MAIN LOCATION: Fifth Avenue & 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018. 212-930-0800. WEB SITE: digitalgallery.nypl.org
HOURS: Mon,Thurs-Sat 11am-6pm. Tue-Wed 11am-7:30pm. Sun 1pm-5pm. COLLECTION HIGHLIGHTS: Lewis Wickes Hine’s photographs of the construction of the Empire State Building; historical views of American towns and cities; portraits of African Americans in the mid-19th century; photographs of the Middle East; dress and fashion designs; and streetscapes of New York City from the 1870s to 1970s.

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 over 600,000 images available for purchase as framed and unframed prints. 300dpi TIFF files are also obtainable for publication and other commercial uses. For further details click here. www.nypl.org/premissions

Libraries are the memory of humankind, irreplaceable repositories of documents of human thought and action. The New York Public Library, opened 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.