Blogs at the Newberry
The Newberry has a variety of blogs, which reflect the diversity of our collections and our staff.
Project blogs
Everywhere West: Chronicling the processing progress of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company records, featuring images and items from the collection. This project is supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Division of Preservation and Access.
French Pamphlet Collections: French Pamphlet Collections at the Newberry Library is a three-year project funded by a Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives grant. CLIR administers this national effort with the support of generous funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. French Pamphlet Collections at the Newberry Library began in January 2010 and will be completed in January 2013. Through the project, the Newberry is creating full, item-level MARC records for 22,000 French pamphlets that date from the 16th to the 19th century.
Recent posts from the Newberry blogs
May 4th is International Firefighters’ Day. This observance began in 1999 in an effort to remember the deaths of five firefighters who died in a wildfire at Linton in Victoria, Australia.
Where I was brought up, Meredith Willson’s The Music Man was listed among the great works of literature and Robert Preston, who starred as Professor Harold Hill on Broadway and somehow was allowed to repeat the role on film, was a role model. (The...
J'attends la tête de l'assassin Louis XVI (Case Wing DC137.08 .F73 v. 3 no. 5) The digital version of the Newberry Library‘s recent exhibition, Politics, Piety, and Poison: French Pamphlets, 1600-1800, is available online. This...
Happy International Workers’ Day! Albert R. Parsons, an Alabama-born newspaperman, was one of four Haymarket martyrs—labor and anarchist leaders, who, as we explained in our earlier post, were unfairly hanged for involvement in the Haymarket Square...
benvanloon: Newberry Library. Designed by Henry Ives Cobb and built in 1887.
Happy May Day! This bilingual broadside, written by labor activist Adolph Fischer, calls on “workingmen” to attend a rally in Chicago’s Haymarket Square. In the demonstration’s aftermath, eight anarchists (including Fischer) were unfairly accused...
Join us this Saturday for the monthly Genealogy and Local History Orientation. This event is especially helpful for those new to genealogical research or new to research at the Newberry. After the oriention, stay and start your research in the...
It’s that time of year when I present you with some statistics and then declare them useless. How it happens that no government has seen fit to hire me to blog for THEM I cannot comprehend. As I have mentioned, we keep a running tally of how many...
To conclude National Poetry Month, here are some images from an 1881 edition of Alfred Tennyson’s The Lady of Shalott. In the first (page 32), the eponymous lady is seated at her loom. In the second (page 42), Sir Lancelot rides on horseback.
The Pulitzer Committee has again been asleep at the switch—the one to favorite this blog—so we must mark the fourth anniversary of this blog with another ditty. (Keep that in mind, Pulitzer folks: the quickest way to stop these songs is to send me...