The New York Public Library's Picture Collection at Mid-Manhattan Library
adds 500 Historical Postcards of New York City to the NYPL Digital Gallery
A fascinating historical peek at all five boroughs of New York City from the
1890s until the 1920s is provided through the 500 postcards newly added to
the NYPL Digital Gallery <http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/> from
the Picture Collection<http://www.nypl.org/branch/central/mml/pc/index.html>'s
holdings of more than 25,000 postcards.
The postcards offer a colorful visual record of the city and document the
beginnings of the postcard publishing phenomenon in the United States. Both
the front and back of each postcard can be viewed. The postcards also
illustrate emerging lithographic and photographic printing styles. Among
the examples digitized are oil paintings, tinted photographs, colored
lithographs, line photoengravings, relief prints, inkless intaglio prints,
linocuts, hold-to-light cards, and cards with highlights delineated by
glitter.
An online exhibit highlighting the project and providing examples of the
digitized images can be found at
http://www.nypl.org/branch/central/mml/postcards/index.html
This project was supported in part by funds from the Metropolitan New York
Library Council (METRO) through the New York State Regional Bibliographic
Databases Program.
You may wish to begin your exploration of the Picture Collection's
contribution of over 30,000 images to the NYPL Digital Gallery by visiting
the Collection Guide to the Picture
Collection<http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/explore/dgexplore.cfm?col_id=482>.
--Susan
Susan Chute, Supervising Librarian
Art and Picture Collections
Mid-Manhattan Library
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