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The 67-year-old, 2.5 million-item Picture Collection of the New York Public Library has been reopened in new quarters in the Mid-Manhattan Library, at 455 Fifth Avenue, at 40th Street.
A unit of the branch libraries, the Picture Collection contains photographs, postcards, prints, posters and clippings under 8,000 subject headings from abacus to zoological parks.
The collection is open five days a week: Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from noon to 6 P.M., Tuesdays from noon to 8 P.M. and Thursdays from 10 A.M. to 6 P.M.