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Featured This Month: Railroads

Russell Lee, Chicago Skyline and the 14th Street Passenger Yards, May 1948. CBQGR206.jpg

This exhibit contains a selection of unique black and white photographs focusing on Illinois scenes, the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, and its workers.

Twentieth Century Transportation. 1910. Temp Map 4F G3701.P1 1910Y2.

Railroad Archives

The collecting of large corporate archives at the Newberry was initiated in 1943 by Librarian Stanley Pargellis, who advocated the acquisition of records of Midwestern enterprises that contained materials for social and intellectual history as well as business history.

The Night Train, Every Saturday, pg. 729. A5.315 vol. #9.

Pullman: Labor, Race, and the Urban Landscape in a Company Town

This exhibit situates Pullman within a broad narrative, exploring how the neighborhood illuminates the centrality of labor, race, and urban development in the history of industrial America.

Pullman Car Interior. Box #16 Folder #723.

Pullman Digital Collection

This online Pullman Collection contains more than 1,600 Pullman Company car drawings, ca. 1870-1969.

Core Collections

The Newberry collections focus on the humanities. Please also browse our Research Guides and check our Online Catalog.

American History and Culture

American Indian and Indigenous Studies

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Manuscripts and Archives

Maps, Travel, and Exploration

Medieval, Renaissance, and Early Modern Studies

Music

Religion

Digital Resources

Capirola Lute Manuscript

The Capirola manuscript is a beautiful example of Renaissance lute tablature that has recently been made available online by the Programme Ricercar through the Center for Renaissance Studies at the University of Tours, France. This resource is in French with no English translation.

Pullman: Labor, Race, and the Urban Landscape in a Company Town

This exhibit situates Pullman within a broad narrative, exploring how the neighborhood illuminates the centrality of labor, race, and urban development in the history of industrial America.

Atlas of Historical County Boundaries

The Atlas of Historical County Boundaries is a reference work designed to provide information about the creation and boundary changes of every county in the United States, from the earliest county creation in the 1600s to 2000.

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