Erin Schreiner

Joined Atlas Obscura in 2017

Erin Schreiner is a writer and itinerant bibliographer in New York City. Since 2008 she has worked with private and institutional collectors to describe, arrange, exhibit, and teach with their collections. Reach out on Twitter @bibliographes.

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The card catalog at the New York Society Library's Reference Room.

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A Peek at Famous Readers' Borrowing Records From a Private New York Library

Thanks to carefully maintained circulation info, we know when Alexander Hamilton checked out Goethe.

An unidentified Studio Duplicating employee uses a homemade, oversized magnifying glass to compare a script typed in mimeostencil to the original manuscript to his left, assisted by the office cat.

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The Small Script-Copying Service That Powered NYC Entertainment for Decades

Among many other jobs, Studio Duplicating staff did frenzied, last-minute typing for Saturday Night Live.

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