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The Newberry is a research library and a portal to more than six centuries of human history, from the Middle Ages to the present. At the Newberry Library, visitors and researchers explore centuries of human history, from the Middle Ages to the present.
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The library’s collection—some 1.6 million books, 600,000 maps, and 5 million manuscript pages—connects people directly to the past, and is accessible to all in Newberry reading rooms, program spaces, exhibition galleries, and online digital resources. Since its founding in 1887, the Newberry has remained dedicated to deepening our collective understanding of ourselves and the world around us. As individuals engage with Newberry collections and staff, they discover stories that bridge the past and present and illuminate the human condition. The Newberry’s community of discovery is driven by a shared commitment to promoting research, inspiring learning, and using inquiry across the humanities as a tool for engaging critically in a vibrant democratic society.
The library’s collection—some 1.6 million books, 600,000 maps, and 5 million manuscript pages—connects people directly to the past, and is accessible to all in Newberry reading rooms, program spaces, exhibition galleries, and online digital resources. Since its founding in 1887, the Newberry has remained dedicated to deepening our collective understanding of ourselves and the world around us. As individuals engage with Newberry collections and staff, they discover stories that bridge the past and present and illuminate the human condition. The Newberry’s community of discovery is driven by a shared commitment to promoting research, inspiring learning, and using inquiry across the humanities as a tool for engaging critically in a vibrant democratic society.
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Easier said than done. What do *you* resolve to be this year?
["Resolve to Be Merry." Harry Birch, 1888. James Francis Driscoll Collection of American Sheet Music]
Our NYE plans. 🍷🧀
This satirical print of early 19th-century British politician Lord Eldon was created by John Doyle (grandfather of Arthur Conan Doyle). Holding a giant goblet and seated next to a colossal wheel of Cheshire cheese, Eldon laments, "My Cheshire Cheese & my Glass form now my only Consolation."
Doyle was likely satirizing Eldon's decision in 1827 to resign from the government in protest over its plans to repeal anti-Catholic laws. To show their support for Eldon, protestants from Cheshire sent him a gift of cheese.
["Consolation." John Doyle. England. 1829. Case oversize W 778 .186] #newyears #newyearseve #nye #cheese #prints #politics #satire
One final look back before we close the book on 2020 and consign it to the farthest reaches of the library stacks.
Thank you for spending another year with us. While we can’t predict what lies ahead in 2021, we promise we’ll keep doing our best to share the Newberry’s collections in ways that are timely, relevant, and occasionally* fun.
Leave a comment to tell us what you’d like to see from our collections in 2021. Have a happy and safe new year, everyone.
*More than just occasionally, we hope.
Happy holidays, everyone. Here's to the final days of 2020 and to better days ahead.
[Christmas card. From H. P. Zimmerman. Mid-20th century. Collection of American Ephemeral Printing. Box 6, Folder 14. Case Wing oversize ZC 1 .183] #christmas #cards #holidays #ephemera #santa
"Thursday evening last, I went to my first dinner party, + never in my life was I so bored. I had the illustrious Mr. Stuyvesant Fish, who in spite of having a grand Father is little less than an idiot."
Julia Newberry (daughter of our founding benefactor) didn't hold back. In a journal entry recounting the weeks leading up to Christmas 1869, she unloaded on Mr. Fish before lambasting the choir boys at a local church for being "full of mischief." She also had choice words for the musical performance at another church, which she attended with her mother and sister but "with which we were soon disgusted."
She was, however, satisfied with her Christmas presents: "a real artist's parasol, from mamma, + a lovely Madonna in a carved frame."
[Diary of Julia Newberry. Julia Newberry. 1869-71. VAULT Case MS 4A 31] #journals #manuscripts #diaries #illustrations
🎅😷Santa masked up during the second wave of the flu pandemic in December of 1918.
In October of that year, the pandemic had subsided in Illinois. But parades celebrating the end of WWI, followed by Thanksgiving gatherings, led to a surge of new cases ahead of the holidays.
#wearamask #santa #christmas #flupandemic #pandemic #holidays #1918 #1918pandemic #chicago #illinois
Maybe just a slightly idealized image of dog-walking in Chicago this time of year.
Part of the Fanny Butcher Papers, this Christmas card was sent by the critic, journalist, and Chicago literary titan just over 100 years ago––amid another global health crisis: the flu pandemic of 1918-20.
[Christmas card. 1919. Fanny Butcher Papers. Midwest MS Butcher Series 3: Personal Box 36 Folder 1559] #christmas #cards #holidays #ephemera #dogs
"Pleasing little socks."
"A box of paper collars."
"A rocking chair for unworthy me."
Americans of yore gave and received some...cool Christmas presents. Explore holiday hauls of the past through a selection of 19th-century manuscripts from the Newberry collections. bit.ly/2LFZLeV
Thanks for pointing that out. We’ll take it under advisement.
[Manicule in a 15th-century manuscript copy of Ptolemy’s “Cosmographia.” Ayer MS 740] #manicule #marginalia #manuscript #geography #speccolls #newberrylibrary
Wait for it... 🦁 —> 🦅 😯
If this isn’t a metaphor for 2020, we don’t know what is.
[Metamorphosis, or, A transformation of pictures : with poetical explanations for the amusement of young persons. Benjamin Sands. New York. 1817. Wing ZP 883 .R116] #speccolls #newberrylibrary #metamorphosis #lion #eagle #books #interactive #interactivebooks
*not* a vaccination, but we’re doing what we can w/ the collection we have.
[Elective blood-letting in Kalender new geordent, 1512. Wing ZP 547 .K807]
December 12 marks the feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe, commemorating the date in 1531 when the Virgin Mary is said to have appeared for the last time to Juan Diego, a Nahua, Indigenous Mexican farmer who had converted to Christianity.
This iconic image appears in “La Estrella de el Norte de Mexico,” written in 1688 by Jesuit scholar Francisco de Florencia in order to convince the Catholic Church to authorize the veneration of the image.
The cult that developed around Guadalupe reflected the Christianization of the Americas. According to official records, the Virgin appeared before Juan Diego and instructed him, in his native language of Nahuatl, to build a church in her honor. The resulting basilica was built on a sacred site once associated with the Mexica (Aztec) deity Tonantzin (meaning "our great mother").
From the Church’s perspective, the iconography of the Virgin was a fitting substitute for Tonantzin and a powerful tool for converting Indigenous peoples.
[VAULT Ayer 657.65 .F63 1688] #religion #histreligion #ourladyofguadalupe #christianity #catholicism #devotion
Sorry, everyone: Newberry digital resources + publications are temporarily down. We're working to get them back up and running ASAP!
In the meantime, feel free to browse our still-functional digital collections: https://archive.org/details/newberry
You’ve heard of Elf on a Shelf, but how about Frog on a Card Catalog?
You hate to see it. Iron gall ink did a number on this 15th-century copy of Ptolemy's geographical treatise "Cosmographia." Chemical reactions catalyzed by the iron in the ink basically burned through the pages--which, we don't have to tell you, is not great.
Due to its fragility, this item had been sequestered for years to limit further damage. But thanks to the ingenuity of the Newberry's conservation team, it will be available to researchers when we reopen the library reading rooms.
How'd they do it? Two words: tissue paper.
Learn about the conservation project on our blog: https://www.newberry.org/conserving-ptolemy
Not sure what a militant puritan like John Milton (born #otd in 1608) would have thought of this ostentatiously dazzling page from an early 20th-century Doves Press trial proof of his best-known work--but we're not mad about it.
[Paradise Lost. John Milton. The Doves Press. 1902. Wing MS ZW 14 .J644] #milton #johnmilton #onthisday #birthdays #paradiselost #earlymodern #poetry #poems
We're live with Dr. Shannon Speed and Dr. Blaire Topash-Caldwell for a talk about Native Studies in apocalyptic times.
Travel plans canceled or postponed? In lieu of IRL holiday excursions, join us for a little virtual tourism. Next stop: Istanbul.
This map of Constantinople (present-day Istanbul) by 16th-century Italian Giovanni Andrea Valvassori depicts a number of the city's famous landmarks, including Topkapi Palace (the large compound at the base of the peninsula in the first image and shown close-up in the second) and Hagia Sophia (marked "S. Sophia" and located immediately above Topkapi in the first image).
[Costantinopoli. Giovanni Andrea Valvassori. Italy. 1570. Novacco 2f 221] #maps #map #turkey #istanbul #constantinople #earlymodern #travel #virtualtravel #tourism #virtualtourism
Hope you like baumkuchen, because there's plennnty to go around. #ArchivesBakeOff #ArchivesHashtagParty
Baumkuchen (a German cake made on a spit) is the subject of a 19th-century Moravian scroll poem about the cake's creation.
[Poem about the journey of a baumkuchen from Moravia to Bonn, Germany. Moravia. 1876. VAULT Case MS 5458 ] #cake #baumkuchen #scrolls #illustrations #drawings
Atlas Mugged amirite?
Find more gifts inspired by the Newb collection on our online store: https://bookshop.newberry.org/category/bookshop-exclusives/newberry-gifts
Our most popular digital teaching/learning resource just got even better. We gave Digital Collections for the Classroom a new look and new user-friendly features for remote learning and instruction.
Check it out: https://dcc.newberry.org/
We're live with Kathleen DuVal for a talk about how enslaved people, Native Americans, women, & British loyalists experienced the Revolutionary Era.
Eve mer-made a big mistake eating that apple.
This "metamorphic" illustration—which lets readers transform Eve into a mermaid by means of a foldable flap—is from a movable book published in the early 19th century. Basically a moralizing children's toy, the book tells a story in verse and includes a number of interactive illustrations that help reinforce certain ideas—for instance, Eve being responsible for Adam’s fall from “his native righteousness.”
[Metamorphosis, or, A transformation of pictures : with poetical explanations for the amusement of young persons. Benjamin Sands. New York. 1817. Wing ZP 883 .R116] #mermaids #engravings #movablebooks #splitpagebooks #poetry #poems #eve #treeofknowledge #stories #childrensliterature
Here are a few highlights from Indigenous Interventions, a virtual symposium we hosted last month with the Field Museum and Northwestern University featuring S-A-N-T-I-A-G-O X, Debra Yepa Pappan, Andrea Carlson, Chris Pappan, Teresa Montoya, and Frank Waln.
Watch the full symposium: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqU0PAe3HjU&list=PLA6qRZ3gfQFaLeVONwwAikganrpfx7D5e
The world may have changed, but our mission remains the same: to preserve the past and explore its impact on the present. A portal to more than six centuries of human history, the Newberry collection inspires research, teaching, and discovery. And none of it would be possible without YOU.
Make a gift to the Newberry this #GivingTuesday, and help us continue to serve students, teachers, scholars, and lifelong learners everywhere.
https://www.newberry.org/giving-tuesday-2020
Your friendly Newberry Bookshop is online. #ShopSmall for books, cards, posters, & more. https://bookshop.newberry.org
We're a one-stop shop for all the bookworms on your list.
Do your holiday shopping AND support the Newb at the same time. How good is that? https://bookshop.newberry.org
On November 17th, 1863, Nevada governor James Nye issued a "Thanksgiving Proclamation," establishing Thursday, November 26th as "a day of PUBLIC THANKSGIVING TO ALMIGHTY GOD for his watchfulness and protection over us as a People and as a Nation through the year just passed."
In issuing his proclamation, Nye was following the lead of President Lincoln, who on October 3rd had issued a proclamation making the last Thursday of November a permanent, official, nation-wide day of Thanksgiving. Prior to Lincoln's proclamation, national days of public Thanksgiving were celebrated at different times throughout the year.
Lincoln's decision to fix the date of the holiday was likely meant to promote unity during the Civil War. Yet the idea was not his alone: a few days before issuing the proclamation, he had received a letter from writer and editor Sarah Josepha Hale, who suggested that a "day of our annual Thanksgiving [be] made a National and fixed Union Festival."
[Thanksgiving Proclamation. Governor of Nevada [James Nye]. Carson City. 1863. VAULT broadside Graff 2984] #Thanksgiving #Nevada #governors #proclamations #broadsides
"After I'd helped eat the Thanksgiving Turkey I went up to town and had my teeth extracted! Twenty one all right out at once."
Read this and other letters and diaries from our archives: bit.ly/2UYjzM2
When the grocery store is out of turkeys.
True, Dutch calligrapher, engraver, and writing teacher Jan van den Velde probably didn't have Thanksgiving or even turkey hunting in mind when he added this illustration to a book of ornately drawn calligraphic letters. But it still serves as a pretty good reminder to get to Trader Joe's before it's too late.
[Schoonschrift van Jan van den Velde. Twintig raadsels. Jan van de Velde. Holland. 17th century. Wing MS ZW 646 .V5428] #thanksgiving #turkey #calligraphy #illustrations #drawing #writing #manuscripts
If you're not serving 3 varieties of squirrel for Thanksgiving, you're not doing it right. https://archive.org/details/GR_1275
[T'giving menu from the Everett House Hotel, Chicago, 1870]
Published by Alexander Young in 1841, Chronicles of Our Pilgrim Fathers was a narrative history of Plymouth and the New England region covering the first quarter of the 17th century. The work was especially significant due to a footnote where Young re-printed a December 1621 letter by Edward Winslow describing a feast in which Pilgrims rejoiced for a successful harvest and were joined by about 90 Wampanoag men. In Young's telling, "This was the first Thanksgiving." The rest, as they say, is history.
Yet while this feast did occur, it didn't happen the way many of us have been taught. The 90 Wampanoag people who engaged in the feast didn't do so in a peacemaking effort, to celebrate Pilgrim settlement, or to give thanks for the Pilgrims. Hearing gunfire, they showed up to honor a mutual-defense pact they’d made with the Pilgrims and defend them in battle (the Pilgrims, it turned out, had been shooting off their firearms for fun).
And from the Pilgrim's perspective, the feast was probably meant as a minor celebration of a successful harvest. No Wampanoag people were invited, and the event didn't immediately kick off an annual tradition. In fact, it wasn't until 1863 that Lincoln declared Thanksgiving a national holiday and the stories about a mythical tradition began to develop.
Young's footnote and the Thanksgiving myth it inaugurated have had significant impacts on the way our nation understands the history of settler-Native relationships and violence. The story casts Pilgrims as the pious, thriving, and peaceful founders of the nation, while conveniently placing Indigenous people as props that would disappear. But the fabled celebration of peace erases the many instances of settler-colonial violence that would come after--and the fact that Wampanoag people continue to live in their homelands today. Likewise, it served as a way to conveniently draw attention away from settler-colonial violence in the West and, later, Jim Crow violence in the South.
[Chronicles of the Pilgrim fathers of the colony of Plymouth, from 1602-1625. Alexander Young. Boston. 1841. Ayer 150.5 .M4 Y7 1841] #Thanksgiving #pilgrims #indigenous #native #ushistory #history #myth
Don't be a turkey. Send friends + family a vintage Thanksgiving greeting via our digital Postcard Sender: https://publications.newberry.org/postcard-sender/index.php?id=jm1066&p=0
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