Papers, 1948-1989 (bulk 1962-1986).

Newberry Library

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The Newberry was founded on July 1, 1887 and opened for business on September 6 of that year. The Newberry’s establishment came about because of a contingent provision in the will of Chicago businessman Walter L. Newberry (1804-68), which left what later amounted to approximately $2.2 million for the foundation of a “free, public” library on the north side of the Chicago River, if his two children died without issue. After the deaths of Mr. Newberry’s daughters and then, in 1885, of his widow, t...

Newberry Library. Office of the President and Librarian.

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Director and Librarian (later President and Librarian) L. W. Towner initiated the preparation of organizational charts for insertion in the annual report. Charts were also issued irregularly to document major administrative and organizational changes. From the description of Organizational charts, 1964-[ongoing] (Newberry Library). WorldCat record id: 26521516 Reports in this format were begun by Lawrence W. Towner when he was appointed ...

Cappon, Lester Jesse, 1900-1981

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Lester Jesse Cappon (1900-1981) was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the son of Jesse Cappon and Mary E. Geisinger Cappon. He studied music, earning a diploma from the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music in 1920, but was also interested in history and earned degrees at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and at Harvard University, acquiring a Ph.D. in 1928. In 1925, Cappon went to the University of Virginia, where he worked on editions of Virginia historical publications and newspapers funded by the...

Pargellis, Stanley McCrory, 1898-

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Fifth Librarian of the Newberry Library, 1942-1962, and historian. Born in 1898 in Toledo, Ohio, and educated at the University of Nevada, Oxford (Rhodes Scholar), and Yale, Pargellis taught history at Cal Tech, Yale, and Scripps before becoming Librarian of the Newberry in Chicago. Under Pargellis, the Library assumed the outlines of its modern shape. The collection grew markedly through gifts (Graff, Greenlee) and enlarged acquisitions - rarities in the humanities, Mid...

Strauss, Herbert L.

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Towner, Lawrence W. (Lawrence William), 1921-1992

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Sixth Librarian of the Newberry Library, 1962-1986, and historian. Born Sept. 10, 1921, in St. Paul, Minn., educated at Cornell College (B.A.) and Northwestern (M.A., Ph. D.), Towner served in the U.S. Army Air Corps (WWII), taught at the Latin School of Chicago, Northwestern and MIT and edited the William and Mary Quarterly (1956-1962), before coming to the Newberry in 1962. The Newberry expanded significantly under Towner. He acquired important collections (Silver, Sac...

Hambleton, Chalkley Jay, 1912-1997.

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Nebenzahl, Kenneth, 1927-

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Billington, Ray Allen, 1903-1981

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Historian; teacher of American history at Clark University, Smith College, and Northwestern University; research associate at the Henry E. Huntington Library; author of Westward Expansion (1949) and Frederick Jackson Turner (1973). From the description of Ray Allen Billington papers relating to the fourth edition of Westward expansion, 1967-ca. 1974. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80908689 From the description of Ray Allen Billington papers relating to the fourth edition of ...

Independent Research Libraries Association (U.S.)

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Silver, Louis H.

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American Historical Association

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Smith, Hermon Dunlap, 1900-....

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Hermon Dunlap Smith was at various times the president of the Newberry Library, the Chicago Historical Society, the Adler Planetarium, the Welfare Council of Metropolitan Chicago, the Illinois Children and Home Aid Society, the Community Fund of Chicago, and the Adlai Stevenson Institute of International Affairs at the University of Chicago. Mr. Smith died in 1983. From the description of Herman Dunlap Smith papers, 1945-1999 & undated. (Chicago History Museum). WorldCat record i...

Donnelley, Gaylord

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Cowley, Malcolm, 1898-1989

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American editor and writer. From the description of Letter to Matthew Bruccoli [manuscript], 1975 December 30. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647812058 From the description of Papers of Malcolm Cowley [manuscript], 1969. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647810601 From the description of Papers of Malcolm Cowley [manuscript], 1936-1955. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647874698 Malcolm Cowley was an influential liter...

Organization of American Historians. Meeting

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Newberry Library Associates

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Center for Renaissance Studies.

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D'Arcy McNickle Center for the History of the American Indian

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Photographic exhibition held July 22-Sept. 21, 1985, at the Newberry Library's Hermon Dunlap Smith Gallery, as part of the Chicago American Indian photography project, which aimed to document the American Indian Community in Chicago by creating an archive of photographs taken by interested community members. Exhibition photographers included Dan Battise, Ben Bearskin, Orlando Cabanban, Joe Kazumura, F. Peter Weil, and Leroy Wesaw. From the description of Seei...

Graff, Everett D. (Everett Dwight), 1885-1964

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Chicago steel company executive, philanthropist, Western Americana book collector and Newberry Library President of the Board of Trustees, 1953-1964. Under Graff's leadership, the Newberry Library modernized its facilities and refined its collecting policies. In 1960, Graff bequeathed his Western Americana books, pamphlets, manuscripts and maps, which he had acquired over a fifty year period, to the Newberry Library. Graff was also active in numerous library associations...

Ruggles, Rudy Lamont

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Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography.

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Dr. William M. Scholl Center for Family and Community History

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Haffner, Charles.

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Caxton club

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Founded in Chicago in 1895 for the "literary study and promotion of the arts pertaining to the production of books." Toward this end the Club arranhes lectures and exhibits and occassionally publishes books. From the original membership of fifteen, the Club has grown to several hundred members. From the description of Caxton Club papers, 1923-1930. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122445287 The Caxton Club was founded in 1895 by collectors, publishers, designers, and librarian...