Frederick W. Beinecke Images

The youthful immigrant: Bernhard Beinecke, the wagon-driver, 1868.

Rising in society: Bernhard and Johanna, mid-1880s.

A contemporary photograph of The Plaza Hotel, New York City.

Frederick W. Beinecke on graduating from Yale, 1909

Frederick W. Beinecke shows off a model sailboat to his sons William and Richard, c. 1921.

A Sperry and Hutchinson Green Stamp. This widely-recognized symbol of twentieth century American commerce remained largely unchanged for its’ entire…

With the exception of a short interval between 1925–1927, this lower Fifth Avenue building was home to Sperry and Hutchinson…

Frederick W. Beinecke during Sperry and Hutchinson’s boom decades in the mid-1950s.

A craftsman polishes a semi-translucent marble panel for The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library’s exterior, c. 1962.