Fall 2015 No. 5

Fall 2015, Issue 5

Wonderland Revisited The Fall 2015 issue of The Newberry Magazine opens with a thorough accounting of the substantial legacy of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Although the story’s publication was not without controversy (Lewis Carroll insisted Macmillan cancel the initial print run owing to the poor quality of the printing), we can say definitively that this year marks the 150th anniversary of the public’s introduction to the beloved tale. We can also say that the Newberry serves as a marvelous laboratory for exploring the many ways in which Alice has captured the imaginations of not just successive authors and illustrators but also playwrights, composers, and even railroad companies. From our copy of the first, recalled edition that affronted Carroll to a jigsaw puzzle version of the book released in the year 2000, the Newberry’s collection allows visitors to go “down the rabbit hole” of the myriad manifestations of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

After looking back on a literary legacy, we look forward to the launch of Explore Chicago Collections (ECC), a web-based search engine that promises to guide scholars, genealogy researchers, teachers, and graduate, undergraduate, and K-12 students through the wonderland of Chicago’s primary historical sources. The website is the f lagship project of Chicago Collections, a consortium of area cultural institutions with materials illuminating the social, cultural, and political history of the city. Through either customized searches or suggested subject terms, the ECC portal offers free access to information on—and, in some cases, digital versions of—the archival photographs, maps, letters, and ephemera belonging to consortium members: Chicago History Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Newberry, and several university libraries to name a few. Chicago Collections represents a city-wide collaborative arrangement that is unprecedented in scale, even as the ECC website advances our and other institutions’ long-held commitment to preserving original historical documents and making possible their use among scholars and the public.

There have been important staff developments at the Newberry as well. This summer, we welcomed three new members of our senior-staff team: D. Bradford Hunt as Vice President for Research and Academic Programs, Katy Hall as Vice President for Development, and Alice Schreyer as Roger and Julie Baskes Vice President for Collections and Library Services.

Included in these pages are short interviews introducing you to them, and revealing their aspirations as newly arrived Newberrians.

We hope you enjoy reading this issue of The Newberry Magazine and, as always, we thank you for your support of the Newberry.

David Spadafora, President and Librarian

MAGAZINE STAFF EDITOR Alex Teller DESIGNER Andrea Villasenor PHOTOGRAPHER Catherine Gass The Newberry Magazine is published semiannually by the Newberry’s Office of Communications and Marketing. Articles in the magazine address major archiving projects, digital initiatives, and exhibitions; the scholarship of fellows and Newberry staff; and the signature items and hidden gems of the collection. Every other issue contains the annual report for the most recently concluded fiscal year. A subscription to The Newberry Magazine is a benefit of membership in the Newberry Associates. To become a member, contact Vince Firpo at firpov@newberry.org.

Unless otherwise credited, all images are derived from items in the Newberry collection or from events held at the Newberry, and have been provided by the Newberry’s Digital Imaging Services Office.

Cover image: A puzzle from The Alice in Wonderland Jigsaw Book. Published

by Phyllis Fogelman Books, 2000.

Newberry call number Wing folio PR4611 .A72 2000.

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Contents FEATURES

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The Rabbit Hole

By Alex Teller In the 150th anniversary year of Alice in Wonderland’s publication, Newberry collection items demonstrate the book’s cultural impact over time.

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Vice Presidential The newest members of the Newberry’s senior-staff team discuss their paths to the library and their Newberry aspirations.

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Big Shoulders

By Alex Teller Explore Chicago Collections, a web-based search engine, launches this fall, giving users unprecedented access to primary sources in Chicago archives

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DEPARTMENTS Dear Walter

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EXHIBITING: Stagestruck City

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RETROSPECT: Recent Events

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PROSPECT: Upcoming Events

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ANNUAL REPORT

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Mission Statement

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Letter from the Chair and the President

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Continuing Education

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Research and Academic Programs

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Honor Roll of Donors

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Board of Trustees and Volunteer Committees

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Staff

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Financials

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Dear Walter

Walter L. Newberry exploits a rift in the space-time continuum to respond to friends of the library.

Follow the blog at www.newberry.org/dear-walter; submit a query to dearwalter@newberry.org.

Dear Walter, what are your thoughts on tiny, miniature books?

Illustration by Tom Bachtell

— Somerset Ericsson, Dixville Notch, NH

Miniature books, no doubt, have their Origin in a most rational Impulse: the desire for, and the concomitant Pursuit of, Convenience. Indeed, such a desire governs every element of our Lives; we demand the expeditious fulfillment of an expansive range of Biological and Cultural satisfaction, from the animal urge for Sustenance to our routine ablutions ensuring a salubriousness of Body and a purity of Soul. Why should Reading differ?

I am well-apprised of the scarcity of resources which allow one the Luxury of large, handsomely bound Volumes—to say nothing of a private library in which to display them. A great multitude of us are, as they say, “ON THE MOVE.” Have you ever undertaken the perusal of a Folio while in transit by carriage? No? Well, it is an Exercise more physical than intellectual! To shift and rearrange the Tome in response to the interminable Jostling of wheels against cobblestone is to bear the Burden of Atlas.

Thus, as the printing industry matured, there emerged a demand for smaller volumes suitable for Travel. Publishers, rational Actors in a burgeoning Market, met demand with supply. An innovation was born from the exigencies of Daily Life: Ah, the balletic intertwining of the forces of the market!

Over time, however, a vogue developed for ever more diminutive books. The production of miniature books fell prey to Man’s fascination with the superlative; it succumbed to his Search for the Sublime in the smallest perceivable dimensions of human apprehension. And so, with the nineteenth and early twentieth Centuries, miniatures proliferated as keepsakes, novelty objects the size of a thumbnail intended to convey something of the Ingenuity of the Printer rather than the content of the story. (You may have divined my preference for reserving the magnifying glass for the fine print of my stock certificates and Real Estate contracts.)

The Newberry’s collection contains quite a few examples of such miniature books. As I page them to the Special Collections Reading Room, feelings commensurate with the care I must take in handling them bubble up within me. Surely, these darling objects have their place in printing history and, increasingly, my Heart.

This “f inger calendar” was printed in Pressburg (present-day Bratislava) in 1799.

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The Rabbit Hole

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland turns 150 this year. The Newberry’s collection has a lot to say about how Wonderland has been reinvented and repurposed over time.

By Alex Teller

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iterary anniversaries almost always celebrate publication, the moment when a work of literature entered the marketplace and first became available to the public. Stories that are internationally beloved, however, tend to have many anniversaries because readers demand as many opportunities as possible to shower them with praise and because the stages of artistic creation—in addition to the creation itself—are so well documented and mythologized. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is one of these stories.

For fans of Alice, there’s no shortage of occasions to celebrate the Cheshire Cat’s vanishing smile, the Mock Turtle’s lament, and the empty death sentences dispensed by the Queen of Hearts. You can acknowledge the anniversary of the day Lewis Carroll (the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) regaled Alice Liddell and her sisters with the tale ( July 4, 1862).

You can recognize the anniversary of Carroll’s completion of the text (February 10, 1863). You can even trace the origins of Alice all the way back to the birth of its author (January 27, 1832), as G. K. Chesterton preferred. Writing in the New York Times in January 1932, Chesterton declared that “the centenary of the birth of Lewis Carroll is really the celebration of the birth of Alice in Wonderland.”

If you define literary birth more conventionally, 2015 is a big year. It marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of Alice. But with its translation into dozens of languages and its adaptation into a variety of formats, from children’s picture books to musical scores, Alice has experienced a number of distinct “births.” The Newberry offers plenty of opportunities to go down the rabbit hole of Alice references, allusions, and interpretations. Its collection contains rare materials documenting the story’s publication history as well as striking examples of how it has been reimagined, repurposed, and reinvented over the years.

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An enlarged Alice startles the White Rabbit in his home. This pen-and-ink drawing by illustrator John Tenniel is one of f ive accompanying the Newberry’s copy of the recalled f irst issue of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

t’s impossible to refer to a “first edition” of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland; instead, one must use a series of qualifiers, established by Carroll scholars, to distinguish between early editions of the book. This is because the original print run of 2,000 copies was never published, in the sense of being released for sale to the public, by Carroll’s publisher, Macmillan of London.

Illustrator John Tenniel disapproved of the quality of the images, and so Carroll demanded that Macmillan destroy the sheets for the book. He even asked his friends (including Alice herself ) to return the bound advanced copies he had sent them as gifts. Carroll managed to retrieve most but not all of these volumes, and a handful can still be found today. According to

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were capable of bringing on not just a little mental fatigue but an all-consuming Weltschmerz. The book’s illustration serves Carroll’s text more faithfully, ref lecting Alice’s bitter frustration with the nonsense of those around her: she clutches the arm of the chair and directs her stare much more pointedly at the hatter.

It appears that Tenniel objected not to the work of the engraver but to the work of the printer. However, it’s hard to say what, exactly, he found abhorrent enough to halt publication. Carroll himself does not provide much insight on the matter. He matter-of-factly states in the July 19, 1865, entry of his diary, “heard from Tenniel, who is dissatisfied with the printing of the pictures.”

In any event, Macmillan released a new edition in December (now known as the “second [first published] edition”) and sold the remaining sheets of the original printing to D. Appleton and Co. of New York, who distributed their copies of Alice as two distinct issues.

A British scholar had extemporaneously woven a whimsical tale for his traveling companions during a boat trip outside Oxford three years earlier. Now it was circulating in print and on its way to becoming a widely cherished story. Macmillan issued subsequent editions in response to the popularity of Alice.

With the expiration of the book’s British copyright in 1907, further published iterations really began to proliferate.

R The engravings that appeared in Macmillan’s first printing of Alice occasionally depart in striking ways from John Tenniel’s original drawings. For example, in Tenniel’s drawing of the mad tea party (top), Alice’s expression is one of defeat; in the engraving, it is one of anger. This difference would reappear in subsequent editions of the book.

the precise classification system for identifying Alice editions, they represent the “first (recalled) issue of the first edition.” The Newberry’s copy came to the library as part of its 1964 en bloc acquisition of the Louis H. Silver Collection, which also included a Don Quixote first edition and a Shakespeare First Folio.

Accompanying the Newberry’s recalled first edition are five of Tenniel’s pen-and-ink drawings “The drawings would have been used as a model for the engravings for the final work,” says Jill Gage, reference librarian and bibliographer of British history and literature at the Newberry. Tenniel’s work was engraved on wood by the Dalziel Brothers, who ran one of the most respected wood-engraving workshops of the time, so it was in good hands.

Leafing through the edition, it’s clear the engravers translated Tenniel’s sketches well, in some cases even improving them. Such improvement can be seen in the evolution of Alice’s expression during the mad tea party. In Tenniel’s drawing, Alice slouches in her seat, and her gaze drifts into space; she looks exhausted and defeated, as if the Mad Hatter’s answerless riddles 4

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ef lecting on Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland at different points in the twentieth century, Chesterton and W. H. Auden both grappled with the canonization of the story. For Chesterton, Alice was a joyous outpouring of absurdity, and the reverence with which it was regarded across British society distorted the unique contribution Carroll had made. “Many of its original merits as a fantasia have been missed by this heavy-handed applause,” Chesterton wrote. Alice grew out of a principle of “nonsense for nonsense’s sake,” and to imbue it with meaning was to transform it beyond recognition.

Auden found plenty of meaning in the story. He just didn’t believe the values encoded in Alice’s vexed relationship with Wonderland were universal. In Auden’s opinion, laid out in a July 1962 New York Times article published for the 100th anniversary of Carroll’s storytelling boat ride, there was an especially perplexing dissonance in the degree to which Alice had permeated American culture. The dissonance, according to Auden, derived from the differences between the character of Alice and the typical American protagonist.

In Wonderland, Alice runs into a series of eccentric characters whose behavior continually offends her. (Interestingly, Alice handles the extreme f luctuations in her size in Wonderland with relative aplomb.) Wordplay derails conversations, social interactions rarely follow any perceivable etiquette, and riddles are asked and allowed to remain in a state of incompletion

without answers. All of this leads to Alice’s yearning for the rules and conventions that govern the world she’s left behind. During the chaotic croquet game with the Queen of Hearts and her party, Alice complains to the Cheshire Cat, telling it, “ ‘They all quarrel so dreadfully one can’t hear oneself speak— and they don’t seem to have any rules in particular; at least, if there are, nobody attends to them.’ ” In contrast to Alice is what Auden adduced as the archetypal American hero, a (usually male) character “whose virtue lies in his freedom from conventional ways of thinking and acting: all social habits, from manners to creeds, are regarded as false or hypocritical or both….Alice, surely, must come to the average American as a shock.”

While American literature has since become much more diverse and accepting of a wider range of heroic virtues, Auden’s assessment is a product of his mid-century vantage point. Characters such as Holden Caulfield and Rabbit Angstrom, who regard social convention as an existential threat, dominated American literature of the time. And yet Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, featuring a female protagonist who desires social order and the companionship of her cat

above all else, managed to captivate American readers with as much resonance as had Catcher in the Rye. If we accept Auden’s notion that, based on patterns in American literature, Alice must have come as a “shock” to the “average American,” how did her story become so firmly rooted in American culture?

One possible answer is that, historically, Americans have absorbed Alice and made it their own by embracing the concept of Wonderland as much as by identifying with the character of Alice.

“The year of the publication of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, 1865, was also the year the United States was coming out of the Civil War,” says Gage. “You could say that the abolition of slavery and the unprecedented scale of the war led many Americans to believe they had entered a kind of Wonderland. This may explain the book’s initial popularity in the United States.”

For a country whose national identity was rooted in territorial expansion and the purportedly boundless possibilities of western settlement, “Wonderland” also became a popular device for characterizing the American landscape.

One map from the Newberry’s collection demonstrates in no uncertain terms this relationship between Wonderland and the American frontier. It is a map of Yellowstone National Park accompanied by a brochure describing “Alice’s Adventures in the New Wonderland.” Issued by the Northern Pacific Railroad in 1884 to promote tourism, the brochure, in its elaborate rhetorical presentation, ref lects how the railroads marketed themselves during the nineteenth century and well into the twentieth. The brochure’s cover portrays Alice in contemporary travel clothing, and its contents consist of the fictional correspondence between Alice Liddell and her cousin back in England. Alice’s “letter” opens,

This brochure, issued by the Northern Pacific Railroad Company in 1884 to promote tourism to Yellowstone National Park, drew on the concept of Wonderland to describe the singular physical characteristics of the American frontier.

My Dearest Edith: When Mr. Carroll wrote that funny book about one of my childish dreams, I little thought the time would ever come when I should sit down to describe scenes and incidents in my actual experience every bit as strange and bewildering. Yet, so it is. I am here in a place which, singularly enough, they call Wonderland. Not that that title is by any means inappropriate, for the place is, indeed, a land of wonders; but the coincidence, at least, is somewhat remarkable, for you know what the associations of that word “Wonderland” are to me. Well, here I am, rubbing my eyes every day, to be sure that I am not either in a dream or in a new world.

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Even as “Alice” describes the Yellowstone attractions like Old Faithful and Mammoth Hot Springs in great detail, she admits to a fundamental inability to do the landscape justice.

According to Alice, the problem with distilling Yellowstone into words is its absolute lack of correspondence to anything else that might carry the meaning. “The easiest way to describe anything is to compare it to something else and then you can say how far it surpasses and in what respect it falls short of what you are comparing it with. But when there is nothing else like it in the world what are you to do?” You use Wonderland as a metaphor for the inexpressible, and as shorthand for a realm in which the boundaries between the possible and the impossible have completely eroded. As Carroll himself narrates early in Alice, “so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.”

The metaphorical use of Wonderland persisted over time. During the counterculture movement of the 1960s, for example, there emerged an obvious parallel between Alice’s prolific mushroom consumption and the drug-fueled path to enlightenment prescribed by the prevailing hippie doxa. The Jefferson Airplane’s song “White Rabbit” is one of the more famous examples of how the era embraced Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Some might argue that in filtering the effects of an acid trip through Alice’s encounters with the talking animals and various size-altering substances of Wonderland was nothing more than a heavy-handed way of evading censors and getting a subversive song on the radio. But in forging a connection between Wonderland and another dream-like state dissociated from physical space, Grace Slick and the Jefferson Airplane actually gave the symbols of Wonderland back some of their original import.

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ost stories do not end with the last word on the final page. A porous plane separates these tales from the world in which they are read and experienced. Their characters’ yearnings, desires, excitement, and boredom, through the author’s careful molding of diction, syntax, and structure, emerge within the reader herself. On rare occasions, the ideas and phenomena introduced in their pages actually materialize through the improbably fertile interactions among readers and other writers and artists inspired by the work.

For anyone considering Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland as both a work of fiction and a cultural force, the rabbit hole is not just the purgatorial netherworld that transports Alice to Wonderland. It is what we ourselves fall through when we apprehend the countless incarnations of the book since its 1865 publication.

Hundreds of illustrators have tackled the visual components of Alice; the book has been published in dozens of different languages; and it has been adapted into an array of formats, including plays, movies, musical scores, and public sculpture.

Paradoxically, all the cultural and generational values that have been projected onto Carroll’s story over the years reinforce — rather than diminish — the universal currents running through it.

For a 1972 edition of Alice, British illustrator Ralph Steadman represented the king and queen presiding over the case of the stolen tarts as a quasi-abstracted blob, their bodies fused together and spilling onto the court like a billowing cloud. Steadman’s illustration registers the optics of power in the late twentieth century: shapeless, diffuse, bureaucratic. His update of Carroll and Tenniel’s royals, strident embodiments of authority, is not a refutation, however. Power, after all, will always exist.

If Steadman’s Alice immerses the story in a particular historical moment, other versions have a special ability to immerse the reader in the story itself. Another Newberry item, added to the collection as one more link in the genealogy of Alice variants, does just this. It’s a jigsaw puzzle edition, published in 2000 and featuring select Wonderland episodes alongside puzzles of each. In piecing —literally— the scenes together, the reader effects the very order and control that Alice longs for but does not obtain until her final exclamation: “You’re nothing but a pack of cards!”

With those words, the spell of Wonderland is broken. The cards transmuted into falling leaves gently landing on Alice’s head, her dream recedes further and further with each passing minute along the banks of the river she wakes to. Meanwhile, we all continue dreaming.

Jill Gage discusses the enduring legacy of Alice in Wonderland: https://youtu.be/RqzgkSPYL50

For a 1972 edition of Alice, British illustrator Ralph Steadman depicted the King and Queen of Hearts to ref lect the optics of power in the late twentieth century: shapeless, diffuse, bureaucratic.

Illustration by Ralph Steadman. Copyright 1972 Ralph Steadman. www.ralphsteadman.com

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...Wonderland is a metaphor for the inexpressible, shorthand for a realm in which the boundaries between the possible and the impossible have completely eroded.

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Vice Presidential Meet the newest members of the Newberry senior-staff team Brad Hunt became the Newberry’s Vice President for Research and Academic Programs after spending 14 years at Roosevelt University, where he served in a variety of administrative capacities and as a professor of social science and history. A scholar of the history of public housing and city planning in Chicago, Hunt has published extensively on those subjects. He spoke with us about his scholarship, reading road atlases, and being transformed into a character for the stage.

NEWBERRY MAGAZINE: How did you arrive at urban planning as a field of study?

D. Bradford Hunt

BRAD HUNT: I would actually say I’m an urban historian and a planning historian, and also, for good measure, a policy historian. I’m interested in this question of how cities get developed— particularly in the twentieth century—and how they change. How did I arrive at this? As a child, I really enjoyed maps; I would sit at the breakfast table and read a road atlas the way most people would read the newspaper. By the time I turned 16 and could drive, I was able to get around and navigate with ease. I roamed around a lot, and I became fascinated with the way cities are organized. As I got older and went to college, I became interested in how cities evolved historically. A major problem in urban history is how societies have dealt with the “housing problem,” so I began studying public housing as a solution from a historical perspective.

NM: What is it about Chicago that offers unique material to you as a scholar?

BH: The implosion of public housing in Chicago has been arguably more spectacular here than anywhere else. There’s a massive story to be told regarding twentieth-century urban development and the human dimensions of public interventions, along with how race, class, and gender have factored into that relationship.

Chicago scholars have been leaders in urban history, and the city has been a great laboratory for investigating the planning decisions that led to the urban landscape we have today.

NM: I know not much time has elapsed since you joined the Newberry, but what are your goals as Vice President for Research and Academic Programs?

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BH: I’m thrilled to be at the Newberry because this is an institution with a foundation of excellence. As libraries and the humanities evolve with technological and social change, we can build on that foundation by continuing to support firstrate scholarship and to respond to the changing ways in which scholars perform research and produce their work. I’d also like to contribute to our institutional efforts to erode the traditional boundaries between scholars and the public. The Newberry can, and should, serve as a resource for people grappling with broad questions where the humanities can help, such as “what constitutes community?”

NM: This past spring, the American Theater Company produced The Project(s), which used interviews with residents of public housing, city officials, and you to explore the legacy of public housing in Chicago. What was it like to see a version of yourself on the stage?

BH: It was weird, but very rewarding. I had recently written an academic book on the subject, and, over the course of five or six long interviews, the play’s production team adapted my words into a character in The Project(s). They took a complex subject like Chicago public housing, distilled it into a two-hour performance, and made the audience grapple with it. I was amazed. The play was really an example of how the humanities can force deep ref lection on a difficult history. Perhaps the Newberry can partner with artists in a similar way in the future to bring other humanities perspectives to new audiences.

Katy Hall, the Newberry’s Vice President for Development, arrived at the library this summer with extensive professional experience supporting the fundraising efforts of a number of Chicago cultural institutions, such as the Steppenwolf Theatre Company and the Lyric Opera of Chicago.

She sat down with us recently to discuss her path to fundraising, her personal history with the Newberry, and the residual yearnings of a history major.

NEWBERRY MAGAZINE: How did you get into the f ield of development, based on your personal and academic background?

KATY HALL: In college, I was a history major with aspirations of becoming a professor. As I was working on my senior thesis, I realized that if I were in a profession that demanded that I “publish or perish,” I would perish.

The summer before I graduated, I had interned at a textile museum, where I discovered the field of arts administration.

This led me to enroll in an arts administration graduate program, which gave me exposure to fundraising. After grad school, I decided to follow fundraising as a career path after realizing how important it is to cultural institutions. There was a wonderful woman at Houston Grand Opera who told me, “If you ever want to lead a non-profit, you have to know how to ask for money.” So, I got into fundraising early and have never left.

NM: Looking at your recent professional experience, there’s a common performing arts theme: Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Steppenwolf Theatre, the Lyric. What attracted you to the Newberry after being so steeped in Chicago’s performing arts world?

KH: I originally came to the Newberry a few years ago to take one of the Adult Education Seminars, which was fascinating. Being a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution also brought me to the Newberry for genealogy meetings and events. And then I started volunteering for the Book Fair. Overall, I just really loved the Newberry and the role it plays in Chicago, serving as a repository not just for midwestern history but for European history and American Indian history as well. Having the opportunity to become part of an organization like the Newberry doesn’t come along every day. The beauty of being a fundraiser is that you can work for different institutions that stand for the things you’re passionate about, and the Newberry represents my passion for learning in the humanities.

NM: Do you feel like the Newberry gives you an outlet for the history major in you?

KH: I think so. It’s really funny: as I’ve told people about this new position, from college friends to family, everyone said, “That’s perfect for you!” They all recognized the Newberry is a good fit for me.

NM: Is there any kind of overlap between what you were interested in as a history student and what the Newberry has in the collections?

KH: As a history major, I didn’t specialize in any particular area. My thesis was on the trial of Joan of Arc, which ref lects my interest in military history and religious history.

Certainly, religious history is well-represented in the Newberry collections. If I want to explore that subject more, I’ve come to the right place.

Katy E. Hall

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Alice Schreyer recently swapped one type of research library for another: having served as the University of Chicago Library’s Associate University Librarian for Area Studies and Special Collections and Curator of Rare Books, she joined the Newberry in August as the Roger and Julie Baskes Vice President for Collections and Library Services. Alice recently shared her thoughts with us on transitioning to an independent research library, the “crisis in the humanities” discourse, and engaging new researchers.

Newberry’s public mission, the fact that our reading rooms are open to the general public.

NEWBERRY MAGAZINE: You’ve joined the Newberry after a number of years at the University of Chicago Library. What are the differences you expect to encounter at an independent research library without a university aff iliation?

AS: You can never do too much outreach. I know the Adult Education Seminars, exhibitions, and public tours bring people into the building who may become readers, and I plan to explore how Library Services can support these efforts. We also know that when people discover finding aids and digital content online that is of interest to them, they often come to use collections in person. It’s critical that we develop ways to engage users online so that they’re inspired to dig even deeper into the Newberry’s special collections and archives.

ALICE SCHREYER: In a university environment, a library and its staff focus first and foremost on the needs of the students and faculty. Moving to an institution with a much broader constituency is very exciting. Of course, the Newberry has its areas of collecting focus, in large part ref lected in the correspondence between the collection strengths and the four research centers. I see a lot of opportunity for developing those relationships and collaborations between Collections and Library Services and Research and Academic Programs. I’m also excited by the

There are certainly parallels between providing services to researchers and students at a university library and at the Newberry. Taking into account the needs of a broader set of users—in the creation of digital collections, for example—is a new responsibility that I am very much looking forward to.

NM: Speaking of a broad constituency, how do you envision helping the Newberry to encourage more people to use the collections?

NM: Do you have anything in particular in mind?

AS: One example comes to mind. While I was at the University of Chicago, we held a Wikipedia-thon, in which University of Chicago staff guided volunteer editors in updating and writing Wikipedia articles about women at the University, using library resources. This might be a concept for the Newberry to explore. Newberry curators could identify Wikipedia articles related to our collection strengths, and invite people to come into the library to enhance and improve them. This might provide us with an opportunity to reach new audiences and to introduce them to the collections.

NM: Over the last few years, a lot of ink has been spilled on the so-called “crisis in the humanities.” Is there a crisis? What can the Newberry do to promote and demonstrate the value of the humanities?

Alice Schreyer

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AS: I’d like to focus on your second question. I think the Newberry’s role should be to present and interpret the humanities in ways that demonstrate their value to society.

Our goal should be to ensure that our programs engage as wide an audience as possible in considerations of cultural understanding and what it means to be human, and to do so by drawing on our deep and comprehensive library collections.

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Stagestruck City The Newberry’s current exhibition, running through December 31, raises the curtain on Chicago’s theatrical past.

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espite changes in direction and location, the Goodman Theatre has endured for more than 90 years and is now an icon of a f lourishing and nationally recognized Chicago theater community. Stagestruck City: Chicago’s Theater Tradition and the Birth of the Goodman explores the Goodman’s founding within the context of a remarkable heritage of live performance and popular amusement in the city. The curtain opens to a treasure trove of Second City stage history drawn from the Newberry’s rich nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century collections.

Colorful posters, programs, play scripts, letters, drawings, photographs, and prints offer glimpses of the commercial theater world that thrived in Chicago’s pre-Fire Loop and reemerged even more grandly after the conf lagration.

Playing to enormous audiences in successively more imposing theatre palaces, local and touring companies presented a combination of vaudeville, burlesque, melodrama, musical comedy, and serious drama.

By the turn of the century, Chicago was a major theater center. Its big Loop stages featured national touring companies with American and European stars performing in hit shows from New York and London. Even though the lighter fare was sufficiently entertaining and the more dramatic offerings reliably elevating, discontent with the commercial theater scene was simmering. A growing number of playwrights, actors, and other theater professionals began to orient their work around the social, political, and economic issues of the modern urban environment.

Across the city of over 1.5 million inhabitants, there was demand for more and demand for better. Ethnic theater prospered; plays by Chicago writers made it big on local stages; “little theatres” offered non-commercial and experimental works performed by amateur actors; and motion pictures began to make inroads. The time was ripe for the Goodman Theatre experiment, the brainchild of Kenneth Sawyer Goodman.

Commercial theatres in Chicago in the late ninteenth and twentieth centuries appealed to a variety of tastes, offering vaudeville, burlesque, and dramatic productions— sometimes within the same program. Chicago print houses produced colorful posters and programs to promote the lively theater scene.

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Clockwise: Kenneth Sawyer Goodman, ca.

1917; detail from a 1927 Goodman Theatre program illustrating its affiliation with the Art Institute of Chicago; The Wonder Hat, a one-act play by Goodman and Ben Hecht produced in 1916 at the Chicago Little Theatre.

Goodman’s ideas for a Chicago repertory company, with a dramatic arts school comprising faculty made up of actors in the company, grew out of his experience in the little theatre movement that developed in the city during the early 1900s.

Active as a playwright, actor, scenery and costume designer, producer, and advocate for local little theatres, Goodman’s passion and creativity were seemingly boundless. Through a selection of family papers from the Newberry’s collection, Stagestruck City reveals the whimsy and imagination that characterized Goodman’s private life (in letters, he would address his wife as “Midgie Monksie Mowgalie Bear” and his daughter as “Tiny Monksie Mowgalie Bear”). Meanwhile, the various one-act plays he wrote (some in collaboration with Ben Hecht) and the professional relationships he formed attest to his success as an artist and supporter of the arts.

The little theatres in Chicago teemed with creative life, but they were transitory. Goodman devoted considerable thought to how these often short-lived amateur experiments could be sustained. When he died in the 1918 f lu-epidemic, the stage was set for his grieving parents to put his ideas into action.

Opening in 1925, The Kenneth Sawyer Goodman Memorial Theatre and School of Drama at the Art Institute of Chicago realized its namesake’s vision. It combined professional repertory with student instruction, and offered plays that fulfilled Goodman’s own motto: “To restore the old visions,and to win the new.”

Martha Briggs is Lloyd Lewis Curator of Modern Manuscripts at the Newberry.

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Stagestruck City: Chicago’s Theater Tradition and the Birth of the Goodman is organized by the Newberry Library with generous support from the Rosaline G. Cohn Endowment for Exhibitions and the Edith-Marie Appleton Foundation. The exhibition is open through December 31, 2015.

Martha Briggs discusses the early history of Chicago theater: https://youtu.be/wdFFbAJJyEw

The Newberry Annual Report 2014 – 15

Our Mission The Newberry Library, open to the public without charge, is an independent research library dedicated to the advancement and dissemination of knowledge, especially in the humanities.

The Newberry acquires and preserves a broad array of special collections research materials relating to the civilizations of Europe and the Americas. It promotes and provides for their effective use, fostering research, teaching, publication, and life-long learning, as well as civic engagement.

In service to its diverse community, the Newberry encourages intellectual pursuit in an atmosphere of free inquiry and sustains the highest standards of collection preservation, bibliographic access, and reader services.

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Letter from the Chair and the President

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he Newberry deserves to be known not only for its extraordinary collection but also for its equally exceptional staff. Numbering about 100, they daily pursue myriad assignments that make it possible for the collection to become known and used, and for the Newberry to serve as the meeting place, educational institution, cultural partner, and supporter of humanistic inquiry that it has long been. In some cases staff members spend most or all of their careers here. In other instances staff eventually go elsewhere, helping, as our “alumni,” to build other institutions with experience gained here.

For the fiscal year ended June 30, 2015, our most important news Chair of the Board of Trustees Victoria J. Herget and Newberry President David Spadafora concerns a set of staff changes at the senior level.

After an illustrious career, 26 years of which were spent here, Hjordis Halvorson retired as Roger and Julie Baskes Vice President for Library Services. Her nine years in that role saw many important projects completed, ranging from the installation of 13.5 miles of new shelving in the stack building to several major cataloging and finding aid projects. Michelle Miller Burns, Vice President for Development, departed to become the chief development officer of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, getting back to her deep musical roots. For more than eight years she guided our fundraising efforts, with dramatic improvement in the Annual Fund and the highly successful and comprehensive Campaign for Tomorrow’s Newberry.

In August, Hjordis was succeeded by Alice D. Schreyer, who comes to us after a distinguished quartercentury of special collection leadership at the University of Chicago Library. Her new title, Roger and Julie Baskes Vice President for Collections and Library Services, ref lects the merger of collection management and acquisition activities begun by Hjordis. Also in August, Katy E. Hall became Vice President for Development, arriving from the Lyric Opera of Chicago, where she was Director of Individual, Foundation, and Government Giving. From previous work at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Steppenwolf Theatre, she has much additional experience with corporate support for non-profit organizations.

Joining Katy and Alice on the Newberry’s Senior Staff is D. Bradford Hunt, our new Vice President for Research and Academic Programs. Brad was previously a professor of history and social science at Roosevelt University, where he also served as Vice Provost and as Dean of the Stone School of Professional Studies. An award-winning American historian, he concentrates on the history of urban policy, especially in Chicago.

Another departing Senior Staff member this past summer was Rachel Bohlmann, who for a decade successfully oversaw the growth of public programming at the Newberry. She has become American History Librarian at the University of Notre Dame. At this writing, planning for the leadership of public programming is underway but not complete. So, too, is a search for the directorship of the Center for Renaissance Studies, vacated by Carla Zecher, who, after 16 years at the center, has become the first fulltime Executive Director of the Renaissance Society of America.

Even in the midst of these important Senior Staff changes, the business of the institution went forward without missing a beat. With a down market, the institution’s investments were essentially f lat in their annual performance as of June 30, although three- and five-year returns remained strong at 8.6 and 9 percent, respectively. The draw on our investments for operating expenses amounted to only 4.3 percent, or some $2.5 million against total expenditures of $10.82 million. The remaining funds for operation came from grants, other restricted gifts, earned income, and, of course, the Annual Fund.

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In the case of the latter, more than $2 million was contributed altogether, just short of a record.

Compared with the previous year, Annual Fund donors increased by 6.7 percent to 1,586 overall and giving by non-Trustees by a remarkable 9 percent. Giving to the Society of Collectors, our acquisition support group, increased by 10 percent. Event fundraising also did well: the Book Fair reached its second-highest sales tally ever, $157,000, and the Annual Award Dinner, featuring biographer-historian Stacy Schiff, drew some 200 guests and yielded revenue of $225,000.

A growing use of our funds is for information technology and its applications, including the digital infrastructure that undergirds much of what we do. In 2014-15, we made three substantial digital investments.

First, the technology in the basement classrooms that house most of our seminars was upgraded substantially, to the great satisfaction of both instructors and students. Second, we increased the available Internet bandwidth for all staff and readers by a factor of 4.5. Third, technology became the word of the hour in our communications and marketing efforts, where increased use of digital advertising and social media such as Facebook and Twitter became a substantially larger component of what we do. Its deployment helps to explain growth in attendance at Newberry public programs last year, mentioned below.

At the heart of the Newberry is what goes on in the reading rooms and reference areas. For 2014-15 the news here was very good indeed. Registered readers increased by about 4 percent and total “reader days,” the standard measure of total readership, by 6.5 percent. The reference staff were also busy. Total requests for assistance (in-person, by telephone, and by letter or email) rose by 3.1 percent. Presentations made by Newberry librarians and curators to groups rose by a whopping 27.6 percent, to 222.

Measuring such activities will be easier in the future because of the implementation this past winter and spring of a new online circulation system, Aeon. Gone are paper registration forms and paging slips, which makes for efficiency and a more user-friendly experience. Aeon will also help us learn more than before about how our collection materials are used, and that in turn will permit us to tune our acquisitions more precisely to reader needs in the years ahead.

The pace of acquisitions and processing at the Newberry is high, as several statistics from last year illustrate.

Donors provided 2,466 new titles (4,351 volumes). Acquisition by purchase totaled $672,153, of which just over half was for “antiquarian” materials and the rest for current scholarship and reference purposes. The total of bibliographic records in our online catalog increased by 8 percent, to 938,485, with cataloging output growing from 7,638 titles the year before to 10,095 titles this year. Beyond published books, we acquired 543.5 linear feet of Modern Manuscripts material, and processed 36 collections totaling 233.3 linear feet.

Such statistics, important as they are, by themselves do not reveal the richness of the materials that entered last year. Here is a sampling: two large collections of maps and guidebooks, totaling 16,000 items, purchased with help from Trustees Sandy McNally and Barry MacLean and augmenting our vast holdings of highway maps by American publishers; a collection of 572 temperance pledges, closely allied to our existing riches in reform and Progressive Era materials; a large collection of circus posters given by Trustee Mark Hausberg and his wife, Meg, and fitting beautifully with the vast number of other circus items in our collection; nine works by the important mid-seventeenth-century French author Jean Desmarets de SaintSorlin— all printed on the private press of Cardinal Richelieu—bought with support from the Brooker and Weiss-Brown book funds; and an early nineteenth-century handwritten play by Jehiel Lillie titled “Philip, or, the Indian Chief,” about King Philip’s War in seventeenth-century New England, which was performed by cadets at the Norwich Military Academy in 1838 — and again at the Newberry during the winter of 2015.

The Newberry’s users of such materials include readers from the general public as well as many academic scholars. Among the latter, in 2014-15, 9 long-term fellows and 42 short-term fellows worked here with stipend support from the Newberry totaling $438,050. In addition, there were 42 Scholars-in-Residence from the area’s colleges and universities, and 10 visiting scholars from across the globe. This community of scholars also included 4 Graduate Scholars-in-Residence who were completing their PhD degrees, and 39 undergraduate “junior fellows” in residence who participated in the Associated Colleges of the Midwest fall seminar for the region’s liberal arts colleges or the Newberry Library Undergraduate Seminar for four Chicago-area universities.

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As always, the Newberry continued to operate other programs for graduate students, for the most part through our two consortia of universities sponsored by the Center for Renaissance Studies and the McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies. Those consortia members grew in number to 51 and 21, respectively. The Renaissance Center not only hosted a summer training institute in early modern paleography, which it has done for decades, but also worked on completing an online set of tools that will be available to anyone who wants to learn early modern French paleography. All four centers together sponsored many other programs, ranging from more than a dozen ongoing scholarly seminars that meet several times a year to the McNickle Center’s new Distinguished Lecture Series, inaugurated by Yale Professor Ned Blackhawk’s talk on the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864.

At the core of our continuing education efforts, the Adult Education Seminars Program drew a record 1,947 students to 149 courses. Among programs open to the public without charge, three Conversations at the Newberry were attended by a total of 460 people, who listened to discussions about Chicago as the Second City, the consumption of news today, and baseball writing. Other well-attended public programs included Open House Chicago, which in October brought 1,119 people to the Newberry for special tours, and four Saturday morning staged readings by the Shakespeare Project of Chicago, attended by 568 adults and children.

A pair of fall-term exhibitions marked the centennial of World War I. American Women Rebuilding France, on loan from the Franco-American Museum, Château de Blérancourt, examined the efforts of Anne Morgan and her associates to help the French in devastated Picardy. Paired with it was our own Chicago, Europe, and the Great War, which used a wide range of Newberry materials to explore the connections of Chicago and Chicagoans with France and Belgium during 1914-18. Almost 10,000 visitors toured these two shows. In the winter, Love on Paper highlighted a large collection of valentines assembled by Andrew McNally III as well as other materials “crowdsourced” from staff suggestions, focusing on the emotion of love. The spring saw our regular partnership show with the Chicago Calligraphy Collective; an exhibition remembering the late James Wells, pre-eminent rare bookman of the Newberry in the period 1950-85; and a showcasing of items from the vast holdings of ephemera in the Wing Collection, 30,000 of which are being cataloged at present.

The end of the fiscal year brought us a major $1.16 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which will be used to support large, multi-year projects on specific themes. One of the goals for this grant is to promote closer collaboration among the four centers and between the divisions of Research and Academic Programs and Library Services. Another goal is to find new, more effective ways of bringing scholarly findings to the educated public through programs accessible either in person or online, thereby bringing the Newberry to the forefront of work in the “public humanities.” Diane Dillon, newly named Director of Exhibitions and Major Projects, will be leading these endeavors, utilizing her own deep experience with the Newberry’s collection and its research and academic programs.

All of the efforts described above rest on the foundation of the collection and the work of the staff who make that collection accessible and help bring it to life. But none of this would be possible without you and your interest in and support of the Newberry. And so as we thank the staff for their splendid work in 2014-15 and look forward to the year ahead with new Senior Staff leaders, we also thank you for your commitment and generosity to the Newberry.

Victoria J. Herget, Chair of the Board of Trustees

David Spadafora, President and Librarian

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Continuing Education SUMMARY FOR FY 2014-15

PUBLIC PROGRAMS

Meet the Author series

Total participation: 9,694

Total attendance: 6,734

10 programs, 506 attendees

Teacher programs: 965

Number of programs: 48

Selected speakers: Margaret Garb, Michael Blanding, Ana Castillo, Stacey Robertson, Rick Fizdale, Tim Lacy

Seminars: 1,995 Public programs: 6,734

The Bughouse Square Debates

July 26, 2014 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS FOR TEACHERS

Total program enrollment: 965 Total program attendance: 797 Total number of seminars offered: 43 Digital Collections for the Classroom: 9 added Newberry Teacher’s Consortium:

38 seminars; 709 attended

Main Presentation: Don Washington, The Mayoral Tutorial John Peter Altgeld Freedom of Speech Award to journalists Mick Dumke and Ben Joravsky

Bughouse Square Debates Planning Committee: Rachel Bohlmann, Chair Anna Dozor Paul Durica Vince Firpo

The Shakespeare Project of Chicago series 4 programs, 568 attendees King Lear 50-minute Hamlet; 50-minute Romeo and Juliet Macbeth Thomas Middleton, The Revengers’ Tragedy Provided Assistance with McNickle Center Public Programs

Teachers as Scholars:

Meredith Foster

3 seminars; 32 attended

Taylor Horton

The D’Arcy McNickle Distinguished Lecture Series “John Evans and the Question of Genocide” Ned Blackhawk, Yale University

Kelly McGrath

November 4, 2014 (200 attendees)

History Channel Seminar Series:

Abby Ryder-Huth

2 seminars; 56 attended

Alex Teller

Stone Camryn History of Dance Lecture and Presentation “A Celebration of Indigenous Dance”

33 CPS schools

Conversations at the Newberry Series

November 13, 2014 (180 attendees)

10 Private schools

Neil Steinberg and Tom Dyja, on Chicago as the “Second City”

94 total schools

September 30, 2014 (attendance: 200)

Dennis Downes, Indigenous Navigations: Native American Trail Marker Trees, Cosponsored with the Herman Dunlap Smith Center and the Chicago Map Society

ADULT EDUCATION SEMINARS

Jack Fuller and Owen Youngman, “Front Page, Home Page and Beyond...”

51 Suburban (non-CPS)

Total seminar attendance: 1,947 Total number of classes offered: 149 Seminar subject areas:

Lester Munson and John Schulian, “Imperfect, Perfect Game: Baseball Writing in America”

Chicago Culture

April 13, 2015 (attendance: 190)

Philosophy and Religion History, Genealogy, and Social Science Literature and Theater Writing Workshops

openhouse C hicago weekend ( in collaboration with the

Chicago Architecture Foundation)

Saturday and Sunday, October 18-19, 2014 (attendance: 1,119)

Newberry staff who teach in the Seminars program:

World War I Exhibitions Program Series:

Diane Dillon

Music of the First World War

Lesa Dowd

October 30, 2014 (attendance: 147)

Grace Dumelle

Jane Addams, Peace, and Anti-War Activism

Ginger Frere

November 15, 2014 (attendance: 96)

Will Hansen

The Origins of Humanitarianism

Barbara Korbel

December 4, 2014 (attendance: 100)

Matt Rutherford

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February 19, 2015

December 2, 2014 (attendance: 70)

Arts, Music, and Language

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This year completes the department’s second organized as Continuing Education. We have seen a significant increase in public programs and adult education seminars attendance. This is a cumulative effect due to increased and more effective online and print advertising, as well as more streamlined registration processes for the adult education program. While Teacher Programs has not expanded in terms of absolute numbers, we have maintained the program’s size and quality, and have continued to grow the program’s online component, Digital Collections for the Classroom. The department’s focus and structure aligns these programs for the public more tightly with the library’s mission of learning and engagement with the humanities.

Research and Academic Programs 2014-15 LONG-TERM FELLOWS

2014-2015 SHORT-TERM FELLOWS

Lloyd Lewis Fellow in American History

Each fellow was awarded one month unless otherwise noted.

Linford Fisher, Assistant Professor of History, Brown University (6 months) Audrey Lumsden-Kouvel / Andrew W. Mellon / National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow

Walter Melion, Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Art History, Emory University (12 months) Andrew W. Mellon Foundation / Lloyd Lewis Fellow in American History

Karen Sánchez-Eppler, Professor of American Studies and English, Amherst College (7 months) Andrew W. Mellon Foundation / National Endowment for the Humanities Fellows

Rachel Galvin, Independent Scholar of Comparative Literature (12 months) Vivasvan Soni, Associate Professor of English, Northwestern University (12 months) Monticello College Foundation / Lloyd Lewis Fellow in American History

Kimberly Welch, Assistant Professor of History, West Virginia University (12 months) National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow

Lori Anne Ferrell, Professor of Early Modern History and Literature, Claremont Graduate University (6 months) National Endowment for the Humanities / Herzog August Bibliotheck Wolfenbüttel Fellow

Jessica Wolfe, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (6 months at the Newberry, 1 month at the HAB) Newberry Consortium in American Indian Studies Faculty Fellow

Daniel Usner, Holland N. McTyeire Professor of History, Vanderbilt University (6 months) FACULTY FELLOWS Associated Colleges of the Midwest Faculty Fellows

Bridget Draxler, Associate Professor of Psychology, Monmouth College

Lester J. Cappon Fellow in Documentary Editing

Francesco Lo Conte, Assistant Professor of Literature, Università degli Studi di Bergamo Charles Montgomery Gray Fellows

Samuel Brannon, PhD Candidate in Musicology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Duane Corpis, Senior Fellow, Central European University Institute for Advanced Study

Krista Walters, PhD Candidate in History, University of Manitoba (two months; not in residence) Newberry Library-American Musicological Society Fellow

Robert Ketterer, Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature, The University of Iowa Newberry Library-American Society for Environmental History Fellow

Joshua Jeffers, Instructor in History, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Angela Haas, Visiting Assistant Professor, Kenyon College

Newberry Library-École Nationale des Chartes Exchange Fellows

Antonio Ricci, Associate Professor of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, York University

To the Newberry Library:

Arthur and Janet Holzheimer Fellow in the History of Cartography

Jorge Macle Cruz, Researcher and Curator of Maps, National Archives of the Republic of Cuba Institute for the International Education of Students Faculty Fellows

Jérémie Ferrer-Bartomeu, PhD Candidate in History, École Nationale des Chartes To the École Nationale des Chartes:

Mindy LaTour O’Brien, PhD Candidate in Musicology, University of California, Los Angeles (not in residence) Newberry Library—Jack Miller Center Fellows

Laura Cervi, Lecturer, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona & IES Abroad Barcelona

Max Mishler, PhD Candidate in History, New York University (two months)

Paula Hrycyk, PhD Candidate in History, Universidad de Buenos Aires & IES Abroad Buenos Aires

Yevan Terrien, PhD Candidate in History, University of Pittsburgh (two months)

Lawrence Lipking Fellow

Newberry Library—Kress Foundation Fellows

Alanna Hickey, PhD Candidate in English, Northwestern University (one quarter)

Michela Cecconi, Independent Scholar of History, Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata

Midwest Modern Language Association Fellow

Elizabeth Savage, Research Associate, The John Rylands Research Institute

Justine Murison, Associate Professor of English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Newberry Library Short-Term Fellows

Newberry Consortium in American Indian Studies Faculty Fellow

Michael Bane, PhD Candidate in Musicology, Case Western Reserve University

Daniel Usner, Vanderbilt University

Katy Chiles, Assistant Professor of English, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Newberry Consortium in American Indian Studies Graduate Student Fellows

Amy Bergseth, PhD Candidate in History, The University of Oklahoma Elizabeth Ellis, PhD Candidate in History, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Hannah Schell, Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Monmouth College

Joshua Levy, PhD Candidate in History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (two months; not in residence)

Newberry Library Undergraduate Seminar Faculty Fellows

Dustin Mack, PhD Candidate in History, The University of Oklahoma

Priscilla Archibald, Assistant Professor of Spanish, Roosevelt University

Devon Miller, PhD Candidate in Anthropology, Michigan State University (not in residence)

Delia Cosentino, Associate Professor of the History of Art and Architecture, DePaul University

Rowan Steineker, PhD Candidate in History, The University of Oklahoma (not in residence)

Scott Libson, PhD Candidate in American History, Emory University Christopher Looby, Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles Erik McDuffie, Associate Professor of African American Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Ran Segev, PhD Candidate in Colonial Latin American History, The University of Texas at Austin Simone Testa, Postdoctoral Research Assistant, University of London Rishona Zimring, Associate Professor of English, Lewis & Clark College

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Research and Academic Programs Northeast Modern Language Association Fellow

Lucas Dietrich, PhD Candidate in English Literature, University of New Hampshire Renaissance Society of America Fellow

Erin Downey, PhD Candidate in Art History, Temple University Renaissance Studies Consortium Faculty Fellow

Cristina Gonzalez, Associate Professor of Latin American Art History, Oklahoma State University Renaissance Studies Consortium Graduate Student Fellow

Tomasz Grusiecki, PhD Candidate in Art History, McGill University Susan Kelly Power and Helen Hornbeck Tanner Fellow

Months of Short-Term Fellowship Funding: 46.5 months Fellowship Dollars Awarded, Short-Term: $101,250 Total Number of Fellows: 55 Total Number of Months Funded: 127.5 Total Fellowship Dollars Awarded: $438,050 2014-2015 SCHOLARS-IN-RESIDENCE

Anthony Di Lorenzo, PhD Candidate in History, Loyola University Chicago Robert Fulton, PhD Candidate in History, Northern Illinois University Jennifer Miller, PhD Candidate in History, West Virginia University

Sixteenth Century Society and Conference Fellow

Matthew Westerby, PhD Candidate in Art History, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of Illinois Fellows

Heather Kopelson, Assistant Professor of History, The University of Alabama Gillian O’Brien, Senior Lecturer in History, Liverpool John Moores University Arthur and Lila Weinberg Fellow

Jesse Tisch, Independent Scholar and Director of the Posen Foundation U.S. in New York City Weiss-Brown Publication Subvention Award

Julia Miller, Professor of Art History, California State University, Long Beach and Laurie TaylorMitchell, Independent Scholar of Art History 2014-2015 FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM STATISTICS

Long-Term Fellows: 9 fellows Months of Long-Term Fellowship Funding: 79 months Fellowship Dollars Awarded, Long-Term: $331,800 Faculty Fellows: 4 Months of Faculty Fellowship Funding: 2 months Fellowship Dollars Awarded, Faculty Fellows: $5,000 Short-Term Fellows: 42 fellows

Fall 2015

Mexico and Peru through Word and Image, 1492-1820 Faculty

Priscilla Archibald, Assistant Professor of Spanish, Roosevelt University Delia Cosentino, Associate Professor of the History of Art and Architecture, DePaul University 17 students OTHER RESEARCH AND ACADEMIC PROGRAM STATISTICS The Bosch Archival Seminar for Young Historians Wednesday, September 3 Presenters

James Akerman, Newberry Library Rachel Bohlmann, Newberry Library Diane Dillon, Newberry Library

Visiting Scholars: 10 for the 2014-15 academic year Scholars-in-Residence: 42 participants for the 2014-15 academic year

Kristin Emery, Newberry Library Will Hansen, Newberry Library Kelly Kress, Newberry Library Jennifer Thom, Newberry Library

UNDERGRADUATE SEMINARS Associated Colleges of the Midwest Seminars FALL 2014 Knowledge and Technology: From Socrates to the Digital Age Faculty

Bridget Draxler, Associate Professor of Psychology, Monmouth College Hannah Schell, Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Monmouth College 22 students

10 participants CONFERENCES AND SYMPOSIA Center for Renaissance Studies Symposium on Comparative Early Modern Legal History: Meanings of Justice in New World Empires, Settler and Indigenous Law as Counterpoints

October 10, 2014 Cosponsored with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign College of Law Organizers

WINTER/SPRING 2015

Brian Owensby, University of Virginia

Writing in the Discipline

Richard J. Ross, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Faculty

Purvi Mehta, Assistant Professor of History, Colorado College

Presenters

4 students

Stuart Banner, University of California, Los Angeles

Iberian Expansion Faculty

Peter Blasenheim, Professor of History, Colorado College 8 students

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Graduate Scholars-in-Residence

Tol Foster, Assistant Professor of English, Marquette University

Elizabeth Horodowich, Professor of History, New Mexico State University

Newberry Library Undergraduate Seminar

Gregory Ablavsky, University of Pennsylvania

Lauren Benton, New York University Sherwin Bryant, Northwestern University Bradley Dixon, University of Texas at Austin Alcira DueĂąas, Ohio State University

Research and Academic Programs Marcela Echeverri, Yale University Karen Graubart, University of Notre Dame

Jose Carlos de la Puente Luna, Texas State University

Tamar Herzog, Harvard University

Renzo Honores, High Point University

Diana Robin, University of New Mexico, emerita

Fred Hoxie, University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign

Jaime Lara, Arizona State University

Carla Zecher, Newberry Library

Laura Matthew, Marquette University

22 participants

Emilio Kouri, University of Chicago

Kelly McDonough, University of Texas at Austin

Karen Kupperman, New York University

Dale Shuger, Tulane University

Robert Morrissey, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Pablo Sierra, University of Rochester

Bianca Premo, Florida International University

Lisa Voigt, Ohio State University

Jill Gage, Newberry Library

Dante Lecture

Cosponsored with the Devers Program in Dante Studies at the University of Notre Dame and the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago 46 participants

Dr. William M. Scholl Center for American History and Culture

Eighteenth-Century Seminar

Labor History Seminar Book Symposium

Coordinators

October 18, 2014

Timothy Campbell, University of Chicago Lisa Freeman, University of Illinois at Chicago

Karen Christianson, Newberry Library

Cosponsored by the history departments of DePaul University, Northern Illinois University, Northwestern University, Roosevelt University, the University of Illinois at Chicago, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, The Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture at the University of Chicago, the Department of History and Political Science at Purdue University Calument, and LABOR: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas.

Paul F. Gehl, Newberry Library

40 participants

Presenters

Borderlands and Latino Studies Saturday Conference

Jenny Pulsipher, Brigham Young University Dan Richter, University of Pennsylvania Yanna Yannakakis, Emory University Craig Yirush, University of California, Los Angeles Renaissance Print Culture: An Aldine Quincentennial Symposium

February 7, 2015 Cosponsored with Loyola University Chicago and the University of California, Berkeley.

Organizers

Adam Hooks, University of Iowa Elizabeth Horodowich, New Mexico State University Mark Peterson, James Madison University Brian Richardson, University of Leeds Kevin Stevens, University of Nevada, Reno Lee Palmer Wandel, University of WisconsinMadison Elissa B. Weaver, University of Chicago Symposium on Latin America in the Early Colonial Period

May 9, 2014 Cosponsored by Latino Studies Program at Indiana University, Latina and Latino Studies at Northwestern University, Loyola University Chicago History Department, Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame, the Center for Latino Research at DePaul University, and the Katz Center for Mexican Studies at the University of Chicago.

Presenters

John Shanahan, DePaul University Helen Thompson, Northwestern University 2 seminars, 54 participants Milton Seminar Coordinators

Christopher Kendrick, Loyola University Chicago David Loewenstein, University of WisconsinMadison Paula McQuade, DePaul University Regina Schwartz, Northwestern University 2 seminars, 88 participants Weekend Workshop in Spanish Paleography

Supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Faculty

Carla Rahn Phillips, University of Minnesota, emerita

Juliana Barr, University of Florida

18 participants

Jennifer Flores Stearnad, New York University

April 11, 2015

Maria Windell, University of Colorado, Boulder

The D’A rcy M c Niickle Center for A merican I ndian and I ndigenous S tudies

Organizers

Karl Jacoby, Columbia University

2014 NCAIS Summer Institute

Karen Christianson, Newberry Library

17 participants

Recording the Native Americas: Indigenous Speech, Representation, and the Politics of Writing

Karen Graubart, University of Notre Dame Carla Zecher, Newberry Library Presenters

Catalina Andrango-Walker, Virginia Tech Sherwin Bryant, Northwestern University Cristina Cruz González, Oklahoma State University

ONGOING SEMINARS AND INDIVIDUAL PROGRAMS

July 7– August 1, 2014

Center for Renaissance Studies

Faculty

Attending to Early Modern Women PreConference Session

Ellen Cushman, Michigan State University

Presenters

Rocío Quispe-Agnoli, Michigan State University

Karen Christianson, Newberry Library

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Research and Academic Programs Participants

Logan Mardhani-Bayne, Yale University

Helen Agger, University of Manitoba

Leroy Myers, University of Oklahoma

Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska, University of Illinois at Chicago

Jose E. Argueta Funes, Princeton University

Jameson Sweet, University of Minnesota

5 meetings, 70 participants

Nicholas Barron, University of New Mexico

Susan Wade, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

History of Capitalism

Amy Bergseth, University of Oklahoma

Garrett Wright, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Coordinators

Claudia Berrios-Campos, Michigan State University Shannon Epplett, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Joshua Salzmann, Northeastern Illinois University Jeffrey Sklansky, University of Illinois at Chicago

American Indian Studies Seminar Series

6 meetings, 90 participants

Jeneen Frei Njootli, University of British Columbia

Coordinators

Labor History

Patricia Marroquin-Norby, Newberry Library

Coordinators

Tiffany Hale, Yale University

Nicolas Arms, Newberry Library

Rosemary Feurer, Northern Illinois University

Sarah Hernandez, University of Colorado, Boulder

8 meetings, 80 participants

Leon Fink, University of Illinois at Chicago

Alanna Hickey, Northwestern University Juliet Larkin-Gilmore, Vanderbilt University Sandy Littletree, University of Washington Rose Miron, University of Minnesota Jami Powell, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Benjamin Roine, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Rebecca Rosen, Princeton University

Dr. William M. Scholl Center for American History and Culture American Art and Visual Culture Seminar Coordinators

Sarah Burns, Indiana University Diane Dillon, Newberry Library Erika Doss, University of Notre Dame 5 meetings, 76 participants

Erik Gellman, Roosevelt University 6 meetings, 139 participants Women and Gender Coordinators

Joan Johnson, Northeastern Illinois University Francesca Morgan, Northeastern Illinois University Michelle Nickerson, Loyola University 7 meetings, 121 participants

Timothy Vasko, Cornell University

American Literature

GRADUATE SEMINARS

Susan Wade, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Coordinators

Center for Renaissance Studies

Walter Benn Michaels, University of Illinois at Chicago Kenneth Warren, University of Chicago

Ten-Week Graduate Seminar: How to Read “contraires choses”: Encounters with the Roman de la Rose

Company and City: Indigeneities and Modernities in the Archives

6 meetings, 115 participants

September 25 – December 4, 2014

American Political Thought

Faculty

March 26-28, 2015, at the Hudson’s Bay Company Archives, Winnipeg, Manitoba

Cosponsored by the Jack Miller Center

Faculty

Susan Gaunt Stearns, Northwestern University

Mary Jane McCallum, University of Winnipeg

1 meeting, 6 participants

2015 NCAIS Spring Workshop in Research Methods

Adele Perry, University of Manitoba Participants

Jazmin Alfaro, University of Winnipeg Dylan Burrows, University of British Columbia

January 29, 2015

Borderlands and Latino Studies Coordinators

Geraldo Cadava, Northwestern University

Bridger Bishop, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Benjamin Johnson, University of WisconsinMilwaukee

Roberto Flotte, Harvard University

John Alba Cutler, Northwestern University

Julia A. Grummitt, Princeton University

5 meetings, 81 participants

Chad Infante, Northwestern University Joseph Jordan, Vanderbilt University Richard LaRose, Cornell University Alessandra Link, University of Colorado, Boulder Patrick Lozar, University of Washington

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Jessica Yann, Michigan State University

Fall 2015

British History Coordinators

Deborah Cohen, Northwestern University Fredrik Jonsson, University of Chicago

Daisy Delogu, University of Chicago 9 students Ten-Week Graduate Seminar: Disability and Marginality in Medieval France and England

September 26 – December 5, 2014 Faculty

Edward Wheatley, Loyola University Chicago 15 students Ten-Week Graduate Seminar: Lives and Deeds, Writing Biography in the Middle Ages

January 9 – March 13, 2015 Faculty

Jonathan Lyon, University of Chicago 14 students Dissertation Seminar for Historians

September 26 – December 5, 2014

Research and Academic Programs Faculty

Research and Academic Programs

Constantin Fasolt, University of Chicago

Newberry Library Colloquium

Zachary Schiffman, Northeastern Illinois University 9 students Research Methods Workshop for Early-Career Graduate Students: Word and Image in the Renaissance

October 24, 2014, and February 13, 2015 Faculty

James A. Knapp, Loyola University Chicago Jennifer Waldron, University of Pittsburgh 40 students Research Methods Workshop for Early-Career Graduate Students: Introduction to Medieval Studies at the Newberry

March 6, 2015 Faculty

42 Sessions Newberry Fellows Seminar

11 sessions EXHIBITIONS

Chicago, Europe, and the Great War September 17, 2014 – January 3, 2015 American Women Rebuilding France, 1917 – 1924 September 17, 2014 – January 3, 2015 *P resented by The Newberry and the FrancoAmerican Museum, Château de Blérancourt Attendance: 9,676 visitors Love on Paper January 15, 2015 – April 4, 2015 Attendance: 4,208 visitors

Karen Christianson, Newberry Library

Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference

Exploration 2015: The 29th Annual Juried Exhibition of the Chicago Calligraphy Collective March 16, 2015 – June 12, 2015

January 22 – 24, 2015

Attendance: approximately 2,600 visitors

20 students

Organizers

Caroline Carpenter, Claremont Graduate University

Ephemeral by Design: Organizing the Everyday April 10, 2015 – July 3, 2015

Max Deardorff, University of Notre Dame

Chicago’s Great 20th-Century Bookman: The Newberry Career of James M. Wells April 10, 2015 – July 3, 2015

Patrick McGrath, University of Illinois, UrbanaChampaign Julia Miglets, Northwestern University Sarah Morris, Miami University

Katherine Mansfield and the “Blooms-berries” April 10, 2015 – July 3, 2015

James Seth, Oklahoma State University

Attendance: 3,860 visitors

Amanda Taylor, University of Minnesota Chris Zappella, University of Chicago 24 sessions, 101 participants

Attendance Statistics for the Year: approximately 20,344 visitors

Dr. William M. Scholl Center for American History and Culture

PUBLICATIONS

Urban History Dissertation Group

The D’A rcy M c Nickle Center for A merican I ndian and I ndigenous S tudies

Organizers

Samuel Kling, Northwestern University Ashley Johnson, Northwestern University Christopher Ramsey, Loyola University Chicago 7 meetings, 70 participants

Why You Can’t Teach United States History Without American Indians Editors: Susan Sleeper-Smith, Juliana Barr, Jean M. O’Brien, Nancy Shoemaker, Scott Manning Stevens

The Newberry Annual Report

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Honor Roll of Donors The Newberry gratefully recognizes the following donors for their generous contributions received between July 1, 2014 and June 30, 2015.

THE ANNUAL FUND

The following individuals, foundations, corporations, government agencies, and organizations generously made gifts to the Annual Fund.

PRESIDENT’S CABINET ($25,000+)

Roger and Julie Baskes The Davee Foundation Richard and Mary L. Gray Sue and Melvin Gray Mrs. Anne C. Haffner Victoria J. Herget and Robert K. Parsons

Mr. John P. Rompon and Ms. Marian E. Casey

PRESIDENT’S SUSTAINING FELLOWS ($2,500 - $4,999)

John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe

Charles H. and Bertha L. Boothroyd Foundation

Paul and Joanne Ruxin Karla Scherer Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Siragusa Mr. David B. Smith, Jr. and Ms. Ilene T. Weinreich Liz Stiffel

Professors Stephen and Verna Foster

Mr. Michael Thompson

Mr. Thomas B. Harris and Ms. Doreen M. Kelly

Gail and John Ward Michele and Pete Willmott Anonymous (1)

Barry and Mary Ann MacLean

Dr. and Mrs. Tapas K. Das Gupta

Andrew and Jeanine McNally

Mr. Harve A. Ferrill

Janis Wellin Notz

Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. Fitzgerald

Mr. and Mrs. Rudy L. Ruggles, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. James G. Fitzgerald

Harold B. Smith

Virginia Gassel and Belen Trevino

Carol Warshawsky

James J. and Louise R. Glasser

Whole Foods Market

Helen M. Harrison Foundation Mrs. Mary P. Hines

Jan and Frank Cicero, Jr. Ms. Jeanne Colette Collester Mr. and Mrs. Robert Feitler Dr. Hanna H. Gray John R. Halligan Charitable Fund Mark and Meg Hausberg Illinois Tool Works Foundation Kathryn Gibbons Johnson and Bruce Johnson

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Drs. Malcolm H. and Adele Hast Janet and Arthur Holzheimer Mr. and Mrs. Mark Levey Mr. and Mrs. David B. Mathis

PRESIDENT’S SENIOR FELLOWS ($5,000 - $9,999)

Buchanan Family Foundation

Janet Wood Diederichs Marjorie G. Fitzgerald

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

Joan and William Brodsky

Mr. Robert O. Delaney

Jules N. Stiffel

Celia and David Hilliard

PRESIDENT’S CIRCLE ($10,000 - $24,999)

Ms. Nancy J. Claar and Mr. Christopher N. Skey

Robert H. and Donna L. Jackson Mr. and Mrs. Michael Keiser Donor Advised Fund Mr. Jay F. Krehbiel Professor Lawrence Lipking Laura Baskes Litwin and Stuart Litwin Mr. Stephen A. MacLean Mr. and Mrs. R. Eden Martin David and Anita Meyer Jack and Goldie Wolfe Miller Ken and Jossy Nebenzahl The Rhoades Foundation

Andrew W. McGhee Marion S. Miller Professor and Mrs. Larrance M. O’Flaherty Mrs. Edward S. Petersen Rosemary J. Schnell Mr. Morrell M. Shoemaker Mr. and Mrs. Brian Silbernagel Dr. and Mrs. Robert Wedgeworth, Jr. Diane Weinberg Helen Zell Anonymous (3)

PRESIDENT’S SUPPORTING FELLOWS ($1,500 - $2,499)

Dr. Stephanie Bennett-Smith and Mr. Orin R. Smith Joan and John Blew Ms. Laura L. Breyer Mrs. Noelle C. Brock Mr. and Mrs. Dean L. Buntrock Nancy Raymond Corral

Arch W. Shaw Foundation

Ms. Shawn M. Donnelley and Dr. Christopher M. Kelly

Ms. Elizabeth Amy Liebman

Junie L. and Dorothy L. Sinson

Gail and Richard Elden

Professor James H. Marrow and Dr. Emily Rose

Carolyn and David Spadafora

Mr. Michael L. Ellingsworth

Ms. Christine Sperling

David E. McNeel

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas G. Fitzgerald

Mrs. Herbert A. Vance

Cindy and Stephen Mitchell

The Franklin Philanthropic Foundation

Drs. Richard and Mary Woods

Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. Pope

Joe and Madeleine Glossberg

Anonymous (2)

Hjordis Halvorson and John Halvorson

Fall 2015

* Deceased

Honor Roll of Donors Professor Barbara A. Hanawalt Pati and O. J. Heestand

Nora Zorich and Thomas Filardo Family Fund of The Greater Cincinnati Foundation

Francis Beidler III and Prudence R. Beidler Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Franke

Ms. Margaret A. Beleckis and Mr. Charles E. Kelley

Mimi and Bud Frankel

Mr. Richard H. Brown

Friends of Ogden

Mr. Thomas Campbell

Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. McCamant

Mr. Martin A. M. Gneuhs

Rob Carlson

Dr. Karole Schafer Mourek and Mr. Anthony J. Mourek

Mr. Dean H. Goossen

Mr. and Mrs. William R. Charles

Alan and Carol Greene

Mr. D. Stephen Cloyd

Ms. Audrey A. Niffenegger

Neil Harris and Teri J. Edelstein

Mr. and Mrs. John C. Colman

Ms. Sara N. Paretsky and Professor S. C. Wright

The Irving Harris Foundation

Professor Ronald J. Corthell Ms. Kim L. Coventry

Dr. Gail Kern Paster

Ms. Randy L. Holgate and Mr. John H. Peterson

Mr. and Mrs. Richard S. Pepper

The Lawlor Foundation

Ms. Diana L. DeBoy

Father Peter J. Powell

Mr. Julius Lewis

Mr. Gordon R. DenBoer

Col (IL) Jennifer N. Pritzker IL ARNG (Ret)

Mrs. Marilyn C. London

Mr. and Mrs. Henry DeVogue

Judy and Scott McCue Fund

Dr. Diana Robin

Professor Frances Dolan

Ann and Christopher McKee

Sahara Enterprises, Inc.

Ms. Anne E. Egger

Michal and Paul Miller

Joyce Ruth Saxon

Virginia and Gary Gerst

The Charles Palmer Family Foundation

Mrs. Edna Schade

Mr. and Mrs. William Goldberg

Jo Ann and Joe Paszczyk

Alyce K. Sigler and Stephen A. Kaplan

Tom Greensfelder and Olivia Petrides

Ms. Jerri Linn Phillips

Carl W. Stern and Holly Hayes

William M. Hales Foundation

Jack L. Ringer Family Foundation

Mrs. Rebecca S. Thames-Simmons

Mr. and Mrs. Errol Halperin

Dr. Martha T. Roth and Dr. Bryon A. Rosner

Ms. Donna M. Tuke

Stephen and Sharyl Hanna

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas D. Rutherford

Mr. and Mrs. Enrique J. Unanue

Carol Sonnenschein Sadow

Mr. William M. Hansen and Ms. Jaime L. Danehey

Mr. and Mrs. William C. Vance

Mr. Allan P. Scholl

Ms. Helen S. Harrison

Dr. William F. Willoughby

Rose L. Shure

Mr. and Mrs. Frederic W. Hickman

Thomas K. Yoder

Mrs. Anne D. Slade

Edward C. Hirschland

Mrs. George B. Young

Ms. Diane W. Smith

Robert A. and Lorraine Holland

Anonymous (3)

Ms. Joyce L. Steffel

Nancy M. Hotchkiss

Jacqueline Vossler

Mr. and Mrs. Martin D. Jahn

Anonymous (5)

Dorothy V. Jones

Professor and Mrs. Stanley N. Katz Ann and Fred Kittle Ms. Helen Marlborough and Mr. Harry J. Roper

SCHOLARS ($1,000 - $1,499)

Mr. Gregory L. Barton Blum-Kovler Foundation Dr. William H. Cannon, Jr. and Mr. David Narwich Joyce E. Chelberg The Dick Family Foundation Bob Donnelley The Donnelley Foundation Nancie and Bruce Dunn William E. Engel Mr. and Mrs. Joe Feldman

HUMANISTS ($500 - $999)

Mr. and Mrs. R. John Aalbregtse Ms. Andrea R. Adema

Mr. Charles T. Cullen

Dr. Sona Kalousdian and Dr. Ira D. Lawrence Dr. Suzanne Karr Schmidt and Mr. Keith Schmidt

Alsdorf Foundation

Ms. Jacqueline Krueger and Dr. Matthew Dudley

Mr. and Mrs. Larry J. Antonatos

Ms. Patricia Z. Lamb

Rick and Marcia Ashton

Mr. John K. Lane

Dr. Ellen T. Baird

Laughing Acres Family Foundation Inc.

Mr. Mark L. Barbour

Mr. and Mrs. A. Ronald Lerner

Mr. and Mrs. Warren L. Batts

Ms. Susan Levine and Mr. Leon Fink

Ms. Mary Beth Beal

Mrs. Barbara Ford Link

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Honor Roll of Donors Mr. John G. W. McCord, Jr.

Mr. Robert M. Barg

Mrs. Phyllis C. Grossmann

Mr. and Mrs. Don H. McLucas, Jr.

Mr. William J. Barrett

Jean and Robert Guritz

Mr. Donald J. Meckley

Dr. Karen-edis Barzman

Susan R. Hanes and George E. Leonard

Professor Edward W. Muir, Jr.

Mr. Robert F. Beasecker

Mrs. Dolores K. Hanna

Ellin and Dennis Murphy

Mr. Thomas F. Beauvais

Toni and Ken Harkness

Mr. Michael J. Murphy

The Benevity Community Impact Fund

Mrs. Mary E. Harland

Marjorie and Christopher Newman

Ms. Julie A. Benson

Ms. Arlene E. Hausman

Rachel Towner Raffles

William and Ellen Bentsen

Professor Randolph Head

Ms. Janet Reece

Ms. Julie Beringer

Ms. Margreatha M. Hein

Dr. James Engel Rocks

Dr. Heather E. Blair

Professor and Mrs. Richard H. Helmholz

Ms. Penelope Rosemont

Peter Blatchford

Mr. Roger C. Hinman

Mr. and Mrs. Morton Rosen

Mr. Todd Brueshoff

Mr. Allan G. Hins

Mr. and Mrs. David S. Ruder

Mr. and Mrs. Howard E. Buhse, Jr.

Laraine Balk Hope and John N. Hope

Mr. and Mrs. John Eric Schaal

Professor and Mrs. David J. Buisseret

Mr. and Mrs. Paul J. Houdek

Stephen A. and Marilyn Scott

Mr. James P. Burke, Jr.

Mr. Lawrence Howe, Jr.

Mrs. Ilene W. Shaw

Burlington Route Historical Society

Professor and Mrs. Clark Hulse

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Sheffield, Jr.

Professor and Mrs. Rand Burnette

Mr. and Mrs. Michael L. Igoe, Jr.

Adele Simmons

Mr. and Mrs. Tracy A. Burnham

Mr. Alan Iliff

Mac and Joanne Sims

Ms. Martha M. Butler

Mr. Craig T. Ingram

Dr. Marci J. Sortor and Mr. Daniel Ferro

The Chicago Literary Club

Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Jacob

Stanley and Kristin Stevens

Mr. John Chordas

Mr. Paul R. Judy

Mr. James Stynes

The Contemporary Club of Chicago

Ms. Anna Louise F. Kealy

Mr. J. Thomas Touchton

Professor and Mrs. Edward M. Cook, Jr.

Mr. Paul R. Keith

Dr. Richard M. Tresley

Mr. John Cullinan and Dr. Ewa Radwanska

Mr. and Mrs. Dennis J. Keller

Dr. Elizabeth Tsunoda and Mr. John A. Shea

Mr. Charles H. Douglas

Mr. Ronald E. Kniss

Dr. and Mrs. James L. Downey

Mr. and Mrs. Richard F. Kosobud

Mr. Scott Turow

Mr. Charles A. Duboc

Professor Carole B. Levin

Steve and Lorrayne Weiss

Mr. and Mrs. L. Scot Duncan

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Madden

Mr. Edward Wheatley and Ms. Mary MacKay

Mr. Wilson G. Duprey

Mr. Melvin L. Marks

David and Susan Eblen

Dr. John A. Martens and Ms. Alice L. Clark

Laura F. Edwards and John P. McAllister

Mr. Craig T. Mason

Mrs. Anne A. Ehrlich

Ms. Carolyn McGuire

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Fanning

Dr. Walter S. Melion

Ms. Terry J. Fife

Mr. Daniel Meyer

Ms. Marcia L. Flick

Mr. Martin Minsker

The Fortnightly of Chicago

Mr. and Mrs. Robert R. Moeller

Mr. and Mrs. Willard G. Fraumann

Mrs. Susan T. Murphy

Mr. and Mrs. John E. Freund

Ms. Martha M. Murray

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen L. Geifman

Ms. Sylvia J. Neumann

Mr. and Mrs. Paul F. Anderson

Professor Timothy J. Gilfoyle and Ms. Mary Rose Alexander

Minna S. Novick

Ms. Rosanne C. Arnold

Professor James A. Glazier

Mr. and Mrs. John S. Aubrey

Professor Jean M. O’Brien

Ms. Simone R. Goodman

Ms. Sarah J. Palmer

Robert Williams Mr. Laurence W. Wilson The Winnetka Fortnightly Mr. Francis D. Wolfe, Jr. Anonymous (3)

LITERATI ($250 - $499)

Paula and W. Gordon Addington Mr. Adrian Alexander Sarah Alger and Fred Hagedorn

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Ms. Dorothy Noyes

* Deceased

Honor Roll of Donors Ms. Joan L. Pantsios

In honor of Frances Alger

In honor of Tyler and Alex Hagedorn

Mr. Mark R. Pattis

Sarah Alger and Fred Hagedorn

Sarah Alger and Fred Hagedorn

Mr. Frederic C. Pearson

In honor of Sarah Alger

In honor of Donald Hall

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph B. Plauche

Mr. and Mrs. William L. Lederer

Mr. Harvey T. Lyon

Judy and Rick Rayborn

In honor of John S. Aubrey

In honor of Hjordis Halvorson

Mr. Thomas Reece

Mr. and Mrs. Anthony J. Amodeo

Vince Firpo

Mr. J. Timothy Ritchie

In honor of Carley Bain

James and Mary Wyly

Professors Barbara and Thomas Rosenwein

Vince Firpo

In honor of Mr. William M. Hansen

Ms. Doris D. Roskin

In honor of Roger Baskes

Dr. Christian Dupont

Professor and Mr. Karen Sรกnchez-Eppler

Ms. Constance A. Bodiker

In honor of Victoria J. Herget

Mr. John P. Scanlon and Dr. Susan S. Obler

Dr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Fitzgerald

Mr. and Mrs. Larry J. Antonatos

Mr. and Mrs. David M. Schiffman

Stephen and Sharyl Hanna

Ms. Caro L. Parsons

Ms. Alice Schreyer

In honor of Roger and Julie Baskes

In honor of Tim and Michelle Johnson

Susan and Charles P. Schwartz

Mr. and Mrs. James W. Mabie

Andrey Gribovich

Adela and Robert Seal

In honor of Jameson L. Blatchford

Will Major

Brad and Melissa Seiler

Mr. Scott Andrew Horning

Jeff Okrzesik

Mr. Richard H. Sigel and Dr. Susan Sigel

In honor of Rachel Bohlmann

In honor of D. Carroll Joynes

Ms. Elizabeth Silver-Schack

Vince Firpo

Ms. Annice B. Johnston

Mr. and Mrs. O. J. Sopranos

In honor of Martha Briggs

Ms. Nancy C. Lighthill

Mr. Thomas Spevacek and Ms. Diane E. Bravos

Ms. Terry J. Fife

In honor of Alyce D. Kelleher

Mrs. Uta D. Staley

Mr. and Mrs. William L. Lederer

Matthew J. Kelleher

Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Steiner

In honor of Mr. Richard H. Brown

In honor of Samantha Leshin

Mary and Harvey Struthers

Ms. Kristina Valaitis

Sue and Kent Davis

Mr. Matthew W. Turner

In honor of Rob Carlson and Paul Gehl

In honor of Paul Lydon and Mary Umberger

Larry Viskochil

Dr. Debra N. Mancoff

Sharon Stangenes

Robert and Susan Warde

In honor of Carole Ann Davison

In honor of Cullen Macbeth

Mr. and Mrs. Melville Washburn

Mr. Scott Andrew Horning

Christa Macbeth

Professor Elissa B. Weaver

In honor of Grace Dumelle

In honor of Tom Madden

David and Lucia Webster

Mrs. Joan M. Anderson

James R. Singer

Joyce C. White

Ms. Patricia Z. Lamb

In honor of Thomas Mullen

Ms. Patricia Winter and Mr. Dennis L. Holsapple

Ms. Lisa Sawa

Mr. Jerry Stevens

In honor of Linda and Melvin Firpo

In honor of the Newberry Genealogy Staff

Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Worthington

Vince Firpo

J. Leo and Dorothy Freiwald

James and Mary Wyly

In honor of Ms. Rita T. Fitzgerald

In honor of the Newberry Staff

Anonymous (1)

Ms. Emily Troxell Jaycox

Mr. and Mrs. Anthony J. Amodeo

In honor of Kelly Frost

Ms. Claudia C. Hueser

Mr. Salvatore G. Cilella In honor of Paul Gehl

Kathryn Gibbons Johnson and

Bruce Johnson

Mr. Mark L. Barbour

Professor Michael Silverstein

Rob Carlson

In honor of Janis W. and John K. Notz, Jr.

Mr. Stephen V. Kobasa and

Ms. Anne E. Somsel

Mr. Charles R. Hasbrouck

Rima and Richard Schultz

Mr. and Mrs. James W. Mabie

TRIBUTE GIFTS

The Newberry recognizes the following gifts made in tribute.

HONOR GIFTS

In honor of Jim Akerman Dr. Dan L. Brasfield Mr. J. Thomas Touchton

Mr. and Mrs. R. Thomas Howell, Jr. Ms. Erica C. Meyer The Newberry Annual Report

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Honor Roll of Donors In honor of Professor Laurie Nussdorfer

In memory of Howard Mayer Brown

In memory of Andrew McNally III

Mr. Nicholas Adams

Professor Jessie Ann Owens

Mrs. Margaret W. Carr

In honor of Meredith Petrov

In memory of Mary E. Christensen-Hughes

In memory of Thomas W. Merritt, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Joe Feldman

Mary E. Hughes-Cowling

In honor of Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. Pope

In memory of Diane Cousino

Joanne Braun, Amy Drew, Mike McNicholas,

and Tina Milligan

Mr. and Mrs. William Goldberg

Donald Cousino

Mr. Austin L. Hirsch

In honor of Karen Risinger

In memory of Amata I. Crawford

Robert Christiansen

In memory of the Philip L. and Charles L. Meyers Families

In honor of Mike Sarnowski

In memory of Charles Dahlgreen

Mr. Scott Andrew Horning

Mr. and Mrs. Tom Guardi

In honor of Ms. Alice Schreyer

In memory of Glenn G. Davis

Helen M. Harrison Foundation

Ken and Cricket Hauff

In honor of Jenny Schwartzberg

In memory of Roy and Lola Debits

Naomi Glass

Mrs. Patricia Debits

In honor of Lis Settimi

In memory of Ernestine Vivian Edwards

James Thompson

Mrs. Francier Edwards Gay

In honor of Ingrid Christina Stanley

In memory of Bernard Friedelson

Dr. and Mrs. Donald Stanley In honor of Gordon Wiersma

Dr. David M. and

Mrs. Susan Lindenmeyer Barron

Anne H. Wiersma

In memory of Richard M. Frye

In memory of Norman Schwartz

In honor of Michele and Pete Willmott

Ms. Patricia M. Ronan

Mr. Larry E. Lund

Mr. Scott Schweighauser and Ms. Liz Ellrodt

In memory of Virginia S. Gassel

In memory of Jane Strasburg

In honor of Caroline and Collin Wnek-Ottinger

Virginia Gassel and Belen Trevino

Ms. Kari Diener

Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Wnek

In memory of Anthony Gordon

Garvey Schubert Barer

In honor of Judy C. York

Jennifer and Davie Pina

Dr. David Springer

Mr. Scott Andrew Horning

In memory of H. Richard and Gladys Grauman

Mr. James Stynes

Mrs. Jean Rosen

James, Sasha, Lino, and Zola Welland

In memory of Phyllis Grubba

In memory of John Waggoner

John P. Grubba

Mr. and Mrs. Melville Washburn

In memory of Tina Howe

In memory of Mrs. Sarita Warshawsky

Carolyn M. Short

Ms. Kate Kestnbaum

In memory of Roger B. Johnston

Mr. and Mrs. Earl Stein

Marcia Slater Johnston

In memory of James M. Wells

In memory of George C. Knoblock, Jr.

Mr. Mark L. Barbour

Mrs. George C. Knoblock, Jr.

Ms. Caroline Cracraft

In memory of Irmingard Korbelak

Professors Stephen and Verna Foster

Carl and Hazel Vespa

Mr. and Mrs. Michael Goodkin

In memory of Miss Katherine D. Lewis

Helen M. Harrison Foundation

Christina Woelke

Professor and Mrs. Douglas A. Northrop

In memory of Wendell H. Link

Professor Anne J. Schutte

Mrs. Barbara Ford Link

Professor E. Gordon Whatley

In memory of James A. Marshall

Mrs. George B. Young

In honor of David Zesmer Anonymous (1)

MEMORIAL GIFTS

In memory of Andrew Alger Sarah Alger and Fred Hagedorn Michelle Miller Burns and Gary W. Burns Vince Firpo In memory of Edith Allard Mrs. Jean Isaacowitz In memory of Alfred and Phyllis Balk Laraine Balk Hope and John N. Hope In memory of Jeanette Benson Julie A. Benson In memory of Ellen Mary Symington Bradshaw Mrs. T. W. Hodges

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Mr. Daniel R. Crawford

Ms. Mercedes K. Sparck In memory of Louise Petit More Mr. James O’Halloran In memory of John Nichols Mr. and Mrs. Ray Hagstrom In memory of Carolyn Quattrocki Dr. Edward Quattrocki In memory of Anthony Scariano John Scariano In memory of Sara Schell Dr. Hannah C. Schell

Dr. William E. Marshall

* Deceased

Honor Roll of Donors In memory of William Franklin Willoughby and Westel Woodbury Willoughby

Ken and Jossy Nebenzahl

$250 - $1,499

John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe

Ms. Mary Beth Beal

Paul and Joanne Ruxin

Mr. and Mrs. Paul Bick

Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of Illinois

Professor and Mrs. David J. Buisseret

Mr. Laurence W. Wilson In memory of Jeff Windus

Mr. James M. Wells*

Chicago Map Society

Dr. William F. Willoughby In memory of Florence J. Wilson

Mr. Scott Andrew Horning

RESTRICTED GIFTS

The following individuals, foundations, corporations, government agencies, and organizations made gifts restricted to the Newberry’s endowment, book funds, genealogy, fellowship program, and other projects.

Mr. Henry Eggers $5,000 - $9,999

The Friday Club

Samuel H. Kress Foundation

General Society of Colonial Wars

Ms. Christine Sperling

Ms. Alison A. Hinderliter and Mr. Paul Caporino

Anonymous (1)

Mr. Austin L. Hirsch $2,500 - $4,999

American Friends of Blérancourt $25,000+

Chicago Genealogical Society

Roger and Julie Baskes

Mrs. Lydia Goodwin Cochrane

Chicago Free for All Fund at The Chicago Community Trust

Arthur L. Kelly and The T. Lloyd Kelly Foundation

Marcia Cohn and the Jacob & Rosaline Cohn Foundation

Mr. Stephen A. MacLean

The Davee Foundation

Professor James H. Marrow and Dr. Emily Rose

Glasser and Rosenthal Family

Raven Theatre Company

Helen M. Hanson*

Mrs. Madeline Rich

Barry and Mary Ann MacLean

Chester D. Tripp Charitable Trust

Andrew and Jeanine McNally

Christian Vinyard

Jack Miller Center

Anonymous (1)

Monticello College Foundation National Endowment for the Humanities Jerome and Elaine Nerenberg Foundation Dr. Scholl Foundation The Siragusa Foundation Terra Foundation for American Art Mr. David L. Wagner and Ms. Renie B. Adams Carol Warshawsky Ms. Barbara Wriston*

Chicago Calligraphy Collective

Abby McCormick O’Neil and Daniel Carroll Joynes Dennis and Ellin Murphy Foundation The National Society of Sons of the American Colonists Dr. Ruth H. Robbins Rocky Mountain Map Society Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Illinois Ms. Mercedes K. Sparck Ms. Hedy Weinberg and Mr. Daniel Cornfield Anonymous (5)

SOCIETY OF COLLECTORS

The following individuals contributed $5,000 or more for the acquisition of materials for the collection.

$1,500 - $2,499

Muriel S. Friedman Trust

Roger and Julie Baskes

Mark and Meg Hausberg

Celia and David Hilliard

Mr. Stephen Kleiman

Janet and Arthur Holzheimer

Loyola University Chicago

Barry and Mary Ann MacLean

Mr. and Mrs. R. Eden Martin

Professor James H. Marrow and Dr. Emily Rose

National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, Chicago Chapter

Andrew and Jeanine McNally

John K. Notz, Jr.

Ken and Jossy Nebenzahl

$10,000 - $24,999

Rosemary J. Schnell

John K. Notz, Jr.

Professor Judith H. Anderson

Jacqueline Vossler

Mr. and Mrs. Rudy L. Ruggles, Jr.

Ms. Jeanne Colette Collester

Robert Williams

Paul and Joanne Ruxin

The Florence Gould Foundation

Mrs. George B. Young

Mr. and Mrs. William C. Vance

Dr. Hanna H. Gray

Anonymous (3)

Sue and Melvin Gray Helen M. Harrison Foundation Janet and Arthur Holzheimer

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Honor Roll of Donors The following individuals contributed materials to the Newberry collection valued at $5,000 or more.

Stephen A. and Marilyn Scott

Laura F. Edwards

Mr. Morrell M. Shoemaker

Mr. George E. Engdahl

Alyce K. Sigler

Roger Baskes

Lyle Gillman

Dr. Ira Singer

John Blew

Louise R. Glasser

Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Siragusa

William S. Fisher

Mr. Donald J. Gralen

Susan Sleeper-Smith

Adrienne Lederer

Mrs. Anne C. Haffner

Harold B. Smith

Lynn and Allen Turner

Hjordis Halvorson and John Halvorson

Rebecca Gray Smith

Anonymous (1)

Neil Harris and Teri J. Edelstein

Zella Kay Soich

Adele Hast

Carolyn and David Spadafora

Mark and Meg Hausberg

Mr. Angelo L. and Mrs. Virginia A. Spoto

Celia and David Hilliard

Joyce L. Steffel

Dr. Sandra L. Hindman

Peggy Sullivan

Robert A. and Lorraine Holland

Tom and Nancy Swanstrom

Mrs. Judith H. Hollander

Don and Marianne Tadish

Janet and Arthur Holzheimer

S. David Thurman

David M. and Barbara H. Homeier Louise D. Howe

Ms. Tracey N. Tomashpol and Mr. Farron D. Brougher

Mary P. Hughes

Jim and Josie Tomes

Mrs. Everett Jarboe

Mr. J. Thomas Touchton

Kathryn Gibbons Johnson

Professor Sue Sheridan Walker

Ann and Fred Kittle

Willard E. White

Karen Krishack

Robert Williams

Roger Baskes

Larry Lesperance

Mrs. Erika Wright

Peter Blatchford

Professor Carole B. Levin

James and Mary Wyly

John Blew

Joseph A. Like

Anonymous (14)

Dr. Edith Borroff

Lucia Woods Lindley

Bernard J. Brommel

Dr. Audrey Lumsden-Kouvel

Mr. Richard H. Brown

Carmelita Melissa Madison

June Buller

Heidi Massa

Michelle Miller Burns and Gary W. Burns

Andrew W. McGhee

Dr. William H. Cannon

Marion S. Miller

Rob Carlson

Mary Morony

Ann Barzel

Reverend Dr. Robert B. Clarke

Mrs. Milo M. Naeve

Mr. George W. Blossom III

Mrs. David L. Conlan

Ken and Jossy Nebenzahl

Joan Campbell

Dorothy and David Crabb

Ms. Audrey A. Niffenegger

Robert P. Coale

Mr. Charles T. Cullen

Joan L. Pantsios

Natalie H. Dabovich

Professor Saralyn R. Daly

Jo Ann and Joe Paszczyk

David W. Dangler

Magdalene and Gerald Danzer

Ken Perlow

Mrs. Edison Dick

John Brooks Davis

Dominick S. Renga, MD

Dr. and Mrs. Waldo C. Friedland

Mr. Gordon R. DenBoer

Mr. T. Marshall Rousseau

Dr. Muriel S. Friedman

Susan and Otto D’Olivo

Rosemary J. Schnell

Esther LaBerge Ganz

Donna Margaret Eaton

Helen M. Schultz

Charles C. Haffner III

BLATCHFORD SOCIETY

The following individuals have included the Newberry in their estate plans or life-income arrangements, and are current members of the Blatchford Society. The library recognizes them for their continued legacy to the humanities.

Mrs. L. W. Alberts Mr. Adrian Alexander Rick and Marcia Ashton Constance Barbantini and Liduina Barbantini Mr. W. Lloyd Barber Dr. David M. and Mrs. Susan Lindenmeyer Barron

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IN MEMORIAM

With gratitude, the Newberry remembers the following members of the Blatchford Society for their visionary support of the humanities.

* Deceased

Honor Roll of Donors Rita K. and Ralph H. Halvorsen Reverend Susan R. Hecker Mrs. Harold James Mr. Everett Jarboe

THE 2015 NEWBERRY LIBRARY AWARD DINNER

The following individuals and organizations supported the 2015 Newberry Library Award Dinner honoring Stacy Schiff, held on May 11, 2015.

Corinne E. Johnson

Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. Pope Col (IL) Jennifer N. Pritzker IL ARNG (Ret) Rachel Towner Raffles Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Ramsey Barbara and Richard Rinella

Mr. Stuart Kane

Michele and Pete Willmott, Co-chairs

Mr. Isadore William Lichtman

Roger and Julie Baskes

Russell W. and Louise I. Lindholm Arthur B. Logan

Ms. Margaret A. Beleckis and Mr. Charles E. Kelley

Mr. Walter C. Lueneburg

Frances and Edward Blair

Dr. Martha T. Roth and Dr. Bryon A. Rosner

Ms. Louise Lutz

Mr. and Mrs. John A. Bross, Jr.

Roberta Rubin

Mrs. Agnes M. McElroy

Jan and Frank Cicero, Jr.

Mrs. Judith Rutherford

Mr. and Mrs. William W. McKittrick

Ms. Marcia S. Cohn

Paul and Joanne Ruxin

Mr. Milo M. Naeve

Dr. and Mrs. Tapas K. Das Gupta

Mrs. Edna Schade

Piri Korngold Nesselrod

Ms. Laura S. de Frise and Mr. Steve Rugo

Karla Scherer

Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. O’Kieffe III

Ms. Marilyn R. Drury-Katillo

Rosemary J. Schnell

Bruce P. Olson

Mr. George E. Engdahl

Patricia and David Schulte

Charles W. Olson

Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. Fitzgerald

Edward J. Parsons

Richard and Mary L. Gray

Mr. Scott Schweighauser and Ms. Liz Ellrodt

Marian W. Shaw

Sue and Melvin Gray

Professor Robert W. Shoemaker

Dr. Hanna H. Gray

Lillian R. and Dwight D. Slater

Ted and Mirja Haffner

Cecelia Handleman Wade

Professor Barbara A. Hanawalt

Professor Franklin A. Walker

Mark and Meg Hausberg

Lila Weinberg

Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Heidrick

James M. Wells

Victoria J. Herget and Robert K. Parsons

Mr. Raymond L. Wright

Celia and David Hilliard

Anonymous (6)

Karen and Tom Howell Kathryn Gibbons Johnson and Bruce Johnson Joseph A. Like

ESTATE GIFTS

Professor Lawrence Lipking

The Newberry gratefully acknowledges gifts received from the estates of the following individuals.

Mr. and Mrs. James W. Mabie

Helen M. Hanson Arthur B. Logan Jerome and Elaine Nerenberg Charles W. Olson Marian W. Shaw Ilse E. Tribby James M. Wells Barbara Wriston

Mr. Jeff Rose Ms. Penelope Rosemont

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Sheffield, Jr. Alyce K. Sigler and Stephen A. Kaplan Carolyn and David Spadafora Jules N. Stiffel Liz Stiffel Ms. Peggy Sullivan Mr. Michael Thompson Mr. and Mrs. Joseph L. Turner, Jr. Ms. Joan K. Wagner and Mr. Paul A. Haskins Ms. Carol Warshawsky Diane and Richard G. Weinberg Joseph Wright Anonymous (2)

Barry and Mary Ann MacLean Andrew W. McGhee

Dr. Muriel S. Friedman

Mr. J. Timothy Ritchie

Ms. Carolyn McGuire Andrew and Jeanine McNally David E. McNeel David and Anita Meyer Erica C. Meyer Charitable Fund Cindy and Stephen Mitchell Ken and Jossy Nebenzahl Janis W. and John K. Notz, Jr. Dr. Gail Kern Paster

CORPORATE AND FOUNDATION MATCHING GIFTS

Through their matching gift programs, the following corporations and foundations generously augmented gifts from individuals.

ArcelorMittal Matching Gifts Program The Benevity Community Impact Fund The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation ExxonMobil Foundation Fitch Ratings Matching Gifts Program

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Honor Roll of Donors GE Foundation

Jewell Events Catering

Myra Albert

Grainger Matching Charitable Gifts Program

E. Sam Jones Distributor

Andrew Alger*

IBM Corporation

Jordan’s Food of Distinction

Terry Allen

Illinois Tool Works Foundation

Knickerbocker Roofing & Paving Co., Inc.

American Antiquarian Society

Johnson & Johnson

Lookingglass Theatre Company

Linda Haworth Anderson

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

Lou Malnati’s Pizzeria

Art Institute of Chicago

Luxe Spa

Robert Bacon

Mondelez International Foundation

Lyric Opera of Chicago

Roger Baskes

Northern Trust Matching Gift and Volunteer Grant Program

Major Chemical & Supply

Thomas Bauman

Master Brew

Nurhan A. Becidyan

Jake Melnick’s Corner Tap

Nancy Brock Beck

Mesirow Financial

Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Murnane Paper Company

Kenneth C. Bennett

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

Sybil Bennin

Naha

Robert Biggs

Occasions Chicago Catering

David Binder

The Original Pancake House

Randall K. Birkett

Dr. Gail Kern Paster

Ned Blackhawk

Potash Markets Chicago

John Blew

Quarles & Brady LLP

Mervin Block

Ravinia Festival

LeRoy Blommaert

Judy and Rick Rayborn

Alma Rosie Boge

Republic Services

Garrett Boge

Rosebud Restaurants

Seth Boustead

Securitas

William J. Bowe

Simply Elegant Catering

Ms. Laura L. Breyer

Carolyn and David Spadafora

John M. Browder

The Whitehall Hotel

Kay Brown

Trader Joe’s

Professor David J. Buisseret

Tri-Star Catering

Dan Campion

Christi Webber Landscapes

Stephanie Carbonetti

Westside Mechanical Group

Mary Carruthers

Whole Foods Market

Donald E. Casey

Yoga Now

James W. Castellan

The Rhoades Foundation USG Foundation Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company Foundation

GIFTS IN KIND

The following individuals and organizations supported the Newberry with contributed goods and services.

ABM Janitorial Services Bar Louie Bistrot Zinc Blackfinn Mr. James P. Burke, Jr. Caffè Baci Chicago Architecture Foundation Chicago Shakespeare Theater Club Quarters Connie’s Pizza Corner Bakery Café D’Absolute Events & Catering Devon Seafood Grill Doc B’s Fresh Kitchen David and Lesa Dowd Food Evolution

Center for Railroad Photography & Art

G Catering + Events Gold Coast Chiropractic Gordon’s Ace Hardware Hallett Movers Hendrickx Belgian Bread Crafter

John P. Chalmers GIFTS OF LIBRARY MATERIALS

The Newberry appreciates the generosity of the following individuals and organizations that contributed books, manuscripts, and other materials to enhance the library’s collection.

John R. Hill

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Chicago Board of Education Chicago Chamber Musicians Chicago National Association of Dance Masters A. Bayard Clark Gail Connelly

Hotel Indigo

Jon C. Acker

House of Glunz

Monika Couch

Paul Adamthwaite

Mr. Daniel R. Crawford

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* Deceased

Honor Roll of Donors Lynne Creighton

Tobias Higbie

Nancy Mattei

M. André Croise

John Hoffmann

David Matteson

Rowan Cunningham

Gordon Hollis

Pilar Máynez Vidal

William D. Curl

William F. Howes, Jr.

Erik S. McDuffie

Ellen Cushman

Michael Huey

Christopher McKee

Gerald Danzer

Susan Mercer Hunter

Nancy McKinnan

Anita S. Darrow

Irish American Partnership

Robert J. McSwain, Jr.

Drew Edward Davies

Lise Jaillant

Louis D. Melnick

Jonathan Dedmon

Sharon Jelinek

Susan Mielke

Michelle Dowd

Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance

Newton Minow and Josephine Baskin

Stephanie Doyle

Walker Johnson

Gene Monroe

Thomas P. Dungan

W. Wesley Johnston

Robert and Carol Monroe

Professor Carolyn A. Edie

Michael Jones

John C. Moran

Thomas L. Edsall

Paul R. Judy

Morgan Library & Museum

Seth Fagen

Kansas Historical Society

Wilda W. Morris

John Fiore

Arnold A. Kaplowitz

Mount Prospect Public Library

William S. Fisher

Evelyn M. Katz

Paul Moxon

Chris Fogarty

Farley P. Katz

Lucy Eldersveld Murphy

Fondazione Museo Del Tesoro Del Duomo E Archivio Capitolare

Jo Ann Kaufman

Peter Nekola

Richard Kegler

Ms. Audrey A. Niffenegger

Professor Stephen Foster

Richard Kennedy

Mike Nussbaum

Ann L. Fuller

Linda Kinnaman

Wilma and Kendalin Ogata

Peter Garino

Bruce Kirkpatrick

Justyna Olko

Lynn Garn

Julius Kirshner

Peter Paeth

Christopher Gausby

Kathleen V. Kish

Park Forest Public Library

Michael S. Gibbons

Mary C. Konstant

Esther Pasztory

Estate of Waud Kracke

Richard S. Pepper

Lake Forest College, Donnelley and Lee Library

Mrs. Edward S. Petersen

Adrienne Lederer

María Isabel Grañén Porrúa

Shawn Pfautsch

Thomas Lembo

Robert N. Grant

David R. Phillips

James Lennert

Tom Greensfelder

Pitts Theology Library

Ron Lerner

Gutman Library, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Jeremy D. Popkin

Louisa Livingston

Father Peter J. Powell

Richard Locke

Rocío Quispe-Agnoli

Jesse M. Locker

Javier Eduardo Ramírez López

Susan Loess-Perez

Roderick L. Rasmussen

Mark L. Madsen

Joseph W. Ray

Athena Santos Magcase-Lopez

Kathryn Reynolds and Ann Proud

Mr. R. Eden Martin

Edward Rhodes

Patricia Marton

David J. Riley

Jeff Marx

Kyle Roberts

Josephine Masterson

Ms. Penelope Rosemont

Sally Giese Karyn Gilman Mary L. Graham, Sharon M. Graham, and Terry McGuire

Patricia Kirlin Hagedorn Professor Barbara A. Hanawalt Mr. William M. Hansen Elizabeth M. Hanson Luann B. Hartlieb Mark and Meg Hausberg John and Marilyn Heise Kathryn Heler Wendy Herder

Todor Petev

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Honor Roll of Donors Harriet Rosenman and Barnet Wagman

Steve Worsham

Norma B. Rubovits

Marcin Wrobel

Cecilia Ryan

Marilyn M. Young

Bruce Sagan

Carla Zecher

Jacquie Schattner

James L. Zychowicz

School of the Art Institute of Chicago John Schulian Jim Schwartz Jenny Schwartzberg Paul Shaw Thomas Shields

The Newberry makes every effort to ensure the accuracy of our honor roll of donors and we sincerely apologize if we have made any errors.

Please notify Vince Firpo at (312) 255-3599 or firpov@newberry.org regarding any changes or corrections. Thank you.

Richard L. Shotliff Michael Siciliano Eric Slauter J. Dallas Smith Smithsonian Institution Society of Genealogy of Durkee Barbara Schilling Stanton JFX Sterkel Society Paul Stinchfield and Ann Savagian Kelli Strickland R.J. Taylor Jr. Foundation Roger R. Taylor Thomas Taylor Vanina Teglia Tipoteca Italiana Fondazione Jim and Josie Tomes Carole Tovar Allen M. and Lynn S. Turner Universidad Nacional Aut贸noma de M茅xico University of St. Mary of the Lake Judy Van Dusen Thomas A. Volini Rick von Holdt Jacqueline Vossler Walter de Gruyter, Inc. Gregory Jackson Walters John L. Ward Vera Watkins Mr. Edward Wheatley Karli White Kaye P. White Douglas Wixson

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* Deceased

Board of Trustees and Volunteer Committees BOARD OF TRUSTEES

LIFE TRUSTEES

BUGHOUSE SQUARE COMMITTEE

Victoria J. Herget, Chair

Roger Baskes

Event held July 26, 2014

David C. Hilliard, Vice Chair

Anthony Dean

David E. McNeel, Treasurer

Sister Ann Ida Gannon

Rachel Bohlmann, Chair

Mark Hausberg, Secretary

Richard Gray

Anna Dozor

Joan Brodsky

Neil Harris

Paul Durica

T. Kimball Brooker

Stanley N. Katz

Vince Firpo

Frank Cicero, Jr.

C. Frederick Kittle, MD

Meredith Foster

Andrew J. Fitzgerald

Andrew W. McGhee

Taylor Horton

Louise R. Glasser

Paul J. Miller

Kelly McGrath

Hanna Gray

Kenneth Nebenzahl

Abby Ryder-Huth

Sue Gray

Zoé Petersen

Alex Teller

Robert A. Holland

Alyce Sigler

Robert H. Jackson

Richard D. Siragusa

Kathryn Gibbons Johnson

Jules Stiffel

Jay F. Krehbiel Lawrence Lipking Barry L. MacLean James H. Marrow

The Newberry gratefully recognizes the following individuals for their leadership in planning and promoting events held between July 1, 2014 and June 30, 2015.

Andrew McNally IV Cynthia E. Mitchell

BOOK FAIR COMMITTEE

Janis W. Notz

Event held July 24 – July 27, 2014

Gail Kern Paster Jean E. Perkins

Bill Charles, Co-chair

Michael A. Pope

Steve Scott, Co-chair

John P. Rompon

Jenny Bissell

Martha T. Roth

Claudia Hueser

Rudy L. Ruggles, Jr.

Martha J. Jantho

Paul T. Ruxin

Mary Morony

Karla Scherer

Patrick O’Neil

Thomas C. Sheffield, Jr.

Marilyn Scott

David B. Smith, Jr. Harold B. Smith Michael Thompson Carol Warshawsky Robert Wedgeworth, Jr. Peter S. Willmott

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Staff OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT AND LIBRARIAN

Conservation Services Department

• David Spadafora, President and Librarian

• Lesa Dowd, Director of Conservation Services

• Meredith Petrov, Director of Governance and External Relations

• Linda Kinnaman, Conservation Technician

Communications and Marketing

• Barbara Korbel, Collections & Exhibitions Conservator • Virginia Meredith, Conservation Technician

• Lisa Schoblasky, Special Collections Services Librarian, Reference Team Leader • Chris Cialdella, Special Collections Library Assistant

• Elizabeth Zurawski, Senior Book Conservator

• Nora Gabor, Special Collections Library Assistant

Reader Services Department

• Catherine Grandgeorge, Special Collections Library Assistant

• William M. Hansen, Director of Reader Services

• Helen Hanowsky, Special Collections Library Assistant

Reference and Genealogy Services Section

• Tyne Lowe, Special Collections Library Assistant

• Jo Ellen McKillop Dickie, Reference Librarian, Reference Team Leader

• Samantha Smith, Special Collections Library Assistant

• Elizabeth McKinley, Program Assistant

• Matthew Rutherford, Curator of Genealogy and Local History, Reference Team Leader

Department of Maps & Modern Manuscripts

Collection Services Department

• Grace Dumelle, Genealogy and Local History Library Assistant

Maps Section

• Alan Leopold, Director of Collection Services

• Ginger Frere, Reference Librarian

• James R. Akerman, Curator of Maps

• Kelly Frost, Reference Librarian

• Patrick A. Morris, Map Cataloger and Reference Librarian

• Alex Teller, Manager of Communications and Editorial Services • Teresa Ryant, Visitor Assistant • Andrea Villasenor, Graphic Designer LIBRARY SERVICES

• Paul F. Gehl, George Amos Poole III Curator of Rare Books, and Custodian, John M. Wing Foundation on the History of Printing • William M. Hansen, Curator of Americana

Acquisitions Section

• Linda M. Chan, Serials Librarian • Jenny Schwartzberg, Acquisitions and Collection Development Assistant

• Jill Gage, Reference Librarian and Bibliographer of British History and Literature • Katie McMahon, Reference Librarian

Modern Manuscripts Section

• Seonaid Valiant, Ayer Reference Librarian

• Martha Briggs, Lloyd Lewis Curator of Modern Manuscripts

General Collections Services Section

• Alison Hinderliter, Manuscripts and Archives Librarian

• Patricia J. Wiberley, Serials Assistant Cataloging Section

• Jessica Grzegorski, Principal Cataloging Librarian • Graham Greer, Collection Services Assistant • Patrick A. Morris, Map Cataloging Librarian • Cheryl Wegner, Cataloging Librarian Cataloging Projects Section

• Margaret Cusick, General Collections Services Librarian, Reference Team Leader

• Kelly Kress, Senior Project Archivist

• Jennifer Black, General Collections Library Assistant

• Ruby Oram, Raven Theatre Archives Intern

• Katharina Bond, General Collections Library Assistant

Department of Digital Initiatives and Services

• Nora Dolliver, General Collections Library Assistant

• Jennifer Thom, Director of Digital Initiatives and Services • Jennifer Wolfe, Digital Initiatives Librarian

• Megan Kelly, Cataloging Projects Manager

• Matthew Krc, Stacks Coordinator

• Jennifer Dunlap, Cataloging Project Librarian

• Timothy Warnock, General Collections Library Assistant

Digital Imaging Services

• Nicole Weber, General Collections Library Assistant

• Catherine Gass, Photographer

• Margaret Joyce, Cataloging Project Librarian • Shawn Keener, Project Cataloging Assistant • Lindsey O’Brien, Project Cataloging Assistant • Amanda Schriver, Project Cataloging Assistant

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Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections Services

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• John Powell, Digital Imaging Services Manager • Christy Karpinski, Digitization Technician

Staff DEPARTMENT OF CONTINUING EDUCATION

• Rachel Bohlmann, Director of Continuing Education • Kristin Emery, Fellowships and Seminars Manager

Dr. William M. Scholl Center for American History and Culture

Human Resources

• Rachel Bohlmann, Interim Director of the Dr. William M. Scholl Center for American History and Culture

• Nancy Claar, Payroll Manager

• Katie Gourley, Program Assistant • Mary Kennedy, Program Assistant

DEVELOPMENT

Professional Development Programs for Teachers

• Wendy Buta, Administrative Assistant to the Vice President for Development

• Charlotte Wolfe Ross, Manager of Professional Development Programs for Teachers

• Dan Crawford, Book Fair Manager

• Stephanie Fong, Program Assistant

• Veneese Mollison, Associate Director of Development for Donor Services

RESEARCH AND ACADEMIC PROGRAMS

• Jo Anne Moore, Associate Director of Development Events

• Diane Dillon, Interim Vice President for Research and Academic Programs • Kristin Emery, Fellowships and Seminars Manager

• Sarah Alger, Director of Development

Center for Renaissance Studies

• James P. Burke, Jr., Vice President for Finance and Administration

• Karen Christianson, Interim Director of the Center for Renaissance Studies

Bookstore

• Catherine Mardula, Program Assistant

• Jennifer Fastwolf, Bookstore Manager

• Caroline Prud’Homme, Postdoctoral Scholar in French Paleography

• Matthew Heichelbech. Bookstore Sales Associate

Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography

Business Office

• James R. Akerman, Director of the Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography

• Cheryl L. Tunstill, Staff Accountant

The D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies

• Patricia Marroquin Norby, Director of the D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies • Nicolas Arms, Program Assistant • Madeleine Krass, Program Assistant

• Jason Ulane, Internal Services Coordinator Office of Events and Volunteers

• Chayla Bevers Ellison, Director of Events, Tours and Volunteer Programs

• Meredith Petrov, Director of Governance and External Relations FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION

• Jarrett Dunning, Program Assistant

Internal Services

• Vince Firpo, Annual Giving Manager

• Jessica Weller, Senior Program Assistant

• Peter Nekola, Assistant Director

• Judith Rayborn, Director of Human Resources

• Ron Kniss, Controller

Information Technology

• Drin Gyuk, Director of Information Technology • Scott Stover, IT Support Technician • John Tallon, IT Support & Systems Administrator Facilities Management

• Michael Mitchell, Facilities Manager and Chief Security Officer • Verkista Burruss, Facilities Coordinator • Chris Cermak, Sr. Building Maintenance Worker • Pete Diernberger, Building Maintenance Worker

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Summary of Financial Position

For the year ended June 30, 2015— with summarized totals for the year ended June 30, 2014 (000s omitted).

2015

2014

Assets

Cash and receivables $ 947 Investments 69,416 Land, buildings, equipment 9,010 Other noncurrent assets 5,487 Total assets

$ 942 72,206 9,897 5,671

$ 84,860 $ 88,716

Liabilities and net assets

Accounts payable and accrued expenses $ 987 Other current liabilities 1,102 Long-term debt 3,200 Other noncurrent liabilities 282

Total liabilities 5,571 6,154

$ 962 573 4,240 379

Net assets 79,289 82,562

Total liabilities and net assets $ 84,860 $ 88,716

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Summary of Activities

For the year ended June 30, 2015— with summarized totals for the year ended June 30, 2014 (000s omitted).

2015

2014

Revenues

Gifts and grants for operations $ 5,183 Gifts to endowment 415 Investment gain (Loss) (24) Other revenues 1,977

Total revenues and other gains

$ 7,088 345 10,518 2,543

7,551 20,494

Expenditures

Library and collection services 4,783 Research and academic programs 2,766 Management and general 2,338 Development 937

4,665 3,284 2,053

960

Total expenditures

10,824 10,962

Change in net assets

$ (3,273)

$9,532

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Big Shoulders Explore Chicago Collections, a web-based search engine, launched this fall, giving users unprecedented access to primary sources in Chicago archives.

By Alex Teller

J

ane Elliott Sever was 16 years old when, in the summer of 1893, she traveled from Massachusetts to Chicago to visit the World’s Columbian Exposition. Her aunt financed her trip in exchange for Jane promising to write frequently from the “White City.” Sever’s letters are cheerfully written and completely earnest in their attempt to convey the wonder of being at the fair. “You could never imagine how wonderful the fair is,” she wrote to her aunt. “Every day that we go, some new and more beautiful thing appears.” “Beautiful” and “wonderful” recur throughout her letters, a tic that betrays the futility of putting a radically new sensory experience into words. At the fair, Sever encountered technological marvels before a shared vocabulary had emerged to describe them.

One of these marvels was electric light, still a novel innovation at the time. Sever wrote that the lights swept across the

Grand Basin’s fountains in “a pure shimmering white, then changing to rose, then a pale green, then blue, yellow, then green, rose and white together, making a most wonderful sight.”

Her description is straightforward to a fault, as if an inventory of color were enough to capture the majesty of the vision. And as Sever composed her letters by candlelight in the 600-room Women’s Dormitory at Ellis Avenue and 53rd Street where she stayed, it probably was.

While Sever was visiting the fair and writing letters home, C. D. Arnold was taking photographs as the official photographer of the World’s Columbian Exposition. Arnold’s pictures include stunning rooftop portraits of the fairgrounds that have since become iconic, as well as the less heralded documentation of the White City’s construction on a barren stretch of land along the lake.

As the official photographer of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition, C. D. Arnold documented the construction of the fair and the glittering facades of its finished buildings. In this photograph, fairgoers take in the “White City” from the Manufactures Building. World’s Columbian Exposition Photographs by C. D. Arnold, 1891 – 1894, Ryerson and Burnham Libraries, The Art Institute of Chicago. Digital File #198902.E20807.

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Jane Elliott Sever wrote letters to her aunt from the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition. Sever was especially struck by the displays of electric light, still a novelty at the time. In this letter, she describes the lights (upper right) among the fair’s fountains at night as “a pure shimmering white, then changing to rose, then a pale green…” Upper left: Sever in 1899. Photo courtesy of Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.

Sever and Arnold are a study in contrasts: word and image, youth and age, personal correspondence and official record.

The materials they left behind are completely different; yet the letters and photographs are complementary pieces that might be combined with others to form a richer understanding of what the fair was like. In their visual immediacy, the Arnold images radiate lush details that are missing from Sever’s letters. But, black and white, they do not display the colors that transfixed the 16-year-old. And having been confidently shot with the authority of a professional, neither do they express her wonder.

Anyone interested in the World’s Columbian Exposition should want to consult both Sever and Arnold, or risk neglecting an essential aspect of how the fair was packaged and experienced.

Up until now, however, uncovering both collections has not been very convenient. The Sever letters are archived at the Newberry, the original platinum prints of Arnold’s photos at the Ryerson and Burnham Libraries of the Art Institute

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of Chicago. Assuming that you knew about them in the first place, you would consult the finding aids or digital images available at each institution’s website. If you had any reference questions, you would address them to the Newberry and the Art Institute separately. If you wished to receive digital copies for study purposes, you would contact the Newberry and the Art Institute—again, separately.

Beginning this fall, however, bibliographical information about Sever and Arnold are now accessible from the same place, with the launch of Explore Chicago Collections (ECC), a free, web-based portal providing information on—and in many cases the digital content of—a variety of collections relating to Chicago history and culture. The portal is the f lagship project of Chicago Collections, a consortium of Chicago-area libraries, museums, and archives with collections chronicling more than a century’s worth of arts, politics, social movements, and day-today life in the Chicago metropolitan region. The individual

“For scholars, the portal is going to expedite their research significantly,” says Grahl.

“We had an author tell us recently that if this had existed 10 years ago, it could have saved him 3 years in research time.” collections of consortium members like the Newberry, Chicago History Museum, Northwestern University, and the Art Institute have enormous research value in themselves; but when a single website serves as a conduit to these separate institutional collections, their value is magnified as the speed of research is accelerated. Subject searches (like “World’s Columbian Exposition”) yield results from a much larger pool, and allow materials to intersect in ways that have previously been impossible.

Chicago Collections Executive Director Jaclyn Grahl believes the Explore Chicago Collections search engine and record-finding tool addresses a demand that has been building for some time. “For scholars, the portal is going to expedite their research significantly,” says Grahl. “We had an author

tell us recently that if this had existed 10 years ago, it could have saved him 3 years in research time.”

W

hen users visit the portal (explore.chicagocollections.org), they will have the option to run a customized search or browse by subject. The browse function runs according to a “faceted” hierarchy of basic categories and the terms nested within them. For example, once clicked, “events” expands to display subjects such as World War I, the Eastland Disaster, and temperance; “environments” expands to offer architecture, city planning, parks and forest preserves, and so on. The results of each topic or theme include both digital images (of photographs, maps, cartoons, broadsheets, letters) and finding aids for discovering materials that haven’t yet been digitized.

Unlike similar projects such as the Digital Public Library of America, which contains metadata only and sends users to the host institutions’ sites for digital content, Explore Chicago Collections will keep visitors within the ECC environment, creating a user experience that ranges across traditional institutional boundaries without the whiplash that can accompany our online travels. In addition, users can direct their

This map of Chicago was designed by Walter H. Conley in 1933 in commemoration of the centenary of Chicago’s incorporation as a town. The map is a representation of Chicago in 1833, based upon archival research and the data obtained from the city’s early white settlers.

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“It’s important for successive generations to reinterpret historical sources for themselves, beyond what’s available in textbooks and other secondary materials,” says Briggs.

“Explore Chicago Collections is providing this opportunity to people in Chicago and beyond who might not have otherwise had the time or the resources for such direct contact with the city’s heritage.” questions regarding the portal and the content they find within to a joint reference service maintained by Chicago Collections.

“Explore Chicago Collections is a unified point of access to literally thousands of Chicago-related manuscript and archival collections,” says Newberry President David Spadafora, who recently became the chair of the Chicago Collections Board.

“The ease it promises to bring to research in these collections is unprecedented.”

Manuscript and archival materials are in their very nature one-of-a-kind and not as easily centralized as books are in union catalogs. Chicago collections of unpublished materials like letters and drawings are scattered among institutional catalogs, online finding aids sites, and paper guides. Merely locating these resources has itself become a specialized skill, and one that occasionally fails even the most seasoned professional scholar, to say nothing of other users to whom primary sources might also have an interest, such as teachers, high school and college students, genealogy researchers, and lifelong learners.

According to Martha Briggs, Lloyd Lewis Curator of Modern Manuscripts at the Newberry and co-chair of the Collections Committee for Chicago Collections, the portal will democratize access to and raise awareness of cultural artifacts that up until now have existed in relative obscurity. “We’re expecting a surge of interest in the primary sources held in Chicago archives like the Newberry,” she says.

The portal’s emphasis on manuscript and archival collections ref lects an institutional priority of the Newberry and the other consortium members: encouraging the public to study the raw material of culture and history. “It’s important for successive generations to reinterpret historical sources for themselves, beyond what’s available in textbooks and other secondary materials,” says Briggs. “Explore Chicago Collections is providing this opportunity to people in Chicago and beyond who might not have otherwise had the time or the resources for such direct contact with the city’s heritage.”

Indeed, one of the more groundbreaking aspects of the ECC is the access to original documents it will afford K-12 teachers,

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who do not usually have time to spend in archival collections, and their students. The Newberry has preexisting programs for teachers, and other consortium organizations undoubtedly do, too. Digital Collections for the Classroom, for example, enables teachers to use curated selections of Newberry materials, along with contextual essays and discussion questions, for incorporation into their lesson plans. The carefully constructed nature of these collections is one of their strengths, but it is also the reason they’re in limited supply. By making digital reproductions of its materials available through the ECC portal, the Newberry is giving teachers the ability to discover wider swathes of its collection for use in elementary-, middle-, and high school classrooms.

In turn, students who have previously been unable to access the Newberry’s collections because of the age restriction of the reading rooms will be able to interact with Newberry items in a greatly expanded and less mediated way.

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n the January 26, 2015, issue of The New Yorker, Jill Lepore described the efforts of Brewster Kahle and the Internet Archive to bring standards of preservation and archival organization to the Web—to, essentially, archive the Internet.

Doing so is as difficult as it is necessary. The Internet exists in the eternal present. Websites are structured so that a steady stream of content replenishes the most visible sections with the new while pushing the old to the remote, most inaccessible inner reaches of a domain. Meanwhile, social media posts and other web pages can be deleted, entire websites disappear, and dead links proliferate across the Internet.

The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine regularly scans the Internet, creating archived versions of web pages as they exist in a given moment. Preserving the Internet in this way is making it a lot less ephemeral. But preservation is only one aspect of retrofitting the ethos and practices of a library into the Web; the seemingly infinite amount of web content captured by the Wayback Machine must also be cataloged or organized so that researchers can actually successfully find and use it.

So far in the Internet Archive’s development, according to Lepore, preserving the Internet for posterity has outpaced a capacity for cataloging it. “The tools for doing anything meaningful with web archives are years behind the tools for creating those archives,” she writes. “Doing research in a paper archive is to doing research in a web archive as going to a fish market is to being thrown in the middle of the ocean.”

What is the appropriate analogy for accessing paper archives in a digital environment like Explore Chicago Collections? Is it in the difference between going to a fish market and having sushi? Or in the difference between visiting a fish market and taking a very thorough guided tour of a part of the ocean?

If up until recently the Internet has been limited temporally, paper archives have been limited spatially. Historically, scholars have had to visit the physical spaces in which they were kept in order to use them. Even with the digitization of collections, a kind of spatial limitation governs the user experience: for the most part, users must shuttle between different websites and proprietary digital repositories that do not communicate with one another.

The Internet Archive is attempting to bring archival principles to bear on the Internet; meanwhile, Explore Chicago Collections is attempting to bring a key feature of the Internet to bear upon Chicago archives—interconnectivity. Or, as Carl Smith, professor emeritus of history at Northwestern University, put it at a recent Chicago Collections member meeting, the ECC portal represents a “fulfillment of the promise of the Internet.”

Of course, the connections between and among Chicago collections predate the launch of the portal. Materials held in different Chicago cultural institutions complement one another by illuminating different dimensions of the same subject. In some cases, they comprise the personal papers of the same writer, social reformer, or politician, illustrated by the Newberry’s and the University of Illinois at Chicago Library’s collections of original drawings by the political cartoonist John T. McCutcheon.

But by providing access to these separate archives in one place online, Explore Chicago Collections is making their intertwining relationships manifest and easily manageable for a wide range of users for the first time.

“Librarianship has transitioned from being part of an economy of scarcity to an economy of abundance,” says Jen Wolfe, digital librarian at the Newberry. “Scholars want digital access to entire collections so that they can determine for themselves which materials will support their research.”

Chicago Collections members upload their own digital images and finding aids to the back-end of the Explore Chicago Collections portal before they’re available publicly through the user interface. It’s therefore up to each institution to identify the items from their collections that make it into the portal. Wolfe and the Newberry’s Digital Initiatives team manage the library’s digital contributions.

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s humanities scholars have become more accustomed to accessing increasingly enormous amounts of data online and using algorithms and other tools for analyzing that data, what they need from and expect of research libraries has changed. “Librarianship has transitioned from being part of an economy of scarcity to an economy of abundance,” says Jen Wolfe, digital librarian at the Newberry. “Scholars want digital access to entire collections so that they can determine for themselves which materials will support their research.

The Newberry and organizations like Chicago Collections are responding to the new ways in which humanities projects are now conducted.”

John T. McCutcheon was a prolific editorial cartoonist for the Chicago Tribune. His original drawings can be found in different collections in Chicago. This one, for a cartoon published in January 1913, is part of the Newberry collection.

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The Newberry’s Percy H. Sloan Photograph Collection consists of more than 500 photographs capturing the landscape of a variety of Chicago neighborhoods in the first half of the twentieth century. The photos feature schools, libraries, residences, and, in many cases, places of worship.

With the portal’s launch, over 600 Newberry finding aids and over 2,000 digital images from its collection now appear alongside those of Chicago’s other preeminent cultural institutions. The Newberry archival collections represented by the finding aids include such diverse materials as the records of the Chicago Daily News and the Fanny Butcher Papers, an aggregation of the correspondence, clippings, manuscripts, and photographs of the literary critic and author. Of the 2,000 Newberry images, many have never before been available on any public platform. They comprise a range of mediums and manifestations of the ways in which Chicago has been built and beautified, marketed and mythologized, developed and disseminated.

The research value of many of the digitized collections, such as the Percy H. Sloan Photograph Collection, will be immediately seized upon. Sloan was an art teacher in the Chicago Public Schools system who, between 1913 and 1941, took hundreds of photos capturing the lifeblood of the city’s neighborhoods: schools, libraries, residences, and places of worship. Sloan’s photographs are the work of an amateur, but 18

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they make up for their faults in framing and perspective by simply surviving as visual evidence of communities that, in some cases, have changed substantially over the course of a century of urban planning and shifts in settlement patterns. For genealogists, they can serve as a resource for imagining the daily life of a Chicago ancestor. For historians, the photos can aid in peeling back the layers of the Chicago palimpsest.

Other digital images being made available by the Newberry on Explore Chicago Collections have less predictable research potential. In some instances, these are items that don’t belong to a discrete collection that might anchor them within a common idiom or set of affinities, as in the case of the Sloan photographs. They appear to be odd, eccentric, sui generis objects originating in the mind of some rogue author or profiteer.

And yet, exploring themes related to those within the thematic constellation of the ECC portal, their importance to Chicago’s history may emerge as students, teachers, and scholars encounter and make use of them as part of an expanded network of primary sources.

One example from this class of materials is Chicago Town, a 56-page illustrated book published in 1890 to promote the Michigan Central Railroad by way of extolling the commerce and cultural development it brought to Chicago. The book is a curiosity. Its form, alternating between poetry and prose, is as unpredictable as its content, which ranges in tone from the musings of a charmed visitor to the strident shouts of a pitchman.

One can assume that the book’s author, Davison Dalziel, coordinated his efforts with the Michigan Central (he also produced similar pamphlets promoting the Chicago and Alton Railroad Company), but the quality of the production falls comically short of other railroad marketing pieces of the period.

The pages are riddled with grammatical and typographical anomalies—“brarones” for “barons,” “it’s” for “its.”

How is Chicago Town to be judged and made sense of? As an artifact of amateur publishing? Railroad boosterism? Post-Fire optimism about Chicago’s future? An opportunistic profitseeking gambit? It’s now up to visitors to the ECC portal to decide.

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he Newberry’s history of participating in collaborative arrangements with other Chicago libraries is nearly as old as the Newberry itself. In 1896, the Newberry, the John Crerar Library (now part of the University of Chicago), and the Chicago Public Library agreed to collect in certain subject areas so that no library would duplicate the others’ efforts. According to the agreement, the Newberry would focus on the humanities, the Crerar on the physical and natural sciences, and the Chicago Public Library on “all wholesomely entertaining and generally instructive books” (according to a Newberry report to its trustees at the time). The division of labor helped formulate each

library’s identity and carved out a well-defined place for them within the city’s collecting ecosystem.

Today, that ecosystem is much larger and more complex, and, with the existence of Chicago Collections, it is increasingly unified despite its microclimates.

“What amazes me is the fact that library leaders across Chicago have continually made time to attend board meetings and committee meetings and to perform the conceptual and technical work required to get the portal off the ground,” says Spadafora. “The Newberry’s participation is consistent with our own history of coordinating efforts with other libraries, although the scale of the inter-institutional cooperation and the collaborative possibilities are entirely new.”

Jaclyn Grahl expects these possibilities to take on a variety of different forms. “We’re already discussing the second release of the portal so that it will include audio and video files in addition to digital images,” she says. “There’s also a great deal of potential for Chicago Collections members to stage public programming together: lecture series and exhibitions beyond the Raw Material exhibition now running, for example.”

Raw Material: Uncovering Chicago’s Historical Collections, on display at the Harold Washington Library Center through November 15, is, essentially, the public’s introduction to Chicago Collections. It’s also a physical simulation of the kinds of subjects users will be able to research and the cross-institutional connections they’ll be able to make in Explore Chicago Collections.

The exhibition features items from 20 archival repositories in the region, coalescing around such themes as “The Shape of Chicago,” “Doing Business,” “Life and Politics,” and “Leisure Time.” There are demographic maps and mayoral campaign buttons, personal diaries and ephemera, cartoons and

Chicago Town, by Davison Dalziel, was published in 1890. It glorifies the Michigan Central Railroad by way of trumpeting the prosperity the company brought to Chicago. The small book is riddled with typographical errors and stylistic curiosities.

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photographs. Among the most interesting—and unassuming— items are a selection of letters from the Richard J. Daley Collection at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The letters were written by Beatles fans to the then-mayor ahead of the Fab Four’s September 5, 1964, performance in Chicago. One letterwriter threatens to organize a demonstration if the mayor does not give the Beatles the “keys of the city.” “If we still receive no answer to my plea, we will sign petitions and stage a lay in at City Hall,” she writes. In another letter, the correspondent pleads with Daley to facilitate a meeting with Paul McCartney: “Please help me. I promise not to bring anybody with me or tell anybody and I’ll do anything you say just as long as my only wish comes true.”

Major historical and cultural movements had changed Chicago in the 71 years between Jane Elliott Sever’s reminiscences from the World’s Columbian Exposition and these brash missives to Mayor Daley. The city, along with the rest of the country, had endured two world wars and the Great

Depression. It had recovered from disastrous events, such as the fire in the Iroquois Theatre in 1903 and the sinking of the Eastland in 1915. It had redefined itself with yet another World’s Fair, in 1933. And it had been swept along in the currents of Beatlemania.

The youth of Chicago had changed accordingly. The spectacles of popular and consumer culture were increasingly tailored to their appetites and desires, and it emboldened them to demand the satisfaction of those desires. Electric light no longer impressed, much less captivated, them. They wanted the stars.

Across the decades, their stories live on, discoverable far more easily than before thanks to Chicago Collections.

Visit the Explore Chicago Collections portal: www.explore.chicagocollections.org

Chicago History Goes Global

By R. Eden Martin Over a decade ago, the Newberry, Northwestern University, and Chicago History Museum (CHM) collaborated in creating a print and digital version of the Encyclopedia of Chicago, a definitive historical reference on metropolitan Chicago that was 10 years in the making. Multiple archives were used, and staff from a number of institutions consulted and involved. The Newberry took the lead in producing the book version, with CHM taking the lead in developing the website. It was a fine example of institutional cooperation.

However, there’s an enormous amount of Chicago history embedded in the collections and archives of other Chicago libraries, museums, and universities. And there are many thousands of people, all over the world, who don’t have access to these materials as a practical matter.

Explore Chicago Collections is making archival objects like photographs, letters, and drawings available to a greatly enlarged category of users—professional historians and aspiring scholars, researchers interested in urban America or particular families, journalists, teachers and high school students. For non-techies like me, the site is user-friendly, offering browsable search

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terms and instructions on how to find materials and ask questions about them. The professional historian in Lincoln Park or London, the family historian in Mattoon, or the Evanston high school senior doing his or her paper for a research project all now have easy access to the meat and potatoes (i.e. primary sources) of Chicago history at a level of depth and detail never before available.

It will be a fabulous resource for anyone anywhere in the world: a treasure trove for “Chicagoans” wherever they live. I am pleased to be involved with the institutions that are making Explore Chicago Collections a reality.

R. Eden Martin is a former trustee of the Newberry and a current supporter of the library’s Annual Fund. He is also a life trustee and former chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Chicago History Museum, and is a life trustee of the boards of several other Chicago cultural institutions. A retired partner and chairman of the Management Committee of Sidley Austin LLP, he is a book collector and has done extensive research in the area of local and family history, donating books and family archives to the Newberry.

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Recent Events SING-AND-PLAY-ALONG IN WASHINGTON SQUARE PARK

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he Newberry’s “Sing-and-Play-Along in Washington Square Park” took place fortuitously on June 21, both the first day of summer and Father’s Day, bringing musicians of many different experience levels together for spirited renditions of American folk favorites and classical compositions. With the energy and optimism that attend the solstice f lowing through the crowd, and with sheet music furnished from the Newberry’s world-famous music collection, a mixture of vocalists and instrumentalists gathered around a piano stationed in the park to perform “Oh! Susanna,” “Yankee Doodle,” and selections from Bach, Schubert, and Beethoven.

The piano, a retired practice piano from Northwestern’s Bienen School of Music, remained in the park throughout the summer for passersby to play and enjoy. The sing-and-play-along was part of the Make Music Chicago 2015 festival and was cosponsored by the Washington Square Park Advisory Council, with support from the Chicago Free For All Fund at The Chicago Community Trust.

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hicago statues are now talking as part of Statue Stories Chicago, a project funded by the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation. For the next year, when you use your smartphone to swipe a tag near one of 30 statues throughout the city, you’ll receive a short audio recording detailing the significance of the historical figure depicted. As a bonus, each statue is paired with an organization whose collections or services users can consult to deepen their understanding after listening to the statue’s “story.” The “Newberry statues” include Benjamin Franklin and William Shakespeare (both in Lincoln Park) and Nathan Hale (Tribune Tower). We’ve supported inquiries into each by sculpting “From the Stacks” essays out of the marble slabs of Franklin-, Shakespeare-, and Halerelated items in our collection. Did you know, for example, that the Newberry has a phonetically spelled edition of The Tempest from 1849? Visit www.newberry.org/from-the-stacks to learn more.

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Recent Events 31ST ANNUAL BOOK FAIR

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he 2015 Newberry Book Fair was one of the busiest of the fair’s 31-year history, resulting in nearrecord sales. Thousands of visitors sifted through 120,000 used books to fulfill summer reading lists and bolster personal libraries. Supplementing the reading material available was a robust selection of vinyl, vintage board games, and the vestigial traces of twentieth-century pop culture, including a Mickey Mouse backscratcher! As in previous Book Fairs, a team of hard-working Newberry staff and volunteers helped make the 2015 bibliophilic bonanza a wildly successful one.

The 2015 Newberry Book Fair was proudly sponsored by Whole Foods Market Chicago.

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BUGHOUSE SQUARE DEBATES

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undreds of attendees gathered in Washington Square Park on July 25 for the Newberry’s Bughouse Square Debates. The annual celebration of free speech, emceed by the Chicago Tribune’s Rick Kogan, kicked off with a performance by the Environmental Encroachment Marching Band and the presentation of the Altgeld Freedom of Speech Award to Wendy Kaminer, an outspoken critic of censorship on college campuses and a member of the advisory board for FIRE: Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. Following the main debate on the future of public education in Chicago was a series of soapbox speakers covering a range of subjects comprising the American health care system, Chicago’s social geography, and IsraeliPalestinian relations. After the oratory had subsided, Rachel Goodstein was awarded the Dill Pickle Champion Soapboxer Award for her speech, “Tough Talk for Tough Times in the Toddling Town: Serious Solutions for the Second City’s Crises.”

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Stagestruck City Chicago’s Theater Tradition and the Birth of the Goodman September 18 through December 31

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Upcoming Events Since the Newberry’s founding in 1887, the library has provided programs in the humanities for people throughout the Chicago area and beyond. Today, you can explore history, literature, music, and the arts through public lectures, meet-the-author events, exhibitions, seminars, and other programs. Unless otherwise noted, programming is free and no reservations are required. This is a partial list of programs. Please check www.newberry.org for updates.

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Stagestruck City: Chicago’s Theater Tradition and the Birth of the Goodman September 18 – December 31

Genealogy and Local History Orientation Saturday, December 5, 9:30 am

Curator-led Exhibition Tours Tuesday, September 29, 6 pm Thursday, November 12, 6 pm Saturday, December 12, 11 am

NOVEMBER Genealogy and Local History Orientation Saturday, November 7, 9:30 am D’Arcy McNickle Distinguished Lecture Series Leslie Marmon Silko Thursday, November 5 5:30 pm reception, 6:15 pm lecture Meet the Author Mark Noll, author of In the Beginning Was the Word, discusses “The Bible in Early America: Colonies, Empire, Revival, War” Tuesday, November 10, 6 pm Lecture/Performance “Sybil Shearer: Maverick of the Past, Muse of the Present” Kristina Isabelle Dance Company Wednesday, November 11, 6 pm Exhibition Program Neena Arndt, Associate Dramaturg at the Goodman Theatre, discusses “90 Years of Goodman Theatre: The Evolution of an Institution” Wednesday, November 18, 6 pm

Exploring the Hundred Acre Wood “A Walk in Pooh’s Footsteps” (for kids ages 4 – 10) Saturday, December 5, 10 am “The Natural World of Winnie-the-Pooh: A Walk through the Forest That Inspired the Hundred Acre Wood” (for adults) Saturday, December 5, 1 pm

JANUARY Genealogy and Local History Orientation Saturday, January 9, 9:30 am The Shakespeare Project of Chicago The Winter’s Tale— a staged reading (a preshow introduction will begin at 9:45 am) Saturday, January 16, 10 am – 12:30 pm

FEBRUARY Genealogy and Local History Orientation Saturday, February 6, 9:30 am The Shakespeare Project of Chicago Cymbeline— a staged reading (a preshow introduction will begin at 9:45 am) Saturday, February 27, 10 am – 12:30 pm

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