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.
Newberry staff pilot a new approach to organizing the library’s enormous collection of road maps and travel ephemera, applying archival methods that could eventually scale up to make 230,000 items more accessible to researchers.
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.
