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Fall semester seminar & topic in fall 2008 Winter/spring short-term seminars
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The Newberry's collections American history and literature From the Age of Discovery through the early 20th century, the Newberry's collections include a treasure trove of materials from the Americas. |
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The materials include books and manuscripts, with resources for research in history, literature, politics, and culture. There is also a good deal of material related to the American West. (Click on the pictures to see larger versions.) |
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Above, right: Christopher Columbus, Epistola Christofori Colom: cui etas nostra multu debet: de Insulis Indie supra Gangem nuper inuentis. Rome, 1493. Shortly after his return to Spain in 1493, Columbus made a public announcement of his discoveries by circulating an eight-page leaflet address to high public officials in the Kingdom of Aragon, with an intended audience of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella as well as all of Europe. The first edition was hastily printed in Spanish in Barcelona in March or April 1493. A revised second edition in Latin and eight subsequent Latin editions were printed in Rome, Paris, Antwerp, and Basel within a year of the first. The Epistola was also sold as a poem, translated into Tuscan verse and reprinted five times during 1493. |
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Right: Works of the late Doctor Benjamin Franklin consisting of His Life Written by Himself together with Essays, Humorous, Moral & Literary, possibly owned by Alexander Hamilton. |
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Left: Copy of the Federalist (1788), owned by Thomas Jefferson. |
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Right: Herman Melville, Moby Dick (1851-first edition); original binding with a gold whale on the spine. |
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Left: A copy of the first edition of Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer (1876). | |
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A page from Sherwood Anderson's original manuscript for Winesburg,
Ohio, showing the author's corrections. The Anderson papers
is the Newberry's largest literary archive.
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Images courtesy of the Newberry Library for study and promotional purposes only. |
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