Letter and catalog, [1884]-1893.

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...

Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library)

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Ayer, Edward Everett, 1841-1927

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Edward Everett Ayer (Nov. 16, 1841 -- May 3, 1927), businessman, bibiliophile and collector. In 1860 he joined an overland expedition to California. He stopped in Nevada, where he worked at a quarz mill in Silver City, but soon moved on to San Francisco. He remained there, working at a planing mill, until the outbread of the Civil War. He enlisted in the 1st Regiment of California Cavalry Volunteers, and was later transferred to the 1st Regiment of New Mexico Infantry. Ayer served in many posts ...

Keam, Thomas V.

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Stephen, Alexander MacGregor, -1894

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Scottish mining prospector trained in metallurgy at the University of Edinburgh, who between 1880 and his death in 1894 lived with or near Hopi Indian trader Thomas V. Keam and studied Hopi civilization. In 1884 Stephen compiled a catalog of the ceramics in Keam's collection of Hopi artifacts. He later served as field director to the Second Hemenway Expedition to the American Southwest, which from 1890 to 1894 investigated the folklore and customs of the Hopi Indians and which in 1892 purchased ...

Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology.

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