People photographs, 1861-[ongoing].

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People photographs, 1861-[ongoing].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28305471

Includes prints, cabinet photos, negatives and slides of Library trustees and staff as well as other individuals associated with the institution from its founding.

4 cubic ft. (4 boxes, 1 v., 2 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...