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Public Eye: The Photography of Helen Levitt
Helen Levitt (American, 1913–2009), Untitled, ca.1940, gelatin silver print The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs. © Estate of Helen LevittHelen Levitt was one of this...
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Booktalking "Willow" by Tonya Hegamin
In 1848, 15-year-old Willow is a slave, euphemistically referred to as a 'servant'. 17-year-old Cato is a free Black man. Worlds of difference separate them. Willow lives with her father and Rev Jeff,...
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36 Fifty Shades of Grey Read-Alikes
The Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy by E.L. James is an erotic series that tells the love story of Anastasia Steele and Christian Grey. Anastasia meets Christian by accident. She travels to his office...
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Reader's Den: Elizabeth Is Missing by Emma Healy
Emma Healy's 2014 debut novel, Elizabeth is Missing has an unlikely sleuth/protagonist. Maud Horsham is 82, struggling with dementia, and determined to find her missing friend, Elizabeth. Healy was...
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Job and Employment Links for the Week of February 8
Enrollment Now Open - SAGE Boot Camp. This two-week long, intensive training course will provide participants with esssential skills to lead them toward job placement. The first session starts on...
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Adorable Vintage Valentine's Day Cards to Love
As Valentine's Day rolls around, we're looking back at amazing vintage cards in the Digital Collection that celebrate the holiday. Some are greetings for dear feline friends. Others are about as cute...
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Black Life Matters Wikipedia Edit-a-thon: How You Can Help
The Schomburg Center's first Wikipedia Edit-a-thon will give patrons the tools to edit the popular online encyclopedia, with the goal of making black life more visible within its pages. We hope to see...
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Yiddish Theater Posters of the 1890s
The New York Public Library’s Digital Collection includes Yiddish theater posters dating back more than a hundred years. These ephemeral pieces, with their bold titles, portraits of actors, and...
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Toni Stone: Pioneer for Women's Baseball
Hey! All right so February has arrived, and all month long on the first floor of the Grand Central branch, we’ll be showcasing various books pertaining to the Negro Leagues. We’ll also have a daily...
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Podcast #47: Ntozake Shange on Inspiration and Harlem
As we begin Black History Month, The New York Public Library Podcast welcomes the great American playwright and poet Ntozake Shange, creator of the Obie-Award-winning play “for colored girls who have...
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Audio Highlights from the Community Oral History Project
Beginning in November 2013, The New York Public Library's Community Oral History Project has collected over 300 oral histories of people throughout the city. Volunteer interviewers have participated in...
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Jersey Genealogy: A Research Guide Using Local History Collections
Atlas of Hudson County, Bayonne, NJ. 1919. Image ID: 3991145“: a local pride; spring, summer, fall and the sea; a confession…” - William Carlos Williams, Paterson.In 1609, Dutch explorer Henry Hudson...
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SIBL Salutes Its Volunteers
From the left: career coach Sue Mozian, Marzena Ermler, the Job Search Central Manager and librarian Magdalene Chan.More than 70 volunteers were invited to the Science, Industry and Business Library on...
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Booktalking "The Ever-After Bird" by Ann Rinaldi
The scarlet ibis is known to the slaves as the Ever-After bird. Legend has it that once a slave sights this bird, he or she will be free. This is also a highly sought-after bird by Alex McGill, bird...
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Beyond the Title Page: Watermarks, Colophons, and Publishing Dates
This project started as a comparison of copies of a series of beautifully illustrated books on fashionable dress, trades’ dress, and ethnic costume at New York Public Library held in both the Art and...
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Cultivating Cupid at the Library
Sports - Archery - Group of women aiming at heart shaped targets. Image ID: 1682803St. Valentine’s Day is not a holiday that I usher in with much fanfare. Professionally, I decorate the adult display...
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20 Reasons Why You Should Write Your Family History
Hungarian Family at Ellis Island, all of whom were deported. 1905. Image ID: 417071If you have done any family history research, such as looking for records on Ancestry.com and FamilySearch.org or...
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Booktalking "The Letter Writer" by Ann Rinaldi
Eleven-year-old Harriet Whitehead is hired to write letters for a blind woman on a Virginia cotton plantation in 1830. There, she meets 14-year-old Violet, a half-black and half-white girl who becomes...
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En commémoration de l'histoire Afro-Américaine - Février 2015
Image ID: 1229126 Des Afro-américains en train de lire en famille - [An African American family; Reading books.] (1922) Ce mois de février on célèbre l’Histoire des Noirs aux États-Unis. C’est en...
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Novedades de Febrero 2015: Celebrando el Amor y la Amistad con Historias del...
Hasta ahora, el origen del Día de San Valentín, el 14 de febrero, continúa siendo un misterio. Algunos opinan que San Valentín fue un romano martirizado por negarse a renunciar a su fe cristiana. Otros...
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