Fall 2016 No. 7

Fall 2016, Issue 7

All Chicago’s a Stage Shakespeare and Chicago have been intertwined since the city’s earliest days.

Chicago’s Shakespeare The cover story of this issue of The Newberry Magazine takes up a theme that our Creating Shakespeare exhibition both explores and exemplifies: Chicago’s long history of engagement with the Bard.

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Chicago and Shakespeare have been intertwined since practically the beginnings of the city’s history. In the nineteenth century, performances of Shakespeare helped foster civic pride, contributing to a robust cultural environment that brought the greatest Shakespearean actors of the day to Chicago. Over time, as the city and its communities have grown and become more diverse, so have the versions of Shakespeare now available to us—not only on stage, but also in parks, schools, art galleries, museums, and libraries like the Newberry. Creating Shakespeare curator Jill Gage discusses the vibrant relationship between Chicago and Shakespeare in an interview reproduced in these pages.

DESIGNER Andrea Villasenor

In another sign of Chicago’s passion for theater, Hamilton fever has officially overtaken the city.

The musical made its Chicago debut in September, and we’ve marked the occasion with an article showcasing our Hamilton-related collection items and what they reveal about the fierce political debates that embroiled the early republic. Our celebrated collection of early American materials offers a wealth of primary sources for any Hamilton fan who would like to learn more about the American Revolution, The Federalist Papers, or the infamous duel.

Elsewhere in the magazine, you will read about the origins of the Newberry’s D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies. The center is celebrating its 45th anniversary this year with a series of scholarly and public programs. This programming demonstrates that, 45 years after its creation, the center’s commitment to advancing knowledge of American Indian history and engaging with both scholars and Indigenous communities is as strong as ever.

Our collections relating to American Indian history have supported programming, scholarship, and, most recently, experiments with “digital pedagogy” in the classroom. Kelly Wisecup, a professor of English at Northwestern University and a former Newberry Fellow, recently assigned students in her “Native American and Indigenous Cultures of Print” course to collaborate on a digital exhibit curated from items in the Newberry’s collection. You can read about how archival research at the Newberry informed the students’ projects, as well as how the assignment challenged them to consider the advantages and potential limitations of a digital exhibit compared with the traditional term paper.

We hope you enjoy reading the Fall 2016 issue of The Newberry Magazine. As always, we thank you for your generous support, which helps to make the activities chronicled in these pages possible.

David Spadafora, President and Librarian

EDITOR Alex Teller

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 Alexandra Katich at katicha@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.

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Contents FEATURES The Reading Room Where It Happens

By Will Hansen

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With Hamilton fever overtaking Chicago this fall, the Newberry’s collection shines an even brighter spotlight on the political brawls and personal feuds that Alexander Hamilton was often at the center of.

Meeting Ground

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or decades, academia neglected Indigenous sources of knowledge, and F pop culture indulged in the tired trope of the vanishing Indian. The Center for the History of the American Indian was created 45 years ago to change that.

Digital Natives

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Northwestern University Professor Kelly Wisecup recently experimented with digital pedagogy in one of her courses, challenging students to build a digital exhibit after conducting hands-on research at the Newberry.

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Creating Shakespeare curator Jill Gage discusses how Shakespeare helped Chicago define itself and how Chicago helped define Shakespeare, with the 1968 Democratic National Convention serving as the real-life manifestation of Richard III.

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Through the Lens of Helen Balfour Morrison

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A new acquisition of photographs by Helen Balfour Morrison illustrates the power of documentary photography and—potentially —the limitations of the form.

DEPARTMENTS Dear Walter

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DONOR CORNER: Rosemary Schnell

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RETROSPECT: Recent Events

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PROSPECT: Upcoming Events

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ANNUAL REPORT

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Letter from the Chair and the President

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Public Engagement

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Research and Academic Programs

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Honor Roll of Donors

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Board of Trustees and Volunteer Committees

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Staff

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Financials

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Dear Walter

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

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

Dear Walter, A friend recently asked me what I knew about Abraham Lincoln’s first vice president.

Illustration by Tom Bachtell “Andrew Johnson?” I replied.

“No, Hannibal Hamlin.”

Who?! Hamlin was indeed Lincoln’s first vice president.

His term ended 42 days before Lincoln was assassinated, and, instead of becoming president, Hamlin was relegated to being a historical footnote. What do you know about Almost President Hannibal Hamlin?

— Brian Treglown, Chicago Allow me a f leeting moment of Whimsy so that I may posit a fanciful Notion to which I hope to return. Perhaps from the embers of the raging Fire stoked by Hamilton will arise, like a great phoenix, a new Musical Entertainment based upon a Revisionist journey into our Nation’s past. Lin-Manuel Miranda, impress upon the theater-crazed Public the story of Hannibal Hamlin so that they may “KNOW HIS NAME.” Think not of Hamilton, but of Hamlin.

In these Modern times, nominees for the American Presidency decide their Vice Presidential “RUNNING MATES” with a degree of focus and calculation characteristic less of Politics than of Non-Euclidean Geometry. After all, a Candidate whose resume boasts the perfectly calibrated blend of Temperament, geographic origin, and jawline Definition just might “SWING AN ELECTION.” Or perhaps not! Perhaps a Vice President, living in the shadow of the Presidential candidate, can exert only an Inf luence which is so Negligible as to be virtually nonexistent.

The matter divides so-called experts into camps as polarized as the Electorate itself.

Were there ever a time when one could aver the impact of RUNNING-MATE selection without Controversy, the time would, in my humble estimation, have occurred in the Antebellum period of our nation’s History. This was a time of great political Fissures and Realignments—a time in which a ticket composed of truly Complementary parts attained the Power to nurture a new political party, giving it the Strength to sustain itself during a vulnerable state of infancy.

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Take, for example, the Republican “STANDARD BEARERS” of 1860. Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin, together, provided the f ledgling Party a net capacious enough for a Significant share of the country’s votes. Lincoln, hailing from the hinterlands of the United States, was perceived by many to hold Moderate opinions on Slavery, the central issue of the day. Hamlin, by contrast, was an urbane East Coaster with a more Radical reputation among his peers.

Lincoln and Hamlin emerged victorious from the 1860 Election. The rest is, as many are wont to declare, “History.” History, however, rarely unfolds without frustrating the Ambitions of its mortal participants— particularly in times of Tumult and Upheaval. In 1864, as the conclusion of our tragic Civil War drew near, the demand for Reconciliation between North and South conspired against Vice President Hamlin. Andrew Johnson, a Tennessean, ran alongside Lincoln during his successful Campaign for reelection. Following Lincoln’s assassination, Johnson acceded to the Presidency—mere months removed from his predecessor’s second Inauguration. The line of Presidential Succession, once enacted, created as one of its byproducts a bitter Irony: Hannibal Hamlin, the man who had Loyally served as Vice President during his country’s Darkest hour, had narrowly missed becoming President himself.

The Reading Room Where It Happens Hamilton the musical made its Chicago debut this fall, and as Chicagoans get to know the cast of characters, they can continue learning about “the ten-dollar founding father without a father” through unique primary sources right here at the Newberry.

By Will Hansen Has anyone had a better twenty-first century than Alexander Hamilton?

Ron Chernow’s best-selling and award-winning Alexander Hamilton was published in 2004, in time to commemorate Hamilton’s 250th birthday (in 2005) and the bicentenary of his death. The biography put his essential contributions to the American Revolution and the early republic in the spotlight for the first time in many decades, and inspired an artist

named Lin-Manuel Miranda to create the Broadway musical Hamilton. The musical, in turn, has become one of the great cultural phenomena of the 2010s. Its inventive lyrics, infectious melodies, and diverse cast have encouraged young people to explore anew the world in which the United States of America was created, to find its relevance today, and to see themselves—in Hamilton—as central protagonists in the American story. Hamilton may very well have saved Hamilton from being demoted from the front of the ten-dollar bill.

Hamilton’s dramatic personal story is certainly key to his recent popularity: his mysterious and difficult childhood in the Caribbean; a meteoric rise, in his 20s, to become General Washington’s right-hand man during the American Revolution; the controversy and intrigue that swirled around him in his immensely inf luential position as the first Secretary of the Treasury; the first major sex scandal in American politics, in the 1797 revelation of his adulterous affair; and the feuds with George Clinton, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and others whom he antagonized throughout his career, culminating in a fatal duel involving his son Philip, as well as his own infamous duel with Aaron Burr.

Narratives of self-reliance, genius, scandal, and disgrace have appeared in the biographies of many of the Revolutionary patriots and “founding fathers”— Burr among them. Hamilton holds his place in our history and is having his moment in the sun thanks to his ideas and particularly (though not only) to his role in crafting the foundational documents of American government, especially the U.S. Constitution. The Newberry holds invaluable primary sources that bring this history to life, particularly in the Rudy Lamont Ruggles Collection.

A nineteenth-century illustration imagines the fateful first encounter between Alexander Hamilton and George Washington. Hamilton would serve as Washington’s aide-de-camp during the Revolutionary War; after the war, their close relationship turned into a strong political alliance.

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After Hamilton’s death in July of 1804, James Madison and Noah Webster corresponded over the origins of the U.S. Constitution. In one of his letters to Webster (above), Madison suggests that Hamilton’s supporters have exploited the widespread sympathy for him by inf lating the role Hamilton played in crafting the Constitution. In the wake of Hamilton’s death, according to Madison, “a great number of loose assertions have at different times been made with respect to the origin of the reform in our system of federal government.”

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“WHAT COMES NEXT?” The Ruggles Collection includes a letter from James Madison to Noah Webster (of dictionary fame), dated October 12, 1804, some three months after Hamilton’s tragic death.

Madison reports that Webster wrote to him looking for details on “the origin of the Reform in our system of Fed[era]l Gov[ernmen]t,” provoked by “loose assertions” on the subject.

For a number of reasons, the Constitution’s origin story was already a matter of debate and controversy during Hamilton’s lifetime; to some degree, it remains so. Pivotal stages of the Constitution’s development took place largely outside the public eye, leaving its origins susceptible to conjecture and competing accounts. The initial convention of September 1786, at which the Constitutional Convention was proposed, was held in off-the-beaten-path Annapolis, Maryland, with little fanfare or coverage by major newspapers. Furthermore, the delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention decided to keep their proceedings confidential, and James Madison’s extensive notes on the debates and negotiations were not published until 1840, after he and all the other delegates had died.

Madison recounts the events of the Annapolis Convention, called “in order to form some plan for investing Congress with the regulation & taxation of Commerce.” The need for a plan was intensifying for the f ledgling confederation of states plagued by infighting, crushing debts from the Revolutionary War, and other fiscal problems. However, “attendance … was both so tardy and so deficient, that nothing was done on the subject.” Instead, the 12 delegates from five states who had made it to Annapolis—among them Madison and Hamilton— found themselves in agreement on the need for “a more radical reform,” and took the shocking step “to recommend to the States a meeting at Philad[elphi]a the ensuing year … to digest & propose a new & effectual system of Govt. for the Union.”

Ever the scholar-politician, Madison takes care to point out that such a momentous change “ought to be ascribed rather to a series of causes … and to the participation of many, rather than to the efforts of a single Agent,” and that “the manner in which this idea rose into effect, makes it impossible to say with whom it more particularly originated.” He admits, somewhat begrudgingly, that “Mr. Hamilton was certainly the member who draughted the address” which recommended the Constitutional Convention, unanimously approved by the delegates and sent on to the national and state legislatures.

“WHO LIVES, WHO DIES, WHO TELLS YOUR STORY” Madison goes on to comment on the 1787 Constitutional Convention but glosses over most details—perhaps because, as he notes near the end of his letter, he has thought about writing a “Chronicle” of the proceedings himself and does not want to divulge too much to another writer. At the same time, he may

“A great number of loose assertions have at different times been made with respect to the origin of the reform in our system of federal government.” have wanted to avoid a lengthy discussion that might reveal the similarities between his views and Hamilton’s in 1787, and the closeness of their interactions.

Once strong partners in the project of crafting and promoting the new Constitution, Madison and Hamilton had long since drifted apart politically. By 1804, when Madison was writing to Webster, the Jeffersonian era was underway, and Madison had allied himself with his fellow Virginian, diverging from the view on federal power he had once shared with Hamilton. Indeed, Madison and Jefferson were among the men most responsible for denigrating Hamilton’s patriotism and morality. The unsavory view of Hamilton as a closet monarchist and overreaching bureaucrat perpetuated by Jefferson and Madison’s Democratic-Republicans continued to tarnish Hamilton’s public image long after his death.

Before their falling out, Madison and Hamilton served together in 1787 on the Convention’s Committee of Style and Arrangement, responsible for crafting the final order of the articles and the language of the Constitution. As the struggle for state-by-state ratification of the new Constitution began, they joined forces with John Jay to produce the most important and inf luential commentary on and explication of the Constitution: The Federalist, also known as The Federalist Papers, which made the case for a stronger union of the states in our now-familiar tripartite system of federal government.

The Ruggles Collection contains one of the finest aggregations of material on The Federalist to be found anywhere, allowing us to trace the work’s creation, dissemination, and global inf luence. This includes one of the four manuscript drafts of The Federalist essays known to survive: John Jay’s manuscript of Federalist no. 3. All four surviving drafts are Jay’s contributions; neither Madison’s nor Hamilton’s drafts have survived. Most of the essays were originally published in New York newspapers; the Ruggles Collection holds a scrapbook containing the newspaper appearances of the first 33 Federalist numbers, compiled by William Cushing, at the time Chief Justice of Massachusetts and soon to become one of the original Supreme Court Justices (along with Jay). The Newberry also has no fewer than eight copies of the iconic 1788 first book edition of The Federalist, in which Hamilton’s last eight essays first appeared—all displaying variations in printing, paper quality, binding, or other unique features. One copy in the Ruggles Collection is inscribed, in Hamilton’s hand, “The Gift of Alex.

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As the states debated whether or not to ratify the Constitution, Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison wrote The Federalist, a series of essays arguing for ratification. The essays originally appeared in newspapers, and, in 1788, they were collected in book form. The Newberry holds no fewer than eight copies of the first edition.

Hamilton Esqr.” to Joseph Strong, a clerk in his law office; another is a copy from Jefferson’s library.

The Federalist essays were originally published under the shared pseudonym “Publius.” Speculation on the authors’ identities ran wild as the essays were published in newspapers through late 1787 and into 1788, and it continued with their publication in book form. Indeed, the authors of some of the papers are still disputed. Amusingly, the authors were first identified in print in the first French edition of the work, published in 1792, as “MM. Hamilton, Madisson, et Gay.” (A copy of this is also in the Ruggles Collection.) However, most of those involved with national politics at the time had some inkling of the authors long before that. Jefferson wrote the names of the authors and the numbers attributed to them in the front of his copy and pasted in a newspaper clipping that identifies the authors.

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Constitution in 1787 and 1788. It is such a canonical text that it is easy to forget that it exists only because Anti-Federalists, too, were arguing passionately in newspapers and pamphlets, at town meetings and in city squares, against ratification of the Constitution. Befitting their opposition to concentrated power in the federal government, the Anti-Federalists had no centralized or focused group working to debate the Federalist troika of Hamilton, Madison, and Jay. Still, many American politicians such as Patrick Henry and other citizens took up their pens to debate them on the merits of the Constitution.

A newly acquired manuscript added to the Ruggles Collection preserves the voice of one such Anti-Federalist.

The unidentified author dates his manuscript October 20, 1787, as Massachusetts was beginning to debate ratification— and exactly one week prior to the publication of Federalist no. 1. In opening that essay for The Federalist, Hamilton wrote, “it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question,

The Federalist is such a canonical text that it is easy to forget that it exists only because Anti-Federalists, too, were arguing passionately against ratification of the Constitution. suggests that it may have been prepared for a speech, perhaps to the Massachusetts Senate, which met on October 20, or for publication in a local newspaper.

In contrast to Hamilton’s crystalline logic, cool rhetoric, and appeals to the long-term interest of the nation in The Federalist, the author of this manuscript strives for the laughter and tears of his intended audience. He is frequently sarcastic and cutting in his remarks: of the proposed six-year term for U.S. senators, he writes, “a very short time in Deed! No danger from this Quarter.

So few men as this branch is to consist of … they will be the most perfect men on Earth, they will do Every thing Right, they will consult nothing but the good of ye whole community, spend all their time and strength for the good of their constituents.”

In one compelling section, he argues that the more limited confederation of independent states will better represent the peoples’ will, and that for the Constitution to be seen as valid, it must be ratified by unanimous agreement of all of the states. In doing so, he reveals his personal history as a Revolutionary War veteran: While Hamilton and his fellow Federalists argued for ratification of the Constitution, the Anti-Federalists argued against it. In this manuscript, possibly prepared for a speech to the Massachusetts Senate in 1787, the unknown AntiFederalist author refers to the proposed Constitution as a “mess of pottage” that will provide instant gratification at the expense of long-term success.

whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from ref lection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend for their political constitutions on accident and force.” Similarly, but in far less graceful language (and with the nonstandard spelling, syntax, and punctuation common in eighteenth-century writings, which have been clarified here for ease of reading), the author of the AntiFederalist manuscript notes that the Constitution is “the most weighty, most Serious, most binding of all things that ever came before ye people of ye United States of America and to them of ye Greatest importance,” and as such “Demands our most Serious Consideration, and enlightened understandings and Judgments.” He goes on to explain his concerns about the Constitution, focusing on the Preamble and Article I. Eric Slauter, Associate Professor of English and Director of the Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture at the University of Chicago, says of this manuscript, “We’re seeing the Anti-Federalist playbook come into being.” Slauter

My heart is filled at the thought of the Distresses of my Brother Soldier when I Recollect our fatigues and long travels, and more Especially to Recollect when, standing Shoulder to Shoulder, our blood running, others wallowing in their blood, breathing out their Dying groans, all to defend you all and to Secure your interest with our own if any we had. Now my Brethren, will ye law of nature or Reason or of justice let you accept any plan that will make any Distinction between us and you when we have spent our all to make you free? Consider well whether what you are going to take is preferable to what you now have.

Pray Determine for your selves—view your liberties. Doth not government spring from the people? Consider then with your selves which is best: whether to hold that right which god and nature has given you, or to sell ye same for a mess of pottage.

Claiming the legacy of the Revolution was important to both sides of the debate; Hamilton had the advantage of being well known as George Washington’s aide-de-camp, whereas the Anti-Federalist writer had to establish his bona fides explicitly.

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of a diverse populace occupying a very large geographic territory. In such a political system, representatives of one group of likeminded states (for instance, the Northern states) might tyrannize a smaller number of opposing states. (As always in this period, the divisive nature of slavery is never far from the surface.)

In the end, Hamilton and the Federalists won ratification of the Constitution, but the validity of some Anti-Federalist objections led to the creation of the Bill of Rights to further protect individual freedoms. The Bill of Rights itself has attained an aura of inevitability. Acquiring, preserving, and making available for study documents like this one by the anonymous Anti-Federalist Anti-dueling sentiment preceded the Hamilton-Burr duel and proliferated in its aftermath. On the left, a previous owner of The Principles of Duelling added their own biting remarks on the principles, qualifying them as “hellish.” On the right, enriches our understanding of William Ladd’s Letter to Aaron Burr … on the Barbarous Origin, the Criminal Nature and the Baneful Effects of Duels.

American history, beyond what we know through the lives and the nineteenth century. Our copy of one such work, Samuel works of the “founding fathers.” At the same time, Hamilton’s Stanton’s Principles of Duelling, published in London in 1790, is own story becomes more complete through the perspectives of his extensively annotated by a contemporary reader appalled by the opponents—whether they are famous or anonymous. Providing continuance of the practice. these multiple perspectives through documentary evidence is one The Burr-Hamilton duel spurred a movement to end of the Newberry’s key objectives. the practice of dueling, with many sermons and pamphlets denouncing its immorality and barbarity. Many anti-dueling “EVERYTHING IS LEGAL IN NEW JERSEY” sermons included eulogies for Hamilton, and many eulogies included anti-dueling sermons. William Ladd’s Letter to Aaron In his letter to Noah Webster, Madison refers to “the late Burr … on the Barbarous Origin, the Criminal Nature and the Baneful occasion which so strongly excited the effusions of party & Effects of Duels, published in New York in 1804, is one early and personal zeal for the fame of Gen[era]l Hamilton.” This was the inf luential example in the Newberry collection. infamous Burr-Hamilton duel, when Aaron Burr fired a fatal Hamilton’s death prompted his supporters to begin building shot at Hamilton on the dueling ground in Weehawken, New his legacy. In the introduction to his Collection of the Facts Jersey, on July 11, 1804. We know these basic facts, but so much and Documents, Coleman writes that the Burr-Hamilton duel else about the duel remains a matter of speculation, including “deprived America of her most valuable citizen, and our age of whether Burr actually intended to hit Hamilton. the greatest man.” Hamilton’s legacy may have been eclipsed by The Newberry holds the most thorough contemporary other political figures in the centuries since Coleman wrote those compilation of documents on the duel, William Coleman’s lines, but thanks to Ron Chernow and Lin-Manuel Miranda, it 1804 Collection of the Facts and Documents, Relative to the Death of Major-General Alexander Hamilton. There are also many separately is being reexamined in exciting ways—and the Newberry is an ideal place to explore Hamilton’s tumultuous and accomplished printed memorial sermons and orations in Hamilton’s honor life further. after his death.

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Will Hansen is the Newberry’s Director of Reader Services and Curator of Americana.

Meeting Ground The Newberry’s D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies is celebrating its 45th anniversary this year. The center’s core principles— engaging with the American Indian community, connecting Native and non-Native scholars with the Newberry’s collections, and improving what is written and known about American Indian history—were present from the very beginning.

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n 1971, 45 years ago this past summer, Newberry President Lawrence Towner and American Indian scholar and novelist D’Arcy McNickle (a member of the Salish and Kootenai tribes) laid out their vision for what would become the Center for the History of the American Indian (CHAI). They did so in a National Endowment for the Humanities grant application that has guided the center ever since. (In 1983, the center would be renamed the D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies, after its founding director.)

According to Towner and McNickle, American Indian history, in addition to being intrinsic to a full and critical assessment of the development of the United States, was a

legitimate field of study in its own right. Though scholars up to that time had generated well-researched studies on American Indian history, their work tended to rely on a closed circuit of print publications that generally excluded sources of tribal knowledge. Worse, public perceptions of American Indians had for far too long been shaped by dime novelists and other purveyors of pop culture who romanticized American history using threadbare tropes like the vanishing Indian and the heroic white settler.

With these academic and cultural considerations as a backdrop, Towner and McNickle proposed three core functions for the center: to improve and diversify the field of American Indian history by providing a meeting ground for both Indian and non-Indian scholars as well as for tribal historians; to offer educators at different types of institutions resources for teaching American Indian history; and to engage American Indian communities in public programming, exhibitions, and research projects.

Successive generations of center directors, staff, and scholars have weighted these three goals differently, but the basic framework established by Towner and McNickle in 1971 has endured over the course of the past 45 years.

Towner and McNickle set out to improve and diversify the field of American Indian history by providing a meeting ground for Indian and non-Indian scholars.

D’Arcy McNickle was the first director of the Newberry’s Center for the History of the American Indian, which would be renamed in his honor in 1983. By the time he joined the Newberry in 1971, McNickle had already led an illustrious career as a scholar, novelist, and political leader.

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he Edward E. Ayer Collection, consisting of materials documenting early contact between Europeans and Indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere, is one of the Newberry’s foundational collections. Since 1911, when Ayer donated 17,000 items to the library, the collection has grown to include more than 130,000 volumes, 1 million manuscript pages, 2,000 maps, 500 atlases, 11,000 photographs, and 3,500 drawings and paintings.

In the decades leading up to the founding of the CHAI, the Ayer Collection, along with other materials related to European colonialism and the American West, made the Newberry a destination for scholars interested in American and American Indian history. However, without the necessary institutional infrastructure in place, the Newberry hadn’t been able to effectively promote the use of the collection among Native communities.

By the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Newberry began to cultivate scholarly communities more actively than ever before, with the library—its collection, staff, fellows, and other visitors—as the locus of cross-disciplinary dialogue on a variety

of subjects in addition to American Indian history, including the Renaissance and the history of cartography.

The fellowship program initiated in the 1940s by thenNewberry President Stanley Pargellis laid the groundwork for a community of scholars at the Newberry. By the mid-1960s this community had been augmented by an undergraduate research program involving the Associated Colleges of the Midwest and by collaborative publication projects in concert with other Chicago-area institutions. According to Towner, the future of the Newberry depended on continuing to build not only a sense of community but the administrative structures that would foster it on a regular, ongoing basis.

In his 1971 strategic plan for the Newberry, Towner outlined his ideas for the structural support that might bring more scholars to the library and forge connections among them once they were here. He called for the creation of what he referred to as the “Newberry Library Institute for Advanced Studies in History and the Humanities.” The institute would comprise a network of subject-based centers facilitating research and creating ongoing opportunities for scholars to share the results of their research at the Newberry.

Even as he articulated the concept of the institute, Towner acknowledged it might prove to be more of an aspirational ideal than a realizable goal: “As a formal institution, it may never be realized, but as a community of scholars with a good library, it already exists, or, at least, much of it already exists.”

One of the already-existing pillars of Towner’s communitybuilding enterprise was the Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography, opened the same year that Towner released his strategic plan. Next up would be the Center for the History of the American Indian.

With or without a formally constituted “Institute for Advanced Studies in History and the Humanities,” these centers, Towner believed, would move the Newberry “further on the spectrum away from the abstract extreme of an inert collection awaiting the demands of the scholar and toward the equally abstract extreme of a community of scholars.”

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f community was a new point of emphasis for Towner, it had been an established and enduring fact for American Indians in Chicago since the middle of the century.

In the 1950s, the United States government implemented a policy known as “Termination,” which saw federal agencies circumventing agreements with tribes in order to make it easier for non-Native buyers to purchase Native-owned land.

As tribes lost control of large swathes of their reservations, the Bureau of Indian Affairs relocated the American Indian families and individuals who could no longer be accommodated by the shrinking reservation map. The bureau resettled American Indians in five major cities: Oakland, St. Louis, Los Angeles,

In the mid-twentieth century, the federal government relocated thousands of American Indians from reservations to cities. With few government resources to ease this transition, other institutions, such as the American Indian Center of Chicago, stepped in to foster social cohesion.

Cleveland, and Chicago. The relocation program provided initial employment for heads of family (though retaining a new job while coping with the trauma of displacement could be difficult) and financial assistance for one year—after which, the process of adjusting to urban life was deemed complete.

With so few resources to ease the transition into a bewilderingly new environment, other institutions emerged or stepped in to foster social cohesion among American Indian urban communities. One of these institutions was the American Indian Center of Chicago, the country’s oldest urban Indian center. Another was St. Augustine’s Indian Center, founded in 1961 by Father Peter Powell.

“Throughout the Eisenhower Administration, Relocation was considered to be the major panacea for American Indian social and economic ills,” Father Powell wrote in a 1998 report on the McNickle Center. “I witnessed the increasing numbers of families being brought here by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, then dropped, with inadequate follow-up.”

As relocation went on unabated under Eisenhower, Chicago’s American Indian population grew exponentially; over time, it cohered into a vibrant community built around Native traditions as well as the organizing principles of resilience, endurance, and sovereignty in the face of adversity.

At the same time, the community embraced a new political consciousness that was energizing marginalized groups across American society in the 1960s. Just as Black Power, Feminism, and other social movements mobilized against systemic forms of inequality, American Indians in urban centers also organized themselves to protest unjust government policies.

Termination was one of these policies. Opposition to Termination culminated in the American Indian Chicago Conference of 1961, convened at the University of Chicago

by D’Arcy McNickle and Sol Tax, chair of the Anthropology

Department at U of C. “Bringing together tribal representatives in numbers never before attainable, this conference became in effect the major Indian voice that awakened the public to the threat to American Indian sovereignty posed by Termination,” wrote Father Powell.

The conference helped raise awareness of the injustices of Termination. And its location on a college campus demonstrated the important role educational institutions could play in bringing American Indian scholars and leaders together. It also foreshadowed the emergence of American Indian Studies as an academic discipline in the 1970s, when American Indians would receive greater institutional support for bringing their own perspectives to bear on American history.

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or decades, Frederick Jackson Turner’s “Frontier Thesis” had been one of the primary interpretive frameworks for understanding American history. Turner debuted his argument at a meeting of the American Historical Association which was organized by William Frederick Poole, the Newberry’s first Librarian, and held in Chicago in 1893 in conjunction with the World’s Columbian Exposition. Turner offered a sweeping narrative of how the United States came to distinguish itself from the rest of the world.

According to Turner, the American character was forged in the crucible of settling the frontier, the boundary between civilization and what he called “empty” wilderness or “free land.” Taming the wilderness required strength, ambition, and ingenuity, and these qualities were rewarded regardless of birth or class. Amid the rigors and privations involved in paving the way for civilization, settlers had neither the means nor the incentives to reproduce the social hierarchies that they had known in Europe, but they had to create institutions that would allow civilization to f lourish. This spirit of egalitarianism and institution-building would eventually create American

Cree tribal leader Albert Lightening (left) and Father Peter Powell (right) converse during a blessing ceremony for the Center for the History of the American Indian in 1973.

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democracy, the young country’s greatest contribution to the world.

Having addressed the past, Turner added a corollary that dealt with the future: in pushing the western boundary of the United States as far as it could go by about 1890, Americans now had to search for other frontiers—physical or metaphorical— that would take them to new heights in science, technology, economic development, etc.

This was a compelling story, in addition to serving as a galvanizing call for self-improvement. Indeed, it informed a great deal of history-writing as well as American fiction, cinema, and television for generations. Despite its epic sweep, the Frontier Thesis was based on a narrowing, rather than a broadening, of perspective—a kind of tunnel-vision ignoring the people who in fact already lived in the “wilderness” or “free land,” and who naturally would reject the premise that a frontier ever existed in the first place. In the Turner-ian visual imagination, the American landscape was a virginal vista awaiting homesteads and railroad tracks. It was an empty continent barren of any existing Indigenous populations

whose forcible removal, in reality, needed to take place before westward expansion could proceed accordingly.

From an Indigenous perspective, the Frontier Thesis, at best, was an incomplete version of American history that elided inconvenient truths; at worst, it was a sanitized account providing ideological cover for an invasion.

Furthermore, the American West wasn’t “closed” after 1890; it was a vibrant space in which Indigenous peoples had lived for centuries and continued to live, and where “progress” manifested itself beyond the “White City” of the World’s Columbian Exposition, not very far from where Turner delivered his remarks.

For American Indians, bearing witness to their own persistence became a political act, a repudiation of the assumption undergirding colonialist fantasies of power that they had vanished or lost their heritage through assimilation.

Over time, history could be, quite literally, re-written, and a generation of Native American scholars could supplant the Frontier Thesis with new ways of thinking about European expansion across North America.

Frances F. Palmer’s 1868 lithograph “Across the Continent: Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way” illustrates the visual imagination of “manifest destiny” and Frederick Jackson Turner’s “Frontier Thesis.” Here, the artist has conveniently left out any Indigenous communities—whose forcible removal, in reality, needed to take place before westward expansion could proceed accordingly.

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hese changing intellectual and cultural considerations, as well as internal Newberry strategy, contributed to the founding of the Center for the History of the American Indian.

After receiving a five-year grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Newberry opened the CHAI in the fall of 1972 in collaboration with the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (comprising Big Ten universities and the University of Chicago). Towner, McNickle, and a board of advisors worked quickly to implement the mission that they had articulated in the NEH grant application.

At the time, no other program dedicated to American Indian Studies existed anywhere in the country. In a sense, then, what the group was establishing truly was a center: a centralized intersecting point for widely dispersed scholars, tribal historians, and other members of the American Indian community. As colleges and universities formed similar programs later in the decade, the CHAI would become a central node in a larger network that it helped to create and that, in many ways across the years ahead, it would continue to build.

One of the CHAI’s first priorities was to encourage new scholars to make use of the Newberry collection, awarding short- and long-term fellowships made possible by the NEH grant. McNickle placed special emphasis on providing promising Indigenous candidates with opportunities to study at the Newberry. “It is important that young American Indian scholars have a chance to write their own history under this program,” he told the Chicago Tribune soon after the CHAI opened.

McNickle had developed a philosophy for how these scholars should go about writing their own history. It could be distilled into a short directive he often shared with colleagues and students: “Write from within the culture.” Part advice, part admonishment, the words radiate significance even as they elude immediate comprehension. Assenting to them is one thing; understanding them is another. What, exactly, did McNickle mean?

There are different ways of answering this question, depending on which aspect of McNickle’s career you focus on. McNickle-the-novelist may have been urging others to take inspiration from a literary mode of discourse that conveys universal truths through a particular set of characters. Meanwhile, McNickle-the-anthropologist may have been stressing the importance of an immersive research experience that sees the scholar living among a tribe, building an understanding of its culture and society based on direct observation.

Father Powell, who served as a member of the CHAI’s founding board of advisors, was among those who McNickle instructed to “write from within the culture.” But he also heard a variation of these words from the Northern Cheyenne historians with whom he studied in the 1950s and ‘60s. The Northern Cheyenne taught him that writing the history of a

“Write from within the culture.” Part advice, part admonishment, the words radiate significance even as they elude immediate comprehension. tribe had to start with a respect for the tribe’s belief system, which determined how its people perceived the world and formed their concept of historical change—a conceptual framework that allowed tribal historians to write intelligible histories to begin with.

In an email, Father Powell recently explained the methodology: “In the Cheyenne sense, ‘written from within the culture’ means written from within Cheyenne belief that life and history are lived in a universe where spiritual powers and physical beings are in constant contact with each other. History is the result of that interaction, and it cannot be accurately described without that interaction being made clear in the recounting or writing of that history.”

Today, scholars in American Indian Studies “write from within the culture” by being mindful of “positionality,” a term that suggests perspective is a function of relative location and is, therefore, always changing.

“Positionality is key to American Indian Studies,” says current McNickle Center Director Patricia Marroquin Norby.

“Acknowledging both the limitations and the advantages of your point of view is necessary. Whether you are a Native scholar or not, you can only advocate for the voice of Native people after taking great care to earn the respect of the community you’re working with and writing about. That means consulting with tribal elders, community members, and Indigenous scholars to understand the cultural boundaries of the community.”

Patricia Marroquin Norby, director of the McNickle Center (center right), and John Powell, manager of Digital Imaging Services (center left), meet with scholars in the McNickle Center office.

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Passing this methodological mindfulness on to young scholars remains a core function of the McNickle Center; the research institute it hosts every summer for graduate students from across North America always emphasizes some version of D’Arcy McNickle’s credo.

Towner and McNickle were attentive to the growing scholarly community within the Newberry. But they also recognized the importance of amplifying the impact of the Newberry’s collection by making it accessible to students, teachers, and scholars who couldn’t use it in person. Their blueprint for the CHAI called for a series of what they referred to as “libraries”: photocopied versions of Newberry collection items that high schools, universities, and American Indian tribes and organizations could incorporate into their classrooms and other educational settings.

Decades before digital technology would both compel and allow libraries to think beyond their physical limitations, Towner and McNickle were devising strategies for increasing the Newberry’s accessibility and scaling the CHAI’s mission of improving what is written and known about Indigenous history.

Today, this legacy lives on in the digital projects undertaken by the McNickle Center—most notably the “Indians of the Midwest, Past and Present” website. The product of three years of research and development, “Indians of the Midwest” contextualizes contemporary issues (such as Indian imagery, identities, treaties, and property) through essays, photographs, and videos, while also providing users with bibliographic road maps for further study. The site launched in 2011, and it continues to rank among the Newberry’s most-visited web resources: each year, its page views exceed 100,000.

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n April 10, 1973, members of the Chicago American Indian community honored the CHAI with a blessing ceremony held at the Newberry. Judging from the photos taken

by Peter Weil, the library’s head of photoduplication, it was a typically inclement early spring day in the city. Interspersed among the traditional ceremonial clothing were plenty of coats and hats. The community had gathered to celebrate the opening of the CHAI the previous fall, although the occasion was ultimately invested with a greater significance. The ensuing ceremony was (like the CHAI itself ) a celebration of Native history, persistence, and adaptation.

One image from that day powerfully symbolizes the coexistence of the past and the present that was on display throughout the event. It’s a photograph showing three people preparing for the blessing ceremony in the parking lot behind the Newberry building. They are erecting a tipi, and the photograph captures the moment at which the three poles converge to form the tipi’s distinctive frame—a triangular skeleton piercing the sky with as much determination as the John Hancock Center in the background.

Since then, the McNickle Center has worked not just to maintain but to strengthen its connection to the American Indian community in Chicago. Under Director Patricia Marroquin Norby, the center now organizes regularly scheduled public programs that bring large numbers of Indigenous visitors to the Newberry for lectures and performances. This new emphasis on public programming began in the fall of 2014 with the launch of an annual speaker series featuring Indigenous scholars and authors (made possible by a gift from John W. and

On April 10, 1973, members of Chicago’s American Indian community held a blessing ceremony for the Center for the History of the American Indian. The ceremony took place outside the Newberry and featured a tipi as one of its focal points. One of the most striking images from that day shows three people building the tipi, with the John Hancock Center in the background.

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Today, the McNickle Center serves a number of different audiences through its scholarly and public programming. Left: NCAIS seminar participants view examples of nineteenth-century Cheyenne ledger art during an introductory presentation featuring Newberry collection items. Center: dancers perform during a celebration of Indigenous dance in November of 2014. Right: Ned Blackhawk delivers the inaugural lecture of the “D’Arcy McNickle Distinguished Lecture” series.

Jeanne M. Rowe). In 2014, Professor Ned Blackhawk from Yale University gave the inaugural lecture in the series, followed by award-winning poet, novelist, and essayist Leslie Marmon Silko.

This year, on November 10, the McNickle Center will welcome activist and environmentalist Winona LaDuke for a discussion on tribal land claims.

“Public programming that addresses the needs and interests of American Indian and Indigenous communities is vital to conversations about our past, present, and future,” says Marroquin Norby. “In the process, we’re growing our community of scholars and learners at the Newberry. This is part of an ongoing effort to revitalize the original vision of the McNickle Center.”

The McNickle Center’s place at the Newberry helps illustrate how the Newberry community is made up of a cluster of intersecting circles: each may be defined by subject area (American Indian studies, cartography, literature) or by purpose (to do research, attend an exhibition, take an adult education seminar), but they all overlap with one another complexly, unexpectedly—and they amount to a whole that is greater than the sum of their parts.

Today, the center is an important part of the community of learning that Lawrence Towner envisioned for the Newberry.

And a cornerstone of the center’s own community, in addition to the audiences it has built through public programs, is the Newberry Consortium in American Indian Studies (NCAIS).

Begun in 2008, NCAIS evolved from the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, the group of universities that helped the Newberry open the CHAI in 1972. NCAIS now consists of 22 colleges and universities whose faculty and students participate in research institutes, conferences, and annual workshops coordinated by the McNickle Center.

A signature NCAIS program is the annual summer research institute that brings promising graduate students in American

“Public programming that addresses the needs and interests of American Indian and Indigenous communities is vital to conversations about our past, present, and future.”

Indian studies to the Newberry for a month-long residency.

While here, the students conduct research in the Newberry collection, receive instruction from NCAIS faculty and McNickle staff, and share their work with each other.

This past summer’s institute was called “Writing Indigenous Histories: Print, Material, and Digital Sites of Memory.” According to faculty instructors Kathleen Washburn and Kelly Wisecup, the course explored “the ways that Indigenous writers utilize and transform print, material, and digital forms to represent the intricate connections between memory and place.”

At the heart of this inquiry is a particular way of approaching historical artifacts. Washburn and Wisecup challenged their students to study the Newberry’s collection items not as objects that might reveal transcendent historical truths but as objects that have acquired layers of meaning over the years as different owners, users, and cultures have interpreted them, repurposed them, collected them, cataloged them, and so on. From this perspective, historical materials shouldn’t be read or viewed so much as unpeeled, layer by layer. It’s an important way to think about American Indian history, and it applies as well to the history of the D’Arcy McNickle Center.

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The Newberry Annual Report 2015 – 16

Letter from the Chair and the President

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hen we and our Board of Trustees and staff colleagues think about how the Newberry is performing as an institution, we take into account many indicators, some quantitative and some qualitative, some internal and some external. Over the years this annual letter has sought to provide you with performance information that we hope you find useful. This year we begin that effort by means of comparing the Newberry to other institutions. To be sure, we do not have sufficient data to make such comparisons in every important facet of institutional life—but there is much that we can say.

Most of our comparative information comes from our longtime Chair of the Board of Trustees Victoria J. Herget and participation in a group of American research institutions known as the Newberry President David Spadafora Independent Research Libraries Association, or IRLA. Its members all have independent status, relatively large library collections, and fellowship programs. Otherwise they are quite diverse, ranging from organizations that are principally museums or historical societies that also have notable library collections to library-only institutions, from collections that are available to all comers to those whose use requires special credentials. Our largest member actually has branch libraries: the New York Public Library (NYPL), which in fact is an independently governed organization despite receiving municipal tax-generated funding. A subset of IRLA known as FAHN (the Folger Shakespeare Library, the American Antiquarian Society, the Huntington Library, Museums, and Art Galleries, and the Newberry) meets every spring for two days of intensive discussion. The meetings of IRLA and FAHN allow their participants to learn more about each other and what each institution is doing.

Out of this shared effort come interesting facts. We know, for instance, that the Newberry has the secondlargest collection of books in IRLA, at 945,935 titles in 2015-16: smaller than the Getty Research Institute but some 300,000 titles larger than any other IRLA collection. (In this and other considerations, we leave out of the picture the unique and massive NYPL, which is its own kind of entity.) Manuscripts and maps are harder to tally with precision, but we can confidently say that the Newberry’s manuscript collection is among the largest in the group, and its map collection is far larger than all IRLA members (except for NYPL). Likewise, based on two key data points, we know that on a comparative basis our collection is growing nicely: first, we are spending about 6 percent of our operating budget on acquisitions, the fifth-highest rate in IRLA; second, we have been adding titles to our catalog at the rate of 8,000 to 10,000 per year, which is the fourth-highest level among our peers. We also rank highly, fifth, in terms of the fraction of our acquisition budget that is directed to digital resources—so we are doing reasonably well in buying and making available important digital resources.

Considering usage of the collection, the Newberry has the largest number of individual readers in IRLA, about 4,000 in recent years—roughly twice as many as any peer institution. The total number of “reader days” (that is, the individual reader tally multiplied by the average number of days an individual was in the reading rooms) is the second-highest in IRLA, and far above that of all other institutions except the Huntington.

Reference inquiries addressed in person, by telephone, or by e-mail and letter have also ranked high in recent years—second, third, or fourth. Data to compare online catalog use have not been collected by IRLA, unfortunately, but we know from our own figures that such use has been growing rapidly—by 20 percent last year from the year before, for example.

Another element of use involves our fellowship program. With 61 fellows last year, we had the secondhighest number in IRLA. The total number of fellowship months available at the Newberry was only the fifthhighest among IRLA institutions, however, indicating that three other institutions have (on average) fewer fellows but support them for longer periods of time. Nevertheless, we learned in May that the ratio of applicants for a Newberry research fellowship to those actually awarded one was the highest in our peer group—meaning that for fellows we are currently the most selective IRLA institution.

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Staff generate and support collection use, of course, but our levels of staffing present a different picture from the institution’s collection and usage data. Despite our overall size, the Newberry has only the fifth-largest number of salaried staff in IRLA and the eighth-largest number of staff paid on an hourly basis. These data about employee categories lead us to recognize that Newberry support staffing is comparatively low. Put in terms of ratios of total staffing to collection size or usage, we find that the Newberry ranks second in catalog records per staff member and third in reader days per staff member, meaning that we are staffed at lower levels than nearly all other IRLA members.

Principal features of our financial data align with these staff measures. We have the eighth-largest operating budget and the tenth-largest endowment among IRLA institutions. Our ratio of endowment to operating budget is the third-lowest in the group, meaning that our resources to run the enterprise are stretched thin. Even so, we were tied for the fourth-lowest spending rate from our endowment for the last fiscal year.

Part of the reason for this fiscal restraint is our modest level of debt, on which we have relatively little debt service to pay. IRLA does not collect debt-level data, but we do know from examining publicly available data for other Chicago cultural organizations’ debt and endowment levels that we are far less indebted than our local peers.

Another important budgetary consideration is that, thanks to the generosity of our supporters and the good work of our Development Department, we have the third-largest annual total of gifts for operating activities among IRLA institutions—larger than any institution that is not in New York or Los Angeles.

From the comparative point of view, then, it is fair to say that the Newberry has one of the biggest collections, the largest group of readers overall, one of the largest groups of research fellows (chosen most selectively), a modestly sized staff, and a no-nonsense approach to expenditures and revenues. You could say that compared to our peers we are doing a lot with a relative little.

Turning from such comparisons to the Newberry’s own activities last year, we are pleased to report that it was a highly successful year overall. During four of the past six years we have been above the median annual performance of endowments between $50 and $100 million, even though financial market conditions led to a decline in our investments last year of 2.8 percent. Our spending rate from our investments was 4.93 percent, essentially the same as the year before. Out of total operating expenditures of $10.78 million, only 30.3 percent came from investments, down from the 44 or 49 percent rate at which we were spending roughly a decade ago.

Cash raised for the Annual Fund reached its highest level ever, up 11 percent over the year before, the number of Annual Fund donors grew by 8 percent, and President’s Fellows-level donors increased 15.6 percent. A successful Award Dinner, honoring the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the second-largest Book Fair sales tally ever complemented these annual giving successes.

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On the facilities front, the past year was dominated by preparations for a major renovation project on the first-f loor and lower level of the Cobb Building. In midwinter we selected Ann Beha Architects (ABA) of Boston to develop plans for this project, and Bulley & Andrews of Chicago to serve as its general contractor. During the spring and summer, ABA worked closely with the Newberry’s staff and the Board of Trustees’ Facilities Committee to understand our needs and aspirations, as a result of which a full concept for the renovation was available by midsummer.

This project will bring us modern gallery space for themed exhibitions as well as the ongoing display of representative items from our collection; additional classroom space with fully conditioned air on both levels, making possible the use of collection items there; a welcome or orientation facility where visitors can become acquainted with the Newberry, its collection, and its programs; more event space for internal as well as rental use; an entry vestibule and lobby area whose architectural legacy is preserved while lighting and acoustical features are enhanced; an enlarged bookstore with adjacent casual seating; improved and enlarged lavatory and locker facilities; and security arrangements that are at once upgraded and less obtrusive. Detailed planning continues at this writing, with construction scheduled for the period January 1 – June 30, 2018. In preparation for construction, the Development Department recently moved to the fourth f loor of the Cobb Building, and the reference center on the third f loor was substantially reorganized.

In its first full year of operation during 2015-16, the Aeon Circulation system worked smoothly, allowing readers to request materials online and in advance of their visits to the reading rooms. This system is also making it possible for us to find out more about aggregate use of materials. For instance, we learned from last year’s data that materials from the Ayer Collection, Midwest Modern Manuscripts, and the Wing Collection were the most requested by readers.

Entering the reading rooms is not the only way to become familiar with our collection. One can also do so by viewing our exhibitions, which last year attracted more than 10,000 visitors, including a substantial number of students who came to the innovative, timely show Civil War to Civil Rights. In addition, our collections become known through what we often call “shows-and-tells.” During 2015-16 more than 3,700 people participated in 260 such sessions conducted by members of the library’s staff, and featuring collection items. Of course, our collections are increasingly viewed at a distance as more and more items are digitized and placed online. The Newberry’s popular Digital Collections for the Classroom, funded by the Grainger Foundation, had a remarkable 319,250 views of the assembled group of digitized collection items keyed to instructional needs. Overall online views of our 20 web-based digital publications such as Indians of the Midwest, which include value-added material such as scholarly essays and bibliographies, increased from 734,237 to 939,311, and now are up about 50 percent in two years. With substantial support once again from the Council on Library and Information Resources, work began on digitizing our huge French Revolutionary era pamphlet collection, whose online usage will soon add markedly to these growing figures.

Each year a marvelous array of pamphlets, books, maps, and other items enters the collection by gift and purchase, and 2015-16 was no exception. Our modern manuscripts collection provides a case in point. We purchased a group of 54 diaries and an expense journal by Harry Biedinger, who helped to found and build up the Christian utopian town Zion City, which fits well with our existing strong collection regarding the Christian Catholic Apostolic Church. The gift of the Loren M. Knowles Papers, 1784-2000, brought us another excellent collection of materials about a Midwest family, in this case one that tended carefully to its own genealogical research. The papers of Charles H. Wacker and members of his family, given by Robert Zimmerman, contain letters as well as wonderful photographs of the family and their Lake Geneva estate as well as two remarkable 1928 films that document the implementation of the Chicago Plan, whose Commission was headed by Wacker. In all, the Modern Manuscripts Section processed 35 collections totaling 389 linear feet of material.

Along with wonderful early printed European and American books in abundance and some 1,500 titles from Roger Baskes’s collection of books with maps, these manuscript collections add wonderful opportunities for scholars and other readers. For sheer numbers, however, the biggest collecting news of all was the decision this past summer by the Lake County Discovery Museum to give the Newberry its enormous collection of postcards. The Curt Teich Postcard Archives Collection consists of more than 2.5 million items and is generally considered the largest publicly accessible collection of postcards anywhere. It includes not only Teich postcards themselves but also the work files for those produced by the Teich Company of Chicago, as well as other substantial postcard collections given to the museum across three decades. The collection will come to the Newberry this fall, providing a research bonanza for people interested in local history and genealogy, art history, and the history of design and printing.

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Our undergraduate programs boomed during 2015-16, with a total of 48 participants in the fall ACM and winter/spring NLUS programs. These semester-long seminars are unique to the Newberry. Of special note, in September we celebrated the 50th anniversary of the ACM program. Seventy alumni were in attendance, including five from the originating 1965 class. Again and again that weekend, returnees of all ages celebrated the importance of this enduring program to their college experience and subsequent careers.

Among the major accomplishments of our four research centers is the January 2016 launch of the French Renaissance Paleography website, after two-plus years of development in conjunction with partners at the University of Toronto and St. Louis University. This set of online tools is the latest in a long line of Newberry efforts to support the demand for training in the deciphering of early modern vernacular handwriting. Also in January, the Smith Center launched its major web publication Make Big Plans: Daniel Burnham’s Vision of an American Metropolis. It focuses on the role of visual culture in planning and developing American urban places. Two months later came the Smith Center’s Mapping Movement in American History and Culture, which features scholarly essays accompanying some 400 high-resolution images of maps representing the history of travel, commerce, migration, and communication in North American since the sixteenth century. Both of these important online publications were years in the making. The McNickle Center marked its 45th anniversary by increasing its consortium membership by one university, to a total of 21, and by continuing its initiative to host major public programs, such as a half-day Indigenous dance program and a major lecture by Leslie Marmon Silko in a packed Ruggles Hall. The Scholl Center helped scholars from local universities inaugurate a new seminar, Writing History, which brings to 10 the number of such seminars operating under the center’s auspices. Scholl’s other most recent seminar, on American political thought, is f lourishing in partnership with the Jack Miller Center.

Communicating about the Newberry, its collections, and its programs, has become increasingly important in recent years. In addition to this magazine, many mailings, and stories appearing in traditional media, some 16,000 people receive our regular e-newsletter by e-mail. Social media play a growing role in our communications effort.

During the past fiscal year the Newberry’s Facebook followers increased by 88 percent. The average number of users who saw Facebook posts related to the Newberry increased by 124 percent, to 5,346 per day. Survey work undertaken last year revealed that each of these media is important to different segments of our users.

We close with a notable transition in our staff. Paul F. Gehl, for more than three decades Custodian of the John M. Wing Foundation on the History of Printing, retired in May and was celebrated by colleagues and Trustees for his enormous impact on the Wing Collection, his distinguished scholarship as a historian of early modern Europe, and his widely recognized work on behalf of the design community in Chicago and beyond.

Gifts honoring him have established a new lecture series on the history of the book. Paul’s successor as the fifth Custodian of the Wing Collection is Jill Gage, who is also Bibliographer of English Literature and History.

Working closely with Diane Dillon, Director of Exhibitions and Major Projects, she has curated the current exhibition, Creating Shakespeare, hailed by scholars for its excellence.

We urge you to see this show, come to the reading rooms, attend our public programs—and we thank you once more for your commitment and generosity to the Newberry Library.

Victoria J. Herget, Chair

David Spadafora, President and Librarian

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Public Engagement ENROLLMENT SUMMARY FOR FY 2015-16

PUBLIC PROGRAMS

Total participation: 7,867

Total attendance: 5,018

Teacher programs: 933

Number of programs: 44

Seminars: 1,916 Public programs: 5,018

SELECTED PROGRAMS

Civil War to Civil Rights Exhibition Programs Emmett Till: Why His Story Still Matters

February 11, 2016 (attendance 133) Hand Maidens for Travelers: The Missing Story of the Pullman Maids

March 10, 2016 (attendance: 132) The Bughouse Square Debates PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS FOR TEACHERS

July 25, 2015 (attendance 634)

Total program enrollment: 933

Main Debate: Public or Private: What Should Be the Future of Public Education in Chicago?

Troy LaRaviere, Principal, Blaine Elementary School Bruno Behrend, The Heartland Institute

Total program attendance: 789 Total number of seminars offered: 45 Digital Collections for the Classroom: 6 added

John Peter Altgeld Freedom of Speech Award Winner: Lawyer and social critic Wendy Kaminer

Newberry Teacher’s Consortium:

40 seminars; 727 attended

Bughouse Square Debates Planning Committee

Rachel Bohlmann, Chair Teachers as Scholars:

2 seminars; 22 attended Heller Foundation Seminar Series:

3 seminars; 40 attended 27 CPS schools

Jennifer Coufal

42 total schools School Visits:

1 visit from Walter Payton; 23 students attended 3 visits from Hansberry College Prep; 38 students attended

March 16, 2016 (attendance: 128) Visits by Teen Groups to the Civil War to Civil Rights Exhibition

From the Centro Romero Program February 11, 2016 (attendance 20) From Chicago Tech Academy March 4, 2016 (attendance 88) From Chicago Lights March 16, 2016 (attendance: 20) From Fenwick High School March 18, 2016 (attendance: 22)

Paul Durica Stephanie Fong

Meet the Author series

Vince Firpo

8 programs (attendance 676)

Rachel Shrock

Speakers

Alex Teller

Kathryn Aalto

6 suburban public schools 9 private schools

Civil Rights in Chicago Today: A Panel Discussion

Lorraine Boissoneault Conversations at the Newberry Stranger Than History: On Writing Historical Fiction Tasha Alexander and Susanna Calkins

January 19, 2016 (attendance: 177) The Future of Artist’s Books and Livres d’Artistes Paul F. Gehl and Suzanne Folds McCullagh

Robert Chaskin and Mark Joseph Geoffrey Cowan John Huston Maylis de Kerangal Loreen Niewenhuis Mark Noll

March 15, 2016 (attendance: 87) Teacher Fellow:

Cristen Chapman, Prosser Careeer Academy, “The Anti-Slavery Movement in Chicago and Illinois”

Points of Convergence: How the Humanities, Arts, and Sciences Can and Should Fit Together William “Bro” Adams and Walter Massey

April 6, 2016 (attendance: 68)

Lectures and Panel Discussions “The Other Book: The Ames Almanack Opens a Window on Colonial America” Susan Allen, California Rare Book School

December 8, 2015 (attendance 46) ADULT EDUCATION SEMINARS

Total seminar attendance: 1,916 Total number of classes offered: 159 Seminar subject areas:

Chicago Culture Arts, Music, and Language Philosophy and Religion

Stagestruck City Exhibition Programs The Goodman Theatre: Birth, Rebirth, and Renaissance

“On An Elder’s Trail: The Later Life of Charles M. Charnley” Jack Perry Brown

October 20, 2015 (attendance 18)

April 20, 2016 (attendance 106)

Ninety Years of the Goodman Theatre: The Evolution of an Institution

“An Enterprising Sinner: Floyd Dell’s Chicago Years” Donald G. Evans, Ian Morris, and Craig Sautter Actors from Vitalist Theatre

November 18, 2015 (attendance 24)

History and Social Science

April 21, 2016 (attendance 39)

Genealogy

“The Dangerous Mind of Benjamin Lay, Atlantic Abolitionist” Marcus Rediker

Literature and Theater Writing Workshops

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April 26, 2016 (attendance 55)

Public Engagement “Fashion Faux Pas in the Edwardian Era: An Exploration of Edwardian Fashion through the Lens of ‘Downton Abbey’” Debra N. Mancoff

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle/Sherlock Holmes Symposium

October 24, 2015 (attendance 75)

May 4, 2016 (attendance 74) Staged Readings

The Shakespeare Project of Chicago series 4 performances (attendance 533) Julius Caesar The Winter’s Tale Cymbeline Cardenio, by Charles Mee and Stephen Greenblatt

Todd Bauer (attendance 32) Katabatic Wind

Shattered Globe Theater (attendance 35)

Genealogy Program Irish Genealogy Research Program Ulster Historical Foundation

March 10, 2016 (attendance 200)

EXHIBITIONS Stagestruck City: Chicago’s Theater Tradition and the Birth of the Goodman

September 18, 2015 – December 31, 2015 Attendance Statistics: 2,699 visitors

Parfumerie

Dance, Music, and Family Programs Chicago Open Archives Behind-the-Scenes Tour, Chicago Dance Collections

Civil War to Civil Rights: African-American Chicago in the Newberry Collection

January 15, 2016 – April 2, 2016

This year the department launched several innovative programs. In addition to its usual slate of content-focused seminars for teachers, Teacher Programs hosted a number of visits to the Newberry by student groups, giving high school students the opportunity for hands-on work with rare books and manuscript sources.

It also continued its Teacher Fellow program, providing support for selected high school teachers to curate digital collections and create teaching resources based on primary-source research at the Newberry. Public Programs brought several groups of teenagers from across the city for special tours of the Civil War to Civil Rights exhibition and to attend related workshops and programs. The division also branched into more family-oriented programs, geared toward younger children and their parents. Overall, the department maintained total attendance for adult education seminars, teacher seminars, and public programs at about the same levels as the previous year.

Attendance Statistics: 3,461 visitors

October 8, 2015 (attendance 25) Sybil Shearer: Maverick of the Past, Muse of the Present

November 11, 2015 (attendance 79) A Walk in Pooh’s Footsteps: An Interactive Workshop for Children and The Natural World of Winnie-the-Pooh: A Walk through the Forest that Insipred the Hundred Acre Wood

December 5, 2015 (attendance 35) Faces of Love, the Sequel: A Memorial Concert for Norman Pellegrini

Exploration 2016: The 30th Juried Exhibition of the Chicago Calligraphy Collective,

April 4, 2016 – June 24, 2016 Attendance Statistics: approximately 2,000 visitors

Calligraphy is Always News: Recent Newberry Acquisitions

April 8, 2016 – July 1, 2016 Attendance Statistics: 1,888 visitors

March 30, 2016 (attendance 137) Conversations on Chicago Dance: Founding and Sustaining a Company

April 27, 2016 (attendance 69) Johnnies, Tommies, and Sammies: Music and the Making of the Allies

May 10, 2016 (attendance 71) Make Music Chicago 2016, in Washington Square Park

June 21, 2016 (attendance 750)

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Research and Academic Programs 2015-16 FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM STATISTICS

Long-Term Fellows: 10 fellows Months of Funding: 72 months Fellowship Dollars Awarded: $302,400 Short-Term Fellows: 47 fellows Months of Funding: 48 months Fellowship Dollars Awarded: $120,500 Faculty Fellows: 4 fellows Months of Funding: 2 months

Audrey Lumsden-Kouvel / Andrew W. Mellon Fellow

Institute for the International Education of Students Faculty Fellows

Susan Gaylard, Associate Professor of Italian Studies, University of Washington, Seattle (10 months)

Alberto Bitonti, Adjunct Professor of Political Science, IES Abroad Rome

Monticello College Foundation Fellow

Chelsea Blackmore, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz (6 months)

Fellowship Dollars Awarded: $5,000 Total Number of Fellows: 61 fellows

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellows

Total Fellowship Dollars Awarded: $427,900 Publication Grant Recipients: 1 recipient Grant Dollars Awarded: $2,000

2015-16 LONG-TERM FELLOWS National Endowment for the Humanities Fellows

Katarzyna Lecky, Assistant Professor of English, Bucknell University (6 months) Suparna Roychoudhury, Assistant Professor of English, Mount Holyoke College (6 months) Cynthia Wall, Professor of English, The University of Virginia (4 months)

Lawrence Lipking Fellow

Kara Johnson, PhD Candidate in English, Northwestern University (one quarter) Midwest Modern Language Association Fellow

2015-2016 SHORT-TERM FELLOWS

Each fellow was awarded one month at $2,500 per month unless otherwise noted.

Total Number of Months Funded: 122 months

Isabel Marín Sánchez, Associate Professor of Social Anthropology, IES Abroad Granada

Marie Glon, Assistant Professor of History, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales Newberry Consortium in American Indian Studies Graduate Student Fellows

George Boulukos, Associate Professor of English Literature, Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Jessica Arnett, PhD Candidate in History, University of Minnesota Twin Cities (2 months; split residency)

Amy Harris, Associate Professor of History, Brigham Young University

Rachel Jackson, PhD Candidate in Composition, Rhetoric, and Literacy, The University of Oklahoma

John S. Aubrey Fellow

Jacob Jurss, PhD Candidate in History, Michigan State University (2 months; split residency)

Jessica Stair, PhD Candidate in the History of Art, University of California, Berkeley Lester J. Cappon Fellows in Documentary Editing

Jeffrey Noonan, Professor of Music, Southeast Missouri State University Stephen Warren, Associate Professor of History and American Studies, The University of Iowa Charles Montgomery Gray Fellows

Veronica Dadà, PhD Candidate in Philology, Literature, and Linguistics, University of Pisa

Alessandra Link, PhD Candidate in History, University of Colorado Boulder (split residency) Daniel Radus, PhD Candidate in English Language and Literature, Cornell University (split residency) Marvin Richardson, PhD Candidate in History, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (not in residence) June Scudeler, PhD Candidate in English, The University of British Columbia (2 months; split residency)

National Endowment for the Humanities / Lloyd Lewis Fellows in American History

Jason Farr, Assistant Professor of English, Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi

William Brooks, Professor of Music, University of York (7 months)

Kristie Flannery, PhD Candidate in History, The University of Texas at Austin

Miriam Thaggert, Associate Professor of English and Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies, The University of Iowa (9 months)

John Hunt, Assistant Professor of History and Political Science, Utah Valley University

David Temin, PhD Candidate in Political Science, University of Minnesota Twin Cities (2 months; split residency)

Lloyd Lewis Fellow in American History

Jessica Ling, PhD Candidate in English, University of California, Berkeley

Jessica Yann, PhD Candidate in Anthropology, Michigan State University

Christen Mucher, Assistant Professor in American Studies, Smith College (6 months)

Simone Maghenzani, Postdoctoral Research Associate in History, University of Cambridge

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow

Kate Ozment, PhD Candidate in English Literature, Texas A&M University

Erin-Marie Legacey, Assistant Professor of History, Texas Tech University (12 months) Andrew W. Mellon / Lloyd Lewis Fellow in American History

Kelly Wisecup, Assistant Professor of English, Northwestern University (6 months)

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Arthur and Janet Holzheimer Fellow in the History of Cartography

Quentin Morcrette, PhD Candidate in Geography, Lumière University Lyon II

Michael Taylor, PhD Candidate in English, The University of British Columbia (2 months; not in residence)

Newberry Library-American Musicological Society Fellow

Scott Cave, PhD Candidate in History, Pennsylvania State University Newberry Library-American Society for Environmental History Fellow

Jennifer Saracino, PhD Candidate in Art History and Latin American Studies, Tulane University

Research and Academic Programs Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies Consortium Faculty Fellows

Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of Illinois Fellows

Nora Peterson, Assistant Professor of French Cultural Studies, University of Nebraska – Lincoln

Elizabeth Browning, PhD Candidate in History, University of California, Davis

Jacomien Prins, Global Research Fellow in the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance, University of Warwick

Rachel Clarke, PhD Candidate in Information Science, University of Washington

Newberry Library—Jack Miller Center Fellows

Timothy Macdonald, Independent Scholar

Emilie Connolly, PhD Candidate in History, New York University

Weiss-Brown Publication Subvention Recipient

Seth Cotlar, Professor of History, Willamette University Nancy Gallman, PhD Candidate in History, University of California, Davis Gregory Michna, PhD Candidate in History, West Virginia University

Arthur and Lila Weinberg Fellow

Frances Gage, Associate Professor of Renaissance and Baroque Art, SUNY Buffalo State ($2,000)

Presenters

Susannah Crowder, John Jay College Claire Sponsler, University of Iowa Carol Symes, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Kyle Thomas, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign History of the Book Symposium: Making and Knowing, Early Modern Geometries

October 29 – 30, 2015 Cosponsored with Loyola University Chicago and the University of California, Berkeley.

2015-16 FACULTY FELLOWS

Organizers

Newberry Library Undergraduate Seminar Faculty Fellows

J. B. Shank, University of Minnesota

Newberry Library – John Rylands Research Institute Exchange Fellow

John Donoghue, Associate Professor of History, Loyola University Chicago

Rebecca Zorach, Northwestern University

Peter Bailey, Professor Emeritus of History, University of Manitoba

Jeffrey Glover, Assistant Professor of English, Loyola University Chicago

Presenters

Newberry Library Short-Term Fellows

Associated Colleges of the Midwest Faculty Fellows

Dániel Margócsy, Hunter College

Tawrin Baker, Independent Scholar Aliza Benjamin, PhD Candidate in Art History, Temple University

Ian MacInnes, Professor of English, Albion College Marcy Sacks, Professor of History, Albion College

Szymon Gruda, PhD Candidate in Liberal Arts, University of Warsaw Ana Hontanilla, Associate Professor of Language, Literatures, and Cultures, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Northeast Modern Language Association Fellow

Shannon McHugh, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Italian Studies, New York University Susan Kelly Power and Helen Hornbeck Tanner Fellow

Shannon Epplett, PhD Candidate in Theatre History and Criticism, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Renaissance Society of America – Kress Foundation Fellow

Kathryn Moore, Assistant Professor of Fine Arts, The University of Hong Kong Sixteenth Century Society and Conference Fellow

Lisa Andersen, PhD Candidate in Art History, The University of British Columbia

Claudia Swan, Northwestern University

Matthew Hunter, McGill University Raz Chen Morris, Hebrew University of Jerusalem J. B. Shank, University of Minnesota Suzanne Karr Schmidt, Art Institute of Chicago William West, Northwestern University

2015-2016 SCHOLARS-IN-RESIDENCE

Carolyn Yerkes, Princeton University

Scholars-in-Residence

Rebecca Zorach, Northwestern University

Total participants: 36 scholars Graduate Scholars-in-Residence

Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference

Joel Penning, PhD Candidate in History, Northwestern University

January 28 – 30, 2016

Raashi Rastogi, PhD Candidate in English, Northwestern University

Brian Brooks, Oklahoma State University

Daniel Webb, PhD Candidate in History, The University of Chicago

Organizers

Michelle Chan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Matthew Douglas, Marquette University Adrion Dula, Wayne State University

CONFERENCES AND SYMPOSIA

Edward J. Gray, Purdue University

Center for Renaissance Studies

Joel Grossman, Queen Mary, University of London

Medieval Studies Symposium: New Approaches to Medieval Drama

September 25, 2015 Organizers

Karen Christianson, Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies Carol Symes, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Sarah Kunjummen, University of Chicago Basit Hammad Qureshi, University of Minnesota Jason Rosenholtz-Witt, Northwestern University Lise Schlosser, Northern Illinois University Monica Solomon, University of Notre Dame Zohra Wolters, Claremont Graduate University

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Research and Academic Programs Joint Cervantes Symposium/Early Modern Studies Symposium Cervantes and Shakespeare: A Transnational Conversation

Panelists

American Environmental History

Chris Cantwell, University of Missouri-Kansas City

Eric Perramond, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, Colorado College

April 14 – 16, 2016

Robert Korstad, Duke University

Cosponsored with the Cervantes Society of America, the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at DePaul University, and the Instituto Cervantes of Chicago.

Julie Saville, University of Chicago

Organizers

Anne Cruz, University of Miami Rosilie Hernández, University of Illinois at Chicago Carla Zecher, Renaissance Society of America Presenters

Mercedes Alcalá-Galán, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Jane Dailey, University of Chicago

Borderlands and Latino/a Studies Seminar Teaching Symposium

November 14, 2015 Co-sponsored by 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, and the Katz Center for Mexican Studies at the University of Chicago.

Presenters and Organizers

Bruce Burningham, Illinois State University

Leisy Abrego, UCLA

Cast of The Shakespeare Project of Chicago

Geraldo Cadava, Northwestern University

William Egginton, Johns Hopkins University

Nilda Flores-González , University of Illinois at Chicago

Mary Gaylord, Harvard University Rosilie Hernández, University of Illinois at Chicago

Mérida Rúa, Williams College

James Knapp, Loyola University Chicago

Sandra Ruiz, University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign

James Shapiro, Columbia University

Maura Toro-Morn, Illinois State University

Scott Sowerby, Northwestern University

Spring 2016, 4 undergraduate students

Newberry Library Undergraduate Seminar Break the Chains: Revolt, Rebellion, and Resistance in the World of Atlantic Slavery

John Donoghue, Associate Professor of History, Loyola University Chicago

Center for Renaissance Studies Mellon Summer Institute in French Paleography

June 22 – July 16, 2015 Faculty

Participants ONGOING SEMINARS AND INDIVIDUAL PROGRAMS Research and Academic Programs Newberry Library Colloquia

41 sessions

Labor History Seminar BIG BOOK Symposium

Fall 2016

Catherine Stewart, Professor of History, Cornell College

Marc Smith, École Nationale des Chartes, Paris

David Skidmore, Shakespeare Project of Chicago

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Chicago: The Transformation of America’s Second City

Spring 2016, 19 undergraduate students

Jason Ruiz, University of Notre Dame

Co-sponsored by the history departments of DePaul University, Northern Illinois University, Northwestern University, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign, 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, the Roosevelt University Department of History and Center for New Deal Studies, and LABOR: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas.

Spring 2016, 6 undergraduate students

Sylvia Martínez, Indiana University

Javier Irigoyen-García, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

October 3, 2015

Carol Neel, Professor of History, Colorado College

Jeffrey Glover, Assistant Professor of English, Loyola University Chicago

Amalia Pallares, University of Illinois at Chicago

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

Advanced Seminar and Senior Essay

Camilla Fojas, DePaul University

Steven Hutchinson, University of WisconsinMadison

William West, Northwestern University

Spring 2016, 8 undergraduate students

Corinne Bayerl, University of Oregon Marc Bonenfant, University of Ottawa Mary Jane Chase, University of Westminster Ashleigh Corwin, Georgetown University Pauline Goul, Cornell University

Newberry Fellows Seminar

Edward Gray, Purdue University

15 sessions

Jessica Herdman, University of California, Berkeley

The Bosch Archival Seminar for Young Historians

Kathryn Levine, University of California, Berkeley

September 5, 2015

Linda Louie, University of California, Berkeley

11 participants

Sarah Lynch, SUNY-Oswego Roberto Pesenti, Columbia University

Associated Colleges of the Midwest Seminars Knowing Your Place: Human and Social Geography

Cristina Politano, University of California, Los Angeles

Ian MacInnes, Professor of English, Albion College

Kelsey Salvesen, University of Pennsylvania

Marcy Sacks, Professor of History, Albion College

B. Devan Steiner, Indiana University

Fall 2015, 14 undergraduate students

Jacqueline Victor, University of Chicago

Research and Academic Programs Eighteenth-Century Seminar

Research Methods Workshop: Don Quixote and Theory: Renaissance and Contemporary

Participants

Faculty

Darcy Brazen, University of New Mexico

Lisa A. Freeman, University of Illinois at Chicago

Edward Friedman, Vanderbilt University

Richard Squibbs, DePaul University

assisted by Timothy Foster, PhD candidate, Vanderbilt University

Jeremy Carnes, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Coordinators

Timothy Campbell, University of Chicago

Helen Thompson, Northwestern University 2 seminars, 43 participants

October 16, 2015, 17 graduate students

Milton Seminar

Research Methods Workshop: From Manuscript to Print: Evolution or Revolution?

Coordinators

Faculty

Stephen Fallon, University of Notre Dame

Adam Hooks, University of Iowa

Christopher Kendrick, Loyola University Chicago

Michael Johnston, Purdue University

Paula McQuade, DePaul University Regina Schwartz, Northwestern University 2 seminars, 61 participants Dante Lecture

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

February 27, 2015 “The Apotheosis of Self-Reflection: Dante and the Inauguration of the Modern Era”

October 24, 2015, 18 graduate students Research Methods Workshop: Introduction to Medieval Studies at the Newberry

Theresa Rocha Beardall, Cornell University

David Christiansen, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Jordan Craddick, University of Washington Margaret Flood, University of Minnesota Sean Fraga, Princeton University Karen Froman, University of Winnipeg/ Manitoba John Gee, Harvard University Eman Ali Mohd Ghanayem, Northwestern University Tyler Hagan, University of British Columbia

Faculty

Tiffany Hale, Yale University

Karen Christianson, Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies

Joseph Jordan, Vanderbilt University

November 7, 2015 and March 5, 2016, 32 graduate students

David Loeffler, University of Wyoming

Research Methods Workshop: Poetry as Theology: New Theoretical Approaches to Dante

Thomas Krause, University of Oklahoma Jared Rodriguez, Northwestern University Mattea Victoria Sanders, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

William Franke, Professor of Comparative Literature and Religious Studies, Vanderbilt University

Faculty

Vittorio Montemaggi, University of Notre Dame

Celebrating Indigenous Dance

56 attendees

February 26, 2016, 12 graduate students

Performance Groups

Graduate Seminar: Poetry, Politics, and Community in High Medieval France

Research Methods Workshop: The Turn to Religion: Women and Writing in Early Modern England

RedLine Drum

Faculty

Faculty

Mary Franklin-Brown, University of Minnesota

Jaime Goodrich, Wayne State University

Ke Kula Kupa`a O Ka Pakipika, Kupa`a’s School of the Pacific

Fall 2015, 8 graduate students

Paula McQuade, DePaul University

Graduate Seminar: Thinking with Stones in Early Modern Europe

March 12, 2016, 15 graduate students

Faculty

Rebecca Zorach, University of Chicago Spring 2016, 16 graduate students Graduate Dissertation Seminar for Literary Scholars Faculty

Lisa Freeman, University of Illinois at Chicago Mary Beth Rose, University of Illinois at Chicago Fall 2015, 12 graduate students

William Franke, Vanderbilt University

The D’A rcy M cNickle C enter for A merican I ndian and I ndigenous S tudies Newberry Consortium for American Indian Studies Summer Institute Looking for Native Sovereignty: Property, Citizenship, and the Violence of Settler Colonialism

Sherri Sheu, University of Colorado, Boulder

Nahualli Aztec Dancers

Shki Bmaadzi Native youth drum and dance group.

Cosponsored with the Newberry’s Department of Continuing Education and the Washington Square Park Advisory Council, with support from the Free for All Fund of the Chicago Community Trust.

September 12, 2015 (attendance 90) The D’Arcy McNickle Distinguished Lecture Series A Lecture by Leslie Marmon Silko

November 5, 2015 (attendance 225)

July 13 – August 8, 2015

Indigenous London: Native Travelers at the Heart of Empire

Faculty

Coll Thrush, University of British Columbia

David Correia, University of New Mexico

Cosponsored with Northwestern University

Jennifer Nez Denetdale, University of New Mexico

February 16, 2016 (attendance 60)

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Research and Academic Programs Newberry Consortium for American Indian Studies Spring Workshop in Research Methods The ‘Textual Continuum’: Media and Method in Native Archives

March 10 – 12, 2016 Faculty

Margery Fee, University of British Columbia Phillip Round, University of Iowa Participants

Layla Bermeo, Harvard University Shae Cox, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Patricia Dawson, University of Oklahoma Andrew Ferris, Princeton University Amy Gore, University of New Mexico

Varieties of Geographical Reasoning in Indigenous North American Cartography

Peter Nekola, The Newberry Library March 2, 2016 Native Fiddling and Jigging as Exhibits and Exhibition

Sarah Quick, Cottey College February 3, 2016 An Archival Ethnography of Sapir’s “Nootka” (Nuu-chah-nulth) Texts, Correspondence, and Fieldwork through the Douglas Thomas Drawings

War Club, Gunpowder Ink, Archive: A Media History of Logan’s ‘Other’ Message to Colonial Virginia

Lydia Heberling, University of Washington

The Western Great Lakes as Native Borderlands: Power and Kinship at the 1825 Prairie du Chien Treaty Council

Chad Infante, Northwestern University

Jacob Jurss, Michigan State University

Juliet Larkin-Gilmore, Vanderbilt University

May 11, 2016

Aaron Luedtke, Michigan State University

Cherokee Cartographic Identity from the late Sixteenth to early Seventeenth Century

Reinette Tendor, University of Wyoming Careful Collaborations from NAGPRA to VAWA: Understanding Federal Law and American Indian Communities

Tyler Howe, University of Tennessee Kathryn Sampeck, Illinois State University May 25, 2016 Sounding ‘the Indian’s share’ in Tsianina’s Where Trails Have Led Me

Kathleen Washburn, University of New Mexico June 1, 2016

Panelists

Justin Richland, University of Chicago Helen Robbins, The Field Museum Brittany Wheeler, The Field Museum April 28, 2016 (attendance 75)

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

American Indian Studies Seminar Series 2015-16 Coordinators

Patricia Marroquin-Norby, Newberry Library Madeleine Krass, Newberry Library 8 sessions Identity-in-Development in Urban American Indian Education: Title VII Programs as Cultural Catalysts

Andrea Jenkins, University of Chicago February 3, 2016

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Sponsors: The Department of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago; the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago.

American Political Thought Seminar Coordinators

Carolyn Purnell, Illinois Institute of Technology

April 27, 2016

Naomi Sussman, Yale University

Kenneth Warren, University of Chicago

April 13, 2016

Stephen Greenhalgh, University of British Columbia

Jennifer Meixner, University of Winnipeg

Walter Benn Michaels, University of Illinois at Chicago

Pamela Edwards, Jack Miller Center

Mark Mattes, University of Louisville

Samantha Majhor, University of Minnesota

Coordinators

Denise Green, Cornell University

Deanne Grant, University of Colorado, Boulder

Lauren “Alex” Harmon, Cornell University

American Literature Seminar

Sarah Burns, Indiana University Diane Dillon, Newberry Library Erika Doss, University of Notre Dame Sponsors: Terra Foundation for American Art; the Department of History and Political Science at Purdue University Calumet; the Karla Scherer Center for the study of American Culture at the University of Chicago; and the Department of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame.

Sponsor: Jack Miller Center Borderlands and Latino/a Studies Seminar Coordinators

Geraldo Cadava, Northwestern University John Alba Cutler, Northwestern University Benjamin Johnson, Loyola University Chicago Sponsors: Latino Studies Program at Indiana University; Latino and Latina Studies at Northwestern University; the History Department of Loyola University Chicago; the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame; the Center for Latino Research at DePaul University; and the Katz Center for Mexican Studies at the University of Chicago.

British History Coordinators

Deborah Cohen, Northwestern University Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, University of Chicago Sponsors: The History Departments at Northwestern University and the University of Illinois at Chicago; the Nicholson Center for British Studies at the University of Chicago; and the Irish Studies Program at DePaul University.

History of Capitalism Coordinators

Joshua Salzmann, Northeastern Illinois University Jeffrey Sklansky, University of Illinois at Chicago Sponsors: The History Departments of Northeastern Illinois University and the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Research and Academic Programs Labor History Coordinators

Rosemary Feuer, Northeastern Illinois University Leon Fink, University of Illinois at Chicago Erik Gellman, Roosevelt University Liesl Orenic, Dominican University Sponsors: The History Departments of DePaul University, Northern Illinois University, University of Illinois, Roosevelt University, the University of Illinois at Chicago, Northwestern University; 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.

Urban History Dissertation Group Coordinators

Samuel King, Northwestern University Aram Sarkisian, Northwestern University

Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography Make Big Plans: Daniel Burnham’s Vision of an American Metropolis

http://publications.newberry.org/ makebigplans/ Funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, with additional funding from Deloitte; Marsh and McLennan Companies; The William G. McGowan Charitable Fund, Inc., and the Burnham Plan Centennial.

Mapping Movement in American History and Culture

http://mappingmovement.newberry.org/ Funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Co-editors

James R. Akerman, The Newberry Library Peter Nekola, The Newberry Library

Sponsors: The Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture at the University of Chicago.

Project Advisors

Women and Gender

Gerald A. Danzer, University of Illinois at Chicago

Coordinators

Michael P. Conzen, University of Chicago

Joan Johnson, Northeastern Illinois University

Ronald Grim, Boston Public Library

Francesca Morgan, Northeastern Illinois University

Jo Guldi, Brown University

Michelle Nickerson, Loyola University Chicago

Susan Schulten, University of Denver

David Rumsey, Cartography Associates

Sponsors: The History Departments of DePaul University, Northeastern Illinois University, University of Illinois at Chicago, and Loyola University Chicago; and the Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture at the University of Chicago.

DIGITAL PROJECTS AND PUBLICATIONS Center for Renaissance Studies French Renaissance Paleography

http://paleography.library.utoronto.ca Funded by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, in collaboration with the University of Toronto Libraries’ Information Technology Services Unit and the Center for Digital Humanities at Saint Louis University.

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Honor Roll of Donors The Newberry gratefully recognizes the following donors for their generous contributions received between July 1, 2015 and June 30, 2016.

Ms. Elizabeth Amy Liebman

Carolyn and David Spadafora

Mr. Stephen A. MacLean

Anonymous (2)

Professor James H. Marrow and Dr. Emily Rose Cindy and Stephen Mitchell

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

Mr. and Mrs. J. Christopher Nielsen

Joan and John Blew

Ms. Jean E. Perkins and Mr. Leland E. Hutchinson

Charles H. and Bertha L. Boothroyd Foundation

PRESIDENT’S CABINET ($25,000+)

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

Roger and Julie Baskes

Burton X. and Sheli Z. Rosenberg

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

Jan and Frank Cicero, Jr.

Karla Scherer

The Davee Foundation

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

Richard and Mary L. Gray

Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Siragusa

Sue and Melvin Gray Mrs. Charles C. Haffner III

Mr. David B. Smith, Jr. and Ms. Ilene T. Weinreich

Mark and Meg Hausberg

Jules N. Stiffel

Victoria J. Herget and Robert K. Parsons

Liz Stiffel

Celia and David Hilliard

Mr. Michael Thompson

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

Gail and John Ward

Barry and Mary Ann* MacLean

Anonymous (1)

THE ANNUAL FUND

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

Michele and Pete Willmott

Andrew and Jeanine McNally David E. McNeel Janis W. and John K. Notz, Jr.

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

Mr. Robert O. Delaney Ms. Shawn M. Donnelley and D. Christopher M. Kelly Professors Stephen and Verna Foster Mr. Thomas B. Harris Drs. Malcolm H. and Adele Hast Janet and Arthur Holzheimer Robert H. and Donna L. Jackson Ms. Helen Marlborough and Mr. Harry J. Roper Mr. and Mrs. David B. Mathis Andrew W. McGhee Marion S. Miller Professor and Mrs. Larrance M. O’Flaherty Dr. Gail Kern Paster

Dr. and Mrs. Tapas K. Das Gupta

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

Mr. Christopher Dewey

Dr. Diana Robin

Harve A. Ferrill

Ms. Penelope Rosemont

Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. Fitzgerald

Mr. Morrell M. Shoemaker

Mr. and Mrs. James G. Fitzgerald

Mr. and Mrs. Brian Silbernagel

Mr. and Mrs. Christopher B. Galvin

Dr. Christine Margit Sperling

Virginia Gassel and Belen Trevino

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wedgeworth, Jr.

Mr. Roy Boyd

James J. and Louise R. Glasser

Diane Weinberg

Joan and William Brodsky

Helen M. Harrison Foundation

Drs. Richard and Mary Woods

Mr. T. Kimball Brooker

Mrs. Mary P. Hines

Helen Zell

Buchanan Family Foundation

Anonymous (3)

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Feitler

Mr. and Mrs. Michael Keiser Donor Advised Fund

Mr. and Mrs. Paul C. Gignilliat

Professor Lawrence Lipking

Dr. Hanna H. Gray

Laura Baskes Litwin and Stuart Litwin

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

John R. Halligan Charitable Fund

Mr. and Mrs. R. Eden Martin

AMSTED Industries Foundation

Robert A. and Lorraine Holland

David and Anita Meyer

Mr. Gregory L. Barton

Illinois Tool Works Foundation

Ken and Jossy Nebenzahl

Ms. Mary Beth Beal

Kathryn Gibbons Johnson and Bruce Johnson

The Rhoades Foundation

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

Mr. Jay F. Krehbiel

John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe

Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. Pope Mr. and Mrs. Rudy L. Ruggles, Jr. Harold B. Smith Carol Warshawsky PRESIDENT’S CIRCLE ($10,000 - $24,999)

Jack L. Ringer Family Foundation

Laura Louise Breyer

Junie L. and Dorothy L. Sinson

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* Deceased

Honor Roll of Donors Dr. William H. Cannon, Jr. and Mr. David Narwich

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

HUMANISTS ($500 - $999)

Dr. and Mrs. David R. Anderson

Rick and Marcia Ashton

Rob Carlson

Blum-Kovler Foundation

Mr. Terry Bachman and Ms. Jerri Dell

Ms. Jeanne Colette Collester

Ms. Noelle C. Brock

Dr. Ellen T. Baird

Nancy Raymond Corral

Mr. and Mrs. Dean L. Buntrock

Bob and Trish Barr

Mr. Charles T. Cullen

Mr. and Mrs. Henry T. Chandler

Mr. and Mrs. Warren L. Batts

Janet Wood Diederichs

Joyce E. Chelberg

Mr. Robert F. Beasecker

Ms. Marilyn R. Drury-Katillo

Mrs. Ariane Dannasch

Mr. Michael L. Ellingsworth

Mrs. William W. Darrow

Francis Beidler III and Prudence R. Beidler Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas G. Fitzgerald

The Dick Family Foundation

Mary S. Blust

Ms. Mary Adrian Foster

The Donnelley Foundation

Mr. Robert S. Brooks

Franklin Philanthropic Foundation

Nancie and Bruce Dunn

Mr. Richard H. Brown

Joe and Madeleine Glossberg

Mr. George E. Engdahl

Professor and Mrs. Rand Burnette

Ted and Mirja Haffner

William E. Engel

Canterbury Court Apartments L.L.C.

Hjordis Halvorson and John Halvorson

Mr. and Mrs. Joe Feldman

Carroll Family Foundation

Professor Barbara A. Hanawalt

Mr. David Gardner

Mr. and Mrs. William R. Charles

Pati and O. J. Heestand

Mr. Martin A. M. Gneuhs

The Chicago Literary Club

Mrs. Loretta N. Julian

Alan and Carol Greene

Mrs. Alice G. Childs

Jared A. Kaplan and Maridee Quanbeck

The Irving Harris Foundation

Barbara and George Clark

Professor and Mrs. Stanley N. Katz

Neil Harris and Teri J. Edelstein

Mr. D. Stephen Cloyd

Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Lofgren

Ms. Gaye Hill and Mr. Jeffrey A. Urbina

Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. McCamant

Mr. and Mrs. Donald S. Hunt

Professor Ronald J. Corthell and Ms. Laura Bartolo

Judy and Scott McCue

Jones Day

Ann and Christopher McKee

Mr. and Mrs. Dennis J. Keller

Mr. and Mrs. L. Thomas Melly

David Woods Kemper Foundation

Jackie and Tom Morsch

Mr. John T. Cullinan and Dr. Ewa Radwanska

The Lawlor Foundation

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

Ms. Diana L. DeBoy

George London Memorial Foundation

Mr. Gordon R. DenBoer

The Charles Palmer Family Foundation

Mr. Terrence M. Deneen

Jo Ann and Joe Paszczyk

Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Dewey

Mr. Charles R. Rizzo

Mr. and Mrs. Bruce D. Dixon

Father Peter J. Powell

Dr. James Engel Rocks

Mr. and Mrs. David Dolan

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

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas D. Rutherford

Professor Frances Dolan

Carol Sonnenschein Sadow

Mr. and Mrs. Timothy K. Earle

Sahara Enterprises, Inc.

Mr. and Mrs. John Eric Schaal

Ms. Anne E. Egger

Joyce Ruth Saxon

Adele Simmons

Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth P. Fischl

Alyce K. Sigler and Stephen A. Kaplan

Mrs. Anne D. Slade

Mr. and Ms. Richard B. Fizdale

Carl W. Stern and Holly Hayes

Mrs. Diane W. Smith

Mr. and Mrs. Paul Richard Gessinger

Tom and Nancy Swanstrom

Ms. Donna M. Tuke

Mr. Dean H. Goossen

Mr. and Mrs. Enrique J. Unanue

Mrs. Herbert A. Vance

Professor Elliott J. Gorn

Jacqueline Vossler

Mr. Laurence W. Wilson

Tom Greensfelder and Olivia Petrides

The Abra Wilkin Fund

The William M. Hales Foundation

Thomas K. Yoder

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

Anonymous (3)

Anonymous (4)

Ms. Audrey A. Niffenegger Ms. Sara N. Paretsky and Professor S. C. Wright

Ms. Kim L. Coventry Dorothy and David Crabb

Mr. and Mrs. Errol Halperin

The Newberry Annual Report

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Honor Roll of Donors Stephen and Sharyl Hanna

Mrs. Grace Stanek

Mr. and Mrs. Donald R. Chauncey

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

Ms. Nancy Stanley

The Chicago Chamber Music Society

Mr. J. Thomas Touchton

Mr. John Chordas

Professor Randolph Head

Dr. Elizabeth P. Tsunoda and Mr. John A. Shea

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

Professor and Mrs. Richard H. Helmholz

Mr. Scott Turow and Ms. Adriane Glazier

Mr. and Mrs. John C. Colman

Mr. and Mrs. Frederic W. Hickman

Christian Vinyard

Mr. William B. Hinchliff

Larry Viskochil

Professors Kathleen M. Comerford and Mark Edwards

Mr. Roger C. Hinman

Mr. Edward Wheatley and Ms. Mary MacKay

Professor and Mrs. Edward M. Cook, Jr.

Edward C. Hirschland

Robert Williams

Sue and Kent Davis

Mr. and Mrs. Michael L. Igoe

Winston & Strawn LLP

Mr. G. Kevin Davis

Mr. and Mrs. Martin D. Jahn Dorothy V. Jones Dr. Sona Kalousdian and Dr. Ira D. Lawrence Ms. Katherine J. Kim and Mr. Stacy E. Petty

Mr. and Mrs. Francis D. Wolfe, Jr. Anonymous (3)

Ms. Suzette Dewey Dr. Danielle Dewey-Huston Mr. Charles H. Douglas

LITERATI ($250 - $499)

Dr. and Mrs. James L. Downey

Paula and W. Gordon Addington

Mr. Charles A. Duboc

Barbara and John Kowalczyk

Mr. and Mrs. Paul H. Adler

Mr. Wilson G. Duprey

Mr. and Mrs. Henry L. Latkin

Sarah Alger and Fred Hagedorn

Jon and Susanne Dutcher

Laughing Acres Family Foundation Inc.

Alsdorf Foundation

David and Susan Eblen

Ms. Susan Levine and Mr. Leon Fink

Mr. and Mrs. Arthur W. Anderson

Laura F. Edwards and John P. McAllister

Mr. Julius Lewis

Mr. and Mrs. Paul F. Anderson

Mrs. Anne A. Ehrlich

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

Ms. Rosanne C. Arnold

Mrs. Susan S. Ettelson

Mr. Daniel Meyer

Mr. Mark L. Barbour

Ms. Yayoi U. Everett

Michal and Paul Miller

Professor Karen-edis Barzman

Mrs. Connie J. Fairbanks and Mr. Kirk Twiss

Professor Edward W. Muir, Jr.

William and Ellen Bentsen

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Fanning

Ellin and Dennis Murphy

Ms. Julie Beringer

Mrs. William Faulman

Marjorie and Christopher Newman

Dr. Heather E. Blair

Ms. Sharon Feigon and Mr. Steven Bialer

Ms. Sarah J. Palmer

Peter Blatchford

Mr. Roger A. Ferlo

Rachel Towner Raffles

Mr. Robert W. Blythe and Ms. Madeline Baum

Mr. and Mrs. John E. Freund

Mr. Dane J. Rausch

Professor Arthur E. Bonfield

Mr. Donald C. Gancer

Ms. Janet K. Reece and Mr. K. Bingham Cady

Ms. Catherine S. Bosher and Dr. Jose R. Perez-Sanz

Global Impact

Dea Brennan

Professor Robert Goulding and Professor Margaret H. Meserve

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Brown

Donald and Jane Gralen

Mr. Todd Brueshoff

Mrs. Phyllis C. Grossmann

Mrs. Walther H. Buchen

Jean and Robert Guritz

Mrs. Carolyn S. Bucksbaum

Ms. Frances L. Hagemann

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

E.A. Hamill Fund

Professor Eric Slauter

Mr. and Mrs. Allan E. Bulley III

Ms. Lee R. Hamilton

Mrs. Hilary C. Smith

Mr. and Mrs. Tracy A. Burnham

Susan R. Hanes and George E. Leonard

Ms. Marci J. Sortor and Mr. Daniel Ferro

Professor Sarah L. Burns

Toni and Ken Harkness

Ms. Mercedes K. Sparck

Mr. Andrew Taylor Call

Ms. Arlene E. Hausman

Mr. and Mrs. C. Richard Spurgin

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Cashman

Mr. Marc Hilton and Ms. Judith Aronson

Caxton Club

Laraine Balk Hope and John N. Hope

Mr. Joseph O. Rubinelli, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. David S. Ruder Susan and Charles P. Schwartz Ilene and Michael Shaw Charitable Trust Mac and Joanne Sims Ms. Rebecca Sive and Mr. C. Steven Tomashefsky

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* Deceased

Honor Roll of Donors Mr. and Mrs. Paul J. Houdek

Mr. Thomas Reece

RESTRICTED GIFTS

Professor and Mrs. Clark Hulse

Mr. J. Timothy Ritchie

Mr. D. Bradford Hunt

Professors Barbara and Thomas Rosenwein

Robert F. Inger and Fui Lian Tan

Ms. Doris D. Roskin

Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Jones

Mr. T. Marshall Rousseau

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

Mr. Paul R. Judy Ms. Anna Louise F. Kealy

Ms. Lee Ann Russo and Mr. Kevin C. Miller

$25,000+

Mr. Paul R. Keith

Mrs. Edna Schade

Roger and Julie Baskes

Mr. and Mrs. Millard Kerr

Dr. Suzanne Karr Schmidt and Mr. Keith Schmidt

Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation

Ms. Alice Schreyer

Council on Library and Information Resources

Mr. Robert S. Kiely Professor and Mrs. Christopher Kleinhenz Mr. Ronald E. Kniss Mr. and Mrs. Richard F. Kosobud Professor and Mrs. Donald W. Krummel

Stephen A. and Marilyn Scott Adela and Robert Seal Brad and Melissa Seiler

Exelon

Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation Glasser and Rosenthal Family

Professor Carole B. Levin

Ms. Jill Shimabukuro and Mr. Adam Brent

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Madden

Mr. Richard H. Sigel and Dr. Susan Sigel

Sue and Melvin Gray

Louis and Silvia Manetti

Ms. Elizabeth Silver-Schack and Mr. Larry Silver

Victoria J. Herget and Robert K. Parsons

Mr. Russell Maret and Ms. Annie Schlechter Mr. Melvin L. Marks

Ms. Susan P. Sloan and Mr. Arthur D. Clarke

Jack Miller Center

Mr. Craig T. Mason

Mr. and Mrs. O. J. Sopranos

Monticello College Foundation

Jo Ann and Phillip Matejczyk

Mr. Gerald R. Southern

National Endowment for the Humanities

Ms. Helen McArdle

Mrs. Elaine Stenhouse

Jerome and Elaine Nerenberg Foundation

Mr. John G. W. McCord, Jr.

Mary and Harvey Struthers

Rosemary J. Schnell

Dr. Ailsie B. McEnteggart

Mr. and Mrs. Edward F. Swift III

Dr. Scholl Foundation

Ms. Linda McLarnan

Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Tranen

The Siragusa Foundation

Ms. Janice M. McNeill

Mr. Matthew W. Turner

Mr. and Mrs. Gregory L. Melchor

Mrs. Virginia C. Vale

Mr. David L. Wagner and Ms. Renie B. Adams

Erica C. Meyer

Professor John Van Engen

Mr. Michael D. Miselman

Pam and Doug Walter

$10,000 - $24,999

Mrs. Susan T. Murphy

Robert and Susan Warde

Allstate Insurance Company

Ms. Martha M. Murray and Mr. David Smalley

Professor Elissa B. Weaver

Paul M. Angell Family Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin E. Oosterbaan

Ms. Anita M. Weinberg and Mr. Mark J. Miller

The Robert Thomas Bobins Foundation

Ms. Aviva Weiner

The Walter E. Heller Foundation

Joyce C. White

Janet and Arthur Holzheimer

Ms. Patricia A. Woodburn

Ms. Elizabeth Amy Liebman

Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Worthington

The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Foundation

James and Mary Wyly

The Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Yae

Ken and Jossy Nebenzahl

Ms. Mildred J. Zysman

John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe

Anonymous (3)

Carol Warshawsky

Ms. Joan L. Pantsios Mr. Mark R. Pattis Mr. Frederic C. Pearson Jennifer and Davie Pina Mr. and Mrs. Joseph B. Plauche Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Poehls Professor William V. Porter Ms. Sarah M. Pritchard Dr. and Mrs. John T. Queenan Judy and Richard Rayborn

The Grainger Foundation, Inc.

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Helen M. Harrison Foundation

Anonymous (1)

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Honor Roll of Donors $5,000 - $9,999

General Society of Colonial Wars

SOCIETY OF COLLECTORS

Joan and William Brodsky

Tom Greensfelder and Olivia Petrides

Chicago Free For All Fund at The Chicago Community Trust

Ms. Tracy Honn and Mr. Mark Bernstein

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

Ms. Patricia B. Daley Samuel H. Kress Foundation Mr. Stephen A. MacLean Professor James H. Marrow and Dr. Emily Rose Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of Illinois Robert Williams Anonymous (1)

Laraine Balk Hope and John N. Hope Mr. Kenneth J. Knoespel Mr. Paul A. Kobasa Mr. and Mrs. David B. Mathis Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. McCamant David E. McNeel David and Anita Meyer The National Society of Sons of the American Colonists Ms. Audrey A. Niffenegger Dr. David S. Peterson

$1,500 - $4,999

Michelle Miller Burns and Gary W. Burns Chicago Genealogical Society Chicago Map Society

Joan, Anne, and Kaye Pomaranc Ms. Alice Schreyer

Mr. Russell Maret and Ms. Annie Schlechter Andrew and Jeanine McNally

Chester D. Tripp Charitable Trust

National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, Chicago Chapter

Jacqueline Vossler Mr. Michael Wyatt

Janis W. and John K. Notz, Jr. Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Illinois Carolyn and David Spadafora Christian Vinyard Diane Weinberg Anonymous (3)

Mr. T. Kimball Brooker Victoria J. Herget and Robert K. Parsons Celia and David Hilliard Janet and Arthur Holzheimer Barry and Mary Ann* MacLean Professor James H. Marrow and Dr. Emily Rose Ken and Jossy Nebenzahl John K. Notz, Jr. Mrs. Madeline Rich Jacqueline Vossler

Professor Mary Beth Rose Susan Sleeper-Smith, Juliana Barr, Jean O’Brien, Nancy Shoemaker, and Scott Stevens

Sonja and Conrad Fischer

Roger and Julie Baskes

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

Mr. William Hudlow

HERITAGE AND GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY

The following lineage and genealogical organizations have made gifts that help the library preserve our cultural heritage for future generations.

PARGELLIS SOCIETY

The following corporations contributed $2,500 or more to the Newberry Library, and are inaugural members of the Pargellis Society.

Allstate Insurance Company Exelon

$250 - $1,499

Illinois Tool Works

Dr. Donna M. Avery and Dr. James Andrews

Anonymous (1)

GOLD LEVEL ($5,000+)

Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of Illinois SILVER LEVEL ($2,500-$4,999)

Chicago Genealogical Society National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, Chicago Chapter

Mr. Garrett A. Boge Mr. and Mrs. Theodore J. Cachey, Jr. Rob Carlson The Cervantes Society of America Chicago Calligraphy Collective The Contemporary Club of Chicago Mr. Henry Eggers The Friday Club Muriel S. Friedman Trust Paul Gehl and Rob Carlson

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* Deceased

Honor Roll of Donors BLATCHFORD SOCIETY

Mrs. Anne C. Haffner

Dr. Ira Singer

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.

Hjordis Halvorson and John Halvorson

Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Siragusa

Neil Harris and Teri J. Edelstein

Susan Sleeper-Smith

Adele Hast

Harold B. Smith

Mark and Meg Hausberg

Rebecca Gray Smith

Celia and David Hilliard

Zella Kay Soich

Dr. Sandra L. Hindman

Carolyn and David Spadafora

Robert A. and Lorraine Holland

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

Mrs. Judith H. Hollander

Joyce L. Steffel

Janet and Arthur Holzheimer

Peggy Sullivan

Mr. W. Lloyd Barber

David M. and Barbara H. Homeier

Tom and Nancy Swanstrom

Dr. David M. and Mrs. Susan Lindenmeyer Barron

Louise D. Howe

Don and Marianne Tadish

Mary P. Hughes

S. David Thurman

Roger Baskes

Mrs. Everett Jarboe

Tracey Tomashpol and Farron Brougher

Peter Blatchford

Kathryn Gibbons Johnson

Jim and Josie Tomes

John C. Blew

Ann Kittle

Mr. J. Thomas Touchton

Dr. Edith Borroff

Karen Krishack

Professor Sue Sheridan Walker

Bernard J. Brommel

Larry Lesperance

Willard E. White

Mr. Richard H. Brown

Professor Carole B. Levin

Robert Williams

June Buller

Joseph A. Like

Mrs. Erika Wright

Michelle Miller Burns and Gary W. Burns

Lucia Woods Lindley

James and Mary Wyly

Dr. Audrey Lumsden-Kouvel

Anonymous (10)

Mrs. L. W. Alberts Mr. Adrian Alexander Rick and Marcia Ashton Constance Barbantini and Liduina Barbantini

Dr. William H. Cannon Rob Carlson Reverend Dr. Robert B. Clarke Mrs. David L. Conlan Dorothy and David Crabb Mr. Charles T. Cullen Professor Saralyn R. Daly Magdalene and Gerald Danzer John Brooks Davis Mr. Gordon R. DenBoer Susan and Otto D’Olivo Donna Margaret Eaton Professor Carolyn A. Edie Laura F. Edwards Mr. George E. Engdahl Ms. Rita T. Fitzgerald Lyle Gillman Louise R. Glasser Mr. Donald J. Gralen Dr. Gary G. Gunderson

Carmelita Melissa Madison Heidi Massa Andrew W. McGhee Marion S. Miller Mary Morony Mrs. Milo M. Naeve Ken and Jossy Nebenzahl Ms. Audrey A. Niffenegger Janis W. Notz Joan L. Pantsios Jo Ann and Joe Paszczyk Ken Perlow Dominick S. Renga, M.D. Mr. T. Marshall Rousseau Rosemary J. Schnell Helen M. Schultz Stephen A. and Marilyn Scott Mr. Morrell M. Shoemaker Alyce K. Sigler

IN MEMORIAM

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

Ann Barzel Mr. George W. Blossom III Professor Howard Mayer Brown Joan Campbell Robert P. Coale Natalie H. Dabovich David W. Dangler Mrs. Edison Dick Dr. and Mrs. Waldo C. Friedland Dr. Muriel S. Friedman Esther LaBerge Ganz Charles C. Haffner III Rita K. and Ralph H. Halvorsen Mr. Chalkley J. Hambleton, Sr.

The Newberry Annual Report

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Honor Roll of Donors Reverend Susan R. Hecker Mrs. Harold James Mr. Everett Jarboe Corinne E. Johnson Mr. Stuart Kane Fred Kittle Mr. Isadore William Lichtman Russell W. and Louise I. Lindholm Arthur B. Logan Mr. Walter C. Lueneburg Ms. Louise Lutz Mrs. Agnes M. McElroy

THE 2016 NEWBERRY LIBRARY AWARD DINNER

The following individuals and organizations supported the 2016 Newberry Library Award Dinner honoring The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, held on April 11, 2016.

Mark and Meg Hausberg, Co-chairs Karla Scherer and Harve Ferrill, Co-chairs Mr. and Mrs. William L. Adams IV Art Institute of Chicago Roger and Julie Baskes

Barry and Mary Ann* MacLean Mr. John G. W. McCord, Jr. Andrew W. McGhee Andrew and Jeanine McNally David E. McNeel David and Anita Meyer Cindy and Stephen Mitchell Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Northwestern University Janis W. and John K. Notz, Jr. Dr. Gail Kern Paster

Joan and William Brodsky

Ms. Jean E. Perkins and Mr. Leland E. Hutchinson

Mr. T. Kimball Brooker

Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. Pope

Judy and John Bross

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

Ally and Suzette Bulley

Rachel Towner Raffles

Chicago Humanities Festival

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

Jan and Frank Cicero, Jr.

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

Edward J. Parsons

Council on Library and Information Resources

Roberta Rubin

Marian W. Shaw

Dr. and Mrs. Tapas K. Das Gupta

Professor Robert W. Shoemaker

Ms. Laura S. de Frise

Lillian R. and Dwight D. Slater

Ms. Marilyn R. Drury-Katillo

Cecelia Handleman Wade

Mr. George E. Engdahl

Professor Franklin A. Walker

Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. Fitzgerald

Lila Weinberg

Goodman Theatre

James M. Wells

Ms. Jaclyn Grahl

Mr. Raymond L. Wright

Richard and Mary L. Gray

Anonymous (8)

Sue and Melvin Gray

Mr. and Mrs. William W. McKittrick Mr. Milo M. Naeve Piri Korngold Nesselrod Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. O’Kieffe III Bruce P. Olson Charles W. Olson

Dr. James Grossman ESTATE GIFTS

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

Dr. Muriel S. Friedman Ilse Friend Arthur B. Logan Marian W. Shaw Dorothy Storck Jane L. Strasburg James M. Wells Josephine Yocherer Anonymous (2)

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Ted and Mirja Haffner Victoria J. Herget and Robert K. Parsons Celia and David Hilliard Robert A. and Lorraine Holland Mr. and Mrs. R. Thomas Howell, Jr. Mr. Clark Hulse

Mr. and Mrs. Rudy L. Ruggles, Jr. Paul* and Joanne Ruxin Rosemary J. Schnell Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Sheffield, Jr. Carolyn and David Spadafora Starshak Winzenburg & Co. Jules N. Stiffel Liz Stiffel Mr. Michael Thompson Mr. and Mrs. Joseph L. Turner University of Chicago Mr. and Mrs. William C. Vance Carol Warshawsky Diane and Richard Weinberg Michele and Pete Willmott Mr. Laurence W. Wilson

Illinois Tool Works Inc. Kathryn Gibbons Johnson and Bruce Johnson Mr. and Mrs. Burton B. Kaplan Ann Kittle Mr. and Mrs. Mark Levey Professor Lawrence Lipking

* Deceased

Honor Roll of Donors TRIBUTE GIFTS

In honor of Kelly Frost

Professor Kenneth Gouwens

The Newberry recognizes the following gifts made in tribute.

Mr. Leo Corriveau

Sue and Melvin Gray

In honor of Paul Gehl

Tom Greensfelder and Olivia Petrides

William and Ellen Bentsen

Dr. Gary G. Gunderson

In honor of Nathalie Alberts

Professors Kathleen M. Comerford and Mark Edwards

Susan R. Hanes and George E. Leonard

P rofessors Laurie Nussdorfer and Nicholas Adams

Professor and Mrs. Gerald A. Danzer

In honor of Roger Baskes

Ms. Judith Hendershot

Dr. Jean S. Gottlieb

Stephen and Sharyl Hanna

Mr. and Mrs. David M. Homeier

Daniel Greene and Lisa Meyerowitz

In honor of Brenda Brdar

Ms. Tracy Honn and Mr. Mark Bernstein

Ms. Frances L. Hagemann

Mrs. Lois I. Barliant

Ms. Lynn Hudson

Ms. Emily Troxell Jaycox

In honor of Martha Briggs

Ms. Rosemary T. Kelly

Ms. Kathleen Lamb

Mrs. Ariane Dannasch

Professor Eric Kindel

Dr. Debra N. Mancoff

Mr. Christopher Dewey

Professor Timothy Kircher

Mr. Daniel Meyer

Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Dewey

Mr. Leonard Kniffel

Robert Williams

Ms. Suzette Dewey

Mr. Kenneth J. Knoespel

James and Mary Wyly

Dr. Danielle Dewey-Huston

Mr. Paul A. Kobasa

Mr. Robert D. Graff

To establish the John M. Wing Lectureship on the Book in honor of Paul Gehl

Ms. Judith Kolata

Mr. and Mrs. William L. Lederer

Mr. Adrian Alexander

Ms. Kaiya Toop

Sarah Alger and Fred Hagedorn

Mrs. Sheila White

Mr. and Mrs. Tony Amodeo

In honor of Nancy Claar

Ms. Lynne Avadenka

Ms. Michelle Salomon and Mr. Mark Burns

Dr. Donna M. Avery and Dr. James Andrews

In honor of Margaret Cusick

Ms. Margaret Barber

Ms. Cathy Greene

Mr. William Beermann

In honor of Diane Dillon

Joan and William Brodsky

Canterbury Court Apartments L.L.C.

Mr. Richard H. Brown

Mr. Jonathan G. Don and Ms. Elizabeth Blodgett

Mr. and Mrs. Theodore J. Cachey, Jr.

Mr. William B. Hinchliff

Ms. Jane F. Carpenter

Professor Judith A. Miller

Mr. Paul Corwin

Ms. Mary Quinn

Professor Patricia A. Crain

In honor of Grace Dumelle

Ms. Sonia V. Csaszar

Mrs. Elizabeth L. Bicking

Mr. Rick Cusick

Ms. Danielle Rosen and Mr. Chand Gupta

Mr. William Davis

Ms. Marianne Trost

Mr. Philip Dawkins

In honor of Elizabeth England

Mr. William H. Drendel

Mr. Jeremy Bergerson

Dr. and Mrs. Christian Y. Dupont

In honor of Robert Feitler

Dr. Gokhan A. Ersan

Mr. and Mrs. John C. Colman

Ms. Riva Feshbach and Mr. Christopher Burgess

In honor of Rita Fitzgerald

Professor Lisa A. Freeman and Ms. Heather Schmucker

HONOR GIFTS

Ms. Emily Troxell Jaycox

Rob Carlson

Dr. Jean S. Gottlieb

Professor Randolph Head

Professor and Mrs. Donald W. Krummel Dr. and Dr. Rima M. Lunin Schultz Mr. Russell Maret and Ms. Annie Schlechter Ms. Kitty Maryatt Mr. and Mrs. David B. Mathis Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. McCamant Mr. and Mrs. Grant Gibson McCullagh David E. McNeel Dr. Bert Menco David and Anita Meyer Ms. Justine Nagan Ms. Audrey A. Niffenegger Janis W. and John K. Notz, Jr. John K. Notz, Jr. Professor Angela Nuovo Ms. Pamela J. Paulsrud Dr. David S. Peterson Joan, Anne, and Kaye Pomaranc Mr. Greg Prickman Ms. Sara Randall Professor Mary Beth Rose Randi Rubovits-Seitz Mr. Jay Ryan Ms. Miriam B. Scott Mr. Steve Shaiman

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Honor Roll of Donors Mr. Nick Sherman

In honor of Andrew McGhee

MEMORIAL GIFTS

Dr. Thomas H. Simpson

Mr. and Mrs. L. Thomas Melly

In memory of Edith Allard

Dr. Edna Carter Southard

Dr. and Mrs. John T. Queenan

Mrs. Jean Isaacowitz

Carolyn and David Spadafora

In honor of David McNeel

In memory of Alfred and Phyllis Balk

Mr. and Mr. Andy Steadham

Ms. Debra Lessin

Laraine Balk Hope and John N. Hope

Ms. Diana Sudyka

In honor of Janis and John Notz

In memory of Robert Ball

Ms. Phyllis Taylor

Erica C. Meyer

Mrs. Catherine Ball

Mrs. Anne C. Tedeschi

In honor of Minna Novick

In memory of James G. Bauer

Dr. Simran Thadani

Mr. and Ms. Robert M. Lapin

Ms. Lin Bauer

Dr. Cynthia M. Truant

In honor of Laurie Nussdorfer

Ms. Mary Pat Benz

Mr. Frank Valadez

Professor Nicholas Adams

Ms. Mary E. Donahue

Christian Vinyard

In honor of Beth Pellettieri

Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Foy

Jacqueline Vossler

Mr. John Hudzik

Ms. Kelly Hunt

Carol Warshawsky

In honor of Diana Robin

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Jones

Mrs. Julie Wildman

Dr. Debra N. Mancoff

Mr. Samuel K. Lewis

Robert Williams

In honor of Judith Rutherford

Ms. Sheila H. Lewis

Mr. Michael B. Winship

Chicago Genealogical Society

Mr. Benjamin O’Connor

Mr. Tanner L. Woodford

In honor of Carol Sarshe

Mr. Michael Wyatt

Dr. Debra N. Mancoff

The Honorable Ilana D. Rovner and

Dr. Richard Rovner

James and Mary Wyly

In honor of Alice Schreyer

Mrs. Mary Zabrin

Dorothy and David Crabb

In honor of the Newberry Genealogy Staff

In honor of Owen and Louis Schweers

J. Leo and Dorothy Freiwald

Mr. Daniel N. Leininger

In honor of John Gibbons

In honor of David Spadafora

Mr. Jonathan G. Don and Ms. Elizabeth Blodgett

Dr. Gail Kern Paster

In honor of Toni Harkness

Dr. and Mrs. Donald E. Stanley

In honor of Ingrid Stanley

Mrs. Gail P. Guggenheim

In honor of Scott M. Stevens

Vivienne Jones

Professor Mary B. Campbell

Mr. Jamey R. Lundblad

In honor of Liz Stiffel

Ms. Nancy J. Lynn and

Mr. Andrew Teitelman

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

Ms. Heidi L. Mucha and Mr. Michael R. Jefferson

Ms. Martha Turner

In honor of Gregg Turner

Mr. John G. Taylor, Jr.

In honor of Leo Minnito and Italo Vaccha

Anonymous (1)

Dr. Debra N. Mancoff

In honor of Miss Charlotte Hightower

In honor of Mr. and Mrs. Peter S. Willmott

Mr. Luke Herman

Lesley and Claude Charlebois

In honor of Samantha Leshin

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph L. Turner

Sue and Kent Davis

Junie L. and Dorothy L. Sinson Ms. Lindsey Tanner and Mr. Paul Driscoll Mr. and Mrs. Roger Van Patten Winston & Strawn LLP In memory of Jo Ann Berkey Mr. Carlos H. Hendrickson Ms. Sue Hendrickson Ms. Sylvia M. Neibarger In memory of Dudley Brown Dr. Jack J. Shreve In memory of Frances Tandy Burris Mr. Roger Hardesty In memory of Bentley Stone and Walter Camryn Ms. Patricia Pippert and Mr. Steven Redfield In memory of Joan Colby Ms. Stephanie Sylverne and Mr. Justin Randolph In memory of Carlos Cortez Ms. Penelope Rosemont In memory of Eve and George Eisenberg Mr. Lee Eisenberg

In honor of Thomas Madden Mr. David E. Staplin

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* Deceased

Honor Roll of Donors In memory of Simon Finkelstein

In memory of Thomas W. Merritt, Jr.

Jones Day

Mr. and Mrs. Henry E. Charles

Carroll Family Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. Irvin A. Leonard

In memory of Bernard Friedelson

Ms. Ann Merritt

One Magnificent Mile Condominium Association

Dr. David M. and Mrs. Susan Lindenmeyer Barron

In memory of Donald A. and Ethel B. Morgan Ms. Alexandra Katich

Ms. Jean E. Perkins and Mr. Leland E. Hutchinson

In memory of Virginia S. Gassel

In memory of Milo M. Naeve

Ms. Meredith Petrov

Virginia Gassel and Belen Trevino

Mrs. Milo M. Naeve

Ms. Mary Ellen Powers

In memory of Robert Gouwens

In memory of Emily R. Neal

Mrs. Amy Reiner

Professor Kenneth Gouwens

Mrs. Virginia Neal Dick

Mr. Ronald Rizzo

In memory of Winifred J. Hajic

In memory of John Nichols

Mr. and Ms. David Rosso

Professor Earl Hajic

Dr. Jane Hagstrom and Mr. Ray Hagstrom

Ms. Lee Ann Russo and Mr. Kevin C. Miller

In memory of Tina Howe

In memory of John Norcross

Mrs. Carolyn M. Short

Mr. and Mrs. Larry E. Shiff

Ms. Rebecca Sive and Mr. C. Steven Tomashefsky

In memory of Roger B. Johnston

In memory of Dr. Edward Petersen

Ms. Marcia Slater Johnston

Mr. and Mrs. Dean L. Buntrock

In memory of Dr. In Won Kim

In memory of Zoe Petersen

Ms. Katherine J. Kim and Mr. Stacy E. Petty

Mrs. and Dr. Jane T. Fenninger

In memory of Robert Taylor Kinslow

Toni and Ken Harkness

Ms. Barbara M. Grider

Janis W. and John K. Notz, Jr.

In memory of Dr. C. Frederick Kittle M.D.

Mr. and Mrs. William J. Roberts

Dr. Phyllis C. Bleck

Dr. Ira Singer

Mr. John R. Dainauskas

The Abra Wilkin Fund

Toni and Ken Harkness

Mrs. George B. Young*

Mr. Jon L. Lellenberg and Ms. Susan Jewell

Anonymous (1)

Mr. Timothy D. O’Hara

In memory of Rosalind Platcow

In memory of Irmingard Korbelak

Mr. Edward L. Platcow

Carl and Hazel Vespa

In memory of Frederick John Rank

In memory of Sidney and Miriam Kramer

Ms. Janet A. Spaletto and Mr. John J. Spaletto

Ms. Nancy Kramer Bickel and Mr. Peter J. Bickel

In memory of Joel Rich

In memory of David Lindberg Mr. Michael H. Shank and Mrs. Carol Troyer-Shank

Mrs. Madeline Rich In memory of Norma Rubovits

Pam and Doug Walter In memory of Francis G. Santschi Dr. Liz Santschi In memory of Angela Marie Schmieg Ms. Therese A. Schmieg In memory of Mette Shayne Dr. Cheryl Ganz Robert and Helene Gerstein Dr. Jean S. Gottlieb In memory of Kerry Slocum Dr. Leonard G. Ramirez In memory of Terrence J. Smith Mrs. Hilary C. Smith In memory of Richard Sussman Mrs. Pamela Sussman In memory of Margaret Thiriot Mrs. Mary Baer In memory of Arthur and Lila Weinberg

Mr. and Mrs. Donald F. Rubovits

Ms. Anita M. Weinberg and

Mr. Mark J. Miller

In memory of Barbara Link

In memory of Paul Ruxin

In memory of Bernard Weinberg

Sherry and Richard Frenzel

Sarah Alger and Fred Hagedorn

Ms. Louise K. Wornom

In memory of Karen McGhee

Mr. Michael Bartels

In memory of Florence J. Wilson

Mr. and Mrs. L. Thomas Melly

Penny and Ed Berman

Mr. Laurence W. Wilson

Dr. and Mrs. John T. Queenan

Joan and William Brodsky

In memory of Patricia Elaine Meglin

Ms. Marilyn A. Bunck

Dr. Joellen A. Meglin and Mr. Richard C. Brodhead

Caxton Club Mr. David Gardner

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Honor Roll of Donors CORPORATE AND FOUNDATION MATCHING GIFTS

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

Lesa Dowd

GIFTS OF LIBRARY MATERIALS

E. Sam Jones Distributor

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

First Point Mechanical Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar Food Evolution

Bank of America Foundation

G Catering + Events

Irving and Pearl Abrahamson

The Benevity Community Impact Fund

Goodman Theatre

Jon C. Acker

The Capital Group Companies Charitable Foundation

Gordon’s Ace Hardware

Diane C. Adler

Grainger

Sunil M. Agnani

Hallett Movers

James R. Akerman

Hendrickx Belgian Bread Crafter

Adrian Alexander

HOH Water Technology

Jeff Alexander

House of Glunz

James Applegate

J & L Catering

Pam Avila

Jewell Events Catering

Patric A. Baines

Jordan’s Food of Distinction

DeWitt C. Baldwin, Jr.

La Fournette Bakery & Café

Alyson Howe Ball

Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises, Inc.

Ann Bardacke

Lookingglass Theatre

David and Susan Barron

ProQuest

Lou Malnati’s

Bartlett Kelley Circle - LGAR

The Rhoades Foundation

Lyric Opera of Chicago

Roger Baskes

USG Foundation

Master Brew

Hannah Batsel

Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company Foundation

Mesirow Financial

Todd Bauer

Anonymous (1)

David and Anita Meyer

Jay Baum

Murnane Paper

Beaver’s Pond Press

Museum of Contemporary Art

Susan Benner

Occasions Chicago Catering

Ellen Bentsen

Original Pancake House

Robert Biggs

Paper Source

John C. Blew

The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation ExxonMobil Foundation Fitch Ratings Matching Gifts Program GE Foundation Goodrich Foundation Grainger Matching Charitable Gifts Program IBM Corporation Illinois Tool Works Foundation Johnson & Johnson Northern Trust Matching Gift and Volunteer Grant Program

GIFTS IN KIND

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

Potash Brothers Supermarket

Mervin Block

The 3rd Coast Coffeehouse

Ravinia Festival

LeRoy Blommaert

ABM Janitorial

Republic Services

Camille Gendusa Bluestein

Bar Louie’s

Rosebud Restaurants

Edith Borroff*

Bistrot Zinc

Second City

Winnie Moore Bowman

Caffè Baci

Securitas

Richard H. Brown

Chicago Architecture Foundation

Simply Elegant Catering

Anna Maria Caldara

Chicago Pipefitters Local 597

Carolyn and David Spadafora

Carole Campbell

Chicago Shakespeare Theater

Tempo Café

Dan Campion

Christy Webber Landscapes

Trader Joe’s

Christopher Cardozo

Club Quarters

Tri-Star Catering

Carol Caris

Connie’s Pizza

The Whitehall Hotel

John C. Carson

D’Absolute Catering

Whole Foods Market

John Cavallone

Dave and Buster’s

XO Studio

Caxton Club

Doc B’s Fresh Kitchen

Yoga Now

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* Deceased

Honor Roll of Donors Chicago & North Western Historical Society

Roland C. Hansen

Jeff Marx

Chicago Design Museum

Jim Hanson

Phil Matejczyk

Chicago Metro History Education Center

William C. Hesterberg

Louis D. Melnick

Katy L. Chiles

Becky Stewart Higgins

Donald Metcoff

Jeffrey Cooper

Donald H. Hoffman

Seamus Metress and Molly Schiever

Kim Coventry

William L. Hudlow

David C. Meyer

Godfried Croenen

Jane Hori IkĂŠ

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Miller

Jonathan Dedmon

Independent Insurance Agents of Illinois

Yaroslava Gerry Miskewitch

Ann Mond Johnson, Susan Mond Carpenter, Margaret Mond, and Sandi Mond

Sue Montgomery

Michael DeVito Catherine J. Dolton Wilson G. Duprey Kathleen DuVal Greg and Wesley Brown Eccleston Gloria Mae Switzer Egermaier Anne A. Ehrlich Elmhurst Historical Museum Loretta Luce Evans Seth Fagen Paul Francis Fazzini Margery Fee Joseph Felcone Leon Fink Regina FitzSimmons Richard L. Flaig Stephen Foster Marianka Fousek* Edward H. Friedman Kelly Frost Jack Fuller* Nora Gabor Sharron L. Gebhardt Paul F. Gehl and Rob Carlson Getty Research Institute Edwin Getz Karyn Gilman Robert N. Grant Tom Greensfelder Hanna K. Grossman Gary Gunderson Judith Gurley Patricia and Homer Hagedorn John Hallwas

Daniel T. Johnson Marcia Slater Johnston Danielle Joyner Torbjørn Justnes Mariame Kaba Mary Kaiser Robert W. Karrow Farley P. Katz Diane Keely Richard Kegler Wilmer L. Kerns Linda Kinnaman Julius Kirshner Haddon and Jan Klingberg

E. William Monter Jeffrey Mora Bill Moran Greg More Wilda W. Morris Anthony J. Mourek Robert and Carole Mullen Beatrice Murgio Francesc Nadal Naper Settlement Andrew Needham S. A. Neff, Jr. David F. New Ms. Audrey A. Niffenegger Jay Norwalk

Carol A. Knowles

Norwegian American Genealogical Center & Naeseth Library

Stephen Kobasa

Mike Nussbaum

Barbara Korbel

James Olmstead

William C. Kujawa

Katie Palmer

Lake Forest College

Sharon Lowrie Paloucek

LDS Church

Zeese Papanikolas

Bill Lederer

Osvaldo Pardo

Mathieu Lommen

Lawrence W. Pasti

Robert McCamant

Thomas D. Philipsborn

Christopher McKee

Jeremy D. Popkin

Kathleen McMahon

Father Peter J. Powell

Andrew McNally, IV

John and Carrie Queenan

Anna E. McRight

Dilys Rana

Mark L. Madsen

Robert B. Rathbun

Lindsay Mann

Red Star Line Museum

Russell Maret and Annie Schlechter

Paul Rickert

Victor Margolin

Ed Ripp

Mr. R. Eden Martin

Bud Rodecker

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Honor Roll of Donors

Rosenthal Archives of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra

U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation

Jerry L. Ross

Shelly Uslenghi

Randi Rubovits-Seitz

Lynne and Robert Veatch

Allen Ruff

Philip E. Vierling

Nora Ryerson

Christian Vinyard

Bruce Sagan

Kathy Volkmann

St. Louis County Library

Jacqueline Vossler

Teddy Hollis Sanford, Jr.

Carol Kyros Walker

John Schulian

Douglas and Pam Walter

Wayne Schulz

Diane Weinberg

Michael G. Schwartz

Charles Chauncey Wells

Marilyn Scott

Susan Loehr Wentzel

Steve Shaiman

David Wham

Mark J. Shallow

T. Bradford Willis

Joseph Winterbotham Shaw

Wingfield Family Society

Katherine Shelley

Tanner Woodford

Kay Rodriguez Sider

Richard D. Woods

Robert A. Signer

Michael H. Woolever

Adele Smith Simmons

World Book, Inc.

Dick Simpson

Carla Zecher

Ira Singer

Robert D. Zimmerman

Susan Skarsgard

Tighe Zimmers

Jennifer M. Smith

Jim Zychowicz

Mark Addison Smith Edna C. Southard Janet Rank Spaletto Jessica Spring Barbara Schilling Stanton Don Storck R.J. Taylor, Jr. Foundation Richard K. Templeton Michael Tepper Thirst Tipoteca Italiana Fondazione Richard Tresley Cynthia Truant Daniel Tucker and Rebecca Zorach Ulster Historical Foundation Muriel Underwood

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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 Alexandra Katich at (312) 255-3599 or katicha@newberry.org regarding any changes or corrections. Thank you.

Board of Trustees and Volunteer Committees The Newberry gratefully recognizes the following individuals for their leadership in planning and promoting events held between July 1, 2015 and June 30, 2016.

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

LIFE TRUSTEES

Victoria J. Herget, Chair

Roger Baskes

David C. Hilliard, Vice Chair

T. Kimball Brooker

David E. McNeel, Treasurer

Anthony Dean

Mark Hausberg, Secretary

Sister Ann Ida Gannon

BOOK FAIR COMMITTEE

Joan Brodsky

Richard Gray

Event held July 23 – July 26, 2015

Frank Cicero, Jr.

Neil Harris

Andrew J. Fitzgerald

Stanley N. Katz

Bill Charles, Chair

Louise R. Glasser

C. Frederick Kittle, MD*

Jenny Bissell

Madeleine Condit Glossberg

Barry MacLean

Claudia Hueser

Hanna Gray

Andrew W. McGhee

Martha J. Jantho

Sue Gray

Paul J. Miller

Mary Morony

Robert A. Holland

Kenneth Nebenzahl

Marilyn Scott

Robert H. Jackson

Zoé Petersen*

Steve Scott

Kathryn Gibbons Johnson

Alyce Sigler

Jay F. Krehbiel

Richard D. Siragusa

Lawrence Lipking

Jules Stiffel

James H. Marrow

Carol Warshawsky

Andrew McNally IV Cynthia E. Mitchell Janis W. Notz Gail Kern Paster Jean E. Perkins Michael A. Pope John P. Rompon Burton X. Rosenberg Martha T. Roth Rudy L. Ruggles, Jr. Paul T. Ruxin* Karla Scherer Thomas C. Sheffield, Jr. David B. Smith, Jr. Harold B. Smith Michael Thompson Robert Wedgeworth, Jr. Peter S. Willmott

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Staff OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT AND LIBRARIAN

Cataloging Section

General Collections Services Section

• David Spadafora, President and Librarian

• Jessica Grzegorski, Principal Cataloging Librarian

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

• Graham Greer, Collection Services Assistant

• Katy Darr, General Collections Library Assistant

• Patrick A. Morris, Map Cataloging Librarian

• Nora Dolliver, General Collections Library Assistant

• Meredith Petrov, Director of Governance and External Relations Communications and Marketing

• Alex Teller, Manager of Communications and Editorial Services • Carole Giuntini, Visitor Assistant • Samantha Leshin, Visitor Assistant • Andrea Villasenor, Graphic Designer Department of Exhibitions and Major Projects

• Diane Dillon, Director

COLLECTIONS AND LIBRARY SERVICES

• Alice D. Schreyer, Roger and Julie Baskes Vice President for Collections and Library Services

• Cheryl Wegner, Cataloging Librarian Cataloging Projects Section

• Megan Kelly, Cataloging Projects Manager • Sarah Furger, Project Assistant • Margaret Joyce, Cataloging Project Librarian • Lindsey O’Brien, Project Cataloging Assistant

• Margaret Hanson, General Collections Library Assistant • Matthew Krc, Stacks Coordinator • Tyne Lowe, General Collections Library Assistant • Andy Risley, General Collections Library Assistant

• Joy Orillo-Dotson, Project Cataloging Assistant • Amy Pinc, Project Assistant

Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections Services

Conservation Services Department

• Lisa Schoblasky, Special Collections Services Librarian, Reference Team Leader

• Lesa Dowd, Director • Lauren Calcote, Collections Conservator

• Chris Cialdella, Special Collections Library Assistant

• Nora Gabor, Senior Program Assistant

• Caitlin Harriman, Conservation Services Assistant

• Allison DeArcangelis, Special Collections Library Assistant

Collection Development

• Kasie Janssen, Conservator for Special Projects

• James R. Akerman, Curator of Maps

• Virginia Meredith, Conservation Technician

• Helen Hanowsky, Special Collections Library Assistant

• Martha Briggs, Lloyd Lewis Curator of Modern Manuscripts

Reader Services Department

• Patrick Rochford, Special Collections Library Assistant • Timothy Warnock, Special Collections Library Assistant

• Jo Ellen McKillop Dickie, Selector for Reference

• Will Hansen, Director

• Jill Gage, Custodian of the John M. Wing Foundation on the History of Printing and Bibliographer for British Literature and History

Reference and Genealogy Services Section

• Will Hansen, Curator of Americana • Alison Hinderliter, Selector for Modern Music

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

• Shawn Keener, Selector for Early Music

• Ikumi Crocoll, Reference Librarian

• Patrick A. Morris, Map Cataloger and Reference Librarian

• Alan Leopold, Selector for Library Science

• Grace Dumelle, Genealogy and Local History Library Assistant

Modern Manuscripts Section

• Matthew Rutherford, Curator of Genealogy and Local History Collection Services Department

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

• Becky Lowery, Reference Librarian

Department of Maps & Modern Manuscripts Maps Section

• James R. Akerman, Curator of Maps

• Katie McMahon, Reference Librarian

• Martha Briggs, Lloyd Lewis Curator of Modern Manuscripts

• Seonaid Valiant, Ayer Reference Librarian

• Catherine Grandgeorge, Processing Archivist

• Alan Leopold, Director

• Alison Hinderliter, Manuscripts and Archives Librarian

Acquisitions Section

• Samantha Smith, Project Archivist

• Emma Morris, Acquisitions Manager • Linda M. Chan, Serials Librarian • Jenny Schwartzberg, Acquisitions and Collection Development Assistant • Patricia J. Wiberley, Serials Assistant

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Staff Department of Digital Initiatives and Services

Department of Public Engagement

FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION

• Jennifer Thom, Director

Adult Seminars

• Christy Karpinski, Metadata Librarian

• Kristin Emery, Fellowships and Seminars Manager

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

• Jennifer Wolfe, Digital Initiatives Librarian

• Alison Byrnes, Program Assistant Digital Imaging Services

• John Powell, Manager

Professional Development Programs for Teachers

• Catherine Gass, Photographer

• Charlotte Wolfe Ross, Manager

• Lauren VanNest, Digitization Technician

• Amanda Dougherty, Program Assistant Public Programs

RESEARCH AND ACADEMIC PROGRAMS

Bookstore

• Jennifer Fastwolf, Manager • Samantha Leshin, Bookstore Sales Associate Business Office

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

• Kathryn Samples, Public Programs Manager Information Technology

• D. Bradford Hunt, Vice President for Research and Academic Programs

• Drin Gyuk, Director

• Kristin Emery, Fellowships and Seminars Manager

DEVELOPMENT

• Tony Siemiawski, IT Support Technician

• Katy Hall, Vice President for Development

• Jessica Weller, Senior Program Assistant

• Sarah Alger, Director of Development

• John Tallon, IT Support & Systems Administrator

Center for Renaissance Studies

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

Facilities Management

• Karen Christianson, Interim Director

• Dan Crawford, Book Fair Manager

• Andrew Epps, Program Assistant

• Stephanie Fong, Development Systems Coordinator

• Michael Mitchell, Facilities Manager and Chief Security Officer

• Shawn Keener, Program Manager Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography

• James R. Akerman, Director • Peter Nekola, Assistant Director • Andrew Epps, Program Assistant

• Luke Herman, Donor Database and Analytics Manager • Alexandra Katich, Director of Annual Giving • Jo Anne Moore, Associate Director of Development Events • Meredith Petrov, Director of Governance and External Relations

• Verkista Burruss-Walker, Facilities Coordinator • Chris Cermak, Sr. Building Maintenance Worker • Pete Diernberger, Building Maintenance Worker Human Resources

• Judith Rayborn, Director

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

• Nancy Claar, Payroll Manager

• Patricia Marroquin Norby, Director

Internal Services

• Madeleine Krass, Program Assistant

• Jason Ulane, Internal Services Coordinator

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

Office of Events and Volunteers

• D. Bradford Hunt, Acting Director

• Jessica Green, Assistant Director

• Chayla Bevers Ellison, Director

• Mary Kennedy, Program Assistant

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Summary of Financial Position

For the year ended June 30, 2016— with summarized totals for the year ended June 30, 2015 (000s omitted).

2016

2015

Assets

Cash and receivables $ 1,875 Investments 63,286 Land, buildings, equipment 8,321 Other assets 4,759 Total assets

$ 1,550 69,416 9,010 4,884

$ 78,241 $ 84,860

Liabilities and net assets

Accounts payable and accrued expenses $ 876 $ 987 Other liabilities 325 344 Bonds and note payable 3,760 4,240

Total liabilities 4,961 5,571

Net assets 73,280 79,289

Total liabilities and net assets $ 78,241 $ 84,860

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Summary of Activities

For the year ended June 30, 2016— with summarized totals for the year ended June 30, 2015 (000s omitted).

2016

2015

Revenues

Gifts and grants for operations $ 4,754 Gifts to endowment 2 Investment loss (1,730) Other revenues 1,742

Total revenues and other gains

$ 5,183 415 (24) 1,977

4,768 7,551

Expenditures

Library and collection services 4,916 Research and academic programs 2,492 Management and general 2,435 Development 933

4,783 2,766 2,338

937

Total expenditures

10,776 10,824

Change in net assets

$ (6,008)

$(3,273)

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Digital Natives

Northwestern University Professor Kelly Wisecup recently experimented with digital pedagogy in one of her courses, challenging students to build a digital exhibit after conducting hands-on research using the Newberry’s Ayer Collection.

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Fund has enabled the collection to grow to 130,000 volumes, 1 million manuscript pages, 2,000 maps, 11,000 photographs, and 3,500 drawings and paintings on the subject.

As the Newberry’s Andrew W. Mellon/Lloyd Lewis Fellow in American History in 2015, Wisecup got to know the collection and began to think about how it might form the basis for a class project.

“When I was a Newberry fellow, I did a lot of reading and thinking about archives, their histories, their organizations, and the forms of knowledge that those organizations produce,” she says. “As I became familiar with the Newberry’s collections—and items like Potawatomi leader Simon Pokagon’s book printed on birch bark—I wanted to find a way to help my graduate students engage with these collections in complex ways.”

In designing a course that emphasized both analog and digital engagement with collections, Wisecup joined the growing ranks of instructors experimenting with digital pedagogy. Digital pedagogy (or #digped, as it’s known in some academic social media circles) is an emerging trend in the socalled digital humanities (DH), humanities scholarship that harnesses digital technologies to expand or deepen the scope of inquiry. New approaches to knowledge-production using DH tools and techniques such as text-mining, spatial analysis, and data visualization are no longer confined to faculty research projects; increasingly, instructors are introducing these innovations into the classroom as well.

The most successful DH projects are grounded in a belief that the digital and the traditionally humanistic are not mutually exclusive, but Northwestern University Professor Kelly Wisecup (far left) views Newberry collection items with graduate students ast spring, students who enrolled in Professor Kelly Wisecup’s “Native American and Indigenous Cultures of Print” class at Northwestern University may have gotten more than they bargained for. Wisecup not only encouraged her students to re-examine their received notions of a “text,” challenging them to consider how the provenance of a printed work and its place in an archive might confer layers of meaning upon it—she also gave them a somewhat unconventional assignment. In place of the traditional research paper, students were tasked with presenting their work through a course-long collaborative project to build a digital exhibit and archive.

Working in groups, the class studied scholarly texts to guide their curatorial decisions and conducted archival research in the Newberry’s Edward E. Ayer Collection to select the primary sources featured in their sections of the exhibit.

The Ayer Collection originated in 1911, when Edward E. Ayer donated more than 17,000 pieces on the early contacts between American Indians and Europeans. Since then, the Ayer

from the Newberry Consortium in American Indian Studies. Professor Wisecup has recently been experimenting with a classroom assignment that asks students to build a digital exhibit based on archival research at the Newberry.

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“Rather than writing in the linear form of an academic paper, students experimented with creating multiple ways for readers to move through their digital exhibit.” rather complementary modes of analysis that can enhance one another.

In order to productively channel the DH ethos, Wisecup and her students devoted significant class time to how they might resolve the apparent contradiction between the subject of the course, print cultures, and its primary assignment, a digital exhibit.

“Our class had multiple conversations about how digital tools might provide opportunities for imagining new relationships among texts,” says Wisecup. “We were also interested in how digital tools opened up new structures for projects: rather than writing in the linear form of an academic paper, students experimented with creating multiple ways for readers to move through their exhibit. The most successful exhibit sections linked these multiple pathways to the materials they studied, by showing how Native writers also attempted to complicate linear historical narratives.”

Navigating new technologies is as conceptual as it is technical, a duality that is crucial for engaging today’s students.

Professor Jeffrey McClurken of the University of Mary Washington uses the phrase “uncomfortable, but not paralyzed” to describe how he likes his students to learn new tools and techniques in his digital history classes. On his blog, he has characterized the added value of pushing beyond traditional scholarship as an important and often overlooked part of teaching digital literacy: Figuring out how to deal with constantly changing technology is something we all are dealing with, yet in higher education we often put students in new situations only when they first begin. Before long, they’ve got the process and procedures down and can churn out 8-10 page papers in their sleep. But what kind of preparation is that for the larger world? … It’s good for college classes to shake students (and faculty) out of their comfort zone.

Real learning happens when you’re trying to figure out the controls, not when you’re on autopilot.

For Wisecup’s class, figuring out the controls meant learning Omeka, an open-source digital exhibit software developed by George Mason University’s Center for History and New Media.

With start-up support from Northwestern’s Multimedia Learning Center and curatorial advice from Newberry staff, the students

were prepared to build their digital archive—selecting primary sources from the Ayer Collection, analyzing those sources, and configuring and publishing content—as well as to document their choices with a written rationale and a seminar presentation.

Many of Wisecup’s students relished the chance to think outside of the familiar term-paper course format.

“The digital exhibit forced me to think in terms of visuality, accessibility, and presentation as well as the usual argumentbased approach to a project,” says Katherine Blankenau. “The exhibit expanded my understanding of the way scholars use and discuss the materials we work with.”

According to Ilana Larkin, “The concepts we grappled with and the skills we gained while building the exhibit helped us explore ways to make scholarly materials increasingly accessible to students, scholars, and the public.”

Larkin’s experience is emblematic of the print-digital balance Wisecup hoped her students would strike. Her contributions to the class digital exhibit, like those of her classmates, sprang from discoveries she made while using the Newberry’s collection in person. One collection item in particular grabbed Larkin’s attention.

Published in 1921, American Indian Stories, by Sioux writer Zitkala-Sˇ a, is a collection of essays and stories about the hardships of reservation life. While readers today receive American Indian Stories as a series of political statements, it had originally been packaged as a collection of whimsical folk tales intended for a younger audience.

Larkin had read American Indian Stories, but her 2003 Penguin edition offered no indication of how Hayworth Publishing House originally had marketed the book in 1921.

The first edition in the Newberry’s collection, however, could help tell this story.

“In looking at the Newberry’s edition, I learned to read the material signs of the book for evidence about the book’s intended audience and categorization,” says Larkin. “Nowadays, the book is read as quasi-autobiographical and explicitly political. However, this edition’s wide margins, large print, and short chapters marked it as a book intended for children.”

Another material sign Larkin noticed was an endorsement made by Helen Keller in the book’s first pages. The endorsement, cut from subsequent editions, attested to the child-friendly nature of Zitkala-Sˇ a’s previous work and, by implication, her latest book.

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Based on the Keller statement and the formatting of the 1921 edition, Larkin theorized that “the book’s categorization as children’s literature was, at least in part, a move by the publishers to deny the political violence Zitkala-Sˇ a’s stories protest.”

According to Larkin, “This interpretation would have been impossible for me to come to without being able to work with an original edition, and it proved integral to the overall ideas I explored in the exhibit.”

For students (or anyone else, for that matter) unable to visit the Newberry’s collections in person, the library is working to bring its collections to them. Digital initiatives—projects to scan, describe, and upload manuscripts, maps, photographs, and other materials—have become an essential part of the library’s mission to foster research, teaching, and life-long learning in the humanities. Although digital collections are not intended to and can never completely replace the real thing, their features, such as 24-hour access, image magnification, and full-text searching for printed materials, make them ideal for remote use in digital pedagogy projects.

The Edward E. Ayer Digital Collection represents the Newberry’s efforts to expand public access to its materials. It also ref lects an emphasis on comprehensive and frequently updated resources to support research and teaching, in contrast to earlier, heavily curated “boutique” efforts.

Since launching in 2015 with 4,000 images, the Ayer Digital Collection has grown by 35%, providing Wisecup —and others interested in delving into digital pedagogy— with even more options for future projects.

The Northwestern students’ digital exhibit is currently not available to the public, but to view images of the Newberry collection items mentioned in this article, please visit the Ayer Digital Collection: http://bit.ly/1SlxiBW. Over the years, additional digital galleries featuring Ayer Collection items have been created in collaboration with Adam Matthew Digital. Users can access these collections from within the Newberry building.

Interacting with the Newberry’s first edition copy of Zitkala-Sˇ a’s American Indian Stories, Ilana Larkin was able to gain insights that subsequent editions couldn’t offer. Especially revealing was an endorsement from Helen Keller printed in the book’s opening pages. According to Larkin, the endorsement marked the book as child-friendly and represented “a move by the publishers to deny the political violence Zitkala-Sˇ a’s stories protest.”

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Jen Wolfe is the Newberry’s Digital Initiatives Librarian.

Professor Wisecup’s students ref lect on the highlights of their research experiences at the Newberry

I enjoyed examining a pair of “before and after” photographs of Rose White Thunder, a pupil at Carlisle Indian School from 1883-1887. The photos were taken by J.N. Choate in order to prove the “success” of Carlisle’s mission of assimilation. By comparing the two photographs, I was able to see that part of the work of the Carlisle school and colonialism at large was to impose Western categories and ideological meanings onto Native tribes, displacing their own forms of social organization. In turn, this impacted my larger research on childhood; in recognizing the differences between Western pedagogy and Native methods of instruction, I was able to see more clearly the ways in which “children” are a socially constructed category with political and ideological significance.

—Ilana Larkin

My favorite item was the reproduction of the Two Row Wampum that we saw at the D’Arcy McNickle Center.

We were able to touch them, to appreciate the strength and softness of the sinew and the way the beads would move under the hand of someone who could read the belt.

The experience helped me think about the materiality and hypertextuality of the objects in the archive.

—Katherine Blankenau

My favorite Newberry collection item was The Red Man’s Greeting, a tiny birch-bark booklet written by Potawatomi chief Simon Pokagon in 1893. I loved working with this object because it forced me to confront its incredibly meaningful materiality, which I eventually decided to focus on over the actual text of the document. The booklet’s materiality activates several meanings that the Potawatomi attach to birch bark, and I was captivated by how Pokagon employed these meanings to critique the actions of settlers as well as white print culture. Pokagon sold his booklet here in Chicago during the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition, and it was endlessly intriguing to uncover the history of this city and its Potawatomi inhabitants.

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All Chicago’s a Stage Chicago has a long history with Shakespeare and his work. Chicagoans swooned for John Wilkes Booth when he traveled through the city for a performance in Othello, and, a century later, the 1968 Democratic National Convention held in Chicago inspired at least one Shakespearean adaptation (Nixon was portrayed as Richard III and Mayor Daley as the Duke of Buckingham). The Newberry’s Creating Shakespeare exhibition reflects on Chicago’s engagement with Shakespeare, while providing one more instance of it. We spoke with the exhibition’s curator Jill Gage, Custodian of the John M. Wing Foundation on the History of Printing, about the dialectical relationship between Chicago and Shakespeare, what The Tempest says about the city’s idea of itself, and why Falstaff might have spoken to an 18-year-old woman in the 1870s.

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Newberry Magazine: Early in Chicago’s history, the mid- to late nineteenth century, what was the city’s relationship to Shakespeare?

JILL GAGE: Shakespeare was part of building a civic culture in Chicago, as he was in most other burgeoning cities in the nineteenth century. As the theater scene developed in the city, famous Shakespearean actors from New York and even London would travel through for performances—at McVicker’s Theater, for example. The excitement of seeing Edwin Booth, the most famous American actor of the time, and welcoming him into the city helped foster civic pride.

Booth appeared at McVicker’s quite frequently. He was married to the owner’s daughter, Mary, so he had a strong connection to Chicago. But whether or not Booth was in town, Chicagoans could see Shakespeare at either McVicker’s or one of the other theaters every week. Back then, a theater wouldn’t run a single play continuously for four or five weeks; instead, you could see Othello on a Monday, Romeo and Juliet on a Tuesday, Hamlet on a Wednesday, and so on. The variety kept theater-goers’ attention, and they loved it!

The local newspapers were invested in Shakespeare as well. In 1862, when John Wilkes Booth appeared in Chicago for a series of Shakespearean performances, the Tribune reported that no actor had ever gripped Chicago the way Booth had. The excitement over theater—and Shakespeare in particular—contributed to making Chicago a cultural hub toward the end of the nineteenth century and into the twentieth.

NM: Were there any plays that were especially popular in Chicago in the nineteenth century?

JG: Supposedly, As You Like It was the most-performed Shakespeare play in the nineteenth century, which seems a little surprising to us now. It was performed at both world’s fairs held in Chicago, the World’s Columbian Exposition in 1893 and the Century of Progress in 1933. Tragedies like Macbeth and Hamlet were also really popular then, as they are now.

A costume Edwin Booth wore as Iago is now on display in the Newberry’s Creating Shakespeare exhibition. The costume is made from black velvet, gold velvet, and rose satin. Photos courtesy Folger Shakespeare Library.

At this time, a lot of people were very interested in historicizing Shakespeare, both in terms of accessing the past through Shakespeare and filtering Shakespeare through the contemporary cultural moment or the recent past. King John, for example, was very popular. This way of engaging with Shakespeare was, in some ways, a vestige of how eighteenth-century America used Shakespeare to think about national identity.

But The Tempest was very different. It was one of the most popular plays, or one of the most talked-about plays, which is really interesting. There’s no known source for The Tempest; it springs almost entirely from Shakespeare’s imagination.

Productions of The Tempest allow for a certain amount of imagination and ingenuity as well. The play lets people go hogwild in terms of creativity because they aren’t chained to any historical sources.

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Shakespeare, in a way, was seen as the great American success story in the nineteenth century, a symbol of how anybody could rise up from humble beginnings to achieve renown as an actor or writer.

On the other hand, Shakespeare was seen as a real man of the people. His characters come from all walks of life. He writes not just about kings and princes but about clowns and fools and drunkards and soldiers and women and all sorts of different classes. Shakespeare’s populism had been recognized as early as the seventeenth century, but it really resonated with people in the nineteenth century. It was reinforced by a mistaken notion that Shakespeare was a self-educated, self-made man who pulled himself up by his bootstraps. There’s something quite tough and American and “Chicago” about that.

In the 1970s, a satirical play adapted Richard III, placing Richard Nixon in the role of Richard III and Mayor Richard J. Daley in the role of the Duke of Buckingham.

The Tempest was performed in Chicago in 1889, and it was hugely popular. The Tribune commented on how astonished Shakespeare would be if he could see the special effects of lightning and thunder on stage. “We don’t make great poets like we used to, but we certainly have great scientists,” they said.

This reveals something about what Chicago prided itself on at the time, and what audiences were interested in seeing.

The Tempest was certainly popular for a moment, but it’s difficult and expensive to stage, so it wasn’t produced as much as other plays were. With Julius Caesar, for example, you throw on a toga, and you’re ready to go! Richard III and Hamlet are other plays that don’t require elaborate props or scenery to get their point across.

This concept of Shakespeare was quite appealing to Chicago at this time, as a center for immigration and for all kinds of life.

Shakespeare, in a way, was seen as the great American success story in the nineteenth century, a symbol of how anybody could rise up from humble beginnings to achieve renown as an actor or writer.

Shakespeare and Chicago became even more intertwined in the twentieth century. In the 1970s, a satirical play called Dick Deterred adapted Richard III and set it in the contemporary political climate. In the play, Richard Nixon takes the lead role of Richard III, and Chicago’s Mayor Daley is the Duke of Buckingham, Richard’s behind-the-scenes Svengali. The play is written entirely in a Chicago dialect, which makes it almost impossible to read; oddly, it ran on stage in London, and it was a huge success—according to the book jacket!

NM: Shakespeare was popular on the stage in the nineteenth century, and he figures prominently in both Chicago world’s fairs. How did Shakespeare factor into Chicago’s concept of itself as it grew into a major metropolis?

Dick Deterred demonstrates how Chicago was seen as a Shakespearean environment, in which there are all these machinations and scheming and plotting and really good evil characters behind the scenes. It is a very interesting (and slightly depressing) way of thinking about Chicago. Shakespeare had helped Chicago define itself in the nineteenth century; by the twentieth century, the city was fully Shakespearean.

JG: In the nineteenth century, Shakespeare appealed equally to Chicago’s cultural elites and the “99 percent.” On the one hand, Shakespeare grew along with the emergence of opera and symphony in Chicago. The cultural centers in which people attended Shakespeare performances became places to see and be seen. Shakespeare became a marker of elite culture.

NM: Within the “Shakespeare and Chicago” section of our Creating Shakespeare exhibition, there are some specific instances in which the Newberry and Shakespeare intersect—one of which is Julia Newberry’s diary. What does she have to say about Shakespeare?

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JG: It’s interesting to think that there was a relationship between the Newberry and Shakespeare before the Newberry even existed. Walter Newberry, our founder, was a book collector.

His library was destroyed in the Chicago Fire, but he passed his love of reading and books on to his daughters.

Newberry’s daughter Julia kept a diary while the family was in Europe in the 1860s and ‘70s. In her diary, she mostly documents cultural life in Europe, but in one section, which I think is totally fascinating, she lists the books and authors that she loves and the books and authors that she hates. It’s a surprising list, because of what it includes and what it omits.

Jane Austen isn’t on the list, for example. She loves Sir Walter Scott and Jane Eyre, but she also says she likes a lot of things which I had never heard of before.

Shakespeare makes Julia’s list of authors she likes. She mentions Romeo and Juliet and Henry IV, and then she claims to like all of the plays of Shakespeare that are “fit to read,” which is a little enigmatic. I’m not quite sure what that means. I suspect she couldn’t remember many of them.

Romeo and Juliet seems like a play that an 18-year-old woman would like. I’m unsure of what she saw in Henry IV, however.

Maybe she liked the idea of Prince Hal coming of age; she was young and waiting to come of age herself, so perhaps she identified with him.

NM: Could Julia’s appreciation of Henry IV also be a ref lection of the widespread popularity of Falstaff ?

JG: It could be, but Falstaff doesn’t seem like a character that would have spoken to a young woman in the nineteenth century. He’s a dissolute character, though he certainly was popular. Julia might have liked Henry IV because of Falstaff; if she did, it probably wasn’t because of the comic relief he had traditionally been known for. By the end of the nineteenth century, Falstaff had shifted from being a comic character to being seen as a character who needs a little help in life. Julia could have been responding to that. I suspect it’s possible that the plays on her list are the plays that she had seen rather than read. At some point, I would love to map out the plays that were being held in the cities that Julia visited during her travels. This may be a research project in and of itself.

NM: We’re in the middle of Shakespeare 400 Chicago, a yearlong celebration that’s one of the biggest outside of England. How is the festival a continuation of Chicago’s history with Shakespeare, and how is it a new contribution to this legacy?

JG: That’s a good question, and I think it plays off one of your earlier questions, actually, which was both “how has Shakespeare shaped us as a city, and how has Chicago shaped Shakespeare” (which I would not attempt to say more than once very quickly!).

First of all, Shakespeare 400 Chicago calls upon the long tradition of Shakespeare in Chicago. One of the things we’re celebrating is how Shakespeare and his work have made us a great city. Chicago’s excellent cultural institutions—Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Chicago Opera Theater, the Newberry—have grown up with the city and have this long history of engaging with Shakespeare. We don’t just have Shakespeare, but great Shakespeare in Chicago.

At the same time, the festival has incorporated a range of different voices and perspectives into its programming.

The brilliance of Shakespeare 400 Chicago is how it has illustrated the inf luence of the city’s diversity on our interpretation of Shakespeare. Throughout the year,

Jill Gage leads a tour of Creating Shakespeare.

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Even though we are marking 400 years since Shakespeare’s death, Shakespeare is this living, breathing, continually changing concept and source of inspiration. there have been performances of Shakespeare in dozens of languages. I don’t think it was a coincidence that the opening performance for the festival was a performance of Shakespeare in Russian.

The festival hinges on the idea that there is a Shakespeare for everyone, which is what we’ve tried to communicate with Creating Shakespeare as well. You can access Shakespeare in a number of different ways beyond theatrical performances and printed editions of his work. You can experience Shakespeare through contemporary art, dance, music, even food. I think the exhibition and the festival show not only how far-reaching Shakespeare is but also how wide-ranging Chicago’s cultural community is.

The Newberry itself contains so many iterations of Shakespeare.

We have the largest collection of Shakespeare materials in Chicago, including the city’s only copy of the First Folio; but the collection goes beyond rare books and manuscripts from the

seventeenth century. Our items related to Shakespeare cover a large chronological range as well as a number of different types of materials and genres. They’re emblematic of what exists here and how the Newberry has collected things over time, what interests us, and how our collection is a ref lection of the communities around us.

Both the Shakespeare festival and the Newberry’s Creating Shakespeare exhibition celebrate not only the history of Shakespeare but the present and the future of Shakespeare in Chicago. Even though we are marking 400 years since Shakespeare’s death, Shakespeare is this living, breathing, continually changing concept and source of inspiration. He is the monument without a tomb. He’s been dead for 400 years, but he’s been extremely busy this whole time.

The newest item on display in Creating Shakespeare is a book binding created this past July. We commissioned the binding, for the so-called “Bad Quarto” edition of Hamlet, from a young Chicago artist. It’s an object from the present moment that also gestures toward the future—I think that’s what the festival is about and why it is so important.

Creating Shakespeare and its programming were made possible by Rosemary J. Schnell, Exelon, The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation, Paul M. Angell Family Foundation, and Paul C. Gignilliat.

For more information on Creating Shakespeare, visit www.newberry.org/creating-shakespeare.

In 2016, thanks to the Newberry’s Society of Collectors, the Newberry commissioned Samuel Feinstein to create a bespoke binding for an artist’s book version of the so-called “Bad Quarto” of Hamlet. This copy is based on the earliest printed version of Hamlet, which diverges from the “off icial” version of the play in several interesting ways.

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Through the Lens of Helen Balfour Morrison The Newberry receives a new collection of photographs.

By Jamie Waters Helen Balfour Morrison

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nstead of photographing the outside of a person I photograph the inside,” said Helen Balfour Morrison in 1946 at the New Art Circle in New York where she was exhibiting her work. Indeed, the photographer was known for transferring personality to film. Her images were not mere posed sittings of well-known personages; rather, she captured f leeting moments with her subjects that revealed their intimate identity.

Morrison’s photographs fall into two categories: portraiture and documentary photography. She worked in Depression-era Chicago, where she photographed notable figures who either lived there or traveled through the city — amassing a menagerie of inf luential friends through her photographs. She also documented daily life in Jim Crow Kentucky over the course of three sojourns between 1935 and 1946.

The Newberry has recently acquired a collection of Morrison’s work, both portraits and documentary photographs, thanks to a generous donation from the Morrison-Shearer Foundation. With this acquisition, the Newberry is now the largest repository of Morrison’s photographs in the world and the primary center for the study of her work. In conjunction with the Newberry’s own genealogical and historical records, researchers will be able to identify who Morrison photographed and explore the significance of her work. Furthermore, this collection will offer invaluable visual evidence of twentieth-century life in rural black communities.

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Martha Briggs, Lloyd Lewis Curator of Modern Manuscripts at the Newberry, says, “They are a rich addition to the library’s ever-growing African American family and local history holdings.” In addition to supporting genealogy research, Morrison’s Kentucky photographs might also reveal interesting insights about the racial dynamics between a white photographer and the African American community she photographed in the middle of the twentieth century.

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orrison was born in 1901 in Evanston. Her mother became ill and then passed away when Morrison was just 16, so she took a job in a Chicago photography studio. In addition to providing her with an income, the position enabled her to learn technical aspects of photography as an art and a business.

In the late 1920s, she and her brother opened their own photography studio; he was the photographer, while she ran operations. A few years later, her own career as a photographer began to take off when she started photographing young architects and artists in Chicago, including Jens Jensen. Bill Kittredge at the Lakeside Press suggested she produce a book on “Great Americans,” initiating her long-term portrait project.

As she photographed notable individuals (such as Frank Lloyd Wright and Gertrude Stein), her reputation as an artist spread, and she exhibited her photographs around the nation during the ‘30s and ‘40s. In 1942, she met Sybil Shearer, one of the most inf luential modern dancers of the time, beginning a lifelong

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relationship and artistic partnership that would produce a large collection of dance film and photography.

Morrison’s photographs all reveal their subjects with candor.

In the Newberry’s collection of her work, both the portraits and documentary photographs showcase her artistry and her ability “to portray the inner spirit of her models,” as Florence Arquin put it in Art News in February of 1944. Morrison and her subjects developed a trusting rapport, allowing her to capture small moments of authenticity.

David Daiches explained the process as a “drawing out” in a brochure for her exhibition 100 Prints of Artists in America in 1946:

She will argue with a writer or a painter about his work, challenge the judgement of a critic, get a poet excited about the interpretation of some particular poem—in every case searching for the key to the individual’s real personality, trying to achieve a revelation of the essential kind of action or repose ( for it might be either) which immediately floodlights the real man.

Thus, her artistry stood apart from her technical expertise: rather than in the dark room or behind the lens, Morrison’s talent resided in her ability to reveal the inner lives of her subjects.

This “drawing out” is evident in her documentary photography as well. Immediately upon viewing her photos of the Kentucky hamlets, the viewer is pulled into the daily life portrayed in Morrison’s images. In the faces of a woman leaning on a fence, a man walking home from work, children playing on their porch, the viewer can see hope and pain, concern and amusement—sometimes intermingled in a single facial expression.

In Kentucky, Morrison “wished to record a way of life,” says Briggs. This act of recording was inherently political. Poet Jessica Nelson North, who viewed Morrison’s exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1936, reacted to the photographs by reexamining her own ideas on race: “Here as always the character of the subjects emerged triumphant, leaving the observer somewhat humbler than before, somewhat less certain of white superiority.”

Of course, this sounds like a rather small victory.

Viewing the photographs in the context of the Black Lives Matter movement today, one cannot help but consider the racial politics involved in a white artist documenting black communities in the 1930s and ‘40s. Perhaps Morrison encouraged her mostly white audiences to reckon with their complicity in segregation, or, perhaps inadvertently, she simply assuaged their guilt.

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that were hardest hit by the Depression and the Dust Bowl gave government officials in Washington, DC, more awareness of the need for (and the impact of ) their programs to alleviate the country’s pain. Over the course of eight years, the Farm Security Administration generated approximately 270,000 negatives, including 13,000 of Kentucky—in rural, mostly white, comMies van der Rohe munities. Morrison’s work begins to fill in the gaps these documentary projects left behind.

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hough her documentary photographs were inf luential, Morrison’s portraits gained more viewership and acclaim in her time, partially because of the famous individuals she captured. Briggs explains, “Morrison’s Kentucky photographs are part of a larger collection that includes her images of ‘Great Americans,’ depicting many of the individuals represented in the Newberry’s Modern Manuscript Collection.” Among her formal portraits one can find Amelia Earhart, Mies van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright, Marc Chagall, Max Weber, Althea Gibson, Sybil Shearer, Robert Frost, James Henry Breasted, and Gertrude Stein, to name a fraction of her subjects. The quality of her style was not lost on her models, who almost universally admired her: at Taliesin in 1938, Wright said of his experience with Morrison, “What I have seen of her work has simplicity and a kind of integrity rare in the field she works in.”

A portion of the Newberry’s collection of Morrison’s photographs will appear in an exhibition this coming January.

The exhibition will focus on her documentary photography in the Bluegrass Region in Kentucky, which will soon be available digitally for researchers to use. The full collection will be available for research in person following the exhibition.

The photographs have lost none of their power over the years, and continue to breathe life into a bygone era.

Morrison leaves an important legacy, revealing both the cultural world of Chicago and the daily life of rural African American communities; as the Chicago Tribune Magazine put it in its July 28, 1991, issue, “an entire age is unveiled in the faces of Morrison’s subjects.” Her work continues to inspire.

Committed documentary photography impacted many of the linchpins of American history— a consequence of what Linda Gordon refers to as “a democratic way of seeing,” thanks to their power to generate empathy for the experiences of the subject.

Documentary photography saw a revival in the 1930s when it was used for New Jamie Waters is the Newberry’s Communications Deal projects. DocumentCoordinator. ing rural communities

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Dancing through Life

By Sarah Alger

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hether she’s coming to volunteer or to attend a public program or a donor event, Rosemary Schnell doesn’t have to travel far to get to the Newberry. The library is just a short ride on the express bus from her apartment on Lake Shore Drive.

Born and raised in Chicago, she grew up in the three-f lat owned by her parents in the city’s Rogers Park neighborhood.

It was “like living in a high-rise, because ours was the only house on the block,” says Schnell. During World War II, she helped tend their family Victory Garden, worked as a “paper trooper” bringing bundles of paper in a red wagon to Philip Rogers Elementary School, and sang patriotic war songs while her father played the piano. When she turned 11, the date of her birthday—June 6—acquired greater significance when they heard about D-Day.

Rosemary with her parents, Ruth and Ray Schnell, on the first day of kindergarten at Rogers Elementary School in Chicago.

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Her father was a successful lawyer, whom her mother had met when she was working for him as a legal secretary.

They were always great readers, says Schnell; “when they were courting, they would read out loud to each other.” Little Jeanne of France and other books by Madeline Brandeis, who was a friend of her mother’s, were favorites and introduced Schnell to other countries. “I remember sitting at the kitchen table in third grade with a red geography book—I was aware of and curious about the world from an early age.”

As a child, Schnell would travel to Burlington, Iowa, to visit her maternal grandparents when her parents went abroad. Once she became a teenager, she often joined them, crossing the Atlantic for the first time on the original Queen Mary at age 19.

She took piano lessons and fondly remembers being one of the 14 boys and girls The Newberry’s copy of one of Rosemary’s who sang with the Happy favorite childhood books.

Lark Glee Club. Raised as a Swedish Lutheran, she loved to belt out hymns as a member of the Edgebrook Lutheran Church choir. However, attending Philip Rogers Elementary School “made me ecumenical,” she says, as her classmates practiced a variety of different religions.

But the neighborhood around them left behind its prairie days and became built up. During Schnell’s senior year of high school, her family moved out of the city to a subdivision— Lincolnwood Towers. Going from Senn High School to Niles Township High School “was quite a change,” says Schnell. “I wasn’t used to seeing girls in cashmere sweaters and boys driving wildly down the highway in convertibles.” But quickly she found a group of friends with whom she has remained close.

After graduating from high school, she attended Northwestern University, starting out as an English major, but, inspired by one of her professors, eventually switching to anthropology. She considered becoming a lawyer, briefly attending Northwestern Law

Rosemary Schnell visits the Newberry’s Creating Shakespeare exhibition in September.

School, but became a teacher and obtained her master’s degree in education from National Louis University in 1955. After a brief stint teaching third and fourth grade, she taught kindergarten in Niles for 17 years. Then she left to work for her father for 20 years at his law firm until he passed away.

Schnell’s curiosity, interest in people, and generosity regularly gain her new friends and interests, sometimes acquired in unusual places. A few years ago, she met the Royal photographer of the Queen’s horses on a trip to England. At All Hallows College in Dublin, she met a clarinetist in a graveyard who was performing for a ceremony. In St. Moritz, she got to talking about jazz with a drummer, and, at his recommendation, went alone to the Dracula Club to hear jazz saxophonist Bill Evans. She keeps in touch with many of those she meets. “Not a day goes by when I don’t write a letter to an old friend, cousin, or one of my English or Irish pen pals,” she says. “I always have a book and a pen in my hand.”

Schnell enjoys collecting sculptures and paintings both contemporary and more classic, which decorate her apartment.

Her interests and friends also have led her to support a number of institutions, including her alma mater Northwestern University, her father’s alma mater DePaul University, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Musicians Club of Women, the Swedish American Museum, All Hallows College, and other institutions.

“I know that this exhibition will be another wonderful learning opportunity.

I’m excited and enthused about being part of it.”

And she is involved with the Health and Medical Policy group, which supports young people in those fields, and with Northwestern University Guild’s scholarships for sophomore and junior girls. “I’m also a gala girl,” she says. “My friend Dennis and I love to dance, especially to rock and roll.”

It was on a trip to New Mexico in the early 1990s through Fourth Presbyterian Church that she first discovered the Newberry Library. Her friends and fellow travelers Rita Fitzgerald and the late Ethel Pease were both long-time Newberry employees. “They talked so much about how much they loved the library.” Schnell became a Book Fair volunteer and began attending public programs at the library. She is a long-time member of, first, the Newberry Associates and, later, the President’s Fellows through her contributions to the Annual Fund. Over the years, she has also helped support a number of fundraising events and projects, including the exhibition Elizabeth I: Ruler and Legend in 2003.

Schnell’s generous gift to become the lead sponsor of Creating Shakespeare ref lects many of her interests. “Elizabeth was such a magnificent exhibition,” says Schnell. “This exhibition is another wonderful learning opportunity. I’m excited and enthused about being part of it.”

Sarah Alger is the Newberry’s Director of Development.

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RETROSPECT

Recent Events 32ND ANNUAL BOOK FAIR

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rom Thursday, July 28, through Sunday, July 31, the Newberry held its 32nd annual Book Fair. As in previous years, the sale consisted of over 120,000 used books in an astounding 70 categories. Among the noteworthy items representing the range of Book Fair offerings were three first-edition printings of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, an antique typewriter, and numerous Swedish-language paperbacks.

Patrons documented their Book Fair finds on social media; many more combined their trip to Book Fair with a visit to the Bughouse Square Debates in Washington Square Park across from the Newberry, making for an intellectually stimulating Saturday in Chicago. The Newberry is once again accepting donations for next year’s Book Fair, which is sure to be another resounding success!

BUGHOUSE SQUARE DEBATES

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n Saturday, July 30, the Bughouse Square Debates were a raucous celebration of free speech. The Newberry awarded its 2016 John Peter Altgeld Freedom of Speech Award to WITNESS for its exceptional work in activist documentary video.

The main debate tackled Chicago’s budgetary crisis with Tom Tresser, founder of CivicLab, and John Nothdurft of the Heartland Institute. Throughout the afternoon, speakers mounted soapboxes in Washington Square Park to share their thoughts on a range of topics, from crowd-funding to public education to global warming. But in the end, there could be only one Dill Pickle Soapbox Champion. Kate Duva took home the award for her oratorical prowess while delivering her speech “Power to the People Who Care: A Warrior Mama’s Manifesto.”

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MEET THE AUTHOR: NATALIE MOORE

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n August 31, an audience of 165 filled Ruggles Hall to hear author and WBEZ reporter Natalie Moore discuss her new book, The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation. Moore remarked that solving Chicago’s long-standing segregation “isn’t about social engineering, it’s about expanding choices.” The lively discussion ranged from the integration of Chicago Public Schools and artistic representations of black Chicago, to solutions to segregation and Moore’s own upbringing on the city’s South Side and her pursuit of journalism. On her optimism for change in Chicago, she said, “If there is enough bubbling up, there can be enough pressure to make things change.” After the event, Moore signed copies of her book, which sold out in the Newberry Bookstore.

Listen to the audio recording from Moore’s talk and the Q&A that followed: http://bit.ly/2chuwDK.

MEET THE AUTHOR: STACY SCHIFF

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ulitzer Prize-winner Stacy Schiff discussed her latest book, The Witches: Salem, 1692, in front of an audience of 182 in Ruggles Hall on Thursday, September 22. In a conversation with Director of Public Engagement Karen Christianson, Schiff provided fresh insight into the “anxiety and dread” that permeated the political and social environment of seventeenth-century Salem.

She also discussed the difficulty of researching the witch trials, owing to the fact that they were purged from many official records; in most primary sources—from court documents to diaries—1692 is completely blank.

According to Schiff, the witch hunt hysteria was symptomatic of a number of underlying forces, including gender dynamics, religious beliefs, local politics, and familial jealousy. Questions from the audience spurred conversations on the afterlife of the trials, belief and skepticism about witchcraft, and interpretations of “witches” throughout the centuries.

Listen to the audio recording from Schiff’s talk and the Q&A that followed: http://bit.ly/2cRjoNr

JAMES SHAPIRO, EQUIVOCATION IN 1606

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ames Shapiro, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, spoke at the Newberry on Thursday, September 30, on the origins and use of the word equivocation in early modern England. According to Shapiro, Shakespeare’s use of equivocation in Macbeth in 1606 would have suggested deceit and foul play, conjuring the infamous Gunpowder Plot to blow up Parliament as well as the threat of Catholics disguising themselves as Protestants. By drawing connections between the sixteenth-century persecution of Catholic Priests in England and the appearance of equivocation in Macbeth, Shapiro peeled back layers of cultural significance in the play.

Cosponsored by the Chicago Shakespeare Theater, the event was held in conjunction with the Newberry’s Creating Shakespeare exhibition, which Shapiro described as “extraordinary—the finest one I’ve seen on either side of the Atlantic.”

Listen to the audio recording from Shapiro’s talk and the Q&A that followed: http://bit.ly/2dsCoEG

Creating Shakespeare and its programming were made possible by Rosemary J. Schnell, Exelon, The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation, Paul M. Angell Family Foundation, and Paul C. Gignilliat.

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

EXHIBITION Creating Shakespeare September 23 – December 31 Curator-led Exhibition Tours Tuesday, November 22, 6 pm Thursday, December 8, 5:30 pm

NOVEMBER Indigenous Shakespeare: Re-interpreting the Bard from Native Perspectives Thursday, November 3 5:30 pm reception, 6 pm program In this program, performer Delinda Pushetonequa (Mesquakie), Fairbanks Shakespeare Theatre director Tom Robenolt, and Scott Stevens, director of Native American studies at Syracuse University, will explore the rich cultural interplay engendered by Indigenous adaptations of Shakespeare’s works.

Genealogy and Local History Orientation Saturday, November 5, 9 am Ruth Page: Creating Shakespeare through Dance Wednesday, November 9, 6pm (doors open at 5:30) Art forms across the creative spectrum have found inspiration in Shakepeare—and dance is no exception. In the spirit of Creating Shakespeare this program will explore how Shakespeare was interpreted

by Chicago dancer Ruth Page, and will present a re-interpretation by choreographers Venetia Stif ler and Vistor Alexander and dancers from the dance and arts center that now bears Page’s name.

D’Arcy McNickle Distinguished Lecture Series Speaker: Winona LaDuke Thursday, November 10 5:30 pm reception, 6 pm lecture

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Hold the Mirror Up to Nature: The Past, Present, and Future of Shakespeare Performance A “Conversations at the Newberry” program with Joseph Roach and Mary Zimmerman Wednesday, November 16, 6pm Shakespeare’s plays are filled with fourth-wall-breaking moments in which characters share their methods for successfully performing emotions, political alliances, and gender roles. His work challenges directors and actors to ref lect on the very nature of acting, and to adapt their work as the world around them changes. In this Shakespearethemed edition of “Conversations at the Newberry,” the speakers will engage in a wide-ranging discussion about the state of Shakespeare performance today and how it has (and hasn’t) evolved over time.

DECEMBER Genealogy and Local History Orientation Saturday, December 3, 9 am Calendar Release Party and Lecture Wednesday, December 7, 5:30 pm Jill Gage discusses “Calendars, Image, and Print” All attendees receive a 2017 Newberry calendar.

The Man, the Myth, the Works: The Challenge of Celebrating Shakespeare A Lecture with Coppelia Kahn Thursday, December 8, 6 pm This anniversary year challenges us to think beyond the clichés and superlatives we inevitably encounter in celebrations of the Bard and his work. No one can deny Shakespeare’s literary achievements. But his cultural capital derives as much from us as from his own greatness.

Anniversary celebrations like the present one sustain Shakespeare as a “timeless” icon, even as tastes, technology, and politics change that very icon. What is the value and what are the pitfalls of such celebrations?

Theatrical Reading Cricket on the Hearth Saturday, December 17, 10 am A heartwarming story of love, trust, self lessness and reunion, adapted

by Jeff Christian from the Charles Dickens Christmas-themed story, performed by actors from the Shakespeare Project of Chicago.

Creating

Shakespeare September 23 – December 31, 2016

An exhibition exploring Shakespeare and his 400-year afterlife as a literary icon and cultural phenomenon.

“ One man in his time plays many parts” – As You Like It

Proud partner of

Creating Shakespeare is sponsored by Rosemary J. Schnell

The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation Paul M. Angell Family Foundation and Paul C. Gignilliat

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

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