A (snowy) whirlwind tour of the NYPL’s image collections
If you haven’t yet visited the New York Public Library Digital Gallery, you must. Among many other things, it offers the joy of serendipitous image-discovery. I browsed around the collections for a while and then tried a keyword search for "snow." I used the selection tool to grab everything that looked particularly interesting, and ended up with a tiny eight-image gallery consisting of the following:
- a winter landscape with a wolf;
- the central building of the NYPL under construction, with scaffolding looming in the snow;
- cedars of Lebanon from a long-forgotten travel book called Picturesque Palestine;
- a trade card entitled "No one to love me";
- an odd, delicate little etching of fields and horizons;
- Columbus Circle as seen by Berenice Abbott;
- a turn-of-the-century poster advertising the New England Magazine; and
- a snowy owl on a cigarette card.
Splendid. Love the selection tool. Love the ease of searching. (I wonder if they’re hiring?)
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