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Before becoming a movie star, Katharine Hepburn was a powerful presence on the stage, and she continued to act and tour in plays throughout her life. The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center has acquired Ms. Hepburns personal collection of thousands of pages of notes, journals, photographs, cast lists, scripts, [...]

Watch as curators from The New York Public Library’s Manuscripts & Archives Division unearth historic footage and ephemera from the 1939-40 World’s Fair in Flushing Meadows, Queens.
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Travel the Manhattan’s Sputyen Duyvil Creek in the year 1777 with curators from The New York Public Library’s Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division.
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What did John Cage do to the piano? Librarians at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts know. The Librarys Music Division is one of the world’s preeminent music collections, documenting the art of music in all its diversity — opera, spirituals, ragtime, jazz, musical theater, film, world, orchestral, rock, and pop. The [...]

The New York Public Library’s Photography Collection contains nearly 400,000 original photographic prints, from the medium’s 150+ year history, representing an international range of photographers and comprising a thorough survey of subjects and processes. Watch as curators share some of its highlights.
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Rare comic books from the 1930s as well as the latest editions of Japanese manga all find a place on the shelves of The New York Public Library’s General Research Division and Circulating Collections.
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