Interested in crowdsourced transcription and DH projects, digital collections news. Work at Newberry Library, all ideas and views personal.
Chicago, IL
Joined June 2017
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🚨CYBER MONDAY ALERT🚨 Today* we're offering free access to 1 million digital images from our collection. digcoll.newberry.org/#/
*Deal active on every day that isn't Cyber Monday, too.
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"Next week is Thanksgiving...I cannot spend it with you but if you write me some letters, I will...try to imagine myself really surrounded by those I love."
Learn how 19thC Americans dealt w/ the holiday blues on our new site, Midwest Time Machine. bit.ly/34lLNDI
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Show your friends how psyched you are for lakeside drinking (and all the other perks of summer) by sending them a digital postcard from our just-restocked postcard sender. bit.ly/2J384fT
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Happy Solstice! Here's the Sun putting on its best happy shining face for the special occasion, from the Splendor Solis, a 16th-century German alchemical treatise.
(More art from the history of alchemy here: buff.ly/2aNeBgV)
#SummerSolstice #Midsummer
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Full moon over Chicago’s Wrigley Building, mid-20th century. 🌝 🐺
This #postcard is from our Leonard A. Lauder Collection of Raphael Tuck & Sons Postcards, a new digital archive that provides access to over 26K 20thC cards. bit.ly/2RhTIfx #chicago #architecture
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Our newly available dig. archive of over 26K British postcards provides fascinating insight into early 20thC visual culture - & gathers together some truly top-notch pick-up lines. bit.ly/2WLnKxW
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Look at this! A new digitized image collection, early 20c, places, artworks, greetings etc: publications.newberry.org/tu… Great quality and no strings attached, over 26,000 of these lovely Oilette PCs with a great range of subjects. Looking forward to exploring!
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Depicting everything from faraway landscapes + local landmarks to young men getting way ahead of themselves, our new dig. archive of over 26K postcards shows how Britain reflected upon itself + its global position in the early 20thC. bit.ly/2Wz6RBG
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Now available to one & all: a digital archive of 26k early 20thC British #postcards from our collection. Most are "Oilettes," reproductions of oil paintings feat. landscapes, city streets, & children admiring the Union Jack on a figgy pudding. bit.ly/2Wz6RBG
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#OnThisDay in 1919, Congress passed the #19thAmendment, which gave all American women the right to vote. In IL, women could vote for president by 1913, but not legislators at the state & federal level. Thus, the campaigning continued until full political equality. #19thAt100
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Salacious stuff. The "Tandem Two-Step" is one of 80k pieces of sheet music in our collection--one of the largest in the U.S. Browse & view the collection: bit.ly/2IruxmP
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#BeforeWeHadCellPhones people would actually talk face-to-face and say hi how ya doin' and not retreat into their own private worlds during the am commute. Oh, wait...
[Early morning commuters in Hinsdale, IL. 1948] bit.ly/2iqXFhH
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I think it's sweet that our definitely-not-sentient postcard bot appears to be as fond of birds as I am.
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Want to "make a world of art difference"? Help transcribe Panel Flyers from the Artists Talk on Art, the #art world's longest running & most prolific aesthetic panel discussion series organized by artists 4 artists: s.si.edu/11mfgg3 #volunpeers
