We were watching Widow's Bay when Patricia's self-help book took a distinctly occult turn -- and suddenly looked very familiar.
The Newberry's "Book of magical charms" has entered the chat.
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Our #DouglassDay cake by Elisa's Cake by the #Pound is gorgeous and delicious!
Ben Hecht helped write the sound of screwball comedy: fast-talking, snappy, and never short on drama.
Now you can help transcribe his letters to his daughter Jenny -- part of 1,500 new pages just added to Newberry Transcribe: nt.newberry.org/transcribe
Today we're celebrating #DouglassDay with @douglassday.bsky.social, students from Loyola Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities, and volunteers around the world. You could hear a pin-drop in the room during the powerful reading of “Why Hold a Colored Convention?” by Hassan El-Amin.
A volunteer transcriber followed the clues in an unidentified 1880 diary — and gave its author her name back.
Plus: nearly 700 new pages are ready for transcription, including Jenny Hecht letters, Graham Taylor correspondence, and more.
digitalnewberry.substack.com/p/every-diar...
Kids can't read cursive. Lily King credits Sherwood Anderson with helping to make her a writer. We just added 700 pages of his papers to Newberry Transcribe. It all connects: digitalnewberry.substack.com/p/help-unloc...
A shipwreck. A baby no one could identify. A girl who grew up not knowing who she was.
That story turned up in a 1910 love letter from Muriel Bent to Stanley Harris. Learn more, then help transcribe 1,100 newly-added pages from the same collection:
digitalnewberry.substack.com/p/fancy-know...
That is "our official #DouglassDay 2026 Award Winning baker!" Congratulations and thank you for the sweet additions to our day, Elisa! www.elisascakebythepound.com/about
If you live in Chicago you should be eating Elisa's Cake by the #Pound our official #DouglassDay baker for the past several years!
Big news for #DouglassDay! We officially unveiled a stunning new gallery of Black History materials in Newberry Digital Collections at our event! From our stacks to your screen—check out the new gallery today:
📍 publications.newberry.org/gallery/?g=2...
Two volunteers, one anonymous diary, and an identification 140 years in the making. Plus: 700 new pages just added to Newberry Transcribe, waiting to give up their secrets.
