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Illuminating Modern Manuscripts In light of the attention regularly afforded to such Newberry collection items as the Shakespeare First Folio, maps of North America dating back to the beginnings of European colonization, and our copy of the Popol Vuh, it may surprise some readers of this magazine to know that the Newberry has a large collection devoted entirely to what we call “modern manuscripts.” Of course, we have lots of notable handwritten documents that were produced before the era of the printing press. Our modern manuscripts are quite different. They include diverse formats from handwritten and typescript items of a more recent vintage to photographs, videos, audio recordings, drawings, and maps. The modern manuscript collections contain letters from Midwest pioneers to their East Coast relatives, notes Chicago journalists took in preparing big stories, records that reveal the inner workings of private companies, and sketches typographers made as they perfected a new typeface.

At the Newberry, collecting materials such as these—especially those related to Chicago and the Midwest—was first pursued in a programmatic way in the middle of the twentieth century, under Director and Librarian Stanley Pargellis. Today, items that are among our most frequently requested entered the collection because of Pargellis’s direct intervention or precedents set by him in the 1940s and 1950s. In the case of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company (CB&Q) Records, it was as a result of both.

In 1943, the CB&Q made a first deposit with the Newberry of private archives documenting the company’s early history. Further deposits, expanding the chronological scope of the collection, followed in the succeeding years and decades. Pargellis fought hard for that original accession, believing that to provide access to the previously unavailable documents of a major American corporation was to lay the groundwork for a variety of research opportunities. Today these opportunities come to fuller and fuller fruition in the Newberry’s Midwest Manuscript Collection, of which the CB&Q archives form a significant part. A major cataloging project recently completed by the Modern Manuscripts Department, and led by Lloyd Lewis Curator of Modern Manuscripts Martha Briggs, is making CB&Q materials available to a range of users that even Pargellis could not have foreseen: not just historians and scholars interested in the Midwest or business per se, but also genealogists, graphic designers, photographers, those who investigate visual culture, and many more. These important constituencies come to the Newberry to read our modern manuscripts, and in doing so they help bring to life the cultural heritage that we preserve.

In this third issue of The Newberry Magazine, we invite you to read about the dynamic ways in which this heritage has been built by Newberry staff and donors and is constantly enriched by our readers. Thank you for your support of the Newberry, and happy reading.

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 Burlington Zephyr crosses a bridge out of Minneapolis.

Photograph by Russell Lee, 1948.

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FEATURES The Right Track

By Alex Teller In 1943 Newberry Director and Librarian Stanley Pargellis convinced a major American railroad to bring their private records out of the shadows and into the library’s collection. It was hard work.

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The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Archives Today

By Alison Hinderliter and Kelly Kress

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Woman of Letters

By Alex Teller Jerri Dell researches and rediscovers her grandfather, novelist and literary critic Floyd Dell.

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Maps and Atlases Roger Baskes receives the Newberry Library Award and, in his acceptance speech, shares his thoughts on Chicago, the humanities, and a life of collecting in cartography.

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Fit to Print and Then Some

By Karen Christianson The Newberry began systematically collecting the personal papers of Chicago journalists in the mid-twentieth century. What purpose do these materials serve today?

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DEPARTMENTS Dear Walter

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RETROSPECT: The Shakespeare Exhibition That T’was

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RETROSPECT: Recent Events

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PROSPECT: Upcoming Events

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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.

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Dear Walter:

Dear Walter:

The Newberry building is so beautiful. Who designed it?

I recently finished watching the World Cup this summer, and was hoping to feed my newfound love for the game of soccer. What do you recommend?

— Jenny Arches-Chesterton, Evanston, IL

— Franklin S. Weeper, Fort Collins, CO

My Dear Ms Arches-Chesterton,

My Dear Mr Weeper,

The news I relate herewith may elicit a Smirk or some other Expression of Bemusement, but no matter: the veracity of my Reply is beyond reproach. Construction of the Newberry building in which you presently stand (or sit, which is perhaps more likely the case) and enjoy the Fruits of Scholarship stirred up quite the controversy—a Charybdis of competing Wills and Visions toward the finale of the 19th C. The Newberry opened its doors to the Public in 1887, and the Great Institution would christen more than a few additional portals with the act of Door-Opening. Amid a series of temporary locations, the Board of Trustees initiated plans for a permanent home for the library, securing the services of architect Henry Ives Cobb. Cobb was a gentleman of relative Callowness and inexperience (a mere 29!). An unaffiliated observer with a Cynical inclination might divine a concealed Motive: the selection of a youthful architect who would readily defer to President and Librarian William Frederick Poole. That Unaffiliated Observer with a Cynical Inclination might be correct.

Poole was something of a Luminary in the field of Library Science, and he harbored uncompromising views regarding the design of libraries. Chief among these was the belief that a library’s collection must be dispersed among its Rooms so that Readers may interface—there’s one for all you MILLENIALS— with the items directly. No centralization of storage, no Cabal of Corrupt Librarian-Gatekeepers for Old Mr. Poole! Neither would he countenance any Pomp or Grandiosity. “Convenience and utility shall never yield to architectural effect,” he once told the American Library Association.

Cobb proved no obedient underling, however. The young architect returned from a trip to Europe in 1889 with visions of centralized storage and Architectural Effect. Poole, ever-attuned to his Rivals, published his views in Chicago’s newspapers in order to galvanize Public sentiment in his Favor. The Newberry’s Board of Trustees sensed a public relations Fiasco of unprecedented proportions and intervened, placating Poole and retaining a few of Cobb’s architectural Predilections. A Symbol of this great compromise (of which Henry Clay would be most proud) is the staircase which greets visitors in the Lobby: a grand unrolling of Marble whose ambition seems to have been constrained, tempered, what have you. Alas…

Soccer: the word’s utterance requires the most oppressive Phonemes of Midwestern speech. It verily takes up residence— establishes a Domicile—in the nasal passages, wouldn’t you agree? As for the Object to which it refers, I am a gentleman of Leisure, a citizen of the Mind, and so cannot pretend to declaim upon it as an Authority. Give me the “Sport” of gathering the final volume of Gibbon’s History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire from the topmost shelf in my Study any Day of the Week. However, I grant all queries an equality of consideration, and shall vouchsafe a Reply.

The Newberry does have in its Collection, Dear Franklin, a Volume that may prove edifying to your Soccer-addled mind: Athletics and Football, published in 1894 as part of the Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes series. Perhaps a smattering of background information will be of some Utility.

For a good deal of Time, while the Glorious 1800s (from which yours truly hails) waxed their way mid century, “Football” was played primarily among the youthful Britons fortunate enough to attend a Public School. Of course, in contrast to the Semantics on this side of the Atlantic, British “public” schools were the province of the Elite: those whose Genealogy included William the Conqueror and Beowulf and so on and so forth. The exclusivity of the Pursuit, however, did not suppress a litany of Opinions and Sentiments regarding the Proper way to engage in It. Each school, seemingly, promoted its own Rules, which varied according to the Allowances made for the hands and feet. For reasons that should be SelfEvident, this inconsistency would prove untenable; with the passage of Labor Laws (adieu, 16-hour workday!) and the ensuing Democratization of Leisure, the demand became all the greater for a codification of rules capable of governing a larger collection of Players. Two unified systems emerged: that which we recognize today as Rugby, and…FOOTBALL—ahem, soccer.

A culmination in this movement to Codify the rules of the game arrived with publication of Athletics and Football

by Montague Sherman (which includes, lest we forget, “a contribution on paper-chasing by W. Rye”).

Enjoy! Now, if you will excuse me, I’ve grown faint (I feel as though I Myself have raced several Leagues along the pitch), and Gibbon beckons.

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The Right Track Stanley Pargellis and the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company Records

By Alex Teller

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tanley Pargellis came to the Newberry in 1942, from Yale University, where he taught history. He had already begun work on a bibliography of eighteenth-century British history that would become, after its publication in 1951, a standard resource for the field. His résumé, however, could attest to no experience in library management. Pargellis would be a scholarlibrarian: scholarly instinct would come first, guiding him early in his tenure as president of the library; a feel for administration would come later. Pargellis was himself disarmingly serene about this progression. In a January 16, 1942, letter to President of the Newberry Board of Trustees Alfred Hamill, Pargellis expressed his interest in becoming the capital L Librarian of the Newberry: “I like libraries, I like what I saw of the Newberry Library, and I think I should like to try my hand at running it.”

(All quoted material, unless otherwise noted, comes from letters in the Newberry Library Archives.)

Pargellis would run the Newberry for the next 20 years, expanding its collection to include the records of major American railroads and the papers of twentieth-century journalists (of which Karen Christianson writes in this magazine). Pargellis’s legacy today appears strikingly in the Newberry’s Midwest Manuscript Collection. A pivotal moment in the development of the collection came with the scholarlibrarian’s 1943 acquisition of the early archives of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad (CB&Q), a corporate titan

This promotional poster from 1858 trumpeted the extension of a Burlington route in southern Iowa. The poster is one of the oldest pieces in the Newberry’s CB&Q archives.

“ I like libraries, I like what I saw of the Newberry Library, and I think I should like to try my hand at running it.”

Newberry Librarian Stanley Pargellis in the library’s stacks, ca. 1959.

that, together with its subsidiaries, had created a rail network extending from Chicago to the Pacific Northwest. (Burlington President Ralph Budd once remarked that his company “not only brought the first effective means of transportation to much of this region, but also took an active part in its settlement and colonization.”) Pargellis’s private correspondence with the Burlington reveals the vexed back-and-forth that led to the landmark acquisition.

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aving recently taught a class on American economic history at Yale, Stanley Pargellis sought to collect local business records almost as soon as he arrived at the Newberry.

The idea was to support the work of scholars of economics and social and business history (who generally couldn’t access the archives of the corporations that, for better or worse, had shaped American life) and to build the Newberry’s repository of materials illuminating the development of Chicago and the Midwest. But the new librarian didn’t know a whole lot about building a collection, much less one consisting of items— correspondence, balance sheets, employee records—that had been closely kept by companies and boards and executives with much to lose.

Late in 1942, Pargellis wrote to Arthur Cole, librarian of the Harvard University School of Business’s Baker Library, for advice. Cole essentially told Pargellis to think like a businessman, to frame his argument in terms of mutual advantage when convincing businesses to let him hold their private records. The Newberry librarian expressed his thanks in a follow-up letter: “I begin to see that a businessman’s interest The Newberry Magazine

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is at once awakened if you suggest that you can save him storage charges on his dead files, and if one follows along those lines in reaching a negotiation, it is almost bound to be one which leaves legal ownership in the firm.” Pargellis was already pulling from a commercial lexicon like a veteran of the boardroom. But negotiating entailed some measure of sacrifice, and if firms retained ownership of their records after depositing them at libraries, it might restrict the freedom of scholarship.

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y the early 1940s the railroad industry was coming to terms with the existential threat of other modes of transportation. Road, water, and air travel were all—like rail—subsidized in one form or another by the federal government; and yet the ways in which the Interstate Commerce Commission (or, in the case of air, the Civil Aeronautics Board) regulated those industries allowed them to claim increasing portions of freight and passenger mileage in the United States. A rapidly expanding highway system diverted more and more traffic from railroad companies. Already by 1930 there were about 660,000 miles of highways, supporting 10 times as many passenger-miles as the railroads.

Meanwhile, the development of military aeronautics— accelerated by the Second World War—virtually guaranteed comparable development in commercial air travel. According to R.C. Overton, of the Burlington’s research department, in The Burlington Route, “Aircraft manufacturers ready to meet the demands of war could Among the railroads’ business practices, the use of federal land grants to finance expansion be encouraged only if commercial aviation itself was across the United States was especially controversial. This map originally appeared in The constantly expanding.” The federal government did this History of Our Public Lands, 1882. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. by improving airway infrastructure (systems providing exaggerated the incentives offered to the railroads to settle the more accurate weather information, for example), West: land grants, tax breaks, and so on. resulting in an increasingly reliable alternative to travel by rail.

Especially controversial was the railroads’ acquisition of In addition to fierce competition in the field of public land in the form of land grants. In theory, the railroads transportation, the tweed-and-elbow-patch-wearing crowd would finance their operations by selling land to farmers and was causing the railroads great consternation. “I am particularly other settlers; farmers would benefit from their proximity to a concerned with the attitude of the members of university and train route, shipping their crops faster than they had before; and college faculties, an attitude which has worked incalculable the government would see an increase in the value of the land harm to the railroad industry,” wrote one major-railroad executive in a letter to Stanley Pargellis. The harm, the executive to which it retained title. Over time, however, the scale with which government and the railroads pursued their public-private implied, came from strident pronouncements of the corrupt partnership bred resentment: railroad firms would receive more relationship between the railroads and the federal government. than 223 million acres from state and federal grants.

The accusations trickled down from ivory towers to inf luence The railroad firms’ quibbles with their critics within the impressionable students and, over time, national convictions. academy and specialized fields like cartography could be, well, Scholarship, according to railroad companies, unfairly academic. A textbook containing a map of “Land Grants Made associated the ruthless expansiveness of modern American

by Congress to Aid in the Construction of Railroads” caught capitalism with the railroads — a mere component of the the critical eye of the Association of American Railroads capitalist system. Scholars (so the argument went), consulting (AAR). Robert S. Henry, assistant to the president of the labor union proclamations and other biased sources, had greatly

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According to Overton, the goodwill curried by the gesture of releasing company records could potentially negate whatever “dirt” those records contained. association, wrote to the authors of America that their map was inaccurate. “The actual grants were only a little more than onefourth as much as the area shown in these maps,” he pointed out. The United States government, in other words, hadn’t been that generous. And the railroads in any event had more than made up for it, according to Henry, in reduced shipping rates for government accounts.

Implicit in Henry’s rebuke is the notion that unf lattering portrayals of the railroad industry were linked to inaccurate information. Inaccurate information could be corrected only with more reliable sources, of which the railroads considered themselves the gatekeepers. This line of thought led to the conclusion that providing access to company records must result in more favorable reviews. After all, it couldn’t get much worse.

As R.C. Overton wrote of an Illinois Central executive, in a letter to Burlington President Ralph Budd, “If there was any ‘dirt’ in the records, he hoped it would be made public, because he was sure that it would not be nearly so bad as some of the things that have already been said about the railroads.”

In Chicago, the president of a major research library was hoping to build a collection of business records. He and the great Burlington Railroad, also based in Chicago, soon realized their interests overlapped.

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tanley Pargellis had been meeting, throughout late 1942 and early 1943, with a group of college professors who called themselves the “Lexington Group.” Members varied in their feelings about the railroad industry’s intention to make materials available for research, but they all agreed there was a gap in the sources available for current scholarship. Pargellis emerged as a mediator of sorts, assuaging his peers’ concerns over corporate meddling and working to understand the railroads’ own apprehensions. Notes taken by Pargellis at this time ref lect a keen awareness of the assumptions and prophecies that the public had affixed to the railroads in general and to the Burlington in particular: “Not public servants primarily…. Land grant mismanagement…. RRs have gotten far more out of the public than they have ever given…. RRs doomed to fail with post-war air transport developments.” This aptitude for understanding the state of the industry and the Burlington’s anxieties earned Pargellis the trust of the railroad’s executives.

Already by October 26, 1942, Pargellis could report to Overton that the Newberry Board of Trustees had voted to accept the central office papers of the CB&Q should they be offered.

The vote was an act of theater, a declaration of intent without hope of imminent action; the Burlington chain of command was conducting a cost-benefit analysis regarding the release of its records that they would not resolve until the spring of 1943.

In the meantime, the company did begin to take at least the principle of transparency seriously. In a letter from November 1942, Overton told Budd that “from a public relations point of view, I believe the Burlington has a great deal to gain by the mere fact of deposit of these specific records, or even, to a lesser extent, by our serious consideration of the project.”

The observation added an element of sophistication to the Burlington’s calculus. According to Overton (and in the minds of other Burlington people as well), the goodwill curried by the gesture of releasing company records could potentially negate whatever “dirt” those records contained. If the Burlington were to act as if it had nothing to hide, it could condition public opinion. After all, why would a company release a cache of private documents if it were anything other than a corporation with a clean record, in thrall to the public trust?

The Newberry’s proposed stewardship of once-private business records seemed to have strong support within the Burlington company. But uncertainty lingered. Nearly a hundred years of zealously guarding trade secrets had formed the Burlington psyche. Its fortifications could not be overcome so easily. Releasing documents meant relinquishing control of the ways in which those documents were interpreted; it meant not just having to tolerate but actually to invite outside participation in the construction of the Burlington narrative. The railroad’s executives agonized over the inevitable question: how might the Burlington retain some control over its own story? The mixture of resolve and doubt that characterized the Burlington’s attitude toward greater transparency ref lected, in many ways, the binary composition of the railroad industry as a whole: its mighty legacy and uncertain future.

A March 1943 memo from the Burlington to the Newberry conveyed the merits and hazards of providing readers and writers with research materials. Under “General Assumptions,” the Burlington noted: It is desirable if not essential to obtain the support of students, teachers, writers, and the reading public for the railroads….

In the past, and to a considerable degree at present, these groups have held and expressed generally unfavorable or skeptical opinions concerning the policies and practices of railroads….

The facts, if known (specifically in regard to the Burlington), would force to a greater or lesser degree a revision of these opinions in a direction favorable to the railroads…. The only way to make the facts known is to open fully all of the railroad archives available that do not deal with current transactions.

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The company, however, held onto the possibility of regulating use of its deposit in some way. The same memo asked, “Will availability of this material to qualified research men lead to publication of information ref lecting favorably upon the Burlington? Will making the material available to qualified research men produce a reaction favorable to the Burlington?”

The criteria for determining who counted as “qualified research men” were never spelled out, but it was standard practice among research libraries of the time, when making archival materials available, to hold readers to this ideal. (The gendered nature of the ideal, it should be noted, was also standard.)

If Pargellis acquiesced in the Burlington’s public relations campaign and its attendant terms and restrictions, he took issue with the railroad industry’s larger project of reputation management. This effort was being spearheaded by the Association of American Railroads and its Assistant-to-thePresident Robert Henry. Henry’s plan had three goals: to create a network of public relations representatives from each of the major railroad companies who could provide materials to writers curious enough to ask for them; to encourage research in the history of railroads; and to publish the results of that research.

When Pargellis caught wind of Henry’s ideas, he was livid. In an April 1 letter he explained to Henry that the AAR’s publication initiative would spook the very “qualified research men” the Burlington was trying to court: “[It had been agreed that] the Association of American Railroads had to tread cautiously in its dealings with academic people, that it had to avoid every act which, in this propaganda-ridden world, could be interpreted as railroad propaganda. [Academics see] corporation-subsidized literature a mile away. Most of them chuck it into a wastebasket without reading it.”

Pargellis believed historical inquiry, held to the highest academic standards regarding diversity of sources and soundness of argument (“dissemination of information which meets all scholarly tests and commands respect,” he told Henry), would vindicate the railroads. The keepers of their records, therefore, should be not the railroads themselves but the institutions in the business of facilitating research and writing: libraries. Pargellis thus stood up for both the existing best practices of the academy and the interests of big business. Some within the academic community doubted the two could coexist in the same scholarly effort; the Burlington was convinced that they could and that Pargellis, the head of an independent library, could help in the creation of its new public image.

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n April 21, 1943, Ralph Budd wrote Pargellis, letting him know the company had decided to deposit with the Newberry its business records from 1849 to 1887. The 10 tons would include correspondence to and from Burlington executives, as well as files related to the construction and operation of the

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railroad—from the original, 12-mile Aurora Branch to thousands of miles of track laid during the CB&Q’s westward march to Omaha, Minneapolis, and Denver. The Burlington would retain title to its materials, but made Pargellis the final arbiter in making them available to Newberry readers. “We understand that…you will not permit anyone to have access to our records or to publish material drawn from them unless you are satisfied that he is qualified by training and experience to work in this type of material,” Budd wrote. “No one will have access to [the Burlington files],” Pargellis replied, “who fails to convince me that he is well qualified to handle material of this sort and that he has a comprehensive and well-founded plan of objective research.”

The acquisition was monumental: a librarian in the Midwest had persuaded a major American corporation to take a step out of the shadows. However, to have any hope of securing additional deposits from the Burlington (and other midwestern businesses, for that matter), Pargellis needed to do more than just prevent “unqualified” researchers from defaming the Burlington. He had

Inside the CB&Q Archives: Though automobiles were already, by the 1920s, becoming the preferred form of transportation for short trips between American cities, trains remained the most convenient and efficient way to cover larger distances. The railroads preserved their competitive advantage in this area in part through the promotion of tourism. The Burlington travel brochures pictured here come from the mid-1940s, when the United States’ emergence as a global superpower provided the backdrop for the brochures’ vivid appeals to racial superiority. There is nothing subtle about “From Indian Trails to Steel Rails.” Or about an image of a gleaming product of twentieth-century industry roaring through the prairie, disturbing the ghostly presence of Indians on horseback.

The display of ideological certainty, however, disguises the rhetorical maneuvers the brochure makes in order to captivate prospective travelers. As the cover image’s narrative of progress is elaborated throughout the rest of the brochure, it takes on some surprising dimensions.

Trains not only overran American Indian communities but disrupted Anglo-American institutions along the frontier as well. The Pony Express, while it “lived to become a symbol of western heroism,” according to the brochure, “operated only 19 months”—a casualty of the railroads’ systematic handling of mail sorting and delivery. Steamship travel along the Missouri River floated increasingly toward obsolescence with the Burlington’s expansion in the Midwest. As the brochure boasts, “Service, established over this route in 1870, virtually ended the steamboat era along the Missouri.” This record of dominance raises the question of the future of the railroads themselves.

What technologies, in turn, will replace the trains?

The acquisition was monumental: a librarian in the Midwest had persuaded a major American corporation to take a step out of the shadows. to rally his peers so that a larger community of bibliophiles might normalize the practice of collecting corporate files.

To this end Pargellis committed himself wholly, becoming something of an evangelist. He wrote to other libraries and cultural institutions that were either hoping or planning to receive railroad archives, urging them to release statements promising fair use of materials. As he told the American Historical Association, “My own hope is that this deposit may be the first of many, and not merely as far as the Newberry Library is concerned. The country is full of similar records that ought to be in safe hands.” He even prodded the Burlington’s

publicity director, who had been caught f lat-footed in the wake of the Newberry-Burlington agreement, to alert trade magazines of the development: the industry needed to know that a major corporation had eschewed secrecy and the business world hadn’t been engulfed in f lames.

The May 1944 issue of Nation’s Business published Pargellis’s “Business Can’t Escape History,” an article addressed to the constituents of the Chamber of Commerce. Pargellis, in just four words, was right. History will judge the mergers and acquisitions, the supply chains and trade agreements that define the global economy—private firms might as well share their records with those who are doing the judging.

The inverse of Pargellis’s four-word formulation is actually what inspired his crusade to collect corporate archives in the first place. The last decade (to say nothing of the past few centuries), buoyed by boom and rattled by bust, has proven it true: history can’t escape business.

Travel Brochures A related question underlies the “From Wagon Wheel to Stainless Steel” brochure; it, too, has to do with the gaps between the past, present, and future. How do you seduce passengers with the luxury of modern rail travel, while also charming them with the rugged romance of the frontier? The solution seems to be some variation of the past is always with us. This brochure takes the historical figures who settled the West and imagines them as ghosts traveling with the passengerreader: “We, of the Burlington, on occasion, like to live again those days of the winning of the West. An old superstition has

it that ever since the first train ran on the Burlington, an unseen delegation has made every trip.”

A less whimsical idea suggests itself in each of these brochures. It is that the luxurious accommodations of a Burlington Zephyr train or Empire Builder are simply the latest state of American ingenuity—a tradition whose mythic roots extend to the early days of colonization. The very act of shaving in a dressing room, while the train rolls smoothly through the prairie, is an act of communing with the past: the passenger trimming his beard or reclining in his seat is part of the same historical continuum as Buffalo Bill and Lewis and Clark.

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Working, Traveling, Living on the Railroad Stanley Pargellis and the Newberry Library spearheaded publication of Granger Country: A Pictorial Social History of the Burlington Railroad to commemorate the CB&Q’s centennial mid-twentieth century. Photographers Esther Bubley and Russell Lee were enlisted for the project.

Only a fraction of the thousands of photos Bubley and Lee took made it into the book — the rest languished in obscurity until being processed by the Newberry, decades later. The photographs capture not only midwestern landscape at high speed but also the lives of Burlington employees and passengers and those of residents along the railroad’s tracks.

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The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Archives Today

By Alison Hinderliter and Kelly Kress

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he Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company (CB&Q) Records have grown considerably since Stanley Pargellis first brought the collection to the Newberry in the 1940s. Donations from the company, former employees, and company historian and author R.C. Overton augmented the archive of existing corporate records with nearly 1,000 linear feet of additional materials. The new magnitude and variety provided different channels through which to access the collection and extended its scope well into the twentieth century.

Photographs from the CB&Q advertising department added a strong visual element to the collection: images of personnel, trains, and scenic views of destinations such as Yellowstone and the Rocky Mountains. Another substantial set of prints and negatives, images from Depression-era documentary photographers Russell Lee and Esther Bubley, depicted the social and economic impact of the railroad along routes in the Midwest and Great Plains. And after the initial CB&Q deposit, company records followed in waves, rounding out the archive with such resources as maps, employee payroll books, promotional materials, and scrapbooks.

Researchers could always refer to the Guide to the Burlington Archives in the Newberry Library, 1851-1901, compiled in 1949.

But for a collection that had expanded so much in breadth and research potential, it eventually became time for an overhaul.

In 2011, the National Endowment for the Humanities awarded the Newberry a $300,000 grant to arrange, describe, and make electronically accessible the archives of the CB&Q. A team of professional archivists, technicians, and interns, headed by Lloyd Lewis Curator of Modern Manuscripts and Project Director Martha Briggs, spent the next two and a half years arranging and describing the Newberry’s largest archival collection. This involved unfolding, cleaning, and rehousing the bundled, folded, and bagged documents in archival boxes and folders; incorporating the additions; and describing the entire collection according to current archival standards. Now that the collection has been fully organized and processed, it can be used in ways once-Burlington President Ralph Budd and other railroad executives could have never imagined.

Genealogical research is a prime example of how to use the CB&Q records for something other than direct inquiries into railroad history. The CB&Q had its own substantial Land Department that managed sales of land to farmers, many of whom were European immigrants. Using the Land Department records and its indexes of names, individual land applications and contracts, correspondence, and maps, a researcher can with

a little effort discover a great deal of information about a person, a family, or a place. Because the records are all interconnected with contract numbers and geographic locations (section, township, and range), a researcher could start from any jumpingoff place and follow the thread through all the various parts of her investigation. To make it easier, the CB&Q archivists also laboriously recorded land purchaser names and place names for many of the contracts, so a line of inquiry could begin with a simple keyword search in the finding aid and develop from there.

Of course, railroad enthusiasts, too, can pursue exciting research using the collection. The CB&Q records have already been consulted by business historians, labor historians, engineers, and academic researchers interested in everything from early advertising campaigns to construction of refrigerator cars. Perusing old brochures and timetables, one can get a sense of how important the CB&Q was to American industry, business, and recreation.

The new online resources created by the Newberry archivists promise to deliver better and broader access to the CB&Q archives, both in the library and remotely. In addition to improving access with standard archival web-based inventories and catalog records, Newberry archivists created a web gallery focusing on topics like labor, the environment, advertising and design, and travel and tourism. Linked to the inventories, the gallery opens up the massive CB&Q archive, introducing scholars, local historians, railroad enthusiasts, and genealogists to the collection’s diverse content. The web gallery also includes essays, called “panoramas,” detailing some of the important historic milestones of the company, such as the Strike of 1888 and the debut of the Burlington Zephyr.

The legacy of Stanley Pargellis is evident in the Newberry’s robust holdings of midwestern business history materials, which continue to be an active collecting area for the Newberry’s Modern Manuscripts Department. Especially strong in railroad and printing history, Modern Manuscripts houses the records of the Illinois Central Railroad and the Pullman Company; publishing companies A.C. McClurg, Charles H. Kerr, and Rand McNally; and the papers of individuals and entrepreneurs working in Chicago and the Midwest.

For finding aids providing access to the CB&Q Company Records, visit http://mms.newberry.org/xml/xml_ files/CBQ_Main.xml Alison Hinderliter is manuscripts and archives librarian of the Modern Manuscripts Department.

Kelly Kress is senior project archivist.

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Woman of Letters Jerri Dell Rediscovers Her Grandfather, Floyd Dell, in the Newberry Collection

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erri Dell grew up with a grandfather who had once been a famous writer. He Jerri Dell goes through materials from the did not carry himself Newberry’s Floyd Dell Papers, 2012. lugubriously around the house as some famous writers, treating the patterns of domestic life as a threat to their work, were known to do. He was a family man. He had happily chosen to be one, in the tradition of American self-actualization that he celebrated in his novels. And yet he frequently spent long hours at work in his study. He kept the door closed. Jerri knew her grandfather had stopped writing novels long ago, and she wondered what he was doing. She would not find out until she came to the Newberry, to dig into the Floyd Dell Papers, over 40 years later.

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loyd Dell was a linchpin of the literary culture that emerged in Chicago in the first decade of the twentieth century. In 1911, at the age of 24, he became the editor of, and chief contributor to, the Friday Literary Review, a supplement of the Chicago Evening Post. An avowed socialist, Dell gleefully presented viewpoints in opposition to that of the paper’s conservative owner, John Shaffer. Dell encouraged his writers to emphasize the primacy of the text over sentimental considerations of its author’s life. This political-aesthetic constellation made the Friday Literary Review one of the bestknown literary supplements in the country.

Like many of those who contributed to what would later be known as the “Chicago Renaissance,” Dell was a transplant from the Midwest periphery, come to the metropolitan center to achieve fame as a writer; he arrived in 1908 from Davenport, Iowa. The f ledgling community of artists that migrated to Chicago had a quality of improvisation and spontaneity. Informal get-togethers engendered big ideas.

Margaret Anderson’s magazine the Little Review, which introduced American readers to James Joyce’s Ulysses, grew out of conversations Anderson had at the parties Dell and his

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first wife, Margery Currey, threw at their studios on the south side of the city. Sherwood Anderson, Theodore Dreiser, and Harriet Monroe would attend these parties as well, debating questions like how literary techniques might be used to register the disruptions and elisions of urban American life.

In many avant-garde circles, this question led to a radical rejection of the realistic transcription of life into art. The formal experiments of Dada and Cubism, for example, made the medium of art itself the subject of art rather than the hidden means by which a painting became a window onto the world. Novelists experimented with stream-of-consciousness devices that, while sometimes used in the service of aesthetic indulgence, were capable of evoking the overstimulation of modern transportation, media, advertising, etc. Take as an example this passage from The 42nd Parallel, part of John Dos Passos’s U.S.A. trilogy: “…and She was saying Oh dolly I hope we wont be late and Scott was waiting with the tickets and we had to run up the platform of the Seventh Street Depot and all the little cannons kept falling out of the Olympia and everybody stooped to pick them up and the conductor Allaboard lady quick lady…”

Floyd Dell, in his own writing, had no use for modernism and its stylistic fugues. To him, the realism of Dickens remained sufficient for capturing the sights, smells, and sounds of the industrial city. Chicago was first and foremost a physical space that should be described in vivid detail. He deplored writers who treated the city as “a condition and not a place.”

Floyd Dell, 1921.

“With each letter I read, I felt my role shifting from memoirist to literary historian and critic.”

Dell’s literary predilections were, from a certain vantage point, reactionary. He moved to New York City in 1913, and though he wrote progressively on feminism and served on the editorial staffs of Masses and then the Liberator, his success as a novelist (beginning in 1920, with publication of the autobiographical Moon-Calf ) compromised his socialistbohemian credentials. After Dell resigned from New Masses in 1929, for example, Editor Michael Gold bitterly responded, in the July issue of the paper: “At no time was Floyd Dell a real revolutionist. At all times he had a distaste for reality, for the strong smells and sound and confusions of the class struggle.”

By the 1930s Dell had begun to recede from the public life of a distinguished writer.

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hen she first arrived at the Newberry, in 2010, Jerri Dell used the Floyd Dell Papers as a resource for work on a memoir. “I wanted to learn more about my grandparents—especially my grandmother, B. Marie Gage— and fill in the gaps of stories she told me as a child,” says Jerri.

Jerri studied Dell and Gage family photographs, listened to an audio cassette of Dell reading poetry in 1954, and sifted through hundreds of letters and penny postcards Floyd wrote to B. Marie.

As Jerri made her way through some 870 folders containing all sorts of writings and ephemera related to Floyd Dell (including his correspondence with writers such as Theodore Dreiser, H.L. Mencken, and Edna St. Vincent Millay), she began to realize the extent of her grandfather’s inf luence, which in turn inf luenced the nature of her research.

“With each letter I read, I felt my role shifting from memoirist to literary historian and critic.” Jerri was especially compelled to respond to Dell’s critics, the people like Michael Gold who had questioned her grandfather’s revolutionary sensibilities.

By May 2013 Jerri thought she had read everything the Newberry had on Floyd. Then she found 635 pages of letters he had written, between 1960 and 1968, to Miriam Gurko, Edna St. Vincent Millay’s biographer. ( Jerri had only then become aware of a separate collection, the Miriam GurkoFloyd Dell Papers, which contained the letters.) The letters at once fueled Jerri’s literary criticism and her desire to clarify the past. They provided her access to Dell’s thoughts on literature, society, and culture, delivered with a candor that publication tends to soften; and they gave her an at least partial answer to the question of what Dell had been writing with such focus behind the closed door of his study.

Edna St. Vincent Millay, ca. 1925.

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loyd Dell met Edna Millay in Greenwich Village in December 1917. Their affair was as tempestuous as it was brief. Wary of the emotional entanglements that might infringe on her work as a poet, Millay could be mercurial, and she rejected Dell’s professions of love and proposals of marriage. Dell believed love to be an immersive state of existence, that it could be permanent; Millay believed it ephemeral.

It did not take long for Dell to find his enduring love: soon after he and Millay parted for the final time, Dell met B. Marie Gage. They were married in February 1919, to the chagrin of the Greenwich Village bohemians, who espoused free love and other values antithetical to bourgeois domestic stability.

Miriam Gurko’s interest in Floyd Dell lay in his intimacy with a poet on the verge of greatness (Millay would win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1923). “Dell’s letters reveal Edna Millay at a crucial moment in her career,” Gurko wrote, in

“Dell’s letters reveal Edna Millay at a crucial moment in her career. We have here a firsthand record of what she was like as seen by a man—himself a trained and highly intelligent observer—who was her friend, companion, and lover.”

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affairs with as much (if not more) relish as it did her writing. Her privacy fodder for mass-media sensationalism, she tightly policed the boundaries of her emotional life. The close watch she kept over her own inner turmoil, the source of her poetry, was not to be superseded by any other bond. Dell’s withdrawal was geographic (from the city to the country, as he matured and his career as a novelist progressed) and domestic, and yet he opened a number of interpersonal pathways to accommodate the loved ones with whom he was populating his life.

“The poet is more used to making poetry out of unhappiness than out of joy,” Dell wrote to Gurko in 1960. “The impulses toward lovemaking that can be carried out in actuality produce no poetry. And the poet may turn impatiently from mere happiness back to grief.”

(Dell was content with the “mere happiness” he found within his home—a contentment that was, perhaps, dependent on the affairs he pursued outside of it.) Jerri remembers her grandfather going on about Millay at the dinner table when she was a little girl. Her grandmother betrayed no jealousy. Rather, she was sorry for Millay—for, Jerri now understands, the poet’s inability to submit to the human relationships she regarded as a threat to her artistic production. “Poor Edna, poor Edna,” Jerri’s grandmother would intone.

Jerri now plans to publish a selection of the letters Gurko and Dell exchanged, adding some of Dell’s other writings—both published Jerri Dell, during a spring 2014 visit to the library, beneath a painting of Floyd Dell hanging in the and unpublished—for good measure. She is Newberry’s Special Collections Reading Room. calling the compilation Blood Too Bright, an the foreword to a collection of her correspondence with Dell allusion to a poem by Millay called “Weeds.” In the poem, which she never published. “We have here a first-hand record the speaker contemplates a surplus of feeling that, untamed of what she was like as seen by a man—himself a trained and by the unwritten rules of civilization, leads to a life along its highly intelligent observer—who was her friend, companion, margins. She can find peace only among the discarded ruins and lover.” of agriculture (“a worthless crop of crimson weeds, / cursed For Jerri, what emerges in these letters is an arresting by farmers thriftily”). She rests: “And here a while, where contrast between Millay and Dell, between the public no wind brings / the baying of a pack athirst, / may sleep demands of poetry and the private contentment of family life. the sleep of blessed things, / the blood too bright, the brow In the production of art and in the production of families, accurst.” coordinates of the public and the private do not always align According to Jerri, Dell believed this poem expressed how neatly with those of exposure and control. The celebrity Millay always thought of her life—as one of marginalization, Millay achieved as a poet in the 1920s and ‘30s meant the of vehement passions in excess of modern structures of feeling. public consumed news of her alcoholism and extramarital It is perhaps how all poets must live.

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Roger Baskes Receives the Newberry Library Award

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now housed as the Baskes Collection. When his gift is he Newberry Library Award, the highest honor complete, it will more than double the Newberry’s atlas the library bestows, recognizes individuals who holdings, firmly establishing the library as having one have made outstanding contributions to the humanities, of the most comprehensive collections of atlases to be particularly in fields of endeavor related to the Newberry’s found anywhere in the world. The collection’s breadth collection and activities. This spring, the Newberry and diversity will also change the way scholars and other recognized a most deserving honorand—our own trustee readers think about maps, their history, and their relevance and friend Roger Baskes. to diverse fields of study.

On May 5, more than 200 guests gathered at the During this event, David Spadafora announced that Newberry to celebrate Roger. The event, chaired by in recognition of this and other extraordinary gifts, the David and Celia Hilliard and Michael and Christine Newberry has named the position of Vice President for Pope, was a fundraising success for the Newberry, and Library Services for Roger and Julie Baskes. Currently included several surprises for Roger, including a predinner performance by singers from the Patrick G. and Shirley W. held by Hjordis Halvorson, the Vice President for Library Services provides leadership for numerous initiatives to Ryan Opera Center at Lyric Opera of Chicago, in which improve access and management of the collection, and Roger and his wife Julie have a special interest. oversees collection development, cataloging, conservation, In his remarks, David Spadafora called Roger “an digital initiatives, and reader services. Says Halvorson, inspiration to others, because of what anyone who comes “Few people understand and encourage the work of to know him soon realizes is a deep-seated conviction Library Services like Roger. I am most deeply honored to of his: that the humanities and the arts, ideas and beauty take on this newly titled position, and profoundly grateful matter, and matter to everyone, for they enrich our to both Roger and Julie for their support of the Newberry interior lives while connecting us with each other and the and its staff, and for the monumental Baskes Collection heritage of the past; and that well-run and well-funded itself, which we are privileged to steward and share with humanities and cultural organizations provide perhaps readers.” the best means of stimulating this enrichment and these connections.”

Roger has done much to support the cultural institutions he holds dear, both in Chicago and farther afield. But he is a particular friend of the Newberry, serving as a trustee since 1995, board chair from 2006 to 2010, and co-chair of its recent fundraising campaign. Roger has also contributed greatly to the Newberry as a collector.

Since the late 1980s, Roger has assembled a collection of more than 19,000 volumes, chief ly “atlases,” a term that he defines broadly to include almost any work that contains five or more maps. His definition embraces not only what most of us would recognize as dedicated atlases, but also geographies, travel guides, and books for migrants, railway and ocean-liner travelers, motorists, and wanderers of all sorts. To date, Roger has donated some 10,000 Newberry Trustee Roger Baskes receives the Newberry Library Award from items from his personal collection to the library, Board of Trustees Chair Vicki Herget and President David Spadafora.

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Roger Baskes’s Newberry Library Award Acceptance Speech

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n a number of occasions, on behalf of the Board of Trustees, I have physically presented the Newberry Library Award.

It is most often given to honor the professional lives and work of great scholars in the humanities. From those past evenings I’ve learned two valuable lessons which are relevant to tonight.

The first is not to hold the sculpture from the top, as the bottom might then fall on Vicki’s [Chair of the Board of Trustees Vicki Herget’s] foot. But the second, more importantly, is not to attempt to present a competitively scholarly paper. Fortunately, it is the case that the humanities, and the Newberry Library, have many and diverse constituencies, not all of which are scholarly. And I will urge that recognizing, and serving, all of these constituencies may well be more important today than ever before.

At least in 2013 and 2014, few weeks went by without a piece in the national media asking “what is the future for the humanities?” or “is there a future for libraries?” These are two serious, and different, questions. A piece in the current, MayJune 2014 issue of Harvard Magazine reports that although since the 1970s there has been a nationwide long-term decline in the percentage of college and university undergraduates majoring in the humanities, it has gone down precipitously since 2008. At Harvard the decline in English and history concentrations has been as much as 50 percent.

My wife, Julie, our three children, and, so far, two of our grandchildren, were in one way or another all history majors, and for years I told the false and tasteless joke that I had to practice law to support all these history majors. Still, the quite rational concern by undergraduates and their parents about value for money and securing employment must be part of the reason for students’ selecting majors in various health, therapy, or technology fields, or in criminal justice. Another may be that exciting reality shows are much more likely to feature cool and beautiful actors doing crime scene investigation than doing poetry. And of course the kids are right—there are not many poetry jobs and even fewer which will enable them to repay their student loans.

A choir to whom I can’t presume to preach about the value of the humanities is certainly present in this room. And most of you will agree that support for humanities education should not be restricted to our colleges and universities, or its success tested only by the number of undergraduate majors. I did an unscientific survey of several excellent businessmen I know, and got them to confirm my opinion that critical thinking, understanding diverse human nature, and clarity of expression were good for business. And that is not an inconsequential consideration as we decide how to educate our own and, in an inherently messy democracy, the nation’s, children and grandchildren.

Many of you know of a widely discussed report in this past year by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences entitled “The Heart of the Matter: The Humanities and Social Sciences for a vibrant, competitive and secure nation.” It begins: Who will lead America into a bright future? Citizens who are educated in the broadest possible sense, so that they can participate in their own governance and engage with the world.

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An adaptable and creative workforce. Experts in national security, equipped with the cultural understanding, knowledge of social dynamics, and language proficiency to lead our foreign service and military through complex global conflicts. Elected officials and a broader public who exercise civil political discourse, founded on an appreciation of the ways our differences and commonalities have shaped our rich history. We must prepare the next generation to be these future leaders.

So the humanities are good for business and good for the country. Every bit as important, as again you will all agree, is the impact of the humanities on the quality of our own lives.

How effectively could we face and live the human condition without the knowledge, beauty, and enrichment of literature, and art, and music, and theater, and philosophy, and history?

Most of us live in Chicago, a city which is today as physically beautiful as almost any in the world. It has social problems which make life here dangerous and difficult for many, and it is insolvent, two realities which we must address and bear the burdens of changing. Yet Chicago in the twenty-first century is a mecca for the humanities. We are very lucky! Our theater is as good as any in America. We have world-class opera and orchestral music, great universities and great museums. We have the largest and best American festival of the humanities.

And we have the Newberry Library.

The Newberry’s mission is four sentences. (Only in cities like Chicago, with some 1,000-foot-high elevators, could it accurately be called an “elevator speech.”)

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 lifelong 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.

It’s all about the collections, isn’t it? The knowledge that the Newberry Library commits to advance and disseminate is in its collections. Those who come to the Newberry to consult our collections, whom we still call “readers,” are themselves more than one constituency. The most “glamorous” of these are professional scholars, both working academics and independent scholars, whose research in the Newberry’s collections will typically result in whole or in part in a monograph or journal article. Scholars come to the library from all over the world, much of the cost of which is subsidized by short-term or longterm “fellowships.” For many years support for these fellowships has come largely from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, but often in grants that have been matched by individuals, including some of you here this evening.

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Since the 1890s, the Newberry has collected local and family history materials, and most of the readers of such materials have been not professional academics but literate individuals studying their own genealogical history. They are part of a Newberry constituency which our mission expressly recognizes, of lifelong learners, to whom an increasing share of the activity at the library is directed. Much of the nonscholarly community knows the Newberry by reason of about 150 seminars each year, a series of fine exhibits, and the best usedbook fair in Chicago.

A fter Julie had returned to graduate school in the early 1970s, she came to the Newberry, armed with a letter from her professor—as was then required. Before the library’s stacks building had been built, books were everywhere in this building, which had been designed by Henry Ives Cobb in the 1880s. There were too few places to sit and not very efficient delivery of materials. Julie would usually bring an extra book to read while waiting for the books she had paged. Today the average wait for a book at the Newberry is only five minutes.

In 2008 David Spadafora and I went to the White House to accept from Laura Bush a medal presented to the Newberry by the Federal Institute of Museum and Library Services. Officials from the institute could not have been more outspokenly complimentary of the Newberry’s services to its readers. We were honored, and thrilled.

Today the Newberry has the space and resources to welcome diverse “humanists” with diverse projects. Our grandson Jacob is a sophomore at Walter Payton High School, a quarter-mile from here. He was assigned by his American history teacher to write a paper based upon viewing the Newberry’s (and the Terra Foundation’s) wonderful exhibit this winter on the Union “home front” in the Civil War. Incidentally, Walter Payton is only one example of the extent to which this has become a fine neighborhood. By the magic of real estate, which the Newberry’s founder, an earlier Walter, would have certainly understood, the former “Skid Row” of North Clark Street has in the twenty-first century become part of Chicago’s “Gold Coast.” The Newberry’s neighbors have become another important constituency and, with David’s leadership, our Board of Trustees is actively exploring ways of making this beautiful building more welcoming to its community, perhaps with a coffee shop adjoining our bookstore.

I mentioned the Newberry’s recent collaboration with the Terra Foundation. Collaboration is part of the Newberry’s DNA. In 1896 the Newberry joined with the John Crerar Library (now part of the University of Chicago), and the Chicago Public Library, all three then recently established, to minimize the duplication of their collections. The Newberry agreed to become a noncirculating library for research in the humanities. Then, and since then, many trustees of the Newberry have also served in the leadership of other Chicago institutions; institutional collaboration is a fact of cultural life in Chicago. In recent years the Newberry has jointly acquired especially expensive manuscripts with other libraries in the Midwest. In November of 2007 and for months thereafter, more than 30 Chicago institutions collaborated to present exhibits and programs in a Festival of Maps. The largest exhibit, at the 16

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Field Museum, was curated by Newberry Library staff, and the Newberry mounted two other concurrent map exhibits.

The city itself has become the object of much of Chicagoans’ collaborative leadership and philanthropy, of which the most visible recent example is Millennium Park.

Many lifelong learners, including many of you, are part of the Newberry’s indispensable constituency of financial supporters. Unlike most of Chicago’s other wonderful major cultural institutions, almost 100 percent of the Newberry Library’s current $10-million annual budget must come from philanthropic sources, received annually or drawn from its endowment. Being “free and open to the public,” the Newberry sells no tickets, and unlike many other Chicago nonprofits, gets no financial support from the city or the Chicago Park District.

The case for private support of the humanities, and the arts, is not universally accepted. As most of us know, it’s largely an American tradition. Many Europeans value the humanities and the arts, but expect that their governments will fully finance them and consequently will decide what is important, worthwhile, and beautiful. Last year, interviewing Bill Gates, the Financial Times reported that Gates questions the morality of supporting a new wing for a museum rather than spending that money to prevent illnesses that lead to blindness. From the standpoint of a rich society, it is hard to see why these are exclusive alternatives, but are not these the very sorts of questions which the humanities themselves can help us consider?

The Newberry is especially dependent for support from those of us who feel that the future of the humanities should continue to include the written or printed word in other than exclusively digital form. That is not a certain or self-evident result. When Princeton Professor of History Anthony Grafton, one of the very best-known American scholars of the history of the book and of libraries, spoke here in 2008 at this very occasion about the future of libraries, he described some newly built libraries as among “the world’s most beautiful Internet cafes.” But he used the Newberry as an example of a library which would be the least irrelevant in the digital age. His expectation is that special collections are least likely to be replaced by digitized versions, and that much can be learned from the physical condition of rare books and manuscripts and past readers’ responses to them. But it certainly is the case that much scholarly work in the humanities can be greatly enhanced by digitization. No amount of human diligence can search or count like a computer. There is already an “Association for Computers and the Humanities” and even an “Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations.”

Although those of us who are collectors of books are significantly attracted by their artifactual or physical aspects, general readers today consider whether or when to forgo what may have been their lifelong pleasure in the look, feel, and smell of printed books in exchange for the convenience of carrying around a year’s worth of reading on a single iPad or Kindle. As there are collectors of everything, some individuals must have already downloaded terabytes of books. (If you care, a trillion terabytes, a kilobyte to the eighth power, is a yottabyte!)

In the last 50 years, the Newberry has sometimes called itself “An Uncommon Collection of Uncommon Collections.”

As is well known, and unlike most of the other major independent research libraries of America, the Newberry Library did not begin with a gift of its founder’s book collection, but rather with his extraordinarily large bequest of money. The Newberry immediately became a major book collector, especially of bibliographical and research materials.

The library attracted collectors, many of whom joined its Board of Trustees and contributed their collections to the Newberry.

To some extent, and this best describes my own collecting, the Newberry has created collectors. This is the result of knowledgeable and encouraging curators, comprehensive bibliographical research materials, and very professional and complete cataloging standards.

Some years ago I participated in founding the Newberry’s Society of Collectors, which meets about three evenings a year in a social setting and presents talks about book collecting by both private and institutional collectors. The society’s annual dues have provided an important fund for the library to buy rare materials when available book funds are too often in these times consumed by the rising cost of journals, even in the humanities. The leadership of the Newberry wish to support book collecting for the same reasons that art museums support art collecting—some of these collections will be given to the institution and at the least collectors are often involved with and knowledgeable about the library’s collections and its mission.

You need not be a collector to join the society.

The collecting of rare books and manuscripts has certainly preserved materials for study that would have been discarded or lost but for their collectors. The market for rare books and manuscripts has often encouraged booksellers and auction houses to conduct serious bibliographical research to make their inventory more interesting. Collectors themselves are often as knowledgeable about their specialized materials as professional librarians and academics. Collectors are amateurs, often as obsessed as other lovers.

What I have collected are books with maps, of which atlases are the most obvious examples. There are many collectors of old maps, and very few collectors of old atlases.

Most old maps survived only because they were bound into an atlas or other book. But gradually many old atlases were broken up so their maps could be sold separately, and today many atlases are very rare. A dealer in England knows today that if he buys an eighteenth-century atlas of English counties, he can quickly sell off separate maps of Cheshire, Dorset, or Leicestershire to collectors, often inns or pubs in those counties, or their interior decorators, and still have maps of the other 41 counties to keep in his stock. Ironically, and sadly, there are now even collectors of atlas title pages and of empty bindings.

I began serious book collecting 30 years ago, and that was a very positive change in my life. In June of 1987 and the following 21 Junes, Julie and I went to London. I bought books at the annual June book fairs and auctions, and from bookshops in London and the countryside. Julie became very adept at doing other things in London, spending entire days at the Imperial War Museum, Portobello Road, and Hatchards. Hatchards has sold books, mostly new books, on Piccadilly since 1797.

Almost from the beginning, my collecting was closely related to the Newberry Library. I took a course in the history of cartography taught by David Buisseret, then the director of the Newberry’s Hermon Dunlap Smith Center. I learned much from Bob Karrow and Jim Akerman, successively curators of maps at the Newberry. The encouragement and education of book collectors is a role which had historically been more often associated with bookdealers than with librarians and curators.

But curatorship at the Newberry Library, more like most art museums than most libraries, is a very successful process. It is a material way in which an independent research library like the Newberry is different from a university research library.

A great university will have hundreds of faculty members knowledgeable about existing library materials in their fields and with ideas and requests about what they would like to add to the collections for their own or their students’ study. This is appropriately consistent with the university’s mission. The Newberry’s collecting is typically directed to enhancing the strength of its collections in many fewer fields, in which its own curators have become expert.

The first major collection of books and manuscripts donated to the Newberry Library, by its trustee Edward Ayer in 1911, continues to be its most important. It included 17,000 pieces on American Indians and on their early contacts with Europeans. An endowment which accompanied this gift has allowed the library to acquire another 130,000 titles and a million pages of manuscript. Edward Ayer was also a great atlas collector. The Ayer collection of the first printed atlases, fifteenth- and sixteenth-century editions of Ptolemy’s Geographia, is as complete as any in the world.

When I decided in the 1990s that I would begin to give my map books to the Newberry, collecting comprehensively in a sense became much easier because the library already had so many wonderful atlases and travel books which I didn’t need to duplicate. It is now becoming increasingly difficult to find such books published before the last 100 years which are not already in our joint collections. The Newberry’s Cartographic Catalog, which includes my collection, has over 85,000 titles.

Almost from the beginning, apart from collecting, I became fascinated with the Newberry Library itself. I wasn’t sophisticated or lucky enough to have had an intensive undergraduate liberal education like our children and grandchildren, and much of what was being talked about at the Newberry was new and exciting for me. Shortly after the term entered the English language, I became something of a “groupie” of the Newberry. As an adult, I had read political history and modern literature, but I learned for the first time at the Newberry Library at least something about such subjects as humanism and the history of printing. As often as I can, I have attended the weekly colloquia for fellows and staff. It has been very gratifying to share with my Newberry colleagues, both senior staff and fellow trustees, the satisfaction of being part of the leadership of this great institution both in prosperous and difficult times. I am very grateful to all of them and to all of you here this evening for this honor and for your friendship.

I could not have imagined being given the Newberry Library Award, and it means the world to me.

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Fit to Print and Then Some Journalism in the Midwest Manuscript Collection

By Karen Christianson

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rom the late nineteenth century on, newspapers and reporters in Chicago played key roles in the development of modern journalism. The legendary Chicago Daily News eschewed political partisanship and sensationalism in favor of solid reporting and community advocacy, and its publishers contributed to creating the Associated Press. Exceptional writers who went on to stellar literary careers started as Chicago journalists, among them Carl Sandburg, Sherwood Anderson, Ben Hecht, Margaret Anderson, and Edgar Lee Masters.

Innovation in Chicago continued through the twentieth century, with Chicago newspapers instituting some of the first permanent foreign correspondent services as the United States emerged as a world power. The more than 50 collections relating to Chicago newspaper journalism in the Newberry’s Midwest Manuscript Collection provide a window into the development of both the news industry and the regional, national, and world history of the period.

The men and women involved in these writing and publishing endeavors witnessed that history firsthand. Much of

The Chicago Daily News was an early proponent of establishing permanent foreign news bureaus. This photograph shows the exterior of the paper’s London office in the 1910s.

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the journalism-related material at the Newberry includes their unpublished letters and diaries in addition to published articles and columns. They corresponded with luminaries of their time in fields as diverse as government, social activism, literature, and the arts. Among the highlights, corporate records of the 100year history of the Chicago Daily News, of the Chicago Sun-Times and its predecessors, and of the weekly alternative newspaper the Chicago Reader stand out. Papers of individuals comprise those not only of news reporters who covered the regular unfurling of historical events, but also of columnists like Mike Royko and of book, theater, dance, music, and art critics who documented and analyzed the cultural scene.

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tanley Pargellis became the Newberry’s Librarian in 1942, and his interests in regionalism, the Midwest, and manuscript materials shaped the library’s collecting efforts in the 1940s and ’50s. He soon recruited the Chicago journalist Lloyd Lewis as a manuscript scout, and Lewis turned to his many friends in Chicago intellectual circles to acquire the personal papers of literary authors and, later, journalists. The Newberry became an early collector of such compilations of writers’ manuscripts.

Lewis sent a f lurry of letters to writers or their descendants, securing among others the papers of Henry B. Fuller, Francis F. Browne (publisher of the Dial), Joseph Kirkland, Sherwood Anderson, Henry Kitchell Webster, Victor Lawson (publisher of the Chicago Daily News), and Mary Hartwell Catherwood.

Lewis’s power of persuasion is evident in a letter soliciting Catherwood’s papers: “Her papers and letters would be, like those of the other significant Chicago authors, placed in a special and separate collection bearing her name, and would not be buried, but indeed kept alive, with young students using them as source material and inspiration.” Lewis’s letters often express his belief that these accumulations could instruct the next generation of authors, as when he wrote, “we want to make this part of the Library a great source of information and inspiration to young writers by letting them read the private papers of successful Chicago authors.”

The certainty with which Lewis regarded the significance of the Newberry’s journalistic holdings was matched by the tenacity he employed to secure them. Shortly after the death of Ray Stannard Baker in 1946, for example, Lewis wrote to the executors of Baker’s estate, applying a thin layer of

decorum while cutting to the chase: “Disliking to advance this matter so soon after Mr. Baker’s passing, I feel that it should be presented to you for consideration at the first proper moment and, therefore, enclose copies of Mr. Baker’s letters showing his thought [of entrusting the Newberry with his papers] shortly prior to his death.”

Pargellis and Lewis also collected papers of foreign-language journalists. One such was Hermann Raster, who from 1867 to 1891 served as editor of the Illinois Staats Zeitung, America’s most inf luential German-language newspaper. Raster swayed German popular opinion through his antislavery, pro-Union, and antitemperance articles. His papers include correspondence in English with many notable Chicago leaders, including Joseph Medill, celebrated editor of the Chicago Tribune, and the educator Francis Parker, as well as story drafts and clippings.

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he Newberry has continued collecting journalism-related manuscripts through the present day. The collections of father and son journalists Carroll and David Binder exemplify the kind of window on the past these materials afford. Carroll Binder, eventually the foreign service editor at the Chicago Daily News and editor of the Minneapolis Star, also served, during a career spanning much of the first six decades of the twentieth century, as a labor reporter, war correspondent, publisher’s assistant, and editorial writer. In addition to personal and family correspondence, clippings, and photographs, his papers include material on the Workers Party of America, the Industrial Workers of the World, and other leftist organizations.

David Binder, Carroll’s son, followed his father as a career journalist, writing for the Louisville Courier-Journal, the Chicago Daily News Foreign Service, and the Minneapolis Tribune before becoming a foreign correspondent for the New York Times.

During stints in eastern Europe and Germany, he covered both the set-up in 1961 and the dismantling in 1989 of the Berlin Wall. He also wrote about the 1968 Prague Spring, the decline of the Soviet bloc during the late 1980s, the fracture of the Balkans in the early ‘90s, and the lingering social and economic problems of the region. It was natural for Binder to choose as a repository for his papers the

Newberry, where they join those of his father. Binder recently explained, “My father had an enormous inf luence on my decision to deposit my work with the Newberry—on my pursuit of journalism as a career in the first place. We both followed a calling to inform and enlighten the reading public of America about Lloyd Lewis, ca. 1940. the important events of the day.” His papers, which include dispatches and scrapbooks of clippings, make fascinating reading.

Several years ago the Newberry’s current Lloyd Lewis Curator of Modern Manuscripts, Martha Briggs, initiated an effort to obtain more collections from contemporary female journalists, garnering papers from, among others, Alison True, former editor-in-chief of the Chicago Reader. When True left the Reader in 2007, she arranged for both the Reader’s corporate files and her personal papers related to the publication to come to the Newberry. The former comprise original copies of articles, legal and administrative files, unsolicited manuscripts with original artwork, and theater programs, press releases, and other materials that encapsulate Chicago theater history from the 1970s on. The bulk of the collection constitutes photographs used in music, drama, dance, neighborhood news, columns, and feature articles. Among True’s personal papers are style manuals, surveys, a collection of monographs by Reader contributors, materials about a proposed redesign of the paper in 2003-04, and original artwork submitted to the paper.

True says these collections chronicle journalism’s transition from mechanical to electronic technology. When she started at the Reader in 1984, articles were typed on typewriters and carried by hand to typesetters. The typesetters provided printed proofs that had to be picked up and taken back to the office to be proofread, then returned for corrections.

The process changed gradually with the use of word processing and, later, sophisticated desktop publishing software.

According to True, these technological changes paralleled more substantive changes in news reporting.

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Like True, Fuller sees his papers as primarily valuable to scholars studying the enormous change over the last few decades in how the news is written and disseminated. Fuller’s latest book is What Is Happening to News: The Information Explosion and the Crisis in Journalism, in which he explores what he sees as journalism’s descent into sensationalism and a lack of objectivity. Asked recently about the future of journalism, Fuller said, “A major challenge is the need to understand the appropriate ethical limits of appealing to the emotions of an audience.” He points out that this is not a new problem: in the heyday of American journalism Ben Hecht, whose papers are a frequently consulted collection within the Newberry’s journalistic holdings, made a name for himself as a Chicago Daily News columnist in the 1920s. Hecht, mustachioed, stands here with a cigar; Lloyd in the 1960s and ‘70s (and much Lewis is seated farthest to the right. longer ago as well), front pages were often bloody, sensational, sentimental. But they served a The Reader began as an exercise in “alternative journalism.” specific purpose: making the public aware of atrocities of war, Unlike a magazine, it was printed on newsprint; unlike a the consequences of newly discovered diseases, and so forth. traditional newspaper, it appeared weekly, not daily. It focused “These days, with the busy information environment that so on long-form investigative reporting and thorough, penetrating many people are immersed in, writers are tempted to resort reviews of the arts and culture. With the rise of the 24/7 to sensationalism to capture readers’ attention,” he said. “Too news cycle, and constantly updated reporting on the Internet, often, writers begin with stories that are inherently emotionally True sees alternative journalism as a moment in the history of provocative and sentimental. The question should be what should news that may have come and gone. “I think that alternative be said and then how do you say it?” journalism may historically be seen as something of a blip, Given our current “busy information environment” and between the mid-1960s and 2010. The ongoing conversation is the upheaval it has wrought within the field of journalism, what are we alternative to? Alternative newspapers have become Lloyd Lewis’s original dream—of aspiring journalists learning somehow mainstream.” At one time, Chicagoans interested the craft from their predecessors—may be difficult to reclaim. in the city’s theater and other cultural activities couldn’t get “There are qualities of twentieth-century journalism that are through the week without a copy of the Reader. Now that niche still relevant—clarity of writing, for example,” says Fuller. audience has been splintered by the multitude of online sources “But some are not, in the new media landscape. Regarding my for that kind of information. The Reader-related manuscript papers, as new generations come into journalism unencumbered collections provide a rich trove of documentary evidence of this by the twentieth century, they may find these papers useful. I shift and of the culture of the time. can’t say that they will be deemed important, but I know they A final example from the Newberry journalism collections will at least be part of the stuff of history.” is that of Pulitzer Prize-winning Chicago journalist and novelist Jack Fuller, president of the Tribune Publishing Company from For inventories of the Newberry’s journalism holdings, 1997 to 2004. Fuller wrote mainly for the Chicago Tribune, but visit www.newberry.org/search/modern-manuscripts, and click also for the Washington Post and, while serving in Vietnam, Journalism in the left navigation bar. the Pacific Stars and Stripes. His papers include literary and journalistic works, correspondence, and personal documents, Karen Christianson is associate director of the Newberry’s as well as newspaper articles written by Fuller’s father, Ernest Center for Renaissance Studies. In a previous life, she worked as a reporter for the Vancouver Columbian.

Fuller, a former financial reporter for the Tribune.

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RETROSPECT

The Shakespeare Exhibition That T’was

By Jill Gage The year 2014 marked the 450th anniversary of the birth of William Shakespeare. Drawing from the most distinguished collection of Shakespeare materials in the Midwest, the Newberry’s exhibition The Bard Is Born, called attention to Shakespeare’s prominence from the seventeenth to twenty-first centuries, with a focus on Henry V. Along with early editions of plays, manuscripts, and documents relating to previous birthday celebrations, the exhibition featured scripts, photographs, and ephemera documenting recent productions by Chicago Shakespeare Theater and the Shakespeare Project of Chicago.

Related programming included “Shakespeare as Literature and as Theater,” a conversation between Chicago Shakespeare Theater Artistic Director Barbara Gaines and Director Emerita of the Folger Shakespeare Library Gail Kern Paster.

The Infant Shakespeare Attended by Nature, by George Romney. From John Boydell’s Collection of prints... illustrating the dramatic works of Shakespeare, by the artists of Great Britain, 1803.

Above: Barbara Gaines, founder and artistic director of the Chicago Shakespeare Theater, (left) and Gail Kern Paster, director emerita of the Folger Shakespeare Library, discuss Shakespeare as performance and as literature.

Left: The Chicago Shakespeare Theater stages a production of Henry V, with Stephen Kunken as Henry V and Laura Lamson as Princess Katharine. Photo courtesy of the Chicago Shakespeare Theater.

Henry V, probably written by Shakespeare in 1599, did not enjoy the same seventeenth-century popularity as some of his other history plays. The Newberry owns one of the earliest editions (1619), which is markedly different than the version that appears in the folio edition of 1623; the two books on display next to one another allowed visitors to note the differences themselves.

The exhibition also explored some of the many “rebirths” of Shakespeare. In 1769, a Jubilee celebrating the bicentenary of Shakespeare’s birth (which had actually occurred five years earlier) was held in Stratford and included a pageant of Shakespearian characters, a masquerade ball, music, and fireworks. Unfortunately, rain poured ceaselessly, cancelling many of the outdoor events, while water leaked into the

specially constructed Jubilee Rotunda, packed with over 2,000 people. The Jubilee was widely satirized, but it marked the beginning of an industry of “bardolatry” that continues to this day. The Newberry’s superb collection of eighteenth-century periodicals offered a glimpse into the Jubilee, with illustrations, music, and letters of both praise and criticism.

Another theme of the exhibition was the rise of Shakespeare as, in the words of James Fenimore Cooper, “the great author of America.” Included here were American sermons from the 1864 tercentenary celebrations of Shakespeare’s birth, as well as photographs and guidebooks from The Century of Progress International Exposition of 1933-34, Chicago’s second world’s fair.

Shakespeare will be “reborn” at the Newberry once again in 2016, as we celebrate the 400th anniversary of his death, this time with a major exhibition that will examine Shakespeare’s own boundless creativity, as he has been adapted, appropriated, and reconstructed in the 400 years since his death.

Jill Gage is a Newberry reference librarian. She curated the exhibition The Bard Is Born.

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Recent Events 100 YEARS OF CARL SANDBURG’S “CHICAGO”

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he Newberry commemorated the 100th anniversary of Carl Sandburg’s famous poem “Chicago” (which first appeared in the magazine Poetry, in 1914) with an event celebrating Sandburg as poet, journalist, and icon. On March 12 Ruggles Hall opened its entry of big shoulders (to repurpose a phrase) to guests “singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.” Organized by the Newberry’s Scholl Center for American History and Culture and hosted by Scholl Center Director Liesl Olsen and Chicago scholar Paul Durica, the night featured a performance of “Chicago” from Chicago Poetry Slam’s Marc Smith, music from a book of traditional folk songs compiled

by Sandburg, and a range of speakers exploring Sandburg’s varied career. And, because you need a representative pig to be the “Hog Butcher for the World,” a pig-shaped cake.

30TH ANNUAL BOOK FAIR

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he 30th Annual Book Fair was another one for the books, providing four days of bibliophilic euphoria for over 5,000 visitors.

Each Book Fair acquires its own identity based on donations that roll in, and this year’s was no different. When the dust (jackets) settled, customers had scooped up a variety of literature, travel writing, cookbooks, dictionaries, and much more, as well as a record-number of CDs, DVDs, and polka LPs. The collectibles section was once again a destination for both window shoppers and serious collectors; attractions included books by illustrator Edward Gorey and a first-edition set of The Lord of the Rings trilogy. After the fair, several charities gathered the remaining books to stock schools, prisons, and libraries in need.

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BUGHOUSE SQUARE DEBATES

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he 2014 Bughouse Square Debates demonstrated that there remain plenty of Chicagoans devoted to participating in the civic life of their city. On July 26, hundreds of people transformed Washington Square Park back into “Bughouse Square,” the once-raucous forum for public debate and gathering place for Chicago radicals. The event began with the presentation of the Altgeld Freedom of Speech Award to Chicago Reader reporters Mick Dumke and Ben Joravsky, and culminated in a frenzy of discourse delivered simultaneously from four different soapboxes. This year’s Dill Pickle Award for greatness in oratory went to Erwin Lutzer.

Rick Kogan emceed; the Environmental Encroachment Marching Band punctuated the debates throughout with their brass-propelled dirges and anthems. The program also included Don Washington’s “Mayoral Tutorial” on the dangers of privatizing public resources and the comedy troupe Democracy Burlesque’s pop-culture satire.

DEDICATION OF A LIBRARY

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he opening of a new library is an occasion to assert (and is itself an assertion of ) the value of the physical spaces that bring together students, teachers, research collections, and the curators and librarians who tend and provide access to those collections. On September 20, at the dedication ceremony for Williams College’s newly redesigned Sawyer Library, Newberry President (and Williams alum) David Spadafora delivered a speech highlighting the unique services libraries offer, as readers are increasingly tempted to exchange the books on their shelves for digital files in the Cloud. “Although libraries without walls offer collections to their users, libraries with walls offer much more,” Spadafora said. “They present to us carefully developed systems and highly cultivated expertise that together multiply what a reader can do with a collection.” Drawing on his experience as a Williams student who relied on the guidance of librarians to research term papers, and now, as president of the Newberry, the source of such guidance, Spadafora continued: “The services that accompany the books assembled in a library, that allow those books to be discovered and connected to each other by students and faculty, ref lect the deeply dedicated skills of reference librarians, catalogers, conservators, and other library staff members. They are the unsung heroes of many a research paper, senior essay, or faculty book.”

Photograph by Roman Iwasiwka. Courtesy of Williams College.

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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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The Newberry Annual Report 2013 – 14

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Letter from the Chair and the President

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ach year we write to you, the Newberry’s friends and supporters, to give you a short summary of the fiscal year past. As with most every other letter of this kind, of which you doubtless read other examples annually from cultural and educational institutions, most of what you have found in this space in the past and will find here again this year is very good news. But our primary purpose is not to make a sales pitch. Instead, we want to let you know what has been happening at the Newberry by bringing to you what is most notable about this institution, which includes Chair of the Board of Trustees Victoria J. Herget and our challenges for the future as well as our accomplishments Newberry President David Spadafora in the recent past.

In 2013-14, the Newberry’s financial picture proved very attractive indeed. With your increasing support, the Annual Fund has now reached the $2 million mark, a great achievement for which we express gratitude for your generosity. It is especially pleasing to be able to report that the number of Annual Fund donors grew from 1,378 to 1,486, an increase of 7.8 percent, and that the amount given by people who are not Trustees went up by 6.3 percent. The annual Award Dinner had great attendance and produced considerably more revenue than budgeted, and the Book Fair—on the occasion of its 30th anniversary— was visited by thousands of people and produced more than $150,000 in revenue.

In other good financial news, the endowment reached and exceeded its previous high-water mark, achieved in 2007. As of June 30, 2014, it stood at $72.2 million. Partly this increase was a result of good investment performance, partly the effect of new funds entering the endowment, and partly the consequence of continued lower spending from the endowment. In the case of the last of these causes, it is very gratifying to be able to tell you that spending from the endowment now constitutes about 30 percent of our annual budget for operations and debt service, rather than 49 percent just a few years ago. With regard to gifts added to our endowment, we note especially that the late Helen M. Hanson, a longtime genealogy reader, left the Newberry nearly $6 million on her death in early 2013. Following her wishes, a portion of this magnificent gift has been set aside by the Board as a fund for the current and ongoing purchase of collection materials, and some is being and will in the future be used for important facilities improvements.

Over the years, our total readership has declined in numbers as many more resources have become available online. Nowhere is that more true than in the case of genealogy readers, who frequently turn to Ancestry.com and FamilySearch.org. Yet we remain a crucial destination for many readers, and those who come today are using our collections more intensively than ever. Here are two important data points.

Reference inquiries from all sources have increased 14.8 percent during the last four years. In the same period, the number of Special Collection items (such as manuscripts and rare books) that were paged went up by 6.7 percent.

These readers are a diverse lot, because we are a unique combination of research institute and public library. For instance, approximately 1,350 individual readers came here last year to pursue research in family and local history, and many of these readers arrive without previous research-library experience.

By contrast, our fellowship program financially sponsored the research of 11 long-term and 47 short-term fellows, who collectively were here for more than 120 months of advanced scholarly work. Meanwhile, our undergraduate programs, two of which are a full semester long, brought 52 students who intensively

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used the collections under the guidance of the programs’ faculty and our staff. Summer research institutes and seminars for faculty and graduate students, which last at least two weeks each, were attended by 55 people. Some of our programs do not directly involve participant utilization of the collection, but they are attended by people who do use the collection for other purposes, or who become likely to use the collection because of the programs. In 2013-14, these programs included the 18th series of the famous Nebenzahl Lectures on the History of Cartography, a symposium marking the 50th anniversary of The Feminine Mystique, some 15 other conferences and symposia aimed at graduate students and college and university faculty, and a public celebration of the centennial of Carl Sandburg’s poem “Chicago.”

Our exhibitions, free to the public for more than a century, aim at expanding viewers’ knowledge by their encounter with the materials on display, and also at providing encouragement for viewers to use the collections themselves. In 2013-14, the Newberry’s major exhibition marked the sesquicentennial of the U.S. Civil War by exploring the home front in the North.

This innovative approach was undertaken jointly with the Terra Foundation for American Art, which provided most of the funding for the exhibition. The materials on display came from both institutions: painted and printed images, music, and text. An accompanying book, Home Front, published by the University of Chicago Press, won the American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence in the Art Exhibitions category. Three other exhibitions were also presented by the Newberry last year, two in partnership with other Chicago-area organizations.

More than 1,600 people enrolled in our adult seminars in 2013-14. These “seminarians” are passionate about learning, as are the seminars’ instructors, who include several Newberry staff. Some 900 teachers participated in our professional development programs for Chicago and suburban educators, which involve seminars that take place at the Newberry. We have also developed and expanded a new method of reaching out to teachers farther afield, funded by the Grainger Foundation. It involves digitizing collection items that teachers can use to enrich their students’ classroom experience and learning. These Digital Collections for the Classroom work hand-in-hand with the professional development seminars to offer teachers new ways of engaging middle- and high-school students.

People come to the Newberry for programs, but many visit us simply to read in our remarkable collection. And that collection itself grew substantially last year. Some additional funds were available for the purchase of “antiquarian” materials, such as rare books, manuscripts, maps, and music. Using a new approach that involves frequent joint meetings of the curators and others who select books for purchase, the staff spent 7.5 percent more dollars on these special materials—but, by working intelligently on the lower and middle levels of the rare-book market, managed to acquire 280 percent more titles for those dollars.

Here are just a few examples of the treasures that arrived at the Newberry last year. We acquired much-needed recent critical editions of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century European authors, as a consequence of a handsome gift from former Fellow Judith Anderson. Similarly, gifts from Trustees Rudy Ruggles and Carol Warshawsky led to the purchase of a 1768 anthology, printed in Lisbon, of eighteenth-century Italian works on music, which complemented several other early modern music purchases. On the American side, we bought a large group of letters written by an early Joliet lawyer, as well as the correspondence of a Bostonian who travelled to Illinois by steamboat in the 1830s. Adding to the strength of our Polar collection, we purchased a famous Soviet atlas of the Antarctic published in 1966-69. And once again the Society of Collectors funded or helped to fund a variety of fascinating purchases, such as two remarkable sixteenth-century partbooks published in Venice.

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early nineteenth-century Midwest, John Blew’s collection of materials relating to the great Americana bibliographer Wright Howes, and more than 800 items from the Roger Baskes Collection.

Our cataloging and finding aid work continued apace, reducing book backlogs and bringing more manuscripts fully into the collection. Great progress was made on the Sister Ann Ida Gannon Initiative, involving thousands of previously uncataloged books in the general field of early modern European religion. Processing of the massive Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad collection, whose initial acquisition and current circumstances are highlighted elsewhere in this magazine, nearly reached its goal this year. In the spring of 2014, the Council on Library and Information Resources made a large grant enabling us to catalog some 30,000 items belonging to the John M. Wing Foundation on the History of Printing: in particular, fascinating ephemera and printing specimens that have been collected by Wing Custodian Paul Gehl in recent decades. Work on that big cataloging project is already well under way.

Even with all of this fine news and these many notable activities, the Newberry still has long-term needs we must work to fulfill. Among these are an appreciably larger endowment, more general operating income from the Annual Fund and other sources, greater funding for specific scholarly and public programs, and better compensation for our dedicated, hard-working staff. In addition, although the fabric of the building is sound, we do have facilities needs. For instance, we must soon replace the now longoutdated air-handling equipment in our fan rooms, which will allow us to do a better job of conditioning our air while lowering utility bills appreciably. Our facilities master plan calls for us to renovate and reorganize the Cobb Building’s first f loor so as to make it more visitor- and exhibition-friendly. We also want to consolidate our two reading rooms into one, where our currently separated Special Collection and General Collection readers can consult all of the materials they want in a single, temperature- and humidity-controlled environment. We must provide additional funding for information technology infrastructure, and for programs, including digitization of more materials, that depend upon information technology. Then, too, reviews of our four research centers, conducted during the last two years, tell us that although these centers have done terrific work across four decades, changes in funding mechanisms and pursuit of new kinds of programming are needed. Achieving these various goals will not be easy or occur immediately, but we are confident that the Newberry and its supporters are up to the challenge.

The fundamental reason for our confidence is the case for the Newberry made elsewhere in this magazine by Roger Baskes, in remarks delivered on the occasion of his receipt last May of the Newberry Library Award. An eminent collector of books with maps, longtime Trustee, and the Chair of our Board for a period of four years, Roger nonetheless typifies our friends and supporters in important respects.

He got started with the Newberry because of personal research interests. He used our reading rooms intensively, receiving helpful research advice from our knowledgeable staff. Soon thereafter he began to give back with time and treasure, and he has been doing so ever since. This story is also the story of many readers of this magazine. We thank and salute Roger, and his wife, Julie, for their longtime involvement with the Newberry, and we thank you, too. Only because of all of you could the Newberry have done all the wonderful things it did in 2013-14. And only with your collaboration will we be able to address successfully the challenges that lie ahead.

Respectfully yours,

Victoria J. Herget, Chair of the Board of Trustees

David Spadafora, President and Librarian

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Continuing Education SUMMARY FOR FY 2013-14

PUBLIC PROGRAMS

Meet the Author series

Total attendance: 5,816

Total attendance: 3,372

6 programs, 222 attendees

Teacher programs: 821

Number of programs: 30

Selected speakers: Deborah Parker, Mark Parker, David L. Holmes, Eric Fure-Slocum, Brad Hunt, Edward Ball, Deborah Cohen, Steven Luxenberg, and Emma Brockes

Seminars: 1,623 Public programs: 3,372

The Bughouse Square Debates

July 27, 2013 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS FOR TEACHERS

Main Debate: How Much Is It Worth to the City to Keep the Chicago Cubs?

Staged Readings

Total program enrollment: 1,016

Lester Munson, ESPN.com v.

Tom Tresser, Civic Activist

4 programs, 542 attendees

Total program attendance: 821 Total number of seminars offered: 52 Newberry Teacher’s Consortium:

39 seminars; 678 attended Teachers as Scholars:

11 seminars; 90 attended History Channel Seminar Series:

2 seminars; 53 attended 44 CPS schools 58 Suburban (non-CPS) 7 Private schools 109 total schools ADULT EDUCATION SEMINARS

Total seminar attendance: 1,623 Total number of classes offered: 142

John Peter Altgeld Freedom of Speech Award to Chicago Students Organizing to Save Our Schools; presented to Israel Munoz, Clementine Frye, and Jamie Leann.

Bughouse Square Debates Planning Committee:

March 4, 2014 (45)

Vince Firpo Molly Fletcher Shawn Healy

The Feminine Mystique at 50

Gwendolyn Rugg

November 8, 2013 (100)

Ryan Stivers

Carl Sandburg Centenary Program

March 12, 2014 (250) Conversations at the Newberry Series

Arts, Music, and Language Philosophy and Religion

Barbara Gaines and Gail Kern Paster on Shakespeare in Text and on Stage

History, Genealogy, and Social Science

April 21, 2014 (180)

Literature and Theater

Lesa Dowd Grace Dumelle

Provided assistance with William M. Scholl Center Public Programs

Kelly McGrath

November 21, 2013 (attendance: 190)

Diane Dillon

December 3, 2013 (58) Mike Rogalski, T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets

The Civil War

Newberry staff who teach in the Seminars program:

Todd Bauer, “Only with My Heart”

Paul Durica

Chicago Interest

Writing Workshops

The Merchant of Venice Thomas Heyword’s The Fair Maid of the West Two Gentlemen of Verona All’s Well That Ends Well

Rachel Bohlmann (chair)

Douglas Wilson and Michael Burlingame on Lincoln’s Rhetoric; Peter Garino read “The Gettysburg Address,”

Seminar subject areas:

The Shakespeare Project of Chicago series

openhouse C hicago weekend ( in collaboration with the

Chicago Architecture Foundation)

Saturday, October 19. 2013 (182)

At the beginning of this year, the Department of Public Programs was reorganized into the Continuing Education Department. This change in nomenclature reflected a significant new structure for the department. The library’s exhibition program moved into a different department and the Newberry’s Professional Development Programs for Teachers was incorporated into the new department. In addition to improving the creation and delivery of programs for the public and for teachers, the department’s new focus aligns more tightly with the library’s mission of learning and engagement with the humanities.

Home Front: Daily Life in the Civil War North Exhibition Lecture Series

Barbara Korbel

John Davis, “Race and Battlefield: Seeing and Not Seeing the Civil War”

Matt Rutherford

January 16, 2014 (59) Christian McWhirter and musicians, “Music in the Civil War North”

March 1, 2014 (160)

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Research and Academic Programs 2013-14 LONG-TERM FELLOWS Lloyd Lewis Fellow in American History

Frank Tobias Higbie, Associate Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles (11 months) Audrey Lumsden-Kouvel Fellow

Mary Baine Campbell, Professor of English, Brandeis University (5 months) Andrew W. Mellon Fellow

Yann Robert, Assistant Professor of French Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago (12 months) Monticello College Foundation Fellow

Cristina Stanciu, Assistant Professor of English, Virginia Commonwealth University (5 months) National Endowment for the Humanities Fellows

Margaret Meserve, Associate Professor of History, University of Notre Dame (9 months) Michael Schreffler, Associate Professor of Art History and Department Chair, Virginia Commonwealth University (10 months) Susan Sleeper-Smith, Professor of History, Michigan State University (10 months) Michael Vorenberg, Associate Professor of History, Brown University (5 months) Newberry Consortium in American Indian Studies Faculty Fellow

Kathleen Washburn, Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature, University of New Mexico (6 months) LONG-TERM FACULTY FELLOWS Associated Colleges of the Midwest Faculty Fellows

William Davis, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and German, Colorado College Eric Perramond, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies and Southwest Studies, and Director of the Environmental Program, Colorado College 2013-2014 SHORT-TERM FELLOWS

Each fellowship lasted one month unless otherwise noted.

Frances C. Allen and Newberry Consortium in American Indian Studies Graduate Fellow

Kasey Keeler, PhD Candidate in American Studies, University of Minnesota: Twin Cities

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellow

Newberry Library-École Nationale des Chartes Exchange Fellows

Elizabeth Cross, PhD Candidate in Modern European History, Harvard University

To the École Nationale des Chartes:

Lester J. Cappon Fellow in Documentary Editing

Mark Rankin, Assistant Professor of English, James Madison University Charles Montgomery Gray Fellow

Urvashi Chakravarty, Assistant Professor of English, University of Hawaii at Manoa Arthur and Janet Holzheimer Fellow in the History of Cartography

Catherine Akeroyd, PhD Candidate in History, Australian National University Institute for the International Education of Students Faculty Fellows

Gema Cienfuegos Antelo, Contract Professor of Literature, IES Madrid Merixell Martin-i-Pardo, Professor of Religion, IES Barcelona

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To the Newberry Library:

Camille Poiret, Assistant Director, Médiathèque Edmond Rostand Newberry Library-Jack Miller Center Fellows

Benjamin Irvin, Associate Professor of History, University of Arizona Samantha Seeley, PhD Candidate in History, New York University Newberry Library-Kress Foundation Fellows

Susan Gaylard, Assistant Professor of Italian Studies, University of Washington Heather Muckart, PhD Candidate in Art History, Visual Art and Theory, University of British Columbia

Lawrence Lipking Fellow

Newberry Library Short-Term Fellowship for Individual Research

Garrett Morrison, PhD Candidate in English, Northwestern University (one quarter)

Chris Barrett, Assistant Professor of English, Louisiana State University

Newberry Consortium on American Indian Studies Graduate Student Fellows

Cathleen Cahill, Associate Professor of History, University of New Mexico

Ryan Carr, PhD Candidate in English, Yale University

William Coleman, PhD Candidate in History, University College London

Klint Ericson, PhD Candidate in Art History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (two months; not in residence)

Thomas Dodman, Assistant Professor of History, Boston College

Ryan Hall, PhD Candidate in History, Yale University (not in residence) Margaret Huettl, PhD Candidate in American West and Native American Studies, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Julie Fisher, PhD Candidate in History, University of Delaware Sarah Gardner, Professor of History, Mercer University Elizabeth Heath, Assistant Professor of History, Florida International University

Michael Hughes, PhD Candidate in History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Gretchen Long, Associate Professor of History, Williams College

Amanda Johnson, PhD Candidate in English Literature, Vanderbilt University (two months)

Una McIlvenna, Postdoctoral Research Fellow of History, University of Sydney

Kyle Mays, PhD Candidate in History and American Indian Studies, University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign (two months)

Leslie Mairin Odle, PhD Candidate in Atlantic History, New York University

Bryan Rindfleisch, PhD Candidate in History, University of Oklahoma Ashley Smith, PhD Candidate in Anthropolog y, Cornell University (two months; not in residence) Jameson Sweet, PhD Candidate in History, University of Minnesota: Twin Cities (two months) Ashley Wiersma, PhD Candidate in History, Michigan State University

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Lindsey Hansen, PhD Candidate in Art History, Indiana University Bloomington (not in residence)

Cameron Shriver, PhD Candidate in History, Ohio State University Cynthia Wall, Professor of English, University of Virginia Tessa Marie Winkelmann, PhD Candidate in History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Research and Academic Programs Newberry Library Undergraduate Seminar (NLUS) Faculty Fellows

Marcy Dinius, Assistant Professor of English, DePaul University

UNDERGRADUATE SEMINARS Associated Colleges of the Midwest Seminars FALL 2013

Margaret Storey, Associate Professor of History, DePaul University

Representing the Other in Image, Text, and Landscape

Northeast Modern Language Association Fellow

Faculty

Megan Walsh, Assistant Professor of Literature, St. Bonaventure University

William Davis, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and German, Colorado College

Susan Kelly Power and Helen Hornbeck Tanner Fellow

Eric Perramond, Associate Professor of Environmental and Southwest Studies Programs, Colorado College

Laura Lehua Yim, Assistant Professor of English, San Francisco State University Sixteenth Century Society and Conference (SCSC) Fellow

Kathleen Comerford, Professor of History, Georgia Southern University Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of Illinois Fellows

Jacob Lee, PhD Candidate in History, University of California, Davis Robert Lee, PhD Candidate in History, University of California, Berkeley Arthur and Lila Weinberg Fellows

Anne Moore, Independent Scholar and Instructor, Department of Visual and Critical Studies, School of the Art Institute of Chicago Paul Moxon, Independent Scholar and Visiting Letterpress Instructor Weiss-Brown Publication Subvention Awards

14 students

Guest faculty

Linda Phyllis Austern, Northwestern University Jeanice Brooks, University of Southampton David J. Buch, University of Northern Iowa, emeritus Drew Edward Davies, Northwestern University Craig A. Monson, Washington University in Saint Louis John A. Rice, University of Michigan Louise K. Stein, University of Michigan Daniel Vitkus, Florida State University Lisa B. Voigt, Ohio State University Tim Youngs, Nottingham Trent University

WINTER/SPRING 2014 A History of Native America Faculty

Summer Scholars

Samuel Breene, Rhode Island College Sara Ceballos, Lawrence University

Anne Hyde, Professor of History, Colorado College

Duane Corpis, Cornell University

11 students

Sanda M. Doe, Metropolitan State University of Denver

Pragmatism, Progressivism, Feminism: Birth of an American Century

Jason Farr, University of California, San Diego

Faculty

Rachel Golden, University of Tennessee

Dennis McEnnerney, Adjunct Associate Professor of Philosophy, Colorado College 13 students

Mónica Fuertes-Arboix, Coe College Sarah B. Iovan, Independent Scholar Heather Kopelson, University of Alabama Imed Labidi, University of Minnesota

Newberry Library Undergraduate Seminar SPRING 2014

Hayoung Heidi Lee, West Chester University Mary Caton Lingold, Duke University

Jesse Locker, Assistant Professor of Renaissance and Baroque Art, Portland State University

Representations of the American Civil War

William McCarthy, University of North Carolina Wilmington

Faculty

Mara Wade, Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign

Thomas McGeary, Independent Scholar

Marcy Dinius, Assistant Professor of English, DePaul University

2013-14 FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM STATISTICS

Margaret Storey, Associate Professor of History, DePaul University 14 students

Long-Term Fellows: 11 fellows Months of Long-Term Fellowship Funding: 73 months Fellowship Dollars Awarded, Long-Term: $306,600 Short-Term Fellows: 47 fellows Months of Short-Term Fellowships Funding: 50 months Fellowship Dollars Awarded, Short-Term: $109,000 Total number of fellows (ST and LT): 58 Total Fellowship Dollars Awarded: $415,600

SUMMER SEMINARS AND INSTITUTES Center for Renaissance Studies Music and Travel in Europe and the Americas, 1500-1800

July 15–August 9, 2013 Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Institutes for College and University Teachers

Jeffrey Noonan, Southeast Missouri State University Patrick O’Neil, Methodist University Jeffrey Pietruszynski, West Virginia State University Lea Puljcan Juric, Independent Scholar Margarita Restrepo, Walnut Hill School for the Arts Monica Rico, Lawrence University Anne Widmayer, University of WisconsinWashington County Jennifer Wood, George Washington University

Director

Carla Zecher, Newberry Library

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Research and Academic Programs D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies Competing Narratives: Native American and Indigenous Studies Across Disciplines

July 8 – August 2, 2013 Faculty

Erin Debenport, University of New Mexico

Rachel St. John, New York University

Patrick Griffin, University of Notre Dame

Alan Taylor, University of California, Davis

Alison LaCroix, University of Chicago

Summer Scholars

Anahí Douglas, Hunter College

Petr Mat’a, University of Vienna

Camilla Fojas, DePaul University

Karol Mazur, University of Warsaw

Ryan Hall, Yale University

Jens E. Olesen, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University Greifswald

Scott Manning Stevens, Newberry Library

Benjamin Hopkins, George Washington University

Participants

Ian Kalman, Max Planck Institute

Pit Peporte, University of Luxembourg

Oliver W. Baker, University of New Mexico

Jessica Kim, California State University

Hamish Scott, University of Glasgow

Elizabeth Barnett, Vanderbilt University

Julian Lim, Washington University in St. Louis

Micheál Ó Siochrú, Trinity College Dublin

John Crandall, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Andrae Marak, Governors State University

Graeme Small, University of Durham

Paul Jentz, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Karen Marrero, Wayne State University

James Smyth, University of Notre Dame

Khalil A. Johnson, Jr., Yale University

Laura Matthew, Marquette University

Jasmine Johnston, University of British Columbia

Marlene Medrano, Minnesota State University

Frank E. Sysyn, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies

Jacob Jurss, Michigan State University

Vanessa Mongey, University of Pittsburgh

David Lehman, University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign

James Nichols, City University of New York

Michael Minor, University of Manitoba/Winnipeg Leila Monaghan, University of Wyoming

Cristina Stanciu, Virginia Commonwealth University

Pollyanna Nordstrand, Cornell University

Maria Windell, University of Colorado, Boulder

James Nyman, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

CONFERENCES AND SYMPOSIA

Maureen Miller, University of California, Berkeley

Center for Renaissance Studies

Edward Wheatley, Loyola University Chicago

Bernadette Perez, University of Minnesota Shannon Prince, Harvard University Saul Schwartz, Princeton University Clint Smith, University of Colorado, Boulder Rowan Steineker, University of Oklahoma Dr. William M. Scholl Center for American History and Culture Bridging National Borders in North America

June 2-June 27, 2014 Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College and University Faculty

David Sartorius, University of Maryland

William O’Reilly, University of Cambridge

Biörn Tjällén, University of Bergen At the Intersection of Medieval History and the Social Sciences: A Symposium Honoring Barbara H. Rosenwein

February 28, 2014 Cosponsored with Loyola University Chicago and the University of California, Berkeley.

Organizers

Conference on Union and Disunion: Comparing Political Unions in the Late Medieval and Early Modern World, 1350-1801

September 19–21, 2013 Cosponsored with the Centre for Early Modern Studies and the Research Institute for Irish and Scottish Studies, both at the University of Aberdeen; the Dr. William M. Scholl Center for American History and Culture at the Newberry Library; the University of Notre Dame; and the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Chicago; and supported by the British Academy and the Wolfson Foundation.

Organizer

Presenters

Constance Brittain Bouchard, University of Akron Kirsten DeVries, Roanoke College Allen J. Frantzen, Loyola University Chicago Patrick J. Geary, Princeton Institute for Advanced Study Elina Gertsman, Case Western Reserve University Thomas Green, Loyola University Chicago Lester K. Little, Smith College Maureen Miller, University of California, Berkeley

Robert I. Frost, University of Aberdeen

Frances H. Mitilineos, Oakton Community College

Presenters

Karl F. Morrison, Rutgers University

Thomas Bartlett, University of Aberdeen

Jilana Ordman, Loyola University Chicago

Geraldo Cadava, Northwestern University

Dauvit Broun, University of Glasgow

Barbara Rosenwein, Loyola University Chicago

Kornel Chan, Rutgers

Jola Choiska-Mika, University of Warsaw

Bruce L. Venarde, University of Pittsburgh

Kelly Lytle Hernández, University of California, Los Angeles

Jim Collins, Georgetown University

Edward Wheatley, Loyola University Chicago

Director

Benjamin Heber Johnson, Loyola University Chicago Faculty

Constantin Fasolt, University of Chicago Robert I. Frost, University of Aberdeen

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Ned Landsman, SUNY Stony Brook

Fall 2014

Research and Academic Programs Symposium on Rethinking the State Trials: The Politics of Justice in Later Stuart England

April 10–11, 2014 Cosponsored with the Alumnae of Northwestern University, the Chabraja Center for Historical Studies at Northwestern, the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities at Northwestern, and the Department of History at Northwestern.

Organizers

Brian Cowan, McGill University Scott Sowerby, Northwestern University Presenters

Brian Cowan, McGill University Tim Harris, Brown University Justin Irwin, McGill University Newton Key, Eastern Illinois University Mark Knights, University of Warwick John Marshall, Johns Hopkins University Paul Monod, Middlebury College

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

Israel Pastrana, University of California, San Diego

Labor History Seminar Symposium

Tatiana Seijas, Miami University

November 9, 2013

26 participants

Cosponsored with 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; and 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 Calumet; and LABOR: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas.

David Romo, University of Texas at El Paso

Women and Gender Seminar Saturday Conference: The Feminine Mystique at 50

November 8, 2013 Cosponsored with the Chicago Area Women’s History Council; the Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture at the University of Chicago; and the history departments of Northeastern Illinois University, University of Illinois at Chicago, and DePaul University.

Presenter

Presenters

Jonathan Sperber, University of Missouri

Kirsten Fermaglich, Michigan State University

40 participants

Lisa Fine, Michigan State University

Borderlands and Latino Studies Saturday Conferences

Elizabeth Fraterrigo, Loyola University Chicago

November 9, 2013

Joan M. Hall, Young Women’s Leadership Partner School

Cosponsored with Indiana University’s Latino Studies Program, Northwestern University’s Program in Latina and Latino Studies, the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame, the Center for Latino Research at DePaul University, the Katz Center for Mexican Studies at the University of Chicago, and the History Department of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. (Two sessions)

Anne Ladky, Women Employed

Symposium on Eighteenth-Century Studies: Reading Time

Presenters

June 14, 2014

Norma Cardenas, Oregon State University

The Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of C artography

Cosponsored with the University of Chicago, DePaul University, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Northwestern University.

Rachel Valentina González, Indiana University

Annabel Patterson, Yale University Scott Sowerby, Northwestern University Stephen Taylor, Durham University Elliott Visconsi, University of Notre Dame Melinda Zook, Purdue University

Katherine Massoth, University of Iowa

Organizers

Quentin Story McAndrew, University of Colorado, Boulder

Timothy Campbell, University of Chicago

Javier Ramirez, Indiana University

Lisa Freeman, University of Illinois at Chicago

Sonia Robles, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

John Shanahan, DePaul University Helen Thompson, Northwestern University.

Presenters

Mita Choudhury, Purdue University Calumet Doris L. Garraway, Northwestern University Barrett Kalter, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Vera Keller, University of Oregon William R. Newman, Indiana University

Alberto Varon, Indiana University Daniel Webb, University of Chicago

Christine Riddiough, Illinois Gay and Lesbian Task Force Rebecca Sive, University of Chicago Katherine Turk, University of Texas at Dallas 175 participants

Eighteenth Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., Lectures in the History of Cartography: “The War of 1812 in American Cartography”

October 24-26, 2013 The Nebenzahl Lectures are supported by Ken and Jossy Nebenzahl.

Director

James Akerman, Newberry Library Presenters

25 participants

James Akerman, Newberry Library

Borderlands and Latino Studies Spring Mini-Conference

Martin Brückner, University of Delaware

Saturday, April 5, 2014 Presenters

John Cloud, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Imre Josef Demhardt, University of Texas at Arlington

Manushag (Nush) Powell, Purdue University

Rachel Ida Buff, University of WisconsinMilwaukee

Stuart Sherman, Fordham University

Matthew Furlong, University of Chicago

Susan Schulten, University of Denver

Richard Squibbs, DePaul University

Andrae Marak, Governors State University

Scott Stevens, Newberry Library

Roxann Wheeler, Ohio State University

Monica Muñoz Martinez, University of Texas at Austin

Ann Durkin Keating, North Central College

The Newberry Magazine

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Research and Academic Programs Research and Academic Programs

Medieval Intellectual History Seminar

Home Front: Daily Life in the Civil War North

Coordinator

October 17-18, 2013

John Van Engen, University of Notre Dame

American Art and Visual Culture Seminar

Cosponsored with the Terra Foundation for American Art and the Newberry Library.

3 seminars, 69 participants

Coordinators

Organizers

Cosponsored with Northwestern University

Diane Dillon, Newberry Library

Daniel Greene, Newberry Library

39 participants

Erika Doss, University of Notre Dame

Peter John Greenlee, Terra Foundation for American Art

Milton Seminar

Keynote Address

Coordinators

Sarah Burns, Indiana University

Gregory Foster-Rice, Columbia College Chicago 4 meetings, 65 participants

Christopher Kendrick, Loyola University Chicago

American Literature Seminar

David A. Loewenstein, University of WisconsinMadison

Coordinators

Presenters and Commentators

Anna Arabindan-Kesson, Yale University

Paula McQuade, DePaul University

Walter Benn Michaels, University of Illinois at Chicago

Ross Barrett, University of South Carolina

Regina Schwartz, Northwestern University

Kenneth Warren, University of Chicago

Joshua Brown, American Social History Project/ Center for Media and Learning: The Graduate Center, City University of New York

2 seminars, 58 participants

6 meetings, 113 participants

Shakespeare Project of Chicago

American Political Thought Seminar

Sara Hume, Kent State University Museum

Cosponsored with the Newberry Department of Continuing Education

Cosponsored with the Jack Miller Center (two sessions)

4 performances, 542 participants

Eric Nelson, Harvard University

Sarah Burns, Indiana University, Bloomington

Heidi Knoblauch, Yale University Bruce Levine, University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign Maura Lyons, Drake University Kate Masur, Northwestern University Sarah Jones Weicksel, University of Chicago

April 11, 2014 30 participants

D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies Betting on Indian Country: Indian Gaming in the Archives

May 14, 2014 Danielle Allen, The Institute for Advanced Study 102 participants

March 19-21, 2014 at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Borderlands and Latino Studies Seminar

Faculty

Center for Renaissance Studies

Geraldo Cadava, Northwestern University

William Bauer, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Dante Lecture

Erin Debenport, University of New Mexico

Benjamin Heber Johnson, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

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

Participants

ONGOING SEMINARS AND INDIVIDUAL PROGRAMS

72 participants

Brooke Bauer, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Eighteenth-Century Seminar

Bridget Baumgarte, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Coordinators

Sean Fraga, Princeton University

Timothy Campbell, University of Chicago

Alexandria Gough, University of Oklahoma

Lisa Freeman, University of Illinois at Chicago

Steven Hafner, Harvard University

John Shanahan, DePaul University

Dallas Hunt, University of British Columbia

Helen Thompson, Northwestern University

Lena Krian, Cornell University

3 seminars, 76 participants

Sara Porterfield, University of Colorado, Boulder

History of the Book Lecture

Evelyn Poitras, University of Manitoba/Winnipeg

Coordinators

Paul F. Gehl, Newberry Library Albert Rivero, Marquette University 34 participants

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Lecture in Early Modern History

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

Fall 2014

Marilyn Riggs, University of New Mexico Katie Witz, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Coordinators

Jason Ruiz, University of Notre Dame 6 meetings, 91 participants British History Seminar Coordinators

Deborah Cohen, Northwestern University Fredrik Jonsson, University of Chicago Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska, University of Illinois at Chicago 5 meetings, 73 participants History of Capitalism Seminar Coordinators

Joshua Salzmann, Northeastern Illinois University Jeffrey Sklansky, University of Illinois at Chicago 7 meetings, 120 participants

Research and Academic Programs Labor History Seminar

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

Coordinators

Ten-Week Graduate Seminar: History of Emotions, Medieval and Early Modern

Rosemary Feurer, Northern Illinois University

September 26 – December 5, 2013

Leon Fink, University of Illinois at Chicago

Faculty

Johannes Steffens, Universität Heidelberg

Erik Gellman, Roosevelt University

Barbara H. Rosenwein, Loyola University Chicago

Chloe Taft, Yale University

6 meetings, 186 participants Women and Gender Seminar Coordinators

Joan Johnson, Northeastern Illinois University Francesca Morgan, Northeastern Illinois University

Urban History Dissertation Group

8 meetings, 80 participants

12 students Research and Academic Programs Research Methods Workshop for Early-Career Graduate Students: Early Modernity in Global Perspective

Newberry Library Colloquium

42 Sessions

November 1, 2013, and February 14, 2014

Newberry Fellows Seminar

7 meetings, 249 participants

Faculty

11 sessions

Stormy, Husky, Brawling: 100 Years of Carl Sandburg’s “Chicago”

Ellen McClure, University of Illinois at Chicago

March 12, 2014

41 students

Erica Bernheim, Florida Southern College

Research Methods Workshop for Early-Career Graduate Students: French Pamphlets at the Newberry, The Formation of the Concept of “Revolution” and Revolutionary Ideology

Michelle Nickerson, Loyola University, Chicago

Alison Cuddy, Journalist, WBEZ Kari Lyderson, Journalist, In These Times Liesl Olson, Newberry Library Robert Polito, Poetry Foundation Bill Savage, Northwestern University Marc Smith, Poetry Slam Marten Stromberg, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Laura Hostetler, University of Illinois at Chicago

(attendance: 11,521)

Dale Van Kley, Ohio State University

Exploration 2014: The 28th Annual Juried Exhibition of the Chicago Calligraphy Collective, April 7 - June 27, 2014

18 students

March 7, 2014

The Bosch Archival Seminar for Young Historians

Faculty

September 4, 2013

Carla Zecher, Newberry Library

Presenters

14 students

Daniel Greene, Newberry Library Lisa Janssen, Newberry Library Kelly Kress, Newberry Library Jennifer Thom, Newberry Library 10 Participants

Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference

(approximate attendance: 2,400) Plainly Spoken, April 22, 2014 - July 8, 2014 (approximate attendance: 2,600)

Home Front: Daily Life in the Civil War North

Laura Bland, University of Notre Dame

http://publications.newberry.org/ digitalexhibitions/exhibits/show/homefront/ introduction

Catherine Conner, Claremont Graduate University Charles Keenan, Northwestern University Danielle Kuntz, University of Minnesota

Andrea Nichols, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Dissertation Seminar for Literary Scholars

Greta Smith, Miami University

September 27 – December 6, 2013

David Vaughan, Oklahoma State University

12 students

The Bard Is Born, April 22, 2014 - June 23, 2014

Organizers

Center for Renaissance Studies

William West, Northwestern University

Spotlight Exhibitions

Online Exhibition

Lance Lubelski, University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign

Wendy Wall, Northwestern University

(approximate attendance: 2,500)

January 23–25, 2014

GRADUATE SEMINARS

Faculty

Major Exhibitions

Faculty

Research and Academic Programs

Anne Flannery, Newberry Library

Total approximate attendance: 19,000

Home Front: Daily Life in the Civil War North, September 27, 2013 - March 24, 2014

Research Methods Workshop for Early-Career Graduate Students: Music and Travel, 1500 – 1700

Diane Dillon, Newberry Library

Gallery Exhibitions

January 31 – February 1, 2014

250 participants

James Akerman, Newberry Library

EXHIBITIONS

Daniel Yingst, University of Chicago 18 sessions, 95 participants

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

Making Modernism: Literature and Culture in 20th Century Chicago Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Institutes for College and University Teachers http://publications.newberry.org/ makingmodernism/ The Newberry Magazine

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Honor Roll of Donors Professor James H. Marrow and Dr. Emily Rose

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

Jack and Goldie Wolfe Miller Fund

Drs. Malcolm H. and Adele Hast

Michal and Paul Miller

Janet and Arthur Holzheimer

Cindy and Stephen Mitchell

Mr. and Mrs. Mark Levey

Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. Pope

Laura Baskes Litwin and Stuart Litwin

Paul and Joanne Ruxin

Mr. Stephen A. MacLean

PRESIDENT’S CABINET ($25,000+)

Karla Scherer

Marion S. Miller

Roger and Julie Baskes

Jules N. Stiffel

Professor and Mrs. Larrance M. O’Flaherty

The Davee Foundation

Liz Stiffel

The Rhoades Foundation

Richard and Mary L. Gray

Mrs. Herbert A. Vance

Rosemary J. Schnell

Mrs. Anne C. Haffner

Gail and John Ward

Mr. Morrell M. Shoemaker

Victoria J. Herget and Robert K. Parsons

Mrs. Sarita Warshawsky*

Alyce K. Sigler and Stephen A. Kaplan

Celia and David Hilliard

Anonymous (2)

Mr. and Mrs. Brian Silbernagel

The Newberry gratefully recognizes the following donors for their generous contributions received between July 1, 2013 and June 30, 2014.

THE ANNUAL FUND

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

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

The Abra Wilkin Fund

Barry and Mary Ann MacLean

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

Andrew and Jeanine McNally

Chicago Office Technology Group

Anonymous (3)

David E. McNeel

Dr. and Mrs. Tapas K. Das Gupta

Janis Wellin Notz

Mr. Harve A. Ferrill

Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Siragusa

Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. Fitzgerald

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

Harold B. Smith

Mr. and Mrs. James G. Fitzgerald

Allison and Daniel Baskes

Carol Warshawsky

Virginia Gassel and Belen Trevino

Jeremy Baskes and Family

James J. and Louise R. Glasser

PRESIDENT’S CIRCLE ($10,000-$24,999)

Helen M. Harrison Foundation

Dr. Stephanie Bennett-Smith and Mr. Orin R. Smith

Joan and William Brodsky

Mrs. Mary P. Hines

Joan and John Blew

Mr. T. Kimball Brooker

Professor Lawrence Lipking

Mrs. Walther H. Buchen

Buchanan Family Foundation

Ms. Bettina G. Longaker

Nancy Raymond Corral

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Cicero, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. R. Eden Martin

Janet Wood Diederichs

Ms. Jeanne Colette Collester

Ken and Jossy Nebenzahl

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas G. Fitzgerald

Joan and Robert Feitler

Junie L. and Dorothy L. Sinson

Ms. Mary Adrian Foster

Mr. and Mrs. Paul C. Gignilliat

Carolyn and David Spadafora

Professors Stephen and Verna Foster

Ms. Carlyn Goettsch

The Franklin Philanthropic Foundation

Dr. Hanna H. Gray Sue and Melvin Gray

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

Drs. Richard and Mary Woods

Ted and Mirja Haffner Professor Barbara A. Hanawalt

Charles H. and Bertha L. Boothroyd Foundation

Neil Harris and Teri J. Edelstein

Michelle Miller Burns and Gary W. Burns

Ann and Fred Kittle

Robert H. and Donna L. Jackson

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

Kathryn Gibbons Johnson and Bruce Johnson

Ms. Helen Marlborough and Mr. Harry J. Roper

Mr. Robert O. Delaney

Mr. and Mrs. David B. Mathis

Mimi and Bud Frankel

Andrew W. McGhee

Hjordis Halvorson and John Halvorson

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

John R. Halligan Charitable Fund Mark and Meg Hausberg Illinois Tool Works Foundation

Nancy Lee and Jonathan Kemper Ms. Elizabeth Amy Liebman

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Dr. and Mrs. Robert Wedgeworth, Jr.

Fall 2014

Pati and O. J. Heestand

* Deceased

Honor Roll of Donors Ms. Audrey A. Niffenegger Ms. Sarah Harper Nobles

Mr. and Mrs. Michael Keiser Donor Advised Fund

Father Peter J. Powell

The Lawlor Foundation

Jack L. Ringer Family Foundation

Mr. Julius Lewis

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

Ms. Jeanne M. Martineau

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

Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. McCamant

Dr. and Mrs. James L. Downey

Mr.* and Mrs. Ralph W. Rydholm

Mr. and Mrs. Howard M. McCue III

Dr. and Mrs. George Dunea

Sahara Enterprises, Inc.

Ann and Christopher McKee

Dr. Mary Dunn

Joyce Ruth Saxon

David and Anita Meyer

Mr. and Mrs. Timothy K. Earle

Mrs. Edna Schade

Jackie and Tom Morsch

Ms. Anne E. Egger

Carl W. Stern and Holly Hayes

The Charles Palmer Family Foundation

Mr. Martin A. M. Gneuhs

Tom and Nancy Swanstrom

Dr. Gail Kern Paster

Ms. Simone R. Goodman

Mrs. Rebecca S. Thames-Simmons

Mr. Charles R. Rizzo

Mr. Dean H. Goossen

Jim and Josie Tomes

Mrs. Margaret Z. Robson*

Stephen and Sharyl Hanna

Ms. Donna M. Tuke

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

Ms. Helen S. Harrison

Christian Vinyard Bill and Laura Wangerin

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas D. Rutherford

Mr. and Mrs. Frederic W. Hickman

Thomas K. Yoder

Rose L. Shure

Nancy M. Hotchkiss

Helen Zell

Mrs. Anne D. Slade

Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Howe, Jr.

Anonymous (2)

Professor Susan Sleeper-Smith and Dr. Robert C. Smith

Ms. Susan J. Italiano

Mr. and Mrs. David B. Smith, Jr. SCHOLARS ($1,000 - $1,499)

Ms. Marci J. Sortor and Mr. Daniel Ferro

Amsted Industries Foundation

Anonymous (4)

Mr. Gregory L. Barton

Â

Francis Beidler III and Prudence R. Beidler Foundation

HUMANISTS ($500 - $999)

Mr. Charles T. Cullen Ms. Diana L. DeBoy Mr. and Mrs. Henry DeVogue

Ms. Diana C. Haskell

Mr. and Mrs. Martin D. Jahn Mr. and Mrs. Henry L. Latkin Ms. Susan Levine and Mr. Leon Fink Mrs. Barbara Ford Link Mr. and Mrs. E. Davison Massey Mr. and Mrs. Don H. McLucas, Jr.

Blum-Kovler Foundation

Alsdorf Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. Allan E. Bulley III

Dr. Ellen T. Baird

Joyce E. Chelberg

Bob and Trish Barr

The Dick Family Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. Warren L. Batts

Nancie and Bruce Dunn

Ms. Mary Beth Beal

Mr. Michael L. Ellingsworth

Joan and Julian Berman

William E. Engel

Dea Brennan

Mr. and Mrs. Joe Feldman

Mr. Richard H. Brown

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen L. Geifman

Mr. and Mrs. Paul Burke

Ms. Jean E. Perkins and Mr. Leland Hutchinson

Alan and Carol Greene

Dr. William H. Cannon, Jr. and Mr. David Narwich

Mr. Joseph G. Phelps

The Irving Harris Foundation The Walter E. Heller Foundation Ms. Randy L. Holgate and Mr. John H. Peterson

Mrs. Alice G. Childs Mr. George Christakes Barbara and George Clark

Mr. and Mrs. Verne Istock

Mr. and Mrs. John C. Colman

Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. Jaffee

Professor Ronald J. Corthell

Professor and Mrs. Stanley N. Katz

The Corwith Fund Ms. Nancy E. Cox

* Deceased

Mr. Donald J. Meckley Professor Edward W. Muir, Jr. Dennis and Ellin Murphy Foundation Mr. Michael J. Murphy Marjorie and Christopher Newman Mr. Christopher N. Orndorff Jo Ann and Joe Paszczyk

Victoria and George Ranney Mrs. Bayard Dodge Rea Louise Reid Dr. James Engel Rocks Mr. and Mrs. Morton Rosen Mr. and Mrs. John Eric Schaal Mrs. Ilene W. Shaw Mr. Robert P. Sheridan and Ms. Jana Holt

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Honor Roll of Donors Adele Simmons Mr. and Mrs. C. Richard Spurgin

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

Mrs. Grace Stanek

Mr. Charles H. Douglas

Stanley and Kristin Stevens

Ms. Marilyn R. Drury-Katillo

Mr. J. Thomas Touchton

Mr. Charles A. Duboc

Mr. Scott Turow

Mr. Wilson G. Duprey

Dr. Sona Kalousdian and Dr. Ira D. Lawrence

Mr. Edward Wheatley and Ms. Mary MacKay

Ms. Susanne B. Dutcher

Mr. Peter Kilpe

Mr. G. Michael Wildasin

Dr. and Mrs. David R. Eblen

Mr. Ronald E. Kniss

Robert Williams

Laura F. Edwards and John P. McAllister

Mr. and Mrs. Richard F. Kosobud

Nora L. Zorich and Thomas W. Filardo

Mrs. Anne A. Ehrlich

Professor and Mrs. Donald W. Krummel

Anonymous (3)

Mr. George E. Engdahl

Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Lassandrello

Mr. Jesús Escobar

Professor Carole B. Levin

The Ewbank Cousins

Ms. Carolyn S. Levin

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Fanning

Mr. Albert O. Louer

Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth P. Fischl

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Madden

Ms. Marcia L. Flick Mr. and Mrs. Willard G. Fraumann

Professor John A. Marino and Ms. Cynthia M. Truant

Mr. and Mrs. John E. Freund

Mr. Melvin L. Marks

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Gano

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

Mr. Timothy J. Gilfoyle and Ms. Mary Rose Alexander

Mr. Craig T. Mason

Mr. Mark L. Barbour Mr. Robert M. Barg

Global Impact

Kelly McGrath

Professor Karen-edis Barzman

Professors Suzanne and Philip Gossett

Ms. Linda McLarnan

Ms. Julie A. Benson

Donald and Jane Gralen

Mr. and Mrs. Gregory L. Melchor

William and Ellen Bentsen

Dr. and Mrs. Mark J. Greenwood

Dr. and Mrs. Philip H. Miller

Ms. Julie Beringer

Professor Theresa J. Gross-Diaz

Mr. and Mrs. Robert R. Moeller

Dr. Heather E. Blair

Hamill Family Foundation

Ms. Sylvia J. Neumann

Peter Blatchford

Susan R. Hanes-Leonard and George E. Leonard

Carmen Nocentelli and Samuel Truett

Mrs. Dolores K. Hanna

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Brown

Professor Jean M. O’Brien

Toni and Ken Harkness

Mrs. Kay S. Bucksbaum

Ms. Sarah J. Palmer

Professor Randolph Head

Mr. Ray W. Buhrmaster, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph B. Plauché

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

Dr. Amy Blatchford Hecht and Dr. James L. Hecht

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Poehls

Mr. James P. Burke, Jr.

Mr. Warren Heckrotte

Professor and Mrs. Rand Burnette

Professor and Mrs. Richard H. Helmholz

Professor Sarah L. Burns

Mr. Roger C. Hinman

Ms. Martha M. Butler

Mr. Allan G. Hins

Rob Carlson

Edward C. Hirschland

Dr. Robert W. Carton

Mr. and Mrs. Paul J. Houdek

Mr. and Mrs. William R. Charles

John and Holly Hudak

Professor and Mrs. Edward M. Cook, Jr.

Professor and Mrs. Clark Hulse

Ms. Kim L. Coventry

Mr. Alan Iliff

Mr. John Cullinan and Dr. Ewa Radwanska

Mr. Craig T. Ingram

LITERATI ($250 - $499)

Paula and W. Gordon Addington Mr. Adrian Alexander Sarah Alger and Fred Hagedorn Ms. Rosanne C. Arnold Rick and Marcia Ashton Mr. and Mrs. John S. Aubrey

Margaret S. and Philip D. Block, Jr. Family Foundation

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Mr. Rich Jacobellis Mr. and Mrs. William R. Jentes Mrs. Joan Griffin Johnson Dorothy V. Jones

Dr. Ailsie B. McEnteggart

Minna S. Novick

Professor William V. Porter Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Ramsey Judy and Rick Rayborn Mr. Thomas Reece Burton X. and Sheli Z. Rosenberg Mr. and Mrs. Jack E. Rosenfeld Professors Barbara and Thomas Rosenwein Ms. Doris D. Roskin Mr. T. Marshall Rousseau Mr. and Mrs. David S. Ruder Mr. and Mrs. David M. Schiffman * Deceased

Honor Roll of Donors Dr. Suzanne Karr Schmidt and Mr. Keith Schmidt

In honor of John Aubrey

In honor of Sue and Melvin Gray

Professor E. Gordon Whatley

Mr. and Mrs. Mark Levey

Susan and Charles P. Schwartz

James and Mary Wyly

In honor of Celia and David Hilliard

Adela and Robert Seal

In honor of Ed Bailey

Mr. and Mrs. William J. Hokin

Brad and Melissa Seiler

Rowena McClinton

In honor of John Hippenhammer

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

In honor of the Bald and Griffin families

Professor Craighton Hippenhammer

Dr. and Mrs. Mark Siegler

Mrs. Joan Griffin Johnson

In honor of D. Carroll Joynes

Mr. Richard H. Sigel and Dr. Susan Sigel

In honor of Roger Baskes

Ms. Annice B. Johnston

Ms. Elizabeth Silver-Schack

Sarah Alger and Fred Hagedorn

Ms. Nancy C. Lighthill

Professor Eric Slauter

Ms. Mary Beth Beal

In honor of Barrett Kalter

Mr. and Mrs. O. J. Sopranos

Stephen and Sharyl Hanna

Ms. Judith A. Kalter

Mr. Gerald R. Southern

Mr. and Mrs. Elliott Merker

In honor of Fred Kittle

Mr. Thomas Spevacek and Ms. Diane E. Bravos

Ms. Beverly A. Preiser

Ms. Susan Jewell and Mr. Jon L. Lellenberg

Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Steiner

Donors to the 2014 Newberry Library

Award Dinner

In honor of Mr. Bruce Kirkpatrick

Mrs. Elaine Stenhouse

In honor of Jameson L. Blatchford

Mary and Harvey Struthers

In honor of Samantha Leshin

Mr. Scott Andrew Horning

Mr. Matthew W. Turner and Ms. Kimberly A. Nugent

Sue and Kent Davis

In honor of Martha Briggs

In honor of Helen McGettrick

Ms. Mary Beth Beal

Ms. Judith A. Roe

Mr. and Mrs. James Myrick

In honor of Jerry Malkin

Larry Viskochil Robert and Susan Warde

Jacqueline Vossler

Professor Elissa B. Weaver

In honor of Mr. Richard H. Brown and Mr. W. Lloyd Barber

Joyce C. White

Rob Carlson and Paul Gehl

Dr. Travis White

In honor of Michelle Miller Burns

Dr. Wendall W. Wilson

Ms. Nancy J. Lynn and Mr. Andrew Teitelman

Ms. Patricia Winter and Mr. Dennis L. Holsapple

In honor of Michelle Miller Burns and Gary W. Burns

Mr. Marshall Yablon

John and Holly Hudak

J. Leo and Dorothy Freiwald

Mr. Richard Yae

In honor of Rob Carlson and Paul Gehl

In honor of Jeff Nigro

Anonymous (1)

Mr. Paul A. Kobasa

Ms. Caroline Cracraft

Dr. Debra N. Mancoff

In honor of Janis Wellin Notz

In honor of Maggie Cusick

Francis Beidler III and

Prudence R. Beidler Foundation

TRIBUTE GIFTS

The Newberry recognizes the following gifts made in tribute.

Ms. Ann L. Ayers In honor of Joel D’Alba Ms. Edith H. Falk

HONOR GIFTS

In honor of Ms. Rita T. Fitzgerald

In honor of Jim Akerman

Ms. Emily Troxell Jaycox

Mrs. Walther H. Buchen

In honor of Ginger Frere

Dr. Travis White

Mr. Lu Verne William Peiffer

In honor of Mrs. L. W. Alberts

Ms. Mercedes K. Sparck

Professor Laurie Nussdorfer

In honor of Paul Gehl

In honor of Nicolas Arms

Mr. Mark L. Barbour

Mr. David Arms

Ms. Rebecca Gray Smith

* Deceased

Dr. and Mrs. Roger B. Cole In honor of Michal and Paul Miller Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. Jaffee Mr. and Mrs. Mark Levey In honor of the Newberry Genealogy Staff Mr. Rudolph R. Elser, Jr.

Kathryn Gibbons Johnson and Bruce Johnson Ms. Jean E. Perkins and Mr. Leland Hutchinson In honor of Robert Parsons Mr. Michael J. Murphy In honor of Dr. Gail Kern Paster Mr. and Mrs. Arthur W. Friedman In honor of Elanor and Harv Reiter Ms. Barbara Shaeffer In honor of Karen Risinger Mr. Robert Christiansen

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Honor Roll of Donors In honor of George B. Shaw

In memory of Emil Fried, III

In memory of Dr. Ernest Mond

Mr. and Mrs. Jay Tunney

Lawrence Howe

Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Anderson

In honor of Mr. Morrell M. Shoemaker

In memory of Betty Friedan

Mr. and Mrs. Theodore M. Asner

Ms. Susan J. Italiano

Karen Boehning

Joan and Julian Berman

In honor of Richard D. Siragusa

In memory of Virginia S. Gassel

Theodora Siragusa

Virginia Gassel and Belen Trevino

Margaret S. and Philip D. Block, Jr.

Family Foundation

In honor of Liz Stiffel

In memory of Teresa Gill

Mr. and Mrs. R. Thomas Howell, Jr.

Catherine Gill

In honor of James M. Wells

In memory of Miguel Gonzalez

Helen M. Harrison Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. Carlos M. Martinez

In honor of Carla Zecher

In memory of Raymond A. Gross

Dr. Mary Dunn

Professor Theresa J. Gross-Diaz In memory of W. Jerome Hatch

MEMORIAL GIFTS

In memory of Ann Barzel

Vic Russell and Ed Bierzychuder

Ms. Diana C. Haskell

In memory of Harry Hobscheid

In memory of Sol Barzman

Alan Hobscheid

Professor Karen-edis Barzman

In memory of Ellen Vaughan Howe

In memory of Jeanette Benson

Mr. Lawrence Howe, Jr.

Julie A. Benson

In memory of Mary Gloria Kennedy

In memory of Amy Blatchford Bliss

Ms. Mary N. Kennedy

Mrs. Bayard Dodge Rea

In memory of Stephen Kobasa

In memory of Matthew Bucksbaum

Rob Carlson and Paul Gehl

Dr. and Mrs. Mark Siegler

Mr. Paul A. Kobasa

Professor Susan Sleeper-Smith and

Dr. Robert C. Smith

Mr. Stephen V. Kobasa and

Ms. Anne E. Somsel

In memory of Helen Mytych Chomor

In memory of Evelyn Lampe

Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Canada

Mrs. L. W. Alberts

In memory of Lillian Davidson

In memory of Miss Katherine D. Lewis

Louise D. Howe

Mr. Daniel R. Crawford

In memory of Bart DeLorenzo

Marjorie and Kenneth Gaile

Jane M. Rose and Alan Dineff

Daniel and Tina Garrison

In memory of Dorothy Dubrick

Ms. Catherine Lewis

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Ms. Susan M. Fritz

Janice M. Freeman

Mr. Dean A. Miller and Ms. Martha H. Swift

In memory of Jane and Charles Ellsworth

Ms. Elin Woodger Murphy

Ms. Martha L. Ellsworth

In memory of Ms. Joan H. McCracken

In memory of Isabel Greenlee Farrar de Szinay

Ms. Margot R. Carlson

Ms. Bettina G. Longaker

Ms. Maggie Hamilton and Ms. Jackie Pennoyer

In memory of Rebecca Finkelstein

Mr. and Mrs. Ken W. Taylor

Mr. Henry E. Charles

Mark and Barbara Taylor

Ms. Lorraine M. Dulin

Mr. Milton Van Duser

In memory of Gerald F. Fitzgerald

In memory of John Meagher

Mr. and Mrs. James G. Fitzgerald

Mr. and Mrs. Keith Sherry

Fall/Winter Fall 2014 2014

Rob Carlson and Paul Gehl Ms. Antonia J. Contro and Mr. George Marquisos Dr. Lavinia Davenport Ms. Deena J. DeNosaquo The Ewbank Cousins James and Eileen Feldman Ms. Lora Landers Ms. Carol Laskin The Lawlor Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Lerner Ms. Laural Macmillan Mrs. Marjorie Moretz Stinespring Dr. Audrey Tatar In memory of Ruth Short Nall Anonymous (1) In memory of John Nichols Mr. and Mrs. Ray Hagstrom In memory of Diana Osland Gloria Nardini In memory of Mildred Ostfeld Lynne R. Ostfeld In memory of Constantine Patsavas Ms. Despina J. Bakalis Mr. and Mrs. Jim Di Filippo Mrs. Christine Foley Mr. Rich Jacobellis Mrs. Isabel Pappani Ms. Addie Patsavas Mr. and Mrs. David A. Patsavas Mr. Michael Patsavas Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Perlman Ms. Sharon Priest Louise Reid Mr. and Mrs. Jack E. Rosenfeld Dr. and Mrs. Michael J. Schied Ms. Kasey Truman Mr. and Mrs. Michael Weill Anonymous (1) * Deceased

Honor Roll of Donors In memory of Dr. Edward S. Petersen Nathalie Alberts, Edward’s godson

Lee Fowler Alberts, and family

The following members of the Society of Collectors contributed materials to the Newberry collection valued at $5,000 or more.

Dr. Robert W. Carton

$5,000 - $9,999

Edith Allard* Mr. and Mrs. James G. Fitzgerald The Florence Gould Foundation

Mrs. Sarah L. Douglass

Ms. Diana Harding Greene

Toni and Ken Harkness

Mr. Ford Harding

Arthur L. Kelly and The T. Lloyd Kelly Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. Arthur M. Osteen

Mr. Jonathan P. Harding

Samuel H. Kress Foundation

Mrs. George B. Young

Ms. Judy Harding

Mr. Stephen A. MacLean

In memory of Marian Pierce

Bruce and Suzie Kovner

Ken and Jossy Nebenzahl

Mr. Jay A. Anderson

Anonymous (1)

Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of Illinois

In memory of Rosalind Platcow Edward L. Platcow

RESTRICTED GIFTS

In memory of Marianne Ruoti

The following individuals, foundations, corporations, government agencies, and organizations made restricted gifts to Newberry book funds, genealogy, and other programs and projects.

Robert Ruoti In memory of Ralph W. Rydholm Richard L. McCullough In memory of Richard Schade

Anonymous (1) $2,500 - $4,999

Rob Carlson and Paul Gehl Mrs. Lydia Goodwin Cochrane Mr. and Mrs. R. Eden Martin

$25,000+

Mrs. Madeline Rich

Mrs. Edna Schade

Professor Judith H. Anderson

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

In memory of Mr. Richard R. Seidel

Roger and Julie Baskes

Robert Williams

Mr. and Mrs. Edward D. Hatcher In memory of Karen Skubish

Council on Library and Information Resources

Dr. Katherine F. McSpadden

Ms. Jeanne Colette Collester

Chicago Genealogical Society

In memory of Hedwig Stelzer

The Davee Foundation

General Society of Colonial Wars

Mr. Paul Willecke

The Grainger Foundation, Inc.

Mr. Paul A. Kobasa

In memory of Alfred Stimes

Helen M. Hanson*

Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Illinois

Mrs. Melpomene C. Stimes

Victoria J. Herget and Robert K. Parsons

Christian Vinyard

In memory of Barbara Wriston

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Mrs. Milo M. Naeve

Jack Miller Center

$250 - $1,499

Monticello College Foundation

Ms. Mary Beth Beal

National Endowment for the Humanities

Ms. Sarah B. Bornstein

Polk Bros. Foundation

Chicago Calligraphy Collective

The Siragusa Foundation

Chicago Map Society

Carol Warshawsky

The Contemporary Club of Chicago

SOCIETY OF COLLECTORS

The following members of the Society of Collectors contributed $5,000 or more for the acquisition of materials for the Newberry collection.

$1,500 - $2,499

Mr. John Cullinan and Dr. Ewa Radwanska Roger and Julie Baskes Mr. T. Kimball Brooker Janet and Arthur Holzheimer Barry and Mary Ann MacLean Professor James H. Marrow and Dr. Emily Rose John K. Notz, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Rudy L. Ruggles, Jr. Paul and Joanne Ruxin Mr. and Mrs. William C. Vance Carol Warshawsky * Deceased

$10,000 - $24,999

Mr. Henry Eggers

The Edith-Marie Appleton Foundation

Professors Stephen and Verna Foster

Dr. Hanna H. Gray

The Friday Club

Sue and Melvin Gray

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph S. Harrington

Janet and Arthur Holzheimer

Mr. Stephen V. Kobasa and Ms. Anne E. Somsel

Andrew and Jeanine McNally

Mrs. Susan Murphy

Terra Foundation for American Art

The National Society of Sons of the American Colonists

William Blair & Company

Abby McCormick O’Neil and Daniel Carroll Joynes The Winnetka Fortnightly The Newberry Magazine

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Honor Roll of Donors GIFTS TO ENDOWMENT

Dr. William H. Cannon

Ms. Audrey A. Niffenegger

The following individuals and organizations have helped secure the long-term future of the library by making gifts to endowment.

Rob Carlson

Charles W. Olson

Reverend Dr. Robert B. Clarke

Joan L. Pantsios

Mrs. David L. Conlan

Jo Ann and Joe Paszczyk

Dorothy and David Crabb

Ken Perlow

Mr. Charles T. Cullen

Dominick S. Renga, M.D.

Mr. and Mrs. Norman R. Bobins, The Robert Thomas Bobins Foundation

Professor Saralyn R. Daly

Mr. T. Marshall Rousseau

Magdalene and Gerald Danzer

Rosemary J. Schnell

Mr. Stanley Boorman

John Brooks Davis

Helen M. Schultz

Mr. T. Kimball Brooker

Mr. Gordon R. DenBoer

Stephen A. and Marilyn Scott

Michelle Miller Burns and Gary W. Burns

Susan and Otto D’Olivo

Mr. Morrell M. Shoemaker

Muriel S. Friedman Trust

Donna Margaret Eaton

Alyce K. Sigler

Glasser & Rosenthal Family

Professor Carolyn A. Edie

Dr. Ira Singer

Celia and David Hilliard

Laura F. Edwards

Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Siragusa

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Mr. George E. Engdahl

Susan Sleeper-Smith

Ms. Rita T. Fitzgerald

Harold B. Smith

Lyle Gillman

Rebecca Gray Smith

Louise R. Glasser

Zella Kay Soich

Mr. Donald J. Gralen

Carolyn and David Spadafora

Mrs. Anne C. Haffner

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

Rita K. Halvorsen

Peggy Sullivan

Hjordis Halvorson and John Halvorson

Tom and Nancy Swanstrom

Neil Harris and Teri J. Edelstein

Don and Marianne Tadish

Adele Hast

S. David Thurman

Dr. Sandra L. Hindman

Tracey Tomashpol and Farron Brougher

Robert A. and Lorraine Holland

Jim and Josie Tomes

Janet and Arthur Holzheimer

Mr. J. Thomas Touchton

David M. and Barbara H. Homeier

Professor Sue Sheridan Walker

Louise D. Howe

Willard E. White

Margaret S. and Philip D. Block, Jr. Family Foundation

Jerome and Elaine Nerenberg Foundation Paul and Joanne Ruxin Dr. Scholl Foundation Chester D. Tripp Charitable Trust Mr. David L. Wagner and Ms. Renie B. Adams Anonymous (1)

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.

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Mary P. Hughes

Robert Williams

Mrs. L. W. Alberts

Mrs. Everett Jarboe

Mrs. Erika Wright

Mr. Adrian Alexander

Ann and Fred Kittle

James and Mary Wyly

Rick and Marcia Ashton

Karen Krishack

Anonymous (9)

Constance Barbantini and Liduina Barbantini

Larry Lesperance

Mr. W. Lloyd Barber

Professor Carole B. Levin

IN MEMORIAM

Dr. David M. and Mrs. Susan Lindenmeyer Barron

Joseph A. Like

Roger Baskes

Arthur B. Logan

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

Peter Blatchford

Dr. Audrey Lumsden-Kouvel

Joan and John Blew

Carmelita Melissa Madison

Dr. Edith Borroff

Heidi Massa

Bernard J. Brommel

Andrew W. McGhee

Mr. Richard H. Brown

Marion S. Miller

June Buller

Mrs. Milo M. Naeve

Michelle Miller Burns and Gary W. Burns

Ken and Jossy Nebenzahl

Fall 2014

Lucia Woods Lindley

Ann Barzel Mr. George W. Blossom III Joan Campbell Robert P. Coale Natalie H. Dabovich David W. Dangler * Deceased

Honor Roll of Donors Mrs. Edison Dick Dr. and Mrs. Waldo C. Friedland Dr. Muriel S. Friedman Esther LaBerge Ganz

MAPPING A LEGACY: THE 2014 NEWBERRY LIBRARY AWARD DINNER

The following individuals and organizations supported the 2014 Newberry Library Award Dinner honoring Roger Baskes.

Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. Fitzgerald Ms. Rebecca Ford Rhoda and Henry Frank Mimi and Bud Frankel Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Friedlander

Charles C. Haffner III Ralph H. Halvorsen

Mr. James L. Alexander

Mr. Martin Gammon

Reverend Susan R. Hecker

Peter and Lucy Ascoli

Ruth Ann Gillis and Michael McGuinnis

Mrs. Harold James

Daniel, Allison, Jacob, and Chloe Baskes

Louise R. Glasser

Mr. Everett Jarboe

Jeremy Baskes and Family

Mr. and Mrs. William Goldberg

Corinne E. Johnson

Roger and Julie Baskes

Ms. Simone R. Goodman

Mr. Stuart Kane

Joan and John Blew

Mr. and Mrs. Howard L. Gottlieb

Mr. Isadore William Lichtman

Mary Blust

Richard and Mary L. Gray

Russell W. and Louise I. Lindholm

Mr. and Mrs. Norman R. Bobins, The Robert Thomas Bobins Foundation

Sue and Melvin Gray

Ms. Constance A. Bodiker

Mr. and Mrs. Dietrich M. Gross

Mrs. Noelle C. Brock

Ted and Mirja Haffner

Judy and John A. Bross

Ms. Joan M. Hall

Mrs. Kay S. Bucksbaum

Hjordis Halvorson

Professor and Mrs. David J. Buisseret

Barbara Hanawalt and Ronald Giere

Mr. and Mrs. Vincent J. Buonanno

Toni and Ken Harkness

Michelle Miller Burns and Gary W. Burns

Mark and Meg Hausberg

Amy and Paul Carbone

Victoria J. Herget and Robert K. Parsons

Mr. and Mrs. Edward K. Chandler

Celia and David Hilliard

Mr. and Mrs. Henry T. Chandler

Mr. and Mrs. William J. Hokin

Joyce E. Chelberg

Mr. and Mrs. William L. Hood, Jr.

Chicago Humanities Festival

Mr. and Mrs. R. Thomas Howell, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. R. Scott Falk

Ms. Linda Hutson

Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Franke

Mr. and Mrs. Peter John

Mr. and Mrs. Willard G. Fraumann

Ms. Jean M. Johnson

Mr. and Mrs. Paul C. Gignilliat Mr. and Mrs. Carl Thoma

Kathryn Gibbons Johnson and Bruce Johnson

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Cicero, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Julian

Ms. Marcia S. Cohn

Mr. and Mrs. Neil J. King

Nancy Raymond Corral

Mr. and Mrs. Sanfred Koltun

Ms. Patricia O. Cox

Professor Lawrence Lipking

Ms. Julie M. Danis

Emily and Rebecca Litwin

The Danzer Family Fund of the Lutheran Community Foundation

Laura Baskes Litwin and Stuart Litwin

Dr. and Mrs. Tapas K. Das Gupta

Barry and Mary Ann MacLean

Helen M. Hanson

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

Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. McCamant

Phyllis A. Jones

Ms. Marilyn R. Drury-Katillo

Mrs. Irmingard Korbelak

Mr. George E. Engdahl

Jerome and Elaine Nerenberg

Exelon

Lillian R. and Dwight D. Slater

Mr. Harve A. Ferrill

Mr. Walter C. Lueneburg Ms. Louise Lutz Mrs. Agnes M. McElroy Mr. and Mrs. William W. McKittrick Mr. Milo M. Naeve Piri Korngold Nesselrod Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. O’Kieffe III Bruce P. Olson Edward J. Parsons Marian W. Shaw Professor Robert W. Shoemaker Lillian R. and Dwight D. Slater Cecelia Handleman Wade Professor Franklin A. Walker Lila Weinberg James M. Wells Mr. Raymond L. Wright Anonymous (6)

ESTATE GIFTS

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

Edith Allard Ilse Friend

* Deceased

Daniel Greene

Mr. and Mrs. James W. Mabie

Mr. and Mrs. John W. McCarter, Jr. Rowena McClinton Mr. and Mrs. Howard M. McCue III Andrew W. McGhee

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Honor Roll of Donors Andrew and Jeanine McNally David E. McNeel Michal and Paul Miller Cindy and Stephen Mitchell

CORPORATE AND FOUNDATION MATCHING GIFTS

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

Gerald and Maia Mullin

Hendrickx Belgian Bread Crafter Hotel Indigo The House of Glunz J&L Catering

Ken and Jossy Nebenzahl

Adobe

Jewell Events Catering

Janis and John Notz, Jr.

Apogee Enterprises

Jordan’s Food of Distinction

Mr. Gregory O’Leary and Ms. Patricia Kenney

ArcelorMittal Matching Gifts Program

Knickerbocker Roofing & Paving Co. Inc.

Abby McCormick O’Neil and D. Carroll Joynes

Fitch Ratings Matching Gifts Program

Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises

GE Foundation

Lookingglass Theatre

Ken and Jane Pigott

William Harris Investors, Inc.

Luxe Spa

Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. Pope

IBM Corporation

Lyric Opera of Chicago

Rachel Towner Raffles

Illinois Tool Works Foundation

Major Chemical & Supply

Mrs. Margaret Z. Robson*

Leo Burnett Company, Inc.

Master Brew

Ms. Penelope Rosemont

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

Mesirow Financial

Mondelez International Foundation

Murnane Paper Company

Northern Trust Matching Gift and Volunteer Grant Program

Museum of Contemporary Art

Dr. Martha T. Roth and Dr. Bryon A. Rosner Paul and Joanne Ruxin Karla Scherer Rosemary J. Schnell

The Rhoades Foundation

Stephen A. and Marilyn Scott

Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Sheffield, Jr. Carolyn and David Spadafora Mr. and Mrs. C. Richard Spurgin Dr. and Mrs. Van Stamos

More Cupcakes

Occasions Chicago Catering The Original Pancake House Paper Source Stationery Stores Dr. Gail Kern Paster

Alyce K. Sigler and Stephen A. Kaplan GIFTS IN KIND

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

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph B. Starshak

J. Patton Salon Potash Markets Quarles & Brady LLP Ravinia Festival Republic Services

Jules N. Stiffel

3rd Coast Cafe & Wine Bar

Liz Stiffel

ABM Janitorial Services

Peggy Sullivan

Bistrot Zinc

Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center

Mr. C. Steven Tomashefsky and Ms. Rebecca Sive

Caffè Baci

Simply Elegant Catering

Chicago Shakespeare Theater

Carolyn and David Spadafora

Mr. J. Thomas Touchton

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

Steppenwolf Theatre Company

Ms. Donna M. Tuke

Club Quarters

Ms. Donna Van Eekeren and Mr. Dale Connelly

Connie’s Pizza

Jim and Josie Tomes

Mr. and Mrs. John Van Horn Mr. and Mrs. Peter E. Van Nice Carol Warshawsky Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Washlow Diane Stillwell Weinberg Steve and Lorrayne Weiss Helen and Sam Zell

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James R. Hellige

Fall 2014

Corner Bakery Cafe D’Absolute Events & Catering Dave and Buster’s Exhale Spa Chicago Food Evolution Go Roma Goodman Theatre

Rosebud Restaurants

Swedish Bakery Trader Joe’s Tri-Star Catering Christy Webber Landscapes Westside Mechanical, Inc. The Whitehall Hotel Whole Foods Market Xerox Corporation Ltd. Yoga Now Professor and Mrs. Anthony C. Yu

Hallett Movers * Deceased

Honor Roll of Donors GIFTS OF LIBRARY MATERIALS

Professor David J. Buisseret

Chester Fritz Library

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

Renate Burri

Taylor and Tyler Fuentes

Richard S. Buswell

Júnia Ferreira Furtado

William W. Campbell

Matthew Garrett

François M. Casati

Peter Gayford

Accademia de’ Bardi

Robert G. Cassens

Scott Geddes

Jon Charles Acker

Nikola Georgiev Charakchiev

Celia Gilbert

Professor Nicholas Adams

Chicago Board of Education

Daniel Greene

Mr. Adrian Alexander

Chicago Chamber Musicians

Wallace H. Griffith

American Antiquarian Society

The Chicago Literary Club

The Grolier Club

Professor Judith H. Anderson

Chicago National Association of Dancing Masters

Janet Dapson Hall

Bill and Ann Cochran

Susan R. Hanes-Leonard

Jan Coggeshall

Joan Hansen

Constance Coleman

Gordon S. Harmon

Edward Collins Fund for American Music

Drs. Malcolm H. and Adele Hast

David R. Cosper

Family of W. Jerome Hatch

Robert and Norma Cotner

James Hernandez

Jeff Çoufal

Herzog August Bibliothek

Ms. Kim L. Coventry

William C. Hesterberg

Czechoslovak Genealogical Society International

Marsha Hosfeld

Gema Cienfuegos Antelo Arminia Ardissino Arlington Heights Memorial Library Howard A. Aronson Jennifer Arrow Arts Club of Chicago Steven J. Bahnsen Hans Bak Michael Ban Christina Bannon Edoardo Barbieri Richard E. Bartz Roger Baskes Kenneth C. Bennett William and Ellen Bentsen Pierre Berthiaume Wayne and Harriet Bertola Reine D. Bethany Bidwell Family Association David Binder Mark Bland John Blew

Gerald Danzer John Brooks Davis Rebecca L. Deal Diane Dillon Matt and Deirdre Downs Candace Drimmer Joshua S. Dufek Margo Dumelle Thomas P. Dungan Teresa D’Urso Susan E. Jordan Eichhorn

Robert Halvorsen

Fred Hoxie John R. Hundley The Huntington Library Noel Jackson Lowell Joerg Walker C. Johnson Alistair Johnston Karl R. Jonas D. Carroll Joynes Paul R. Judy David S. Karmon Robert W. Karrow

Dan Blewett

Eisenhower Public Library of Harwood Heights, Illinois

LeRoy Blommaert

Debra Erbacci

Mr. Peter Kilpe

Garrett Boge

Ken Faig, Jr.

Julius Kirshner

Olga Bowe

Mary Finneran

Annette Kolling-Buckley

John Brady

Finnladies of Chicagoland

Mary C. Konstant

R. Lamar Brantley

Ms. Rita T. Fitzgerald

Bruce and Suzie Kovner

Jennifer and Wilson Brown

Professor Stephen Foster

Edd and Kathy Kubik

Mr. Richard H. Brown

Ginger Frere

Denver Brunsman

Friends of the Ryerson and Burnham Libraries

Lake Geneva Historic Preservation Commission

Elizabeth Buckley * Deceased

Farley P. Katz

William R. Lederer

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Honor Roll of Donors Professor Carole B. Levin

Maria Luiza Penna Moreira

Earle Swanson

Jonathan Lewis

Eric Perramond

Robert E. Swisher

Robert Lipman

Walter J. Podrazik

Pepe Tassin

William R. Loesch

Jeremy D. Popkin

Gay S. Taylor

Steve Luxenberg

Patricia Poskocil

The R. J. Taylor, Jr. Foundation

Polly Lynn

Jill Hunter Powell

Daniel D. Teoli, Jr.

Ruth MacKay

Father Peter J. Powell

Hollis A. Thomas

Steve Malone

Patrick Quinn

Jim Tomes

Victor Margolin

Patricia M. Ranum

Robert J. Tórrez

Joyce Markle

Mary Hutchings Reed

Margaret Rattenbury Tucker

Emily Marks

Paul Rickert

U.S. Department of the Interior

Mr. R. Eden Martin

Ed Ripp

Jeannine I. Valentino

Rabbi Jeffrey A. Marx

Rocky Mountain Map Society

Dale van Kley

Marcy Marzuki

Charles Rodgers

Hector Mendoza Vargas

Thomas McGeary

Ms. Penelope Rosemont

Christian Vinyard

Adrienne McGrath and Mary Ann McGrath Perasso

Mark R. Rosenbaum

Jacqueline Vossler

Harold Roth

Mara R. Wade

Christopher McKee

Mary Harris Russell

Jacqueline Wallace

Teresa Steinkamp McMillin

Carolyn Ryan

Gregory J. Walters

Louis D. Melnick

Suzy Sachs

Harry Calvin Ward

David and Anita Meyer

Kaya Sahin

Anna Weaver

Frank Meyer

James R. Sanders

Professor Jack Weiner

Ministero dei Beni e delle Attività Culturali e del Turismo

Ann Saul

Arthur M. Weis

Stephen H. Schaitberger

Madelin M. Wexler

Norman P. Schroeder

David Wham

Joan G. Schroeter

Willis S. Whittlesey III

Janice Schultz

Tappan Wilder

Wayne Schulz*

Robert Williams

Jenny Schwartzberg

T. Bradford Willis

Vince Serritella

Winnetka Historical Society

Servites of North America

Elizabeth R. Wright

Signal Hill Chapter, NSDAR

James and Mary Wyly

Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Debra Yates

Robert R. Smith

Carla Zecher

Joan Ellen Smuda

Karen Zuidema

Claudine Nelson

Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of Illinois

James Zychowicz and Salvatore Calomino

Ms. Audrey A. Niffenegger

Mary Sopocko

Mike Nussbaum

Edna Southard

Lisa Oppenheim

Janet Rank Spaletto

Alice Kipnowski Pacholik

Ellen Stepak

Martha Pampel

Scott Manning Stevens

Sara Paretsky

Roger E. Stoddard

Cindy Mitchell Gregor P. Moe Jon Mogul Mercedes Montes de Oca Vega Jeffrey Mora John C. Moran Gregory More and Dottie Handley-More Robert A. and Carole Mullen Gloria Murrell Nancy L. Nasser National Archives at Chicago Ken Nebenzahl

Anonymous (2) 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.

Esther Pasztory

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* Deceased

Board of Trustees and Volunteer Committees BOARD OF TRUSTEES

LIFE TRUSTEES

BOOK FAIR COMMITTEE

Victoria J. Herget, Chair

Roger Baskes

Event held July 25 – 28, 2013

David C. Hilliard, Vice Chair

Anthony T. Dean

Paul J. Miller, Secretary

Sister Ann Ida Gannon

Steve Scott, Chair

David E. McNeel, Treasurer

Richard Gray

Jenny Bissell

Joan Brodsky

Neil Harris

Bill Charles

T. Kimball Brooker

Stanley N. Katz

Claudia Hueser

Frank Cicero, Jr.

Fred Kittle

Martha J. Jantho

Andrew J. Fitzgerald

Andrew W. McGhee

Mary Morony

Louise R. Glasser

Kenneth Nebenzahl

Patrick O’Neil

Hanna H. Gray

Zoé Petersen

Marilyn Scott

Sue Gray

Alyce K. Sigler

Lian Sze

Mark Hausberg

Richard D. Siragusa

Robert H. Jackson

Barbara Wriston* BUGHOUSE SQUARE COMMITTEE

Kathryn Gibbons Johnson Jonathan Kemper Lawrence Lipking Barry L. MacLean

The Newberry gratefully recognizes the following individuals for their leadership in planning and promoting events held between July 1, 2013 and June 30, 2014.

James H. Marrow Andrew McNally IV Cindy E. Mitchell Janis Wellin Notz Gail Kern Paster Michael A. Pope John P. Rompon Martha T. Roth Rudy L. Ruggles, Jr. Paul T. Ruxin Karla Scherer David B. Smith, Jr. Harold B. Smith Jules N. Stiffel Michael Thompson Carol Warshawsky Robert Wedgeworth, Jr. Peter S. Willmott

MAPPING A LEGACY: THE NEWBERRY LIBRARY AWARD DINNER COMMITTEE

Event held May 5, 2014

Event held July 27, 2013 Rachel Bohlmann, Chair Paul Durica Vince Firpo Molly Fletcher Shawn Healy Kelly McGrath

Celia and David Hilliard, Co-Chairs

Gwendolyn Rugg

Christine and Michael Pope, Co-Chairs

Ryan Stivers

Vincent and Linda Buonanno Harve Ferrill Ruth Ann Gillis and Michael McGuinnis Richard and Mary L. Gray Sue and Melvin Gray Mark and Meg Hausberg Victoria Herget and Robert Parsons David E. McNeel Michal and Paul Miller Cindy and Stephen Mitchell Jossy and Kenneth Nebenzahl Janis and John Notz, Jr. Ken and Jane Pigott Karla Scherer Liz Stiffel Carol Warshawsky

* Deceased

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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

• M eredith Petrov, Manager of Governance and External Relations

• Linda Kinnaman, Conservation Technician

Communications and Marketing

• Alex Teller, Manager of Publications

• B arbara Korbel, Collections and Exhibitions Conservator • Virginia Meredith, Conservation Technician

• P aul 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

Reader Services Department

• C atherine Grandgeorge, Special Collections Library Assistant

• W illiam M. Hansen, Director of Reader Services

• B ailey Romaine, Special Collections Library Assistant • Megan Samelson, Stacks Coordinator

Reference and Genealogy Services Section

• J o Ellen McKillop Dickie, Reference Librarian, Reference Team Leader

Department of Maps & Modern Manuscripts

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

Maps Section

• James R. Akerman, Curator of Maps

• E lizabeth McKinley, Program Assistant

• G race Dumelle, Genealogy and Local History Library Assistant

Collection Services Department

• Jill Gage, Reference Librarian

Modern Manuscripts Section

• A lan Leopold, Chauncey and Marion D. McCormick Family Foundation Director of Collection Services

• Helen McGettrick, Reference Librarian • Katie McMahon, Reference Librarian

• M artha Briggs, Lloyd Lewis Curator of Modern Manuscripts

General Collections Services Section

• A lison Hinderliter, Manuscripts and Archives Librarian

• Ginger Frere, Reference Librarian

Acquisitions Section

• Eric Nygren, Acquisitions Manager • Linda M. Chan, Serials Librarian • J enny Schwartzberg, Acquisitions and Collection Development Assistant

• M argaret Cusick, General Collections Services Librarian, Reference Team Leader • K atharina Bond, General Collections Library Assistant

• Patricia J. Wiberley, Serials Assistant

• K elly Frost, General Collections Library Assistant

Cataloging Section

• J aime Groetsema, General Collections Library Assistant

• Linda Ballinger, Principal Cataloging Librarian • G raham Greer, Collection Services Library Assistant • Cheryl Wegner, Cataloging Librarian Cataloging Projects Section

• Jennifer Dunlap, Cataloging Project Librarian • J essica Grzegorski, Senior Cataloging Projects Librarian • Shawn Keener, Project Cataloging Assistant • M egan Kelly, Senior Cataloging Projects Librarian • Lindsey O’Brien, Project Cataloging Assistant • Amanda Shriver, Project Cataloging Assistant

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• C hris Cialdella, Special Collections Library Assistant • N ora Gabor, Special Collections Library Assistant

LIBRARY SERVICES

• H jordis Halvorson, Roger and Julie Baskes Vice President for Library Services

• L isa Schoblasky, Special Collections Services Librarian, Reference Team Leader

• Elizabeth Zurawski, Senior Book Conservator

• Kenneth Hayes, Visitor Services Assistant • Andrea Villasenor, Graphic Designer

Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections Services

Fall 2014

• M atthew Krc, General Collections Library Assistant • K atie McCarty, General Collections Library Assistant • J eff Schaller, General Collections Library Assistant • J illian Schrager, General Collections Library Assistant

• P atrick A. Morris, Map Cataloger and Reference Librarian

• Kelly Kress, Senior Project Archivist

Department of Digital Initiatives and Services

• J ennifer Thom, Director of Digital Initiatives and Services • Ann Flannery, Assistant Director • Adam Strohm, Digital Collections Librarian Digital Imaging Services

• John Powell, Digital Imaging Services Manager • Catherine Gass, Photographer

Staff DEPARTMENT OF CONTINUING EDUCATION

DEVELOPMENT

Information Technology

• R achel Bohlmann, Director of Continuing Education

• M ichelle Miller Burns, Vice President for Development

• Drin Gyuk, Director

• Anna Dozor, Program Assistant

• Sarah Alger, Director of Development

• J ohn Tallon, IT Support and Systems Administrator

Professional Development Programs for Teachers

• C harlotte Wolfe Ross, Manager of Professional Development Programs for Teachers • Stephanie Fong, Program Assistant

• W endy Buta, Administrative Assistant to the Vice President for Development • Dan Crawford, Book Fair Manager

Internal Services

• Vince Firpo, Annual Giving Manager

• Jason Ulane, Internal Services Coordinator

• V eneese Mollison, Associate Director of Development for Donor Services

Office of Events and Volunteers

• J o Anne Moore, Associate Director of Development Events

• K aren Aubrey, Director of Events, Tours and Volunteer Programs

RESEARCH AND ACADEMIC PROGRAMS DIVISION

• D iane Dillon, Interim Vice President for Research and Academic Programs • K ristin Emery, Research and Academic Programs Manager • Jessica Weller, Program Assistant Center for Renaissance Studies

• Chayla Bevers Ellison, Associate Director FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION

• J ames P. Burke, Jr., Vice President for Finance and Administration Bookstore

• Jennifer Fastwolf, Manager

• Carla Zecher, Director

• M atthew Heichelbech, Bookstore Sales Associate

• Karen Christianson, Associate Director

• Mary Kennedy, Bookstore Sales Associate

• Andrew Belongea, Program Assistant

• Susan Weed, Bookstore Sales Associate

• C aroline Prud’Homme, Postdoctoral Scholar in French Paleography

Business Office

Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography

• James R. Akerman, Director • Peter Nekola, Assistant Director • Mairead O’Malley, Program Assistant D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies

• Patricia Marroquin Norby, Director • Nicolas Arms, Program Assistant Dr. William M. Scholl Center for American History and Culture

• Liesl Olson, Director • Rachel Shrock, Program Assistant

• Scott Stover, IT Support Technician

• Ron Kniss, Controller • Cheryl L. Tunstill, Staff Accountant Facilities Management

• M ichael Mitchell, Facilities Manager and Chief Security Officer • Verkista Burruss, Facilities Coordinator • C hris Cermak, Sr. Building Maintenance Worker • P ete Diernberger, Building Maintenance Worker Human Resources

• Judith Rayborn, Director • Nancy Claar, Payroll Manager

Scholarly, Undergraduate, and Exhibition Programs Department

• Anne Cullen, Program Assistant

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Summary of Financial Position

For the year ended June 30, 2014— with summarized totals for the year ended June 30, 2013 (000s omitted).

2014

2013

Assets

Cash and receivables $ 942 Investments 72,206 Land, buildings, equipment 9,897 Other noncurrent assets 5,671 Total assets

$ 1,857 62,312 10,593 5,170

$ 88,716 $ 79,932

Liabilities and net assets

Accounts payable and accrued expenses $ 962 Other current liabilities 573 Long-term debt 4,240 Other noncurrent liabilities 379

Total liabilities 6,154 6,902

$ 1,200 574 4,720 408

Net assets 82,562 73,030

Total liabilities and net assets $ 88,716 $ 79,932

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Fall 2014

Summary of Activities

For the year ended June 30, 2014— with summarized totals for the year ended June 30, 2013 (000s omitted).

2014

2013

Revenues

Gifts and grants for operations $ 7,088 Gifts to endowment 345 Investment gain 10,518 Other revenues 2,543

Total revenues and other gains

$ 8,772 1,739 5,419 1,872

20,494 17,802

Expenditures

Library and collection services 4,665 Research and academic programs 3,284 Management and general 2,053 Development 960

4,728 3,083 1,655 1,225

Total expenditures

10,962 10,691

Change in net assets

$ 9,532

$7,111

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PROSPECT

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.

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

Hermon Dunlap Smith and East Galleries Curator-led Exhibition Tours

Stone Camryn History of Dance Lecture and Performance

A Celebration of American Indian and Indigenous Dance Thursday, November 13, 5:30 pm reception; 6 pm program Exhibition Program

“Jane Addams, Peace, and Anti-War Activism” A lecture by Addams scholar Marilyn Fischer, along with readings of poetry written by soldiers Saturday, November 15, 1 pm

Thursday, September 18, 6 pm Saturday, October 11, 11 am Thursday, November 6, 6 pm Saturday, December 13, 11 am

Meet the Author

OCTOBER

DECEMBER

Genealogy and Local History Orientation

Conversations at the Newberry

Saturday, October 4, 9:30 am Meet the Author

Miriam Pawel, The Crusades of Cesar Chavez: A Biography Tuesday, October 7, 6 pm

Ana Castillo in Conversation with Jason Ruiz Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma Wednesday, November 19, 6 pm

Jack Fuller and Owen Youngman discuss news in the twenty-first century Tuesday, December 2, 6 pm Exhibition Program

Paul F. Gehl, “Brief History of a Type Face: From Venice in 1470 to Our Own Time” Wednesday, October 22, 6 pm

Bruno Cabanes, “The Great War and the Origins of Humanitarianism, 1918–1924” Thursday, December 4, 6:30 pm Note: this program will be held at the Alliance Française, 810 N. Dearborn St.

The Shakespeare Project of Chicago

Genealogy and Local History Orientation

Italian Cultural Institute / Italian Language Week Lecture

King Lear, a staged reading (a preshow introduction will begin at 9:45 am) Saturday, October 25, 10 am – noon Exhibition Program

“Music of the First World War” William Brooks and Deniz Ertan, speakers; Laurie Matheson, William Brooks, and Alison Hinderliter, musicians Thursday, October 30, 6 pm

Saturday, December 6, 9:30 am

JANUARY Genealogy and Local History Orientation

Saturday, January 3, 9:30 am

The Shakespeare Project of Chicago

NOVEMBER

50-minute Hamlet and 50-minute Romeo and Juliet Saturday, January 17, 10 am – noon

Genealogy and Local History Orientation

FEBRUARY

Saturday, November 1, 9:30 am Chicago Humanities Festival

Sundays, November 2 and 9 For ticket information, visit www.chicagohumanities.org D’Arcy McNickle Distinguished Lecture Series

Ned Blackhawk, “John Evans and the Question of Genocide” Tuesday, November 4, 5:30 pm reception; 6 pm lecture

Genealogy and Local History Orientation

Saturday, February 1, 9:30 am

History of the Book Lecture

“Renaissance Print Culture: An Aldine Quincentennial Symposium” Saturday, February 7, 9 am – 3:30 pm The Shakespeare Project of Chicago

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WORLD WAR I COMES TO THE NEWBERRY September 17 – January 3

CHICAGO, EUROPE, AND THE GREAT WAR u

AMERICAN WOMEN REBUILDING FRANCE, 1917-1924 u EXHIBITIONS AND PROGRAMS ARE FREE

EXHIBITION PROGRAMS

GALLERY HOURS

Performance of period music from the exhibition, with commentary

by Deniz Ertan and William Brooks Thursday, October 30, 6 pm

Monday, Friday, Saturday 8:15 am – 5 pm Tuesday – Thursday 8:15 am – 7:30 pm Closed Sundays

CURATOR-LED EXHIBITION TOURS Thursday, September 18, 6 pm Saturday, October 11, 11 am Thursday, November 6, 6 pm Saturday, December 13, 11 am

Music of the First World War

Jane Addams, Peace, and Anti-War Activism Talks by Addams scholar Marilyn Fischer and CodePINK Chicago leader Pat Hunt, along with readings of poetry written by WWI soldiers Saturday, November 15, 1 pm

The Great War and the Origins of Humanitarianism, 1918-1924 A lecture by historian Bruno Cabanes Thursday, December 4, 6:30 pm Location: Alliance Française de Chicago, 810 N. Dearborn St.

Non-Profit Organization

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The Newberry Library

Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday 10 am to 6 pm Friday 10 am to 5 pm Saturday 9 am to 5 pm

Next Stop: Collectibles Books, cards, posters, and now deaccessioned duplicates from the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy archives and other Newberry collections!

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