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Exhibitions

The Stephen A. Schwarzman Building has hosted many significant exhibitions, and the books listed below have accompanied some of these; of necessity, this enumeration is limited to those major exhibitions employing the Library's own collections. In addition, these books also serve as helpful and illustrative guides to the collections.

Abbott, Berenice. Berenice Abbott, Photographer: A Modern Vision: A Selection of Photographs and Essays, edited by Julia Van Haaften (New York: New York Public Library, 1989) MFX+ (Abbott) 91-3494 or *R-Photo 98-12184

Berg Collection. The Hand of the Poet: Poems and Papers in Manuscript (New York: Rizzoli, 1997) JFF 98-1522

Bernstein, Richard B. Are We to be a Nation? The Making of the Constitution (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1987) IBE 87-2319 or request at the Information Desk in the Bill Blass Public Catalog Room.

Censorship: 500 Years of Conflict (New York: The New York Public Library, 1984) JFG 84-173 or *HND (N.Y.P.L.) 84-2469 or Desk- MDET 89- 2046.

A Child's Garden of Delights: Pictures, Poems, and Stories for Children, compiled by Bernard McTigue (New York: H.N. Abrams, 1987) Check CATNYP for call number of this work. JFG 94- 1112 or Desk- MDET 89- 2054

Clay, Stephen. A Secret Location on the Lower East Side: Adventures in Writing, 1960-1980: A Sourcebook of Information (New York: New York Public Library and Granary Books, 1998) JFE 99-1922

Deak, Gloria-Gilda. Picturing America, 1497-1899: Prints, Maps, and Drawings bearing on the New World Discoveries and on the Development of the Territory that is now the United States (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1988). Check CATNYP for call number.

Deak, Gloria-Gilda. William James Bennett: Master of the Aquatint View (New York: New York Public Library, 1988) MDG (Bennett) 89-2056

Ernst, Max. Max Ernst: Beyond Surrealism: A Retrospective of the Artist's Books and Prints (New York: New York Public Library and Oxford University Press, 1986) *HND (N.Y.P.L.) 86-3012 or MDG (Ernst) 88-1959

Fee, Elizabeth. Garbage! : The History and Politics of Trash in New York City (New York: New York Public Library, 1994) IRGC 95-4697

Grafton, Anthony. New Worlds, Ancient Texts: The Power of Tradition and the Shock of Discovery (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1992) JFE 92-10571 or Desk-MDET 92-17458

Hudson, Alice C. Heading West, Touring West: Mapmakers, Performing Artists, and the American Frontier (New York: New York Public Library, 2001) MWED 01-5580 or Map Div. 01-4850

Kastner, Joseph, and Gross, Miriam T. The Animal Illustrated, 1550-1900: from the Collections of the New York Public Library (New York: H.N. Abrams, 1991) *R-QGD 91-7487 or *HND (N.Y.P.L.) 91-7486

Kastner, Joseph, and Gross, Miriam T. The Bird Illustrated, 1550-1900: from the Collections of the New York Public Library (New York: H.N. Abrams, 1988) JFM 88-61 or *HND (N.Y.P.L.) 88-1345 or *R-QM 88-4071

Lee, Jennifer B., and Mandelbaum, Miriam. Seeing Is Believing: 700 Years of Scientific and Medical Illustration (New York: New York Public Library, 1999) JFE 99-14934

Liberty: The French-American Statue in Art and History (New York: Perennial Library, 1986) check CATNYP for call numbers.

McGarry, Molly. Becoming Visible: An Illustrated History of Lesbian and Gay Life in Twentieth-century America (New York: Penguin Studio, 1998) JFF 98-2663 or Sc F 99-280

Mattson, Francis O. Virginia Woolf and Her Circle (New York: New York Public Library, 1993) JFE 95-10726

Murase, Miyeko. Tales of Japan: Scrolls and Prints from the New York Public Library (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986) MDBV 86-1747 or *O - *OSM 01-7759

Nature's Mirror: 200 Years of Botanical Illustration (New York: New York Public Library, 1989) JFF 91-2125

New York Public Library. Nature Illustrated: Flowers, Plants, and Trees, 1550-1900: from the Collections of the New York Public Library, text by Bernard McTigue (New York: New York Public Library, 1985) JFF 91-1298

New York Public Library. Treasures from the New York Public Library (New York: New York Public Library, 1985) JFF 85-28 or *HND (N.Y.P.L.) 85-363

Revolution in Print: The Press in France, 1775-1800, edited by Robert Darnton and Daniel Roche (Berkeley: University of California Press in collaboration with the New York Public Library, 1989) Request at the Information Desk in the Prints Division.

A Sign and a Witness: 2000 Years of Hebrew Books and Illuminated Manuscripts, edited with an introduction by Leonard S. Gold (New York: New York Public Library and Oxford University Press, 1988) *PAE+ 88-4248 or *PAE+ 89-2005

Utopia: The Search for the Ideal Society in the Western World (New York: The New York Public Library and the Oxford University Press, 2000) *HND (N.Y.P.L.) 01-627