New York City: Archives & Museums
This libguide is a supplemental resource for the introductory writing course HCD1020 Writing and Thinking : New York City
Digital Archives
Below are a selection of digital archives from reputable institutions in New York City. They have primary source material you can access via their databases.
- Museum of the City of New YorkThe online archive contains a growing 190,000 objects from their collections including Prints & Photographs, Paintings & Sculpture, Theatre Collection, Costumes & Textiles, Manuscripts & Ephemera, and Furniture & Decorative Arts.
- Schomburg CenterDigital Schomburg provides access to trusted information, interpretation, and scholarship on the global Black experience through online articles, digital exhibitions, photographs, audio and video streams, historical projects, and external links.
- New York Historical SocietyThe digital library at NYHS contains fascinating collections of records, photographs, diaries, letters and other primary source materials like 'Occupy Wall Street signs and posters, 2011,' 'a Billboard photograph collection, circa 1918-1934,' and much more.
- New York City Archeological RepositoryThis website provides access to New York City’s archaeological collections. There are archaeological reports, object records and photographs from excavations around the city, maps and digital exhibitions.
- NYPL Digital CollectionsNYPL has a wide assortment of historic collections you can view online such as :
Archives for In-Person Research
- Interference ArchiveThe archive contains many kinds of objects that are created as part of social movements by the participants themselves: posters, flyers, publications, zines, books, T-shirts and buttons, moving images, audio recordings, subject files, and other materials.
- Lesbian Herstory ArchivesThe Lesbian Herstory Archives exists to gather and preserve records of Lesbian lives and activities. This ensures future generations will have ready access to materials relevant to their lives.