Temporary library building records, 1889-1890.

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Temporary library building records, 1889-1890.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28449506

Includes building firm contracts and statements, Newberry Library estate trustee correspondence with architect Henry Ives Cobb, and trustee statements of account.

.5 cubic ft. (1 box)

Newberry Library

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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...

Bradley, William, 1816-1900

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Blatchford, E. W. 1826-1914.

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Cobb, Henry Ives, 1859-1931

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