PARSONS SCHOOL OF DESIGN FOUNDATION DEPARTMENT NEW YORK CITY RESOURCES NY LIBRARIES New York Public Library http://nypl.org NYPL Photography Collection http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/photo/photo.html Prints and Photographs Study Room (Room 308) The New York Public Library Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street (212) 930-0837 W phgref@nypl.org The Photography Collection contains nearly 300,000 original photographic prints, from the medium's 150+ year history, representing an international range of photographers and comprising a thorough survey of subjects and processes. The collection's documentary focus encompasses social documentation, portraits, topographical views, cityscapes, and events in subject areas that complement the bibliographic strengths of the Humanities and Social Sciences Library. With some exceptions, photographs relating thematically to the collections of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the Library for the Performing Arts, the Slavic and Baltic Division and the The Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History (especially New York City views) are collected primarily by those departments. In addition, the Rare Books Division , the Manuscripts and Archives Division and the Berg Collection hold smaller, significant collections of original photographs. Mid-Manhattan Picture Collection http://www.nypl.org/branch/central_units/mm/pc/pic.html Picture Collection: Third Floor Mid-Manhattan Library 455 Fifth Avenue [at 40th Street], 212-340-0833 Worth Beyond Words: Romana Javitz and The New York Public Library's Picture Collection Artists, designers, and researchers frequently turn to Mid- Manhattan's collection of over 5 million illustrations and photographs clipped from books and magazines. It is the largest collection of its kind in any public library system. Much of the collection, which is arranged by subject with sources identified, is available for loan; however, the pictures are not suitably prepared for classroom or exhibit use. Most are covered by copyrights. Some major categories are: * * * * * * * Advertising Architecture Decorative arts & other forms of design Costumes and fashion Flora and fauna Personalities Places http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/sc.html
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NYPL Schomburg Center for Research in BlackCulture 515 Malcolm X Boulevard NYU Library Parsons Gimbel Library Picture Index NEW YORK MUSEUMS: American Museum of Natural History Brooklyn Art Museum Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum FIT Museum The Frick Collection Guggenheim Museum International Center of Photography The Jewish Museum El Museo del Barrio Museum of Modern Art Metropolitan Museum of Art http://nyu.edu/library http://www.newschool.edu/library/gimbel/gimbel.htm http://www.newschool.edu/library/gimbel/pcix.htm
http://www.amnh.org http://www.brooklynart.org http://www.si.edu/ndm http://www.fitnyc.suny.edu/happening/6.0html http://www.frick.org http://www.guggenheim.org http://www.icp.org http://www.jewishmuseum.org/ http://www.elmuseo.org http://www.moma.org http://www.metmuseum.org
Museum of the American Indian Museum of the City of New York 1220 Fifth Avenue @ 103rd St. New York, New York 10029 212.534.1672
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Museum of the City of New York - Prints and Photographs Collection The Prints and Photographs Collection is a major repository of such noted photographers as Jacob Riis, the Wurts Brothers and Jessie Tarbox Beals, and incorporates the LOOK Magazine photographic archives. It includes more than 22,000 original prints taken by the Byron Co. in New York between 1890 and 1942; the archives of the Gottscho-Schleisner firm, Irving Underhill, and Charles Von Urban. The Harry T. Peters Collection features the most complete set of Currier and Ives prints in existence. Other significant holdings are Reginald Marsh's watercolor mural studies for the U.S. Customs House at Bowling Green, work produced by City printmakers under the Federal Art Project, and thousands of topographical engravings, hand-colored lithographs, and rare maps. New Museum Noguchi Museum PS 1 The Studio Museum of Harlem Whitney Museum of American Art http://www.newmuseum.org http://www.noguchi.org/ http://www.ps1.org/ http://www.studiomuseuminharlem.org/ http://www.whitney.org
NEW YORK GALLERIES: The Drawing Center http://http://www.drawingcenter.org/ Dia Center for the Arts http://www.diacenter.org/index.html Gallery Guide http://www.galleryguide.org (Gallery & Museum Exhibition Listings) Photography in New York http://www.photography-guide.com/ ( A bi-monthly guide to Photography Exhibitions in New York City) NEW YORK ARCHITECTURE http://www.demel.net/nyarchitecture/ http://www.greatbuildings.com/places/new_york_city.html The New-York Historical Society http://www.nyhistory.org/index.html The Architecture Collection at the New-York Historical Collection http://www.nyhistory.org/architecture.html#eastman The Architecture Collection contains about 130,000 drawings, blueprints, renderings, and photographs. Treasures in the Architect and Engineer File include drawings in an album of sketches compiled by John Trumbull and plans for the Gilbert Elevated Railway, one of the earliest elevated railways or "EL" in New York. IMAGE BANKS [ON LINE] University of San Diego, History Department Historical Picture Collections http://history.acusd.edu/gen/documents/clipsources.html (data base w/ links to image data bases) The Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/help/about.html (The Library of Congress preserves a collection of nearly 121 million items, more than two-thirds of which are in media other than books. These include the largest map, film and television collections in the world.)