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Shelby White and Leon Levy Digital Library

Museum Highlights


Asher B. Durand (1796–1886), a central artist of the Hudson River School, spent nearly twenty-four years as a successful commercial engraver. His talent as an engraver was based on his...


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This collection contains 111 images of drawings and text, depicting both important events and everyday scenes from the Civil War. The pencil, pen-and-ink, crayon and wash drawings range in...


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This digital collection highlights 207 of the most significant drawings from the New-York Historical Society's drawing collection. The drawing collection, numbering over 8,000 sheets, is...


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The 881 images presented here highlight the New-York Historical Society's outstanding collection of over 2,500 American paintings — primarily portraits, genre scenes, and landscapes —...


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The New-York Historical Society holds an encyclopedic collection of over 800 works documenting the full range of representational sculpture in the United States from the colonial period to...


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Louis C. Tiffany (1848–1933) was the artistic genius behind Tiffany Studios. However, he was not the exclusive designer of its lamps, windows, and luxury objects: Clara Driscoll (1861–1944),...


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This collection of thirteen sketches (graphite, and black ink and wash on paper) has been digitized from a small sketchbook in the New-York Historical Society's Museum. Most of these...


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"A collection of thirty-three maps, plans, and views of the fortifications constructed on Manhattan Island during the War of 1812 originally bound up with a beautifully engrossed Report...


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Library Highlights


The New-York Historical Society's manuscript collections contain over 20,000 linear feet of archival materials, including family papers and organizational and business records. This...


Library Collection

The New-York Historical Society's rich collections that document the Civil War include recruiting posters for New York City regiments of volunteers; stereographic views documenting the...


Library Collection

The New-York Historical Society holds important collections relating to Black history, slavery in the United States and the Atlantic slave trade. Dating from the 18th, 19th, and early 20th...


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The New-York Historical Society's ephemera collections, currently being digitized, include broadsides, posters, and dining menus, as well as hundreds of thousands of items of many...


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The New-York Historical Society's map collection ranges from the 17th century to the present and includes both printed and manuscript items. Geographic scope varies by time period, but...


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The New-York Historical Society Quarterly (1917-1980) is an outstanding resource for the study of nearly every aspect of New York and American history and material culture, especially as...


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The extensive photograph collections at the New-York Historical Society are particularly strong in portraits and documentary images of New York-area buildings and street scenes from 1839 to...


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The New-York Historical Society has an extensive collection of broadsides that document the American Revolution and the tumultuous events leading up to it. Broadsides, the technical term for...


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This series of field sketches and finished maps of projected battle sites in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania during the Revolutionary war was begun by Robert Erskine,...


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The Subway Construction Photograph Collection, 1900-1950, includes over 71,000 photographs taken by various New York City transportation agencies during the construction of the New York City...


Library Collection