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Welcome to our growing digital collections of manuscripts, maps, books, photographs, video, artwork, and other rare and unique materials from the Newberry Library.

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CB&Q Railroad photographs, 1947-1948

Carlos Colby papers, 1821-1937

Ben Hecht papers, 1879-1983

Chicago protest collection, early 21st c.

Winston & Williams NAACP papers, 1940s-1986

Theatre magazine, early 20th c.

Alcatraz-Indianland, 1971

Franco Novacco map collection, 16th-17th c.

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Featured formats 

Maps

Letters & diaries

Photographs

Postcards

Audio

Broadsides

Books to 1800

Videos

Featured collections 

Ayer Collection: American Indian & Indigenous peoples

Dill Pickle club records

Pullman Company records

Slim Brundage papers

Stopp collection of Fraktur birth certificates

Chicago protest collection

Graff Collection: U.S. Western expansion

Dance collections

Postcard Sender 

Women's rights

Cats

Bicycles

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Collection Stories 

"I have found the human race..."

How's your cursive?

Marveling at monsters

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Teach, learn & contribute 

Newberry Transcribe

Seeing Race Before Race

Digital Collections for the Classroom

Postcard Tag

Mapping Movement

Midwest Time Machine

Chicago Ancestors

Atlas of Historical County Boundaries

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