NYPL Digital Gallery Resources

The NYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 550,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more.

A few collections that may be of interest for literary and media studies include:

• Authors: Photographs from the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
• Cigarette Cards: ABCs
  
• Dust Jackets from European and American Books, 1926-1947
• Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts from Western Europe
• Miss Frank E. Buttolph American Menu Collection, 1851-1930
  
• Turn of the Century Posters
  
• Walt Whitman Manuscripts
  

Check them out!