Hands off the library s picture collection!
Jessica Cline, the current head of the Picture Collection at the New York Public Library, with the open files in Room 100, where there are more than 12,000 rubrics from Abacus to Zoology, in New York, July 30, 2021. Founded in 1915, the collection lends images to library users who are seeking visual information of a mind-boggling range. Gus Powell/The New York Times.
by Arthur Lubow
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
Andy Warhol borrowed hundreds of images for inspiration and never returned them.
For more than a century, the Picture Collection of the New York Public Library has flourished, gloriously but precariously, as a shape-shifting misfit within a Dewey Decimal grid. Founded in 1915, the collection lends images to library users who are seeking visual information of a mind-boggling range: Praying, Fairies, Expositions, Rear Views more than 12,000 rubrics from Abacus to Zoology, a history of taste that is still expanding. Its files are cl
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Top neighborhoods to explore in New York City
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With more than 8 million people crammed into five boroughs spanning a mere 300 square miles, New York City is a boisterous metropolis that famously refuses to sleep. Its riot of sights and sounds vary so much from one block to the next â let alone from borough to borough â that you could take a month and visit a different part of town each day, and you d still only scratch the surface.