Dispatches from the Newberry stacks, where millions of historic items are ready to be discovered—and blogged about.
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Letterpress broadsides featured in "Making an Impression" exhibition.
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New discoveries in eighteenth century Heylwagen manuscript reveal insights into early modern notions of gender and sexuality.
Letterpress prints featured in “Making an Impression” exhibition.
A quiet evening stroll last March took a surprising turn when centuries-old European books were discovered on a Chicago sidewalk.
The most unusual aspects of the Newberry’s copy of “The Book of the Damned” are in its pages.
Conservation treatments brought neglected 1967 Ellen Lanyon painting back to life.
New graphic novel “Paper Cuts” featured in “Indigenous Chicago” exhibition.
The Mike Royko Papers contain an awful lot of objects whose basic details were...fuzzy, to say the least.
Newberry collection items offer glimpses into the last century of LGBTQ+ history.
In the early modern period, the divisive line between "real" and "fake" wasn't as solidified in the way we think of it now.