NYPL Digital Gallery

The New York Public Library Digital Gallery provides free and open online access to over 550,000 images of historical materials from its collections. The collections can be searched or browsed and images may be freely downloaded for personal, research and study purposes. Collections include ephemeral materials such as posters, postcards, menus, cigarette cards and popular song sheet covers; photographic archives on a wide range of subjects; real estate plans, maps and atlases; scientific and medical illustration; and The Picture Collection of the New York Public Library – over 30,000 images from books, magazines and newspapers as well as original photographs, prints and postcards, created mostly before 1923 and selected from the over 1,000,000 images in the Mid-Manhattan Library’s Picture Collection.