walter Silver photographs
2,621 items
New York Subways
42 items
Martha Swope photographs
50,641 items
Outer Boroughs: New York beyond Manhattan
86 items
Billy Rose Theatre Collection photograph file
49,685 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
34,736 items
New York Public Library photographs
30 items
Friedman-Abeles photograph collection
30,672 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
6,972 items
Russia and Eastern Europe in Rare Photographs, 1860- 1945
5,086 items
Vandamm theatrical photographs, 1900-1957
3,302 items
Photographs of Indonesia
1,840 items
White Studio theatrical photographs
1,647 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
1,323 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
10,043 items
Collection of photographs of New York City
813 items
Photographs of General Motors and Chrysler car and truck models
734 items
Metropolis: New York City Water and Transit Infrastructure in Photographs
669 items
The Luso-Hispanic New World in Early Prints and Photographs
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James Madison papers
368 items
Boston Committee of Correspondence records
258 items
Thomas Jefferson papers
8 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
Noah Webster papers
67 items
Theodorus Bailey Myers collection
1,804 items
Hugh Gaine papers
24 items
Schieffelin family papers
2 items
Society of Tammany, or Columbian Order records
16 items
George Washington papers
212 items
Alexander Anderson papers
4 items
Gerry-Townsend papers
14 items
Robert Morris papers
100 items
Samuel Adams papers
2,491 items
Liebmann collection of American historical documents relating to spiritous liquors
332 items
Abraham Yates, Jr. papers
490 items
Livingston family papers
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Italian master prints
1,580 items
German old master prints
1,473 items
William Blake: Illuminated Books
89 items
Farm Security Administration Photographs
10,043 items
The Green Book
23 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.
1,467 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
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Collection of photographs of New York City, New York State and more by Max Hubacher
1,568 items
Photographic views of New York City, 1870's-1970's, from the collections of the New York Public Library
34,736 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
13,609 items
New York City Directories
270 items
Trow business directory of the boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx, city of New York
2 items
Atlases of New York City
11,683 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
709 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
91 items
Photographic negatives of the New York City Tenement House Department
69 items
Street views of New York City
69 items
New York (City) Museum of Modern Art photographs
90 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
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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
Drugstore Photographs, Or, A Trip Along the Yangtze River, 1999, by Dylan Stone
25,428 items
Collection of photographs of New York City
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André Fashion Illustrations from NYPL's Picture Collection
1,246 items
Creators Studios fashion illustrations
1,067 items
Les 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 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
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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
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
2,504 items
Holiday postcards
1,860 items
William Blake: Illuminated Books
89 items
Scrap book of Russian bookjackets, 1917-1942
656 items
Dress & Fashion: Design & Manufacture
566 items
Playing cards: Engineering
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natural history of the amphibious carnivora, including the walrus and seals, also of the herbivorous cetacea, &c.
33 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
Photographs of British algae: cyanotype impressions
499 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
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 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 his...
60 items
natural history of fishes of the perch family.
36 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
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
Characteristic sketches of animals, principally from the Zoological Gardens, Regent's Park
35 items
Blumenpolypen der süssen Wasser, beschrieben und mit den Blumenpolypen der salzigen Wasser verglichen von Jacob Christian Schäffer. Nebst drey kupfertafeln mit figuren in farben.
5 items
grunen armpolypen : die geschwanzten und ungeschwanzten zackigen wasserflohe, und eine besondere art kleiner wasseraale
5 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
Friends worth knowing; glimpses of American natural history.
16 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 itemsGay & Lesbian History See More
Diana Davies photographs
386 items
Barbara Gittings and Kay Tobin Lahusen gay history papers and photographs
858 items
International Gay Information Center collection. Photographs
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Martha Swope photographs
50,641 items
Kenn Duncan Photograph Archive, ca. 1960-1986
6,972 items
Friedman-Abeles photograph collection
30,672 items
Vandamm theatrical photographs, 1900-1957
3,302 items
White Studio theatrical photographs
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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 by Edward Penfield
115 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
28 items
Posters for books and magazines.
2 items
Broadsides, posters and playbills
1 item
Posters: arranged by artists.
1 item![[Posters by Jacob Kazaks.]](https://images.nypl.org/index.php?id=1556183&t=r)
[Posters by Jacob Kazaks.]
1 item
Exhibition and Retail Shop Poster Collection
2 items
Poster Collection
15 items
true history of Deacon Giles' distillery. Reported for the benefit of posterity ...
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Atlases of New York City
11,683 items
Atlases of the United States
3,846 items
Maps of Asia
66 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
43 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. Illustrated with maps and portraits. For the use of young persons
8 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
3 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.
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Ehon: the artist and the book in Japan
1,969 items
Bookbinding : books bequeathed by William Augustus Spencer.
509 items
Genji Monogatari Emaki
33 items
Collection of book jackets
2,504 items
Sonan gafu = The Sonan album.
32 items
Children's book illustrations
1,978 items
Horae.
767 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
Ise Monogatari Emaki
109 items
Des cleres et nobles femmes
78 items
Momoyogusa
76 items
Minchô shiken (The Colored Inkstone of the Ming Period)
65 items
Tsuki hyakushi
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