Administrative Curator's administrative files, 1931-[ongoing]

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. Special Collections Section.

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From 1945 until her retirement in 1969, Amy Wood Nyholm served as cataloguer and research librarian for the Newberry's Modern Manuscripts, later Midwest Manuscripts Collection. Nyholm was hired in 1945 to catalogue manuscript collections newly acquired for the Library by Lloyd Lewis as a result of Librarian Stanley Pargellis' decision to collect personal papers and archives complementing the Library's research strengths (particularly those relating to Chicago and the Mid...

Newberry Library. Reader Services Dept.

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In 1916 the Public Services (Reference) Division was created consisting of the Main Reading Room, Department of History and Genealogy, Edward E. Ayer Collection, and Exhibition Room. Between 1916 and 1961 five librarians administered the Division: Gerald M. W. Teyen (1916-1919), William S. Merrill (1919-1928), Edwin E. Willoughby (1929-1930), John T. Windle (1931-1948), and Ben C. Bowman (1949-1962). In 1962 the Division of Public Services was disbanded and the head of e...

Sheehy, Carolyn A.

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Tedeschi, John A., 1931-....

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Lowman, Matthias P.

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Donaldson, Jean

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Karrow, Robert W.

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Robert William Karrow, Jr. was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 5 August 1945, and educated in the public schools of Hartland, Wisconsin. He received the B.S. degree from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 1968 and the M.S.L.S. degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1971. Since July 1971, he has been employed at the Newberry Library, first as Map Cataloger, from 1975 as Curator of Maps, and, from 1989, as Curator of Special Collections. He is the author of...

Storm, Colton, 1908-1988

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Author. From the description of A little dinner for Lincoln : typescript and published article, 1947. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980900 ...