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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Letters & Diaries
Postcards
Photographs
Ayer Collection: American Indian & Indigenous Peoples
Maps
Graff Collection: U.S. Western Expansion
French Political Pamphlets
Audio
Videos
Stopp collection of Fraktur birth certificates
Railroads
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Newberry Transcribe
Help historians by making handwritten letters and diaries easier to find, use, and search
Midwest Time Machine
Travel to the past with highlights from our favorite manuscripts -- transcribed by users like you
Digital Collections for the Classroom
Prepare a lesson or research a topic using primary sources from the Newberry's collections
Italian Paleography
Teach yourself to read 14th-16th c. Italian manuscripts, and learn about their social and cultural histories
Digital Collections
