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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Tall tale postcards, early 20th c.
Color Our Collections: Novacco Maps
Franco Novacco map collection, 16th-17th c.
Frances Wells Shaw travel brochures, 1910-1937
The Newberry is for everyone, 2024
World's Fair postcards, 1876-1986
Pullman porter employee records [Chicago-based], early to mid-20th c.
Cosmography, astrology & geography textbook, circa 1425
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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
The Queens of Handwriting
Babies in blimps
Chicago Socialist history: May Walden letters
Seeing Race Before Race
Digital Collections for the Classroom
Postcard Tag
Mapping Movement
Midwest Time Machine
Chicago Ancestors
Foreign Language Press Survey
Atlas of Historical County Boundaries
Digital Collections