Events photographs, 1929-[ongoing]

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Events photographs, 1929-[ongoing]

Includes prints, photonegatives, and slides documenting Library events, primarily from 1962 to the present.

.5 cubic ft. (1 box)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7256849

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...

Newberry Library Associates

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