The Chief Librarian Larry Sullivan and the Special Collections Librarian Ellen Belcher are making sure Broadway actors wear historically correct NYPD uniforms. The New York Times reports on how the Lloyd Sealy Library was able to help a West Side Story costume designer when other organizations could not. The NY Times article is here.
The Lloyd Sealy library is probably the only place in the world that holds such a variety of historical police manuals and handbooks which were produced for daily use within the departments and likely discarded after they became obsolete. Our special collections holds several general procedural manuals for the NYPD including those dating to 1929, 1940, 1949 and 1956 along with many historical manuals and handbooks from police departments worldwide.