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Title Newberry Library, Chicago

Creator Tassin, Pepe

Date 1906

Subjects Newberry Library

Summary One of fifty-four postcards including many duplicates, of views of the Newberry Library in Chicago, some without message and most written before 1915. Cards were written by both Chicago residents and visitors. Most were published by Chicago publishers, but also by firms in New York, Milwaukee, and San Francisco, and many were printed in Germany, sometimes with embellishment or extra coloring added. No messages refer to actually visiting the library, and as one correspondent says, "...still collecting souvenir postals," and another writes: "This is the library I have mentioned several times. It is just two blocks from my boarding house." There are the usual abbreviated postcard greetings: "Great place," "Some town," "A kiss from Alma," "I miss you very much," as well as the amusing 1906: "We arrived safe in Chicago...nothing unusual has happened found we had an extra satchel with nothing in it...."

Biographical/Historical Note Chicago's Newberry Library, open to the public without charge, is an independent research library dedicated to the advance of knowledge, especially in the humanities. The Library was founded as a public library by a bequest of Walter Loomis Newberry, a businessman, prominent citizen, founder of the Young Men's Library Association, active book collector, and president of the Chicago Historical Society before his death in 1868. After three temporary locations, in 1893 the Library moved into architect Henry Ives Cobb's Romanesque building at 60 W. Walton Street, across from Washington Square Park.

Format Postcards

Archival Collection Title Newberry Library postcard collection

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Call Number Midwest MS NL

BibID 847970

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 3504px × 2301px 23.10 MB

Filename 998479708805867_NL_postcard_coll_box_00001_fol_00008_02_01.tif

Unique Identifier NL11G5CU