Two more John M. Wing diaries are now on Newberry Transcribe—more war, work, printing, and Charley drama. Plus: Route 66 turns 100, with breakdowns, bad motels, and brutally honest traveler reviews behind the postcard fronts. Read more: digitalnewberry.substack.com/p/heartbreak...

Heartbreak, Civil War, and 1,600+ New Pages: The Wing Diaries Continue

Two more John M.

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National Ice Cream Day on July 19 may be a made-up holiday, but it’s one we’re happy to celebrate. 🍦 Take a sweet mid-20th c. trip through the Newberry collections: collections.newberry.org/CS.aspx?VP3=...

Fireworks, flags, patriotic scarves: the Newberry Postcard Sender is ready for the Fourth. Send a vintage postcard from the archive, then stick around for Revolutionary-era manuscripts and 2,200+ new pages on Newberry Transcribe. digitalnewberry.substack.com/p/this-fourt...

Ben Hecht helped write the sound of screwball comedy: fast-talking, snappy, and never short on drama. Now you can help transcribe his letters to his daughter Jenny -- part of 1,500 new pages just added to Newberry Transcribe: nt.newberry.org/transcribe

We were watching Widow's Bay when Patricia's self-help book took a distinctly occult turn -- and suddenly looked very familiar. The Newberry's "Book of magical charms" has entered the chat. collections.newberry.org/asset-manage...

A volunteer transcriber followed the clues in an unidentified 1880 diary — and gave its author her name back. Plus: nearly 700 new pages are ready for transcription, including Jenny Hecht letters, Graham Taylor correspondence, and more. digitalnewberry.substack.com/p/every-diar...

Every Diary Has a Secret. Some Get Solved.

Two volunteers, one anonymous diary, and an identification 140 years in the making. Plus: 700 new pages just added to Newberry Transcribe, waiting to give up their secrets.

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Kids can't read cursive. Lily King credits Sherwood Anderson with helping to make her a writer. We just added 700 pages of his papers to Newberry Transcribe. It all connects: digitalnewberry.substack.com/p/help-unloc...

Help unlock 700 pages from the Sherwood Anderson papers

Cursive is making headlines again—not as nostalgia, but as a form of access.

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A shipwreck. A baby no one could identify. A girl who grew up not knowing who she was. That story turned up in a 1910 love letter from Muriel Bent to Stanley Harris. Learn more, then help transcribe 1,100 newly-added pages from the same collection: digitalnewberry.substack.com/p/fancy-know...

Big news for #DouglassDay! We officially unveiled a stunning new gallery of Black History materials in Newberry Digital Collections at our event! From our stacks to your screen—check out the new gallery today: 📍 publications.newberry.org/gallery/?g=2...

Our #DouglassDay cake by Elisa's Cake by the #Pound is gorgeous and delicious!

Today we're celebrating #DouglassDay with @douglassday.bsky.social, students from Loyola Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities, and volunteers around the world. You could hear a pin-drop in the room during the powerful reading of “Why Hold a Colored Convention?” by Hassan El-Amin.

We just hit 150,000 items (that's 1.6 million files!) in our digital collections. One of the recent additions that put us over the top? This 1914 children's book, "The Gingerbread Dog." 🐶 collections.newberry.org/asset-manage...

📌 Where to find us: 🔍 Browse our digital collections -- thousands of rare maps, manuscripts, postcards, and more, all free and online collections.newberry.org ✍️ Help us transcribe historical documents on Newberry Transcribe (no experience needed, just curiosity) nt.newberry.org

How shall I begin? With a first post, of course. Follow along for highlights from our digital collections 🏓 collections.newberry.org/asset-manage... #Libraries #SpecialCollections