![[ for bibliophiles & ny literary history buffs: just spent an hour flipping through this fantastic online exhibition from Harry Ransom Center ]
The Greenwich Village Bookshop Door: A Portal to Bohemia 1920-1925
In the early 1920s, noteworthy visitors to Frank Shay’s bookshop at 4 Christopher Street began autographing the narrow door that opened onto the shop’s office. Signed by 242 artists, writers, publishers, and other notable habitués of Greenwich Village, this unusual artifact is now housed at the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin. A literal portal to the past, the door reveals the rich mix of innovators—from anarchist poets to major commercial publishers—that defined this slice of Bohemia from 1920 to 1925.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lsjyhlPSpJ1qzpjteo1_r1_1280.jpg)
[ for bibliophiles & ny literary history buffs: just spent an hour flipping through this fantastic online exhibition from Harry Ransom Center ]
The Greenwich Village Bookshop Door: A Portal to Bohemia 1920-1925
In the early 1920s, noteworthy visitors to Frank Shay’s bookshop at 4 Christopher Street began autographing the narrow door that opened onto the shop’s office. Signed by 242 artists, writers, publishers, and other notable habitués of Greenwich Village, this unusual artifact is now housed at the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin. A literal portal to the past, the door reveals the rich mix of innovators—from anarchist poets to major commercial publishers—that defined this slice of Bohemia from 1920 to 1925.
Source: research.hrc.utexas.edu
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