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About the Digital Library

The Shelby White & Leon Levy Digital Library includes selections from the New-York Historical Society's archives and the Patricia D. Klingenstein Library's collections of photographs, manuscripts, broadsides, maps, and other materials relating to the history of New York and the United States. They represent over two centuries of collecting at the Patricia D. Klingenstein Library. We encourage users to explore the growing repository of collections available through the Shelby White & Leon Levy Digital Library, and to visit the Patricia D. Klingenstein Library in person to consult our rich array of materials that have not yet been digitized.

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Time Inc., Selections from the Time Inc. Archive, 1931-1992

In November 2015, Time Inc. donated its expansive and historically significant archive to the New-York Historical Society’s Patricia D. Klingenstein Library. Comprising more than 7,500 linear feet of an estimated seven million documents and artifacts, the Time Inc. records provide a detailed perspective of 20th-century history and Time Inc.’s media empire, offering an extraordinary level of documentation and information for researchers. This digital collection presents some highlights from the Time Inc. Archive.

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American Manuscripts

Black History Collections

Civil War Collections

Highlights from the Map Collection

New-York Historical Society quarterly, 1917-1980

Selections from the New-York Historical Society Institutional Archive, 1804-2008

Photographs of New York City and Beyond

Revolutionary Era broadsides, 1763-1783

Robert Erskine-Simeon DeWitt maps, 1778-1783

Subway construction photograph collection, 1900-1950

Time Inc., Selections from the Time Inc. Archive, 1931-1992

Treasures of the Patricia D. Klingenstein Library

Women's History Collections