Fall/Winter 2017 No. 9 by Newberry Library

Fall/Winter 2017 Issue 9

Faithfully Told Going beyond abstractions to find stories of religious change

Biblical Proportions This fall marks the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s 95 Theses, and it occasions an experimental, Newberry-wide project titled Religious Change, 1450-1700. Seeking to foster even greater collaboration across the library by orienting our many activities around a single theme, Newberry staff have developed a variety of opportunities for our many audiences to explore the fierce religious debates of the early modern era and their myriad social, cultural, and political consequences. In the following pages, I invite you to read about this important historical period, along with the behind-the-scenes efforts that have gone into illuminating it here at the Newberry.

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Of course, it is not only Newberry staff who bring history to life, through their investigation and exhibition deployment of the collection; our users do so every day in the library’s reading rooms. This issue of The Newberry Magazine includes the stories of two Newberry fellows, whose experiences embody the spirit of critical inquiry that f lourishes when scholars come together with primary sources.

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One story concerns Tatiana Seijas’s archival research on an American couple’s diplomatic trip to Mexico, where in 1878 they met with Porfirio Díaz, early in his presidency. The other relates to the world of emblem books, a genre that employs a combination of text and imagery to communicate complex ideas succinctly. Recently, while in residence at the Newberry as one of our long-term fellows, Mara Wade discovered a previously unknown copy of an emblem book originally published in 1617. The book yields new insights into the role emblems played at the time in expressing and establishing civic values in European society. Professor Wade’s discovery is now becoming available to the wider world of scholarship. Finally, as we continue to make preparations for a six-month renovation of the Newberry’s first f loor beginning this coming January, we bring you an interview with the project’s lead architects, Ann Beha and Steven Gerrard, of the Boston-based firm Ann Beha Architects. Having redesigned a number of libraries, museums, and other cultural institutions, Ann and Steve discuss how they seized upon the Newberry’s institutional and architectural identity to uncover—and develop plans to realize—opportunities for the restoration of original features and the introduction of spaces to accommodate new activities. The results promise to ref lect what they refer to as a “dynamic discourse between heritage and the future.” We hope you enjoy reading this issue of The Newberry Magazine, and we thank you for supporting our mission.

David Spadafora, President and Librarian

EDITOR Alex Teller ASSOCIATE EDITOR Jamie Waters DESIGNER Andrea Villasenor

The Newberry Magazine is published semiannually by the Newberry’s Office of Communications and Marketing. Articles in the magazine cover major archiving projects, digital initiatives, and exhibitions; the scholarship of fellows and Newberry staff; and the signature items and hidden gems of the collection. Every other issue contains the annual report for the most recently concluded fiscal year. A subscription to The Newberry Magazine is a benefit of membership in the Newberry Associates. To become a member, contact Luke Herman at hermanl@newberry.org. Unless otherwise credited, all images are derived from items in the Newberry collection or from events held at the Newberry, and have been provided by the Newberry’s Digital Imaging Services Office. Cover image: Typus Religionis, a painted print showing Jesuits ferrying souls to salvation (based on a painting done in the late sixteenth or early seventeenth century). Image below: Apocalypsis Sancti Johannis, block book printed in Germany, 1470

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Contents FEATURES Faithfully Told By Jamie Waters

In this quincentennial year of the Reformation, the Newberry has embarked on a project to explore the broader arc of religious change over a quarter millenium, highlighting groups of people who caused and experienced the era’s social, cultural, and political transformations.

A “Regretful Goodbye to Mexico” By Tatiana Seijas with Seonaid Valiant

I n March 1878, Marietta Davis and her husband made a semi-official visit to Mexico. Her deeply engaging diary records her impressions of the trip, suffused with memories of the Mexican-American War and U.S. Civil War.

Renaissance Memes By Karen Christianson

Emblems were a popular genre during the Renaissance, illustrating religious ideas or civic virtues through an economical combination of image and text. As a mode of expression, they seem to have a lot in common with today’s Internet memes.

Architects’ Perspective By Alex Teller

nn Beha and Steven Gerrard, two of the principals with Ann Beha A Architects, discuss their architectural philosophy and how they approached the Newberry’s first-f loor renovation.

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DONOR CORNER: Artists’ Books

RETROSPECT: Recent Events

PROSPECT: Upcoming Events

ANNUAL REPORT Letter from the Chair and the President

Collections and Library Services

Exhibitions and Public Engagement

Fellowship Programs

Research and Academic Programs

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Honor Roll of Donors

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Board of Trustees and Volunteer Committees

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Staff

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Financials

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Shelf Life

From the Stacks Pest Patrol Few activities demonstrate our conservators’ commitment to preserving Newberry collections quite like their fearless encounters with spiders and silverfish. This is the stuff of the quarterly pest patrol, which culminates in the Conservation Department’s pest management report, a detailed index of the number (and types) of insects that crawl or scurry into 100 traps set strategically throughout the library. Each report provides a helpful table organizing all the pests into an evocative taxonomy, ranging from “ants” and “book lice” to “moths” and “over 8 legs.”

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Produced by the Newberry, “Shelf Life” is a podcast series about the humanities—and the humans behind them. Each episode features a new conversation with librarians, curators, and researchers about anything from the history of fake news to the secret lives of famous American authors.

Being a Curator on Instagram Lauren Hewes is Curator of Graphic Arts at the American Antiquarian Society. She’s also the person behind AAS’s Instagram account. Each one of Lauren’s captions offers a mini-history lesson. But the visual emphasis of Instagram allows her to provide AAS’s followers with other pathways into its collection. As a result, Lauren has been able to build an eclectic audience, ranging from book lovers to tattoo artists.

Let There Be Page Numbers Print helped fuel the religious debates of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, which in turn stimulated major developments in the printing industry. As people were exhorted to read the Bible, new tools emerged to help them navigate its pages: page numbers, indexes, annotations—basically, all the features of the “apparatus of the book” that we take for granted today.

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Faithfully Told By Jamie Waters

ive hundred years ago, on October 31, 1517, Martin Luther circulated his 95 Theses. It inspired a revolution. At a time of increasing global exchange, the Reformation forever altered structures of authority, public and private religious life, and methods of the production and spread of knowledge.

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n this quincentennial year of the Reformation, the Newberry has embarked on a project to explore the broader arc of religious change over a quarter millennium, highlighting groups of people who caused and experienced the era’s social, cultural, and political transformations. With generous funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Religious Change, 1450-1700, is a Newberry-wide effort to produce an exhibition, digital resources, and public programs. Drawing on its collection, staff, community of learning, and capacity for public engagement, the Newberry is uniquely situated to weave together the epic history of societal disruption with the personal stories that illuminate it.

eginning around 1450, the Eurocentric worldview was upended. Encountering Africa, Asia, and then the Americas, and expanding trade and colonial activity, Western and Southern Europeans were increasingly aware of—and interacting with—more cultures than ever before. At the same time, the advent of print technology allowed for more rapid transmission of new information and Renaissance ideas, both within Europe and from distant lands. The world seemed simultaneously much larger and more accessible. It was in this milieu that Luther challenged the Roman Catholic Church and set in motion a vast cultural shift that shaped the modern world and its relationship to religious authority. He encouraged Christians to pursue their faith through direct encounter with scripture rather than through the mediation of the Church. These arguments were quickly reproduced and spread throughout Europe. A printing war exploded between Catholic institutions and those who would soon become known as Protestants—with even Henry VIII weighing in on the “Luther controversy” with mocking commentary. “The debate put into question the most stable institution of Western Europe; it shattered cultural authority and normative practice,” says Christopher Fletcher, who served as the Mellon Major Project Fellow for Religious Change for the 20162017 academic year. “There were suddenly many competing views of what ‘true “The Babylonian Captivity of the Church” Christianity’ was, and of 1520 was Luther’s second treatise directly it was completely out of attacking hypocrisy in the Catholic Church.

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A leaf from the Gutenberg Bible showing Ezekiel 37:11 to 39:7.

the control of the elites.” The debate ultimately led to lasting schisms within the Christian tradition, helping to set the stage for a pluralistic modern world. But the Newberry’s project isn’t simply devoted to providing a sweeping history of ideological and philosophical discourse. Rather, between 1450 and 1700, you can find both this overarching tale of cultural upheaval and the stories of the individuals within it. These individuals affected—and were deeply affected by—religious beliefs and practices. Jesuit missionaries translating the Bible into Indigenous languages in the Americas, converts in Italy who faced exile from their homes, travelers visiting Istanbul for the first time, academics debating the linguistics of the Bible, and admirals engaged in fierce sea battles over religious authority in France—they and many others were producers and products of religious change.

eligion in Europe and the Americas has been a collection strength since the Newberry’s founding, and it has continued to grow, especially recently. Newberry President David Spadafora says, “Within the last three decades, Chicago seminaries and colleges have given the Newberry rich

“The ‘Luther controversy’ put into question the most stable institution of Western Europe; it shattered cultural authority and normative practice.” collections of religious materials, which have complemented perfectly a strength that dates back to our very first book: a Bible.” The anniversary year of the Reformation became an opportunity to highlight this collection strength, make use of new acquisitions, uncover forgotten documents, and, ultimately, promote user engagement with them. Yet another collection strength of the Newberry—the history of the book—represents a driving force in religious discourse. Starting with the Gutenberg Bible around 1450, printing technology increased access to the central texts of Christianity as well as to competing theological viewpoints like Luther’s. Spadafora notes, “Print is critically important, because it allowed for two things: the acceleration of the spread of ideas

and the capacity for those ideas to reach a wider audience. It made less expensive the reproduction of texts, but it also made the pace of the reproduction of texts much faster. The impact of ideas starts occurring like hammer beats instead of very slowly.” The project would thus explore how innovations in religious thought and in print combined to spread ideas faster and further than ever before and how, together, religion and print helped to make the medieval world modern. By focusing the project on the relationship between print and religious debate, Newberry staff had a natural angle from which to explore the library’s collection as they designed the gallery exhibition, digital resources, and public programs.

The painted print Typus Religionis was a focus of controversy during the French wars of religion in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries thanks to its depiction of Jesuits and their superiority to the Pope, who has been censored out of this version (lower right quadrant).

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Conserving Religious Change For any exhibition, conservation plays an important role. Conservators clean and repair manuscripts and bindings; find or craft book supports and cradles to display materials in cases; mat, frame, and mount paintings, maps, and posters; and control light, humidity, and temperature levels in the exhibition environment. With an ambitious project like Religious Change, conservation’s role only grows. The sheer number of items involved increased, as did the ways they would be used for the project. Digital resources demanded photography and preservation work; many of the documents found in the curatorial discovery process required cleaning or more intensive conservation treatment; and exhibiting over 150 items—some quite large or unusually shaped—meant a very organized and careful process. One item that was particularly challenging for its size was a six-paneled 1629 map depicting the Siege of La Rochelle [Novacco 4F 112]. The piece shows a battle scene at the height of tensions between Protestants and Catholics in France, and rather than being a traditional navigational map is a large printed illustration meant as art. Its subject was perfect for the exhibition; it visualizes the impact of the rifts the Reformation caused and exemplifies their cultural significance. The matting and framing, however, posed quite the challenge. The six poster-sized sheets would need to be framed in one piece. Each sheet was secured to the mat board individually, using linen thread instead of paper hinges to give the fragile paper extra flexibility. Then the conservators covered the matting with a large piece of custom-cut plexiglass and reinforced it with a backing board, sealing it all together with a passepartout. This was then secured to the frame. One last challenge remained. To prevent dust from entering during the framing process, the map was framed in the Newberry’s Conservation Lab; but then the item, measuring 66”x66” when framed, had to be transported to the gallery space. It just barely fit through the doors leading out of the lab, and would need to be finessed diagonally into the elevator so the team could hang it securely in the gallery. —Jamie Waters & Kasie Janssen, Conservator for Special Projects

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In so doing, the library was able to uncover unknown stories and forgotten treasures, then share them with scholars and the general public as the project progressed. Early on, the project team reviewed some of these findings with an advisory group of scholars, who responded with surprise and delight. Dillon says, “They were constantly saying things like, ‘I had no idea this was here!’” One of these items was the Tarih-i Hind-i Garbi, an Ottoman manuscript from 1600 that tells the history of the Americas (based on European accounts) from the Ottoman perspective of the world. The piece is the oldest extant manuscript copy outside of Turkey and includes illustrations and maps to supplement the text. Thomas D. Goodrich published a translation of the Newberry manuscript in 1990, but the The discovery team for maps looks through materials for consideration. Patrick Morris, Map Catavolume went largely unused in the ensuing loging Librarian; Diane Dillon, Director of Exhibitions and Major Projects; Christopher Fletcher, 2016–2017 Mellon Major Projects Fellow; and Pete Nekola, formerly Assistant Director of the decades. When the discovery teams came across Smith Center for the History of Cartography. it, they immediately marked it for the exhibition, and it has since been highlighted in numerous collection presentations for visiting classes and guests. Though ince religious materials pervade many collections at the the Tarih-i Hind-i Garbi has been translated, exhibition Newberry, the lead project team consulted a range of attendees can continue to learn from it and see how the experts on staff and among the region’s academic institutions Ottomans situated themselves in world history and perceived to source material for the various components of the Europe and the Americas. project. This meant collaborating with most units of the

library—reference, digital initiatives, public programing, communications—as well as with the Newberry’s wider community of scholars. Spadafora, Fletcher, and Director of Exhibitions and Major Projects Diane Dillon assembled “discovery teams” in different subject areas (for example, Bibles, sermons, and tracts; the Americas; music and visual arts; Hebraica and Judaism; Islam; conversions and reconversions) to identify relevant materials in the collection. These teams set the tone for the exhibition and found material for the digital resources. “We didn’t go into the project with a rigid preestablished framework in mind,” Dillon says. “Rather, we allowed our intellectual framework to be shaped by what we found in the collection, by what ideas people brought to the fore in those discovery teams.” The discovery teams met throughout the summer of 2016, reviewing the pieces each person unearthed from all areas of the library stacks—including manuscripts, printed broadsides, maps, books, and works of art. They then recommended materials that could be used to illustrate the project’s themes, whether through a digital resource, the gallery The Ottoman manuscript Tarih-i Hind-i Garbi (ca. 1600) is a history of the world, and especially exhibition, or simply as a blog post. the Americas, with fantastical illustrations of reported natural life in the Western Hemisphere. The Newberry Magazine

ccording to Spadafora, the items uncovered during the discovery phase offer a sweeping view of “the importance of religion at the time, how religion changed, and how religion caused other aspects of life to change.” At the same time, they also convey the stories of those who lived through this change. “Stories make history more tangible,” Spadafora continues. “We tend to talk about abstractions. For example, one of the things that we wanted to explore in this exhibition was religious violence—there’s an abstraction. But if you frame that differently, if you talk about it in terms of the people who either were responsible for religious violence or who sought to constrain religious violence, you actually humanize those ideas. It’s not then abstractions getting up and acting in history: it’s people.”

Digital Charms Bedeviled by nosebleeds? Tormented by toothache? In a feud with a member of your local coven? You may find a quick—if unconventional—cure in the newly accessible contents of the Book of Magical Charms, a seventeenthcentury English commonplace book in the exhibition. Until recently, its contents were available only to those who grappled with its handwritten magic in our Special Collections Reading Room. But in June, the Newberry unveiled Transcribing Faith, a website that crowdsources transcriptions of digitized manuscripts—including this volume—from the public. On the site, volunteers view manuscript pages and type their contents, and the resulting transcriptions become publicly accessible and easily searchable. Expanding access to texts through transcription is a boon to researchers, but it also generates excitement for that research. Though there were some misgivings about digitizing sorcery (“NO BAD IDEA NO HAVE THESE PEOPLE NEVER SEEN A SINGLE HORROR MOVIE” tweeted @premeesaurus), the response to the resource was wildly positive. The digital resource garnered international media coverage and thousands of enthusiastic users. This was especially true among self-professed practitioners of the Dark Arts, who contacted us in droves: including a Canadian alchemist, a British occultist, and a Kentucky Wiccan. Will these respondents have any regrets when they encounter the book’s many anti-witch passages? We’ll be checking our inbox with trepidation. — M atthew Clarke, Digital Initiatives and Metadata Assistant

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Consequently, the exhibition refracts the wide panorama of history through the lens of concrete experiences. Take, for example, Philip Vincent, who was so traumatized by the Thirty Years War in Germany that he published a pamphlet detailing its horrors in an attempt to convince his countrymen to avoid a similar war in England. The Lamentations of Germany tells of—and illustrates—gruesome fighting, torture, and suffering. Highlights include two people fighting over carrion and a theologian being tortured with a cat. Vincent’s pamphlet exemplifies the profound personal anxiety unleashed by the religious debates and conf licts of the time. To further tease out the historical trends from these small moments, the curators structured the exhibition through pairs of early modern identities that were in either tension or

The Lamentations of Germany, printed in 1638, included terrifying illustrations as a warning against religious conf lict, like this “divine [theologian] tortured with a catt.”

partnership with one another. Clergy and Laity, Warriors and Peacemakers, Relatives and Strangers, Travelers and Traders are a few of the pairings that the exhibition uses to tell the story of religious change. With all their different experiences in different realms with different perspectives, they come together to show a holistic view of the quarter millennium from 1450 to 1700. These groupings of individual accounts, like Vincent’s, with all its vitality, show the multifaceted ways that early modern people interpreted, worked within, and challenged the events of religious change around them.

insights they contain more legible to a wider audience. One manuscript, a seventeenth-century book of magical charms written by three anonymous authors, has drawn a considerable amount of attention from users online (see “Digital Charms”). Containing a blend of Christian prayers and occult incantations, the book is a testament to how early modern people conducted their spiritual lives in complex—and sometimes idiosyncratic—ways. Anyone can participate in the crowdsourced project. The “crowd” has already contributed substantially, from all over the globe. According to Wolfe, “The site is on track to become our single most visited site of all time.” Meanwhile, interactive maps such as Tracking the Luther Controversy and The Bible in Print show trends over an extended period of time, while giving users the option to dive deep into the documents that have been digitized, including Luther’s first treatise against the pope, a papal edict, and King Henry VIII’s response to a letter from Luther. These maps visualize the expansion of debate and the growth of print over a wide geographic area, illustrating how printing allowed new ideas to spread quickly. The tangibility of a map enables users to navigate the pamphlet war between Luther and his opponents on their own. And, Wolfe says, “The interactive maps present users with a different way to approach the subject. With both crowdsourcing and mapping resources, people have a chance to get involved.” The resources pair with the approach of the exhibition, highlighting individual narratives—notes in a commonplace book or a digitized papal edict—while indicating larger trends like the proliferation of printed bibles and the ways they

he use of specific stories to tease out historical trends has extended to the project’s digital resources as well. A range of web resources combine digital images with interactive features to facilitate deeper engagement with primary texts and the people who created them. According to Jen Wolfe, Digital Initiatives Manager, “Religious Change was very exciting because it gave us the opportunity to build extra functionality into our digital collections. We often digitize large collections and make them available online for researchers, but for this project, we had the resources and a mandate to add innovative tools that would provide users with different paths for discovery and engagement.” Transcribing Faith, for example, is a resource that invites users to transcribe a selection of manuscripts (and translate some material not in English), Indicated with a pin over Nuremberg in The Bible in Print digital resource, the Koberger German Bible was printed in thereby helping to make the 1483, becoming the ninth German bible produced since 1450.

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Through the combination of the project’s public programming, digital initiatives, and gallery exhibition, the Newberry aims to collaborate with its community of learning in lasting ways.

Schola Antiqua performing early modern music from Religious Change and Print, 1450-1700, on September 26 in Ruggles Hall. Left to right: Matthew Schlesinger, Matthew Dean, Woo Chan “Chaz” Lee, Michael Hawes, Keith Murphy.

undermined, or reinforced, authoritative efforts to control communities. A balance of contextualizing information, visualizations, and documents with primary texts and personal accounts provides a more dynamic view than a simple image file of an item.

ith Religious Change, the Newberry created new resources to serve its audience and cultivate a new community of learning in the Chicago area. Public programs provide an opportunity to develop that engagement face-to-face. The programs associated with Religious Change integrate the Newberry’s collection and the themes of the project. For example, the Chicago-based early music ensemble, Schola Antiqua, performed music from the exhibition, and in another program they will host a sing-a-long where attendees themselves sing early music (at the Newberry on December 9). Schola Antiqua also recorded pieces that play in the gallery exhibition and are available as a digital resource. In sum, this project results in a synthesis of contributions from the Newberry’s collection and from its diverse community that will continue to generate new opportunities for learning. This kind of programming gives Newberry audiences an opportunity to learn from and contribute to the project. “It

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really is a two-way street,” says Spadafora. “We can’t view ourselves as just being the font of learning that f lows down from the heights like a waterfall. That’s something that happens, but that’s only part of what ought to happen here.” He hopes that the Newberry can learn from its audiences and that its audiences will find value in the programs and resources they have the opportunity to explore. Ideally, program attendees go on to continue to utilize the Newberry as a resource long after they leave an event, whether it is an early music sing-a-long or a conversation with an author. An innovative program that resonates with the audience might lead them to conduct new research, to use a new resource, or simply to return for more events that explore the collection. Through the combination of the project’s public programming, digital initiatives, and gallery exhibition, the Newberry aims to collaborate with its community of learning in lasting ways. “The project has an ongoing life,” says Dillon. “Religious Change is an endeavor to lay the groundwork for an enduring system for collaborating across departments and disciplines and institutions that fosters new ideas and new forms of engagement with the Newberry’s collections.” Jamie Waters is Communications Coordinator at the Newberry.

A “Regretful Goodbye to Mexico” By Tatiana Seijas with Seonaid Valiant

uring a short-term fellowship at the Newberry this past spring, I made a surprising discovery in an archival box of correspondence: a handmade postcard bearing a watercolor of a Mexican bird with real feathers attached. This embellished card can be found in the Jefferson Columbus Davis Papers, which I had been reviewing for information about early relations between United States officials and Native Americans in the Southwest. Smiling upon finding this colorful bird, I was further charmed by the content of the remaining materials: the diary, in two small notepads, of Marietta A. Davis. In March 1878, Davis made a waterborne journey from Kentucky, down the Mississippi River to New Orleans, across the Gulf of Mexico to Tampico, and down the coast to the port of Veracruz, where she finally went inland by carriage to Mexico City. Marietta’s story drew me into a time in history that I rarely visit—the late nineteenth century. In my mind, that is the period studied by my friend Seonaid Valiant, a historian of Porfirian Mexico and then-Librarian for the Newberry’s Ayer Collection.

This watercolor illustration, with real bird feathers attached, was purchased as a souvenir during Marietta Davis’s travels through Mexico in March 1878.

What follows is a narration of Marietta’s experiences during her months in Mexico. Seonaid and I want the readers of this magazine, primarily an American audience, to see Mexico through Marietta’s eyes—a country where she found a lot of beauty, and which shared so many commonalities with her homeland. By the trip’s end, Marietta “bid regretful goodbye to Mexico,” having experienced great kindness there. In 2017, when the geopolitics of the United States and Mexico are so strained, it is worth remembering that the two republics share common interests—something Marietta recognized in her own travels. (Unless otherwise noted, all quotations come from Marietta’s diaries.) The diary, written in pencil with right-leaning cursive, contains the story of an educated woman travelling to a foreign country to partake in the diplomatic niceties that connected Tatiana Seijas (left) and Seonaid Valiant examine the diary of Marietta Davis.

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the United States to Mexico only 30 years after the MexicanAmerican War and only 2 years into the presidency of Porfirio Díaz. Marietta’s husband was Jefferson Columbus Davis, a U.S. military officer who fought in the Mexican-American War and Civil War for the Union (not to be confused with President of the Confederacy Jefferson Davis), with subsequent command positions in Alaska, northern California, and St. Louis. During their trip, part leisure and part international relations, the couple met with a number of Mexican officials, and, most importantly, with President Díaz and his first wife, Delfina Ortega. An exchange of symbolic gifts, including signed photographs of President Diaz and the first lady (which are also part of the Newberry’s Davis Papers), memorialized this engagement. Taken as a whole, the bird card, the diary, and the photographs provide a window into a unique transnational experience. In her diary, Marietta kept a record of her daily activities and health, the people she met, and her general observations. After several pages on her travels down the Mississippi and stay in New Orleans, the account on Mexico begins. On March 9, 1878, she and “Jeff ” (as she called her husband) boarded the steamer City of Mexico bound for Veracruz. There were some rough days ahead due to seasickness, but within four days the steamboat had traversed the Gulf of Mexico and anchored close to Tampico. There she caught sight of the inland town’s “church spires” and noted “a great many Mexicans came aboard.” The next stop was Tuxpan, some 200 miles southward, where more passengers got on, which made for crowded conditions, worsened by everyone’s wave-induced nausea. Marietta’s crossing had so far moved in a southwesterly direction from New Orleans to the state of Tampico, and, from there, southeasterly down the Gulf Coast of Mexico. On March 15, the Davises finally arrived in the port of Veracruz—the site of entry for a great number of invasions, starting with Spanish conquistadors in 1519, the U.S. military in 1847, and, most recently, Napoleon III’s French military in 1861-62. Marietta was quite descriptive: There are a great many vessels lying here belonging to our Navy. The city is surrounded by a heavy stone wall and has huge gates by which to enter. We are stopping at the hotel “Mexican,” which faces the immense gateway at the landing and opposite where, General Scott’s headquarters were [during the Mexican-American War]….The stone[s] used in building the city were taken from reefs of rocks in the harbor. Our gateway bore the date 1727. There are a great many guns still up on the walls. We passed the Barracks and saw quite a number of soldiers in their white uniforms.

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Marietta Davis recorded her and her husband’s March 1878 semi-diplomatic travels to Mexico in extensive detail. Davis’s diary is preserved in the Newberry’s archives.

In this passage, we hear echoes of the historical events that had led to the heavy fortification of Veracruz. The presence of the U.S. Navy no doubt reminded the Mexican soldiers at the fort of their northern neighbors’ military might and standing willingness to intervene in Mexican affairs. Veracruz was an international port of call, with fine restaurants where Marietta dined on turtle soup, and with pleasant street plazas shaded by palm trees and fig trees and oleander (nerium) bushes abloom with pink f lowers. A keen reader, Marietta enjoyed the port city’s main library: A very thick stonewalled building, very old, having been at one time a church. We here saw the tomb of the wife of [Hernán] Cortes and read this inscription on the slab, ‘she died 18th of December 1663’; in the Library was quite a collection of Aztec curiosities, among them iron stirrups each weighing several pounds.

The Davises’ trip was suffused with memories of the Mexican-American War. After arriving in Veracruz, Marietta wrote, “We are stopping at the hotel ‘Mexican,’ which faces the immense gateway at the landing and opposite where General Scott’s headquarters were.” After landing at Veracruz in March 1847, General Winfield Scott won decisive battles during the Mexican-American War.

In fact, Cortes’s first wife died in Mexico City, and his second wife in Spain—both some 100 years earlier than the inscription date. The Aztecs, moreover, would have had no need for stirrups, as horses only arrived in the Americas with the Spaniards. Facts aside, it is notable that Marietta paid attention to the library’s commemoration of sixteenth-century Mexican history, when the Spanish Crown established a colony in the land once ruled by the Aztec (Mexica) Empire. A week after arrival in Veracruz, it was time to travel onwards to Mexico City—the Davises’ main destination. In honor of the semi-official nature of their trip, the U.S. Consul at Veracruz, Dr. S.T. Trowbridge, arranged for Marietta and Jefferson to travel by train in their own first-class compartment. Marietta showed interest in this infrastructure, as it paralleled the kind of construction that was taking place in the U.S.— the laying out of train tracks to expedite travel and commerce. She wrote:

This road was built by the English and is owned now by them. Mexico gave the right of way and to ensure safety from fifty-to-one-hundred soldiers are sent on each train as an escort, and contributed twelve million dollars, while the English put in eighteen million. Both the U.S. and Mexican governments provided federal assistance for railroad construction in their own countries, but Marietta’s comment points to a key difference: private investment in the case of Mexico was primarily English (as well as American), which allowed for a foreign monopoly of sorts. Funding from Britain and the U.S. allowed for the expedient building of railroad infrastructure, but it also left the Porfirian administrators open to criticism that they were allowing foreign investors to take over Mexico. Decades later, during the Mexican Revolution, various factions would blow up Mexico’s railroads in order to slow down the troop movements of opposing militias and to protest foreign investors. The Newberry Magazine

After a long day’s ride, Marietta was glad to arrive in Mexico City on March 22, grateful for the comforts provided at the Iturbide hotel, which “was at one time the home of Emperor Iturbide and is quite extensive.” The couple’s room overlooked a courtyard filled with f lowers and trees with bird nests, “among them a f lock of quail.” The reader can visit this grand place today, located some five blocks away from the city’s main plaza (plaza mayor). It is now the museum Palacio de Cultura Banamex, which hosts temporary art exhibitions. Marietta dedicated the first few days in the capital to sightseeing, visiting places like the Alameda (a large park dating to the sixteenth century) and the cathedral. She also took rides along “The Empress Drive” (today’s Avenida Reforma), where she “saw the usual array of fine carriages filled with elegantly dressed ladies, Mexican beaux on horseback in their full dress.” Chapultepec Park (the site of Chapultepec Castle), on the avenue’s path, was particularly notable:

A lithograph shows U.S. General Winfield Scott’s victory at Chapultepec during the MexicanAmerican War. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.

Chapultepec [Castle] is the old Spanish fort built and used as a military school. It was stormed and taken by our troops during the Mexican War. It stands on a high bluff, commanding a fine view of the city and was a lookout for Montezuma. Once again, Marietta paid special attention to sites connected to the Mexican-American War. She would have read about Chapultepec Park back home, as it was repeatedly mentioned in U.S. newspapers after General Winfield Scott’s 1847 victory on its grounds, which precipitated the end of the war (lithographs of the battle were also in wide circulation). Marietta would have been a young woman at the time of the war, and her husband served in the infantry, so it must have been a resonant moment when they set foot on Chapultepec’s hallowed ground. Such was Marietta’s interest that she returned to Chapultepec days later, when she once again remarked that it was “the same spot over which thirty years ago our troops went and stormed and took the old Fort.” Marietta was pleased that Emperor Maximilian (who reigned from 1864 to 1867 with the military support of Napoleon III) had improved “the old castle” on top of the hill, and that it would soon be President Díaz’s “summer home”—such lofty occupants only raised the profile of a place that had witnessed U.S. military power.

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Marietta’s days in Mexico City were also filled with semiofficial visits with people like U.S. Ambassador John W. Foster and his wife. There were “one-o’clock breakfasts” at the U.S. Consulate, where they enjoyed “a combination of American and Mexican dishes.” There was also “a walk through the American Cemetery.” The Americans who died during the MexicanAmerican War, her husband’s compatriots, were buried in this cemetery, and Americans care for the grounds to this day. The Davises’ most significant diplomatic meeting took place on March 29—the day when they “went by appointment to visit President Díaz.” Ambassador Foster and his secretary accompanied them. A Mexican official by the name of “Mr. Romero” acted as their interpreter. Marietta provided a colorful description of the President: He is a native Mexican, rather dark and has a very pleasing face. He speaks a little English, but does not like to use it. We had a very pleasant conversation and he invited us to come again and go all through the Palace….He told Jeff [Davis] he would have a review of the Troops for him, but this Jeff declined, but told him he would be glad to meet the Officers. Marietta used the phrase “Native Mexican” on more than one occasion as a stand-in for Indian. In reference to Díaz, she was quietly remarking on the fact that Díaz was an indigenous person, as he was well known to be Mixtec. She also noted both Díaz’s skin tone and his face in the same sentence, which was typical in late nineteenth-century Victorian discussions of race

and class. Marietta’s remarks point to her perception of Mexico as a country with great racial (ethnic) diversity, including indigenous peoples, and people of European and African descent. In light of the fact that Marietta came from a postslavery society, it is notable that she brought to Mexico some of her own race-based biases; however, her nineteenth-century progressivism allowed her to accept an Indian president in a foreign country. Marietta was similarly observant of the wider population, making stark comments about social stratification. She wrote about the topic quite frankly: There seem to be three grades of society among the Mexicans; the first class comprises those who wear the lace mantle [mantilla] over their heads or have taken to the American style of wearing bonnets; the second those who wear shawls over their heads; and the third class who wear the “rebosa” [rebozo] or cotton scarf with fringed ends over their heads—these last are chief ly the native Mexicans. At this time, a woman’s daily costume ref lected her position in society. Marietta’s assessment mirrored in part the perceptions displayed in the famous caste (casta) paintings of the eighteenth century, which divided Mexico’s population into different castes or categories based primarily on ethnicity, but also occupation and other factors. According to this outlook, indigenous people (and especially women) were generally relegated to a lower social standing (“third class” as Marietta termed it) than men of Spanish descent. In regards to race, class, and gender, Marietta was kinder in her terminology than the U.S. engineer David Ames Wells, another American who left us his impressions of Mexico. When he visited the country just two years earlier, Wells described the women as “swarthy with wild-looking faces.” (Wells published his account in A Study of Mexico in 1887.) In part, Wells wrote these troubling words to draw attention to the poverty affecting indigenous women, remarking as well that the former consul David H. Strothers had reported that the poor of Mexico lived in conditions more terrible than those suffered by slaves in the American South prior to the Civil War. Marietta observed indigenous women in the marketplace, where people of different classes interacted with one another, and where tourists like her purchased souvenirs, including postcards like the Mexican bird card mentioned in the introduction. About this keepsake, Marietta wrote: “We bought some quite pretty feather pictures this morning. They are made by the Mexicans.” Cards adorned with watercolors or photographs and embellished with feathers or embroidery were common at this time, and women travelers across North America collected such novelties for their souvenir books.

Marietta acquired all kinds of purchases during her trip, but one was truly remarkable—“a magnificent diamond pin with the coat of arms of Maximilian, a present from him [someone possibly associated with Maximilian], who becoming hardpressed for money, had pawned it and had not been able to redeem it.” The asking price was a staggering $400. (Converted to today’s dollars, the relative value would be $9,930.) To Marietta’s delight, her husband bought it for her several days later. She further described it: “The pin is made of silver, gold and diamonds, the whole bearing the crown, coat of Arms and motto of Maximilian; I am very much pleased with it.” The Davis Papers contain a typed description and photograph of this pin nested in its case—which reads “Rothe Joyero, Viena.” The Viennese firm Rothe & Neffe, the Austrian emperor’s court jeweler, certainly produced pins and medallions of this caliber, but is it possible that the box points to a forgery? The name is incomplete and it is written in Spanish; the firm perhaps had boxes that were stamped in languages other than German, but it seems unlikely. The story that Marietta likely heard from the pawn store clerk is also rather fanciful—any “friend” of Emperor Maximilian would surely have had other means to acquire cash rather than pawning this kind of precious object. Alas, the present location of this pin is unknown, making identification impossible. The promised second meeting with President Díaz took place six days after the first, and it was a very grand affair. In attendance were the Mexican Secretary of the Treasury Matías Romero and his wife, other “members of Díaz’s cabinet,” the Governor of Veracruz, and other dignitaries. Díaz had planned a “Review of Troops on the Plain near the City…in honor of Jeff,” even though the latter had previously declined the honor. There were great “quantities of people on foot and carriages” at the chosen location, where “5,500 men in Review” stood before the assembled party “representing the three Arms of the Service.” Díaz gave Jefferson C. Davis a place of honor next to him as they reviewed the Mexican troops. This kind of military parade was a typical way of honoring a special guest; Díaz himself would review A photograph shows another of Marietta’s souvenirs: a diamond pin the Prussian troops when he with the coat of arms of Emperor Maximilian. visited the German Empire in The Newberry Magazine

Signed cartes de visite from Mexican President Porfirio Díaz, and his wife Delfina

1911. General Miguel Negrete, who had distinguished himself during the Mexican-American War and had subsequently fought alongside Díaz against the French, led the Mexican troops. Negrete’s standing as a patriotic hero (Mexico’s defender against two international interventions) made him the perfect man to showcase the country’s hard-won independence. Overall, Díaz meant for this spectacle to demonstrate to Davis the strength and organization of his military; Díaz undoubtedly hoped that the visiting American would report it to his superiors in the U.S. government, who would, in turn, think twice before invading Mexico once again. This military showmanship was followed by a “very handsome” French dinner with “twenty courses” at the presidential palace. Lavish French dinners of this type demonstrated that the Porfirians sought to connect themselves culturally to France (not Spain). The Mexican press criticized ostentatious dining like this affair later on in Díaz’s presidency, but at this particular moment the president still benefited from the general gratitude of the Mexican people for delivering peace to the country. A return to the palace a few days later revealed that this grand building on the city’s main plaza had “over one thousand rooms.” Marietta appreciated that the reception was in “one of the longest rooms” she had ever seen, and “handsomely furnished in crimson” and “life-sized portraits,” including “a large fine portrait of [George] Washington.” It is not surprising to find a portrait of a fellow mason and republican hero in Díaz’s hall. He also liked to display portraits of foreign leaders like the German Kaiser, which points to another aspect of Díaz’s political 16

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aspirations (he served seven terms as Mexico’s president). On the last day of this eventful trip, Marietta and Jeff visited President Díaz and his wife once again in their “private quarters.” They “had a pleasant visit,” with champagne and lively talk with other “ladies and gentlemen.” The autographed photographs of Díaz and his wife in the Davis Papers were acquired at this time. Although the Davises were not official representatives appointed by U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes, Díaz’s willingness to receive and honor them demonstrates his desire to acquire and retain diplomatic recognition from the U.S. government (extended that same year). Recognition would alleviate some of the tension between the two countries and put to rest rumors that the U.S. was going to invade Mexico yet again. The Davises left on Díaz’s carriage, the president having “insisted on our using [it] instead of the public one” that had been employed so far—another grand gesture. -------------------------------------------------- Marietta’s memorable trip to Mexico ended when she crossed the Gulf of Mexico on the 12th of April. During her month-long visit, she had met Mexico’s president, countless government and secular leaders, and also interacted with Mexicans from all stripes of life. It is difficult to know what Marietta told her friends and family back at home about Mexico, but the warmth with which she described the country in her diary surely indicates that these were positive impressions. Today, hundreds of thousands of people make similar journeys to Mexico each year—to see its beaches and mountains, to do business, to visit family, and for myriad other reasons. Trips like the one Marietta and Jeff undertook more than a century ago are a reminder that the two countries share more than a troubled border—we are historically joined neighbors. Each of us does well to remember our commonalities and longstanding ties. Tatiana Seijas is Associate Professor of History at Penn State University. Seonaid Valiant, formerly Ayer Librarian at the Newberry, is Curator for Latin American Studies at Arizona State University Library.

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Letter from the Chair and the President

hat a big and exciting year the Newberry had in 2016-17! As an institution, we have been very much on the move, and on behalf of the Board of Trustees and Staff we are delighted to offer you this summary of the destinations we reached last year and our plans for moving forward in 2017-18. Financially, the Newberry enjoyed much success in the past year. Excellent performance by the institution’s investments, up 13.2 percent overall, put us well ahead of the performance of such bellwether endowments as those of Harvard and Yale. Our drawdown on investments for operating expenses was a modest 3.8 percent, well Chair of the Board of Trustees Victoria J. Herget and below the traditional target of 5.0 percent. In fact, of total operating Newberry President David Spadafora expenses only 22.9 percent had to be funded through spending from the endowment—a reduction by more than half of our level of reliance on endowment a decade ago. Partly this change has resulted from improvement in Annual Fund giving: in 2016-17 we achieved the greatest-ever singleyear tally of new gifts for unrestricted operating expenses, $1.75 million, some 42 percent higher than just before the economic crisis 10 years ago. Funding for restricted purposes also grew last year, with generous gifts from foundations and individuals for specific programs and projects. Partly, too, our good financial results are owing to continued judicious control of expenses, exemplified by the fact that total staffing levels were 2.7 percent lower in 2016-17 than in 2006-07. Strong financial and fundraising results provided a solid foundation for the management of the Newberry’s collection and the operation of our programs. It is with these, after all, that we serve our varied constituencies— including both the general public and professional scholars, teachers, and graduate and undergraduate students—who come into our building or use our resources digitally. In the case of the collection, we highlight two major activities last year that reveal the Newberry’s efforts to make available to users what they need today and will need tomorrow. First, there was the arrival of the largest bloc of materials we have received in decades, in a format type— postcards—for which we had not previously been well known, but which is much prized by thousands of collectors and offers tremendous research possibilities. The Curt Teich Postcard Archives Collection was given to us by the Lake County Discovery Museum, where it had resided and been cared for since 1982. As the largest publicly accessible collection of postcards, it includes some 400,000 individual postcards plus 100,000 work files for Teich Company cards printed between 1898 and 1978, many of them with original photography. Much progress was made last year in processing this collection, so that many items from it already can be used by collectors and students of art history, design, photography, printing, local history, and other disciplines. On its own merits alone, this enormous acquisition can serve many research needs and has therefore been designated a new strength of the collection. But when considered and used in conjunction with other collection strengths, like maps and views or local history or the history of printing, its potential research impact will multiply greatly in the years ahead. Second, the huge collection of pamphlets from the French Revolutionary era, completely cataloged several years ago, now has been digitized using optical character recognition techniques, thanks to another major grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources. These 33,000-plus items, representing 827,381 pages of text, and their bibliographical metadata are fully searchable. Users can investigate individual items or do “bigdata” analyses of the whole group of pamphlets, thanks to this Voices of the Revolution project. Turning to the Newberry’s programmatic offerings, we report with satisfaction the fact that attendance at free programs open to the public jumped by 39 percent from the year before. An increase in the number and

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variety of programs was partly responsible for higher attendance, the consequence of new efforts to get program ideas from staff and our community. Close to one-third more public programs were offered, and several drew standing-room only crowds. A November presentation by American Indian activist Winona LaDuke, a former Newberry fellowship holder, filled Ruggles Hall, the lobby, and the front vestibule with standees. Meanwhile, nearly 1,000 teachers participated in the Newberry’s half-day and daylong professional development programs for teachers, and 2,000 people were enrolled in our adult seminars. More than 17,000 people visited the exhibitions put on by the Newberry in 2016-17. The largest and most intellectually ambitious of these was Creating Shakespeare, which explored on the occasion of the quadricentennial of the Bard’s death his creativity and his constant recreation by others across the centuries in Britain and America. During the winter, we held a small, relatively brief exhibition of Newberry manuscripts and books related to Alexander Hamilton and his times (which responded at the last-minute to the sudden frenzy for all things Hamilton), as well as a much longer-planned exhibition of the photographs by Helen Balfour Morrison of African Americans in Kentucky (which were recently donated to the Newberry by the Morrison-Shearer Foundation). Bringing programmatic opportunities of all of these kinds to the attention of our various audiences is a joint assignment for the Newberry departments that develop and offer them and the institution’s Communications and Marketing Department. Increased—and increasingly savvy—use of social media and other relatively new communications channels provides an additional explanation for the growing program attendance cited above. The total Newberry following on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter increased by 85 percent last year. The Communications Department also initiated a series of podcasts featuring staff experts and Newberry Fellows, with seven episodes airing during the first half of 2017. The Newberry’s Fellows Program is so renowned in the U.S. and abroad that it needs comparatively little advertising. Indeed, last year’s group of long-term Fellows was drawn from the largest group of applicants to such programs among our peer group of independent research libraries. The quality of the longstanding Fellows program, and of the individual researchers in any given annual cohort, explains why the National Endowment for the Humanities chose last spring to award us another substantial three-year grant for Fellows’ stipends at the level requested by the Newberry. Indeed, through a matching challenge-grant component of their new award, the NEH has given us the opportunity to raise an additional $300,000 for stipends in that period. This is a special and much appreciated vote of confidence in the Newberry’s core scholarly program. Other NEH awards again supported important summer programs for college and university faculty. One concentrated on Chicago modernist literature and culture, introducing a new emphasis by the Newberry on Chicago studies. Another, on “Mapping, Text, and Travel,” was the 11th NEH-funded summer seminar or institute conducted by the Smith Center for the History of Cartography in 20 years. The Smith Center’s longest-running program, the Kenneth Nebenzahl Jr. Lectures on the History of Cartography, marked its golden anniversary last fall with the 19th set of lectures since 1967. In addition, the 13th volume of lectures from the series, Decolonizing the Map, was published by the University of Chicago Press, augmenting the widely recognized impact of the lectures on this entire field of study, which the Smith Center has done so much to create and foster. Increasingly, the Newberry’s programmatic offerings assume digital form, or include an important digital component. These programs and projects could not occur without the planning, monitoring, and security provided by the Newberry’s Department of Information Technology for our digital equipment and network. Last year, for instance, its infrastructure work involved extensive rewiring of key network runs with fiber optic cable and the installation of many new network switches and other devices to route the building’s wireless traffic more effectively. The relatively young Department of Digital Initiatives and Services helps to design and implement digital projects of several kinds. These include managing large-scale digitization efforts, such as Voices of the Revolution (described above), through which physical collection materials assume virtual form. But they also include a host of projects in which the expertise of our staff and partnering outside scholars employ items in the collection to accomplish an educational or scholarly purpose. The construction of a website intended to help scholars learn how to read and transcribe manuscripts in early modern Italian handwriting, begun last year with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, offers an excellent example. Digital work of these kinds has created a rapidly mounting online collection for the Newberry, and with it an expanding audience-at-a-distance. During the last year, our digital collection tally grew from 31,000 to 463,000 items, and their online usage from 167,000 to 326,000 views. In the same period, the number of items contributed by the Newberry to the Internet Archive, a premier site for digitized books and manuscripts

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from research libraries, rose from 66,000 to 1,138,000 items. Downloads of these collection items increased from 82,000 to 283,000. Our own digital publications were viewed 1,024,000 times, up from 939,000 the year before. Meanwhile, half a million online sessions with our catalog in 2016-17 gave users access to bibliographic information on more than 950,000 different titles in the catalog. Our digital “home” may be expanding in size and scope, but the importance of the Newberry’s building remains as great as ever. We have always intentionally cultivated a physical community for research and educational activities, and to that end we have made repeated adjustments to our programmatic commitments and facilities as the needs of our users and collection have evolved across the decades. In the midst of a technological revolution, for several years now the staff and the Board of Trustees have been exploring the question of how we might adapt the 1893 Henry Ives Cobb Building to contemporary circumstances. During 2016-17, with architectural guidance from Ann Beha Architects (interviewed elsewhere in this issue), we arrived at a set of answers. The implementation of planning for the Cobb Building begins January 1, 2018, when we embark on a sixmonth renovation project for the first-f loor and lower level. It will add an unobtrusive but efficient ADA entrance to the south façade of the building; restore the lobby to its original look and luster while improving its acoustics and lighting; create a welcome center where arriving readers and other users can get the information they need and begin their work with collection and program experts; provide a large seminar room with the climate control needed to bring collection materials to visiting groups; make available two much-needed event spaces on the far west side of the first f loor; create three new adjoining exhibition gallery spaces, all precision climate-controlled, and one of which will allow us to offer an ongoing but ever-changing display of representative examples from our collection’s strengths; and provide expanded, improved locker and lavatory facilities. We believe that this project will prove transformative for the Newberry—making us an even more welcoming institution that can continue to serve the needs of all of our visitors and users. When this work is complete, the Newberry will be strongly placed to fulfill the promise of one last accomplishment from 2016-17: planning for large, integrative projects. A grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation enabled us last year to ready the first such project, Religious Change, 1450-1700. As we write this letter, that project has been fully implemented by means of a major exhibition, a large set of digital resources that complement and go beyond the exhibition, and an array of many public programs. The project highlights the vast strength of the Newberry’s collection related to early modern religion, both European and North and South American. It also explores significant questions about how and why religion changed after 1450, and what impact those changes had on society and people on both sides of the Atlantic across 250 years. The objects in both the exhibition and the digital resources were “crowdsourced” by the curatorial team from nearly 40 members of the Newberry staff, and then reviewed with a large group of outside scholars. Ideas for accompanying programs came from many sides, but all with the idea of trying to bring the public into touch with recent scholarly findings of special interest. This integrative project and those that will follow it require us to be a research library with effective physical and digital resources to advance the learning of its community. Thanks to your care and support, we are up to this job. And as always we encourage your active involvement in our community.

Victoria J. Herget, Chair

David Spadafora, President and Librarian

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Collections and Library Services DEVELOPING THE COLLECTION

CONSERVING THE COLLECTION

SERVING OUR USERS

The Lake County Forest Preserves District donated the Curt Teich Postcard Archives Collection, consisting of approximately 2.5 million postcards.

Treatments performed by conservation staff, volunteers, and interns increased by15% to a total of 4,698, of which 102 were complex treatments.

3,219 individuals registered as Newberry readers, for an average of 13 registrants per day.

Bexley Seabury Seminary donated the Bexley Hall Rare Book Collection, which includes about 4,000 titles.

3,927 treatments were performed on newlycataloged items or materials referred by Reading Room staff and curators; the rest were on exhibit items (310), exhibit loans (6), and digital projects (455).

33,627 items were requested for use in Reading Rooms.

2,180 phase and corrugated boxes were created by volunteers, a 28% increase over 2015-2016.

2,373 attendees viewed 2,444 items in 187 collection presentations.

We received, as gifts from 162 individual donors, 3,472 volumes, including more than 1,400 titles added to the Roger Baskes Collection; and 26 modern manuscript collections. 1,252 titles were ordered by subject specialists (curators and selectors). $521,127 was expended on library materials, of which 52% was for antiquarian materials. $23,327 was expended on electronic resources. We subscribed to 2,544 current serials. The Collection Development Steering Committee achieved nearly $15,000 of savings in an ongoing serials cancellation project

CATALOGING AND PROCESSING LIBRARY MATERIALS

The Newberry has 951,156 records in the statewide catalog of academic and research libraries, of which 577,934 are held only by the Newberry. 5,558 newly cataloged titles were added to the stacks. 53,448 items were made discoverable through the Wing Printing Specimens cataloging project, funded by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR).

14,102 daily and reserve readers signed into the building, for an average of 56 readers per day.

9,915 reference interactions took place at service desks and via reference correspondence.

Exhibition installation time increased to 300 hours, from 59 in 2015-2016.

DIGITAL INITIATIVES

33,394 French pamphlets (808,488 pages) were digitized for the “Voices of the Revolution” collection, funded by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), chiefly by Internet Archive. 408,508 Teich postcard records were migrated to CONTENTdm, the digital collection platform, and enhanced; of this total, 20,474 were matched with available image files. Page views of objects in CONTENTdm collections increased from 166,960 page views in 2015-2016 to 326,432 in 2016-2017. Overall use of digital publications increased from 939,311 page views in 2015-2016 to 1,023,682 in 2016-2017. 49 full volumes (11,145 images) and 1,870 images for digital resources, graphics, and promotion, were digitized for the Mellon “Religious Change” project.

177.3 linear feet of manuscript collections or items were accessioned, of which 176.8 linear feet were gifts and 1.5 linear feet were purchased. 733.3 linear feet of manuscript collections or items were processed (including 386.6 linear feet of Teich production files). 42 online archival inventories, or finding aids, were created.

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Exhibitions and Public Engagement SUMMARY FOR FY 2016-17

PUBLIC PROGRAMS

Total participation: 27,758

Number of programs: 57

Exhibition participants: 17,024

Total program attendance: 6,997

Public program participants: 7,700

Indigenous Shakespeare: Re-Interpreting the Bard from Native Perspectives Fairbanks Shakespeare Theatre

Thursday, November 3, 2016 (Attendance: 72)

Teacher program participants: 1,034

THE BUGHOUSE SQUARE DEBATES

Creating Shakespeare through Dance

Seminar participants: 2,000

July 30, 2016 (Attendance: 650)

In partnership with the Ruth Page Center for the Arts November 9, 2016 (Attendance: 89)

Main Debate: Is Chicago Broke? Solving the City’s Budgetary Woes EXHIBITIONS

Creating Shakespeare

Friday, September 23, 2016 – Saturday, December 31, 2016 Attendance: 6,874 Curator’s colloquium: 1 Curator-led public tours: 4 Other curator-led tours: 16 “15 Minutes of Shakes” public tours: 18 Hamilton: The History Behind the Musical

Wednesday, January 11, 2017 – Thursday, March 9, 2017 Attendance: estimated 2,500 Curator’s colloquium tour: 1 Other curator-led tours: 4 Photographing Freetowns: African American Kentucky through the Lens of Helen Balfour Morrison, 1935-1946

Friday, January 20, 2017 – Saturday, April 15, 2017

John Nothdurft, Heartland Institute Tom Tresser, CivicLab

Additional tours: 7 The 31st Juried Exhibition of the Chicago Calligraphy Collective

Cosponsored with the Chicago Shakespeare Theater

John Peter Altgeld Freedom of Speech Award to WITNESS, accepted by Yvette Alberdingk Thiejm

Equivocation in 1606 James Shapiro

Bughouse Square Debates Planning Committee:

Shakespeare on Screens in the Twenty-First Century Peter Holland

Karen Christianson, Paul Durica, Andrew Epps, Mark Hallett, Will Hansen, Cate Harriman, Mary Kennedy, Tony Macaluso, Katie Samples, Alex Teller, Georgina Valverde, Jamie Waters, Ella Wagner, Karen Williams CONVERSATIONS AT THE NEWBERRY

September 29, 2016 (Attendance: 142)

October 13, 2016 (Attendance: 84) The Man, the Myth, the Works: The Challenge of Celebrating Shakespeare Coppelia Kahn

December 8, 2016 (Attendance: 52)

Hold the Mirror Up to Nature: The Past, Present, and Future of Shakespeare Performance Joseph Roach and Mary Zimmerman

VISITS BY CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS CLASSES TO THE CREATING SHAKESPEARE EXHIBITION

November 16, 2016 (Attendance: 124)

Oglesby Elementary School November 29, 2016, 44 students

Second Emancipation? The Great Migration, Then and Now Isabel Wilkerson and James Grossman

Chicago Academy High School December 1, 2016, 23 students

May 17, 2017 (Attendance: 145)

Attendance: 5,650 Curator-led public tours: 3

CREATING SHAKESPEARE LECTURE SERIES

CREATING SHAKESPEARE EXHIBITION PROGRAMS

50-Minute Hamlet Shakespeare Project of Chicago

Louis Pasteur Elementary School December 2, 2016, 33 students Walter Payton College Prep December 6, 2016, 32 students Wells Community Academy High School December 7, 2016, 33 students

September 24, 2016 (Attendance: 110)

Collins Academy High School December 8, 2016, 33 students

ShakesBEER and Improv Improvised Shakespeare Company

Bradwell School of Excellence December 9, 2016, 51 students

Artists’ demonstration and lecture: 1

Cosponsored with North Coast Brewing Company October 4, 2016 (Attendance: 243)

Baker College Prep December 14, 2016, 27 students

Total number of exhibition tours: 71

Shakespeare Alive! A Workshop for Teens Shakespeare Project of Chicago

Pritzker College Prep December 16, 2016, 39 students

Approximate exhibition tour attendance: 850

October 22, 2016 (Attendance: 18)

Monday, March 20, 2017 – Friday, June 16, 2017 Attendance: estimated 2,000

Re-Imagining Shakespearean Works in Opera

In partnership with Chicago Opera Theater October 26, 2016 (Attendance: 105)

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Public Engagement HAMILTON: THE HISTORY BEHIND THE MUSICAL EXHIBITION PROGRAMS

Hunting for Hamilton: A User’s Guide to Understanding a Confounding Founder Joanne Freeman

October 20, 2016 (Attendance: 246) Thinking (and Drinking) with Hamilton: Tavern Culture and the American Revolution Liz Garibay, Kyle Roberts, and Dan Savage

Cosponsored with Lakeshore Beverage February 8, 2017 (Attendance: 185) “Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story?” Hamilton and the Classroom Geraldo Cadava, Caitlin Fitz, Joanna Grisinger, and Laura Beth Nielsen

February 21, 2017 (Attendance: 104) PHOTOGRAPHING FREETOWNS: AFRICAN AMERICAN KENTUCKY THROUGH THE LENS OF HELEN BALFOUR MORRISON, 1935-1946 EXHIBITION PROGRAMS

African American Genealogy: Mixing Online and Offline Resources Tony Burroughs

March 18, 2017 (Attendance: 108) Muntu Dance Theatre of Chicago

March 23, 2017 (Attendance: 128) Zion Hill: Envisioning a Black Future Luther Adams

April 12, 2017 (Attendance: 55) VISITS BY CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS CLASSES TO THE PHOTOGRAPHING FREETOWNS EXHIBITION

Hansberry College Prep February 11, 2017, 12 students Hansberry College Prep February 25, 2017, 11 students

LECTURES AND PANEL DISCUSSIONS

CHICAGO STUDIES PROGRAMS

Humanities Careers outside the Academy Humanities without Walls Panel Discussion

Understanding Chicago’s Planning History Using the Chicago Collections Consortium Chicago Collections Consortium Lecture D. Bradford Hunt

August 4, 2016 (Attendance: 27) One Man’s Quest for His Family Roots: Preserving Your Family History Carol Knowles

March 28, 2017 (Attendance: 216)

Organizing a History of the Book Event Carol Knowles

“America needs a voice like hers”: Gwendolyn Brooks and A Street in Bronzeville (1945) Anna Chen, Camille T. Dungy, Liesl Olson, Quraysh Ali Lansana, Tim Samuelson, and Rebirth Poetry Ensemble

September 15, 2016 (Attendance: 23)

April 5, 2017 (Attendance: 73)

Calendars, Image, and Print Munro Campagna Calendar Release Event Jill Gage

A Diamond Ear: Ring Lardner’s Chicago Literary Hall of Fame Induction Brian Bernardoni, Don De Grazia, James Finn Garner, Christina Kahrl, James Lardner, Fred Mitchell, and Ron Rapoport

September 14, 2016 (Attendance: 56)

December 7, 2016 (Attendance: 185) “Farewell, Father, Friend”: Lincoln’s Death in Music and Letters James Cornelius and Thomas Kernan

February 15, 2017 (Attendance: 59) Victoria: How Clothes Made the Queen Debra Mancoff

March 1, 2017 (Attendance: 176) Frank Lloyd Wright: Looking Forward and Thinking Back John Waters

May 4, 2017 (Attendance: 81) “Miss Chicago, Lady Midwest”: Fanny Butcher’s Chicago Literary Hall of Fame Induction John Bokum, Liesl Olson, Linda Bubon, Toni Nealie, Elizabeth Taylor, Emily Victorson, and Marianne Wolf-Astrauskas

May 11, 2017 (Attendance: 66)

June 8, 2017 (Attendance: 114)

THE SHAKESPEARE PROJECT OF CHICAGO SERIES

COLONIAL HISTORY LECTURE SERIES

Henry V

Cosponsored with the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Illinois in partnership with the University of Illinois History Department

October 15, 2016

The Townshend Duties and the Origins of the American Revolution Patrick Griffin

February 25, 2017

September 10, 2016 (Attendance: 88)

MEET THE AUTHOR SERIES

The Saltwater Frontier: Indians and the Contest for the American Coast Andrew Lipman

8 programs (attendance 780)

April 1, 2017 (Attendance: 52)

Speakers: Robin Bachin, Jerri Dell, Lia Markey, Natalie Moore, Stacy Schiff, David Silverman, Catherine Stewart, and Mary Wisniewski

A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley Jane Kamensky

4 performances (Attendance: 523)

The Changeling, by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley King John

January 14, 2017 Love’s Labour’s Lost

May 6, 2017

June 3, 2017 (Attendance: 81)

The Newberry Annual Report

Public Engagement MUSIC AND FAMILY PROGRAMS

The Cricket on the Hearth, by Charles Dickens Presented by the Shakespeare Project of Chicago

December 17, 2016 (Attendance: 114) English-Speaking Union National Shakespeare Competition Chicago Branch Finals

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS FOR TEACHERS

Total number of seminars offered: 50 Total program attendance: 945 Total number of student class visits to the Newberry: 5, with 89 attendees Digital Collections for the Classroom: 15 added

February 22, 2017 (Attendance: 51) Joseph Joachim and Beethoven Katharina Uhde, Violin and Ling-Ju Lai, Piano

February 23, 2017 (Attendance: 47) Faces of Love: A Musical Exploration of Love in Its Various Forms A Memorial Tribute Concert for Norman Pellegrini

April 6, 2017 (Attendance: 120) Make Music Chicago 2017 in Washington Square Park

June 21, 2017 (Attendance: 750) NEXT CHAPTER EVENTS

Photographing Freetowns Curator-Led Exhibition Tour and Reception Catherine Grandgeorge

March 16, 2017 (Attendance: 23) Popul Vuh Collection Presentation and Reception Seonaid Valiant

May 11, 2017 (Attendance: 14)

Project: Lifting as We Climb: African American Women’s Clubs in Progressive Era Chicago CPS schools: 27 Private schools: 4 Total schools: 86

Organized by Svetovar Minkov, Roosevelt University Guest Faculty: Maura Jane Farrelly, Brandeis University; Wendy Greenhouse, Independent Art Historian; Peter Myers, University of Wisconsin, Eau-Claire; Laura Beth Nielsen, Northwestern University; Evan Oxman, Lake Forest College; Jessica Roney, Temple University; Stuart Warner, Roosevelt University; Michael Zuckert, University of Notre Dame; John Zumbrunnen, University of Wisconsin-Madison; presentations by the National Constitution Center and the Robert R. McCormick Foundation 19 attended Newberry Teacher’s Consortium:

42 NTC seminars; 760 attended Teachers as Scholars:

1 seminar; 15 attended

CHICAGO HUMANITIES FESTIVAL

2 seminars; 10 attended

Three lectures (Attendance: 558)

Walter E. Heller Foundation Seminar Series:

Three graduate seminars cosponsored with the Scherer Center (Attendance: 60)

3 seminars; 43 attended Terra Foundation for American Art Seminar/ Field Trip Series:

1 seminar; 7 attended 3 student field trips to the Newberry; 68 attended Hansberry College Prep Research Visit Partnership:

2 student field trips to the Newberry; 21 attended

Fall/Winter 2017

Linda Becker, Westinghouse College Prep

Suburban schools: 55 Jack Miller Center Five-Day Teacher Summer Program: The Drama of the American Political Experience

Primary Sources in Focus:

National Society of Daughters of the American Revolution–Chicago Chapter Summer 2016 Newberry Teacher Fellow:

ADULT EDUCATION SEMINARS

Total seminar attendance: 2,000 Total number of classes offered: 151 Seminar subject areas Arts and Language: 20 Chicago Interest: 12 Genealogy: 34 History and Social Sciences: 26 Literature and Theater: 26 Music: 18 Philosophy and Religion: 4 Writing Workshops: 11

Fellowship Programs 2016-17 FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM STATISTICS

Long-Term Fellows: 10 fellows Short-Term Fellows: 45 fellows

2016-2017 SHORT-TERM FELLOWS

Frances C. Allen Fellows

Faculty Fellows: 4 fellows

Amy Lonetree, Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz

Total Number of Fellows: 59 fellows Total Fellowship Dollars Awarded: $400,200

Patricia Trujillo, Associate Professor of Literature at Northern New Mexico College

Publication Grant Subventions: 1 recipient Grant Dollars Awarded: $8,500

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellow

2016-17 LONG-TERM FELLOWS

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow

Christopher Albi, Assistant Professor of History at SUNY, New Paltz National Endowment for the Humanities and Center for Renaissance Studies Fellow

Monique Allewaert, Associate Professor of Literature at the University of Wisconsin, Madison National Endowment for the Humanities and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow

Mara Wade, Professor of Literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Lloyd Lewis Fellow in American History

Boyd Cothran, Associate Professor of History at York University Woody Holton, Professor of History at the University of South Carolina Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow

Katharina Uhde, Assistant Professor of Musicology and Violin at Valparaiso University Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Lloyd Lewis Fellow in American History

Samantha Seeley, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Richmond Monticello College Foundation and Audrey Lumsden-Kouvel Fellow

Sarah Iovan, Independent Scholar Newberry Consortium for American Indian Studies Faculty Fellow

Paul Ramirez, Assistant Professor of History at Northwestern University ACLS/Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellow

Xuefei Ren, Associate Professor of Sociology and Global Urban Studies at Michigan State University

Daniel Ritchie, Professor of Literature at Bethel University

Newberry Consortium in American Indian Studies Graduate Student Fellows

Amber Annis, PhD Candidate in American Studies at the University of Minnesota Raquel Escobar, PhD Candidate in History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Tiffany Hale, PhD Candidate in History at Yale University Bethany Hughes, PhD Candidate in Theatre and Drama at Northwestern University

John S. Aubrey Fellow

Juliet Larkin-Gilmore, PhD Candidate in History at Vanderbilt University

Aysha Pollnitz, Assistant Professor of History at Rice University

Rose Miron, PhD Candidate in American Studies at the University of Minnesota

Lester J. Cappon Fellow in Documentary Editing

Garrett Wright, PhD Candidate in History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

W. Todd Martin, Professor of English at Huntington University Rudolph Ganz Short-Term Fellow

Sarah Elaine Neill, Independent Scholar Charles Montgomery Gray Fellows

Francesco Bettarini, Archival Assistant at the University of Chicago Claudia Bolgia, Senior Lecturer of Art History at the University of Edinburgh Mark De Vitis, Lecturer of Art History at the University of Sydney Patricia Manning, Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Kansas Arthur and Janet Holzheimer Fellows in the History of Cartography

Joseph Otto, PhD Candidate in History at the University of Oklahoma Elisabeth Schwab, PhD Candidate in Literature at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

Newberry Library—American Musicological Society Fellow

Isidora Miranda, PhD Candidate in Musicology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison Newberry Library—American Society for Environmental History Fellow

Zachary Nowak, PhD Candidate in American Studies at Harvard University Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies Consortium Fellows

Jesse Dorst, PhD Candidate in History at the University of Minnesota David Magliocco, Assistant Professor of History at Vanderbilt University Newberry Library—École Nationale des Chartes Exchange Fellow (to the Newberry)

Marc Smith, Professor of French and Latin Paleography at the École Nationale des Chartes

Lawrence Lipking Fellow

Newberry Library—École Nationale des Chartes Exchange Fellow (to the École)

Andrew S. Keener, PhD Candidate in English at Northwestern University

Edward Gray, PhD Candidate in History at Purdue University

Midwest Modern Language Association Fellow

Newberry Library—Jack Miller Center Fellows

Rebecca Janzen, Assistant Professor of Literature at Bluffton College

Max Flomen, PhD Candidate in History at the University of California, Los Angeles Emily Macgillivray, PhD Candidate in American Culture at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Bartholomew Sparrow, Professor of Government at The University of Texas at Austin J. Tomlin, PhD Candidate in History at the University of Tennessee

The Newberry Annual Report

Fellowship Programs Newberry Libraryâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;John Rylands Research Institute Exchange Fellow

Sarah Bromberg, Lecturer of Art History at Suffolk University

2016-17 FACULTY FELLOWS

Associated Colleges of the Midwest Faculty Fellows

Newberry Library Short-Term Fellows

Tori Barnes-Brus, Associate Professor of Sociology at Cornell College

Jason Dyck, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Toronto

Rebecca Entel, Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Cornell College

Julia Gossard, Assistant Professor of History at Utah State University

Newberry Library Undergraduate Seminar Faculty Fellows

Holly Hurlburt, Associate Professor of History at Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Laura Hostetler, Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Chicago

Phillip Round, Professor of Native Studies at the University of Iowa

Ellen McClure, Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago

Tatiana Seijas, Associate Professor of History at Pennsylvania State University Silvia Valisa, Associate Professor of Italian Studies at Florida State University

2016-2017 SCHOLARS-IN-RESIDENCE

Susan Kelly Power and Helen Hornbeck Tanner Fellow

45 participants

Nick Estes, PhD Candidate in American Studies at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

Scholars-in-Residence

Visiting Scholars

21 participants

The Renaissance Society of America Fellow

Graduate Scholars-in-Residence

Daniela Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Eugenio, PhD Candidate in Literature at City New York Graduate Center

Rachel Boyle, PhD Candidate in U.S. & Public History at Loyola University Chicago

The Renaissance Society of America / Kress Foundation Fellow

Bradley Cavallo, PhD Candidate in Art History at Temple University Sixteenth Century Society and Conference Fellow

Sheryl E. Reiss, Independent Scholar Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of Illinois Fellows

Carol Guarnieri, PhD Candidate in Literature at the University of Virginia Jennifer Miller, PhD Candidate in History at West Virginia University Arthur and Lila Weinberg Fellow

Charity White, Independent Scholar Weiss-Brown Publication Subvention Recipient

Antonio Iurilli, Professor of Literature at the University of Palermo

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Fall/Winter 2017

Eliot Fackler, PhD Candidate in History at the University of Illinois at Chicago Alice Hazard, PhD Candidate in Art History at the University of Illinois at Chicago Nathan Jeremie-Brink, PhD Candidate in History at Loyola University Chicago

Research and Academic Programs HERMON DUNLAP SMITH CENTER FOR THE HISTORY OF CARTOGRAPHY THE 2016 KENNETH NEBENZAHL, JR., LECTURES IN THE HISTORY OF CARTOGRAPHY

Maps, Their Collection and Study: A Fifty Year Retrospective

October 27 – 29, 2016

Leah Thomas, Virginia State University

TEN-WEEK GRADUATE SEMINARS

Francesca Torello, Carnegie Mellon University

Gender, Bodies, and the Body Politic in Medieval Europe

Ellie Voss, Syracuse University Scott White, Fort Lewis College

September 29 - December 8, 2016, 12 participants

CENTER FOR RENAISSANCE STUDIES

Faculty:

Tanya Stabler Miller, Loyola University Chicago HISTORY OF THE BOOK SYMPOSIUM:

Dissertation Seminar for Historians

Organizer:

Contexts of Early Modern Literary Criticism in Italy and Beyond

James R. Akerman, The Newberry Library

March 9 – 10, 2017

Faculty:

Lecturers:

Attendance: 52

“Of Maps, Libraries, and Lectures” Matthew Edney, University of Southern Maine

Craig Koslofsky, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Organizer:

Robert Michael Morrissey, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

“George III as a Map Collector” Peter Barber, The British Library

Bryan Brazeau, University of Warwick

Fall 2016, 9 participants

Participants: RESEARCH METHODS WORKSHOPS FOR EARLY-CAREER GRADUATE STUDENTS

“How Did Old Maps Become Valuable?” Susan Schulten, University of Denver

Jane Tylus, New York University

“Collecting and Studying East Asian Maps in the United States and Europe” Richard Pegg, MacLean Collection

Lia Markey, The Newberry Library

Eighteenth-Century Shakespeare

Déborah Blocker, University of California, Berkeley

Faculty:

“Maps, Marginalia, and Ephemera” James R. Akerman, The Newberry Library “The Atlas as a Way of Thinking” Peter Nekola, The Newberry Library

Bryan Brazeau, University of Warwick

Eugenio Refini, Johns Hopkins University Sarah Van der Laan, Indiana University

October 16, 2016, 17 participants

Fiona Ritchie, McGill University

Ayesha Ramachandran, Yale University

Text Analysis Tools for Early Modern Literature: The Case of Margaret Cavendish

Armando Maggi, University of Chicago

March 3, 2017, 17 participants

NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES SUMMER SEMINAR

Simon Gilson, Warwick University

Faculty:

Mapping, Text, and Travel

EARLY MODERN STUDIES SYMPOSIUM:

July 11, 2016 – August 12, 2016

Robin Burke, DePaul University John Shanahan, DePaul University

Faculty:

Sites and Soundscapes in the Italian Renaissance

James R. Akerman, The Newberry Library

April 29, 2017

Jordana Dym, Skidmore College

Attendance: 110

Participants:

Organizers:

Raquel Albarrán, Florida State University

Karen Christianson, The Newberry Library

Marcel Brousseau, University of Texas at Austin

Shawn Keener, A-R Editions

Huiying Chen, University of Illinois at Chicago

Lia Markey, The Newberry Library

Kathryn Davis, San Jose State University

Participants

Patrick Ellis, University of California, Berkeley

Jesús Escobar, Northwestern University

Organizers:

Sheila Hwang, Webster University

Alexander Fisher, University of British Columbia

Devon Borowski, University of Chicago

Rebecca Kinney, Bowling Green State University

Lia Markey, The Newberry Library

Jesse Dorst, University of Minnesota

Karen Lewis, The Ohio State University

Deborah Howard, Emerita, University of Cambridge

Samantha Snively, University of California, Davis

The Newberry Consort

Davina Padgett Warden, Claremont Graduate University

Silvia Navia, Webster University Jimena Rodríguez, University of California, Los Angeles Alison Rutledge, Columbia College

Book History and Early Modern Literary Criticism in Italy

March 11, 2017, 11 participants Faculty:

Bryan Brazeau, University of Warwick MULTIDISCIPLINARY GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE

January 26 – 28, 2017, 105 participants

David Lee Vaughan III, Oklahoma State University

Emily Wood, Northwestern University

The Newberry Annual Report

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Research and Academic Programs LECTURES AND SEMINARS

Demetrius Loufas, Stanford University

Dante Lecture

Isabella Magni, Indiana University

April 4, 2017

Samantha Mattocci, University of WisconsinMadison

Piero Boitani, Sapienza Università di Roma “’What Dante Means To Me’: A Critic’s Life with the Comedy”

Laura Noboa, Northwestern University Sara Paris, University of Wisconsin-Madison

THE D’ARCY MCNICKLE CENTER FOR AMERICAN INDIAN AND INDIGENOUS STUDIES NEWBERRY CONSORTIUM FOR AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES SUMMER INSTITUTE

Attendance: 61

Christine Zappella, University of Chicago

Writing Indigenous Histories: Print, Material, and Digital Sites of Memory

Cosponsored with the Department of Theology, Loyola University Chicago; and the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago.

Weekend Workshop in Spanish Paleography

July 11 – August 6, 2016

September 30 – October 1, 2016

Faculty:

Director:

Kathleen Washburn, University of New Mexico

Carla Rahn Phillips, Emerita, University of Minnesota

Kelly Wisecup, Northwestern University

Participants:

Patricia Trujillo, Northern New Mexico College

Ana Maria Carvajal Jaramillo, Purdue University

Phillip Round, University of Iowa

Eighteenth-century Seminar Organizers:

Timothy Campbell, University of Chicago Lisa A. Freeman, University of Illinois at Chicago Richard Squibbs, DePaul University Helen Thompson, Northwestern University

Anne Marie Creighton, University of Michigan Timothy Crowley, Northern Illinois University

Milton Seminar

Cory Duclos, Colgate University

Organizers:

Jose Estrada, University of Chicago

Stephen Fallon, University of Notre Dame

Robert Fritz, Indiana University

Christopher Kendrick, Loyola University Chicago

Maria Giulia Genghini, University of Notre Dame

Paula McQuade, DePaul University

Janice Gunther, University of Notre Dame

Regina Schwartz, Northwestern University

Marcella Hayes, Harvard University

Newberry Seminar in European Art

Jennifer Heacock-Renaud, University of Iowa

Organizers:

Paul Johnson, DePauw University

Visiting Faculty

Participants:

Leo Baskatawang, University of Manitoba Geoff Bil, University of British Columbia Avis Garcia, University of Wyoming Lee Hanover, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Madison Heslop, University of Washington Aaron Luedtke, Michigan State University Samantha Majhor, University of Minnesota Anya Montiel, Yale University Misty Penuelas, University of Oklahoma

Diane Dillon, The Newberry Library

RoseAnna Mueller, Columbia College Chicago

Suzanne Karr Schmidt, The Newberry Library

Catalina Ospina Jimenez, University of Chicago

Lia Markey, The Newberry Library

Pablo García Piñar, Colby College

Walter Melion, Emory University

Ginett Pineda, University of Kansas

Beverly Smith, University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign

Sponsored by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation

Holly Sims, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Matthew Tettleton, University of ColoradoBoulder

Mellon Summer Institute in Italian Paleography

Jenelle Thomas, University of California, Berkeley

India Rael Young, University of New Mexico

June 27 – July 15, 2016

Emily Wood, Northwestern University

Director:

Kristen Simmons, University of Chicago Cory Simon, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Newberry Consortium for American Indian Studies Graduate Student Conference

Maddalena Signorini, Università degli Studi di Roma

DIGITAL PROJECTS

August 5 – 6, 2016

Participants:

French Renaissance Paleography and Italian Renaissance Paleography

75 participants

Emily Beck, University of Minnesota Rachel Boyd, Columbia University Cosette Bruhns, University of Chicago Raymond Carlson, Columbia University Antonio Di Fenza, Cornell University Vanessa DiMaggio, University of Pennsylvania

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

Indians in the Midwest: Representations in the Arts and Archives

October 1, 2016 Attendance: 45 Indigenous Shakespeare: Re-interpreting the Bard from Native Perspectives

Brandon Essary, Elon University

Thursday, November 3, 2016

Mari Yoko Hara, Rhode Island School of Design

Attendance: 60

Clare Kobasa, Columbia University

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Fall/Winter 2017

Research and Academic Programs The D’Arcy McNickle Distinguished Lecture featuring Winona LaDuke

November 10, 2016 Attendance: 400 Cosponsored with Northwestern University NEWBERRY CONSORTIUM FOR AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES SPRING WORKSHOP IN RESEARCH METHODS

Indigenous Languages and Literatures in the Colonial Archive

March 9 – 11, 2017 at Amherst College Faculty:

Birgit Rasmussen, Yale University

DR. WILLIAM M. SCHOLL CENTER FOR AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE

British History

American Art and Visual Culture Seminar

Deborah Cohen, Northwestern University

Coordinators

Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, University of Chicago

Sarah Burns, Indiana University

Cosponsors: The History Departments at Northwestern University and the University of Illinois at Chicago; the Nicholson Center for British Studies at the University of Chicago; and the Irish Studies Program at DePaul University.

Diane Dillon, The Newberry Library Erika Doss, University of Notre Dame Elizabeth McGoey, Art Institute of Chicago Cosponsors: Terra Foundation for American Art; the Department of History and Political Science at Purdue University Calumet; the Karla Scherer Center for the study of American Culture at the University of Chicago; and the Department of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame.

Jenny L. Davis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

American Literature Seminar

Mike Kelly, Amherst College

Coordinators

Kiara Vigil, Amherst College

Walter Benn Michaels, University of Illinois at Chicago

Participants:

Kaipo Matsumoto, Harvard University Shelisa Klassen, University of Manitoba Michael Albani, Michigan State University Bonnie Etherington, Northwestern University

Kenneth Warren, University of Chicago Cosponsors: The Department of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago; the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago.

Coordinators

History of Capitalism Coordinators

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

Rosemary Feuer, Northeastern Illinois University Leon Fink, University of Illinois at Chicago Erik Gellman, Roosevelt University Liesl Orenic, Dominican University

Cosponsor: The Jack Miller Center

Cosponsors: The History Departments of DePaul University, Northern Illinois University, University of Illinois, Roosevelt University, the University of Illinois at Chicago, Northwestern University; the Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture at the University of Chicago; the Department of History and Political Science at Purdue University Calumet; and LABOR: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas.

Shawna Begay, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Borderlands and Latino/a Studies Seminar

Newberry Seminar in European Art

Loyola Bird, University of New Mexico

Coordinators

Lindsay Marshall, University of Oklahoma

Xóchitl Bada, University of Illinois at Chicago

Diane Dillon, The Newberry Library

Jordan Craddick, University of Washington

Geraldo Cadava, Northwestern University

Suzanne Karr Schmidt, The Newberry Library

Monea Warrington, University of WisconsinMilwaukee

John Alba Cutler, Northwestern University

Lia Markey, The Newberry Library

Benjamin Johnson, Loyola University Chicago

Walter Melion, Emery University

Anthony Trujillo, Yale University

Coponsors: Latino Studies Program at Indiana University; Latino and Latina Studies at Northwestern University; the History Department of Loyola University Chicago; the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame; the Center for Latino Research at DePaul University; and the Katz Center for Mexican Studies at the University of Chicago.

Cosponsor: Samuel H. Kress Foundation

Isabel Lockhart Smith, Princeton University

American Political Thought Seminar

Heather Caverhill, University of British Columbia

Coordinators

Renata Burchfield, University of Colorado, Boulder

D. Bradford Hunt, Newberry Library

Sarah Johnson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Andrew Trees, Roosevelt Unviersity

John Little, University of Minnesota

Violence and Indigenous Communities: Confronting the Past, Engaging the Present

May 12-13, 2017 Attendance: 150 Indigeneity, Gender, and Sexualities: A Scholarly Symposium

Carolyn Purnell, Illinois Institute of Technology

Urban History Dissertation Group Coordinators

Aram Sarkisian, Northwestern University Cosponsor: The Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture at the University of Chicago.

May 26, 2017 Attendance: 50

The Newberry Annual Report

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Research and Academic Programs Women and Gender Coordinators

Kathleen Belew, University of Chicago Francesca Morgan, Northeastern Illinois University Elizabeth Son, Northwestern University Cosponsors: The History Departments of DePaul University, Northeastern Illinois University, University of Illinois at Chicago, and Loyola University Chicago; and the Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture at the University of Chicago. Writing History Coordinators

Kevin Boyle, Northwestern University Deborah Cohen, Northwestern University Elliott Gorn, Loyola University Chicago

NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES SUMMER INSTITUTE

Craig Saper, University of Maryland Baltimore County

Making Modernism: Literature and Culture in Twentieth-Century Chicago, 1893-1955

Nhora Serrano, Hamilton College

Organizer:

UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS

Liesl Olson, The Newberry Library Faculty:

Davarian Baldwin, Trinity College Martha Briggs, The Newberry Library Diane Dillon, The Newberry Library Jennifer Fleissner, Indiana University Sarah Kelly Oehler, Art Institute of Chicago Liesl Olson, The Newberry Library Kenneth Warren, University of Chicago

Graduate Seminar: Chicago Studies and the Archive

Participants:

Spring 2017

Catherine Adams, University of the Virgin Islands

Faculty:

Kelly Walter Carney, Methodist University

June 12 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; July 7, 2017

ASSOCIATED COLLEGES OF THE MIDWEST SEMINARS

Novel Action: Literature, Social Movements, and the Public Good

Tori Barnes-Brus, Associate Professor of Sociology, Cornell College Rebecca Entel, Associate Professor of English, Cornell College Fall 2016, 9 undergraduate students The Spanish Empire: Histories and Memories

Peter Blasenheim, Professor of History, Colorado College Daniel Arroyo-Rodriguez, Associate Professor of Spanish, Colorado College

Liesl Olson, The Newberry Library

Sophia Bamert, University of California, Davis

Participants

Elizabeth Barnett, Rockhurst University

Sue Barker, City University of New York

Tara Betts, University of Illinois Chicago

Jeremy Bucher, Loyola University Chicago

Melissa Bradshaw, Loyola University Chicago

Kat Buckley, Art Institute of Chicago

Katherine Brucher, DePaul University

Charis Caputo, Loyola University of Chicago

Rebecca Cameron, DePaul University

Sara Cerne, Northwestern University Janette Clay, Loyola University of Chicago

James Finnegan, Anne Arundel Community College

Ina Cox, Loyola University of Chicago

Mark Gaipa, Northwestern University

Maria Dikcis, Northwestern University

Jace Gatzemeyer, Pennsylvania State University

Exchange Before Orientalism, Asia and Europe, 1500-1800

Nathan Ellstrand, Loyola University of Chicago

Jessica Herzogenrath, Sam Houston State University

Ellen McClure, Associate Professor of French, University of Illinois at Chicago

Kristen Jacobsen, Loyola University Chicago

Mary Hricko, Kent State University Geauga Campus

Laura Hostetler, Professor of History, University of Illinois at Chicago

Delali Kumavie, Northwestern University

Jolene Hubbs, The University of Alabama

Spring 2017, 20 undergraduate students

Kevin Kimura, University of Chicago

Anna Ioanes, Georgia Institute of Technology

David Miguel Molina, Northwestern University

Margaret Konkol, Old Dominion University

ONGOING PROGRAMS

Andrew Peart, University of Chicago

Rachel Kyne, University of Chicago

Newberry Library Colloquia

Robin Porkowski, Northwestern University

Amberyl Malkovich, Concord University

43 sessions

Justin Raden, University of Illinois Chicago

Christopher Miller, University of California, Berkeley

Newberry Fellowsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Seminar

Kate Scharfenberg, Northwestern University Karen Sieber, Loyola University Chicago

Brian Mornar, Columbia College Chicago

Davis Smith-Breicheisen, University of Illinois Chicago

William Nash, Middlebury College

Rachel Hanks, Notre Dame University

Chalcedony Wilding, English, University of Chicago Guangshuo Yang, Northwestern University

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Fall/Winter 2017

Rebecca Nicholson-Weir, East Central University Mark Pohlad, DePaul University

Spring 2017, 12 undergraduate students Chicago: Literature and the City

William Davis, Professor of English, Colorado College Spring 2017, 13 undergraduate students NEWBERRY LIBRARY UNDERGRADUATE SEMINAR

15 sessions

Honor Roll of Donors The Newberry gratefully recognizes the following donors for their generous contributions received between July 1, 2016 and June 30, 2017. THE ANNUAL FUND

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

Kathryn Gibbons Johnson and Bruce Johnson

Arch W. Shaw Foundation

Mr. Jay F. Krehbiel

Junie L. and Dorothy L. Sinson

Ms. Elizabeth Amy Liebman

Dr. Christine Margit Sperling

Mr. Stephen A. MacLean

Drs. Richard and Mary Woods

Professor James H. Marrow and Dr. Emily Rose

Yellow-Crowned Foundation

Siemens Industry

Andrew and Jeanine McNally PRESIDENT’S SUSTAINING FELLOWS ($2,500 - $4,999)

PRESIDENT’S CABINET ($25,000+)

David and Anita Meyer

Roger and Julie Baskes

Cindy and Stephen Mitchell

Jan and Frank Cicero, Jr.

Ken and Jossy Nebenzahl

Charles H. and Bertha L. Boothroyd Foundation

The Davee Foundation

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

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

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

Mr. Robert O. Delaney

Richard and Mary L. Gray Sue and Melvin Gray Mrs. Charles C. Haffner III* Mark and Meg Hausberg Victoria J. Herget and Robert K. Parsons Celia and David Hilliard The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Barry MacLean David E. McNeel Janis W. and John K. Notz, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. Pope Sheli Z. Rosenberg and Burton X. Rosenberg Mr. and Mrs. Rudy L. Ruggles, Jr. Karla Scherer

Joanne C. Ruxin

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

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

Professors Stephen and Verna Foster

Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Siragusa

Virginia Gassel and Belen Trevino

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

Mr. Thomas B. Harris

Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Spain Carl W. Stern and Holly Hayes Liz Stiffel

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

Joan and William Brodsky Mr. T. Kimball Brooker Buchanan Family Foundation Joan and Robert Feitler Ferson Creek Fund Ms. Madeleine Condit Glossberg and Mr. Joseph B. Glossberg Dr. Hanna H. Gray John R. Halligan Charitable Fund Robert A. and Lorraine Holland

Ann Kittle Mr. and Mrs. Mark Levey

Mr. Michael Thompson

Ms. Helen Marlborough and Mr. Harry J. Roper

Gail and John Ward

Mr. and Mrs. David B. Mathis

Mr. and Mrs. Peter S. Willmott

Marion S. Miller

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Ms. Audrey A. Niffenegger Professor and Mrs. Larrance M. O’Flaherty

Harold B. Smith Carol Warshawsky

Janet and Arthur Holzheimer

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

Dr. Gail Kern Paster Col (IL) Jennifer N. Pritzker IL ARNG (Ret)

Dr. and Mrs. Tapas K. Das Gupta

Mr. Morrell M. Shoemaker

Harve A. Ferrill

Mr. Brian Silbernagel and Ms. Teresa Snider

Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. Fitzgerald

Carolyn and David Spadafora

Mr. and Mrs. Christopher B. Galvin

TAWANI Foundation

James J. and Louise R. Glasser

Mr. and Mrs. Enrique J. Unanue

Drs. Malcolm H. and Adele Hast

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wedgeworth, Jr.

Mrs. Mary P. Hines

Diane Weinberg

Mr. and Mrs. Michael Keiser Donor Advised Fund

Helen Zell

Professor Lawrence Lipking

Anonymous (4)

Laura Baskes Litwin and Stuart Litwin The Rhoades Foundation

Illinois Tool Works Foundation

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

Mr. Edgar D. Jannotta, Sr.

John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe

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

Mr. Gregory L. Barton Dr. Stephanie Bennett-Smith

The Newberry Annual Report

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Honor Roll of Donors Joan and John Blew

The Abra Wilkin Fund

HUMANISTS ($500 - $999)

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

Thomas K. Yoder

Paula and W. Gordon Addington

Anonymous (3)

Ms. Charlotte Adelman

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

Ms. Andrea R. Adema

AMSTED Industries Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. Paul H. Adler

Robert F. Beasecker

Dr. Ellen T. Baird

Ms. Noelle C. Brock

Bob and Trish Barr

Mr. and Mrs. Dean L. Buntrock

Mr. and Mrs. Warren L. Batts

Keith and Barbara Clayton

Mr. and Mrs. James P. Baughman

The Corwith Fund

Mr. and Mrs. Francis Beidler

Ms. Kim L. Coventry

Dr. Heather E. Blair

The Dick Family Foundation

Dea Brennan

The Donnelley Foundation

Mr. Richard H. Brown and Mr. Lloyd Barber

Rob Carlson and Paul Gehl Holly and Bill Charles Barbara and George Clark Ms. Jeanne Colette Collester Nancy Raymond Corral Janet Wood Diederichs Mr. Michael L. Ellingsworth Mr. and Mrs. Thomas G. Fitzgerald Ms. Mary Adrian Foster Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Franke The Franklin Philanthropic Foundation John F. Ginascol and Denise Stefan Ginascol Mr. and Mrs. Alan R. Glass Ted and Mirja Haffner Hjordis Halvorson and John Halvorson Pati and O. J. Heestand Mr. D. Bradford Hunt Jane and Don Hunt Mrs. Loretta N. Julian Ivan and Kathy Kane Jared Kaplan and Maridee Quanbeck Professor and Mrs. Stanley N. Katz Mary and Charles W. Lofgren Mr. Christopher B. Lorenzen and Ms. Denise Dayan

Nancie and Bruce Dunn William E. Engel Dr. Michael P. Fitzsimmons Mimi and Bud Frankel Dr. Muriel S. Friedman* Mr. and Mrs. Paul Richard Gessinger Mr. Martin A. M. Gneuhs The Irving Harris Foundation Neil Harris and Teri J. Edelstein Ms. Gaye Hill and Mr. Jeffrey A. Urbina Jonathan and Nancy Lee Kemper Kovler Family Foundation The Lawlor Foundation George London Memorial Foundation

Ms. Alice C. Brunner Mrs. Walther H. Buchen Mr. and Mrs. Allan E. Bulley III Mr. James P. Burke, Jr. Mr. D. Stephen Cloyd Leigh and Doug Conant Ronald Corthell and Laura Bartolo Mr. John T. Cullinan and Dr. Ewa Radwanska Ms. Diana L. DeBoy Mr. Gordon R. DenBoer Ms. Suzette Dewey Mr. and Mrs. Bruce D. Dixon Mr. and Mrs. David Dolan

Mr. and Mrs. R. Eden Martin

Ann and Christopher McKee

Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. McCamant

The Charles W. Palmer Family Foundation

Judy and Scott McCue

Joe and Jo Ann Paszczyk

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

Mr. Charles R. Rizzo

Jackie and Tom Morsch

Dr. James Engel Rocks

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

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas D. Rutherford

Father Peter J. Powell

Ms. Alice Schreyer

Professor Timothy J. Gilfoyle and Ms. Mary Rose Alexander

Jack L. Ringer Family Foundation

Ms. Helen M. Schultz

Mr. Dean H. Goossen

Dr. Diana Robin

Adele Simmons

Alan and Carol Greene

Carol Sonnenschein Sadow

Mrs. Anne D. Slade

Tom Greensfelder and Olivia Petrides

Sahara Enterprises, Inc.

Megan and Richard Yae

The William M. Hales Foundation

Joyce Ruth Saxon

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

Mr. and Mrs. Errol Halperin

Alyce K. Sigler and Stephen A. Kaplan Tom and Nancy Swanstrom Jacqueline Vossler

Mr. and Mrs. Eric Schaal

Anonymous (4)

Professor Frances Dolan Mr. Charles H. Douglas Dr. and Mrs. George Dunea Ms. Anne E. Egger Mr. George E. Engdahl Mr. and Ms. Richard B. Fizdale

Stephen and Sharyl Hanna Mr. William M. Hansen and Ms. Jaime L. Danehey Mr. and Mrs. Frederic W. Hickman

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* Deceased

Honor Roll of Donors Mr. William B. Hinchliff

Ms. Soma Roy and Mr. Ankur J. Patel

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Cashman

Edward C. Hirschland

Mr. Joseph O. Rubinelli, Jr.

Mr. Donald R. Chauncey

Ms. Margaret Hughitt and Mr. James R. Shaeffer

Ilene and Michael Shaw Charitable Trust

Mr. and Mrs. William B. Cheeseman

Professor Eric Slauter

Mr. John Chordas

Mr. and Mrs. Michael L. Igoe

Ms. Mercedes K. Sparck

Mr. and Mrs. Martin D. Jahn

Mr. and Mrs. C. Richard Spurgin

Dr. Karen A. Christianson and Dr. Robert E. Bionaz

Ms. Gladys Jordan

Mrs. Grace Stanek

Mr. Nathaniel Clapp

Mrs. Karen Juvinall

Elaine and Wallace Stenhouse

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

Dr. Sona Kalousdian and Dr. Ira D. Lawrence

Mr. J. Thomas Touchton

Ms. Sharon P. Cole

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

Mr. and Mrs. John C. Colman

Mr. Ronald E. Kniss John and Barbara Kowalczyk

Ms. Donna M. Tuke

Mr. Brian Cox

Mr. and Mrs. Henry L. Latkin

Ed Underhill

Mr. Payton Cuddy

Mr. and Mrs. A. Ronald Lerner

Mrs. Virginia C. Vale

Mrs. Ariane Dannasch

Professor Carole B. Levin

Mrs. Herbert A. Vance

Ms. Angela J. Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Aversa

Ms. Susan Levine and Mr. Leon Fink

Larry Viskochil

Ms. Jane Spector Davis

Mr. Julius Lewis

Pam and Doug Walter

Mrs. Debra S. Dean and Mr. Dennis Dean

Ms. Eileen Madden

Robert Williams

Mrs. Virginia Neal Dick

Dr. Constance D. Markey and Mr. William Markey, M.D.

Mr. Laurence W. Wilson

Dr. and Mrs. James L. Downey

Mr. Michael Winkelman

Ms. Marilyn Drury-Katillo

Paul and Mary Yovovich

Mr. Wilson G. Duprey

Anonymous (1)

Jon and Susanne Dutcher

Mr. Craig T. Mason Mr. and Mrs. Grant Gibson McCullagh Mr. Daniel Meyer

Mr. and Mrs. Timothy K. Earle

Mrs. Michal D. Miller Ms. Annie Morse

Professor and Mrs. Edward M. Cook, Jr.

LITERATI ($250 - $499)

David and Susan Eblen

Ellin and Dennis Murphy

Sarah Alger and Fred Hagedorn

Laura F. Edwards and John P. McAllister

Ms. Mary Ellen Murphy

Mrs. Marilynn B. Alsdorf

Mrs. Anne A. Ehrlich

Mr. and Mrs. Paul F. Anderson

Ms. Ellen Elias

Mr. Steven L. Apple

Mrs. Susan S. Ettelson

Marjorie and Christopher Newman

Rick and Marcia Ashton

Mrs. William Faulman

Dr. Susan S. Obler

Mr. Mark L. Barbour

Ms. Sharon Feigon and Mr. Steven Bialer

Katy E. Orenchuk

Mr. Michael Bartels

Mr. Roger A. Ferlo

Sarah J. Palmer

Mr. Walter E. Bayer, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth P. Fischl

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

William and Ellen Bentsen

The Fortnightly of Chicago

Ms. Julie Beringer

Mr. and Mrs. John E. Freund

Mr. Michael S. Pettersen and Ms. Jan Marie Aramini

Peter Blatchford

Ms. Sandra L. Garber

Mr. David Bohan

Virginia and Gary Gerst

Professor Arthur E. Bonfield

Ms. Marsha W. Ginsberg and Mr. Gordon Sayre

Ms. Martha M. Murray and Mr. David Smalley

Mr. Joseph G. Phelps Ms. Sarah M. Pritchard Rachel Towner Raffles Mrs. Bayard Dodge Rea

Mr. and Mrs. Basil O. Booton Dr. and Mrs. James M. Borg

Mr. and Mrs. William H. Gofen

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Brown

Prof. Robert Goulding and Prof. Margaret Meserve

Mr. Todd Brueshoff

Donald and Jane Gralen

Ms. Penelope Rosemont

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

Mark and Maureen Greenwood

Mr. and Mrs. Morton Rosen

Pat and David Buisseret

Jean and Robert Guritz

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

The Newberry Annual Report

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Honor Roll of Donors Mrs. Marilyn Hall

Mr. Arthur D. Clarke

Ms. Lee R. Hamilton

Dr. Ailsie B. McEnteggart

Toni and Ken Harkness

Ms. Carolyn McGuire

Mrs. Mary E. Harland

Ms. Linda McLarnan

Ms. Arlene E. Hausman

Ms. Jan McNeill

Professor Randolph Head

Mr. and Mrs. Gregory L. Melchor

Mr. Warren Heckrotte

Erica C. Meyer

Professor and Mrs. Richard H. Helmholz

Mr. Michael D. Miselman

Mr. Roger C. Hinman

Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Moore

Mr. Allan G. Hins

Professor Edward W. Muir, Jr.

Laraine Balk Hope and John Hope

Mr. Michael J. Murphy

Mr. Robert Horowitz

Mrs. Susan T. Murphy

Mr. and Mrs. Paul J. Houdek

Ms. Sylvia J. Neumann

Mr. Dennis M. Hughes and Ms. Rose Kelly Professor and Mrs. Clark Hulse

Ms. Dorothy Noyes and Mr. Michael Krippendorf

Robert F. Inger and Fui Lian Tan

Professor Jean M. O’Brien

Ms. Gretchen E. VanDam

Mr. Craig T. Ingram

Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin E. Oosterbaan

Carl and Hazel Vespa

Mr. and Mrs. William R. Jentes

Mr. Jeff Owen

Robert and Susan Warde

Dorothy V. Jones

Mr. Kenton L. Owens

Professor Elissa B. Weaver

Mr. Paul R. Judy

Ms. Joan L. Pantsios

Ms. Aviva Weiner

Mr. Joseph A. Parisi

Joyce C. White

Mr. James D. Parsons

Mr. and Mrs. David L. Wilkinson

Mr. Mark R. Pattis

Ms. Ann Wilson Green

Ms. Anna Louise F. Kealy

Mr. Frederic C. Pearson

Ms. and Mr. Christina Woelke

Mr. Paul R. Keith

Mary and Joe Plauche

Ms. Patricia A. Woodburn

Mr. Gerard Kelly

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Poehls

Anonymous (1)

Mr. and Mrs. Millard Kerr

Mr. and Mrs. Scott Pohren

Professor Richard Kieckhefer and Professor Barbara J. Newman

Professor William V. Porter

Mr. Robert S. Kiely

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Reece

Professor and Mrs. Christopher Kleinhenz

Mr. Douglas Rich

Mr. James Klies

Mr. and Mrs. Harold D. Rider

Mr. and Mrs. Richard F. Kosobud

Ms. Doris D. Roskin

Professor and Mrs. Donald W. Krummel

Mr. T. Marshall Rousseau

Mr. and Mrs. Morton Lane

Marlene and Larry Samuels

Mr. Jon L. Lellenberg and Ms. Susan Jewell

Estate of Grace C. Barker

Ms. Edna Schade

George Leonard and Susan Hanes

Roger and Julie Baskes

Ms. Annie Schlechter

Mrs. Nicole V. Lozano

Joan and William Brodsky

Michael Schreffler and Jesús Escobar

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Madden

Adela and Robert Seal

Chicago Free For All Fund at The Chicago Community Trust

Louis and Silvia Manetti

Brad and Melissa Seiler

The Jacob & Rosaline Cohn Foundation

Mr. Melvin L. Marks

Ms. Frances Shaw

Nancy Raymond Corral

Mr. and Mrs. Philip R. May

Mr. and Ms. Larry Silver

Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation

Ms. Helen McArdle

Professor Michael Silverstein

Glasser and Rosenthal Family

Mr. John G. W. McCord, Jr.

Ms. Susan P. Sloan and

The Grainger Foundation

Ms. Joanna Karatzas and Mr. Philip Enquist Dr. Suzanne Karr Schmidt and Mr. Keith Schmidt

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Rick and Judy Rayborn

Ms. Beth Smetana and Mr. Gerard C. Smetana Mr. and Mrs. O. J. Sopranos Mr. Thomas Spevacek and Ms. Diane E. Bravos Mrs. Uta D. Staley Marv Strasburg Mary and Harvey Struthers Mr. and Mrs. William R. Tobey, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Tranen James Grantham Turner Mr. Matthew W. Turner Mr. Scott Turow and Ms. Adriane Glazier Mrs. and Mr. Ruth S. Turpin

RESTRICTED GIFTS

The following individuals, foundations, corporations, government agencies, and organizations made restricted gifts to the Newberry’s endowment, book funds, genealogy, fellowship program, and other projects. $25,000+

* Deceased

Honor Roll of Donors Sue and Melvin Gray

Victoria J. Herget and Robert K. Parsons

Chicago Calligraphy Collective

Mark and Meg Hausberg

Robert A. and Lorraine Holland

Professor and Mrs. Gerald A. Danzer

Celia and David Hilliard

Laughing Acres Family Foundation, Inc.

Professor Matthew H. Edney

Janet and Arthur Holzheimer

Barry MacLean

Mr. George E. Engdahl

Samuel H. Kress Foundation

Mr. Stephen A. MacLean

Lake County Forest Preserve District

Ms. Elizabeth A. Fama and Mr. John Cochrane

Mr. Leonard A. Lauder

Professor James H. Marrow and Dr. Emily Rose

Andrew and Jeanine McNally

John K. Notz, Jr.

Professor Barbara A. Hanawalt

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Peoples Gas

Jack Miller Center

Siragusa Family Foundation

Professors Laura E. Hostetler and Mark F. Liechty

Cindy and Stephen Mitchell

Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of Illinois

Mr. D. Bradford Hunt

Carl W. Stern and Holly Hayes

Ms. Marcia Slater Johnston

Jacqueline Vossler

Dr. Suzanne Karr Schmidt and Mr. Keith Schmidt

Mr. John Monroe Monticello College Foundation National Endowment for the Humanities Ken and Jossy Nebenzahl Jerome and Elaine Nerenberg Foundation

Jane and Don Hunt

Mr. Peter Kilpe $1,500 - $4,999

Estate of Dr. Charles W. Olson

Michelle Miller Burns and Gary W. Burns

Pritzker Foundation

Joyce E. Chelberg

Rosemary J. Schnell

Chicago Genealogical Society

Estate of Jules N. Stiffel

Ms. Elaine Cohen and Mr. Arlen D. Rubin

Terra Foundation for American Art

Sonja and Conrad Fischer

Estate of Roger J. Trienens

Mr. John McGuire and Ms. Liesl M. Olson

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

Mr. and Mrs. Bruce W. McKittrick

$10,000 - $24,999

The Friday Club

National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, Chicago Chapter The National Society of The Colonial Dames of America

Hans D. Kok John and Barbara Kowalczyk George Leonard and Susan Hanes Mr. Steve Marsala Ms. Helen McArdle Mr. and Mrs. Allen H. Meyer David and Anita Meyer The National Society of Sons of the American Colonists Dr. Mary S. Pedley Mark Rosenbaum and Mary-Ann Wilson

The Robert Thomas Bobins Foundation

The Pritzker Traubert Family Foundation

Mr. Morrell M. Shoemaker

Rob Carlson and Paul Gehl

Mrs. Madeline Rich

Junie L. and Dorothy L. Sinson

The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation

Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Illinois

Dr. Hanna H. Gray

Dr. Christine Margit Sperling

Susan Sleeper-Smith, Juliana Barr, Jean Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Brien, Nancy Shoemaker, and Scott Stevens

Walter E. Heller Foundation

Robert Williams

Land Economics Foundation of Lambda Alpha International

Anonymous (2)

Ms. Elizabeth Amy Liebman

Mr. and Mrs. O. J. Sopranos Carolyn and David Spadafora Peggy Sullivan Mr. J. Thomas Touchton

Morrison-Shearer Foundation

$250 - $1,499

Mapcarte, Dirk Vos

Jack L. Ringer Family Foundation

Paul Baker

John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe

Mr. Mark L. Barbour

Ms. Hedy Weinberg and Mr. Daniel Cornfield

Dr. Scholl Foundation

Joan and John Blew

Anonymous (1)

Mr. Wesley A. Brown Pat and David Buisseret

$5,000 - $9,999

Dr. Edward Wheatley and Ms. Mary MacKay Anonymous (1)

Professor and Mrs. Rand Burnette

Ms. Patricia B. Daley

Estate of Margaret Wiley Carr Trust

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Feitler

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

The Newberry Annual Report

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Honor Roll of Donors PARGELLIS SOCIETY

The following corporations contributed $2,500 or more to the Newberry Library.

National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, Chicago Chapter Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Illinois

Hjordis Halvorson and John Halvorson Neil Harris and Teri Edelstein Adele Hast

Allstate Insurance Company

Mark and Meg Hausberg

Bulley & Andrews LLC

Celia and David Hilliard

Exelon

BLATCHFORD SOCIETY

Illinois Tool Works

The following individuals have included the Newberry in their estate plans or life-income arrangements. The library recognizes them for their continued legacy to the humanities.

Peoples Gas Siemens Industry

Dr. Sandra L. Hindman Robert A. and Lorraine Holland Mrs. Judith H. Hollander Janet and Arthur Holzheimer David M. and Barbara H. Homeier

Anonymous (1) Mrs. L. W. Alberts

Louise D. Howe

SOCIETY OF COLLECTORS

Mr. Adrian Alexander

Mary P. Hughes

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

Rick and Marcia Ashton

Mrs. Everett Jarboe

Constance Barbantini and Liduina Barbantini

Kathryn Gibbons Johnson

Roger and Julie Baskes

Mr. W. Lloyd Barber

Rob Carlson and Paul Gehl Victoria J. Herget and Robert K. Parsons

Dr. David M. and Mrs. Susan Lindenmeyer Barron

Celia and David Hilliard

Roger Baskes

Janet and Arthur Holzheimer

Peter Blatchford

Barry MacLean

John C. Blew

Professor James H. Marrow and Dr. Emily Rose

Dr. Edith Borroff

Ken and Jossy Nebenzahl

Mr. Richard H. Brown

John K. Notz, Jr.

June Buller

Jacqueline Vossler

Michelle Miller Burns and Gary W. Burns

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

Bernard J. Brommel

Dr. William H. Cannon Rob Carlson

Roger Baskes

Reverend Dr. Robert B. Clarke

Mr. John Monroe

Mrs. David L. Conlan

Dr. Rod Swantko

Mr. Charles T. Cullen Professor Saralyn R. Daly Magdalene and Gerald Danzer

HERITAGE AND GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY

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

Mr. Gordon R. DenBoer Susan and Otto Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Olivo Donna Margaret Eaton Laura F. Edwards

GOLD LEVEL ($5,000+)

Mr. George E. Engdahl

Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of Illinois

Ms. Rita T. Fitzgerald

SILVER LEVEL ($2,500-$4,999)

Louise R. Glasser

Chicago Genealogical Society The National Society of The Colonial Dames of America

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Lyle Gillman Mr. Donald J. Gralen Margarete Gross Dr. Gary G. Gunderson

Ann Kittle Karen Krishack Larry Lesperance Professor Carole B. Levin Joseph A. Like Dr. Audrey Lumsden-Kouvel Nancy J. Lynn Carmelita Melissa Madison Heidi Massa Marion S. Miller Mary Morony Mrs. Milo M. Naeve Ken and Jossy Nebenzahl Ms. Audrey A. Niffenegger Janis W. Notz Joan L. Pantsios Joe and Jo Ann Paszczyk Jean E. Perkins Ken Perlow Dominick S. Renga, M.D. Mr. T. Marshall Rousseau Rosemary J. Schnell Helen M. Schultz Stephen A. and Marilyn Scott Mr. Morrell M. Shoemaker Alyce K. Sigler Dr. Ira Singer Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Siragusa Susan Sleeper-Smith * Deceased

Honor Roll of Donors Harold B. Smith

Mr. Chalkley J. Hambleton, Sr.

Rebecca Gray Smith

Reverend Susan R. Hecker

Zella Kay Soich

Mrs. Harold James

Carolyn and David Spadafora

Corinne E. Johnson

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

Mr. Stuart Kane

Joyce L. Steffel

Mr. Isadore William Lichtman

Peggy Sullivan

Russell W. and Louise I. Lindholm

Tom and Nancy Swanstrom

Arthur B. Logan

Mr. and Mrs. William L. Adams IV

Don and Marianne Tadish

Mr. Walter C. Lueneburg

Roger and Julie Baskes

Mrs. Sara D. Taylor

Ms. Louise Lutz

Robert and Ann Bates

Tracey Tomashpol and Farron Brougher

Ms. Lorraine Madsen

Warren Batts

Jim and Josie Tomes

Mrs. Agnes M. McElroy

Joan and William Brodsky

Mr. J. Thomas Touchton

Andrew W. McGhee

Bulley & Andrews

Professor Sue Sheridan Walker

Mr. and Mrs. William W. McKittrick

Jan and Frank Cicero, Jr.

Willard E. White

Piri Korngold Nesselrod

Nancy Raymond Corral

Robert Williams

Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Kieffe III

Julian and Molly Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Esposito

Lucia Woods Lindley

Bruce P. Olson

Professor and Mrs. Gerald A. Danzer

Mrs. Erika Wright

Charles W. Olson

James R. Donnelley

James and Mary Wyly

Edward J. Parsons

Mr. and Mrs. Louis E. Freidheim, Jr.

Anonymous (10)

Marian W. Shaw

James J. and Louise R. Glasser

Professor Robert W. Shoemaker

Dr. Stephen Graham

Lillian R. and Dwight D. Slater

Richard and Mary L. Gray

S. David Thurman

Lee R. Hamilton

Cecelia Handleman Wade

The Irving Harris Foundation

Lila Weinberg

Mark and Meg Hausberg

James M. Wells

Victoria J. Herget and Robert K. Parsons

Anonymous (7)

Lorraine and Robert A. Holland

IN MEMORIAM

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

THE 2017 NEWBERRY LIBRARY AWARD DINNER

The following individuals and organizations supported the 2017 Newberry Library Award Dinner honoring Martin E. Marty, held on June 12, 2017. Celia and David Hilliard, Chairs

Mr. George W. Blossom III

Karen and Tom Howell

Professor Howard Mayer Brown

Mr. D. Bradford Hunt

Joan Campbell

ESTATE GIFTS

Pamela Hutul and Bill Ross

Robert P. Coale

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

Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Jahns

Natalie H. Dabovich David W. Dangler

Grace C. Barker

John Brooks Davis

Howard M. Brown

Mrs. Edison Dick

Margaret Wiley Carr

Professor Carolyn A. Edie

Charles W. Olson

Dr. and Mrs. Waldo C. Friedland

Jules N. Stiffel

Dr. Muriel S. Friedman

Roger J. Trienens

Esther LaBerge Ganz Mr. Wallace H. Griffith Mrs. Anne C. Haffner Rita K. and Ralph H. Halvorsen

R. Stanley and Ursula Johnson Kathryn Gibbons Johnson and Bruce Johnson Janis Johnston Marcia Slater Johnston Jared Kaplan and Maridee Quanbeck Ann Kittle Jay F. Krehbiel Lawrence Lipking Rowena McClinton David and Anita Meyer Cindy and Stephen Mitchell

The Newberry Annual Report

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Honor Roll of Donors

Miss Alexandra V. Moore

Ms. Suzette Dewey

Mr. Morrell M. Shoemaker

Linda Naru and Larry Greenfield

Mr. Edgar D. Jannotta, Sr.

Mr. and Mrs. Junie L. Sinson

Janis W. and John K. Notz, Jr.

Ms. Emily T. Troxell Jaycox

Peggy Sullivan, Ph.D.

Jim and Cathy Nowacki

Ms. Janet Surkin

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Swanstrom

Jean Perkins and Leland Hutchinson

Mrs. Sheila White

Professor Cynthia Wall

Plante Moran

Dr. Edward Wheatley and Ms. Mary MacKay

Mr. and Mrs. Peter B. Pond

in honor of Mrs. Lola Debits and Mr. Roy Debits

Christine and Michael Pope

Ms. Patricia Debits

Professor Elizabeth R. Wright

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

in honor of Julia Denne

in honor of Professor John Brewster Hattendorf

Mr. William B. Hinchliff

Dr. John William Graves

Sheli Z. Rosenberg and Burton X. Rosenberg

in honor of Jo Ellen Dickie

in honor of Victoria Herget

Martha T. Roth

Ms. Joyce A. Peacock

Mr. and Mrs. William L. Adams IV

Soma Roy

in honor of Diane Dillon

Ms. Caro L. Parsons

Mr. and Mrs. David S. Ruder

Professor Judith A. Miller

in honor of Carroll Joynes

Karla Scherer and Harve Ferrill

in honor of Grace Dumelle

Ms. Nancy C. Lighthill

Rosemary J. Schnell

Mrs. Kathleen K. Kennard

in honor of Margaret Lawrence

Barry A. Sears

Ms. Carmen White

Mrs. Judy E. Knoblock

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Shields

in honor of Howard Friedman

in honor of Carole Levin

Robert A. Signer

Ms. Nancy K. Stewart

Mr. Michael Winkelman

Nancy and Richard Spain

in honor of Paul Gehl

in honor of Diane Locando

Christine Sperling and Philip Mattox

Professor Kathleen M. Adams

Mr. Jeffrey Fort

Liz Stiffel

in honor of Martin E. Marty

Michael Thompson

Professor Nicholas Adams and Professor Laurie Nussdorfer

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph L. Turner

Mr. Paul R. Baker

Mrs. Herbert A. Vance

Mr. Mark L. Barbour

Diane and Richard Weinberg

Mr. Jackson Cavanaugh

Michele and Pete Willmott

Professor Robert L. Cohn

Dr. and Mrs. William E. Willoughby

Mr. George E. Engdahl Ms. Elizabeth A. Fama and Mr. John Cochrane Mr. Stephen M. Farrell

TRIBUTE GIFTS

The Newberry recognizes the following gifts made in tribute.

Professor Jon W. Finson Professor Barbara A. Hanawalt and Mr. Ronald N. Giere Mr. and Mrs. Jerry L. Hancock

HONOR GIFTS

in honor of James Barrett and his work on Chicago history Professor and Mrs. Douglas A. Kibbee in honor of Roger Baskes Sharyl and Stephen Hanna in honor of Ann Blair Ms. Susan Blair in honor of Martha Briggs

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Dr. Suzanne Karr Schmidt and Mr. Keith Schmidt

Professor Mary Beth Winn

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Shields in honor of Toni Mathis Ms. Debra F. Yates in honor of Michael Mercer Ms. Lisa Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Keefe in honor of the Newberry Development Team Mr. Vincent M. Firpo in honor of the Newberry Genealogy Staff Ms. Mercedes K. Sparck in honor of the Newberryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s participation in Day of Facts Mr. and Mrs. Francis Beidler in honor of Minna Novick

Mr. Peter Kilpe

Ms. Diann R. Lapin and Mr. Robert M. Lapin

Mr. Stephen V. Kobasa

in honor of Anderson Perez

Dr. Yossi Maurey

Mr. Luke Herman

Mr. Patrick Olson

in honor of Jean Perkins

Dr. Diana Robin

Mr. and Mrs. Morton Lane

Professor Anne Jacobson J. Schutte

Paul and Mary Yovovich

Mr. Paul J. Shaw * Deceased

Honor Roll of Donors in honor of Pete at the Newberry’s Front Desk

in memory of Virginia S. Gassel

in memory of Patricia E. Meglin

Ms. Susan Kilgore

Virginia Gassel and Belen Trevino

in honor of Meredith Petrov

in memory of Tony Gordon

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

Anonymous

Jennifer and Davie Pina

in memory of Lee F. Meyer

in honor of Perry Newberry Porterfield Jr. and Jack Marshall Porterfield IV

in memory of Harry Gottlieb, Norma B. Rubovits, Lydia Cochrane, and Mette Shayne

Mr. and Mrs. Paul Richard Gessinger

Mr. Rob Carlson and Mr. Paul Gehl

Dr. Sarah Davies

in honor of MacKenzie Elizabeth Rea

in memory of Robert Gouwens

in memory of Paul Miller

Mr. and Mrs. Bayard D. Rea

Professor Kenneth Gouwens

Ms. Sarah Alger and Mr. Fred Hagedorn

in honor of Sheila Reynolds

in memory of Arthur Halperin

Mr. and Mrs. John E. Freund

Mr. Roger Sullivan

Susan and Stephen Schell

Mr. and Mrs. Wayne R. Hannah

in honor of Karen Risinger

in memory of Victoria S. Holmgren and Muriel Stoltey

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

Ms. Jeannie Meyers

Mr. Paul Kuhn

in memory of Florence D. Hopkins

Mr. and Mrs. Mark Levey

Mr. and Mrs. R. William Millman

Mr. Dean H. Goossen

Mrs. Michal D. Miller

in honor of Ingrid Stanley

in memory of Ellen Vaughn Howe

Mr. and Mrs. David Spadafora

Dr. and Mrs. Donald E. Stanley

Mrs. Carolyn M. Short

Mrs. Liz Stiffel

in honor of Scott M. Stevens

in memory of Roger B. Johnston

Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Swett

Professor Mary B. Campbell

Ms. Marcia Slater Johnston

in memory of Bernice Mookwell

in honor of Liz Stiffel

in memory of Bosko and Danka Katic

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Eley III

Mr. and Mrs. Louis E. Freidheim, Jr.

Ms. Alexandra Katich

in memory of Milo M. Naeve

in honor of Carl’s birthday

in memory of C. Frederick Kittle

Mrs. Milo M. Naeve

Carl and Hazel Vespa

Mr. Jon L. Lellenberg and Ms. Susan Jewell

in memory of John Norcross

in memory of Sidney and Miriam Kramer

Mr. and Mrs. Larry E. Shiff

Mr. Robert Christiansen in honor of Dr. Joanne and Mr. Hugh Schwartzberg’s 60th Anniversary

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

Ms. Erica C. Meyer in memory of The Rev. James Radcliffe Miller

Mr. Thomas Kiley

in memory of Wendell Adams

in memory of Edwin J. Kuzdale

in memory of James T. O’Connor and Edward K. Herrmann

Mrs. Marilyn Hall

Dr. Ann E. Kuzdale

Mr. James T. Hennigan

in memory of Mary Buchanan

in memory of Anthony Lala

in memory of Michael O’Shaughnessy

Mr. Timothy Schellhardt

Dr. Katherine F. McSpadden, Ph.D.

Mrs. Marianne O’Shaughnessy

in memory of Walter Camryn

in memory of Evelyn J. Lampe

in memory of Lucy Parsons

Ms. Patricia Pippert and Mr. Steven Redfield

Ms. Diane K. Lampe

Ms. Michal Brody

in memory of Gertrude Carrier

in memory of Terry Lund

in memory of Paul Ruxin

Mr. Tom Greensfelder and Ms. Olivia Petrides

Ms. Teresa Palka

Mr. Michael Bartels

in memory of Margaret Fieldhouse

in memory of Andrew McGhee

Mr. and Ms. David Rosso

Ms. Mary-Claire Malloy

Ms. Sarah Alger and Mr. Fred Hagedorn

Mr. Marc Swartzbaugh

in memory of Milton Fisher

Mr. and Mrs. Roger S. Baskes

Mr. Charles Wehland

Ms. Janet S. Fisher

Mr. Robert H. Berry

Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Yolles

in memory of Gerald Fitzgerald

Mr. and Mrs. Bruce D. Dixon

in memory of Helen Sclair

Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. Fitzgerald

Mr. and Ms. Kenneth K. Harkness

Professor Dan R. Crawford

in memory of Lillian Frauman

Mr. David E. McNeel

in memory of Marian Webb Shaw

Thomas and Constance Guardi

Ms. Rosemary J. Schnell

Ms. Annie Morse

Mr. and Mrs. Errett Van Nice

in memory of Mildred Smith

Ms. Sarah Verville

Mr. Clarence M. Smith

MEMORIAL GIFTS

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Honor Roll of Donors in memory of long-time Chicago Genealogical Society member Mildred Reed Smith

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Morsch

GIFTS IN KIND

Ms. Anne O’Connor

Chicago Genealogical Society

Mary and Joe Plauche

in memory of Orin R. Smith

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

Mr. and Mrs. Albert Ritchie

Dr. Stephanie Bennett-Smith

Ms. Mary Samson

The 3rd Coast Coffeehouse

in memory of William T. Stackpole

Judith and David Saunders

ABM Janitorial

Mr. Dale Maley

Mr. Eliot Schencker

About Face Theatre

in memory of Jules Stiffel

Ms. Natalie Senne

Alliance Française de Chicago

Mr. and Mrs. John K. Notz, Jr.

The Sidley Austin Foundation

Amy Crum Designs

in memory of Richard Sussman

Mr. Daniel Sobol and Ms. Malgorzata Palka

Bistrot Zinc

Mrs. Pamela Sussman

Ms. Barbara L. Spoerl

Bulley & Andrews LLC

in memory of Helen Hornbeck Tanner

Mr. James A. Walsh

Caffè Baci

Ms. Mary Quinn

in memory of Burton Waldman

Chicago Architecture Foundation

in memory of Margaret Thiriot

Dr. Debra N. Mancoff

Chicago Opera Theater

Mrs. Mary Baer

in memory of Arthur and Lila Weinberg

Chicago Shakespeare Theater

in memory of Gilbert Totten

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

Christy Webber Landscapes

Mr. Rob Carlson and Mr. Paul Gehl

in memory of Dale Woolley

Club Quarters

Ms. Rosemary B. Igney

Professor Regina M. Janes

Connie’s Pizza

Ms. Carmen Van Loo

in memory of Tony Y.

D’Absolute Catering

in memory of Elizabeth Voight-Conrad

Mr. Matthew J. Kelleher

Dinkel’s

Edward and Lynn Masters

in memory of Charlotte Zysman

DJ Chicago

in memory of Roger Vree

Mr. and Mrs. Burton X. Rosenberg

David Dowd

Jeanann and Robert Bartels

E. Sam Jones Distributor

Mr. and Mrs. H. Bruce Bernstein Mrs. Anne A. Branning Ms. Anna Burke

CORPORATE AND FOUNDATION MATCHING GIFTS

First Point Mechanical Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar

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

Food Evolution

BP Foundation, Inc.

Hendrickx Belgian Bread Crafter

The Capital Group Companies Charitable Foundation

HOH Water Technology

Julie and Arthur Friedman Dr. Robert Gilbert

The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation

House of Glunz

Mr. and Mrs. William H. Gofen

ExxonMobil Foundation

Jewell Events Catering

Gofen and Glossberg, L.L.C.

GE Foundation

Jordan’s Food of Distinction

The Honorable Alisa Gray

Grainger Matching Charitable Gifts Program

La Fournette Bakery & Café

Mr. and Mrs. Eston M. Gross

IBM Corporation

Lou Malnati’s

Mrs. Judith Jacover

Illinois Tool Works Foundation

Lumination Salon

Pamela and Paul James

Johnson & Johnson

Master Brew

Mr. and Mrs. C. Thomas Johnson

ProQuest

Mesirow Financial

Ms. Deborah Johnson

The Rhoades Foundation

Murnane Paper

Dr. and Mrs. David D. Caldarelli Ms. Kimberly Clement Pamela and James Elesh Ellen and Jerry Esrick

Mr. Gerard Kelly Mr. Philip Kiraly Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Maganuco

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Gordon’s Ace Hardware Hallett Movers

Hotel Indigo

Museum of Contemporary Art Occasions Chicago Catering Original Pancake House * Deceased

Honor Roll of Donors Paper Source

Chicago Dancers United

Huntington Family Association

Potash Brothers Supermarket

Chicago Metro History Fair

John Huston

Ravinia Festival Republic Services

Chicago National Association of Dance Masters

Istituto Romeno di Cultura e Ricerca Umanistica

Rosebud Restaurants

Danuta Cichocka

Susan F. Jacobs

Securitas

Stephan P. Clarke

Kristina Maldre Jarosik

Trader Joe’s

Janice Conrath

Amy L. Johnson

Tri-Star Catering

Clyde Coughenour, Jr.

Marcia Slater Johnston

The Whitehall Hotel

Kim Coventry

Henner Junk

Whole Foods Market

Leo Cunanan

Farley P. Katz

Yoga Now

Nancy Cunningham

Shawn Marie Keener

Elizabeth J. Zurawski

John G. Cunyus

Elizabeth Kelly and Patricia Kikendall

Gerald A. Danzer

Stephen Lynn King

Aaron L. Day

Margaret Kinsman

GIFTS OF LIBRARY MATERIALS

Jim Dayton

Julius Kirshner

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

Rey E. de la Cruz

Jean F. Knight

Jerri Dell

Judy E. Knoblock

Steve Desroches

Carol A. Knowles

Richard Akins

Shawn Donnelley and Christopher Kelly

Knox College

Andrea Giaime Alonge

Horst Dresler

Stephen Kobasa

American Friends of Blérancourt

Grace Dumelle

Susan Kroesche

John Aubrey

Elisabeth Bonney Palmer Eldridge

José J. Labrador Herraiz

Robin F. Bachin

Bradley N. Eubus

Lake County Forest Preserve District

Steve Bahnsen

John R. Ferraro

Michèle LaRue

Neal Ball

Field Museum

Margaret Lauer

Ann S. Barker

Gerald F. Fitzgerald, Jr.

A. Ronald and Jane Lerner

Roger S. Baskes

Penelope Villarica Flores

Jayne Lilienfeld-Jones

Carol Bauer

Gayle Foster

Joan Livesay

Todd Bauer

Stephen Foster

Richard M. Locke

Be&Be Verlag

John N. Furniss

Carla Lois

Bexley Seabury Seminary

Stephen F. Gates

Los Angeles Railroad Heritage Foundation

John Blew

Reginald Gibbons

Becky Lowery

Mervin Block

John F. Giesecke

Edwin A. Lozada

LeRoy Blommaert

Almira Astudillo Gilles

Luther Seminary (St. Paul Minn.)

Duane Bogenschneider

Glessner House Museum

Polly Lynn

Charles Brock

Nick M. Gombash

Emily Mace

T. Kimball Brooker

Robert N. Grant

Mark J. Madsen

David Buisseret

Lee Hanchett

Russell Maret

Estate of Alan Calavano

Will Hansen

Lia Markey

Camiros, Ltd.

Doyle Hatt

R. Eden Martin

Rob Carlson and Paul Gehl

Dean Heaton

Christopher McKee

Roberto Casazza

Ed Holloway

Anna E. McRight

John Cavallone

D. Bradford Hunt

Mary F. McVicker

Chicago Botanic Garden

John M. Hunt

Louis D. Melnick

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Honor Roll of Donors

David Meyer

Monica Trinidad

L. D. Mitchell

Dave Van Meurs

Yoko Miyamoto

Hazel M. Vespa

John I. Monroe

Jacqueline Vossler

Moody Bible Institute

Tim Warnock

Kathryn Blair Moore

Maria Amalia and Jack Weiner

Wilda Morris

Charles Chauncey Wells

Mount Prospect Public Library

David Wham

Peter Nekola

Edward Wheatley

Jim Nelson

Shirley Willard

Gemma Nemenzo

T. Bradford Willis

Audrey Niffenegger

Beverly Woodruff

John K. Notz, Jr.

Susan Zurcher

Terri Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Connell

James Zychowicz

Luzviminda Ogerio-Mazzone

Anonymous (1)

Samuel Palmer Esther Pasztory Mr. and Mrs. William Plattenberger Jeremy D. Popkin James R. Powell John Powell

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 Yanira Cirino at (312) 255-3545 or cirinoy@newberry.org regarding any changes or corrections. Thank you.

Peter J. Powell Joan-Xavier Quintana Dilys Rana Edward Ripp Diana Robin Ruffner Family Association Analyn Salvador-Amores Dave Scholl Wayne Schulz Anne Jacobson Schutte Frances Shaw Katherine Shelley Jacob Sherman Society of the Cincinnati in the State of New Jersey Dr. Rod Swantko R.J. Taylor, Jr. Foundation Michael Tepper Michele Thompson Elizabeth Trantowski

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* Deceased

Board of Trustees and Volunteer Committees The Newberry gratefully recognizes the following individuals for their leadership in planning and promoting events held between July 1, 2016 and June 30, 2017.

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

LIFE TRUSTEES

Victoria J. Herget, Chair

Roger Baskes

David C. Hilliard, Vice Chair

T. Kimball Brooker

David E. McNeel, Treasurer

Anthony Dean

Mark Hausberg, Secretary

Sister Ann Ida Gannon

BOOK FAIR COMMITTEE

Joan Brodsky

Hanna Gray

Event held July 27 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; July 31, 2016

Frank Cicero, Jr.

Richard Gray

Andrew J. Fitzgerald

Neil Harris

Bill Charles, Chair

Louise R. Glasser

Stanley N. Katz

Jenny Bissell

Madeleine Condit Glossberg

Barry MacLean

Claudie Hueser

Sue Gray

Andrew W. McGhee*

Martha J. Jantho

Robert A. Holland

Paul J. Miller *

Janet Lerman-Graff

Robert H. Jackson

Kenneth Nebenzahl

Mary Morony

Kathryn Gibbons Johnson

Alyce Sigler

Marilyn Scott

Jay F. Krehbiel

Richard D. Siragusa

Steve Scott

Lawrence Lipking

Jules Stiffel*

James H. Marrow

Carol Warshawsky

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

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Staff OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT AND LIBRARIAN

Acquisitions Section

General Collections Services Section

• David Spadafora, President and Librarian

• Emma Morris, Acquisitions Manager

• Meredith Petrov, Director of Governance and External Relations

• Linda M. Chan, Serials Librarian

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

• Jenny Schwartzberg, Acquisitions and Collection Development Assistant

• Caleb Britton, Summer General Collections Library Assistant

• Patricia J. Wiberley, Acquisitions Assistant

• Claire Dapkiewicz, General Collections Library Assistant

Communications and Marketing

• Alex Teller, Director of Communications and Editorial Services • Greg Baldino, Summer Visitor Assistant

Cataloging Section

• Andrea Villasenor, Graphic Designer

• Jessica Grzegorski, Principal Cataloging Librarian

• Jamie Waters, Communications Coordinator

• Graham Greer, Collection Services Assistant • Patrick A. Morris, Map Cataloging Librarian

Department of Exhibitions and Major Projects

• Diane Dillon, Director • Christopher Fletcher, Newberry Mellon Major Projects Fellow

• Cheryl Wegner, Cataloging Librarian Cataloging Projects Section

• Megan Kelly, Cataloging Projects Manager • Lindsey O’Brien, Cataloging Project Librarian

COLLECTIONS AND LIBRARY SERVICES

• Alice D. Schreyer, Roger and Julie Baskes Vice President for Collections and Library Services • Nora Gabor, Senior Program Assistant Collection Development

• James R. Akerman, Curator of Maps

• Joy Orillo-Dotson, Cataloging Project Librarian • Amy Pinc, Project Assistant Conservation Services Department

• Lesa Dowd, Director • Lauren Calcote, Collections Conservator • Kasie Janssen, Conservator for Special Projects

• Katy Darr, General Collections Library Assistant • Carole Giuntini, Summer General Collections Library Assistant • Deanna Moore, Summer General Collections Library Assistant • Andy Risley, General Collections Library Assistant Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections Services

• Lisa Schoblasky, Special Collections Services Librarian, Reference Team Leader • Kat Buckley, Summer Special Collections Library Assistant • Chris Cialdella, Stacks Coordinator • Allison DeArcangelis, Special Collections Library Assistant • Emma Florio, Special Collections Library Assistant

• Martha Briggs, Lloyd Lewis Curator of Modern Manuscripts

• Virginia Meredith, Conservation Technician

• Rosemary Frehe, Summer Special Collections Library Assistant

• Jo Ellen McKillop Dickie, Selector for Reference

Reader Services Department

• Katherine Graves, Summer Special Collections Library Assistant

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

• Will Hansen, Director

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

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

• •Suzanne Karr Schmidt, George Amos Poole III Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

• Alan Leopold, Selector for Library Science

• Ikumi Crocoll, Reference Librarian

• Matthew Rutherford, Curator of Genealogy and Local History

• Grace Dumelle, Genealogy and Local History Library Assistant

Collection Services Department

• Katie McMahon, Reference Librarian

• Alan Leopold, Director

• Seonaid Valiant, Ayer Reference Librarian

Reference and Genealogy Services Section

• Becky Lowery, Reference Librarian

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• Michael Massey, Special Collections Library Assistant Department of Maps & Modern Manuscripts Maps Section

• James R. Akerman, Curator of Maps • Patrick A. Morris, Map Cataloger and Reference Librarian

Staff Modern Manuscripts Section

• Martha Briggs, Lloyd Lewis Curator of Modern Manuscripts

Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography

• James R. Akerman, Director

• Jennifer Black, Curt Teich Postcard Archives Collection Processing Assistant

• Meghan McCloud, Program Assistant

• Catherine Grandgeorge, Processing Archivist

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

• Alison Hinderliter, Manuscripts and Archives Librarian

FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION

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

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

• Patricia Marroquin Norby, Director

• Analu Lopez, Curt Teich Postcard Archives Collection Processing Assistant

• Patrick Rochford, Program Coordinator

• Danielle Nowak, Curt Teich Postcard Archives Collection Processing Assistant

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

• Cheryl L. Tunstill, Staff Accountant

• Samantha Smith, Project Archivist

• D. Bradford Hunt, Acting Director

Information Technology

• Liesl Olson, Director of Chicago Studies

• Drin Gyuk, Director

Department of Digital Initiatives and Services

Business Office

• Ron Kniss, Controller

• Tony Siemiawski, IT Support Technician

• Jennifer Thom Dalzin, Director

Department of Public Engagement

• Matthew Clarke, Digital Initiatives and Metadata Assistant

• Karen Christianson, Director

• John Tallon, Systems Administrator

• Ella Wagner, Public Engagement Intern

Facilities Management

• Jennifer Wolfe, Digital Initiatives Manager

Adult Seminars

• Michael Mitchell, Facilities Manager and Chief Security Officer

Digital Imaging Services

• Kristin Emery, Fellowships and Seminars Manager

• Verkista Burruss-Walker, Facilities Coordinator

• John Powell, Digital Services Manager

• Alison Byrnes, Program Assistant

• Chris Cermak, Sr. Building Maintenance Worker

• Matthew Krc, Digital Initiatives Librarian

• Catherine Gass, Photographer/Digitization Specialist • Emerson Hunton, Digitization Technician • Tyne Lowe, Digitization Technician

RESEARCH AND ACADEMIC PROGRAMS

Professional Development Programs for Teachers

• Charlotte Wolfe Ross, Manager • Cate Harriman, Program Assistant

Human Resources

Public Programs

• Judith Rayborn, Director

• Kathryn Samples, Public Programs Manager

• Nancy Claar, Payroll Manager

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

Internal Services

• Keelin Burke, NEH Programs Intern

DEVELOPMENT

• Kristin Emery, Fellowships and Seminars Manager

• Katy Hall, Vice President for Development

• Mary Kennedy, Program Manager, Scholarly and Undergraduate Seminars • Jessica Weller, Senior Program Assistant Center for Renaissance Studies

• Lia Markey, Director • Andrew Epps, Program Manager • Meghan McCloud, Program Assistant

• Pete Diernberger, Building Maintenance Worker

• Sarah Alger, Director of Development • Wendy Buta, Administrative Assistant to the Vice President for Development • Dan Crawford, Book Fair Manager • Luke Herman, Donor Database and Analytics Manager

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

• Chayla Bevers Ellison, Director • Jessica Green, Assistant Director • Martina Schenone, Events, Tours and Volunteer Programs Assistant

• Alexandra Katich, Director of Annual Giving • Jo Anne Moore, Associate Director of Development Events • Meredith Petrov, Director of Governance and External Relations

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Summary of Financial Position

For the year ended June 30, 2017â&#x20AC;&#x201D; with summarized totals for the year ended June 30, 2016 (000s omitted).

2017

2016

Assets

Cash and receivables $ 2,704 Investments 68,834 Land, buildings, equipment 8,554 Other assets 6,911 Total assets

$ 1,875 63,286 8,321 4,689 $ 87,003 $ 78,171

Liabilities and net assets

Accounts payable and accrued expenses $ 999 $ 876 Other liabilities 309 325 Bonds and note payable 3,217 3,690

Total liabilities 4,525 4,891

Net assets

Total liabilities and net assets

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82,478 73,280 $ 87,003 $ 78,171

Summary of Activities

For the year ended June 30, 2017â&#x20AC;&#x201D; with summarized totals for the year ended June 30, 2016 (000s omitted).

2017

2016

Revenues

Gifts and grants for operations $ 7,943 Gifts to endowment 3 Investment gain (loss) 8,448 Other revenues 4,613

Total revenues and other gains

$ 4,754 2 (1,730) 1,742 21,007 4,768

Expenditures

Library and collection services 5,085 Research and academic programs 3,152 Management and general 2,499 Development 1,073

4,916 2,492 2,435 933

Total expenditures

11,809 10,776

Change in net assets

$ 9,198

$(6,008)

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Renaissance Memes By Karen Christianson

oday, images are paired with text everywhere we look: advertisements, political cartoons and comic strips, web pages, and social media memes. Pictures and words often play off each other, combining to create meaning beyond what either medium could produce by itself. The rise of the graphic novel epitomizes our increasingly visual culture. This interplay of text and illustrations is nothing new. The relatively few medieval luxury manuscript books commissioned by nobles and royalty featured elaborate illuminated miniatures embellished with gold leaf and bright colors. However, most medieval books, all laboriously handwritten, consisted of page after page of stark black text.

New ways to play with juxtaposing words and pictures really took off with the development of the printing press in Europe in the mid-fifteenth century, a phenomenon that enabled bookmakers to mass produce not only text but images as well. The earliest printed books used woodcuts (often quite crude), but by the late sixteenth century copperplate engraving afforded more intricate and sophisticated illustrations. During the sixteenth century an exciting new genre evolved, made possible by the technological innovations of the printing age: the emblem book. Emblems usually comprise a short motto above a picture, often laden with symbolism, followed by an explanatory epigram, often in verse. Each element taken alone

In the fall of 2016, Newberry fellow Mara Wade discovered a previously unknown copy of an emblem book originally published in 1617.

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Pithy and epigrammatic, emblems and Internet memes communicate their ideas through a similar interplay of image and text.

seems obscure—only their combination provides meaning, usually in the form of an uplifting moral or lesson. In one example, an eagle screams at a f lying bug—a fairly meaningless image. The motto, translated from Latin as “beware of even the weakest foe,” provides an inkling of the emblem’s sense. The epigram elaborating on the motto spells it out. To paraphrase, a beetle, though inferior in physical strength, is superior in strategy; it hides in the eagle’s feathers so it can attack its nest, destroying the eggs. Thus all three parts of the emblem work together to create meaning. Emblems quickly became all the rage throughout Renaissance Europe, with topics ranging from proverbs and biblical lessons to classical literature and fables. We know them best today through compilations of emblems published as books, of which the Newberry holds a substantial collection. The first work identified as an emblem book, Andrea Alciati’s Emblematum liber, was originally published in Augsburg (presentday Germany) in 1531 but was quickly translated and reprinted in many editions across Europe. It was followed by a multitude of similar books by many other authors. In an era long before the Internet, these shared texts and images could go viral, spreading across the continent in a matter of weeks and helping to network people and ideas. Many emblems became immediately recognizable by everyone, across language, culture, and social status. From their beginnings as a rarified Renaissance humanist genre, emblems soon were seen painted on the walls of public buildings, captured in stained glass, even emblazoned on beer steins. Some people sketched emblems in each other’s friendship albums; others dedicated them to friends, colleagues, or prospective patrons. Emblems and their messages saturated the early modern world. Thus, emblem books can help us understand the mentalities of people in early modern Europe. They reveal a cosmopolitan 18

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and connected world. Emblem makers played with languages, often writing the motto in one language and the epigram in another. An emblem in a book printed in Antwerp could have a French motto and a Spanish epigram, or vice versa, suggesting an easy familiarity with a number of tongues by literate people of the time. Emblem books also could ref lect the current events of the day. Georgette de Montenay’s Emblemes ou devises chrestiennes, published in Lyon, France, in 1567, was the first such book to concentrate solely on religion, and specifically on the author’s Protestant Christianity. It was also the first emblem book written by a woman. One of de Montenay’s emblems shows a man perched precariously on a ladder stretching from a tempestuously tossing sea up to the sky. An arm reaches from the clouds to grasp the man’s arm and steady him. The motto reads, “whom shall I fear?” and the epigram explains that God assuredly sustains all Christians who pray with confidence. A satirical variation on an emblem book, Les Héros de la Ligue, criticized the revocation in France of the Edict of Nantes, which had provided some legal protections for Protestants in that country. Following a sardonic poem, “Sonnet: Response of the Refugees to the Persecutors,” 24 biting caricatures of Catholic officials poked fun at those held responsible for the revocation. Here the epigrams have become insulting verses. The motto for this example reads “Du Viger, Counselor in the Parlement of Bordeaux, who lost at gambling, all that he had gained against the Protestants”; an unf lattering image is followed by: The Huguenots made me one of their Commissioners, I turned my back on them, and from their defender I suddenly became their unjust oppressor, And in that way, but for gambling, I would have made my fortune.

Counter Reformation Catholics, especially Jesuits, responded with emblem books extolling the virtues of what they viewed as the one true church. Other single-subject emblem books soon appeared, taking on political causes, history, love, and other issues. A recent discovery in the Newberry’s collection highlights the topical nature of many emblem books. In 1613, Georg Rem (or Remus, in Latin), a lawyer and professor at the University of Altdorf near Nürnberg (present-day Germany), created a series of emblems to decorate the window niches of the city’s town hall. They focused on the theme of good government, portraying Nürnberg as the model of a prosperous and well-run free city within the Holy Roman Empire. Four years later, the printer Peter Iselberg created engravings of these emblems for an emblem book, Emblemata politica, published in 1617. The Newberry holds two copies of Iselberg’s emblem book, one bound with a block of handwritten material, originally cataloged as “bound with a commonplace book.” Mara Wade, a professor of German at the University of Illinois and a specialist in emblem books, paged it out of curiosity while she was in residence as a research fellow in the fall of last year. Already familiar with Iselberg’s book, she turned to the manuscript additions and discovered that this was Rem’s personal copy of the printed Nürnberg emblem book, bound together with a fair copy (a clean reproduction of an earlier draft) of his extensive notes and a complete set of the emblems, mottos, and epigrams, with descriptions of the drawings. Rem’s manuscript discusses the emblems in the larger context of civic art and accomplishment: triumphal architecture, civic monuments, commemorative coins, and public institutions. He also provides a comprehensive description of the other decorative elements in Nürnberg’s town hall at the time—particularly valuable today because the structure was destroyed during World War II. Among others, he details an early sixteenth-century work by Albrecht Dürer and Willibald Pirckheimer, “The Triumphal Chariot of the Emperor Maximilian,” which covered an entire wall. One example of a Rem/Iselberg emblem and its celebration of orderly civic life features a beehive in a pastoral setting, with bees buzzing about. The motto reads, “the sweet fruits of harmony,” and the epigram compares the countless bees in a hive, who work together to make and enjoy sweet honey, to citizens who labor in concert to create and receive the blessings of wealth and peace. Rem appears to have written this manuscript between 1617, when the Iselberg emblem book was published, and about 1620. By then, the Thirty Years War was underway, the beginning of decades of disruption throughout the Empire and beyond. Rem died in 1626, and his manuscript additions to the Emblemata politica were never published. Since it is written in a beautiful formal script with no corrections or emendations, the Newberry’s hybrid work may have been intended as a fair copy for a printer, with publication put off due to the outbreak of war. Or

Rem may have meant it for a presentation copy for the Nürnberg town council. Or perhaps he made it just for his own use. Barring the discovery of currently unknown references to this manuscript, its purpose remains an open question. As a follow-up to Wade’s research, she and Lia Markey, the director of the Newberry’s Center for Renaissance Studies, have obtained a grant from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation to fund further study of the combined Rem manuscript and Emblemata politica printed book. Activities will include funding for research trips by two graduate students to work on the project, and a two-day international scholarly conference on the book, to be held at the Newberry during autumn 2019. Markey hopes to obtain additional funding for conservation treatment and digitizing of the entire work, a task that will require special handling to photograph the fragile manuscript pages. Once that project is complete, the images and their metadata would be incorporated into the Emblematica Online website, centered at the University of Illinois. Karen Christianson is Director of Public Engagement at the Newberry.

Georg Rem used emblems to illustrate civic virtues. In this one, the motto above the beehive translates to “the sweet fruits of harmony.”

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Architects’ Perspective By Alex Teller

In the last issue of The Newberry Magazine, we shared our plans for a major renovation project that will bring both new and updated spaces to the library’s first floor. In this issue, we speak with the lead architects behind those plans, Ann Beha and Steven Gerrard, two of the principals with Boston-based Ann Beha Architects (ABA). ABA are pioneers in their field. Pursuing what they call a “dynamic discourse between heritage and the future,” ABA has developed an approach to redesigning historic buildings that’s part architecture, part alchemy. Through the restoration of original architectural features and the introduction of new design elements, ABA amplifies the history that pervades cultural institutions while updating them to meet the needs of contemporary visitors. ABA’s portfolio comprises libraries, universities, performing arts centers, and civic buildings—a range of institutions and spaces that now includes the Newberry. In the following interview, Ann and Steven discuss their architectural philosophy and how they approached designing the Newberry’s first-floor renovation (construction for which begins this January).

Ann Beha and Steven Gerrard, two of the principals with Boston-based Ann Beha Architects.

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Above: The Newberry lobby ca. 1909; below: the lobby today. Originally, the lobby had deeper colors, marble wainscoting, and more works of art on display (some of which have since been relocated to other parts of the building). ABA plans to restore many of these features, returning the lobby to its “original palette.”

Newberry Magazine: One of the pillars of your practice is bringing new design into dialogue with a building’s historic legacy. What do you mean by this? To the extent that there’s a tension between those two things, how do you generally go about resolving that tension and making it work in redesigned spaces? Ann Beha: We’ve built our entire practice on bringing the past and the present into harmony with one another. Often, we’ll take on projects where it can be very difficult to achieve this balance—buildings such as a former jail that we turned into a hotel [the Liberty Hotel, in Boston] or a small telegraph-switching building that we redesigned into a center for conservation of historic materials [the Thompson-Pell Research Center, in Ticonderoga, New York]. Another example is right here in Chicago, where we helped convert a seminary on the University of Chicago campus into a new precinct for interdisciplinary economics research [Saieh Hall]. Whenever we start a new project, we ask ourselves, “What do we have, what do we need to know about it, what is its potential for meeting new needs, and how do we conserve it while still making it very contemporary and readying it for new generations of users?”

NM: In the case of the Newberry, what did you see as the defining elements of our existing architecture as well as the legacy of the building? AB: The first thing that we do in working on a building is to try to understand its history and how it’s changed. For the Newberry, many of the first initiatives we took, on the preservation end, were to determine what the building’s original appearance was, how it had been changed over time, and what The Newberry Magazine

kinds of renovations the library had undertaken in the past. Indeed, there have been a number of campaigns and renovations that have transformed the Newberry’s main f loor. Steven Gerrard: On the main f loor, one of the key architectural features is the central lobby, which is a beautiful space with restrained ornamentation. From that grand central lobby, two corridor paths extend east and west. The corridors are important because they each have a row of distinctive, monumental pilasters [rectangular engaged columns]. Those are two key spatial features that you sense in the main f loor. I’d also point out that the entire building has very tall monumental windows. I think these windows were part of Henry Ives Cobb’s strategy for day-lighting the entire library at the time that he designed it [in the early 1890s], and so they’re important —and, in some ways, very contemporary— features as well. AB: We consulted the Newberry’s own archives to understand that, in certain eras, some of the original features were taken out of the building. Initially, after the library building was constructed, the main floor was much more colorful than it is now; it had deeper colors, and pieces of art were hung in all the main spaces. The building has undergone a number of changes over the years.

SG: One of the things we’re planning to do is restore the original marble wainscoting to the lobby. I think that will help give the lobby more richness and return the space to its original palette. We’re also going to be improving all of the lighting on the first f loor, which we believe will highlight the architectural features in a new way. NM: What has been the most challenging aspect of redesigning the Newberry’s f irst f loor? Which components of the renovation require the most ingenuity or creativity? AB: There are any number of examples. The first is the integration of systems [e.g., air handling]. Effectively, the systems in the building are all being upgraded or completely replaced. In order to do this, we’ve needed to find space for infrastructure that will monitor humidity and other conservation controls within the building. At the same time, we don’t want to block out the windows; we want to retain the sense of illumination in the space. Striking that balance between conservation standards, the systems, the lighting, and the presentation of the collection is certainly always a challenge no matter the project.

SG: The lighting in the building changed substantially as well, as subsequent generations integrated new mechanical systems into the library. Fortunately, there are a number of heritage spaces on the first f loor, and the Newberry is well-positioned to review those spaces and return them to some of their original grandeur with this project. NM: What will be the effect of restoring some of the Newberry’s original features on the first f loor (or giving them greater prominence)?

Mosaic Tile

Vestibule Marble Wall

Marble Wainscot

Terra Cotta Tile

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ABA has paid close attention to the materials present in the Newberry’s lobby, some of which will be restored to their original luster as part of the renovation project.

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In addition, we needed to recognize that the first floor is used for many purposes. The first-floor spaces need to accommodate a range of audiences, including groups of new visitors who would like to learn about the Newberry for the first time, visit an exhibition, or plan a wedding. The lobby must be welcoming but also very versatile. From a design point of view, that’s important to recognize. SG: Reconsidering the approach to security in the lobby has been another interesting challenge. Our goal was to enhance security in a way that wouldn’t be visually intrusive. That’s very challenging. We’re collaborating with a security consultant to incorporate technology into first-f loor security, both in terms of new cameras and new ID cards for staff and visitors. We also wanted to improve the ADA accessibility of the library, and so we’re adding a new ADA-accessible entry on the south side of the building. Incorporating such an entry into the main entrance would have required extensive ramping, and so we began exploring a more subtle solution. Built into new landscaping—and new landscaping features such as a bench— there will be a pathway to the east of the main steps that will lead visitors into an elevator ascending to the new welcome center on the first f loor. NM: Speaking of the exterior, there are plans to redesign the way the building is lit at night. What will that look like?

Built into new landscaping just east of the library’s main entrance will be a pathway that leads to a new ADA-accessible entrance.

SG: The ornate entrance archways are a really strong feature of the Cobb building. The entrance is beautiful, and we feel that it is a dramatic element that expresses what the Newberry is. We looked for ways to illuminate the archways at night as a welcoming gesture that draws people in. From a design standpoint, the challenge has been to devise an approach to lighting while concealing the lights themselves. NM: How have the Newberry’s surroundings factored into your approach to the design of the exterior? AB: The Newberry is the most powerful architectural aspect of the immediate area. As a fullblock building, the library is the anchor. Accordingly, our belief is that the exterior, through signage and illumination, can become more alive and more welcoming. The effect will be to add to the Newberry’s status as a landmark on Washington Square Park—not just a landmark at the park. The landscaping around the main entrance will also contribute to a greater sense of welcome. These upgrades will open up the library’s façade from east to west, making the building less heavy, lighter, and more transparent.

ABA, along with the renovation project’s lighting designers, Schuler Shook, recently tested lighting options for the Newberry’s south facade. The lighting is designed to accent the archway’s ornate details while offering a welcoming gesture for visitors and pedestrians.

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Artists’ Books at the Newberry: A Conversation By Sarah Alger

or more than a decade, the Caxton Club of Chicago, a membership society of bibliophiles, has awarded grants to graduate and undergraduate students to pursue projects in book arts. Caxtonian Jacqueline Vossler wanted to ensure that the projects funded by the club were well represented at the Newberry. She had three goals in mind: she wanted the works to be available to all to view; she wanted to ensure there was a record for posterity of what the club funded with its grants; and she wanted these up-and-coming book artists to be represented

in the Newberry’s collection. Vossler began by approaching the Newberry, offering certain artists’ books “if they would fit into the collection.” This relationship expanded and in the last two years has evolved into a collaboration between Vossler and Jill Gage, Custodian of the John M. Wing Foundation on the History of Printing, to grow the Newberry’s collection of artists’ books. Following is a conversation between Vossler and Gage on the Caxton Club, the Wing collection, the book arts, and the importance of libraries. In addition to enabling Jill Gage to acquire artists’ books and other works for the Wing collection, Vossler has also been contributing additional dollars to catalog and conserve each piece. Her support has qualified her to become a member of the Newberry’s Society of Collectors. Jackie Vossler: As a donor, I have my own interests, but I have realized that what I do as a donor must be aligned with the mission of the institution. At the Newberry, I try to support what the staff is looking to do with the collection— whether to expand it or to fill in gaps. At the same time, I realize that acquiring a book is just the beginning of the process to add it to the collection, which is why contributing to cataloging and conservation is so important. Jill Gage: Curating the Wing collection is similar. After I became the Custodian, I realized that I need to think carefully about what to acquire and how I might expand the collection. The Wing collection is particularly difficult, because it encompasses the history of printing—books and manuscripts from the beginning of printing to now. Technically, everything could fit into the history of printing. Originally, the Wing Foundation collection was designed for printers and designers, although now it is often used by book historians. The Caxton Club has always been interested in both strands.

Jackie Vossler has been supporting the Newberry’s efforts to grow its collection of artists’ books.

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A selection of artists’ books that, thanks to Vossler’s support, have recently been acquired, cataloged, and conserved by the Newberry.

Vossler: President David Spadafora and I recently looked back at the history of the Caxton Club. In the beginning, the club and the Newberry had a very parallel list of board members. When an organization is 120 years old, it’s important to look at its mission, honor it, and decide how to move forward. I believe that to stay relevant, the Caxton Club needs to be involved in programs and projects; we need to encourage the conversation about book history and think about what the club’s legacy will be. The Caxton Club grants to young book artists are part of that. Gage: The Society of Typographical Arts also established its home in Chicago early on. That’s why I am interested in receiving the work of Caxton grant recipients—it brings all these threads together. Artists’ books offer a particular challenge in collecting. The goal of the Wing collection is to offer a broad look at printing

across time and space, but not to collect everything by a book artist. So which ones? The piece has to be important for printing history and complement multiple strengths of the library’s collection, but also it has to evoke a powerful emotional response. For me, an additional focus is looking for items that relate to Chicago history. Vossler: At the same time, having one of their works added to the Newberry’s collection impacts the reputation of a book artist. Gage: A connection to the Newberry also gives works historical reference, depth. Some book artists aren’t interested in looking back at the past. But there are pages from the fifteenth century that look fresh and new to our eyes. Art is always responding to the history and art of the past. Looking at the past, you are inspired to push the boundaries. Sarah Alger is the Newberry’s Director of Development.

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RETROSPECT

Recent Events BUGHOUSE SQUARE DEBATES 2017 Dozens of soapboxers and over 700 attendees (and hecklers) had their voices heard at this year’s Bughouse Square Debates. Journalists Darryl Holliday and Mary Wisniewski sparred over the question, “What constitutes legitimate journalism in a hyper-connected world?” Kevin Coval, artistic director of Young Chicago Authors, received the Altgeld Freedom of Speech Award for his work promoting critical thinking, civic engagement, and innovative forms of expression among students throughout the city. And, at the end of the day, Ada Cheng hoisted the Dill Pickle Champion Soapboxer Award for her speech “Alien Forever?!: The Institutionalization of the Alien Status among Naturalized Citizens.”

Darryl Holliday and Mary Wisniewski debate the question, “What constitutes legitimate journalism in a hyper-connected world?”

Hecklers carry on the free speech tradition of Bughouse Square.

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Bughouse emcee Rick Kogan

Kevin Coval receiving the Altgeld Freedom of Speech Award from Newberry President David Spadafora and Director of Public Engagement Karen Christianson.

Ada Cheng, winner of the Dill Pickle Award

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ONE FOR THE BOOKS You helped make Book Fair 2017 one of our most successful ever! With support from our 200 stellar volunteers, we welcomed 10,000 visitors over five days and sold books ranging from signed presidential memoirs to Julia Child’s cookbooks. The money raised during Book Fair will help the Newberry continue to promote learning in the humanities through public programs, exhibitions, and digital resources. See you next year!

Shoppers browse the selection during the 2017 Book Fair.

POLITICS OF CONVERSION From September 14 – 16, hundreds of scholars gathered at the Newberry for a conference co-hosted by the library’s Center for Renaissance Studies and McGill University’s Early Modern Conversions Project. The conference, titled “The Politics of Conversion: Martin Luther to Muhammad Ali,” featured a range of speakers exploring conversion not just as a private experience but as an instrument for control and community-building. The conference coincided with the 500th anniversary year of Martin Luther’s 95 Theses, as well as the opening day of the Newberry’s exhibition Religious Change and Print, 1450-1700.

Lia Markey, Director of the Center for Renaissance Studies

VOICES OF REFORM On Tuesday, September 26, the Schola Antiqua early ensemble, in commemoration of the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s 95 Theses, performed a range of hymns and psalms—some by Luther himself. Between songs, Michael Alan Anderson, the group’s artistic director, provided commentary that illuminated not only the songs’ musical qualities but also their unique ability to communicate new religious ideas during the Reformation. According to Anderson, “Like the written word, music had the power to promote new thinking, and its expressive devices could be used more efficaciously than regular speech.” Schola Antiqua singers: Laura Lynch, Stephanie Schoenhofer, and Stephanie Culica

L isten to recordings by Schola Antiqua: publications.newberry.org/dig/reform

Schola Antiqua’s performance was part of Religious Change, 1450 – 1700, a multidisciplinary project exploring how religion and print made the medieval world modern. The project has been generously supported by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This performance was also supported by a grant from the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany. The Newberry Magazine

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BOOKED FOR THE EVENING On September 28, 2017, the Newberry hosted a new event, Booked for the Evening, to support our efforts to build and care for our collection. Sixty people were in attendance to learn about the work of our Collections and Library Services Division, and to help raise more than $60,000 to fund the acquisition of new collection items, as well as cataloging, processing, conservation, and digitization projects. Booked for the Evening was designed as both an educational and a fundraising initiative, and more than 30 Newberry staff members were on hand to help patrons understand the process of bringing a new item into our collection and making it available for use. Twenty-one items and projects were presented for attendees to explore and “adopt” on behalf of the Newberry. By the end of the evening, all 21 items had been bid on and secured, adding 15 new items to our collection, funding three significant cataloging projects, and supporting the work of our Conservation Department. Alice Schreyer, the Roger and Julie Baskes Vice President for Collections and Library Services, was thrilled

Photography by Dave Saradin

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with the results of this inaugural event. “We were excited to see such generous support at Booked for the Evening—to have all 21 acquisitions and projects funded by the end of the evening is an extraordinary result! But we were equally pleased to have the opportunity to interact with our guests and give them a holistic view of the work involved in growing and caring for our collection.” Our thanks to all those who attended the first Booked for the Evening, as well as to the host committee who worked to guarantee its success: Roger and Julie Baskes, Paul Gehl and Rob Carlson, Vicki Herget and Bob Parsons, Celia and David Hilliard, Robert A. and Lorraine Holland, David and Anita Meyer, Gail Kern Paster, Christine and Michael Pope, Burt and Sheli Rosenberg, and Jacqueline Vossler.

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Upcoming Events Since the Newberry’s founding in 1887, the library has provided programs in the humanities for people throughout the Chicago area and beyond. Today, you can explore history, literature, music, and the arts through public lectures, meet-the-author events, exhibitions, seminars, and other programs. Register to attend these free programs online at www.newberry.org/public-programs.

EXHIBITION Religious Change and Print, 1450 – 1700 September 14 – December 27 Curator-led Exhibition Tour November 30, 6 pm To schedule a private group tour, please contact Christopher Fletcher at f letcherc@newberry.org or (312) 255-3514. NOVEMBER Luther and the Reformation: 500 Years of Book-Burning and Book-Learning Wednesday, November 1, 6 pm Genealogy and Local History Orientation Saturday, November 4, 9 am Colonial History Lecture Series Nathaniel Philbrick: Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution Saturday, November 4, 10 am History of the Book Symposium Premodern Judaism from Manuscript to Print Sunday, November 5 – Monday, November 6 Conversations at the Newberry What the Reformation Did and Why It Still Matters A discussion with Brad S. Gregory and Mark Noll Tuesday, November 7, 6 pm Meet the Author Andrew Diamond, Chicago on the Make: Power and Inequality in a Modern City Wednesday, November 8, 6 pm

The Secret Life of Indigenous Archives Thursday, November 9, Reception 5 pm; Roundtable and Discussion 6 pm Music and Stories for Kids Dolls, Toys, and Winter Lucky Trikes story-telling chamber band, featuring pianist Mable Kwan Saturday, November 11, 10 am Jesuits and Change: Spirit, Classroom, and Change Lecture by John W. O’Malley Tuesday, November 14, 6 pm Chasing Wilder in Chicago: Thornton Wilder’s Prize-Winning The Eighth Day Discussion with Jeremy McCarter, Liesl Olson, and Tappan Wilder Wednesday, November 15, Reception 5 pm; Program 6 pm DECEMBER Genealogy and Local History Orientation Saturday, December 2, 9 am Meet the Author John N. Low, Imprints: The Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians and the City of Chicago Thursday, December 7, 6 pm Religious Music Singalong Interactive musical performance with Schola Antiqua Saturday, December 9, 10:30 am Holiday Performance: Dream upon Avon Staged reading and holiday treats Shakespeare Project of Chicago Saturday, December 16, 10 am

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Pre-Renovation Sale! From now until the beginning of the Newberry’s first-floor renovation in January, all new items are 50% off at the Newberry Bookstore! The Newberry Bookstore wil be closed while the Library’s first floor is under construction. Soon after the renovation project is complete, the bookstore will reopen in a redesigned space in the Newberry lobby.

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