Digital Collections
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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Black History: Selected Sources
Mapping Outside the Lines
Sense and Scenery: Picturing Jane Austen's World
From Page to Pixel: Discovering the Digital Newberry
Circus correspondence, Enquirer Printing Co. records, 1950s-1970s
The Messenger: World's Greatest Negro Monthly, 1925-1928
Witkowsky family papers, 1840-1942
First Presbyterian Church records, 2000-2009
John High postcards, ca. 1890s-1910s
William Park Civil War diary, 1861-1864
Game of the star-spangled banner, 1837-1845
Harris-MacLean family papers, ca. 1880-1940
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Maps
Letters & diaries
Photographs
Postcards
Audio
Broadsides
Books to 1800
Videos
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
Women's rights
Cats
Bicycles
"I have found the human race..."
How's your cursive?
Marveling at monsters
Newberry Transcribe
Indigenous Chicago
Atlas of Historical County Boundaries
Digital Collections for the Classroom
Seeing Race Before Race
Postcard Tag
Mapping Movement
Midwest Time Machine
Chicago Ancestors