Newberry Library postcard collection, 1898-1945, bulk 1898-1915.

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Newberry Library postcard collection, 1898-1945, bulk 1898-1915.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/758094632

Fifty-four postcards including many duplicates, of views of the Newberry Library in Chicago, some without message and most written before 1915.

0.2 linear feet (1 box)

Newberry Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8144855

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...

Midwest manuscript Collection (Newberry Library)

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Tassin, Pepe.

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Chicago's Newberry Library, open to the public without charge, is an independent research library dedicated to the advance of knowledge, especially in the humanities. The Library was founded as a public library by a bequest of Walter Loomis Newberry, a businessman, prominent citizen, founder of the Young Men's Library Association, active book collector, and president of the Chicago Historical Society before his death in 1868. After three temporary locations, in 1893 the ...