May 09, 2008
Original Winnie-the-Pooh now lives at 42nd & 5th
The original stuffed animals that inspired A.A. Milne to create "Winnie-the-Pooh" now live at 42nd and Fifth Avenue -- just a few feet behind a Gutenberg Bible that dates to the 1450s.
Pooh, Eeyore, Tigger, Piglet and Kanga recently left the children's room in the Donnell Library Center, which will be torn down to make way for a luxury hotel/library.
The stuffed animals, loved up into a shabby, patched-up state, now reside in an elegant glass case in the Edna Barnes Salomon Room of the Humanities & Social Sciences Library.
They're actually easy to find -- head up the main stairs to the third floor as if you were headed to the main reading room. But at the top of the landing, instead of heading west into the reading room, head east toward Pooh.
The animals were given to Robin Milne (the inspiration for Christopher Robin) between 1920 and 1922. Pooh was originally acquired from Harrod's. They were brought to the United States in 1947 and found a home at Milne's U.S. publisher, who then gave them to the library in 1987.
Library entrance is of course free.
Picture credit: Pooh and Friends, taken by Don Hamerman. Image provided to NewYorkology by the NYPL.
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May 9, 2008 10:17 AM in Cheap Stuff, History, Kids, Midtown, Museums, Sightsology
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