Archive: Collections & Acquisitions

2007

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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