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Featured This Month: Travel and Westward Expansion

Everett D. Graff, NL Archives 15-01-01 Bx #1.

Collecting America: How a Friendship Enriched Our Understanding of American Culture

When Chicago steel magnate Everett D. Graff walked into Wright Howes’ bookshop on Michigan Avenue in the 1920s he sparked one of the most important friendships in the book world.

John Franklin. Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea. 1823. Ayer f125.1 1819 F8.

Travel, Exploration, and the American Frontier – Reference Sources

American Geographical Society Research Catalog. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1962. Call Number: Ayer f290 A503 1962. Includes a General Section, followed by regional sections on North and South America, Africa, Asia, Australia, the Polar Regions, Oceania and the Tropics.

Clark, Thomas Dionysius, ed. Travels in the New South: A Bibliography. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1962. Call Number: Ref Z 1251 .S7 C42

List of people on Lewis and Clark expedition, from the Account Book of William Clark. 1825-28. Graff 743.

Westward Expansion

The Newberry’s manuscript holdings relating to North American Indians and the history of the American West are contained almost entirely in two special collections, the Edward E. Ayer Collection and the Everett D. Graff Collection.

Edward E. Ayer Collection

Beargrass, NL Case N 381.761 V1.

Lewis and Clark and the Indian Country: 200 Years of American History

Based on an exhibition originally mounted at the Newberry, this website explores how two histories, that of the United States and that of Indian peoples along the expedition route, came together two hundred years ago and how they remain intertwined today.

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Digital Resources

Humanism for Sale

Humanism For Sale concerns the ways books were written, designed, printed, and marketed for schools in Renaissance Italy.

Popol Vuh (Wuj) Online

In an effort to make the Popol Vuh more widely available and reduce non-essential handling of the text, the Newberry has worked with Ohio State University to make this invaluable text available through this online resource.

Aztecs and the Making of Colonial Mexico

This virtual exhibition is based on The Aztecs and the Making of Colonial Mexico, a display of original manuscripts, books, and other materials at the Newberry from September 28, 2006 through January 13, 2007. The virtual exhibit includes the complete text from the original gallery exhibit and digitized images of many of the manuscripts and books that were displayed.

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