Blog Posts by Subject: Image Collections

In this interview with Palmer, get a behind-the-scenes look at her short film "A is for Aye-Aye." Also, check out two upcoming workshops (including animation for kids) inspired by the film.

Explore a colorful visual record of NYC and see the beginnings of the postcard phenomenon in the United States.

In June 1965, photographer Dorothea Lange wrote a letter to Picture Collection Librarian Romana Javitz saying, “It would be very fine, very fine indeed, if we could spend a Picture-Lovers afternoon together....”

NYPL's new browser extension shows a curated image of New York City every time you open a new tab. Know where in New York City the photo was taken? With just a few clicks, you can geotag the image and help enhance NYPL's collections.

In honor of International Women's Day, we honor former Schomburg Center Photographs and Prints Division curator, Dr. Deborah Willis. In this interview, Dr. Willis discusses the BLACK PORTRAITURE[S] III: Reinventions: Strains of Histories and Cultures conference, her photography work, and her pioneering work at The Schomburg Center.

New! This series of Schomburg Center Research Guides will provide you with resources related to various topics and subjects related to the Global Black Experience. This research guide will provide you with an overview of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture’s holdings related to Black dance pioneer, Katherine Dunham.

We've had a lot of fun over the last two weeks searching around our libraries for Pokémon and playing Pokémon Go with our patrons, and we've noticed something: some of these Pokémon look awfully familiar. Sure enough, there are a bunch of doppelgänger Pokémon hiding in our Digital Collections!

As professional photographers, nothing brings us more pleasure than to be faced with the prints of photographic luminaries and to be able to attend to their translation into the networked landscape. Here are a few highlights from our most beloved encounters with the library’s photo collections that we’ve seen along the way.

We bring Women’s History Month to a close with this roundup of representations of and works by women in our Digital Collections. Explore and be inspired.

In her guest post, Dalit Shalom describes her process in discovering the life of Mr. Walter Phelps Warren, dispersed across our collections, and reassembling it in an exhibition display equipped with a virtual reality experience. Dalit is a designer and creative technologist living in New York City, and a Masters candidate at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunication Program.

Learn how the work of the Copyright and Information Policy team contributed to the recent public domain release, and continues to expand access to our collections.

Today’s letter features correspondence between Arturo Alfonso Schomburg and Langston Hughes. In the excerpt below, Schomburg speaks with Hughes regarding acquisitions for The Division of Negro Literature, History and Prints—the forerunner to today’s Schomburg Center.

Download our coloring sheets and share your creations using #ColorOurCollections.

Public domain images from Digital Collections that remind us of classic books.

Take a look at these ideas for integrating specific tools, items and collections into lesson plans for students of various ages.

The Dance Division collects "prints depicting dance," covering a wide range of subjects, including portraits of dancers, dance performances and rehearsals, spectacle and horse ballet, advertisements showing dance, and satire. Here are a few favorites from the public domain.

What can I use to make things with public domain images? What collections should I know about if I am interested in making things?

We are proud to announce that out-of-copyright materials in NYPL Digital Collections are now available as high-resolution downloads. No permission required, no hoops to jump through: just go forth and reuse!

Postcards are a fantastic visual resource for a place’s past that are often underutilized by scholars. They offer rich evidence of culture and architecture as a visual record of the past.