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For more than 125 years, The New York Public Library has collected, preserved, and made accessible the world’s knowledge. Now, for the first time, the Polonsky Exhibition of The New York Public Library’s Treasures showcases some of the most extraordinary items from the 56 million in our collections, inspiring and empowering visitors to discover, learn, and create new knowledge—today and ...
Project details. For more than 125 years, The New York Public Library has collected, preserved, and made accessible the world’s knowledge. The Polonsky Exhibition of The New York Public Library’s Treasures showcases for the first time some of its most extraordinary items in a permanent exhibition open to the public free of charge.
- Thomas Jefferson’s Handwritten Copy of The Declaration of Independence
- Manuscript Draft Fragment of A Vindication of The Rights of Woman
- Maquette of "Lift Every Voice and Sing (The Harp)" by Augusta Savage
- The Set Model of in The Heights
- The Triumph of Maximilian(Triumphal Arch) by Albrecht Dürer
- Charles Dickens’s Desk
- Costume Made and Worn by Loie Fuller
- A Page from A Draft of The Novel James Baldwin
- Umbrella Belonging to P.L. Travers
- Malcolm X’s Briefcase
Only six manuscript versions of the Declaration of Independence are known to survive in the hand of Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson made this copy for a friend shortly after the July 4th, 1776, ratification of the Declaration, which announced to the world the American colonies’ political separation from Great Britain. He underlined words that he ended ...
Mary Wollstonecraft, the mother of feminism, demanded women’s equality based on what they have in common with men. There is an early edition and a draft fragment in her handwriting, which is the only one known to survive, she takes to task both the women who indulge in extravagant fashions and the men who mock them.
This incredible plaster sculpture was designed for the 1939 World's Fair by Augusta Savage, a key figure of the Harlem Renaissance. Through the work, she honored composer, activist, lawyer and fellow Floridian James Weldon Johnson: “I have taken for my theme the national Negro anthem,” wrote Savage. “It is a poem written by the late James Weldon Jo...
The beloved musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara Alegría Hudes is represented by Anna Louizos’s set model for the original Off-Broadway production, which shows a dynamic urban streetscape with details informed by her visits with Miranda to his neighborhood, including the George Washington Bridge.
Albrecht Dürer’s Triumphal Arch, commissioned by Emperor Maximilian, is one of the largest prints ever produced. It's made of 200 individual prints and demanded the combined labors of Dürer and a workshop of assistants for more than two years. The library owns two copies, including a rare, but incomplete, first edition. The one shown here is comple...
You can see the actual desk, chair and light that Dickens used when writing Hard Times (1854) and Great Expectations (1860–1861). He also wrote some of his more than 15,000 letters on this writing slope. The chair was used in Dickens’s office at Household Words, the weekly magazine he edited in the 1850s, but was later moved to his home. This ensem...
This beautiful hand-dyed silk, from 1925, was likely worn in a dance set to Claude DeBussy's "La Mer" by dancer and entrepreneur Loie Fuller, who transformed it under colored lighting. Fuller’s interpretation involved a staircase and yards of silk, making the entire stage move like ocean waves. She was known to manipulate fabric in swirling, undula...
From around 1960, this speech by James Baldwin outlines some of his thoughts on the characteristics of the novel as a form and the challenges for the American novelist, but particularly Black writers. The final page suggests Baldwin’s view of the promise the novel holds for African American literature when Black writers—such as Richard Wright, Ches...
Take a close look at this umbrella. Remind you of anyone? It belonged to the author of Mary Poppins—Pamela Lyndon (P.L.) Travers. The American editor presented the umbrella to The New York Public Library in May 1972, at the same time that Travers herself donated a small collection of artifacts associated with her well-loved storybook series.
You can see the actual leather and brass briefcase of Malcolm X, who had a famously busy schedule, meeting with activists, religious and community leaders, students, scholars, and everyday people around the world and on the sidewalks and in the shops of Harlem. Much of the Malcolm X Collection documents the substance of those many meetings, confere...
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2 days ago · Today, the Polonsky Exhibition of The New York Public Library’s Treasurers will open at Gottesman Hall, a 6,400-square-foot marble exhibition space inside the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, the ...
Aug 23, 2021 · The Polonsky Exhibition of The New York Public Library’s Treasures will open on September 24, 2021, at the iconic Stephen A. Schwarzman Building on Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, giving the public an opportunity to see and explore over 250 rare and unique items from the Library’s renowned research collections.
6 days ago · The Polonsky Exhibition of The New York Public Library’s Treasures will open on September 24, 2021. It will feature over 250 items spanning 4,000 years from the institution’s renowned research ...
