NYPL Manuscript Collections suggested for study.

Manuscript Collections with Finding Aids

Behrman (S. N.) Papers, 1912-1987 - playright, essayist, critic.
 Burnside (R.H.) Papers, 1893-1949 actor, director, producer, librettist, and lyricist, is remembered  chiefly as the stage director of the New York Hippodrome from approximately 1908-1923
Guide to the Holger Cahill Papers  Icelandic-American novelist, poet, folklorist, art exhibitions curator at the Newark (N.J.) Museum and the Museum of Modern Art, and National Director of the Federal Arts Project of the Works Projects Administration from 1935 to 1943.
 Finding Aid - Diana Davies Collection, c1969-1978 (photographer, activist)
 Day (Clarence) Papers, 1796-1993 Author and illustrator Clarence Day, best known for his book Life With Father,
 Capote (Truman) Papers, c. 1924-1984
Inventory of the Fashion Group International Records
 Ford (Paul Leicester) Papers, 1870-1902  - (edited Library Journal)
 Inventory of the Erich Fromm Papers, 1929-1980
 Gabriel (Gilbert W.) Papers, 1906-1952  - drama critc & novelist
 Finding Aid to the Dorothee Gore Papers (1904-1982)
 Guide to the Papers of Doris Grumbach 1961-1998 ( writer, professor, and literary critic)
 Harrigan (Edward) Papers, 1870-1908  - playright, actor, producer.
 Jackson (William Henry) Papers, 1862-1942 artist and renowned photographer of the American West.
 Jordan (Elizabeth Garver) Papers, 1891-1947  author, journalist, editor of Harper's Bazar and suffragis
 Angela Morgan Papers (1901-1957) - poet and journalist
 Mumford (Ethel Watts) Papers, 1900-1934  New York born playwright, poet and novelist.
 

DOROT JEWISH DIVISION -  Dorot Jewish Division - Yiddhish Theater -
Thomashefsky Collection.

 Berg Collection see "The Collections"

 Map Division - Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection of English Maps, Charts, Globes, Books and Atlases  -  Some 600 maps, 100 atlases and 50 books focusing on English Colonial North America make up this unique collection, which will be kept together and named for Mr. Slaughter

 American Shores - Maps of the Middle Atlantic Region to 1850  - transportation and travel.

 Photography Collection  - select a particular photographer to study.

 United States History, Local History and Genealogy  -
pamphlet collection (social & cultural history of NY.)
Political campaigns - ephemera

TOPICS RELATED TO MAJOR NYPL COLLECTIONS
Edward Albee
R. H. Burnside
Truman Capote
Clarence Day
Martin Duberman
Gay and Lesbian History
Jacob Riis
Robert Brewster Stanton
Eugene O’Neill
May Sarton
Henry David Thoreau
Walt Whitman
The New Yorker
National Civic Federation
Colonial Latin America
Frederick Law Olmstead
Yiddish Theater
Culinary History
Tobacco History
Baseball
American Political Campaign History
19th Century Manhattan
Vladimir Nabokov