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Connect On-Site from the Library  AP Multimedia Archive  Connect from home using your NYPL Library card

Contains the Associated Press's current year's photo report and a selection of images from their vast negative and print library. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

Available via the World Wide Web  Catalogues Raisonnés

A searchable database listing published catalogues raisonnés, and ones in preperation. A catalogue raisonné is a comprehensive, annotated listing of all the known works of an artist, either in a particular medium or all media. more info

Connect On-Site from the Library  Digital Library Collections, NYPL

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Available via the World Wide Web  George Eastman House Catalog

Photographers, collections, and exhibition catalogs can be searched in this extensive index. more info

Connect On-Site from the Library  Gordon's Photo Prices -- Only available in HSSL Rooms 300 and 308

International coverage of photographs sold at auction from 1985 to the present. more info
Availability:   Miriam & Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Art & Architecture Collection (Room 300 at Stephen A. Schwarzman Building); Miriam & Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection (Room 308 at Stephen A. Schwarzman Building)

Available via the World Wide Web  Museum of the City of New York: Byron Collection

This database consists of over 22,000 photographs of New York City and its environs taken by the Byron Company between 1890 and 1942. more info

Available via the World Wide Web  New York City Views

Images of New York City from the NYPL Digital Gallery, a free resource of images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of the Library. This link goes directly to image collections from the Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy. more info

Connect On-Site from the Library  New Yorker

The Complete New Yorker on 8 DVDs. The full archive of the 4000+ issues published between 1925 and February 2005, including cartoons and advertisements. Available at the Mid-Manhattan Library, third floor, Language and Literature Collection. more info
Availability:   Mid-Manhattan Library

Available via the World Wide Web  NYPL Digital Gallery

Provides access to over 685,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more. more info

Available via the World Wide Web  NYPL Digital Library Collections

Gateway to The New York Public Library’s rare and unique collections in digitized form. more info

Available via the World Wide Web  Picture Collection Online, NYPL Mid-Manhattan Library

A collection of 30,000 digitized images from books, magazines and newspapers as well as original photographs, prints and postcards, mostly created before 1923. more info

Available via the World Wide Web  Prints & Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC)

The Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division’s catalog to about 65% of the Division's holdings. Many of the catalog records are accompanied by digital images--about one million digital images in all. more info