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  • Charles Dickens: The Key to Character

    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
    Now until January 27, 2013 (All day)

    Charles Dickens (1812–1870) was the best-loved English novelist at a time when recreational reading was at a zenith. His fictional creations represent a cross-section of society—from law-clerk to crossing-sweeper, miser to midwife—and are united by the vividness with which they 

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  • Lunch Hour NYC

    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
    Now until February 17, 2013 (All day)

    Lunch Hour NYC looks back at more than a century of New York lunches, when the city's early power brokers invented what was yet to be called "power lunch", local charities established a 3-cent school lunch, and visitors with guidebooks thronged Times Square to eat lunch at the 

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  • Echoes of Silence: Philip Trager, Early Photographs, 1967-83

    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
    Now until February 17, 2013 (All day)

    Enjoy the quietly relentless formal beauty of Philip Trager’s early photography in this free exhibition. Trager is widely acknowledged as one of the foremost photographers of architecture and dance of the 20th century. The exhibition Echoes of Silence: Philip Trager, Early Photographs, 

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  • Sailor Twain's New York: Secrets and Mysteries of the River Hudson

    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
    Now until April 28, 2013 (All day)

    In 2009, the Library presented Mapping New York’s Shoreline, 1609-2009, an exhibition marking the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s famous voyage.

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  • Jill Kupin Rose Gallery Image

    Jill Kupin Rose Gallery

    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
    Ongoing

    This ongoing exhibition consists of large wall panels with photographs, text, objects, and videos illustrating the history and the vast array of collections, services, and users of The New York Public Library's Branch and Research Libraries.

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