Posts from Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

NYPL’s Elizabeth Cronin spoke with art historian Bonnie Yochelson about the career and images of understudied Staten Island photographer Alice Austen.

In this episode, NYPL's Zulay Chang and photography scholar Dr. Tal-Or Ben-Choreen explored Mike Mandel’s 1975 series Baseball-Photographer Trading Cards and the way it provides insight into the networking that occurred between photographers, curators, and critics during the 1970s.

Whether your family member is missing from the family album, or you can't identify someone in photos, this guide is full of information about using NYPL's collections for image research.

In this episode, NYPL's Elizabeth Cronin spoke with writer Lydia Pyne about her book 'Postcards: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Social Network'. They discussed how these personal connections can be traced within the Library's beloved Picture Collection.

In this episode, NYPL curators Ian Fowler and Julie Golia examined maps proposing the construction of the Brooklyn Battery Bridge, a development project that would have decimated the built environments of downtown Manhattan and South Brooklyn, and that helped spark the city's modern preservation movement.

Ort has been researching a new book project tentatively entitled "The Afterlife of a Death: Meaning, Memory, and the Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich."

The newly acquired is a unique, extensive collection of rare original photos showing Sakhalin and its penitentiary system in the early 20th century.

In this episode, NYPL's Tal Nadan spoke about the Horn & Hardart Automat with Lisa Hurwitz, director of the documentary film The Automat, and Alec Shuldiner, author of a 2001 dissertation on these once ubiquitous coin-operated eateries in New York and Philadelphia.

This volume, while worn and partially incomplete, is unsophisticated and offers the firsthand study of provincial Bohemian book arts which remain little known outside the Czech Republic

Cartoonist and lifelong insect enthusiast, Kuper has recommended a range of titles for readers of all ages—from his own work to the books that have inspired the art you'll find in INterSECTS.

Lyudmila Sholokhova and Vladimir Levin discussed the photographer's role in documenting these institutions from their heyday to their decline in the 1960s and 1970s, when many were repurposed or demolished.

In this episode, two NYPL curators discussed the origins, content, distribution, and legacy of a 1493 letter from Christopher Columbus and offered innovative ideas on how to incorporate the document into teaching about the origins of colonialism in the Americas.

Between 1918 and 1922 New York financier Carl H. Pforzheimer built up a small but noteworthy gathering of materials relating to the novelist Charlotte Brontë.

In this episode Julie Golia and Kim Phillips-Fein explored a collection of evocative photographs of the New York City subway system in the 1970s by Alen MacWeeney, discussing what the images reveal about the city during a decade of crisis and transformation.

Secret is an independent journalist and writer based in Brooklyn. His first book, 'Teaching Them: The 1960s Experiment to Desegregate the Boarding Schools of the South', will come out in 2023 with Little, Brown.

In this episode, author Debby Applegate discusses her new book about how Adler, a young Jewish immigrant, became the proprietress of one of Manhattan's most notorious bordellos in the era of Prohibition enforcers and the New York City vice sqad.

In this episode, NYPL's Carolyn Vegan and Hilary Havens of the University of Tennessee explored the manuscripts of 18th-century English novelist Frances Burney.

Brooks's book "Gotham’s War Within a War: Anti-Vice Policing, Militarism, and the Birth of Law-and-Order Liberalism in New York City, 1934-1945," is forthcoming from the University of North Carolina Press.

Pollack has been the 'Forward's' archivist for the past two decades, providing research, translation, and production of original archival content with an eye on the contemporary context.