Group photographs, 1915-[ongoing].

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Group photographs, 1915-[ongoing].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28305489

Group photographs (prints and negatives) primarily of Newberry staff members.

.5 cubic ft. (1 box, 2 framed photographs)

Newberry Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7256846

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...