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Date 1887 - present
Areas Of Involvement Humanities
Related People Henry Ives Cobb • William Frederick Poole

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Aerial view of the Newberry Library in Chicago, Illinois, showing a large historic building with a red roof surrounded by trees and city buildings.
Sixteenth-century illustrated map titled Quivirae Regnum cum aliis versus Boream, showing stylized landmasses, labeled regions, sailing ships, and decorative cartouches.
William Frederick Poole sits at a desk with folded hands, surrounded by books and papers, in a library with shelves of books behind him.
Historical map titled Chicago in 1812, showing sparse settlements, prairie, rivers, and the shoreline of Lake Michigan with labeled features and landmarks.
Color-coded map of Chicago's Nineteenth Precinct, First Ward, from 1894, highlighting brothels in red, pawn brokers in gray, saloons in green, and lodging houses in white.
Faded front page of the Cherokee Phoenix newspaper from March 6, 1828, featuring English and Cherokee syllabary text in multiple columns under a phoenix emblem.
Open manuscript of Alessandro Stradella's Cantate from around 1750, showing handwritten musical notation and a small portrait sketch on the right page.
Open booklet showing a green page with a printed message to children on the left and the cover of The Slave's Friend No. 2 on the right, featuring an illustration of an enslaved person kneeling in prayer beneath a tree.
Eighteenth-century baptismal certificate by Heinrich Otto with German text in black and red, surrounded by colorful woodcut illustrations of birds, crowns, and flowers.
Ledger art drawing from the Black Horse Ledger shows Plains Indian figures in traditional dress, a grazing horse, and a group of galloping horses, rendered in colored pencil and ink.
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