Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Slideshow: Installation of door from Frank Shay’s Greenwich Village bookshop
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The two exhibitions The Greenwich Village Bookshop Door: A Portal to Bohemia, 1920-1925 and Banned, Burned, Seized, and Censored are now open at the Ransom Center. In the slideshow above, staff members install the bookshop door in the galleries on Friday.

The Greenwich Village bookshop door is positioned in a sliding track before being moved between the two panels of Plexiglas. Photo by Alicia Dietrich.









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