This Grolier Club exhibition will illustrate how New York City developed and was depicted in images for visitors and residents. Curated by Grolier Club and Century Association member Mark D. Tomasko from his collection, the exhibition features more than 130 objects, including guidebooks, viewbooks, photobooks, maps, and pamphlets. Guidebooks on view trace the growth of the city, including Dr. Mitchill’s Picture of New York (1807, the first guide to New York City), as well as specialty guidebooks and viewbooks, such as for the new Central Park, Ellis Island, speakeasies, restaurants, and skyscrapers. Street panoramas on view, such as Both Sides of Broadway (1910) and Fifth Avenue from Start to Finish (1911), show every building on those streets in detail, and featured photobooks include Bernice Abbott’s Changing New York (1939), and E. Idell Zeisloft’s The New Metropolis (1899) that celebrates the 1898 Consolidation of the City.