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Poly Archives & Special Collections

Guide to the collections in the Poly Archives at Bern Dibner Library, New York University.

Student Curators Pranaya Raparla, Ethan Vazquez, and Amisha Gopee

Spring 2025

Dibner Library's Spring 2025 exhibit “NYU Tandon's Wunsch Building: Telling A Lost Story” is curated by Pranaya Raparla ('25), a Biomolecular Science major at the Tandon School of Engineering. Pranaya's research covers the building's history, its origins as the African Wesleyan Methodist Episcopal Church, and its connection to Brooklyn's 19th century abolitionist movements. Since she encountered many archival silences in her research, Pranaya's exhibit also asks viewers to consider the histories that are evident and not-so-evident around them. Beyond recorded history, which histories does our city celebrate and make visible and which ones remain hidden?  Pranaya delivered her research talk on February 26, 2025 at noon in the landmarked Wunsch Building. You can hear Pranaya talk about her research in this interview on Dibner Library's Instagram.
 

Introduction slide to Pranaya's exhibit"THe Wunsch Building Now" slide from Pranaya's presentation fearting two newspaper clippings: "City's Colleges Add $2 Billion in Facilities" and "Mystery Make-Over: Anonymous family ays to fix church"

Panels from Pranaya's exhibit (Dibner Library, Spring 2025) and research talk (Wunsch Hall, February 2025)

Pranaya Raparla giving her research talk about the history of Wunsch in the Wunsch Building, February 2025     Screenshot from Pranaya's interview featuring a news article about Wunsch Hall and Pranaya's comment that NYC has so much history

Pranaya presenting her research in Wunsch Hall (left) and a screenshot from her Instagram interview about her project (right).

Spring 2025 (Ongoing)

Spring 2025 (Ongoing, permanent exhibit)

Installed as a permanent exhibit, Ethan Vazquez's (Tandon '25) exploration of Golana, a sci-fi magazine created by Polytechnic students in the 1960s and 1970s, showcases original artwork and aims to inspire creativity in our Tandon engineers. See Ethan's online exhibit here: Creative Chronicles: Unveiling the Legacy of Golana at Polytechnic. You can watch Poly Archivist Lindsay Anderberg talk about the exhibit on Dibner Library's Instagram page. This exhibit is on display on the 3rd floor of Dibner Library, in the main reading room.

Front and back covers of Golana, Fall 1967, the first issue of the publication.

Image of Golana No. 9, Fall 1967 (Poly Archives).

Fall 2025

Fall 2025

Interdisciplinary Studies student Amisha Gopee's (Tandon '24, XE '26) exhibit on South Asians @ Poly/NYU is coming soon!

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