{"id":10588,"date":"2023-09-07T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=10588"},"modified":"2023-09-21T07:19:23","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T11:19:23","slug":"travel-tips-treasures-of-the-new-york-public-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=10588","title":{"rendered":"Travel Tips: Treasures of the New York Public Library"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A jaunt into Manhattan recently let us visit the New York Public Library at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street. On exhibit is just a portion of this 125-year-old institution\u2019s many treasures<\/a>. Well worth a visit, the jaw-dropping free exhibition lets you see first-hand a wide selection of amazing artifacts\u2014Thomas Jefferson\u2019s handwritten Declaration of Independence, George Washington\u2019s handwritten farewell address, and the drafts of literary icons like Maya Angelou, manuscripts by musical geniuses Beethoven and Mozart and Dizzy Gillespie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A small section shows some of the anti-Nazi pamphlets smuggled into Germany cleverly hidden in packages of food and the like. You can see all six of the Library\u2019s copies of Shakespeare\u2019s First Folio. One of the interesting things about that display is that the descriptions enumerate the subtle\u2014and not so subtle\u2014differences among them. You can see the first great printed book, too\u2014Gutenberg\u2019s Bible\u2014but before modern printing, individual copies of a book were not perfectly standardized. The discrepancies created fodder for innumerable dissertations and theories by Shakespeare scholars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But, it\u2019s not just books. It\u2019s also stuff. The collection of stuffed animals that inspired the creation of Winnie-the-Pooh, Eeyore, Tigger, and Kanga. Five batons made for Arturo Toscanini in their unfinished state. Eventually, the wand would be painted white to look like ivory. The costume of ballerina Alexandra Danilova from a century ago. Cole Porter\u2019s cigarette case. Charles Dickens\u2019s desk and chair, and on and on. Globes, Virginia Woolf\u2019s walking stick. Really, a feast for the mind, and every visitor will find at least one thing to love. You might forget to look up, you\u2019ll be so fixed on the displays, but the ceiling of Gottesman Hall, where the exhibit is, is pretty spectacular too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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