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Ex Libris: The New York Public Library

This collection opened in 1915 at the main library across the street, the Stephen A....

This collection opened in 1915 at the main library across the street, the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, the one with the lions

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This collection opened in 1915
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at the main library across the street,
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the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building,
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the one with the lions.
Duration
10 seconds
Views
20
Timestamp in Movie
00:44:30
Uploaded
Oct 29, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Zipporah Films,JustFilms / Ford Foundation,PBS

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Movie Summary

A look within the walls of the New York Public Library.
If you think about what was happening in New York City - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:30
If you think about what was happening in New York City
Instead of going across the street - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:13
Instead of going across the street
We kept journals at that time - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:05
We kept journals at that time
Like, "I need a picture of dolls being carried - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:10
Like, "I need a picture of dolls being carried
I need a picture of a giraffe, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:05
I need a picture of a giraffe,
And that library has millions of pictures. - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:05
And that library has millions of pictures.
The problem is, the way it's organized, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:07
The problem is, the way it's organized,
So if it's a picture of a giraffe, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:11
So if it's a picture of a giraffe,
So if you go in looking for something - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:07
So if you go in looking for something
So what they slowly started doing - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:05
So what they slowly started doing
So when somebody came in looking for pictures - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:12
So when somebody came in looking for pictures
So yeah, so the past hundred years, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:08
So yeah, so the past hundred years,
In the '30s, Diego Rivera, when he was doing murals, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:11
In the '30s, Diego Rivera, when he was doing murals,
And later that year, he was doing - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:08
And later that year, he was doing
Joseph Cornell lived in Queens on Utopia Parkway. - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:06
Joseph Cornell lived in Queens on Utopia Parkway.
He used this collection constantly, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:06
He used this collection constantly,
Most of the images in those boxes - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:06
Most of the images in those boxes
Andy Warhol stole lots of stuff from us. - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:06
Andy Warhol stole lots of stuff from us.
I'll stop a little bit, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:06
I'll stop a little bit,
This is the world's largest circulating free picture file. - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:08
This is the world's largest circulating free picture...