Archive: Collections & Acquisitions

2009

The New York Public Library Acquires Robin Bowman and William Meyers Portfolios for Photography Collection

2008

Scholastic Donates Copies of The Tales of Beedle The Bard to The Library System's 87 Branches

The Fondazione FMR-Marilena Ferrari donates copy of Michelangelo. La dotta mano, a complete work of art in book form.

The New York Public Library New LGBT Visiting Scholars Program

The New York Public Library Acquires Papers of Theatrical Legends Uta Hagen and Herbert Berghof

New York Genealogical and Biographical Society Contributes Its 75,000-Volume Collection to The New York Public Library

New Support Group for The New York Public Library's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Collections Launched

Papers of American Historian and Kennedy Presidential Advisor Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Acquired

The New York Public Library Acquires Katharine Hepburn Papers

2007

Library for the Performing Arts Awarded $1 Million Grant by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation

Katharine Hepburn Theater Collection Comes to the NYPL

New York Times Company donates its archives dating back to 1851

Archive of Gay Rights Activists MBarbara Gittings/Kay Tobin Lahusen Acquired

Meredith Monk Archive Acquired

Paddy Chayefsky Collection

Map Division Restored and Renovated

Digital Gallery Offers Digital Prints on Demand

The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Restores and Edits Historic Film of George Balanchine and Suzanne Farrell Performing in Balanchine's Don Quixote

2006

W.S. Burroughs Archive to the Berg Collection


2005

Yeats Letters for the Berg Collection (07-15-05)

 

2004

$30 million from Robert W. Wilson and The Andrew Mellon Foundation (11-17-04)

Jazz recordings for Performing Arts Library (08-04-04)

Archives of Bock & Harnick and Kander & Ebb given to Performing Arts Library (06-15-04)

 

2003

Archive of photographer Kenn Duncan acquired (09-08-03)

Arthur Ashe Papers donated to Schomburg Center, media alert (08-20-03)

Robert Wilson Audio/Visual Collection (05-13-03)

Archive of writer Terry Southern (04-01-03)

Texaco and Arthur Andersen materials donated to Library (03-07-03)

Mid-Manhattan's Picture Collection goes online (01-13-03)

Malcolm X Collection comes to Schomburg Center (01-07-03)

 

2001

Library acquires Jack Kerouac archives (08-21-01)

 

2000

Abe Burrows collection comes to NYPL for the Performing Arts (10-20-00)

Poe manuscript donated to Library (10-07-00)

Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection (06-06-00)

 

1999

Rudolf Nureyev Archive Gift Announced (10-26-99)

Yaddo Records, never before made public, join NYPL collections (06-19-99)

Resource Bank for East Village activists at Tompkins Square Branch (05-26-99)

Jerome Robbins's Personal Archives (04-12-99)

 

1997

Rare 18th-Century Works and Papers of Voltaire, Rousseau, and Diderot (10-15-97)

Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection of Maps (07-21-97)

Archive of Film and Stage Legend Lillian Gish (01-21-97)

ACT UP/NY Archives (03-11-96)

 

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