New-York Historical Society

United States New York  New York Archives and LibrariesNew York Historical Society

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Contact Information
E-mail: [mailto:repository@whatever.net repository@whatever.net]

Address:


 * 170 Central Park West at 77th Street New York, New York 10024

Telephone: 212-873-3400

Hours and holidays: As of February 1, 2011, all of the Museum galleries will be closed for renovations. The galleries will fully reopen on November 11, 2011.The Library at the New-York Historical Society will be closed from June 3 through September 9, 2011. When the facility reopens, hours will be as follows:

Museum Store Tuesday - Saturday: 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM Sunday: 11:00 AM - 5:45 PM Monday: CLOSED

Library Hours Tuesday-Saturday: 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM Sunday - Monday: CLOSED General Collections and Manuscript Dept. (No appointment necessary)

Department of Prints, Photographs and Architectural Collections (By appointment only) from Tuesday-Friday: 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Internet sites and databases:


 * Repository Internet site. https://www.nyhistory.org/web/index.html.
 * Repository catalog online. The Society is in the process of implementing a new library catalog, and some details are still being fine-tuned. In the interun contact the reference staff (212-485-9225 or 212-485-9226; e-mail reference) if you have any questions or are not finding what you want
 * On-Site Card Catalogs
 * Card catalogs available in the library's reading room provide access to portions of the manuscript collections not yet included in the library's online catalog.
 * Separate card catalogs also exist for the newspaper and sheet music collections.
 * non-electronic finding aids, a published guide to the manuscript collection, and printed inventories of circus ephemera, church records and extensive vertical files
 * Repository database. The library's menu collection can be searched using databases available in the library's reading room.

Collection Description
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Digital Collections

 * Manuscript Collections Relating to Slavery
 * Children’s Aid Society Images
 * Brooklyn Revealed
 * Marion Mahony Griffin’s The Magic of America
 * Examination Days: The New York African Free School Collection
 * Civil War Treasures from the New-York Historical Society
 * Witness to the Early American Experience
 * Alexander Hamilton Digital Project

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Guides
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Alternate Repositories
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Overlapping Collections


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Similar Collections



Neighboring Collections