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Digital Projects

  • What's on the Menu?

    Help the Library transcribe its famous menu collection and build a powerful database for culinary and historical research. Join tens of thousands of online volunteers in this award-winning participatory experiment. A collaboration between the Rare Book Division and NYPL Labs.

  • In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience

    A sweeping narrative from the transatlantic slave trade to the Great Migration, from the Western migration to the contemporary immigration of Caribbeans, Haitians, and sub-Saharan Africans. Includes 25,000 pages of texts, rare visual materials, maps, contemporary photojournalism, and lesson plans.

  • The State of Black Studies: Methodology, Pedagogy and Research

    60 hours of conference proceedings

  • When Is a Book Not a Book? Oliver Twist in Context

    In this illustrated presentation, Robert L. Patten, professor of English at Rice University, describes the novel's genesis as a serial in the periodical Bentley's Miscellany and examines how serialization influenced its composition.

  • Yizkor (Holocaust Memorial) Books

    Electronic access to the content of the largest collection of yizkor books in the United States, describing the life and death of 650 eastern European Jewish communities destroyed in the Holocaust.

  • Charles Dickens: The Life of the Author

    In this presentation, The New York Public Library's Kenneth Benson surveys the life and works of the most beloved author of the Victorian era.

  • Performing Arts in America 1875-1923

    Performing Arts in America 1875 -1923 , a web site of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, captures a glimpse of this world. With visual and audio images drawn from the extensive archival collections at The Library, the site features an authentic look at this past, from the Broadway theater and Tin Pan Alley to the art of dancer Loie Fuller and composer Charles Griffes, all brought to you in original documents.

  • American Shores: Maps of the Middle Atlantic Region to 1850

    Digitized maps and atlases included in American Shores are drawn from the extensive holdings of the Map Division

  • Surveyors of the American West

    Features diaries of photographer William Henry Jackson (1843-1942) and mining engineer Robert Brewster Stanton (1846-1922), and the photographs they took during their explorations of the American West in the 1870s-1880s.

  • Studies Dedicated to Fernando Ortiz (1880-1969)

    Extensive, selected bibliography of the works of Fernando Ortiz (1881-1969), eminent Cuban sociologist, and relevant secondary literature.

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