Collection: Digitize Suffrage Periodicals Description: Collection of 382 issues made up of 6,117 pages from two periodicals published by Women's Suffrage organizations in the 1910s: The Woman Voter, published by the Woman Suffrage Party of New York City between 1910 and 1917, and The Suffragist, published by the Congressional Union for…

Collection: William S. Ladd Collection of Prints Description: Collection of 671 prints, primarily portraits, dating from the 17th century through the early 19th century. The prints, which demonstrate a variety of printing processes including etching, engraving, mezzotint, stippling, lithography, and hand coloring, primarily depict peop…

Collection: Audio of JTS Lectures, 1947-1969 Description: Reel to reel audio recordings and one 16mm film of lectures at JTS documenting American Jewish history, society, and scholarship throughout the mid to late 20th century. The items selected capture lectures, conferences, and events held and recorded at The Jewish Theological…

Collection: Maria Gerard Messenger Women’s Bookplate Collection  Description: Collection of more than 2,000 women’s bookplates and book labels assembled by Maria Gerard Messenger (1849-1937) of Great Neck, Long Island. The collection represents women book owners from the sixteenth century to the 1930s, and includes women from Nort…

Collection: Photographs of Polish Soldiers and Civilians During WWII (1939-1945) Description: Collection of over 1,000 photographs of Polish Armed Forces in the West, including organized military formations, established in the autumn of 1939 outside of Poland, on the basis of inter-allied agreements signed with France and the United Ki…

Collection: Five Timicua Language Imprints, 1612-1635 Description: This digital collection includes five seventeenth-century Mexican imprints that are among the earliest known primary sources in the lost Timucua language of Spanish Florida and among the first works ever published in a native language of the Americas. They owe their sur…

Collection: Hall of Fame for Great Americans Collection Description: The Hall of Fame for Great Americans collection consists of 142 photographs and documents related to the selection, election, induction and media coverage of individuals represented in the Hall of Fame located at Bronx Community College (BCC). Honorees include authors…

Collection: Selections from Special Collections Description: This collection comprises 78 volumes from Fordham Library Special Collections, grouped into three broad categories. 1) Early Fordham publications: documenting the history of Fordham University and Catholic New York during the 19th and early 20th centuries, including three han…

Collection: Annual Reports of the Hospital for Special Surgery Description: Collection of 63 volumes of Annual Reports from the Hospital for Special Surgery, originally known as the Hospital for the Relief of the Ruptured and Crippled. The reports span the years from 1895-1979, chronicling the development of life-changing discoveries p…

Collection: Annual Reports of St. Luke's and Roosevelt Hospitals Description: This collection includes the Annual Reports for St. Luke's Hospital (1859-1976) and the Roosevelt Hospital (1871-1978). These two famous New York City medical institutions were both founded in the 19th century to serve the worthy poor in the City. Both grew t…

Collection: Industry & Culture Collection Description: Collection of 364 objects composed of selected archival materials and museum holdings from The General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of New York (GSMT). Founded in 1785, The General Society initially served as a benevolent organization that provided mutual supp…

Collection: Political and religious pamphlets of the Italian unification, 1815-1871 Description: This collection of approximately 1600 short printed pamphlets was published in Italy, largely from 1815-1880, and markings on several of the items appear to link the collection with Cardinal Carlo Luigi Morichini (1805-1879) as a former own…

Collection: Institute of Public Administration Collection Printed Materials and Reports, 1907-1959 Description: A unique colleciton of reports from the Institute of Public Administration on the origins of reform government in the US. The organization was created and financed in the early twentieth centurey by wealthy reform-minded New …

Collection: Gilding the Gilded Age: Interior Decoration Tastes and Trends in New York City as Documented by a Collection of Auction Catalogs in Frick and Hearst Library Collections Description: The Gilded Age, witnessed large and valuable private collections disposed of at auction. New York City played an important role in this burgeon…

Collection: Carnegie Hall's Booking Ledger Collection Description: Carnegie Hall booking ledgers that recorded every event that took place in the Hall’s three auditoriums and were used to schedule performances spanning 1955-2007. These ledgers include rare documentation of the great artists and managers of various music genres that hav…

Collection: Brooklyn Institute of Arts & Sciences Periodicals Description: The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences Bulletins Collection is comprised of promotional materials known as Bulletins, or Monthly Magazines of Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. These periodicals contain listings of upcoming performances, lectures,…

The Leo Baeck Institute received funding for two projects. Collection: Digitizing the Estate of the Art Historian Rachel Wischnitzer Description: The collection (18 reels of microfilm/20,000 frames), documents the professional activities of the art historian and architect Rachel Wischnitzer (1885-1989), including her research and publications…

Asian American Arts Centre in New York City (AAAC) and Pratt Institute’s Semantic Lab will work together to ensure continued online access to resources documenting AAAC’s work. The project team will digitize, describe through Wikidata records, and contribute AAAC’s full collection of approximately one hundred exhibition flyers to the open repositor…

CUNY Graduate Center and NYU Libraries will join forces to create an oral history collection that documents the stories of individuals and groups who are engaged in developing and implementing alternative library classification schemes or controlled vocabularies. In addition to creating a fully transcribed and cataloged oral history collection, the…

The Lesbian Herstory Archives and the LGBT Community Center National History Archive will partner on a project to create a research guide to materials about Black Lesbians in each collection. The archive researcher entrusted with this task will survey, create metadata for, and digitize on an as-needed basis both organizations’ collections, which en…

New York Public Radio will implement a Field Recording Cataloging Project to describe approximately 1,278 MiniDiscs. This cataloging project will assist in the preservation of field recordings made by WNYC reporters whose ‘beats’ focused on underserved communities, communities of color, the homeless, health, the environment, social services, the po…

The CUNY Digital History Archive (CDHA) received a METRO Equity in Action grant to support the digitization and curation of historical materials documenting three movements to make access to public higher education more equitable toward and inclusive of New York’s diverse residents.   Based at the American Social History Proj…

Through the Change the Subject project, Brooklyn Public Library and The New York Public Library, working with Book Ops, seeked to align their public catalogs with their values by identifying and replacing subject headings, including the terms “illegal aliens” and “aliens,” with the less biased terms “undocumented immigrants” and “non…

Linking Lost Jazz Shrines (LLJS) is an ongoing collaboration between the Weeksville Heritage Center and the Semantic Lab at Pratt Institute to investigate the application of linked open data technologies to the Weeksville Lost Jazz Shrines of Brooklyn (WLJSB) oral history collection. This rich collection documents…

The Bronx Community College (BCC) Archives and Mutual Aid NYC (MANYC) collaboratively developed an Organizing Resource Library (ORL) to preserve and make openly available materials from mutual aid work in marginalized communities across NYC that were devastated during the COVID-19 crisis, and whose stories are at significant risk of being lost. …