America's First Illustrator: Alexander Anderson
Sixteen scrapbooks containing close to 10,000 wood-engravings by 19th-century master illustrator Alexander Anderson, considered one of America's earliest and finest wood-engravers.

"America's National Game:" The Albert G. Spalding Collection of Early Baseball Photographs
Over 500 photographs, prints, drawings, caricatures, and printed illustrations from the personal collection of materials related to baseball and other sports gathered by the early baseball player and sporting-goods tycoon A. G. Spalding.

Art from the George Arents Collection on Tobacco
Hundreds of prints relating to tobacco, from an exceptional extra-illustrated copy of Fairholt's Tobacco: Its History and Lore (1859).

Authors: Photographs from the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
Hundreds of portraits - prints and photographs - picturing more than 120 authors writing in English, primarily from the 1860s to the 1920s, and later, organized alphabetically by sitter. This digital presentation offers the richly diverse contents of the Berg Collection's portrait file of prints and photographs.

Cabinet Card Portraits in the Collection of Radical Publisher Benjamin R. Tucker
260 portrait photographs, from about 1880-1900, chiefly albumen cabinet cards and cartes de visite, of radical figures, and a variety of statesmen, authors, artists, actresses and other notable, primarily European, cultural figures.

Charting North America: Maps from the Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection and Others
Thousands of maps of North America from the earliest printed portrayals to the close of the 19th century; multiple versions and editions allow for historical comparisons.

Cigarette Cards: ABCs
Nearly 600 series (totaling thousands of individual cards) whose titles begin with the first three letters of the alphabet, from before 1900 to the mid-20th century. Viewable front and back.

Civil War Medical Care: Photographs from the United States Sanitary Commission Collection, 1861-1872
183 photographs and drawings relating to the United States Sanitary Commission (USSC); forms Series XXXIII of the United States Sanitary Commission Records, 1861-1872.

Classic Illustrated Zoologies and Related Works, 1550-1900
Illustrated books from the 16th century to the early 20th depicting the animals of the world. Based on the scholarly bibliography of the same title by Miriam Gross, published in Biblion, The Bulletin of The New York Public Library in 1994.

Customs and Costume: Surveys and Examples of National Studies to 1900
An assemblage of about two dozen (and growing) various and representative plate books, portfolios of paintings and prints, and illustrated surveys on costume and customs of people around the world, principally in the 19th century.

Dance in Photographs and Prints
Scores of dance photographs feature specific dancers, and range from publicity stills to professional photographers' vintage prints.

Detroit Publishing Company Postcards from the Leonard Lauder Postcard Collection
5,844 postcards (photomechanical prints, primarily in color and on warm white stock; 3.5 x 5.5 inches or smaller), ca. 1898-1920s, featuring images of North American landscapes and cityscapes.

Early Landscape Photography of the American West
234 large albumen prints from the 1860s and 1870s of American Western landscape. This digital collection assembles many of the earliest and most important historical photographs representing the exploration of the American west. The majority of these holdings came to the Library in the 19th century as contemporary works illustrated with original photographic prints, or as print portfolios.

Early Real Estate Atlases of New York
Over 2,000 maps of New York City, including Manhattan and Brooklyn "fire insurance maps" from the 1850s-1860, showing streets, blocks, tax lots, natural and manmade features, buildings, neighborhoods, and more.

Ehon: The Artist and the Book in Japan
More than 1,000 images encompassing 1,200 years of Japanese book art, including Buddhist sutras, painted manuscripts, portraits, landscapes, calligraphic verse, and photographic books, with related drawings and woodblock prints.

Empire and Regency: Decoration in the Age of Napoleon
Twenty primary source illustrated pattern books, scrapbooks, and a set of original French goldsmith's drawings from the late 18th to early 20th-centuries featuring mainly interior decoration, furnishings, and furniture patterns.

The Floating World: Japanese Color Woodcuts by Kitagawa Utamaro
Original prints by the Japanese painter and woodcut designer Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1806). Ukiyo-e, or “pictures of the floating world,” is the term used for prints and paintings that portray everyday domestic activities, famous beauties, courtesans, actors, and other scenes and portraits of ordinary life during the Tokugawa Shogunate of the Edo period (1615-1868).

Henry George Collection: Illustrations and Photographs
109 page images presenting the contents of a scrapbook titled "The Single Tax," containing photographs and caricatures of Henry George, the founder of the 19th-century reform 'single tax' movement.

Historical and Public Figures: A General Portrait File to the 1920s
Over 30,00 portraits of a wide-range of public figures, including political, religious, cultural, literary and artistic personalities, with an emphasis on the 16th through the 19th centuries.

Illustrated Classics of Engineering from the William Barclay Parsons Collection and Others
Several hundred images, from the 16th to the 20th century, draw upon a wide range of published engineering rarities and related original holdings.

Joseph Muller Collection of Music and Other Portraits
Thousands of images dating from the 16th to the early 20th-centuries, mostly engravings and lithographs, of composers and musicians, portraits of actors, heads of state, music patrons, nobility, philosophers, poets, printers, theorists, and writers, amassed by Joseph Muller, a private collector.

The Luso-Hispanic New World in Early Prints and Photographs
Hundreds of photographs and prints, in albums and rare published volumes, present the territories and countries associated with Portugal and Spain in the New World, from Mexico to Argentina, and parts of the Caribbean.

Metropolis: New York City Water and Transit Infrastructure in Photographs
Over 600 images, primarily original photographs, plus selected published sources, on the themes of traffic, transit and water.

The Middle East in Early Prints and Photographs
Several thousand prints and photographs contained in works from the 17th century to the beginning of the 20th century. These include books illustrated with prints or photographs, photograph albums, and archival compilations; the processes represented range from engravings to lithographs, and from salt prints to heliogravures.

Mountjoy Prison Portraits of Irish Independence: Photograph Albums in the Thomas A. Larcom Collection
150 salt and albumen print photographs in two albums, of prisoners confined in Mountjoy Prison, Dublin, in August 1857 and November 1866.

Nature Illustrated: Flowers, Plants, and Trees, 1550-1900
Thousands of art and scientific prints, illustrating medicinal plants, spectacular garden flowers, exotic tropical blooms, trees and ferns. Includes many different printmaking techniques, from woodcuts to stipple engravings to color-printed lithographs.

Ocean Flowers: Anna Atkins's Cyanotypes of British Algae
More than 200 images of algae specimens, title pages, contents lists, and other texts, in cyantoype (blueprint), plus inscriptions and parts' wrappers.

On Stage and Screen: Photograph File of the Billy Rose Theatre Collection
Tens of thousands of photographs of actors and actresses, in character and as themselves, from the 19th century to recent years.

Ornament and Pattern: Pre-Victorian to Art Deco
Several thousand images from nearly 100 volumes on decorative art and surface ornament, mainly portfolios of plates, pattern books, and scrapbook compilations.

"The Pageant of America" Photograph Archive
The photographs are presented in original archival order: two series, "published" and "unpublished" photographs, exist for each of the fifteen volumes published in the 15-volume series The Pageant of America: A Pictorial History of the United States commemorating the nation's sesquicentennial in 1926.

"Penny Plains" and "Two-pence Coloured:" English Theatrical Portraits 1799-1847 in the William Appleton Collection
306 toy theatre prints, from the early- to mid-19th century; these prints comprise the visual materials in the William Appleton collection of theatrical correspondence and ephemera, 1697-1930.

Photographic Views of New York City, 1870s-1970s
More than 54,000 New York City archival photographs (and their captioned versos) from the 1870s-1970s arranged by borough and street. The majority of the photographs are exterior building views and neighborhood scenes from the 1910s-1940s.

The Picture Collection of The New York Public Library
Over 30,000 images from books, magazines and newspapers as well as original photographs, prints and postcards, created mostly before 1923 and selected from the over 1,000,000 images in the Mid-Manhattan Library's Picture Collection.

Pictures of Science: 700 Years of Scientific and Medical Illustration
More than 340 images from the 13th through the early 20th century, in the fields of astronomy, chemistry, geology, mathematics, medicine, and physics, as represented by manuscript illuminations, engravings, lithographs, and photographs.

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
Over 1,000 original prints, drawings, and maps, selected primarily from The Phelps Stokes Collection, as well as from several other Library collections.

Publisher's Proofs and Related Work from L. Prang & Company
Thousands of chromolithographs of publisher proofs by Louis Prang & Company in seventeen scrapbooks, and advertising cards for Prang and other firms in six scrapbooks.

Russia and Eastern Europe in Rare Photographs, 1860- 1945
Thousands of original Russian and East European photographs from the late 19th- and early 20th-centuries, in more than 150 albums. Many were originally part of Romanov palace libraries nationalized by the Soviet government.

Samuel Putnam Avery Print Collection and Related Works
This collection of nearly 18,000 prints, representing 978 artists, is especially rich in holdings of French printmakers, but also includes works by English, American, Spanish, German, Dutch and Belgian artists.