Recently the Milstein Division of U.S. History, Local History and Genealogy has acquired close to fifty books of historical photographs from locations across the United States. Photographic books are not uncommon but generally focus on large cities like Chicago, New York or Los Angeles. This series, however focuses on smaller cities like Omaha, Nebraska and Knoxville, Tennessee. Come visit us and take a look!

Looking for photographs of
Looking for photographs of the past directors of the NYPL, that are available for viewing on the internet
Hi Carlaise, Thanks for
Hi Carlaise,
Thanks for reading the Histories Blog. I'll look into this and write back with the information I find. I have a feeling that there is no one place for these images and for some of these directors there may not be any digitized photographs. There are however pictures of John Billings Shaw (like this one) in our digital gallery.
Sachiko Clayton
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