Pratt Libraries’ Iron & Glass blog highlighted the picture file collections at Pratt and the New York Public Library: “Both the Pratt and the NYPL picture collections arose in the early twentieth century out of growing demand for images that could be browsed and circulated, due largely to innovations in printing and photography that allowed for more accessible and reproducible images.”
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