Make your own mini envelopes - tutorial & pattern ideas
Happy birthday Brooklyn Bridge! Today in 1883 our lovely bridge opened to the public. The NY Times has the short history of the day. Or, come over...
Rainbow Journals (with a page for each day of the year) by Gail Stiffe
Handmade, hand-dyed paper. Four books in a box, one book for each...
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July 27, 1906: “I saw the hippopotamus yesterday. The heat did not bother him. He was taking a bath. Your Father.”
#CuteThingsDadsSendTheirKids
From the Mid-Manhattan Picture Collection.
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Battery Park City Library, which opened in 2010.
Standing on a mountain of already donated volumes, an amiable barker calls for still more books from passers-by outside the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue.1910s
fantastic find! thanks to blackandwtf & This Ain’t The Summer Of Love
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Did you know… before it became the Mulberry Street Library we all know and love, the building housed a chocolate factory, operated by Hawley & Hoops, at the turn of the 20th century. (This image, though not Hawley & Hoops specific, provides a look inside the process of grinding chocolate - yum!)
Check-out more fun facts about the Library on foursquare or visit our digital gallery for fun and factual images.)
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For our friends at the New York Public Library
The lion statues at the New York Public Library, with a mantle of snow during the record December 1948 snowfall, 12/1948Brrr!
the steamboat cambridge at the landing in winterport, maine. photo by g.r. wheeldon.
stereoview from the new york public library’s digital gallery.