As an N.E. who works on relief illustrations, it gives me unreasonable joy to spend time in NE1000-1352: Wood engraving and relief printing
05.03.2026 15:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0As an N.E. who works on relief illustrations, it gives me unreasonable joy to spend time in NE1000-1352: Wood engraving and relief printing
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For more on Chicago Pulp:
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Today the @newberrylibrary.bsky.social Culture of Paper class traveled to the new Chicago Pulp studio, where students created sheets of handmade paper from sisal, kozo, cotton, and abaca fibers!
As our brilliant guide, Aidan, said, "paper holds memory" and I am sure this day is deeply embedded.
The research library received a Mellon Foundation grant to expand access to its vast Indigenous collections, including materials related to 300 languages.
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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." 🐶
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Brilliant scholarship AND a beautiful cover!? Summer can't come fast enough.
Congrats, @ewatson.bsky.social!
Happy Saturday to all the #AHA26 historians in Chicago today!
The @newberrylibrary.bsky.social's reading rooms are open 10-4. I can't wait to see what items you call up!
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A woodcut from a 1509 English copy of Ship of Fools, showing an "old fool" emerging from a grave.
Back in the library after a long holiday break with toddlers:
Pynson's 1509 'Shyp of Folys'. Sig. d2r.
@newberrylibrary.bsky.social : VAULT Case folio Y 952 .B734
Close up image of multi colored print or ornaments laid out to be various buildings in Chicago with text that says ‘the city is my religion and studs Terkel is the preacher and the staple singers are the choir’.
Snippet from ‘The City is my Religion’ print from a portfolio project of the same name, 2020. It’s a church of sorts, made up of local buildings with colors to mimic stained glass. Considering a reprint. #letterpress
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My brother is running for State Assembly in NY and has been endorsed by the NYC DSA!
Take it from me, David will be an amazing legislator. He is someone who has always been guided by his belief in the need for justice for the most vulnerable. I am so proud and inspired to have him as a brother.
Our tribute to Natalie Zemon Davis, in the Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte. Please share widely!
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Can't make it to Oxford? @newberrylibrary.bsky.social also has one of the 22 known suppressed Alices! (Alas, we only have five original drawings by John Tenniel, so Oxford's 10 wins there).
Call no.: VAULT Case 4A 878
Amazing!
Congrats Daryl (and Esther, who is the perfect covergirl)!
An oilette postcard shows a scene at Box Hill, Surrey, a location mentioned in "Emma."
Today is Jane Austen's 250th birthday! What did the places in Jane Austen's novels actually look like? Our new digital exhibit "Sense and Scenery: Picturing Jane Austen's World" pairs Austen's words with Oilette postcards from the Newberry Library's collection. digital.newberry.org/sense-scenery
16.12.2025 19:47 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0There is nothing quite like waiting for sundown and lighting candles in the sky to make this season magical for our boys (although the new Transformers toys pulled a lot of weight).
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Flyer for the Liberation Library Gift Card Drive, December 1–19. Features a gift card illustration and text about donating to support incarcerated youth, with a $500 fundraising goal for 2025.
WCF is supporting Liberation Library with a gift card drive! You can help by purchasing a gift card online or in-store, or give them a call. Drive runs Dec 1 -19. Here’s the donation link: womenandchildrenfirst.com/list/liberat... - This is close to my heart as I conceived LibLib & co-founded it.
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Large-letter postcards from the United States are displayed at a grand scale behind a band with the audience in the foreground.
We made the Sphere! When the Eagles were looking for a backdrop for their Vegas residency, they reached out for images from our Teich Postcard Collection. Our postcards from Winslow, Arizona, and other locations are being displayed during the band's performances of "Take It Easy" through spring.
04.12.2025 15:24 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0I used the first editions (Poetry Magazine, 1914 & Collected Vol., 1916) of 'Chicago' in a Newberry class yesterday:
06.11.2025 16:32 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Take Dorothy up on this! I just got her new book in the mail (+errata sheet!) and always assigned her work on controlled vocabulary on the St Andrews' Material Bibliography course. Scotland is lucky to have such a brilliant scholar in town!
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Bookpeople!
Does anyone know where I can buy uncut printed sheets to teach basic imposition and format (rather than the DIY sheets I typically print off on 8.5x11)? The Rare Book School's bibliographic format kits appear to be out of stock.
SO EXCITED TO SHARE THIS! Announcing the Newberry Medieval Minicomic Prize: two juried mini-grants of $250.00 each to support emerging artists l for the creation of a new minicomic that engages with medieval culture. More details available here:
www.newberry.org/calendar/new...
Image of a guillotine from the title page of Newberry Library Case FRC 4421 (J'attends le proces de Louis XVI : mis au cachot, pour ses forfaits dévoilés à la Convention nationale, par le Comité de surveillance.)
FYI:
Out of the Newberry's ~22k French pamphlets, 530 are on the imprisonment, trial and execution of Louis XVI (published between August 10, 1792 and Jan. 21, 1793).
Our doors are open today if you need a place to sit and think about a society with #NoKings.
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Still processing my thoughts on “Cartooning the Medieval” and I’ve not yet managed to type anything up. @marniegalloway.bsky.social just shared her reflections and artist talk; I encourage you to read her wonderful post if you’re eager to know more about the event: open.substack.com/pub/marniega...
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Same.
Newberry: Case 3A 1572
That LO ligature!
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Medievalist-friends! Interested in learning about comics and narrative art and meeting cartoonists for potential collaborations? Apply to join us in Chicago from 5-6 June 2025 for a crossover workshop at the Newberry Library entitled “Cartooning the Medieval”!! www.newberry.org/calendar/car...
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Amazing! I can't wait to dig around the Sclair collection!
Here is the Odd Fellow banner I'm constantly telling a toddler not to touch:
In our introduction, Jessica Farrell-Jobst, @noraepstein.bsky.social and I argue that it is time to take gender seriously as a methodology in book history. You can read the chapter here (or ask any of us for a PDF): www.pure.ed.ac.uk/ws/portalfil...
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It’s out! Today is publication day for Gender and the Book Trades, from the conference of the same name in June 2021. Huge thanks to everyone who contributed and read drafts of this behemoth's xxii + 492 pages. We are so proud of it and hope you enjoy. brill.com/edcollbook/t...
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Happy Publication Day, ‘Gender and the Book Trades’!
I am deeply proud of this conference and my co-organizers, who edited this astonishingly good volume.
I contributed to the introduction, 'Gender as an Inclusive Model for Book History', and am happy to share a pdf.
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