Breaking News! Big Bound Newspapers Get Boxed: Housing a Chicago Tribune Collection
Posted May 1, 2024
By Julie Calcagno Taking on a large collection housing project, especially if you’ve never done one before, can be daunting. There are so many...Category: Collection Highlights
Playing Tabletop Treasures from the Collections
Posted April 25, 2024
By Rachel Vigil and Gene Kannenberg, Jr. Though board games may not be the first thing that comes to mind when imagining the collections...
Scripts and Performances: Uncharted Medieval Music Manuscripts
Posted March 8, 2024
By Paul Feller-Simmons ’25 PhD This blog post is adapted from the exhibition Scripts and Performances: Uncharted Medieval Manuscripts at Northwestern University, on view...
“The Enterprizing Lunardi’s Grand Air Balloon”
Posted February 26, 2024
A new acquisition by the Transportation Library documents the first successful balloon flight in England. The 1784 broadside features an illustration of Vincent Lunardi’s...
Madrid museum features Northwestern avant garde materials
Posted December 1, 2023
By Natalia Gonzalez Blanco Serrano ’24 This summer, the Libraries sent more than 40 rare items and 14 facsimiles to the Museo Nacional Centro...
Jenny Knauss and the Janes: The fight for abortion rights in ’70s Chicago
Posted November 2, 2023
By Natalia Gonzalez Blanco Serrano ’24 The posters, fliers, and ephemera in the Libraries’ Femina Collection overflow with remnants of the fight for gender...
New and Notable Collections, October 2023
Posted October 9, 2023
Select recent additions to our print and digital. To follow new e-resources available at the Libraries, visit the New E-resources Blog and subscribe. Kansas...
Beast of Burden: Digitizing Rolling Stones Summer Tour Archives
Posted September 21, 2023
By Natalia Gonzalez Blanco Serrano ’24 In 1972, the Rolling Stones spent two months playing 48 shows across the United States after a three-year-long...
Past lives wander the Libraries – it’s anyone’s guess if they’re spectral
Posted October 28, 2022
By Natalia Gonzalez Blanco Serrano ’24 For an institution that’s been around since 1851, Northwestern is seemingly short on ghost stories. The groaning of...