1. Today’s Caturday is brought to you by the Music Division of our Library for the Performing Arts. This score for the song “Kitty” appeared in the music supplement of the New York American and Journal exactly 111 years ago today (or, more precisely, on May 18, 1902). The artwork features both a cat (of course) and a mouse in a tuxedo. That’s an obvious win. So happy Caturday! And, by the way, if you’re into music, the Library for the Performing Arts (at Lincoln Center) has two totally FREE exhibitions you should check out today, or soon - American Sabor: Latinos in US Popular Music and 100 Years of Flamenco In NY (check out the NY Times review of Flamenco). 

    Today’s Caturday is brought to you by the Music Division of our Library for the Performing Arts. This score for the song “Kitty” appeared in the music supplement of the New York American and Journal exactly 111 years ago today (or, more precisely, on May 18, 1902). The artwork features both a cat (of course) and a mouse in a tuxedo. That’s an obvious win. So happy Caturday! And, by the way, if you’re into music, the Library for the Performing Arts (at Lincoln Center) has two totally FREE exhibitions you should check out today, or soon - American Sabor: Latinos in US Popular Music and 100 Years of Flamenco In NY (check out the NY Times review of Flamenco). 

  2. Here is an image just purrrfect for a Mother’s Day edition of Caturday - it’s a 1907 Beatrix Potter illustration from our Mid-Manhattan Picture Collection showing a feline mother doing what moms do: taking care of her baby (in this case, Tom Kitten). Happy Mother’s Day (and happy Caturday) to all! By the way, need a last-minute Mother’s Day gift? Check out our Library Shop!

    Here is an image just purrrfect for a Mother’s Day edition of Caturday - it’s a 1907 Beatrix Potter illustration from our Mid-Manhattan Picture Collection showing a feline mother doing what moms do: taking care of her baby (in this case, Tom Kitten). Happy Mother’s Day (and happy Caturday) to all! By the way, need a last-minute Mother’s Day gift? Check out our Library Shop!

  3. The Secret Museum: The treasures too fragile or too precious to go on display →

    NYPL is featured in a new book by Molly Oldfield called The Secret Museum, which highlights fascinating some fascinating objects located in “museums” around the world… including Charles Dickens very intriguing letter opener, which is in NYPL’s Berg Collection. Read all about it!

    Writer Molly Oldfield has delved into the vast collections of objects stored away and rarely exhibited

  4. The folks at JYHS Library made our lives easy today, finding a purrrrrfect picture for our weekly Caturday contribution. Yes, you should use your school library … AND your local neighborhood branch (we’ve got 91 locations)! Here in NYC, we actually work with public schools to supplement materials, so … go libraries!  jyhslibrary: Curiosity and the cat @your school library

    The folks at JYHS Library made our lives easy today, finding a purrrrrfect picture for our weekly Caturday contribution. Yes, you should use your school library … AND your local neighborhood branch (we’ve got 91 locations)! Here in NYC, we actually work with public schools to supplement materials, so … go libraries! 

    jyhslibrary:

    Curiosity and the cat @your school library

    (Source: suricatem)

  5. Everyone now … “awwww.” What better way to celebrate Caturday than with a photo of a cute kid sitting with a cute cat? This image is from the Library’s 1964 World’s Fair collection in our Manuscripts and Archives Division (a collection that is the basis for the Library’s free app Biblion), and is quite appropriate, since we at the Library have babies on the brain - a baby boy was actually born in our Clason’s Point branch Thursday! Shout out to employee Wanda Luzon, who helped bring the little guy into the world, right inside the entrance of the Bronx branch! Check out the story as told by the New York Post, NBC and CBS. And, of course, happy Caturday!

    Everyone now … “awwww.” What better way to celebrate Caturday than with a photo of a cute kid sitting with a cute cat? This image is from the Library’s 1964 World’s Fair collection in our Manuscripts and Archives Division (a collection that is the basis for the Library’s free app Biblion), and is quite appropriate, since we at the Library have babies on the brain - a baby boy was actually born in our Clason’s Point branch Thursday! Shout out to employee Wanda Luzon, who helped bring the little guy into the world, right inside the entrance of the Bronx branch! Check out the story as told by the New York Post, NBC and CBS. And, of course, happy Caturday!

  6. It’s (supposedly) spring, and in its honor, this week’s Caturday features a chic, French feline stopping to smell the roses (or some other kind of flower). This 1869 work by French artist Edouard Manet is currently in the Library’s Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs (which anyone can come and use). So - since it’s actually still cold out - drop by The New York Public Library’s landmark building on 42nd Street to stop, smell the roses, and check out fine art. And happy Caturday! 

    It’s (supposedly) spring, and in its honor, this week’s Caturday features a chic, French feline stopping to smell the roses (or some other kind of flower). This 1869 work by French artist Edouard Manet is currently in the Library’s Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs (which anyone can come and use). So - since it’s actually still cold out - drop by The New York Public Library’s landmark building on 42nd Street to stop, smell the roses, and check out fine art. And happy Caturday! 

  7. This weekend is St. Patrick’s Day, and there will be much celebrating in New York City (starting today, with the St. Paddy’s Day Parade, which you can watch online and will march right past our landmark 42nd Street building), so for a festive Caturday, we’re sharing this 1885 image by legendary artist Rudolph Caldecott, which depicts a (very odd) celebration. The image - located in our Mid-Manhattan Picture Collection - features a kind of angry looking cat and the fiddle (as in “hey, diddle, diddle”) and several children happily dancing (including the one in the front, who is either very, very tiny, or a doll that’s sort of alive. It’s unclear). Meanwhile, an adult in the background is serving the food and looking on with an expression of, “Yeah. This is normal and happens all the time.” Gotta love it. Happy Caturday!

    This weekend is St. Patrick’s Day, and there will be much celebrating in New York City (starting today, with the St. Paddy’s Day Parade, which you can watch online and will march right past our landmark 42nd Street building), so for a festive Caturday, we’re sharing this 1885 image by legendary artist Rudolph Caldecott, which depicts a (very odd) celebration. The image - located in our Mid-Manhattan Picture Collection - features a kind of angry looking cat and the fiddle (as in “hey, diddle, diddle”) and several children happily dancing (including the one in the front, who is either very, very tiny, or a doll that’s sort of alive. It’s unclear). Meanwhile, an adult in the background is serving the food and looking on with an expression of, “Yeah. This is normal and happens all the time.” Gotta love it. Happy Caturday!

  8. It’s a Cassatt Caturday. This 1908 painting by famed artist Mary Cassatt depicts a little girl holding an adorable kitten - perfect Caturday fodder. It’s also a perfect opportunity to shamelessly promote a brand new (totally free) exhibition at the Library’s landmark 42nd Street building - Daring Methods: The Prints of Mary Cassatt. Here’s a description: “Spanning twenty years of Cassatt’s career as a printmaker, from 1878 to 1898, this exhibition documents her first tentative steps in the medium and culminates with her highly accomplished and technically dazzling color prints.” So come on down today (before 6 p.m.) and check it out on the third floor - there won’t be any paintings as seen here, but the prints from our Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs are pretty amazing (you can some of them here). You have something better to do on this glorious Caturday? See you later!

    It’s a Cassatt Caturday. This 1908 painting by famed artist Mary Cassatt depicts a little girl holding an adorable kitten - perfect Caturday fodder. It’s also a perfect opportunity to shamelessly promote a brand new (totally free) exhibition at the Library’s landmark 42nd Street building - Daring Methods: The Prints of Mary Cassatt. Here’s a description: “Spanning twenty years of Cassatt’s career as a printmaker, from 1878 to 1898, this exhibition documents her first tentative steps in the medium and culminates with her highly accomplished and technically dazzling color prints.” So come on down today (before 6 p.m.) and check it out on the third floor - there won’t be any paintings as seen here, but the prints from our Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs are pretty amazing (you can some of them here). You have something better to do on this glorious Caturday? See you later!

  9. In honor of Dr. Seuss’ birthday, today’s Caturday is dedicated to cats … in [the] hats. Here are four examples of kitties sporting caps, all pulled from The New York Public Library’s vast photo and picture collections (we’re cheating a bit - we’ve used some of these in previous Caturdays, but hey, cats DO have nine lives). Happy birthday, Dr. Seuss. Want to read some Dr. Seuss today to mark his birthday? NYPL has plenty of books by and about him (including The Cat In The Hat ) - check one out today. 

  10. Here’s a bit of a kooky Caturday, courtesy of our Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs. This 1869 print called “Les chats” is just a touch Avant-garde - but then again, so are most cats. Enjoy, and stay tuned every week for a new Caturday feature! 

    Here’s a bit of a kooky Caturday, courtesy of our Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs. This 1869 print called “Les chats” is just a touch Avant-garde - but then again, so are most cats. Enjoy, and stay tuned every week for a new Caturday feature!