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
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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