Spring 2014 - Newberry Library

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Spring 2014
We are a “Community of Learning.”
From Fellows to genealogy readers, and seminar participants to undergraduates, the people who come
to the Newberry do so because they are curious about something, or about many things. Our users pursue
the objects of their individual curiosity through their own research, and also through the courses, author
talks, workshops, conferences, exhibitions, and other programs we offer. Making it possible for people to
employ our collection as well as our programs so as to “go below the surface of things” (in the wonderful
phrase of William Frederick Poole) is central to our work every day, and also to the fulfillment of our mission. At the same time, these individuals’ presence at the Newberry enriches the institution itself, in two
key ways. First, they frequently help us expand and deepen what we know about the collection, so that we
can pass that new knowledge along to other users. Second, they often stimulate the thinking of other users,
by virtue of their varied perspectives, diverse knowledge, and particular research practices. What emerges
is an ever-changing community bound at any moment, and united over time, by a joint desire to learn.
In the following pages, you will read about some of the many ways the Newberry and our collection
foster learning, and why everything we do, from cataloging books, manuscripts, maps, music, and
ephemera to mounting exhibitions, is intended to support our visitors’ diverse intellectual journeys.
To tell this important story, this issue highlights the arts, where we have superb materials in areas like
music, dance, and calligraphy, and where experts on the staff and among our readers regularly interact
with each other about those materials.
We hope you enjoy this second number of The Newberry Magazine, and we offer you our thanks for
your continued commitment and support.
Yours sincerely,
David Spadafora
President and Librarian
Contents
The Art of Humanism
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The Newberry’s commitment to the arts
gets even stronger.
Third Coast
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Detectives live and work among the Chicago
and Midwest collections.
Annual Report
Letter from the Chair and the President
Public Programs
Research and Academic Programs
Honor Roll of Donors
Board of Trustees and Volunteer Committees
Staff
Financials
Politics, Piety, and Poison
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The French Pamphlets: A magnificent collection,
from cataloging to exhibition
Book Arts Take Wing
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Many Faces of the History of the Book
and Book Arts
A Conversation with Dylan Penningroth
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Daniel Greene talks with him about his new book
The Claims of Kinfolk
Newsworthy at the Newberry
125th Anniversary
Home Front: Daily Life in the Civil War North
Book Fair and Bughouse Square Debates
Public Programs at the Newberry
Cover image: The Berenice Holmes Ballet Group performing Les Sylphides, ca. 1934.
In the foreground is Ann Barzel (1905-2007).
Dance MS Barzel, Box 64, Folder 2077
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The Art of Humanism
From unique Italian book bindings to American Indian drawings and paintings to English satirical
cartoons to the largest collection of dance materials in the Midwest, examples of creative human
artistic endeavor abound throughout the Newberry’s collection. But how many artistic and artrelated items there are is not a question answerable with accuracy.
What is clear is the important role these kinds of materials play–within the library’s collection,
among other collections in the United States, and in scholarship produced at the Newberry.
Across the past decade, the Newberry has made its extensive and still-growing arts collection an
institutional priority in several ways, including partnering with The Shakespeare Project of Chicago
to stage free-to-the-public readings of The Bard’s works; working closely with our neighbor,
The Ruth Page Center for the Arts, to bring its superb collection to the Newberry; and creating
a music curatorship, to which Renaissance Center Director Carla Zecher has been appointed.
The Food of Knowledge
In 1889, the Newberry became a leading American
library in the history and theory of music when William
Frederick Poole, its first librarian, purchased the
collection of Count Pio Resse of Florence: 751 items,
mostly printed works of early Italian music and music
theory. One of its most famous items is its extremely
rare first edition of the opera Euridice, composed in
1600 by Jacopo Peri and considered to be the first opera
score. Soon we acquired major collections of psalmody,
and by the turn of the twentieth century the Newberry
had become known as one of the most important places
to study the history of Western music.
By the middle of the
twentieth century, the
Newberry began to
broaden and deepen its
music holdings. In
1955, a gift bequeathed
by former Newberry
Board of Trustees
Chair Horace Oakley
began to provide a
substantial fund that
made possible the
purchase of numerous
music items. Thirteen years later, the library’s sheetmusic collection took a giant leap with the acquisition
of the James Francis Driscoll collection, which contains
more than 80,000 items. And in 1993, the Newberry
received a stunning compilation of scores, liturgical
books, and opera libretti, as well as works on microfilm
and even musical instruments, through Howard Mayer
Brown’s bequest of his library and papers. Brown, for
many years a professor at the University of Chicago, was
a leading Renaissance musicologist.
Today, the Newberry provides scholars from around
the world access to some 45,000 books about music,
55,000 scores and
performance editions,
and more than 150,000
pieces of sheet music.
Effective September 1,
2012, Carla Zecher,
Director of the Center
for Renaissance Studies,
also became the
Newberry’s Curator of
Music. Zecher’s
assignment is to ensure
that this magnificent
Rudolph Ganz Autograph Book, Cover, Uncataloged
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Le Mvsiche di Iacopo Peri
This first edition of the Italian opera Euridice was printed in 1600. With music by composer Jacopo Peri and libretto by Ottavio Rinuccini,
the opera was first performed in Florence and created in honor of the marriage of King Henry IV of France and Maria de Medici. VAULT
Case VM 1500 .P44e.
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Rudolph Ganz Autograph Book, pg. 16, Uncataloged
collection is professionally managed and carefully
cultivated. In addition to her expertise in French poetry
and early modern travel-writing, Zecher specializes in
Renaissance music, and is the author of Sounding
Objects: Musical Instruments, Poetry, and Art in
Renaissance France (University of Toronto Press, 2007).
She holds undergraduate degrees from Oberlin College
and the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and a diploma
in harpsichord performance from the Strasbourg
Conservatory, as well as a Ph.D. in Romance Studies
from Duke University.
“If we think about the Newberry
collection in subject terms, music is our
third largest category, after history and
auxiliary sciences; and language,
linguistics, and literature,” Zecher said.
“It’s very interesting, from my point
of view, to think about the importance
of music within the Newberry
collection, as well as comparing the
importance of our collection with other
collections in the U.S. and Europe.”
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Zecher has started assessing the unique strengths of
the music collection, especially with respect to first
editions of Renaissance and Baroque music books, and
opera from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century.
This audit will help the Newberry make wise decisions
about collection development.
She also is making plans for the Newberry to join
the Library of Congress Music Treasures Consortium
by creating, in 2014, a digital exhibition of all of the
pre-twentieth-century composer autographs in the
music collection. Twentieth-century autographs will be
added in the future, as time permits.
“It will, of course, take us some
time to develop an accurate assessment of a collection that is so large,
and so important to the Newberry,”
Zecher said. “But the goal could not
be clearer—to carefully preserve and
cultivate the collection in a way that
best fosters scholarship.”
Carla Zecher, Director of the Center for
Renaissance Studies and Curator of Music
“ Let us read and let us dance
— two amusements that
will never do any harm to
the world”—Voltaire
Few places anywhere join Voltaire’s two amusements as harmoniously as does the Newberry, which
has the largest dance history collection known to be
in the Midwest.
Although the Newberry throughout its history has
acquired materials related to the performing arts, its
dance collection made its elevé in 1981, when Ann
Barzel visited the library to see some early and rare
works on dance that were then being exhibited.
A dancer herself, and a teacher and critic of dance,
Barzel from the age of nine had been amassing an
extraordinary collection of dance-related materials,
including (but certainly not limited to) photographs,
press kits, programs, and brochures, as well as films
she herself created.
At the Newberry she had found the perfect home
for the fruits of her life’s work.
Until her death in 2007, at the age of 101, Barzel
continually brought to the Newberry shopping bagloads of treasures, working hand-in-glove with staff
and volunteers to organize the materials properly.
Because of Barzel’s dedication to her art, and to
furthering knowledge about it, today Newberry
researchers have access to more than 500 boxes of
printed and manuscript materials, 3,000 books, 70
periodical titles, 10,000 photographs, and a stunning
94,600 feet of film shot by her, as well as hundreds of
promotional videos, posters, and other ephemera.
Lloyd Lewis Curator of Modern Manuscripts Martha
Briggs and dance specialist and Manuscripts and
Archives Librarian Alison Hinderliter oversee the
Midwest Dance Collection.
“Given its long-running commitment to acquiring
performance art materials, the Newberry was always
going to have a very respectable dance collection,”
Briggs said. “When Ann Barzel walked into the
library in 1981, it became extraordinary.”
And Barzel didn’t stop
with her own collection. By
bringing to the Newberry
dancers, dance historians,
students, and collectors, she
generated interest among
other holders of dancerelated materials in giving
them to us. Today there are
64 separate dance manuAnn Barzel
script collections.
One of those collections recently arrived at the
Newberry: the papers of the legendary Ruth Page.
Ruth Page choreographed, danced, toured, and
produced in all parts of the world, and was employed
by, collaborated with, and employed some of the greatest artists of the twentieth century: Irving Berlin,
Aaron Copland, Sergei Diaghilev, Katherine Dunham,
Margot Fonteyn, Rudolf Nureyev, and Anna Pavlova.
Emanating from Chicago, Page’s visionary work influenced the growth of theater design, opera ballet, and
dance, and she achieved worldwide recognition as a
true pioneer of dance in America.
Included in her superb collection are more than 100
boxes and cartons of programs, publicity materials,
correspondence, and musical scores. It also includes
six boxes of items relating to the annual production of
“The Nutcracker,” performed at the Arie Crown Theater
from 1965 to 1997, and six cubic feet of video archives.
No wonder so many readers come to the Newberry
to make use of our ever-growing collection of music,
dance, and other arts- and performance-related materials.
The group of people with such interests is large, to judge
not only by visitors to our reading rooms, but also by
the participants in the Newberry’s 2013 Dance Heritage
Coalition Internship, and by the turnout for public programs such as the Stone Camryn Lecture on the History
of Dance, staged readings by The Shakespeare Project of
Chicago, and adult education seminars on a wide range
of topics, including theater, literature, art, music, and
dance. At the Newberry, the arts are thriving.
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Third Coast
In the 1920s, Chicago was “the literary capital of the United States,” according to H. L. Mencken,
cultural arbiter and critic. American literature was full of Chicago mainstays: its storied railroads,
skyscrapers, and stockyards, described in bleak, barbed voices. The writings of renowned authors—
Theodore Dreiser, Carl Sandburg, Willa Cather, and Sherwood Anderson—were born of Midwestern
attitudes and upbringings.
These authors collectively provide one example of the ways in which political, social, and physical
landscapes inspire works of art, in all its forms and throughout history. To understand these artistic
works more fully, we must view them in proper context.
From the colors and charm of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition, to the politics and passion
of the 1930s’ Black Renaissance, to today’s arts organizations, the Newberry has compiled a wideranging collection of photographs,
printed materials, genealogical
holdings, and ephemera that bears
witness to the evolution of Chicago
and the Midwest. And in conjunction with Newberry holdings, our
programs explore the neighborhoods and people of historical and
contemporary Chicago.
From the Oliver Barrett-Carl Sandburg papers,
this photograph shows Barrett and Sandburg in
a backyard. Midwest MS Barrett-Sandburg,
Box #3, File #40.
A City of Neighborhoods
In summer 2013, 25 university and college faculty
and graduate students attended “Making Modernism:
Literature and Culture in Twentieth-Century Chicago,
1893–1955,” a four-week institute made possible by
support from the National Endowment for the
Humanities and hosted by the Newberry’s Dr. William
M. Scholl Center for American History and Culture.
Led by literary scholar and Scholl Center Director
Liesl Olson, “Making Modernism” gave participants the
opportunity to explore Chicago through both the
Newberry’s collection and the experience of the city
itself. Scholars studied the records of Chicago’s
newspapers and journalists, clubs and arts
organizations, famous and not-so-famous writers,
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editors, artists, book designers, and publishers.
Particularly relevant collections included the papers of
Fanny Butcher, Floyd Dell, the Dill Pickle Club, Henry
Blake Fuller, Harry Hansen, Ben Hecht, and Ernest
Hemingway.
Each week of the institute also included site visits
to Chicago’s museums, clubs, neighborhoods, and
landmarks, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the
Arts Club, and the Poetry Foundation. The program
was highlighted by a literary walking tour of the city led
by former Newberry Fellow and University of Chicago
doctoral candidate Paul Durica.
Earlier in the year, the Newberry offered to the
public “Exploring Chicago’s Neighborhoods,” a spring
adult education seminar taught by Bill Hinchliff, a tour
guide and architecture buff, and Diane
Dillon, art historian and at the time the
Newberry’s Director of Scholarly, Undergraduate, and Exhibition Programs. Dillon
and Hinchliff have collaborated in the past,
and were excited to discuss with seminar
participants a sometimes-understudied
component of the Chicago narrative: its
many community institutions. Over two
months, the class traveled to nine neighborhoods, each with a rich history and ethnic
heritage and exciting activity today.
“It was hard to pick just nine neighborhoods, because there are so many fascinating
areas, so many areas with a strong history,”
said Dillon, today the Newberry’s Interim
Vice President. “We attempted to have a
balanced assortment of places that would
appeal to those interested in history and
those interested in architecture.”
The class began in the Gold Coast,
exploring the stomping grounds of founding
Newberrians Eliphalet Blatchford and Walter
Newberry. In the course of these Gold Coast
travels, the class visited the former haunts of
turn-of-the-century radicals, including the
Jack Jones—“The Pickler”
Fortnightly Club, Chicago’s oldest women’s
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organization, which once drew the likes of
Mark Twain and Robert Frost. In the succeeding weeks, vestiges of 1920s glamor in Uptown, or Bridgeport’s
the class journeyed to Andersonville, Kenwood, Lincoln storied past as a Democratic Party stronghold.
Dillon and Hinchliff hoped that, upon finishing the
Square, Bridgeport, Uptown, Ukrainian Village,
course, their students would have an enhanced
Greektown, and Lincoln Park. Each locale boasted a
understanding not only of individual neighborhoods,
bevy of important sites, their names and structural
but also of the larger history and the way these areas
design doubling as paeans to local history—like the
have shaped and continue to shape Chicago’s culture
and settlement patterns. Dillon concluded, “Chicago, it’s
now almost cliché to say, is a city of neighborhoods. And
though they each have an individual character, together
they define Chicago; they make Chicago what it is.”
Former Newberry Fellow Paul Durica conducts a Literary Walking
Tour of Chicago as part of the Dr. William M. Scholl Center for
American History and Culture’s 2013 NEH Summer Institute,
“Making Modernism: Literature and Culture in Twentieth-Century
Chicago, 1893-1955.”
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Revamping Reference
The Newberry owes its existence to the end of a
genealogical line. Walter L. Newberry’s will provided
for the library’s establishment if, and only if, his thenhealthy, adolescent daughters died without heirs. They
did, and the Newberry was born of one family’s sad
ending. It seems fitting, then, that the Newberry
contains a vast array of genealogical source materials
and expertise.
Today, the Newberry’s shelves hold a remarkably
comprehensive collection of town and county histories,
with particular emphasis on New England, the
Midwest, and the Mid-Atlantic states; indexes of pretwentieth-century records, outlining many thousands
of marriages, births, and deaths; and 17,000 published
genealogies, tracing the lineages of American and
British families.
To accommodate these substantial holdings, and
to facilitate genealogical research, the Newberry has
recently reorganized its General Reading Room.
Cabinets of infrequently used resources (e.g., census
microfilm, now available online in digitized format)
were moved into the Stack Building. In their place is
the second-floor reference desk. Its greater prominence
allows our reference librarians to better interact with
My Ántonia by Willa Cather.
Published around 1925, this
edition of My Ántonia by
Willa Cather includes illustrations by W.T. Brenda.
Case 3A 2137.
and assist researchers. Occupying the reference desk’s
former location is the Smith Family Genealogy
Reference Center, which now includes shelving for
genealogy and local history volumes, including a
considerable amount of Chicagoana.
“We find that genealogy patrons make up the largest
proportion of our users from the general public, and we
try to make a special effort to ensure that that audience
is well served, and that they understand how a research
library operates,” said Matt Rutherford, Curator of
Genealogy and Local History and Reference Team
Leader.
“Our genealogy patrons tend to run
the gamut,” Rutherford continued. “We
receive people who live locally, and people
who are only in Chicago for a short while.
There are plenty of absolute beginners, but,
because of the ubiquity of genealogy
sources online, many have done previous
research. They’ll say, ‘This is what I have,
and where do I go next?’”
The nature of genealogy research is
necessarily open-ended; it spans centuries
and continents and is enmeshed in the
minutiae of history. Ready access to
experienced professional librarians who
can help readers tackle the simplest, or
(l to r) Newberry President David Spadafora, Robin and Peter Baugher, and Lloyd
most arcane, of questions can make all
Lewis Curator of Modern Manuscripts Martha Briggs, with the Baughers’ donation
the difference.
of Clarence Darrow’s and John T. Jacobs’s letters.
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Life of P.I.
With 1982’s Indemnity Only, Sarah Paretsky revolutionized the genres of mystery and crime writing.
She introduced readers to V.I. Warshawski, a Chicago
female P.I. who uses her wits and fists in equal measure.
More than 30 years later, Paretsky remains engrossed
in V.I.’s world, penning action and intrigue with an
unusual ferocity.
Counting Critical Mass, published this past October,
16 of Paretsky’s novels have starred the ever-daring V.I.
Although time has passed and the nature of publishing
has changed, Paretsky continues to have an abiding
respect for her heroine. (After all, she jokes, her novels
provide much-needed vicarious thrills: “If I was as
tough as V.I., I’d be having these adventures, not
writing about them.”)
As an author and activist, Paretsky champions what
has become a hallmark of the V.I. brand: a strong,
decidedly feminist perspective. “I’d always written privately,” she explains, reflecting on her literary origins,
“but the women’s movement gave me a vocabulary to
do so publicly. It allowed me to create a character who
defied the usual stereotypes—a woman who wasn’t
defined by her sexuality and who wasn’t a villain.” The
vamp/villain archetype, Paretsky notes, is a staple of
noir fiction, appearing in six of Raymond Chandler’s
novels and still saturating the literary landscape.
This circumstance, and the knowledge that male
crime writers were seven times more likely to receive
national reviews, spurred Paretsky to action. In 1986,
hoping to swell distaste for women’s marginalization
in fiction, she convened a gathering at the Bouchercon
World Mystery Convention in Baltimore. This initial
get-together spawned a generative organization, Sisters
in Crime, which now boasts 3,600 members in 48
chapters. These chapters are composed of authors,
readers, booksellers, and librarians intent on fighting
discrimination among mystery writers.
“There’s such resentment toward women who take
up space or who dare to have a voice,” Paretsky laments.
“When we started Sisters in Crime, I came under attack;
there were accusations that I was promoting discrimination against men.” She ruefully recalls one brazen critic,
Author Sara Paretsky
who had disparaged her physical appearance “as if my
clothing and ‘shifty’ eyes were relevant.”
Paretsky’s deep-rooted concern for social justice is not
limited to women; she advocates for those struggling on
society’s margins, whether an at-risk, inner-city teen or
Chicago’s homeless, entombed in institutional poverty.
Much of her advocacy centers on Chicago, which became
Paretsky’s adoptive home in 1966. She recalls, “While I
was still an undergraduate at the University of Kansas,
I volunteered with a community service organization on
Chicago’s South Side. Martin Luther King, Jr. was here,
and there were constant race riots. It was extraordinary
and terrifying, and Chicago became such a vital place in
my mind—a city that was incredibly important to the
human rights movement.”
Given these experiences, it’s unsurprising that
Paretsky’s fiction has a politicized edge, or that V.I.
is a consummate Chicagoan: raised in the shadow of
South Side steel mills, she is a University of Chicago
graduate, the daughter of an Italian-immigrant mother
and police-officer father, and, perhaps most important,
a dogged baseball fan.
In 1993, when Paretsky resolved to donate her
personal papers, the choice was obvious: “I wanted them
to stay in Chicago because my work is so identified with
the city.” In the end, her papers, which total nine boxes
bursting with manuscripts, photographs, clippings, and
private correspondence, have gone to the Newberry,
where readers can page them from the stacks.
“The Newberry is a wonderful library,” Paretsky
said. “There’s a certain magic in its atmosphere, and I’ve
taken many refreshing naps here.”
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Our Mission
The Newberry Library, open to the public without charge, is
an independent research library dedicated to the advancement
and dissemination of knowledge, especially in the humanities.
The Newberry acquires and preserves a broad array of special
collections research materials relating to the civilizations of
Europe and the Americas. It promotes and provides for their
effective use, fostering research, teaching, publication, and
life-long learning, as well as civic engagement.
In service to its diverse community, the Newberry encourages
intellectual pursuit in an atmosphere of free inquiry and
sustains the highest standards of collection preservation,
bibliographic access, and reader services.
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The Newberry
Annual Report
2012-13
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Letter from the Chair and the President
What a great start to the Newberry’s next 125 years.
June 30, 2013 marked the end of our celebration of
the Newberry’s quasquicentennial, a year filled with
special programs and events, landmark exhibitions,
and the publication of The Newberry 125, a beautiful
volume featuring some of the most significant items
in our collection.
It also was a date notable for one of the most important achievements in the library’s recent history: the
successful completion of the $25-million Campaign for
Tomorrow’s Newberry. The resources raised through this
campaign are vital to the future of the institution, as
they will enable us to continue to realize our mission by
preserving and adding to the rich cultural heritage of
the collection, making it even more accessible for study,
and by offering excellent programs that augment the
knowledge of scholars, students, teachers, lifelong
learners, and other readers and researchers. Indeed,
the fact that the campaign exceeded its goal by more
than 10 percent will permit us to expand our Fellows
Program, make important capital improvements, and
strengthen our endowment. We are deeply grateful to
all of you who generously supported this effort, including the more than 3,000 donors to the Annual Fund
from 2010 to 2013. You have made a decisive difference
in advancing our cause.
To celebrate these two historic accomplishments,
the Newberry hosted an event featuring author David
McCullough and co-chaired by Trustee Jonathan
and Nancy Lee Kemper, Trustee Grant and Suzanne
McCullagh, and Trustee David McNeel. Some 500
people came to the nearby Harvest Bible Chapel for
the presentation to Mr. McCullough of The Newberry
Library Award and his scintillating remarks on libraries
and the humanities.
It is also a source of great satisfaction to be able to
report that, for the sixth year in a row, our Annual Fund
met its goal in 2012–13, with almost 1,400 Newberry
supporters contributing slightly more than $1.9 million.
As you know, the unrestricted contributions that go to
the Annual Fund, constituting some 20 percent of our
operating income, are essential for providing the highest quality service to our readers and other users.
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Chair of the Board of Trustees Victoria J. Herget and Newberry
President David Spadafora
A look at the financial statement included in this
report will show readers that our overall financial
situation continues to improve. The endowment resumed its good growth of recent years, and at a time of
concern for the debt load carried by many cultural and
educational institutions, we have managed to pay down
our long-term debt to the point where it constitutes
only about 8 percent of the value of the endowment.
The Newberry strives mightily to shepherd its resources,
and your gifts, in prudent fashion.
The past fiscal year was notable for several major
accomplishments in our Library Services Division. For
one thing, we fielded a marked increase in reference
requests, which totaled more than 14,600, almost 46
percent more than the year before. For another, we
concluded our French Pamphlets Project (discussed
elsewhere in this magazine) in spectacular fashion,
exceeding by some 5,000 items our multi-year project
goal of cataloging 22,000 pamphlets. By any standard,
these are notable achievements that bring immediate
and long-term benefit to thousands of readers. The
Newberry’s emphasis on service to readers was
emphatically underscored last fiscal year.
Many fascinating and significant items entered the
collection in 2012-13. Highlights include several items
purchased with the support of the Society of Collectors,
such as a Civil War journal and 54 related letters, a
Choctaw-English manuscript dictionary, and, with additional support from Trustee Rudy Ruggles, a manuscript
that unveils subscription controversies surrounding
the famous Encyclopédie of Diderot and d’Alembert.
Many gifts of materials arrived as well, including 93 just
in the area of Modern Manuscripts. These included a
large cache of letters between Clarence Darrow and
John T. Jacobs, the Harold Kolling Century of Progress
Collection, and a marvelous guest book belonging to
Maestro Rudolph Ganz, together with a transcription
of and detailed, scholarly commentary on it by his stepdaughter. Meanwhile, existing book funds—such as the
Brooker, Brown-Weiss, and Fitzgerald Funds—allowed
us to buy exceptional items like five rare printed editions
of French dramas from the era of Corneille and an
unusual 1904 map of the Alaskan gold fields.
There was growth, too, in our long-standing Fellows
Program, which brought to the Newberry nine longterm and 43 short-term fellows in the last year, in
addition to four faculty fellows who taught in our two
undergraduate programs. Several new short-term
fellowship opportunities were established, and by
June 30 the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation had
matched gifts from individuals totaling more than
$900,000 for new long-term fellowships. Scholarship at
the Newberry goes far beyond professional academic
research, of course. At the center of the undergraduate
programs stand the Associated Colleges of the Midwest
and Newberry Library Undergraduate Seminars.
Between them, 33 students benefited from semesterlong, close-up exploration of topics with teams of
faculty, in-depth exposure to original and other primary
sources, and the expertise of Newberry staff. And
hundreds of teachers from Chicago and suburban
high schools once again came to the Newberry for
advanced study of topics that they teach.
Other initiatives launched last fiscal year to better
preserve our collection were of a physical nature. The
Stack Building acquired a new roof during the fall of
2012—that roof ’s first replacement since the building
opened in 1982. In early 2013, the two chillers that
condition the air in both the Stack Building and the Cobb
Building were also replaced. Because one chiller was 30
years old and the other 35, their replacements provide
much more cooling and humidity-control capacity, better
redundancy, and appreciably lower operating costs.
Among public programs, the two that attracted
most notice and visitation were our quasquicentennial
exhibitions, “The Newberry 125” and “Realizing the
Newberry Idea, 1887-2012.” Some 25,000 people visited
them, and about 2,500 more came to each of three
other exhibitions that took place after the closure of the
125th anniversary shows. Additional public programs
that drew large visitation included an open house in
connection with the Chicago Architecture Foundation
on a Saturday in mid-October, and the Bughouse Square
Debates in late July. The Shakespeare Project of Chicago
mounted four very popular programs on Saturday
mornings, and our relatively new “Conversations at
the Newberry” series continued to draw near-capacity
audiences to listen to Hanna Gray and Jim Leach debate
the future of the humanities, and Sara Paretsky and
Rick Kogan discuss Chicago literature. Throughout
the year, our seminars program involved more than
1,500 people in studying topics about which they were
seeking to deepen their knowledge under the tutelage
of experts.
More resources, more visitors; increased access to
more materials; better facilities: all contributed in 201213 to a more vibrant community of learning. And you,
our friends and supporters, made all of this possible.
On behalf of the Board of Trustees and the staff of the
Newberry Library, we offer you our grateful thanks
and appreciation.
Victoria J. Herget, Chair of the Board of Trustees
David Spadafora, President and Librarian
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Public Programs
Summary
Treasures of Faith: Twenty Years of Acquisitions
http://publications.newberry.org/
digitalexhibitions/exhibits/show/
treasuresoffaith/introduction
Total attendance: 37,923
Seminars: 1,582
Exhibitions: 32,346
Programs: 3,995
Number of programs: 36
Adult Education Seminars
Bughouse Square Debates
4 programs, 405 attendees
Total seminar attendance: 1,582
Total number of classes offered: 143
July 28
Othello
A Woman Killed with Kindness
Twelfth Night
The Reign of King Edward III
PUBLIC PROGRAMS SUMMARY
FOR FY 2012-13
Seminar subject areas:
Chicago Interest
Arts, Music, and Language
Philosophy, Anthropology, and Religion
History, Genealogy, and Social Science
Literature and Theater
Writing Workshops
Newberry staff who teach in the Seminars
program:
Diane Dillon
Grace Dumelle
Ginger Frere
Barbara Korbel
Matt Rutherford
Gallery Exhibitions
Major Exhibitions
The Newberry 125, September 6 – December 31
(attendance: 15,138 [includes group tours])
Realizing the Newberry Idea, 1887-2012,
September 6 – December 31
(attendance: 9,708 [includes group tours])
Exploration 2013: The 27th Annual Juried
Exhibition of the Chicago Calligraphy Collective,
March 11 – June 7
(approximate attendance: 2,500)
Spotlight Exhibitions
Politics, Piety, and Poison: French Pamphlets,
1600-1800, January 28 – April 13
Treasures of Faith: Twenty Years of Acquisitions,
April 24 – July 6
Online Exhibitions
Politics, Piety, and Poison: French Pamphlets,
1600-1800
digitalexhibitions/exhibits/show/
frenchpamphlets/introduction
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Programs
Main Debate: Who’s to Blame for the Great
Recession? Big Government or Big Business?
Jon Anderson, Occupy Chicago
v.
Eric Kohn, Chicago Tea Party
The John Peter Altgeld Freedom of Speech
Award to Laurie Jo Reynolds, long-time
defender of the rights of prisoners and an
activist for prison reform and the closure of the
Tamms Correctional Center.
Bughouse Square Debates Planning Committee:
Rachel Bohlmann (chair)
Paul Durica
Vince Firpo
Molly Fletcher
Shawn Healy
Kelly McGrath
Gwendolyn Rugg
“Conversations at the Newberry” series
Hanna Gray and Jim Leach discussed the
question, “Is there a crisis in the humanities?”
October 4 (attendance: 106)
Sara Paretsky and Rick Kogan, on Chicago
in Chicago literature
May 8 (attendance: 215)
Open House Chicago Weekend
(in collaboration with the Chicago Architecture
Foundation) Saturday, October 13
Attendance: 278
125th Anniversary lecture series
Total attendance 297
Paul F. Gehl, “Renaissance Families: The Evidence
of a Florentine Diary,” September 8 (104)
David Spadafora, “Pamphlet Pandemonium,”
October 16 (36)
Scott Stevens, “Tongues of Flame: The Legacy of
John Eliot’s Indian Bible,” November 27 (51)
Liesl Olson, “Ernest Hemingway in Chicago,”
December 11 (106)
Meet the Author series
9 programs, 290 attendees
Selected speakers: Fred Hoxie, Tobias
Brinkmann, Ed Blum and Paul Harvey, Carl
Smith, Lois Leveen, Bill Savage and Paul
Durica, Brad Hunt and Jon DeVries
Shakespeare Project of Chicago series
In addition to sustaining exhibitions, seminars,
and the Meet the Author lecture series, Public
Programs staff coordinated with library
colleagues on a major exhibition, Home Front:
Daily Life in the Civil War North.
LONG-TERM FELLOWS
Lester J. Cappon Fellow in Documentary Editing
NEWBERRY LIBRARY SHORT-TERM FELLOWS
Lloyd Lewis Fellow in American History
Andrew Boyle, Tutor in History, University
of Oxford
Lalaine Bangilan Little, PhD Candidate in Art
History, Binghamton University
Institute for the International Education of
Students (IES) Faculty Fellows
Catherine Boland, PhD Candidate in Architectural
History, Rutgers University
Elena Brizio, Adjunct Professor of History, IES
Siena, and Research Fellow and Vice Director,The
Medici Archive Project, Florence
Frances Clarke, Senior Lecturer of History,
University of Sydney; and Rebecca Jo Plant,
Associate Professor of History, University of
California, San Diego
Leon Fink, Distinguished Professor of History,
University of Illinois at Chicago
Audrey Lumsden-Kouvel Fellow
León García Garagarza, Fellow in Anthropology,
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian
Institution
Monticello College Foundation Fellow
Lori King, Adjunct Professor of Religious Studies,
IES Rome
Rachel Walsh, Assistant Professor of Italian,
University of Denver
Lawrence Lipking Fellow
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellows
Whitney Taylor, PhD Candidate in English,
Northwestern University
Karen-edis Barzman, Associate Professor of Art
History, Binghamton University
Midwest Modern Language Association Fellow
Michelle Dowd, Associate Professor of English,
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Robert Goulding, Associate Professor, Program
of Liberal Studies, and Program in the History and
Philosophy of Science, University of Notre Dame
Robert Hellyer, Associate Professor of History,
Wake Forest University
Hal Langfur, Associate Professor of History,
University at Buffalo, SUNY
Newberry Consortium in American Indian
Studies Faculty Fellow
Jenny Tone-Pah-Hote, Assistant Professor of
American Studies, University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill
LONG-TERM FACULTY FELLOWS
Associated Colleges of the Midwest
Faculty Fellows
Brian Bockelman, Assistant Professor of History,
Ripon College
David Miller, Professor of English, Allegheny College
Newberry Library Undergraduate Seminar
Faculty Fellows
Laura Hostetler, Professor of History, University of
Illinois at Chicago
Ellen McClure, Associate Professor of French and
Francophone Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago
SHORT-TERM FELLOWS
American Society for Eighteenth-Century
Studies Fellow
Hedy Law, Assistant Professor of Musicology,
Southern Methodist University
Matthew Suazo, PhD Candidate in English,
University of California, Santa Cruz
Studies Graduate Student Fellows
Doris Avery, PhD Candidate in History,
University of Montana
Brooke Bauer, PhD Candidate in History,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
David Christensen, PhD Candidate in History,
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Paige Conley, PhD Candidate in English,
Composition, and Rhetoric, University of
Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Joanne Jahnke Wegner, PhD Candidate in History,
University of Minnesota
Amy Kohout, PhD Candidate in History,
Cornell University
Frances Kolb, PhD Candidate in History,
University of Montana
Erin Millions, PhD Candidate in History,
University of Manitoba
Andrew Offenberger, PhD Candidate in History,
Yale University
Bradley Pecore, PhD Candidate in History of Art
and Visual Studies, Cornell University
Marvin Richardson, PhD Candidate in History,
Stan Thayne, PhD Candidate in Religious Studies,
Isaiah Wilner, PhD Candidate in History,
Yale University
Joseph Clarke, Lecturer of History,Trinity
College, Dublin
Christine Croxall, PhD Candidate in History,
University of Delaware
Thomas Finger, PhD Candidate in History,
University of Virginia
Catharine Franklin, Postdoctoral Fellow in American
History, Angelo State University, and Jackson Brothers
Fellow, Beinecke Library,Yale University
Rachel Galvin, Lecturer in Comparative Literature,
Princeton University
Kathryn Labelle, Postdoctoral Fellow in History,
York University
Timoty Leonardi, Curator of Manuscripts and
Rare Books, Fondazione Museo del Tesoro del Duomo
and Archivio Capitolare
Miriam Martin, PhD Candidate in History,
Vanderbilt University
Douglas Miller, PhD Candidate in History,
University of Oklahoma
Joseph Rezek, Assistant Professor of English,
Boston University
Anna Serra Zamora, Adjunct Lecturer in the
Humanities, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Simran Thadani, PhD Candidate in English,
University of Pennsylvania
Carlo Vecce, Professor of Italian Literature,
Universita’L’Orientale Napoli
Kathleen Washburn, Assistant Professor of English,
University of New Mexico
Arthur and Janet Holzheimer Fellow in the
History of Cartography
Carla Lois, Professor of Geography, Universidad
de Buenos Aires
Newberry Library/École Nationale des Chartes
Exchange Fellow
To the École Nationale des Chartes
Jeremy Thompson, PhD Candidate in History,
University of Chicago
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Northeast Modern Language Association Fellow
SUMMER SEMINARS AND INSTITUTES
Matthew Rivera, PhD Candidate in History,
University of California, Riverside
Center for Renaissance Studies
Susan Kelly Power and Helen Hornbeck Tanner
Fellow
Renya Ramirez, Associate Professor of Anthropology,
University of California, Santa Cruz
John N. Stern Fellow
Wendy Hyman, Assistant Professor of English,
Oberlin College
University of Warwick-Newberry Library
Visiting Research Fellows
Elizabeth Bouldin, PhD Candidate in History,
Emory University
Stephanie Koscak, PhD Candidate in History,
Indiana University
Arthur and Lila Weinberg Fellow
Lois Leveen, Independent Scholar
Mellon Summer Institute in French Paleography
Olimpia Rosenthal, University of Arizona
Sarah Saffa, Tulane University
Aurelio Valarezo-Dueñas, University of
Notre Dame
July 22–August 16, 2012
Director
Marc Smith, École Nationale des Chartes, Paris
Summer Scholars
Greg Bereiter, Northern Illinois University
Danny Bertrand, University of Ottawa
Christophe Chaguinian, University of North Texas
D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian
Studies
and Indigenous
The Early Republic and Indian Country, 1812–1833
Funded by the National Endowment for the
Humanities, Summer Seminars for School
Teachers
Isaac Curtis, University of Pittsburgh
Directors
Joseph Derosier, Northwestern University
Scott Manning Stevens, Newberry Library
Adam Duker, University of Notre Dame
Frank Valadez, Chicago Metro History
Education Center
Katherine Godwin, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
Julia Gossard, University of Texas at Austin
Faculty
R. David Edmunds, University of Texas at Dallas
Weiss/Brown Publication Subvention Awards
Elisa Jones, University of Chicago
John W. Hall, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Irit Kleiman, Assistant Professor of Romance Studies,
Boston University
Ada Maria Kuskowski, Cornell University
Ann Durkin Keating, North Central College
Victoria Loucks, University of Toronto
Susan Sleeper-Smith, Michigan State University
Barbara Wisch, Professor Emerita of Art History,
SUNY College at Cortland; and Nerida Newbigin,
Professor Emerita of Italian Studies, University of
Sydney
Haohao Lu, Indiana University
Ellen Brooker, Southwest High School
Annalena Muller, Yale University
Charles Christopherson, John Glenn
Middle School
Courtney Pyrtle, University of Minnesota
UNDERGRADUATE SEMINARS
Associated Colleges of the Midwest Seminar
Fall 2012
Wild Cities: Chicago, Buenos Aires, and the
Nature of the Modern Metropolis
Mellon Summer Institute in Spanish Paleography
June 3–21, 2013
Director
Carla Rahn Phillips, University of Minnesota
Summer Scholars
Faculty
Danielle Anthony, Ohio State University
Brian Bockelman, Assistant Professor of History,
Ripon College
Shawn Michael Austin, University of New Mexico
David Miller, Professor of English, Allegheny College
13 students
Summer Scholars
Caley McCarthy, McGill University
Guillaume Beaudin, Stanford University
Cesar Favila, University of Chicago
Brendan McMahon, University of Southern
California
LaShawn Cox, John Hope College Preparatory
Timothy Flora, Dublin Coffman High School
Joseph Gaudet, Vermont Academy
Mark Gorman, Felix V. Festa Middle School
Karen Hammoud, Proviso West High School
Andrew Harris, Salesian High School
Dylan Huisken, University of Montana
Joseph Lev, Nicholas Senn High School
Kathryn Manz, Greene Street Friends School
Michelle McFarland-McDaniels, William H.
Ryder Elementary School
Candra McKenzie, Astor Collegiate Academy
Newberry Library Undergraduate Seminar
Glenda Nieto-Cuebas, Ohio Wesleyan University
Spring 2013
Irene Olivares, University of Kansas
Exchange Before Orientalism: Encounters Between
Asia and Europe, 1500–1800
Albert Anthony Palacios, University of Texas
at Austin
Faculty
Mirzam Cristina Pérez, Grinnell College
Jose Rivas, Wayside Elementary
Laura Hostetler, Professor of History, University of
Illinois at Chicago
Florencia Pierri, Princeton University
Danielle Robinson, University of Oklahoma
David Reher, University of Chicago
Darlenson Roldan, Thomas Eaton Fundamental
Middle School
Ellen McClure, Associate Professor of French and
Francophone Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago
20 students
16
Kathryn Renton, University of California,
Los Angeles
Louisa Papa, Granger Middle School
Jon Parkin, Edwardsville High School
Deborah Raboin, O’Fallon Township High School
Neil Harris, University of Chicago
Participants
Randall Strunk, Centennial High School
Bill Savage, Northwestern University
Michael Bradley, Georgia Perimeter College
Anita Thayer, Sauk Prairie Middle School
Carl Smith, Northwestern University
Marla A. Calico, Georgia Perimeter College
Frank White, Michele Clark Magnet High School
Tim Spears, Middlebury College
Judy Cameron, McHenry County College
Alex Zilka, New Trier High School
Summer Scholars
Andrea Shank, Baltimore Freedom Academy
Territory, Commemoration, and Monument: Indigenous and Settler Histories of Place and Power
Organizer: Newberry Consortium in American
Indian Studies
Faculty
Jean M. O’Brien, University of Minnesota
Coll Thrush, University of British Columbia
Summer Scholars
Doris Avery, University of Montana
Dean Bruno, Vanderbilt University
Maurice Crandall, University of New Mexico
Elizabeth Ellis, University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill
Josh Garrett-Davis, Princeton University
Denise Nicole Green, University of British
Columbia
Emily Grafton, University of Manitoba
Margaret Huettl, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Lynne Adrian, University of Alabama
Jeffrey Dodge, Ivy Tech Community College
Erica Bernheim, Florida Southern College
Olfat El-Mallakh, College of DuPage
Elizabeth Browning, University of California, Davis
Adrian Guiu, Wilbur Wright College
Nathaniel Cadle, Florida International University
Polly Hoover, Wilbur Wright College
Elizabeth Carlson, Lawrence University
Loreen Keller, McHenry County College
Martha Carpentier, Seton Hall University
Keith Kraseman, College of DuPage
Natalia Cecire, Yale University
Kevin Li, Wilbur Wright College
Tom Cerasulo, Elms College
Sheldon Liebman, Wilbur Wright College
Olga Herrera, University of St.Thomas
Carla Newman, El Paso Community College
Anya Jabour, University of Montana
Mark Norbeck, El Paso Community College
Cyraina Johnson-Roullier, University of Notre
Dame
Laura Ortiz, College of DuPage
Erin Kappeler, Tufts University
Joshua Phillippe, Ivy Tech Community College
Jayne Marek, Franklin College
Patrick Pynes, El Paso Community College
Shannon McRae, State University of New York at
Fredonia
Kent Richter, College of DuPage
Jennifer Nardone, Columbus State Community
College
Kinohi Nishikawa, University of Notre Dame
Devon Ezra Miller, Michigan State University
Martha Patterson, McKendree University
Ashley Smith, Cornell University
Michael Rozendal, University of San Francisco
Taylor Spence, Yale University
Tyler Schmidt, Lehman College, CUNY
Renee Zakhar, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Dr. William M. Scholl Center for American
History and Culture
Making Modernism: Literature and Culture in
Twentieth-Century Chicago, 1893–1955
June 17–July 12, 2013
Humanities, Summer Institutes for College and
University Teachers
Director
Liesl Olson, Newberry Library
Faculty
Martha Briggs, Newberry Library
Paul F. Gehl, Newberry Library
Jacqueline Goldsby, Yale University
Sonia Csaszar, Wilbur Wright College
Daniel Anderson, Dominican University
Kasey Keeler, University of Minnesota
Katie Walkiewicz, University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign
John Cooney, Ivy Tech Community College
Marilyn Otroszko, Georgia Perimeter College
Susanna Rodarte, El Paso Community College
Carol Schuck, Ivy Tech Community College
Timothy Seitz, McHenry County College
Jessica Whitcomb, McHenry County College
Erik Woodworth, Ivy Tech Community College
Steve Young, McHenry County College
Mary Simpson, Eastern Illinois University
Jennifer Smith, Concordia University Chicago
Mary Unger, Ripon College
Chalcedony Wilding, University of Chicago
Rishona Zimring, Lewis and Clark College
Out of Many: Religious Pluralism in America
CONFERENCES AND SYMPOSIA
Symposium on Comparative Early Modern Legal
History: Law and the French Atlantic
October 5, 2012
June 26–28, 2013
Organizers
Humanities, Bridging Cultures at Community
Colleges
Allan Greer, McGill University
Richard J. Ross, University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign
Directors
Presenters
Christopher Cantwell, Newberry Library
Guillame Aubert, College of William and Mary
Daniel Greene, Newberry Library
David Bell, Princeton University
Faculty
Paul Cheney, University of Chicago
Diana Eck, Harvard University
Christian Crouch, Bard College
Shannon Dawdy, University of Chicago
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Catherine Desbarats, McGill University
Mickey Sweeney, Dominican University
Helen Dewar, University of Toronto
Edward Wheatley, Loyola University Chicago
Alexander Dubé, McGill University
Keynote Address
Malick Ghachem, University of Maine
Gary Macy, Santa Clara University
Allan Greer, McGill University
15 sessions; 41 presenters
Michel Morin, University of Montreal
Robert Morrissey, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
Jean-François Niort, Université des Antilles
et de la Guyane
Conference on Early Modern Religious:
Comparative Contexts
Studies
and Indigenous
“Why You Can’t Teach US History without American
Indians,” A Newberry Symposium Commemorating
40th Year of the McNickle Center
May 3–4, 2013
Sponsored by the Office of the Dean of
Graduate Studies at Michigan State University
March 21–23, 2013
Speakers and Commentators
Organizers
Sierra Adare-Tasiwoopa ápi, University at Buffalo,
SUNY
Brett Rushforth, College of William and Mary
Thomas M. Carr Jr., University of Nebraska–
Lincoln
Miranda Spieler, University of Arizona
Juliana Barr, University of Florida
Anne Jacobson Schutte, University of Virginia
David Beck, University of Montana
Lea VanderVelde, University of Iowa
Alison Weber, University of Virginia
Jacob Betz, University of Chicago
Symposium on the English and Dutch in the
Early Modern World
Presenters
October 19, 2012
Organizers
Kristina Bross, Purdue University
Marjorie Rubright, University of Toronto
Presenters
Elizabeth M. Dillon, Northeastern University
Andrew Fleck, San Jose State University
Alison Games, Georgetown University
Jeffrey Glover, Loyola University Chicago
Evan Haefeli, Columbia University
Sabine Klein, University of Maine, Farmington
Bindu Malieckal, Saint Anselm College
Megan Armstrong, McMaster University
Colleen Baade, Creighton University
Jodi Bilinkoff, University of North Carolina
at Greensboro
Daniel Bornstein, Washington University
in Saint Louis
Thomas M. Carr Jr., University of Nebraska–
Lincoln
Mikal Brotnov, University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Cathleen Cahill, University of New Mexico
Brenda Child, University of Minnesota
Paul T. Conrad, Colorado State University–Pueblo
R. David Edmunds, University of Texas at Dallas
John Hall, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Frederick E. Hoxie, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
Margaret Jacobs, University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Monica Diaz, Georgia State University
Adam Jortner, Auburn University
Barbara Diefendorf, Boston University
John J. Laukaitis, North Park University
Marilyn Dunn, Loyola University Chicago
K. Tsianina Lomawaima, University of Arizona
Silvia Evangelisti, University of East Anglia
Jeffrey D. Means, University of Wyoming
Jaime Goodrich, Wayne State University
Robert Miller, Lewis and Clark Law School
Daniel Hanna, Lake Forest College
Mindy J. Morgan, Michigan State University
Susanah Shaw, Romney University of Arkansas
Daniella Kostroun, Indiana University-Purdue
University Indianapolis
Andrew Needham, New York University
Elizabeth Sutton, University of Northern Iowa
Elizabeth Lehfeldt, Cleveland State University
Su Fang Ng, University of Oklahoma
Joanne van der Wouden, University of Groeningen
Craig Monson, Washington University in
Saint Louis
Margaret Newell, Ohio State University
Jean M. O’Brien, University of Minnesota
Jeffrey Ostler, University of Oregon
Illinois Medieval Association Annual
Conference
Elizabeth Rhodes, Boston College
Sarah Pearsall, Cambridge University
Kathryn M. Rudy, University of Saint Andrews
Piety, Ritual, and Heresy: The Varieties of
Medieval Religious Experience
Anne Schutte, University of Virginia
James D. Rice, State University of New York,
Plattsburgh
February 15–16, 2013
Ulrike Strasser, University of California, Irvine
Organizers
Alison Weber, University of Virginia
Karen Christianson, Newberry Library
Saundra Weddle, Drury University
William Fahrenbach, DePaul University
Gabriella Zarri, Università di Firenze
Valerie Garver, Northern Illinois University
Mark D. Johnston, DePaul University
Francine McGregor, Eastern Illinois University
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Justin B. Richland, University of Chicago
Phillip H. Round, University of Iowa
Luke C. Ryan, Georgia Gwinnett College
Nancy Shoemaker, University of Connecticut
Susan Sleeper-Smith, Michigan State University
John Troutman, University of Louisiana
at Lafayette
Daniel Usner, Vanderbilt University
Presenters
Kiara M.Vigil, Amherst College
Peter Cole, Western Illinois University
Richard Francaviglia, University of Texas
at Arlington
Robert Warrior, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
Alex Lichtenstein, Indiana University
Kenneth Haltman, University of Oklahoma
Michael Witgen, University of Michigan
109 participants
“Native Oral Traditions and History in the Archives:
Research, Theory, and Methods,” Newberry
Consortium in American Indian Studies’ Workshop
in Research Methods
March 21–23, 2013
Faculty
Jennifer Denetdale, University of New Mexico
Alyssa Mt. Pleasant, Yale University
Participants
Amber Annis, University of Minnesota
Hannabah Blue, Harvard University
Raquel Escobar, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
Nicholas Estes, University of New Mexico
Celeste Giordano, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Chelsea Horton, University of British Columbia
Dylan Huisken, University of Montana
Jacob Jurss, Michigan State University
Daniel Radus, Cornell University
Juliet Romero, University of Wyoming
27 participants
Borderlands and Latino Studies Saturday
Conference
Joni Kinsey, University of Iowa
Carla Lois, Universidad de Buenos Aires
Katherine Morrissey, University of Arizona
April 27, 2013
Amanda Murphyao, Carleton University
Co-sponsored by Indiana University’s Latino
Studies Program, Northwestern University’s
Program in Latina and Latino Studies, University
of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s History Department,
Institute for Latino Studies at the University
of Notre Dame, Center for Latino Research at
DePaul University, and Katz Center for Mexican
Studies at the University of Chicago
Julia Rosenbaum, Bard College
Presenters
CJ Alvarez, University of Chicago
Verónica Castillo-Muñoz, University of California,
Santa Barbara
Grace Peña Delgado, Pennsylvania State University
Melisa Galvan, University of California, Berkeley
Mary Mendoza, University of California, Davis
Jason Weems, University of California, Riverside
Mary Peterson Zundo, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
Commentators
Matthew Edney, University of Southern Maine
and University of Wisconsin–Madison
Katherine Manthorne, The Graduate Center,
CUNY
Barbara E. Mundy, Fordham University
Susan Schulten, University of Denver
Andrew Walker, Amon Carter Museum of
American Art
Ana Minian, Yale University
Jennifer Seman, Southern Methodist University
Beth Lew Williams, Northwestern University
ONGOING SEMINARS AND INDIVIDUAL
PROGRAMS
26 participants
Alexis Smith, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
The Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the
History of Cartography
Stan Thayne, University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill
Pictures from an Expedition: Aesthetics of
Cartographic Exploration in the Americas
Lisa Whitecloud-Richard, University of Manitoba
June 20–21, 2013
History and Culture
Supported by a grant from the Terra Foundation
for American Art. Additional support provided
by an anonymous donor.
Timothy Campbell, University of Chicago
Labor History Seminar Symposium
Organizers
Lisa Freeman, University of Illinois at Chicago
February 2, 2013
Ernesto Capello, Macalaster College
John Shanahan, DePaul University
Co-sponsored by the history departments of
DePaul University, Northern Illinois University,
Northwestern University, Roosevelt University,
the University of Illinois at Chicago, and
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
The Karla Scherer Center for the Study of
American Culture at the University of Chicago,
the Department of History and Political Science
at Purdue University Calumet, and LABOR:
Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas
Julia Rosenbaum, Bard College
Presenters
James R. Akerman, Newberry Library
Dante Lecture
Co-sponsored with the Devers Program in
Dante Studies at the University of Notre Dame
66 participants
Eighteenth-Century Seminar
Coordinators
Helen Thompson, Northwestern University
3 seminars, 97 participants
History of the Book Lectures
Nancy Appelbaum, Binghamton University
Coordinators
Ernesto Capello, Macalester College
Paul F. Gehl, Newberry Library
Magali Carrera, University of Massachusetts–
Dartmouth
Albert Rivero, Marquette University
Marci Clark, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Paul Saenger, Newberry Library
2 lectures, 85 participants
Imre Demhardt, University of Texas at Arlington
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Howard Mayer Brown Memorial Lecture
Early American History and Culture
35 participants
Coordinators
Lecture in Early Modern History
Betsy Erkkila, Northwestern University
23 participants
Robert Morrissey, University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign
Richard Kieckhefer, Northwestern University
4 meetings, 26 participants
3 students
John Van Engen, University of Notre Dame
Labor History
Ten-Week Graduate Seminar: Latin Paleography
Coordinators
Faculty
Medieval Intellectual History Seminar
Coordinator
Milton Seminar
Coordinators
Christopher Kendrick, Loyola University Chicago
David A. Loewenstein, University of
Wisconsin–Madison
Ten-Week Graduate Seminar: The Conversion of
Constantine, 312 to 2012
September 27–December 6, 2012
Faculty
Rosemary Feurer, Northern Illinois University
Michael I. Allen, University of Chicago
Leon Fink, University of Illinois at Chicago
14 students
Erik Gellman, Roosevelt University
Ten-Week Graduate Seminar: Asceticism,
Eroticism, and the Premodern Foucault
Women and Gender
Paula McQuade, DePaul University
Coordinators
Regina Schwartz, Northwestern University
Joan Johnson, Northeastern Illinois University
Francesca Morgan, Northeastern Illinois University
Special Lecture
January 11–March 15, 2013
Faculty
Eileen Joy, Southern Illinois University
Edwardsville
Anna Klosowska, Miami University
Guest Faculty
Co-sponsored with the Italian Cultural Institute
of Chicago
Piero Boitani, Sapienze Unversità di Roma
Newberry Library Seminar in British History
128 participants
Co-sponsored by the history departments of
Northwestern University and the University of
Illinois at Chicago, and by the Nicholson Center
for British Studies at the University of Chicago
C. Stephen Jaeger, University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign
Coordinators
William Junker, University of St.Thomas
Studies
and Indigenous
American Indian Studies Seminar Series
Coordinator
History and Culture
American Art and Visual Culture
Coordinators
Sarah Burns, Indiana University
Diane Dillon, Newberry Library
Erika Doss, University of Notre Dame
Gregory Foster-Rice, Columbia College Chicago
Borderlands and Latino Studies
Lauren Berlant, University of Chicago
James Bromley, Miami University
Laurie Finke, Kenyon College
David Halperin, University of Michigan
Deborah Cohen, Northwestern University
Peggy McCracken, University of Michigan
Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, University of Chicago
Eric Ruckh, Southern Illinois University
Edwardsville
Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska, University of Illinois
at Chicago
GRADUATE SEMINARS
Laurie Shannon, Northwestern University
Carl Springer, Southern Illinois University
Edwardsville
Carla Zecher, Newberry Library
Judith P. Zinsser, emerita, Miami University
15 students
Dissertation Seminar for Historians
Research Methods Workshop for Early-Career
Graduate Students: Reading the Anglo-Muslim
Archive
September 14–November 16, 2012
Faculty
Edward Muir, Northwestern University
Barbara Rosenwein, Loyola University Chicago
11 students
September 28, 2012
Faculty
Jyotsna Singh, Michigan State University
Coordinators
Matthew Dimmock, University of Sussex
Geraldo Cadava, Northwestern University
19 students
Benjamin Johnson, University of
Wisconsin–Milwaukee
20
Graduate Students: Johannes de Sacro Bosco’s
De Sphaera, 1200–1600
March 15, 2013
Faculty
Peter Barker, University of Oklahoma
Kathleen Crowther, University of Oklahoma
16 students
Josh Garrett-Davis, Princeton University
Emily Grafton, University of Manitoba
Newberry Library Colloquium
Denise Nicole Green, University of British
Columbia
47 sessions
Margaret Huettl, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
9 sessions
Kasey Keeler, University Minnesota
Devon Ezra Miller, Michigan State University
Alena Rosen, University of Manitoba
April 12, 2013
Ashley Smith, Cornell University
Faculty
Katie Walkiewicz, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
Assisted by Cory Duclos, PhD candidate,
Vanderbilt University
10 students
Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference
January 24–26, 2013
Organizers
Michelle L. Beer, University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign
Megan Gregory, Illinois State University
Geoffrey A. Johns, Michigan State University
William M. Storm, Marquette University
Christopher Van Den Berge, University of Illinois
at Chicago
Melanie Zefferino, University of Warwick
12 sessions, 73 participants
Studies Graduate Student
Conference
August 3–4, 2012
Presenters
Doris Avery, University of Montana
Dean Bruno, Vanderbilt University
David R. Christensen, University of Nevada, Las
Vegas
Akikwe Cornell, University of Minnesota
Maurice Crandall, University of New Mexico
Matt Dougherty, University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill
Newberry Library Fellows’ Seminar
Khalil Johnson, Yale University
Graduate Students: Don Quixote and Theory,
Renaissance and Contemporary
Edward H. Friedman, Vanderbilt University
Taylor Spence, Yale University
Joanne Jahnke Wegner, University of Minnesota
Renee Zakhar, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Amanda Zink, University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign
41 participants
History and Culture
DIGITAL PUBLICATIONS
Digital Collections for the Classroom
9 new collections
http://dcc.newberry.org
Indians of the Midwest: An Archive of Endurance
New section: “Are Indians of the Midwest
Typical?”
indiansofthemidwest/
Newberry Essays in Medieval and Early Modern
Studies, Volume 7: Selected Proceedings of the
Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies 2013
Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference
http://www.newberry.org/sites/default/
files/2013Proceedings.pdf
Urban History Dissertation Group
Coordinators
Rebecca Marchiel, Northwestern University
Abigail Trollinger, Northwestern University
Professional Development Programs for
Teachers
Chicago Teachers as Scholars
13 seminars (including pilot sessions),
156 participants, 36 participating schools
History Channel Seminar Series
3 seminars, 86 participants,
50 participating schools
Newberry Teachers’ Consortium
Other Teacher Programs
Elizabeth Ellis, University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill
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The Newberry gratefully recognizes the following donors for their generous contributions received between July 1, 2012 and June 30, 2013.
CAMPAIGN FOR TOMORROW’S NEWBERRY
The Davee Foundation
In addition to our generous donors to the Annual
Fund and restricted funds, the following individuals
and organizations made commitments to the multiyear Campaign for Tomorrow’s Newberry,
including the 125th Anniversary Celebration.
Janet Wood Diederichs
Mr. John T. L. Koh
Ms. Marilyn R. Drury-Katillo
Frederick A. Krehbiel
Janet and Craig Duchossois
Dr. Audrey Lumsden-Kouvel
Robert E. King
Mr. George E. Engdahl
Barry and Mary Ann MacLean
Gerald F.* and Marjorie G. Fitzgerald
Mr. Stephen A. MacLean
Dora and John Aalbregtse
Mr. and Mrs. James G. Fitzgerald
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Marcus
Trish Rooney Alden
Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Franke
Helen Marlborough and Harry Roper
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen W. Baird
Front Barnett Associates LLC and
Laura D. and Marshall B. Front
Professor James H. Marrow and
Professor Emily Rose
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gelfman
Jeanne M. Martineau
Penny Barr
Roger and Julie Baskes
Ms. Mary Beth Beal
Anne S. Bent
Bessemer Trust
Bistrot Zinc
Mr. and Mrs. Edward M. Blair, Jr.
Mr. Peter T. Blatchford
Edward F. Blettner*
Joan and John Blew
Mrs. James R. Getz*
Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. McCamant
Glasser & Rosenthal Family
Robert C. McCormack
Stanford and Ann Dudley Goldblatt
Chauncey and Marion D. McCormick
Family Foundation
The Grainger Foundation
Dr. Hanna H. Gray
Mr. and Mrs. Grant Gibson McCullagh
Richard and Mary L. Gray
George C. McElroy*
Sue and Melvin Gray
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. McKenna
Greater Kansas City Community Foundation
Andrew and Jeanine McNally
Mr.* and Mrs. Charles C. Haffner III
David E. McNeel
Margaret S. and Philip D. Block, Jr.
Family Foundation
Ted and Mirja Haffner
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Mr. George W. Blossom III*
Professor Barbara A. Hanawalt
David and Anita Meyer
Helen M. Hanson*
Carol B. Michael*
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Hausberg
Jack Miller Center
Pati and O. J. Heestand
Michal and Paul Miller
Ms. Victoria J. Herget and
Mr. Robert K. Parsons
Cindy and Stephen Mitchell
Joan and Bill Brodsky
Mr. T. Kimball Brooker
Celia and David Hilliard
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Mueller
Judy and John Bross
Dr. Sandra L. Hindman
Clare Munana
Mr. and Mrs. Norman R. Bobins,
The Robert Thomas Bobins Foundation
The Bowe Family in memory of
Stanley Pargellis
Charles H. Mottier
Bulley & Andrews LLC
Walter Holden
Mr. and Mrs. Willard Bunn III
Janet and Arthur Holzheimer
Jennifer Myerberg on behalf of The Alvin &
Louise Myerberg Family Foundation, Inc.
Mr. and Mrs. Dean L. Buntrock
Michelle Miller Burns and Gary W. Burns
Robert H. and Donna L. Jackson and
Douglas H. and Lynn Jackson
Jerome and Elaine Nerenberg Foundation
Robert and Jean Carton
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Jaffee
John H. Noonan
Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. William R. Jentes
Northern Trust
Chicago Map Society
Corinne E. Johnson*
Janis Wellin Notz
Alice Graff Childs
Kathryn Gibbons Johnson
Sunday Perry
Christie’s
Dr. Janis C. Johnston
David N. Phelps and Leslie Breed McLean
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Cicero, Jr.
Abby McCormick O’Neil and
Daniel Carroll Joynes
Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. Pope
Robert P. Coale*
The Jacob & Rosaline Cohn Foundation
Marcia S. Cohn
Ms. Jeanne Colette Collester
Nancy Raymond Corral
Council on Library and Information Resources
* Deceased
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Ken and Jossy Nebenzahl
Laurie Kaplan
J.B. and M.K. Pritzker Family Foundation
in honor of Joan and Bill Brodsky
Thomas E. Keim
The Rhoades Foundation
Dennis J. Keller
Daniel F. and Ada L. Rice Foundation
Nancy Lee and Jonathan Kemper
Barbara and Richard Rinella
William T. Kemper Foundation–
Commerce Bank, Trustee
J. Timothy Ritchie
James J. and Louise R. Glasser
Mr. Bernard H. Rost*
John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe
Professor and Mrs.* Lawrence Lipking
Mr. and Mrs. Rudy L. Ruggles, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard S. Pepper
Paul and Joanne Ruxin
Karla Scherer
Paul H. Saenger
David E. McNeel
Junie L. and Dorothy L. Sinson
Ms. Edna Schade
Janis Wellin Notz
Carolyn and David Spadafora
Rosemary J. Schnell
Penelope Rosemont
Richard and Diana Senior
Harold B. Smith
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Sheffield, Jr.
Carol Warshawsky
Professor Robert W. Shoemaker*
Mrs. Harold H. Hines, Jr.
PRESIDENT’S SUSTAINING FELLOWS
($2,500 - $4,999)
Joan and John Blew
Dr. and Mrs. Mark Siegler
PRESIDENT’S CIRCLE ($10,000 - $24,999)
Mr. and Mrs. William G. Brown
The Siragusa Foundation
The Smart Family Foundation, Inc.
Clarence W. W. Smith* and Jean Steffen Smith*
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Cicero, Jr.
Ms. Nancy J. Claar and
Mr. Christopher N. Skey
Society of Mayflower Descendants
in the State of Illinois
Mr. Robert O. Delaney
Joan and Robert Feitler
Mr. and Mrs. Paul C. Gignilliat
Mimi and Bud Frankel
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph B. Starshak
Dr. Hanna H. Gray
Hjordis Halvorson and John Halvorson
Jules N. Stiffel
Sue and Melvin Gray
Professor Barbara A. Hanawalt
Liz Stiffel
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Hausberg
TAB
Margaret Abbott Trboyevic
Nancy Lee and Jonathan Kemper,
David Woods Kemper Memorial Foundation
Mr. Thomas B. Harris and
Ms. Doreen M. Kelly
Ms. Donna M. Tuke
Ann and Fred Kittle
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Levey
Penelope and John Van Horn
Ms. Elizabeth Amy Liebman
Laura Baskes Litwin and Stuart Litwin
Christian Vinyard
Mr. and Mrs. Howard M. McCue III
Bill and Laura Wangerin
Carol Warshawsky
Marion S. Miller
Rick and Jean Weber
Diane Stillwell Weinberg
John H. Noonan
Professor and Mrs. Larrance M. O’Flaherty
Mr. and Mrs. Peter S. Willmott
Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. Pope
Dr.* and Mrs. Edward S. Petersen
Mrs. George B. Young
Mr. Charles R. Rizzo
Anonymous (5)
Mrs. Brenda Shapiro
Mrs. Margaret Z. Robson
Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Siragusa
Mr. Morrell M. Shoemaker
Jules N. Stiffel
Mr. Michael Thompson
Liz Stiffel
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wedgeworth, Jr.
THE ANNUAL FUND
The following individuals generously made gifts to the
Annual Fund between July 1, 2012 and June 30, 2013.
Additional Annual Fund contributors are listed under
“Foundations, Corporations, Government Agencies,
and Organizations.”
Mr. and Mrs. Grant Gibson McCullagh
Gail and John Ward
James M. Wells
Mrs. Sarita Warshawsky
Anonymous (2)
Anonymous (1)
PRESIDENT’S SUPPORTING FELLOWS
($1,500 - $2,499)
PRESIDENT’S CABINET ($25,000+)
PRESIDENT’S SENIOR FELLOWS
($ 5,000 - $9,999)
Dr. and Mrs. Tapas K. Das Gupta
Ms. Mary Beth Beal
Mr. Harve A. Ferrill
Dr. Stephanie Bennett-Smith and
Mr. Orin R. Smith
Virginia Gassel and Belen Trevino
Reverend Anne B. Ainsworth
* Deceased
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Mr. and Mrs. Dean L. Buntrock
Helen Zell
Nancy Raymond Corral
Anonymous (3)
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas G. Fitzgerald
Professors Stephen and Verna Foster
Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Franke
Dr. Jean and Dr. David A. Greenberg
Alan and Carol Greene
Ted and Mirja Haffner
Neil Harris and Teri J. Edelstein
Drs. Malcolm H. and Adele Hast
Pati and O. J. Heestand
Mr. and Mrs. Verne Istock
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel P. Kearney
David and Lesly Koo
SCHOLARS ($1,000–$1,499)
Mr. Gregory L. Barton
Allison and Daniel Baskes
Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Bowe
Mr. and Mrs. Henry T. Chandler
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Feldman
Professor and Mrs. Stanley N. Katz
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Keiser
Mr. Julius Lewis
Jackie and Tom Morsch
Jo Ann and Joe Paszczyk
Dr. Martha T. Roth and
Dr. Bryon A. Rosner
Joseph A. Like
Rose L. Shure
Mrs. Anne D. Slade
Mr. and Mrs. David B. Mathis
Ms. Diane W. Smith
Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. McCamant
Anonymous (6)
Mr. and Mrs. Martin D. Jahn
Ms. Winnie J. Kuo
Professor Nancy F. Marino
Mr. John G. W. McCord, Jr.
Kelly McGrath
Ann and Christopher McKee
David and Anita Meyer
Professor Edward W. Muir, Jr.
Ellin and Dennis Murphy
Mr. David Narwich and
Dr. William H. Cannon, Jr.
Marjorie and Christopher Newman
Mrs. Ruthie Newberry Porterfield
Rachel Towner Raffles
Dr. James Engel Rocks
Mr. and Mrs. Morton Rosen
Denise Selz
Dr. Karole Schafer Mourek and
Mr. Anthony J. Mourek
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Mueller
Nancy M. Hotchkiss
Elizabeth and Mark N. Hurley
Janet Wood Diederichs
Marjorie G. Fitzgerald
Mr. and Mrs. Frederic W. Hickman
Adele Simmons
HUMANISTS ($ 500–$999)
Dr. Ellen T. Baird
Mac and Joanne Sims
Ms. Randy L. Holgate and
Mr. John H. Peterson
Bob and Trish Barr
Professor Susan Sleeper-Smith and
Dr. Robert C. Smith
Father Peter J. Powell
Mr. and Mrs. Warren L. Batts
Mr. and Mrs. David B. Smith, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Kevin J. Rochford
Mr. Richard H. Brown
Mr. and Mrs. C. Richard Spurgin
Ms. Helen Marlborough and
Mr. Harry J. Roper
Barbara and George Clark
Mr. and Mrs. John R. Stanek
Mr. and Mrs. John C. Colman
Mr. J. Thomas Touchton
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph W. Rydholm
Mr. Charles T. Cullen
Mr. Scott Turow
Joyce Ruth Saxon
Mr. Gordon R. DenBoer
Rosemary J. Schnell
Dr. and Mrs. George Dunea
Mr. Edward Wheatley and
Ms. Mary MacKay
Anonymous (3)
Mr. Allan P. Scholl
Dr. and Mrs. David R. Eblen
Alyce K. Sigler and Stephen A. Kaplan
Mr. Michael L. Ellingsworth
Mr. and Mrs. Brian Silbernagel
Carl W. Stern and Holly Hayes
Professor Marci J. Sortor and
Mr. Daniel Ferro
Tom and Nancy Swanstrom
Ms. Susan Levine and Mr. Leon Fink
Mrs. Rebecca S. Thames-Simmons
Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Freeman
Jim and Josie Tomes
Mr. and Mrs. Robert I. Gilford
Ms. Donna M. Tuke
Mr. Joseph B. Glossberg and
Ms. Madeleine Condit
Diane Stillwell Weinberg
Mr. Robert E. Williams
Drs. Richard and Mary Woods
Thomas K. Yoder
Mr. Martin A. M. Gneuhs
Mr. and Mrs. William Goldberg
Ms. Simone R. Goodman
Mr. Dean H. Goossen
Daniel Greene and Lisa Meyerowitz
Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan C. Hamill
* Deceased
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Stephen and Sharyl Hanna
LITERATI ($250–$499)
Paula and W. Gordon Addington
Mr. Adrian Alexander
Sarah Alger and Fred Hagedorn
Ms. Rosanne C. Arnold
Rick and Marcia Ashton
Mr. and Mrs. John S. Aubrey
Mr. Robert Barg
Mr. Robert F. Beasecker
William and Ellen Bentsen
Ms. Ellen S. Buchen
Mr.* and Mrs. Matthew Bucksbaum
Mrs. Dolores K. Hanna
Mr. and Mrs. David M. Schiffman
Mr. Ray W. Buhrmaster, Jr.
Toni and Ken Harkness
Susan and Charles P. Schwartz
Mr. and Mrs. Howard E. Buhse, Jr.
Ms. Helen S. Harrison
Stephen A. and Marilyn Scott
Professor and Mrs. David J. Buisseret
Professor Randolph Head
Brad and Melissa Seiler
Mr. and Mrs. Allan E. Bulley III
Mr. Warren Heckrotte
Mrs. Ilene W. Shaw
Professor and Mrs. Rand Burnette
Professor and Mrs. Richard H. Helmholz
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Sheffield, Jr.
Rob Carlson
Mr. Marc Hilton and Ms. Judith Aronson
Mr. Richard H. Sigel and Dr. Susan Sigel
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Cashman
Mr. Roger C. Hinman
Professor Eric Slauter
Mr. George Christakes
Mr. Edward C. Hirschland
Ms. Linda K. Smith and Mr. Victor Ferrall
Professor and Mrs. Edward M. Cook, Jr.
Robert A. and Lorraine Holland
Mr. and Mrs. O. J. Sopranos
Mr. Ron J. Corthell
Laraine Balk Hope and John N. Hope
Ms. Barbara Sorensen
Mr. Daniel R. Crawford
Mr. and Mrs. Paul J. Houdek
Mrs. Uta D. Staley
Mr. John Cullinan and
Dr. Ewa Radwanska
John and Holly Hudak
Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Steiner
Professor and Mrs. Clark Hulse
Mr. and Mrs. Phillip L. Stern
Mr. G. Kevin Davis
Mr. Craig T. Ingram
Jane L. and Marv Strasburg
Judge Robert J. Dempsey
Dr. Sona Kalousdian and
Dr. Ira D. Lawrence
Mary and Harvey Struthers
Professor John Van Engen
Toni Dewey and Victor Danilov
Ms. Shawn M. Donnelley and
Dr. Christopher M. Kelly
Mr. Robert S. Kiely
Larry Viskochil
Mr. Ronald E. Kniss
Robert and Susan Warde
Mr. Charles H. Douglas
Professor and Mrs. Donald W. Krummel
Mr. and Mrs. George Wenzel
Dr. and Mrs. James L. Downey
Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Lassandrello
Dr. Wendall W. Wilson
Ms. Marilyn R. Drury-Katillo
Professor Carole B. Levin
Mr. Marshall Yablon
Mr. Charles A. Duboc
Ms. Carolyn S. Levin
Nora L. Zorich and Thomas W. Filardo
Mr. Wilson G. Duprey
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Madden
Anonymous (1)
Ms. Susanne B. Dutcher
Mr. Melvin L. Marks
Laura F. Edwards and John P. McAllister
Dr. John A. Martens and Ms. Alice L. Clark
Ms. Anne E. Egger
Mr. and Mrs. Don H. McLucas, Jr.
Mr. Thomas Meites
Professor Jesús Escobar
Mr. and Mrs. Gregory L. Melchor
Mr. and Mrs. James D. Fiffer
Dr. Peter Matthew Merwin
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth P. Fischl
Dr. and Mrs. Philip H. Miller
Ms. Janet S. Fisher
Mr. and Mrs. John R. Montgomery III
Ms. Marcia L. Flick
Ms. Martha M. Murray
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Freedman
Ms. Sylvia J. Neumann
Mr. and Mrs. John E. Freund
Minna S. Novick
Ms. Joan T. Gagen
Ms. Sarah J. Palmer
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen L. Geifman
Lawrence S. Poston and Carol H. Poston
Mr. Timothy J. Gilfoyle and
Ms. Mary Rose Alexander
Donald and Jane Gralen
Mr. Tom Greensfelder and
Ms. Olivia Petrides
Mr. D. Kendall Griffith
Mrs. Phyllis C. Grossmann
George E. Leonard and
Susan R. Hanes-Leonard
Judy and Rick Rayborn
Professors Barbara and Thomas Rosenwein
Mr. T. Marshall Rousseau
Ms. Catherine Rudolph
Mrs. Judith Rutherford
Paul H. Saenger
Mr. and Mrs. John Eric Schaal
Ms. Edna Schade
TRIBUTE GIFTS
The Newberry recognizes the following gifts
made in tribute.
HONOR GIFTS
In honor of Jim Akerman
Dr. Jean and Dr. David A. Greenberg
In honor of Mrs. L. W. Alberts
Professor Laurie Nussdorfer
In honor of Karen Barzman
Ms. Judy C. Odland
In honor of Roger Baskes
Stephen and Sharyl Hanna
In honor of James and Deborah Baughman
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Feder
In honor of Jameson L. Blatchford
Mr. Scott Andrew Horning
In honor of John Brady
Ms. Terri L. Harvey
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In honor of Joan and Bill Brodsky
In honor of Michelle Miller Burns
and Gary W. Burns
John and Holly Hudak
In honor of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Cicero, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel P. Kearney
In honor of Grace Dumelle
Mr. and Mrs. Rich Swingle
In honor of Molly Fletcher
Ms. Anna Brenner
Ms. Diane Dillon and Mr. Joseph P. Herring
In honor of Ginger Frere
Ms. Ruth A. Benson
In honor of Paul F. Gehl and Rob Carlson
Mr. Paul A. Kobasa
In honor of Matt Gelbin
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Coplan
In honor of Pat Goodwin
Mrs. Stacey Podell
In honor of Toni Harkness
Ms. Jean Johnson
In honor of Victoria J. Herget
Dr. and Mrs. David R. Eblen
In honor of D. Carroll Joynes
Mr. Michael C. Cleavenger
Ms. Annice B. Johnston
In honor of Fred Kittle
Mr. Jon Lellenberg
In honor of the Newberry Genealogy Staff
Mr. and Mrs. J. Leo Freiwald
In honor of Mr. and Mrs. John Norcross
Mr. and Mrs. Larry E. Shiff
In honor of Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. Pope
Mr. and Mrs. William Goldberg
In honor of the Pullman Company Archives
Dr. William Pollard
In honor of Parker, Quinn, and
Dempsey Ransom
Ms. Johna L. Picco
In honor of Matthew Rutherford
Mr. James R. McDaniel and
Mr. Kevin J. Hochberg
Mrs. Kaye Paletz
In honor of Paul H. Saenger
In honor of Glen Shelly
Ms. Barbara Shelly
In honor of James Shirk
Ms. Sarah Shirk
In honor of David Spadafora
In honor of Christina von Nolcken
Ms. Elaine Hadley
In honor of James M. Wells
Helen M. Harrison Foundation
In honor of Samantha Leshin
Sue and Kent Davis
In honor of Robert Newberry McCreary, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. James G. Barnes
In honor of Andrew McNally IV
Mrs. Robert Adams Carr
Thomas E. Keim
In honor of Paul J. Miller
MEMORIAL GIFTS
In memory of Edith Allard
Mrs. Jean Isaacowitz
In memory of Alfred and Phyllis Balk
Mrs. Laraine Balk Hope and
Mr. John N. Hope
In memory of Jane H. Beseler
Mr. William F. Beseler
In memory of Frank Bruno
Ms. Jen A. Bruno
Front Barnett Associates LLC and
Laura D. and Marshall B. Front
In memory of Elizabeth Conrad
In honor of the Newberry Events Staff
In memory of Amata I. Crawford
Ms. Sara Wraight and
Mr. John-Paul Wolforth
Ms. Lynn C. Masters
In memory of Rosemary Dube
Mr. Lawrence E. Dube, Jr.
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Mr. Jim F. Foley
In memory of Gerald F. Fitzgerald
In memory of Virginia Gassel
Virginia Gassel and Belen Trevino
In memory of Tony Gordon
Jennifer and Davie Pina
In memory of Fr. Andrew Greeley
Mr. H. Keith Goetsch
In memory of Charles C. Haffner III
Mr. and Mrs. Henry T. Chandler
In memory of Virginia H. Hansen
Mr. Howard M. Skoien
In memory of Phyllis Hartt
Mr. Charles F. Hartt
In memory of Nora Hollinger
Marilyn and Barry Currier
Mr. and Mrs. James F. Dowdy, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Mike Metivier
Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Nelson
Ms. Maud Van Eysbergen
In memory of Ruth Hooper
Mr. William Reichmann
In memory of Tina Howe
Mrs. Carolyn M. Short
In memory of Irmingard Korbelak
In honor of Frances Lai
Sarah Alger and Fred Hagedorn
In memory of Rick Emmert
Mr. and Mrs. David H. Chesham
Ms. Jane Domurot
Mrs. Anne Haffner
In memory of Evelyn Lampe
Paula and W. Gordon Addington
Mrs. Wendy Buta
Ms. Louise D. Howe
Ms. Muriel Underwood
Ms. Jacqueline M. Vossler
Ms. Mildred J. Zysman
In memory of Frankie Like
Joseph A. Like
In memory of Katharine Taylor Loesch
Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Brissman
Mr. Joel F. Brown and Ms. Julie E. Strauss
Mrs. Denise Caplan
Mr. David Chizewer
Ms. Sherry Gini
Ms. Beata M. Hayton
Ms. Bridget O’Connell Koconis
Mr. Gary N. Ruben
Paul H. Saenger
Mr. George Sarcevich
In memory of Katharine Taylor Loesch
Mr. Keith Sigale
Mr. Mark Steinman
Mr. and Mrs. Peter L. Thiel
In memory of Ruth Lyons
In memory of Richard Seidel
Ms. Dorothy V. Ramm
In memory of Karen Skubish
SOCIETY OF COLLECTORS
Members of the Society of Collectors contribute at
least $5,000 annually for the acquisition of materials
for the collection.
Ms. Emily Troxell Jaycox
In memory of Bernard Weinberg
Ms. Louise K. Wornom
In memory of David Woodward
Mr. and Mrs. Anthony J. Amodeo
Altman Family Foundation
Vincent J. Buonanno
RESTRICTED GIFTS FROM INDIVIDUALS
The following individuals made restricted gifts of $250
or more to Newberry book funds, genealogy, and other
programs and projects.
John K. Notz, Jr.
Mr. Leonard Kniffel
In memory of Annie Laura Marshall
Ms. Maxine E. Otto
In memory of Louise Pettit More,
great-granddaughter of E.W. Blatchford
Reverend Anne B. Ainsworth
Mr. William A. Aki
Mrs. L. W. Alberts
Ms. Jean R. Cleland
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Epler
Ms. Karen Flitz
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen C. Ham
Ms. Rita M. Macellaio
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph B. Plauché
Daniel and Jo Marie Richman
Ms. Marilyn M. Richman
Ms. Terry Saran and Mr. Tad Cook
Mrs. Nancy J. Stein
Ms. Gail S. Willich
Women’s Architectural League Foundation
In memory of Mr. Milo M. Naeve
Mrs. Milo M. Naeve
In memory of John Nichols
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Hagstrom
In memory of Stanley Pargellis
Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Bowe
The Bowe Family
In memory of Gita Wasan Patel
Ms. Katie Perkins
In memory of Constantine Patsavas
Mrs. Christine Foley
In memory of Edward S. Petersen
Lake Geneva Country Club
GIFTS TO ENDOWMENT
Joan and John Blew
In addition to those who contributed to the 125th
Anniversary Celebration, we thank the following
individuals and organizations who have helped secure
the long-term future of the library by making gifts to
endowment.
Mrs. Lydia Goodwin Cochrane
Mr. Henry Eggers
Dr. Hanna H. Gray
Sue and Melvin Gray
Mr.* and Mrs. Charles C. Haffner III
Margaret S. and Philip D. Block, Jr.
Family Foundation
Helen M. Hanson*
Mr. Jonathan P. Harding
Muriel S. Friedman Trust
Glasser & Rosenthal Family
Greater Kansas City Community Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur L. Kelly
Mr. John T. L. Koh
Ms. Sharon McKee
Paul and Michal Miller
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. McKenna
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce W. McKittrick
Dr. Scholl Foundation
Professor H. Colin Slim
Paul and Michal Miller
Chester D. Tripp Charitable Trust
Janis Wellin Notz
Ms. Hedy Weinberg
Mrs. Madeline Rich
Anonymous (1)
Paul H. Saenger
Mrs. Carolyn M. Short
Mr. David K. Sullivan
Christian Vinyard
Anonymous (1)
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BLATCHFORD SOCIETY
Mr. J. Thomas Touchton
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.
David M. and Barbara H. Homeier
Professor Sue Sheridan Walker
Louise D. Howe
James M. Wells
Mary P. Hughes
Willard E. White
Mrs. Everett Jarboe
Ann and Fred Kittle
Mrs. Raymond L. Wright
Mrs. L. W. Alberts
Karen Krishack
James and Mary Wyly
Mr. Adrian Alexander
Larry Lesperance
Anonymous (8)
Rick and Marcia Ashton
Professor Carole B. Levin
Constance Barbantini and Liduina Barbantini
Joseph A. Like
Mr. William L. Barber
Lucia Woods Lindley
Dr. David M. and Mrs. Susan
Lindenmeyer Barron
Arthur B. Logan
Roger Baskes
Carmelita Melissa Madison
Dr. Edith Borroff
Andrew W. McGhee
Bernard J. Brommel
Marion S. Miller
Mr. George W. Blossom III
Dr. Audrey Lumsden-Kouvel
IN MEMORIAM
With gratitude, the Newberry remembers the
following members of the Blatchford Society for their
visionary support of the humanities.
Ann Barzel
Mr. Richard H. Brown
Mrs. Milo M. Naeve
Joan Campbell
June Buller
Robert P. Coale
Charles W. Olson
Natalie H. Dabovich
Dr. William H. Cannon
Joan L. Pantsios
David W. Dangler
Rob Carlson
Jo Ann and Joe Paszczyk
Mrs. Edison Dick
Reverend Dr. Robert B. Clarke
Ken Perlow
Dr. and Mrs. Waldo C. Friedland
Mrs. David L. Conlan
Dominick S. Renga, M.D.
Dr. Muriel S. Friedman
Dorothy and David Crabb
Mr. T. Marshall Rousseau
Esther LaBerge Ganz
Mr. Charles T. Cullen
Paul H. Saenger
Charles C. Haffner III
Susan and Otto D’Olivo
Rosemary J. Schnell
Ralph H. Halvorsen
Professor Saralyn R. Daly
Helen M. Schultz
Reverend Susan R. Hecker
Magdalene and Gerald Danzer
Mrs. Harold James
John Brooks Davis
Marian W. Shaw
Mr. Everett Jarboe
Mr. Gordon R. DenBoer
Mr. Morrell M. Shoemaker
Corinne E. Johnson
Donna Margaret Eaton
Alyce K. Sigler
Mr. Stuart Kane
Professor Carolyn A. Edie
Dr. Ira Singer
Mr. Isadore William Lichtman
Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Siragusa
Russell W. and Louise I. Lindholm
Susan Sleeper-Smith
Mr. Walter C. Lueneburg
Lyle Gillman
Harold B. Smith
Ms. Louise Lutz
Louise R. Glasser
Rebecca Gray Smith
Mrs. Agnes M. McElroy
Mr. Donald J. Gralen
Zella Kay Soich
Mr. and Mrs. William W. McKittrick
Laura F. Edwards
Mrs. Anne Haffner
Mr. Angelo L. and Mrs. Virginia A. Spoto
Mr. Milo M. Naeve
Rita K. Halvorsen
Peggy Sullivan
Piri Korngold Nesselrod
Hjordis Halvorson and John Halvorson
Tom and Nancy Swanstrom
Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. O’Kieffe III
Don and Marianne Tadish
Bruce P. Olson
Adele Hast
S. David Thurman
Edward J. Parsons
Tracey Tomashpol and Farron Brougher
Professor Robert W. Shoemaker
Robert A. and Lorraine Holland
Jim and Josie Tomes
Lillian R. and Dwight D. Slater
* Deceased
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Cecelia Handleman Wade
$10,000 - $24,999
$250 - $999
Professor Franklin A. Walker
Buchanan Family Foundation
The Chicago Literary Club
Lila Weinberg
Bulley & Andrews LLC
The Contemporary Club of Chicago
Mr. Raymond L. Wright
FLAG Capital Management, LLC
John R. Halligan Charitable Fund
S. Downey Fund of the Chicago
Community Trust
Illinois Tool Works Foundation
Gabriel Charitable Fund
Anonymous (6)
ESTATE GIFTS
The Newberry gratefully acknowledges gifts from the
following estates.
Daniel F. and Ada L. Rice Foundation
Goldberg Kohn Foundation
Anonymous (1)
William M. Hales Foundation
The Walter E. Heller Foundation
$5,000 - $9,999
Robert R. McCormick Foundation
Mr. George W. Blossom III
Altman Family Foundation
Charles C. Haffner III
Chicago Title & Trust Company Foundation
National Society Daughters of the
American Revolution
Helen M. Hanson
The Florence J. Gould Foundation
George C. McElroy
Helen M. Harrison Foundation
Jerome and Elaine Nerenberg
Samuel H. Kress Foundation
Mr. Bernard H. Rost
Georges Lurcy Charitable and
Educational Trust
Clarence W. W. Smith and Jean Steffen Smith
Jack Miller Center
Northern Trust
FOUNDATIONS, CORPORATIONS,
GOVERNMENT AGENCIES, AND
ORGANIZATIONS
We recognize the following contributors to the
Annual Fund and/or to restricted funds.
Society of Mayflower Descendants in the
State of Illinois
$100,000+
Alsdorf Foundation
Amsted Industries Foundation
National Endowment for the Humanities
Blum-Kovler Foundation
The Robert Thomas Bobins Foundation
The Jacob & Rosaline Cohn Foundation
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur
Foundation
CORPORATE AND FOUNDATION
MATCHING GIFTS
Through their matching gift programs, the following
corporations and foundations generously augmented
gifts from individuals.
Arch W. Shaw Foundation
$1,000 - $4,999
$50,000 - $99,999
The National Society of Sons of the
American Colonists
Charles H. and Bertha L. Boothroyd
Foundation
Apogee Enterprises, Inc.
ArcelorMittal Matching Gifts Program
Bank of America Foundation
The Field Foundation of Illinois
Fitch Ratings Matching Gifts Program
GE Foundation
Goldman, Sachs & Co.
Chicago Genealogical Society
Grainger Matching Charitable Gifts Program
Christie’s
IBM Corporation
The Dick Family Foundation
Illinois Tool Works Foundation
The Franklin Philanthropic Foundation
Leo Burnett Company, Inc
Jerome and Elaine Nerenberg Foundation
General Society of Colonial Wars
in honor of Joan and Bill Brodsky
Hamill Family Foundation
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur
Foundation
Terra Foundation for American Art
The Irving Harris Foundation
Jewish Community Foundation
The Lawlor Foundation
$25,000 - $49,999
T. Lloyd Kelly Foundation
The Charles Palmer Family Foundation
The Davee Foundation
Peoples Gas
The Grainger Foundation
William T. Kemper Foundation
Jack L. Ringer Family Foundation
Monticello College Foundation
Sahara Enterprises, Inc.
The Siragusa Foundation
Northern Trust Charitable Trust
Peoples Gas
USG Foundation
Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company Foundation
Anonymous (1)
Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Illinois
Anonymous (2)
* Deceased
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GIFTS IN KIND
The Original Pancake House
Ann S. Barker
The following individuals and organizations
supported the Newberry with contributed goods and
services.
Panozzo’s Italian Market
Dr. David M. and Mrs. Susan
Lindenmeyer Barron
3rd Coast Cafe & Wine Bar
ABM Janitorial Services
Beam
Bistrot Zinc
Caffè Baci
Chicago Opera Theater
Chicago Shakespeare Theater
Christy Webber Landscapes
Club Quarters
Corner Bakery Cafe
D’Absolute Events & Catering
E. Sam Jones Distributor
Food Evolution
Fox & Obel
Gibsons Bar & Steakhouse
Go Roma
Paper Source Stationery Stores
Potash Markets
Roger Baskes
Quarles and Brady LLP
Peter and Robin S. Baugher
Ravinia Festival
Mr. Robert F. Beasecker
Republic Services
Sybil Bennin
Rosebud Restaurants
Ellen Bentsen
Sarah’s Pastries and Candies
Amy Bernhard
Securitas Security Services USA
Wayne and Harriet Bertola
Simply Elegant Catering
Albert J. Beveridge III
Steppenwolf Theatre Company
Biblioteca Comunale di Mantova
TAB
David Binder
Trader Joe’s
Treasure Island Foods
Robert Blesse
Tri-Star Catering
LeRoy Blommaert
Trio Salon
Toni Blommer-O’Malley
Westside Mechanical, Inc.
Betty J. Blum
Whole Foods Market
Conrad Borntrager
WXRT-FM 93.1/WSCR-AM 820
John Le Bourgeois
Yoga Now
The Goddess and Grocer
Goodman Theatre
Hallett Movers
Harvest Bible Chapel
Hearty Boys Caterers
Hendrickx Belgian Bread Crafter
GIFTS OF LIBRARY MATERIALS
The Newberry appreciates the generosity of the
following individuals and organizations that
contributed books, manuscripts, and other materials to
enhance the library’s collection.
Hotel Indigo
The House of Glunz
Laura Breyer
Tobias Brinkmann
Ronald Broude
Elizabeth Buckley
Professor David J. Buisseret
Claude C. Burgess
Professor and Mrs. Rand Burnette
Barry Bursak
A-R Editions, Inc.
John Caldwell
The Hypocrites
Jon Charles Acker
Maurizio Campanelli
J&L Catering
Chris Cantwell
Jewell Events Catering
E. Mark Adams and Beth Van Hoesen
Adams Trust
Johnson Controls
Charlotte Adelman
Knickerbocker Hotels
Ehsan Ahmed
Helen Long
Jim Akerman
Luxe Spa
Giaime Alonge
Lyric Opera of Chicago
Peter Anderson
Marcello’s Catering
Roberto Antonelli
Master Brew
Arlington Heights Memorial Library
Mesirow Financial
The Arts Club of Chicago
More Cupcakes
Austin Boulevard Christian Church
Murnane Paper Company
Jan Baker
Museum of Contemporary Art
Victor Sumohano Ballados
Mary Nisi
Pat Barath
Occasions Chicago Catering
Mark Barbour
* Deceased
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Polly Carder
Rob Carlson
María Castañeda de la Paz
Nikola Georgiev Charakchiev
Paolo Cherchi
Chicago History Museum
The Chicago Literary Club
Chicago Public Schools
Chicago Reader
Joseph Chorpenning
Constance Coleman
Gloria M. Comingore
Rosemary Winters Coplan
Dennis Cremin
Corwith Hamill
Diane K. Lampe
Louis R. Cross
Karla G. Hanley
Evelyn Lampe*
Daly House Museum
Ford Harding
LaVere LaRue
Martha Mueller Daniel
Mr. Jonathan P. Harding
Joanne Layne
Gerald Danzer
Judy Harding
William L. Lederer
Claudio Dario
Gordon S. Harmon
Lee County Genealogical Society
Aaron L. Day
Karen Guttormsen Harvey
Tom Leech
Angela de Benedictis
Barbara Hayler
Norman B. Leventhal Map Center
Wietse de Boer
Alison de Frise
Heritage Preservation Commission
- City of Red Wing Minnesota
Matthew Bixby Defty
William C. Hesterberg
Little Turtle Waterway Corp. and
Eel River Run Committee
Jerri Dell
Becky Higgins
Mr. and Mrs. Philip Long
Monica Dengo
Eugene T. Hotchkiss III
David Lotz
Jean d’Haussonville
Frederick Hoxie
Priscilla Hart MacDougall
Fran Dolan
Karyl Keeney Hubbard
Thomas MacEntee
Jacob Dorman
Huguenot Society of Illinois
Margaret Mahan
Barbara Dubosq
Kathleen Hyman
Steve Malone
Carola Dunn
Jawahar Lal Jain
Mr. Melvin L. Marks
Paul Eckler
Jo Jean Kehl Janus
R. Eden Martin
Teri J. Edelstein
James C. Jeffery III
Jeffrey A. Marx
Edgewater Historical Society
Charles W. Johnson
Drew Matott
Garrett Eisler
Nina A. Johnson
Laura Matthew
Seth Fagen
Rogers Bruce Johnson
Robert and Mary McCormack
Robert Fink
Alma O. Juarez
Mia McCullough
Theo S. Fins
Stephen M. Kahnert
George C. McElroy Trust
Fondazione Museo Francesco Borgogna
Laura Kaiser
Christopher McKee
Loretta K. Fowler
Hilaire Kallendorf
Mr. Bruce W. McKittrick
Jon Gilbert Fox
Robert W. Karrow, Jr.
Kathleen McMahon
Paul Frame
Barry Katz
Andrew McNally IV
Junia Ferreira Furtado
Ann Durkin Keating
Mary F. McVicker
Alan Gabehart
Richard Kegler
Loy McWhirter
Catherine Gass
Martin N. Kellogg
Louis D. Melnick
William Gass
Gerhard Kelter, Jr.
Ken Metz
Julia Ilanit Gauchman
Kathryn Kerby-Fulton
Robert C. Michaelson
Peter Gayford
Stephen Lynn King
Emily Michelson
Paul F. Gehl
Julius Kirshner
Lynne Miller
Benjamin Gettler
Roger L. Knigge
Warren Pullman Miller
Matthew Glover
Mr. Paul A. Kobasa
Michael Miner
Keven Grandfield
Anne Kohs
Michael Mitchell
Daniel Greene
Annette Kolling-Buckley
Monash University Library
Diana Harding Greene
Wayne W. Kupferer
Carol Monroe
Dawn Griffin-O’Neal
Alex S. Kurczaba
Martino Rossi Monti
James R. Grossman
Michael Laird
Jeffrey Mora
Judith Gurley
Lake Geneva Historic Preservation
Commission
Judy Moran
Maureen Hale
Robert C. and Anne Lightburn
Morrison-Shearer Foundation
* Deceased
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Robert and Carole Mullen
Margot J. Risk
William Mullen
Ryan M. Roberts
U.S. Department of the Interior,
Bureau of Reclamation
Justine Murison
Jenny Robson
Carlo Vecce
National Society Daughters of the
American Revolution
Patricia Rose
Estate of Asta Velicka
Marion Rosenbluth
Martina Venuti
Kenneth Nebenzahl
Richard J. Ross
Hendrik Vervliet
Scott Reynolds Nelson
Walter Roth
John Vinci
David F. New
Natalie Rothman
Christian Vinyard
Nerida Newbigin
Eric and Marjorie Rudd
Vytautas O. Virkau
Marta Ruth Nicholas
Christine A. Ryden
Ms. Jacqueline M. Vossler
Carmen Nocentelli
Paul H. Saenger
Joan G. Wagner
Northbrook Historical Society
St. Augustine’s Center for American Indians
Gregory Jackson Walters
Jay Norwalk
St. Petersburg Museum of History
Anita Weinberg
John Ashley Null
Shirley and Anthony Sallis
Jack Weiner
Mike Nussbaum
Jim Sanders
Laurie Weinstein
Gillian O’Brien
Kathleen Sassolino
Jack Weiss
Patricia Bishop Obrist
David Satter
Todd West
Michel Oudijk
Alkuin Schachenmayr
Kaye Pomaranc White
Suzanne K. Owen
Alvin Schaut
Tom Willcockson
Ruth Page Foundation
Manuel Schonhorn
Michael Palmer
Joan G. Schroeter
Megan Williamson
Lucio Passerini
Helen M. Schultz
T. Bradford Willis
Esther Pasztory
Wayne Schulz
Jack Payan
Sandro Berra
The Wilson Library at the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Charles and Arline Peckham
Servites of North America
Terry Charles Peet
Steve Shaiman
Pietro Petteruti Pellegrino
Cathleen Schandelmeier-Bartels
Margarita Peña Muñoz
Frances Shaw
Daria Perocco
Carl Smith
Marsha Peterson-Maas
Maida Smith
Harold Peters
Craig L. Pfannkuche
Carla Rahn Phillips
James S. Phillips
The Society of the Cincinnati in the
State of Virginia
Society of Mayflower Descendants in the
State of Illinois
John Pierson
Edna C. Southard
Cecilia Pinto
Caroline and Marie-Odile Sweetser
Diego Pirillo
Charles Sweningsen
David Plowden
Pepe Tassin
Alexei Postnikov
R.J. Taylor, Jr. Foundation
Jill Rappoport
David Tengwall
Ernest D. Rayburn
Megan Thomas
Philip J. Reyburn
Adrian Tiemann
Krista Reynen
Margaret Rattenbury Tucker
Albert J. Rivero
Alice Turak
Ed Ripp
Eugene B. Umberger, Jr.
* Deceased
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Chloe Tyler Winterbotham
David Winters
Barbara Wisch
Rebecca Wright
Giuseppina Zanichelli
Paul Zebe
Carla Zecher
James L. Zychowicz
Anonymous (1)
This report reflects gifts received between
July 1, 2012 and June 30, 2013. The Newberry
makes every effort to ensure the accuracy of
our honor roll of donors and we sincerely
apologize if we have made any errors. Please
notify Vince Firpo at (312) 255-3599 or
[email protected] regarding any changes
or corrections. Thank you.
Board of Trustees
and Volunteer Committees
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
LIFE TRUSTEES
Victoria J. Herget, Chair
Anthony T. Dean
David C. Hilliard, Vice Chair
Sister Ann Ida Gannon
David E. McNeel, Vice Chair
Richard Gray
125TH ANNIVERSARY
CELEBRATION COMMITTEE
BUGHOUSE SQUARE
COMMITTEE
Nancy Lee and
Jonathan Kemper,
Co-Chairs
Rachel Bohlmann, Chair
Paul J. Miller, Secretary
Neil Harris
Norman R. Bobins, Treasurer
Stanley N. Katz
Suzanne and Grant McCullagh,
Co-Chairs
Roger Baskes
Fred Kittle
David E. McNeel, Co-Chair
Joan Brodsky
Marcus A. McCorison*
T. Kimball Brooker
Kenneth Nebenzahl
Joan and John Blew
Frank Cicero, Jr.
David P. Earle III
Louise R. Glasser
Hanna H. Gray
Richard D. Siragusa
Jan and Frank Cicero
PLANNED GIVING
ADVISORY COUNCIL
Barbara Wriston*
David C. Hilliard, Chair
Mark and Meg Hausberg
Richard A. Campbell
Victoria J. Herget and
Robert K. Parsons
Sandra L. Hindman
Roger Baskes, Co-Chair
D. Carroll Joynes
Victoria J. Herget, Co-Chair
Jeanine and Sandy McNally
Jonathan Kemper
Andrew McNally IV, Co-Chair
Lawrence Lipking
Hanna H. Gray
Barry L. MacLean
David C. Hilliard
Frederick J. Manning
D. Carroll Joynes
James H. Marrow
Barry L. MacLean
Grant Gibson McCullagh
Andrew W. McGhee
Andrew W. McGhee
David E. McNeel
John H. Noonan
Janis Wellin Notz
Michael A. Pope
Martha T. Roth
Rudy L. Ruggles, Jr.
Paul T. Ruxin
Harold B. Smith
Jules N. Stiffel
Gwendolyn Rugg
Norman and Virginia Bobins
Robert H. Jackson
Cindy E. Mitchell
Shawn Healy
Kelly McGrath
Zoé Petersen
CAMPAIGN STEERING
COMMITTEE
Andrew McNally IV
Molly Fletcher
Alyce K. Sigler
Sue Gray
Mark Hausberg
Paul Durica
Vince Firpo
Janis and John Notz, Jr.
David Crabb
James R. Hellige
Howard Helsinger
H. Debra Levin
Louis R. Marchi
Therese Martin
Thomas M. Ramsey
Michael and Christine Pope
Liz Stiffel
Carol Warshawsky
Cindy E. Mitchell
Harold B. Smith
BOOK FAIR COMMITTEE
Stephen A. Scott, Chair
Jenny Bissell
Bill Charles
Claudia Hueser
Martha J. Jantho
Mary Morony
Patrick O’Neil
Marilyn Scott
Lian Sze
Carol Warshawsky
Robert Wedgeworth, Jr.
* Deceased
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Staff
Office of the President and Librarian
• David Spadafora, President and Librarian
Communications and Marketing
• K
elly McGrath, Director of Marketing
and Communications
• Ed Bailey, Visitor Services Assistant
Cataloging Projects Section
• Jennifer Dunlap, Cataloging Project Librarian
• J essica Grzegorski, Senior Cataloging
Project Librarian
• Jo Ellen McKillop Dickie, Special Collections
Services Librarian, Reference Team Leader
• Shawn Keener, Project Cataloging Assistant
• M
aggie Grossman, Special Collections
Library Assistant
• M
egan Kelly, Senior Cataloging
Project Librarian
• Kenneth Hayes, Visitor Services Assistant
• Andrea Villasenor, Graphic Designer
Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special
Collections Services
Conservation Services Department
• Lesa Dowd, Director Conservation Services
• B
ailey Romaine, Special Collections
Library Assistant
• M
egan Samelson, Special Collections
Library Assistant
• Linda Kinnaman, Conservation Technician
• J eff Schaller, Special Collections
Library Assistant
• P
aul Saenger, George A. Poole III
Curator of Rare Books and Collection
Development Librarian
• B
arbara Korbel, Collections and
Exhibitions Conservator
• A
manda Schriver, Special Collections
Library Assistant
• John Brady, Bibliographer of Americana
• Becky Saiki, Conservation Technician
• P
aul F. Gehl, Custodian, John M. Wing
Foundation on the History of Printing
• Elizabeth Zurawski, Senior Book Conservator
Collection Development
• J enny Schwartzberg, Collection Development
Assistant & Gift Specialist
Library Services
• H
jordis Halvorson, Vice President for
Library Services
• Elizabeth McKinley, Program Assistant
Collection Services Department
• A
lan Leopold, Chauncey and Marion D.
McCormick Family Foundation Director of
Collection Services
• Virginia Meredith, Conservation Technician
Maps Section
Reader Services Department
• John Brady, Director of Reader Services
Acquisitions Section
• Linda M. Chan, Serials Librarian
• L
isa Schoblasky, Reference Librarian,
Reference Team Leader
• John S. Aubrey, Ayer Librarian
• G
race Dumelle, Genealogy and Local History
Library Assistant
• Helen Long, Reference Librarian
• Katie McMahon, Reference Librarian
General Collections Services Section
• Linda Ballinger, Principal Cataloging Librarian
• M
argaret Cusick, General Collections Services
Librarian, Reference Team Leader
• L
indsey O’Brien, Collection Services
Library Assistant
• M
ira Alecci, General Collections
Library Assistant
• Cheryl Wegner, Cataloging Librarian
• S amantha Alfrey, General Collections
Library Assistant
• K
elly Allen, General Collections
Library Assistant
• K
atharina Bond, General Collections
Library Assistant
• A
nne Costakis, General Collections
Library Assistant
• M
atthew Krc, General Collections
Library Assistant
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• P
atrick A. Morris, Map Cataloger and
Reference Librarian
Modern Manuscripts Section
• M
artha Briggs, Lloyd Lewis Curator
of Modern Manuscripts
• A
lison Hinderliter, Manuscripts and
Archives Librarian
• Lisa Janssen, Senior Project Archivist
• Kelly Kress, Project Archivist
• Emma Martin, Archives Technician
• Jill Gage, Reference Librarian
• Patricia J. Wiberley, Serials Assistant
Cataloging Section
• James R. Akerman, Curator of Maps
Reference and Genealogy Services Section
• M
atthew Rutherford, Curator of Genealogy
and Local History, Reference Team Leader
• Ginger Frere, Reference Librarian
• Eric Nygren, Acquisitions Manager
Department of Maps & Modern Manuscripts
Department of Digital Initiatives and Services
• J ennifer Thom, Director of Digital
Initiatives and Services
• Anne Flannery, Assistant Director
• Adam Strohm, Digital Collections Librarian
Digital Imaging Services
• John Powell, Digital Imaging Services Manager
• Catherine Gass, Photographer
Public Programs
• Rachel Bohlmann, Director
• Molly Fletcher, Program Assistant
• G
wendolyn Rugg, Program Assistant and
Spotlight Exhibitions Coordinator
Staff
Development
• D
aniel Greene, Vice President for Research
and Academic Programs
• M
ichelle Miller Burns, Vice President for
Development
• A nna Brenner, Program Assistant
• Sarah Alger, Director of Annual Giving
• W
endy Buta, Administrative Assistant to the
Vice President for Development
• Carla Zecher, Director
• Dan Crawford, Book Fair Manager
• Karen Christianson, Associate Director
• Vince Firpo, Annual Giving Manager
• A ndrew Belongea, Program Assistant
• V
eneese Mollison, Associate Director of
Development for Donor Services
Hermon Dunlap Smith Center
for the History of Cartography
• Jo Anne Moore, Associate Director of
Development Events
• James R. Akerman, Director
• Meredith Petrov, Campaign Manager
• Peter Nekola, Assistant Director
• K ristin Emery, Program Assistant
The D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian
and Indigenous Studies
• Scott Manning Stevens, Director
• Jade Cabagnot, Program Coordinator
History and Culture
• Liesl Olson, Director
• Christopher Cantwell, Assistant Director
• Carmen Jaramillo, Program Assistant
Professional Development Programs
for Teachers
• Rachel Rooney, Director
• H
ana Layson, Digital Collections for the
Classroom Manager
• C
harlotte Wolfe, Program Coordinator –
Newberry Teachers’ Consortium
Finance and Administration
• J ames P. Burke, Jr., Vice President for Finance
and Administration
Business Office
• Ron Kniss, Controller
• Cheryl L. Tunstill, Staff Accountant
Facilities Management
• M
ichael Mitchell, Facilities Manager
and Chief Security Officer
• Verkista Burruss, Facilities Coordinator
• P
ete Diernberger, Building Maintenance
Worker
Human Resources
• Judith Rayborn, Director
• Nancy Claar, Payroll Manager
Information Technology
• Drin Gyuk, Director
Scholarly and Undergraduate Programs
Department
• Diane Dillon, Director
• Suzy Morgan, Web Manager
• John Tallon, IT Support & Systems
Administrator
• Molly Fletcher, Program Assistant
Internal Services
• Jason Ulane, Internal Services Coordinator
Office of Events and Volunteers
• K
aren Aubrey, Director of Events, Tours
and Volunteer Programs
• Adam Mayberry, Associate Director of Events
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Summary of Financial Position
For the year ended June 30, 2013— with summarized totals
for the year ended June 30, 2012 (000s omitted).
2013
2012
Assets
Cash and receivables
$1,857
Investments
62,312
Land, buildings, equipment
10,593
Other noncurrent assets 5,170
$1,769
55,049
9,701
4,692
Total assets
$79,932
$71,211
Accounts payable and accrued expenses
$1,200
Other current liabilities
574
Long-term debt 4,720
Other noncurrent liabilities
408
$863
194
3,800
435
Total liabilities
6,902
5,292
Net assets
73,030
65,919
Liabilities and net assets
Total liabilities and net assets
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$79,932
$71,211
Summary of Activities
For the year ended June 30, 2013— with summarized totals
for the year ended June 30, 2012 (000s omitted).
20132012
Revenues
Gifts and grants for operations
$8,772
$5,263
Gifts to endowment 1,739
351
Investment gain (loss) 5,419
(1,235)
Other revenues 1,872
1,696
Total revenues and other gains (losses)
17,802
6,075
Expenditures
Library and collection services
4,728
4,433
Research and academic programs 3,083 2,878
Management and general 1,655 1,689
Development1,225 1,213
Total expenditures
10,691
10,213
Change in net assets
$7,111
$(4,138)
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Politics, Piety,
and Poison
In January of 2010, the Newberry embarked on a
was equipped to analyze early modern documents,
three-year, high-priority enterprise: the cataloging
which are often replete with idiosyncratic grammar
and organization of some 27,000 French pamphlets.
and archaic vocabulary.
ese documents are a medley of mordant satires and
e pamphlets and broadsides fell into four clusters:
patriotic odes, tales of regicide and more mundane
the French Revolution Collection, which totals 30,000
political discourse. e collection appeared in a
pamphlets and 180 periodicals, published between
Spotlight exhibition, “Politics, Piety, and Poison:
1780 and 1810 (some of which had already been cataFrench Pamphlets, 1600-1800,” which was mounted
loged); the Louis XVI Trial and Execution Collection,
in the Smith Gallery from January to April of 2013, at
which includes 600 government-issued pamphlets, on
the project’s end.
is project arose in the Hidden
Collections Committee, a team drawn
from the several Library Services
departments. e committee determined through analysis of scholarship
trends, reader requests, and collection
strengths that the Newberry’s French
pamphlets were a high priority for
better reader access, which could be
provided only by cataloging.
With a grant of $488,000 from the
Council on Library and Information
Resources, generously funded by the
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the
Newberry hired a team of cataloging assistants supervised by an
experienced professional cataloger.
All team members were fluent in
Révolutions de France et de Brabant, Vol. 1, [1789], FRC 5.1296
French, but they came from a variety
of backgrounds in librarianship and
the humanities. “At any given time, we had four
the moral and political repercussions of a king’s trial
catalogers on the French pamphlets team—for a
and beheading; a host of publishers’ prospectuses, catatotal of seven catalogers in all,” explains Jessica
logs, and items relating to the French book trade; and
Grzegorski, Senior Cataloging Projects Librarian.
the Saint-Sulpice Collection, a large set of biographical
“Because the materials were relatively homogeneous,
papers, such as funeral sermons and commemorative
we were able to create cataloging templates and to
verses that include early editions of works by Budé,
perform targeted training.” In time, each cataloger
Pascal, and Molière.
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e Newberry Magazine
Senior Cataloging Projects Librarian Jessica Grzegorski and representatives from the Council on Library and Information Resources
Christa Williford and Jena Winberry tour the Newberry’s French
Pamphlets Exhibition.
Cataloging these items required an intensely focused
effort. (e project’s breadth, Grzegorski recalls, drew
audible gasps from members of the cataloging community.) To grapple with this massive task, the project
managers implemented a system of peer review. For instance, pamphlets in the French Revolution Collection
were divided into portfolios, each with 20-40 pamphlets. A cataloging assistant would create initial
records for each pamphlet, and then pass the portfolio
to a peer assistant. is peer would proofread for typographical errors, valid subject headings, and appropriate notes. “e advantages of this process are many,”
explains Grzegorski. “It draws on the complementary
strengths of our diverse team. For example, some team
members excel at subject analysis, while others may
proofread meticulously or have a deep knowledge of
the historical events represented in the pamphlets.”
“is method has been highly successful, beyond
expectations,” says Alan Leopold, the Chauncey and
Marion D. McCormick Family Foundation Director
of Collection Services. “Its success was due to proven
in-house management skills [and] an excellent staff.”
e project was so fruitful that the team could catalog
an additional two collections: the Howard Mayer
Brown libretto collection, an important gathering of
Italian and French opera libretti spanning 400 years of
musical publishing; and the Pamfletten-Verzameling,
a collection of 1,600 Dutch tracts, which reveal the
history of the Netherlands, France, Germany, Spain,
and Scandinavia in the early modern era.
In spite of their scope, “there’s something intimate
about each of these items,” says Grzegorski. Handling
a piece of history is oen awe-inspiring—whether one
is thumbing the pages of an early modern monograph
or digging through a family’s genealogical papers. But
what is fascinating about these pamphlets, and what
defines this project, is that “they’re so quotidian, so
immediate. You feel as if you have a closer sense of the
times.” Many of these documents were not expected,
or intended, to weather the years. ey were rapidly
printed and haphazardly distributed and are a snapshot
of a volatile era. Among them can be found personal
defenses against libel, the impassioned speeches of
provincial legislators, and the scribbled notes of the
Francophone Everyman. ese documents, and the
voices they project, are, perhaps, the minutiae of
France before and during the French Revolution.
But we cannot dismiss them; they transcend official
histories and broaden our understanding of a
seminal epoch.
For the Newberry French pamphlets team, this
project and the culminating exhibition have a more
immediate resonance: they allowed the team’s members
to perform outreach and, in Grzegorski’s phrasing, to
become emissaries. e cataloging team maintained a
blog with twice-weekly postings, which detailed their
findings and progress. “Elsewhere, this outreach task
may have been le to curators or senior staff. It really
was a chance for us to connect with the public.”
Catalogers, it should be said, are fundamental to the
library’s mission, responsible for making possible the
research that goes on here daily. ey may be less likely
to see readers than are reference staff or curators, but
French pamphlets cataloged and ready for use in the Stack Building.
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they build and maintain the library’s most visible tool
for discovery—the online catalog. “Each of the catalog’s
records was a process,” explains Leopold. e catalog,
he continues, is more than a compilation of metadata,
of subject headings or coded information; it has been
a collaborative effort since 1887 with contributions by
many hands. “Catalogers check existing databases for
information. [In the absence of information], they
discuss the item with colleagues, or reach out to the
cataloging community. At the Newberry, we’re ideally
positioned to work together, which allows us to form
a sense of identity.”
For all involved, the French pamphlet project was
a confirmation of Collection Services’ ability to affect
the trends of scholarship, and to touch every Newberry
department’s work, directly or indirectly. In the project’s wake, notes Leopold, “there’s been an increase in
[the pamphlets’] circulation and discussion, and an
increased number of fellowship applicants who are
hoping to work with these documents. To see these
elements come together is truly rewarding.”
Profile: Alan Leopold
expertise at the Newberry, we have cataloging conLeading all Newberry cataloging endeavors is Alan
tacts, and we can post images of items on Flickr.”
Leopold, the Chauncey and Marion D. McCormick
Catalogers, he says, are part of a community: “It’s
Family Foundation Director of Collection Services.
a tight-knit network. There’s no competition among
Collection Services consists of three sections: Acquicatalogers, and we’ll often work with individuals from
sitions, Cataloging, and Special Projects. Leopold
other institutions.” At the Newberry, he continues,
oversees each of these sections, while representing
catalogers (and members of Collection Services,
his department on a number of in-house committees,
more generally) are uniquely fortunate. “Elsewhere,
including the Library Services Committee, Hidden
Technical Services might be located in a basement.
Collections Committee, Disaster Recovery Team,
But here, we have prime real estate, and we’re all
and Aeon Online Circulation Committee. Leopold
located in one room, which creates a better sense
also keeps abreast of trends in library management
of identity.”
and performs statistical analysis of the Newberry
“What’s enjoyable about working in Collection
collection.
Services,” Leopold concludes, “is that everything withUnder Leopold’s leadership, the Newberry comin the library is connected to the collection. Everybody,
pleted a major retrospective catalog conversion and
from our Trustees to Reader Services, works with the
built the foundation for several cataloging projects,
catalog. And so, we touch everybody’s work.”
which have collectively altered the face and nature
of access to our collection. But at heart, Leopold
is a cataloger, quick to explain the difficulties
and stages of the cataloging process. When
creating a catalog entry, he explains, he and
the catalogers first check WorldCat, a global
catalog of library collections. “If a pre-existing
record does not exist, I start from scratch.
I assemble the information that’s needed—
who’s the creator, what’s the title, what sort
of notes would be helpful.”
In the occasional instance when he is
unable to identify a piece of data—if, for
example, it was written in an unusual
language—he relies on special tools of the
cataloging trade. “Catalogers, who routinely
are exposed to different types of materials,
develop ways of working with unfamiliar
languages. We can identify key words, like
‘publisher,’ based on their usual placement
Alan Leopold, Chauncey and Marion D. McCormick Family Foundation
or wording. If we don’t have the necessary
Director of Collection Services
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Book Arts Take Wing
A Meditation in Rome, Wing folio ZPP 2085 .M2265
In bibliophilic circles, there is something of a smirking typology, which generalizes about the quirks and
foibles of book collectors. ere are, it is said, the faithful bibliophiles who center their corpora on a singular
type or title, and the mercantile collectors whose dealings are inspired by acquisitive zeal. And then, of
course, there are the eccentrics—the autodidacts,
roused by a bibliophilic whimsy. eir collections
defy what others might claim is systematic order, in
favor of instinct and idiosyncratic taste. One such
collector was John Mansir Wing, a nineteenth-century
journalist, who regarded the book arts as “a delightful
rig” (or niche interest). From his bequest of books and
money, the Newberry has assembled a collection of
items that in the aggregate illustrates the colorful
currents in printing and book history.
Today, the Wing Foundation is one of the world’s
leading collections in its field. It runs a literary gamut,
from design usage and theory to bookselling and
binding. “Wing purchases range widely,” says Paul
Gehl, Custodian of the John M. Wing Foundation on
the History of Printing, and George Amos Poole III
Curator of Rare Books. “[is year’s purchases] include
everything from a beautiful volume of passages by
Proust, illustrated with mezzotints by Judith Rothchild,
to a style manual for the Dutch government’s new
typeface, De Stijl van het Rijk.” ese holdings vary
geographically, as well as topically. “We have miniature
books from Bačka Topolya, Serbia and Tampa, Florida.
e book arts are infinitely varied, so our purchases
must be, too.”
Since its creation, the Wing Foundation has become
less of a “rig” and more of a sweeping history. Which
isn’t to say that Wing’s unconventional passion was
ousted or sidelined. On the contrary, one man’s
enthusiasm has become a rich and enduring resource
enjoyed by the community at large.
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Calligraphy Crescendo
For 20-plus years, the Chicago Calligraphy
Collective has held its juried exhibition at the
Newberry. Founded in 1976, this dynamic
organization fosters the study, practice, and
appreciation of calligraphy. Its exhibition
“Exploration 2013” surveyed the historical
and present-day applications of this beautiful, if little understood, art form.
e annual showcase invites visitors to discover calligraphic riches: handmade books and
broadsides, three-dimensional works, and an
array of traditional and experimental styles.
Relearning the Alphabet, Caritas
ese works are the cream of the calligraphic
Written by Denise Levertov with calligraphy by omas Ingmire, this alphabet book
crop. Entries are selected for their use of vibrant was published as part of a collection of poetry. VAULT Wing MS folio ZW 983 .I53.
colors, for depth of meaning and gestural
energy, or for the application of innovative styles
Working with Wing
and media.
Volunteer work offers an additional route for involvAs home to the Wing Foundation, the Newberry
ing the public. One volunteer of long-standing is Robert
is an ideal venue. It holds a superb assemblage of
Williams, a former book designer at the University
calligraphic materials, finished products of great beauty
of Chicago Press. Since retiring in 2002, Williams has
and repute. e Newberry, Gehl explains, is equally
donated his time and talent to the Wing Foundation,
committed to revealing the creative process. “We are
working in conjunction with Gehl.
one of the best places to see sketches, drawings, and
“Bob is an asset in many ways,” Gehl extols. “He
trials—the documents of process—by calligraphers of
was, prior to my arrival at the Newberry, more familiar
all periods.”
with the Wing Collection than any other member of
Aer each exhibition, the Newberry acquires one of
the calligraphic community. He knew the collection,
the displayed items (and any accompanying dras or
book by book, and I relied on him from the start for
notes). Gehl is quick to note that this Purchase Prize
expert opinions on individual items, and for the meaning
isn’t a “best in show.” “It’s an opportunity to add to our
and context of those items.”
already strong holdings; to add new artists, new ideas,
Because his background is in graphic design and calnew media, or particular techniques.”
ligraphy, Williams says, “Paul put me to work organizing
“In the award’s early years,” he recalls, “calligraphy
some of the uninventoried collections.” ese items, he
was moving toward an interesting idiom—jazz writing,
notes, ranged from “loose sheets of printed and manua highly musical and spontaneous technique. As a
script calligraphy [to] printed portraits of calligraphers
curator, I’ve found that there is a relationship between
from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century.”
music and calligraphy. Historically, both were regarded
Later Williams worked on organizing the papers
as rhythmic arts, as one-off performances. But this
of Don May, a designer and art director for several
particular idiom was not represented in our collection,
Chicago-based publications. ese papers, donated
so I kept it in mind when selecting the winner.”
by the May Family Trust in 2005, took almost five
“Exploration” was a calligraphic celebration—an
years to inventory—with good reason, inasmuch as
occasion to study, revel in, and engage with this
the collection houses 34 boxes of materials: dras,
art form.
thumbnail sketches, and mock-ups of finished artwork;
e 2014 edition of this annual exhibition runs
professional typescripts and teaching materials; and,
from April 7 through June 27.
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most intriguingly, a series of letters from Conrad
Hilton, who asked May to design personal Christmas
cards, stationery, and official graphics for the Hilton
Hotel Corporation.
e Newberry staff and its patrons are much indebted to Williams. But, in his mind, the relationship
is reciprocal. “e library has enriched me in many
ways, and exploring the Wing collection has produced
countless discoveries.” ese discoveries informed and
led to the composition of several publications, including
his A Moon to eir Sun: Writing Mistresses of the
Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, which explores
the work and contributions of female calligraphers.
“One of [my] biggest discoveries,” Williams adds,
“was the diaries of John M. Wing himself, which were
in the library since 1919 but, as far as I know, unread.”
Williams transcribed these journals, which were subsequently published by the Southern Illinois University
Press. What resulted, says Gehl, was “a wonderful
story, which makes for a lively reading. It describes a
man who lived by his wits in a fascinating moment,
a moment when soldiers were being demobilized in
post-Civil War Chicago.”
Williams, it would seem, is a man of many interests
and talents, which Gehl is quick to describe: “He has
a phenomenal visual memory, which is particularly
useful when you’re faced with a disordered archive
of papers. Without him, or memories like his, related
items would never be compared and connected.” In
that regard, and for reviving the memory of Jack
Wing, that idiosyncratic collector, the Newberry is in
Williams’s debt. Volunteering is its own art form.
John Mansir Wing
Type in Time
Williams’s books, though a credit to the Wing
Foundation, are just some of the publications to rise
from this collection. In 2012, curator Paul Gehl
launched A Meditation in Rome, an insightful exploration of typographic revivalism. Its text derives from
an earlier address, “How Can Type History Be Good
History?”, which Gehl delivered before a plenary
session of ATypI Roma.
A Meditation in Rome examines the façade of the
Roman Pantheon. With its inscription in mind, Gehl
suggests that designers immerse themselves in the
history of letter forms, so as to appreciate the full
implications of their selected type. “Over the years,”
he explains, “the meaning of the inscription on the
Pantheon has changed; in fact, the vast majority of
people who have seen it over the centuries either
misunderstood it or did not read it at all. It is easy to
admire the letters without knowing what they mean,
but the experience is immensely richer if you can
recover some of the historical context.”
Gehl’s book was produced by Russell Maret, a type
designer and printer, who created a unique metal
type ornament for the binding. e work’s pages are
decorated with historical imagery, typographic comparisons, and a large, fold-out photograph by Annie
Schlechter. e text appears in Maret’s own types,
Gremolata and Cancellaresca Milanese.
In a sense, A Meditation in Rome symbolizes
much of what defines the Wing Foundation: beautiful
lettering, an intricate history, and an opportunity for
significant learning.
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Former Newberry Fellow and 2012 MacArthur Foundation Fellow Dylan Penningroth talks with former Vice President for Research and
Academic Programs Daniel Greene.
In Conversation: Dylan Penningroth and Daniel Greene
Dylan Penningroth, Associate Professor of
History at Northwestern University and Research
Professor at the American Bar Foundation,
was a National Endowment for the Humanities
(NEH) Fellow at the Newberry in 2006–07.
His award-winning 2003 book The Claims of
Kinfolk (University of North Carolina Press)
examines slavery, property, and community
in the South. Professor Penningroth in 2012
received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship,
known popularly as a “genius grant.” The
Newberry’s former Vice President for Research
and Academic Programs, Daniel Greene, spoke
with Penningroth about his scholarship.
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Daniel Greene: Tell me about why you put the idea
of kinship at the center of your book, e Claims
of Kinfolk.
Dylan Penningroth: I wanted to write a book of
African American history that centered on African
Americans, which took account of race relations, but
wasn’t defined or determined by that. I thought that
one way to do it would be to look at black people’s
relationships with one another. And it turns out that
one great way to get at that is to look at records of
stolen property, confiscated property.
DG: How do you find African Americans’ voices in
such sources?
DP: Most of the case files that remain cover people
who were white. I went into the archives and found
500 claims related to blacks. Within each of these
claims, there are black folks, and they’re talking. It’s all
very structured and rote so it’s not like they’re saying
whatever they want—it’s not autobiographical at all.
But in a way, what that particular set of sources gives
you is the biography of their property. And as any
scholar of property knows, property is not a relationship between a person and a thing, it’s a relationship
among people about a thing.
DG: What project were you working on when you
were an NEH Fellow at the Newberry?
DP: I was doing two things. I was starting a new book
project, which at the time I thought was going to be a
full-on comparison of the United States and West
Africa on legacies of slavery. I was looking at railroad
records in the Pullman Company archive, and I still
want to come back to look at the Illinois Central
records. I also looked at the Newberry’s collection of
slave narratives, which are available in other places too,
but not in such a wonderful space.
DG: You also looked at the Atlas of Historical County
Boundaries, a Newberry research project that maps
the changes in boundaries for every US county
throughout history. How did you use the atlas?
but the trick is you need to know what county they’re in
to have any degree of confidence that you have the right
person. e county boundaries settled down by 1860,
which is when my study begins. But the boundaries
still sometimes danced around, and I wanted to know
whether the boundaries had shied, consolidated, if
the person I was looking at lived on the edge of the
county—some of these towns were on the edge—so I
used the atlas to make a more confident match.
DG: What did it mean for you to be a fellow in the
community of scholars here?
DP: It was amazing! I look back on that time as a
period when I made the turn decisively toward my new
project. A lot of the really hard thinking happened right
here; just having the space to think mattered, but also
the people I was interacting with mattered. ere was
a class of fellows that year that as usual was scattered
around different disciplines, different time periods and
interests. But there was a little cluster of nineteenthcentury US scholars, including Laura Edwards (Duke),
Susan Johnson (UW-Madison), and Lisa Tetrault
(Carnegie Mellon). And that worked great.
DG: You may know that 2012 marked the fourth
year in a row that a former Newberry fellow won
a “genius grant” from the MacArthur Foundation.
How do you explain our run, Dylan?
DP: You guys have good taste. I’m going to pat myself
on the back and say that. It’s nice to be in this company.
I mean, I knew coming in that this was the place to be.
DP: I had figured out that I was going to be looking at
an awful lot of trial court records, which do not identify
the litigants by race, so you don’t know if they’re black
or white. A whole pile of names. You don’t know how
many of them were slaves. You don’t know how many
of them were even black with these postwar trial
records, and so I turned to the census and to
ancestry.com. ere, you can look up individuals,
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Newsworthy at the Newberry
125TH ANNIVERSARY
e spring of 2013 marked the culmination of two
major Newberry achievements: our 125th anniversary,
and the successful completion of the $25 million
Campaign for Tomorrow’s Newberry.
To celebrate, the Newberry hosted a splendid event
on May 13, 2013 honoring author David McCullough
and co-chaired by Trustee Jonathan and Nancy Lee
Kemper, Trustee Grant and Suzanne McCullagh, and
Trustee David McNeel. About 500 people, including
Mayor Rahm Emanuel, came to the nearby Harvest
Bible Chapel (formerly the Scottish Rite Cathedral) for
the presentation of e Newberry Library Award to
McCullough and his subsequent remarks. McCullough
enjoyed his visit, and he decided to donate to the
Newberry a painting by George P.A. Healy, to go with
our large collection of Healy portraits. It now hangs in
the third-floor reference area.
e Newberry Library Award is the highest honor
the library bestows. Established in 1987 (the Newberry’s
centennial year), it is given to individuals who have
made important and influential contributions to the
humanities.
McCullough, widely acclaimed as a “master of the
art of narrative history,” is a two-time winner of the
Pulitzer Prize, a two-time winner of the National
Book Award, and a recipient of the Presidential Medal
of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian award.
McCullough’s most recent book, e Greater Journey:
Americans in Paris, is a New York Times bestseller,
lauded by critics as a dazzling enterprise. His earlier
books cut a wide swath across American history: John
Adams, e Johnstown Flood, e Great Bridge, e
Path Between the Seas, Mornings on Horseback, Brave
Companions, and Truman.
In the citation accompanying the award, Newberry
President David Spadafora observed about McCullough
that “It is hard to imagine a practitioner of the humanities who has had a greater impact on our country in
recent decades, or who has better modeled how
writers of history can make their findings engagingly
accessible to a wide and appreciative audience. Mr.
McCullough is also recognized as an ardent advocate
for the importance of history to our country and people, and for libraries great and small as institutions that
enrich our lives in many ways.” Spadafora concluded
by describing McCullough as the omas
Babington Macaulay of our time.
At the close of the ceremony, visitors
adjourned to the General Reading Room on
the second floor of the Newberry. ere, over
dinner attended by more than 300 people,
it was announced that the Campaign for
Tomorrow’s Newberry had reached and
surpassed its goal. Early in baseball season,
it was a Newberry triple play: the Newberry
Award to one of the country’s most
distinguished writers, the culminating event
of the 125th anniversary celebration, and the
announcement of a highly successful major
fundraising campaign.
At the Newberry Library 125th Anniversary Celebration in May, Newberry
Board of Trustees Chair Victoria J. Herget presented e Newberry Library
Award to author David McCullough.
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Our Banner in the Sky
Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago, Daniel J. Terra Collection, 1992.27. Our Banner in the Sky was painted by Frederic Edwin
Church in 1861. Inspired by the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter in April of that year, Church painted Our Banner in the Sky to reflect
growing feelings of patriotism in the nation.
HOME FRONT: DAILY LIFE IN THE CIVIL WAR NORTH
More than 150 years aer it began, the Civil War
still occupies a prominent place in the national collective memory. Cultural productions tend to portray the
war as a battle over the future of slavery, or focus on
Lincoln’s determination to save the Union while
brother fought against brother. Most of these depictions neglect the war’s influence on the home front.
e exhibition “Home Front: Daily Life in the Civil
War North,” which ran from September 2013 through
March 2014, explored the Civil War beyond the battlefield, with a special emphasis on contemporary visual
culture. It juxtaposed an outstanding group of paintings from the Terra Foundation for American Art with
a wealth of material from the Newberry, including
popular prints, illustrated newspapers and magazines,
photographs and letters, sheet music, fashion plates,
and other ephemera.
An online exhibition makes many of these materials
available permanently on the Newberry’s website. Go
to http:\\publications.newberry.org/digitalexhibitions.
e beautifully illustrated book of essays, published
by the University of Chicago Press to accompany (and
bearing the same title as) the exhibition, has won a
major honor: e American Publishers Award for
Professional and Scholarly Excellence in the “Art
Exhibitions” category.
is book and the exhibition were organized by the
Newberry Library in partnership with, and through
major support from, the Terra Foundation for
American Art.
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BOOK FAIR AND BUGHOUSE
Join us this summer from July 24 to 27, as we
celebrate the 30th anniversary of Book Fair! To mark
this notable occasion, we’ll be adding a variety of
special activities to our annual, unrivaled offering of
used cookbooks, mysteries, romances, biographies,
travel books, collectibles, and more. Many of the items
are priced at $2, which means compiling a summer
reading list or even a whole library has never been
easier. Admission is free and all proceeds support the
Newberry.
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On Saturday, July 26, the Newberry hosts the
annual Bughouse Square Debates. For 28 years, this
free-speech celebration has brought thinkers, advocates, shouters, and rebels to Washington Square Park,
popularly known as Bughouse Square. is year’s
speakers will grapple with hot-button issues, weather
the jeers of a lively crowd, and compete for the coveted
Dill Pickle Award, given to the champion soap
box speaker.
Starting in the 1910s, and continuing for decades,
Washington Square Park attracted all manner of people
who wanted to make a point through
public oratory—poets and Bohemians,
academics and anarchists, and religionists
of all persuasions. Speakers perched on
soapboxes, pontificating before crowds of
curious, if disruptive, bystanders. is verbal brouhaha was quieted by the onset of
World War II and later disappeared
altogether. Fortunately, it was revived in
1986 and became what it remains, an
annual mecca for public discourse.
e 2014 Bughouse Square Debates
are generously sponsored by William Blair
& Company.
Public Programs at the Newberry
MAY – OCTOBER 2014
This is a partial list; check www.newberry.org
for more programs. Unless otherwise noted, all
public programs are free and no reservations
are required.
SEPTEMBER
Conversations at the Newberry
Genealogy and Local History Orientation
Neil Steinberg and Thomas Dyja discuss
Chicago as the Second City
Saturday, September 6, 9:30 am
Tuesday, September 30, 6 pm
Musical Perfomance
MAY
Stephen Kleiman, Compositions
TBA
JUNE
Stephen Kleiman, composter and orchestra
conductor, and an instructor in the Newberry’s
adult education seminars program, will offer a
concert of original chamber music.
Meet the Author
Saturday, June 7, 9:30 am
Jon K. Lauck, The Lost Region: Toward a
Revival of Midwestern History
Wednesday, September 17, 6 pm
Saturday, May 3, 9:30 am
Adult Education Seminars
Early Registration Deadline
Tuesday, June 3
Urban History Talk
Ian Morley
“The City Beautiful Comes to the Philippines:
Urban Design and American National Identities
in the Early Twentieth Century”
Wednesday, June 4, 6 pm
Although it is recognized that American urban
designers used space differently from their
colonial predecessors in the Philippines, not
much is known about how American city
planning shaped ideas of nationhood in the
new colony. Historian Ian Morley explores City
Beautiful plans for the Philippines and
describes how the designs attempted to
convey ideas about advancement and new
national identities in the colony.
Ian Morley is Assistant Professor in the
Department of History at the Chinese
University of Hong Kong. He is author of
British Provincial Civic Design and the Building
of Late-Victorian and Edwardian Cities, 18801914 among other publications.
JULY
Saturday, July 12, 9:30 am
Newberry Book Fair
Thursday, July 24 – Sunday, July 27
Bughouse Square Debates
Saturday, July 26, 1 pm
Washington Square Park
(across from the Newberry)
AUGUST
Saturday, August 2, 9:30 am
In comparison to the South, the far West, and
New England, the history of the Midwest has
been sadly neglected. In addition to outlining
the centrality of the Midwest to crucial
moments in American history, Jon K. Lauck
resurrects the long-forgotten stories of the
institutions founded by an earlier generation of
midwestern historians. The Lost Region
demonstrates the importance of the Midwest,
the depth of historical work once written about
the region, and the continuing insights that can
be gleaned from this body of knowledge, all
with the intent of finding the forgotten center of
the nation and developing a robust
historiography of the Midwest.
Attorney, historian, and senior advisor and
counsel to South Dakota Senator John Thune,
Jon K. Lauck is the author of three books on
midwestern political and economic history and
the coauthor and coeditor of a collection of
essays on South Dakota’s political culture.
Meet the Author
Michael Blanding, The Map Thief: The Gripping
Story of an Esteemed Rare-Map Dealer Who
Made Millions Stealing Priceless Maps
Saturday, September 27, 1 pm
Maps have long exerted a special fascination
on viewers—as beautiful works of art and as
practical navigational tools. But to those who
collect them, the map trade can be a cutthroat
business, inhabited by quirky and sometimes
disreputable characters in search of a finite
number of extremely rare objects. Once
considered a respectable antiquarian map
dealer, E. Forbes Smiley spent years doubling
as a map thief—until he was finally arrested
slipping maps out of books in the Yale
University library. The Map Thief delves into the
untold history of this fascinating high-stakes
criminal and the inside story of the industry that
consumed him.
Michael Blanding is an author and journalist
with more than fifteen years of experience
writing long-form narrative and investigative
journalism and has written for The Nation, The
New Republic, Consumers Digest, and The
Boston Globe Magazine.
In the context of relatively recent public
criticism of the city by critic and writer Rachel
Shteir, Thomas Dyja, author of Third Coast, and
Neil Steinberg, author of You Were Never in
Chicago, will debate Chicago as the Second
City and its place in American history and
culture.
OCTOBER
Saturday, October 4, 9:30 am
Meet the Author
Miriam Pawel, The Crusades of Cesar
Chavez: A Biography
Tuesday, October 7, 6 pm
Cesar Chavez founded a labor union, launched
a movement, and inspired a generation. He
rose from migrant worker to national icon,
becoming one of the great charismatic leaders
of the twentieth century. Two decades after his
death, Chavez remains the most significant
Latino leader in US history. In the first
comprehensive biography of Chavez, Miriam
Pawel offers a searching yet empathetic
portrayal. Chavez emerges as a visionary figure
with tragic flaws; a brilliant strategist who
sometimes stumbled. He was an experimental
thinker with eclectic passions—an avid, selfeducated historian and a disciple of Gandhian
non-violent protest. Pawel’s biography deepens
our understanding of one of Chavez’s most
salient qualities: his profound humanity.
Miriam Pawel is the author of The Union of
Their Dreams, widely acclaimed as the most
nuanced history of Cesar Chavez’s movement.
She is a Pulitzer-winning editor who spent
twenty-five years working for Newsday and the
Los Angeles Times.
Open House Chicago
Saturday – Sunday, October 18 – 19
As part of the Chicago Architecture
Foundation’s city-wide Open House, the
Newberry welcomes visitors to guided tours of
the library’s historically landmarked building.
Shakespeare Project of Chicago
Saturday, October 25, 10 am
King Lear
In honor of its twentieth anniversary, the
Shakespeare Project of Chicago celebrates
with a season of The Bard’s greatest tragedies.
We launch the year with King Lear, a staged
reading directed by Peter Garino.
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