Photographs, 1861-[ongoing] (bulk 1890-[ongoing]).

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Photographs, 1861-[ongoing] (bulk 1890-[ongoing]).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28305430

Includes prints, negatives, and slides recording the Library's staff and trustees, construction and renovations, events, and other activities from the Library's founding to the present day.

17 cubic ft. (29 boxes, 2 volumes, 16 framed photographs)

Newberry Library

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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...