Centennial Tile

This 6 x 6-inch ceramic tile commemorates the centennial of The New York Public Library’s Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, the Beaux-Arts landmark on Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street in New York City. Each museum-quality, bas-relief sculpted stoneware tile is handmade, glazed, and fired by Frank Giorgini in the United States.

The Library’s most identifiable icons are its beloved lions, Patience and Fortitude. They have been standing guard at The New York Public Library for a century. This commemorative tile depicts depicts Patience (the southerly lion) perched on a book in front of the facade of the Schwarzman Building. Each tile is hand-dipped in the glaze, so there are slight variations ...

Non-Memeber Price $49.00
Member Price $44.10

Highlights of the Centennial Notecards

The vast collections housed in The New York Public Library`s Stephen A. Schwarzman Building range from medieval manuscripts and ancient scrolls to contemporary novels and poetry, to newspapers from all over the world, baseball cards, dime novels, and comic books. This set of six images, picked in honor of the Library`s Centennial, is a very small representation of this treasure trove. Included are e.e. cummings`s portable Royal typewriter, an original drawing by W.W. Denslow for Frank L. Baum`s 1904 Wizard of Oz, a scene from a 1750 classic of Hindu literature, a ketubbah from 19th-century Calcutta, a 17th-century Japanese handscroll and, of course an 1850 map of New York City.

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Non-Memeber Price $9.95
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The New York Public Library

by Henry Hope Reed, Francis Morrone and Anne Day

The New York Public Library, one of the nation`s architectural wonders, is possibly our finest classical building. Designed by John Merven Carrère and Thomas Hastings, and inspired by the great classical buildings in Paris and Rome, it was completed in 1911. The library boasts a magnificent exterior, but that is only the beginning. In the interior, one splendid hall follows another, an awesome gallery leads to richly decorated rooms, and stairways are vaulted in marble. From the terrace to the breathtaking Rose Main Reading Room is a triumphal way. All the devices of the classical tradition, the main artistic current of Western civili ...

Non-Memeber Price $75.00
Member Price $67.50