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Exploring the Newberry Library's digital collections: rare maps, historical documents, postcards, and unexpected finds. Browse, discover, and help us transcribe. Free and open to all.
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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...
A librarian stands in front of large screen that displays digitized Black history material while a room full of event attendees look on.
February 13, 2026 at 7:18 PM
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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!
February 13, 2026 at 6:52 PM
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Our #DouglassDay cake by Elisa's Cake by the #Pound is gorgeous and delicious!
Cake decorated with pink, red and white roses with the words All Rights for All.
February 13, 2026 at 6:45 PM
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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.
Participants at Douglass Day Transcribing event sitting at tables, with laptops, at the Newberry Library in Chicago.
February 13, 2026 at 6:35 PM
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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...
February 12, 2026 at 6:50 PM
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📌 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✍️ Help us transcribe historical documents on Newberry Transcribe (no experience needed, just curiosity) nt.newberry.org
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.
February 11, 2026 at 5:37 PM
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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
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.’
February 11, 2026 at 5:08 PM