Digital Newberry

About — Elisa's Cake by the #Pound

That is "our official #DouglassDay 2026 Award Winning baker!" Congratulations and thank you for the sweet additions to our day, Elisa! www.elisascakebythepound.com/about

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Thank you -- and we plan to keep adding more!

13.02.2026 19:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Waving back! Our #DouglassDay event makes us smile every year too. And big thanks to your mom for here work that first year.😍

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I recognize this cake! Thank you for joining us at the Newberry today. Also, eat more cake!

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A librarian stands in front of large screen that displays digitized Black history material while a room full of event attendees look on.

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...

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If you live in Chicago you should be eating Elisa's Cake by the #Pound our official #DouglassDay baker for the past several years!

13.02.2026 18:52 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Cake decorated with pink, red and white roses with the words All Rights for All.

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

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Participants at Douglass Day Transcribing event sitting at tables, with laptops, at the Newberry Library in Chicago.

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.

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Explore all 150K items: collections.newberry.org/asset-management

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It's adorable! Mostly. There is an illustration of a tiny child casually toting a rifle while hunting "wild beasts and birds" with the gingerbread dog. 1914 was a different time.

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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...

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Screenshot of the Newberry Library Digital Collections homepage featuring a pastel illustration of a polar bear on ice with mountains and a sun; a banner invites browsing the digital collections, with “Browse all” and “Recently added” thumbnails below.

Screenshot of the Newberry Transcribe homepage with a purple handwriting background; a large panel reads “Newberry Transcribe — Unlock history!” with buttons for “Learn more” and “Browse manuscripts,” and a row of project tiles below.

📌 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

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Vintage illustrated postcard: a man and woman stand at a ping-pong table holding paddles. Handwritten text at upper right reads, ‘How shall I begin.’

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

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