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  • The Skeleton Caricatures of Posada | Las meras meras calaveras de Posada

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    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
    This online exhibition presents a selection of Posada’s calaveras and announces the digitization of the entirety of the Library’s Posada…
    print of skeleton wearing a hat and pants with detailed background
  • Pride & Privacy: LGBTQ+ Visibility in Library Collections

    Ongoing
    Online Only
    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

    The lives of people who identify as LGBTQ+, more than those of others, have often historically been shaped by questions of visibility…

    Colorful lapel pins with positive messages including "Gay Power" and "Gay Revolution" against a black background.
  • Banned: Censorship and the Freedom to Read

    Ongoing
    Online Only
    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

    This online exhibition, accompanied by a curriculum guide and temporary displays of material, explores censorship in the United States,…

    BANNED CENSORSHIP AND THE FREEDOM TO READ
  • Nellie Mae Rowe: Something From Nothing

    Ongoing
    Online Only
    Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

    Inspired by the premiere of a documentary film honoring the creative spirit of Nellie Mae Rowe, check out this curated selection of…

    Title card for "Nellie Mae Rowe: Something From Nothing"
  • FLY BALL: Vintage Snapshots of Black Athletes by Morgan & Marvin Smith

    Online Only
    Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

    This year’s Photoville outdoor banner exhibition—hosted at St. Nicholas Park and Jackie Robinson Park in Harlem from June - September,…

    1930–1950, double exposure photograph of an American Negro League Baseball player throwing a baseball - FLY BALL - COPYRIGHT MORGAN and MARVIN SMITH
  • 125 Years of the Dorot Jewish Division

    Online Only
    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

    Explore treasures from the Dorot Jewish Division, the oldest publicly accessible collection of Jewish materials in the U.S.

    Detail from a theatrical poster depicting a man wearing traditional Jewish menswear carrying a candle.
  • Michael Cummings & A Bygone Era in Art

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    Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

    Beginning in the 1970s, American artist and quiltmaker Michael A. Cummings began collecting Black art event ephemera. Recently…

    Photograph of Michael A. Cummings and Tammi Lawson, Curator of Art & Artifacts Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
  • Watercolors Amongst Friends

    Online Only
    Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

    Letters between Arturo Schomburg and illustrator, Albert Alexander Smith from the 1930s discuss the acquisition of these newly digitized…

    Watercolor portrait of Arturo Schomburg by Albert Alexander Smith
  • Beloved: African American Portraits from the Dawn of Photography

    Online Only
    Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

    As a part of this year's Photoville Festival, the…

    133rd St St. Nicholas Park installation of Photoville exhibition
  • All This Mine Alone: Lady Gregory and the Irish Literary Revival

    Online Only
    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
    Augusta Gregory has long been recognized as the woman who helped shape a new era of modern Irish literature at the turn of the 20th…
    pencil portrait of Lady Gregory

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