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Inquiring Minds: Director Casts Girls as “Newsies,” Citing Library’s Historical Photos

Posted by: Wendi Maloney

Benny Seda-Galarza, a public affairs specialist in the Communications Office, is co-author of this post. For two long weeks in summer 1899, readers of the New York World and the New York Journal had to do without their daily papers. The reason: thousands of ragtag child newspaper sellers went on strike against the two largest …

Posted in: Collections, Photos, Researcher Stories, Women's History

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Inquiring Minds: Performing the History of Musical Theater

Posted by: Wendi Maloney

Teachers and filmmakers have long relied on primary sources to make history come alive. Ben West, director, performer and musical theater historian, is also drawn to them—but with a novel purpose. He is using unpublished manuscripts, papers of Broadway authors, copyright records and more to tell the story of the American musical—through a musical. His …

Posted in: Collections, Copyright, Manuscripts, Music, Researcher Stories