special collections

The Newberry has special collections in 18 different topic areas including:

• African American studies
• American Indian history
• British history
• Continental European history and literature
• Genealogy and local history
• Italian history and literature
• Maps and history of cartography
• Philippine history
• Printing, book arts and the history of the book
• American history
• American literature
• British literature
• French in the Americas
• Historical linguistics
• Latin American history
• Music
• Portuguese and Brazilian history, and
• Religion

I will give a brief description of the collections in bold.

*NOTE: none of the images used are representative of the library's collection.