Happy 85th Birthday, Harper Lee! Lee published only one book, To Kill a Mockingbird, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1960. After that, she became a close friend of Truman Capote and assisted him in researching what became his book, In Cold Blood. Otherwise, she’s chosen to remain out of the public eye.

The above photo is Capote and Lee, and even farther above that is a drawing of mockingbirds by John James Audubon, which was published in a book titled The Birds of America, from Drawings Made in the United States and their Territories in 1840.

While searching “Death Row” in the NYPL’s Digital Archive to prepare for our event with Werner Herzog, Death Row & Other Journeys, I came across this 1894 print. The best explanations of these tricks: “No. 6 plays on a barrel organ, to the tune of which No. 7 dances on a tub. The two Nos. 8 indulge in a quiet see-saw, whilst the two Nos. 9 are busy replenishing the ‘inner elephant.’”