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Joined: July 8, 2020
Articles: 106

20th Century, Collection Essays

Leisure and Entertainment in the Early Twentieth Century

Color photograph of "The Bobs" ride sign. "Bobs" is written in white in all capitals, which an oranage line curving up and down between each letter. The letters and line have lightbulbs in them to illuminate them at night.

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January 27, 2021

13th Century, 14th Century, 15th Century, Collection Essays

Politics, Poetry, and Religious Life in Late-Medieval England after the Black Death

Woodcut image of three skeletons dancing with one another above a fourth, who is rising out of the grave to join them. On the far left of the image a fifth skeleton plays a pipe.

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January 6, 2021

20th Century, Collection Essays

Decision 1920

This pocket-sized map, produced by the Rand McNally company of Chicago, encourages viewers to use the results from the 1916 presidential election in making a prediction for the results in 1920.

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December 2, 2020

19th Century, 20th Century, Collection Essays

Riots and Protest: Chicago’s Legacy of Conflict

A born-digital image of people protesting with signs collected by the Newberry Library as part of its contemporary Chicago Protest Collection.

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December 2, 2020

18th Century, 19th Century, Collection Essays

Romantic Orientalism

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July 31, 2020

15th Century, 16th Century, 17th Century, 18th Century, Collection Essays

Renaissance Invention: Stradanus’s Nova Reperta

Image of a factory of workers polishing armor.

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June 3, 2020

15th Century, 16th Century, 17th Century, 18th Century, Collection Essays

The Making of the Bible, 400-1700

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May 27, 2020

19th Century, Collection Essays

Chicago after the Great Fire

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February 5, 2020

17th Century, 18th Century, Classroom Materials, High School, Lesson Plans

Maps and the Beginnings of Colonial North America: C3 Activity (Grades 9-12)

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January 22, 2020

17th Century, 18th Century, Classroom Materials, High School, Lesson Plans, Middle School

Maps and the Beginnings of Colonial North America: Unit Plan (Grades 6-12)

This is part of a set of classroom materials for the Digital Collection Maps and the Beginnings of North America.

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January 17, 2020