Visitors can now get acquainted with us in our brand-new welcome center! Neighboring the welcome center is a new lounge and expanded bookshop. These spaces will soon be followed by the unveiling of others, including redesigned exhibition galleries and additional rooms for public programs and private events.
With support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Newberry, along with 10 other Chicago-based organizations, will lead a series of city-wide conversations on the legacy of the 1919 Chicago Race Riots.
As the paperbacks of their day, “limp parchment” bindings offer a path to discovering patterns in early-modern book production and consumption. Book historian Melissa Moreton is in the midst of an ambitious project to survey hundreds of these types of bindings.
A new collection of early 20th-century glass plate negatives and prints offers a portal to a now-lost Chicago: a city of smokestacks, water towers, and rickety scaffolding, bursting at the seams with commercial energy and vertical expansion.
At the heart of the Newberry is a set of collection strengths that attract a variety of readers and serve as inspiration for our public programs and academic endeavors.
