Thursday, October 3, 2024

New York Public Library Treasures

We did the NYPL Treasures tour too...a large room devoted to special holdings of the library and to temporary exhibitions...

Mucha poster of Bernhardt's farewell tour...one expects he
was particularly sorry to see her go...


Over-sized batons from one of Toscanini's mega-concerts
in NYC

Pooh corner

Audubon corner

Quite a few of the most important books of 1850s America 


The Green Book...the guide to touring America for
African-Americans...in segregationist America

One of the real curiosities...this 7 foot high print,
by Durer and associates, the Triumphal Arch, commissioned
by the Emperor Maximilian; completed in 1517; this is the
third edition, 1799; Durer was one of the first truly independent
artists...but not that independent...

Dickens writing table and chair

Treasures room view

Some of the older books

First Folio...seems like we were just at the Globe; and at
Gray's Inn...

Vicki at the James Baldwin exhibit

Typewriter and page from humorist S. J. Perelman...famous at 
The New Yorker, Broadway, and Hollywood...

Adjacent to the Treasure room is the NYPL gift
shoppe, which has its own treasures...

Many such...




Interesting use of card catalogs...


1 comment:

Tawana said...

Love the T-shirts!