About the Collection: This exclusive collection of archival prints provides an overview of images from the archives of the New York Public Library. These stunning prints are the highest quality reproductions ever produced from these works. This exclusive collection will continually be updated as new works are added to the offering.
Currier & Ives, The Great East River Suspension Bridge
Libraries are the memory of humankind, irreplaceable repositories of documents of human thought and action. The New York Public Library, founded in 1911, is such a memory bank par excellence, one of the great knowledge institutions of the world, its myriad collections ranking with those of the British Library, the Library of Congress, and the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Virtually all of the Library's many collections and services are freely available to all comers.
The New York Public Library comprises simultaneously a set of scholarly research collections and a network of community libraries, and its intellectual and cultural range is both global and local, while singularly attuned to New York City. That combination lends to the Library an extraordinary richness. It is special also in being historically a privately managed, nonprofit corporation with a public mission, operating with both private and public financing in a century-old, still evolving private-public partnership.
A portion of The New York Public Library’s original and rare holdings is easily accessible online through the NYPL Digital Gallery [digitalgallery.nypl.org] containing close to 1 million images most available for purchase as framed and unframed prints. High quality digital files are also obtainable for editorial and commercial use. For further details click here. [www.nypl.org/permissions]
