Digital Newberry

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Exploring the Newberry Library's digital collections: rare maps, historical documents, postcards, and unexpected finds.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.

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

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

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

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.

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.’