Romana Javitz Bibliography
Bronfield, Jerry. “Just Ask for it: In this Collection You Can Find a Picture of Anything ...” New York Herald Tribune, November 26, 1944, 7.
Bugbee, Emma. “Miss Romana Javitz Shepherds Collection of 1,000,000 Pictures.” New York Herald Tribune, May 10, 1943, 7.
Cahill, Holger. “Introduction.” The Index of American Design, by Erwin O. Christensen, 1–15. New York, NY: Macmillan, 1950.
Doud, Richard. “An Interview with Romana Javitz 23 February 1965.” Archives of American Art Journal 41, no. 1/4 (2001): 2–17.
Hill, May D. “Prints, Pictures, and Photographs.” Library Trends 4, no. 2 (October 1955): 156–163.
“Interesting People: She Keeps the Past: Romana Javitz.” American Magazine, February 1950.
Javitz, Romana. “Images and Words.” Wilson Library Bulletin 18, no. 3 (November 1943): 217–221.
______. “The Library and the Anniversary of Printing.” In 500 Years of Printing – A Collection of Articles on the History of Printing Since the Invention of Movable Type: Reprinted from the Publishers’ Weekly, ed. Frederic G. Melcher. New York: Gardner Press, 2012 (originally published 1940).
______. “Pictures from Abacus to Zodiac.” The Story of Our Time: An Encyclopedic Yearbook, 1955. New York, NY: The Grolier Society, Inc, 1955.
______. “Picture Research.” Special Libraries 43, no. 6 (July–August 1952): 209–210.
______. “The Public Interest.” Work for Artists. What? Where? How?, ed. Elizabeth McCausland, 27–35. New York, NY: American Artists Group, 1947.
______. “Put Accent on Pictures.” Library Journal 74 (September 15, 1949): 1235–1236.
______. “Still Pictures.” Picturescope 15, no. 1 (1967): 2–6.
______. “Words on Pictures. A Speech to the Convention of the Massachusetts Library Association,” Boston, Massachusetts, January 28, 1943. The Massachusetts Library Association Bulletin (1943): 19–23.
Kamin, Diana. “Mid-Century Visions, Programmed Affinities: The Enduring Challenges of Image Classification.” Journal of Visual Culture 16, no. 3 (2017): 310–336.
______. “Picture Work: On the Circulating Image Collection.” PhD diss., New York University, 2018.
______. “Total Recall.” Artforum, August 30, 2021. Web only, https://www.artforum. com/slant/diana-kamin-on-the-new-york-public-library-s-picture-collection-86403, accessed April 9, 2023.
Kellogg, Cynthia. “Searchers for Unusual Pictures Can Find Them at Main Library.” New York Times, November 3, 1960, 41.
“Library not Art Snob, Picture Chief Says.” Toronto Globe and Mail, November 30, 1965, 11.
Noble, Safiya Umoja. Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism. New York, NY: New York University Press, 2018.
Panzer, Mary. “Pictures at Work: Romana Javitz and the New York Public Library Picture Collection.” In The “Public” Life of Photographs, ed. Thierry Gervais, 129–151. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2016.
______. “Romana Javitz, Arturo Schomburg, and the Farm Security Administration Search for Usable Pictures of African American Life.” Presentation at the Special Libraries Association, New York Chapter, New York, NY, March 23, 2021.
Troncale, Anthony T. Words on Pictures: Romana Javitz and the New York Public Library’s Picture Collection. New York, NY: Photo Verso Publications LLC, 2020. ______. “Worth Beyond Words: Romana Javitz and The New York Public Library’s Picture Collection.” Biblion: The Bulletin of The New York Public Library 4, no. 1 (Fall 1995): 115–138.
Van Haaften, Julia. “Original Sun Pictures: A Check List of the New York Public Library’s Holdings of Early Works Illustrated with Photographs, 1844–1900.” The Bulletin of the New York Public Library (Spring 1977), 355–415.
Van Haaften, Julia and Anthony Troncale. Subject Matters: Photography, Romana Javitz and the New York Public Library. Exhibition pamphlet. New York Public Library, 1998.