Library Blog
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Wednesday, October 26, 2016
The Library's current exhibition, Herman Melville's New York, 1850, explores the relationship between the member writer, the city of New York, and the Library itself. In 1850, Melville lived about a mile north of the Library, and he often visited his brother at his Wall Street office or promenaded on the Battery just a half-mile downtown. This pattern was typical of many of the men at the Library who read his books, for whom the Library would have been a convenient stop on their commute.
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Friday, October 14, 2016Melville's New York Society Library was on the edge of the infamous Five Points.
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Friday, September 16, 2016Learn more about our ongoing exhibition: Herman Melville's New York, 1850.
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Tuesday, July 26, 2016In the weeks after her husband's death, Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton wrote to her friends for help and comfort. Her letters and others survive in our collections, and now you can read them in City Readers.
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Wednesday, June 15, 2016
In January I posted a piece on our blog about the need for a history of reading in New York City, arguing (surprise, surprise) that our very own New York Society Library is one of the best places to start. And while the focus of much of my work and writing on the history of reading at this Library has focused on our early members, lately I've been drawn to the stories of reading Library members from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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Thursday, February 4, 2016We made a coloring books from one of the oldest, most beautiful books in our collections. Learn why the Nuremberg Chronicle is one of the coolest books ever printed, and what makes our copy so special.
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Monday, January 4, 2016Announcing City Readers, the Library's new digital collections portal!
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Monday, September 28, 2015News from the Special Collections Department: We're processing our Institutional Archive!
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Tuesday, August 11, 2015Special Collections Librarian and exhibition co-curator Erin Schreiner writes about the show, which closes on August 15.
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Tuesday, February 3, 2015Why should we celebrate the practice of writing in books?
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