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He will surely visit the Newberry Library’s newest exhibition ... years ago — he is now director of exhibitions for the Chicago History Museum — Durica got the Royko ball rolling.
CHICAGO (CBS ... them," said Analú María López of the Newberry Library. The collection may be housed in Chicago, but researchers carry history home. "If you are a lover of history, I ...
If you work in the humanities, you might want to check out the Newberry Library in Chicago. This research library has a number of core collections in American history and culture, American Indian and ...
Founded in 1887 with a $2.1 million bequest from Chicago businessman Walter Loomis Newberry ... library’s non-circulating collection includes more than 1.5 million books pertaining to the ...
in History of Chicago Credit: A. T. Andreas/Edward E. Ayer Collection “Indigenous Chicago,” created through a collaboration between the Newberry Library and several Native community members ...
Thanks to staff at the Newberry ... of rare photos of Pullman, and put some of the history of this important place in context. George Pullman started the Pullman Palace Car Company in Chicago ...
the archivists at the Newberry Library suspected it would be historic. They put out a call for Chicagoans to send in photos and bring their signs, their buttons, their pussyhats, and whatever ...
"We were really excited to find these," said Martha Briggs, curator of modern manuscripts at the Newberry. "Because slave letters are very rare." They are letters from a slave named Washington ...