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garadinervi · 1 year

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Nina Simone and James Baldwin, early 1960s [«The New Yorker». Photo: New York Public Library, New York, NY]

#art #music #photography #nina simone #james baldwin #the new yorker #new york public library #1960s

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authorkarajorgensen · 3 months

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Want to see a cool research thing? It's a collection of digitized menus from the 1800/1900s at the New York Public Library.

Perfect for my historical fiction peeps or culinary historians

#culinary history #historical research #book research #new york public library #menus #food history

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lionofchaeronea · 5 months

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The dying Beowulf, having just defeated the dragon, is supported by his ally Wiglaf. Illustration by George T. Tobin from Siegfried, the Hero of the North, and Beowulf, the Hero of the Anglo-Saxons by Zenaide A. Ragozin, published in 1909. Now in the New York Public Library.

#art #art history #George T. Tobin #illustration #Beowulf #Germanic mythology #Old English #Old English literature #Middle Ages #medieval #medieval literature #American art #20th century art #New York Public Library

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pagansphinx · 8 months

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Subway Riders in New York City • 1914 • New York Public Library

Francis Luis Mora (Uruguayan-American, 1874-1940) Mora worked in watercolor, oils and tempera. He produced drawings in pen and ink, and graphite; and etchings and monotypes. He is known for his paintings and drawings depicting American life in the early 20th century; Spanish life and society; historical and allegorical subjects; with murals, easel painting and illustrations. He also was a popular art instructor.

Flowers of the field • 1913 • Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

Jeanne Cartier • c. 1916 • Yale University Art Gallery - New Haven, Connecticut

Mrs. F. Luis Mora and Her Sister • 1902 • Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

Las Manolas (Models in Sevilla) • c. 1909 • Private collection

Spanish Color Fantasy • n/d • Private collection

#f. luis mora #francis luis mora #art #painting #fine art #art history #early 20th century art #uruguayan-born #american artist #american painter #figurative art #figure painting #new york public library #new york city paintings

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inthedarktrees · 11 months

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An important undergraduate in the Ziegfeld Training School for nurses. She is here depicted as the nurse in the current Follies caricature of Mr. W. Shakespeare’s well-known five-reel heart-thriller—”Romeo and Juliet.” The age of the nurse is open to fair-minded criticism—but no word of carp or cavil could possibly be breathed in regard to her qualifications as a ministering angel. —Vanity Fair, August 1916

Publicity photograph of Justine Johnstone in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1916

#ziegfeld follies #1910s #showgirl #ziegfeld girl #vintage fashion #1910s style #1910s fashion #vintage #romeo and juliet #justine johnstone #vanity fair #nurse #nurse romeo and juliet #photo restoration #black and white #photography #1916 #new york public library #nypl 57199207

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courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme · 8 days

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Ghostbusters (1984, Ivan Reitman)

10/04/2024

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israelcastillophoto · 5 months

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On Cinestill 35mm film

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flower-biter · 1 year

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nervous // rare books at the NYPL xx

#old books #rare books #anatomy #anatomical illustration #scientific illustration #nervous system #biology #physiology #nypl #new york public library #my photos #dark academia #dark academia aesthetic #science #science history #mine #queue

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petsincollections · 10 months

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George Arents Collection, The New York Public Library. "Guinea-pigs." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ca617cb0-c56b-012f-2e2c-58d385a7bc34

#guinea pigs #cigarette cards #new york public library #george arents collection

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uwmspeccoll · 24 days

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Milestone Monday

The King's Hares, from Norway

The Princess with the Twelve Pair of Golden Shoes, from Denmark

Queen Crane, from Sweden

The Rooster, the Hand Mill and the Swarm of Hornets, from Sweden

Ti-Tirit-Ti, from Italy

The Adventures of Bona and Nello, from Italy

The Hedgehog Who Became a Prince, from Poland

The Flight, from Poland

April 1st is the birthday of American librarian and storyteller Augusta Braxton Baker (1911-1998). Born to two schoolteachers in Baltimore, Baker was a voracious student who read at a young age and careened through elementary and high school. With advocacy support from Eleanor Roosevelt, Baker was admitted to the Albany Teacher’s College and in 1934 earned a B. A. in Education and a B. S. in Library Science making her the first African American to earn a librarianship degree from the college.

In 1939, Baker went on to work as the children’s librarian at New York Public Library’s Harlem branch, founding the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of Children’s Books to showcase representation of Black children and life in books, and beginning a lifelong career with children’s literature and the New York Public Library (NYPL). In 1953, she was appointed Storytelling Specialist and Assistant Coordinator of Children’s Services, quickly moving into the Coordinator of Children’s Services position years later and becoming the first African American to hold an administrative position with NYPL. Throughout her career, Baker was active with the American Library Association, and chaired committees for the Newbery Medal and Caldecott Medal recognizing excellence in children’s literature.

In celebration of Baker’s birthday, we’re sharing The Golden Lynx and Other Tales, a collection of international folk tales compiled by Baker and illustrated by Austrian artist Johannes Troyer (1902-1969). This is the first edition of the book published in 1960 by J. B. Lippincott and is signed by Baker, who writes in the introduction, “No story has been included in this collection that has not stood the supreme test of the children’s interest and approval”.

Read other Milestone Monday posts here!

View more posts on children's books here.

– Jenna, Special Collections Graduate Intern

#Augusta Braxton Baker #Milestone Monday #The Golden Lynx and Other Tales #Johannes Troyer #J.B. Lippincott #New York Public Library #American Library Association #Newberry Medal #Caldecott Medal #Historical Curriculum Collection #birthdays

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garadinervi · 1 year

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Malcolm X (May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965)

(image: Portrait of Malcolm X, 1950s, Photographer unknown. Photographs and Prints Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library, New York, NY)

#photography #malcolm x #schomburg center for research in black culture #new york public library #1920s #1950s #1960s

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star--nymph · 1 year

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Hello, everyone. I'm asking for help from my fellow tumblr users in stopping proposed cuts towards the New York Public Library. In spite of all the importance and aid the library serves to NYC community, Mayor Adams and the City Council are now planning to subject the NYPL, Brooklyn Public Library, and Queens Public Library (together, “Tri-Li”) to $52.7 million in budget cuts. The library is already extremely underfunded and these cuts could take what is already a bad situation into a detrimental one.

Libraries for communities, especially those often invisible and forgotten by society, like the young, the homeless, the disabled, and immigrants. It provides both educational and safe services to everyone. The fact is there is a growth in people going to the library and demand has grown for library cards in the last year--with us dealing out 140,000 new library cards in 2022 and we are on track to issue 170,000 in 2023.

People need and want the library! It doesn't deserve to be dealt such severe cuts by the City Council!

So I'm asking everyone on tumblr to please sign this if you can and reblog it to spread it around. There is an optional donation if you'd like but it's not required. We just want your voices and signature! Anything you can offer on the list, whether it's a reblog or another name, can help!

#NYPL #signal boost #new york public library

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studentbyday · 6 months

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D-38 DAYS TO FREEDOM

today we "go" to the library to salvage an unproductive day. remember how i was saying leaving my phone has made me lots more productive? hehe, now i spend more time in the mornings and nights on it to "catch up" 😑 smh. 🙌🏻 THERE IS SO MUCH I WANNA DO WITH MY LIFE WHAT AM I DOING WASTING IT ON MY PHONNNEEEEE 🙌🏻 anyway, the goal today is to study for 4+ hours. (hopefully i can make it to at least 6.) update: i only made it to 4.

learning:

chk + send mol bio asst ✅🤞🏻

peer review biochem papers ✅

write biochem discussion replies 🟡 (i wrote one. one more to go but my brain is fried.)

other than that, i tried to work on last psyc ch from last week. got stuck. awaiting reply. worked a little bit on the next psyc ch instead which reads a lot like me when i get philosophical. it's weird to read in a "science" setting.

self-care:

physio exercises ✅