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A Pioneering Photographer's Legacy In Algae
In 1843, Anna Atkins created the first book illustrated with photography. It took over a century for her pioneering work to be recognized.
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New York Public Library Offers Ties and Briefcases You Can Check Out for Job Interviews
A librarian at the Riverside NYPL branch, Michelle Lee, spearheaded a program to loan ties, briefcases, and handbags after teaching seminars about job-hunting to NYC teenagers.
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The New York Public Library Lets You Read a Novel on Instagram
A new initiative launches handheld reading for classic literature.
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Your New York Library Card Will Now Allow You Access to 33 City Museums
A new initiative encourages New Yorkers to use their library cards to get in free to museums across the city.
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Thelma Golden Shares the Books that Inspired Her
The Studio Museum director will discuss the influence of books on her life and career with author Kaitlyn Greenidge at the New York Public Library.
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The Art and Friendship of Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti in a Laura Mulvey Documentary
In 1984, feminist filmmaker Laura Mulvey made an essayistic movie about these two artists who lived and worked in post-revolutionary Mexico.
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The 1973 Documentary that Delved into the NYC Painting Scene
See a rare 16mm print of Emile de Antonio's Painters Painting, which captures the period in American art when post-war abstraction was giving way to Pop.
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A Project on the Arctic's Vanishing Ice Launches with an Olafur Eliasson Talk
The Arctic Imagination project is a collaboration between six international libraries that draws attention to the Arctic's disappearing ice.
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A Jazz Documentary on a Summer's Day
The 1959 documentary Jazz on a Summer's Day, screening on August 23 at the New York Public Library, is considered one of the first music festival films.
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Help the New York Public Library Geotag Enigmatic NYC Photos
The New York Public Library has thousands of historical photographs and illustrations of NYC that you can help geotag with a new tool called "Surveyor."
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From Daily Life to Scientific Explorations, Photos of Latin America Between 1860 and Today
Viewpoints, an exhibition at the New York Public Library, features an impressive array of photographs made in Latin America by local photographers as well as foreigners.
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The New York Public Library Has a “Digital Time-Travel Service” for Its Historical Maps
The New York Public Library's NYC Space/Time Directory launched a project that plots 5,000 digitized street maps across the five boroughs, organized by decade from 1850 to 1950.