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The Newberry Library is an independent research library, specializing in the humanities. It is located in Chicago, Illinois , and has been free and open to the public since 1887. The Newberry fosters a deeper understanding of our world by inspiring research and learning in the humanities and encouraging conversations about ideas that matter.
Horace Sweeney Oakley (1861–1929) was a Chicago lawyer, scholar, and philanthropist. He was as a trustee to cultural institutions throughout Chicago (namely the Newberry Library, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Orchestral Association, and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.
"Gi-aum-e Hon-o-me-tah (Young Woman)," painting by Elbridge Ayer Burbank, collection of the D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies, Newberry Library. The D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies is a research center within the Newberry Library in Chicago, Illinois.
But since 1985, the Newberry Library’s ... Good morning, Chicago. There is no shortage of used books in this city. You can find them in informal little libraries in neighborhood parks, and in ...
According to the Smithsonian, the Newberry Library in Chicago is crowdsourcing translations for three 1 century manuscripts dealing with charms, spirits and other manners of magical practice.
The Bughouse Square Debates was an annual event sponsored by the Newberry Library in Chicago. The debates took place across from the Newberry, in Washington Square Park . Soapboxes located throughout the park gave a series of scheduled speakers platforms from which they shared their opinions on a variety of issues related to education, labor ...
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Paul Banks (April 15, 1934 – May 10, 2000) was Conservator and Head of the Conservation Department and Laboratory at the Newberry Library from 1964 to 1981. He left the Newberry Library in 1981 to establish the first United States degree-granting program in library preservation at the Columbia University School of Library Science.