The Newberry

Newberry Collections and the D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies: digital and physical collections include American Indian, American West, and Aztecs and the Making of Colonial Mexico collections among other cultural and historical materials available on the Indigenous and colonial Americas. Holdings include more than 130,000 volumes, over 1 million manuscript pages, 2,000 maps, 500 atlases, 11,000 photographs, and 3,500 drawings and paintings. The Edward E. Ayer Digital Collection includes documents, letters, Native-language dictionaries, photographs, maps and other media from the Americas. Part of a much larger collection in the process of being digitized donated In 1911 by Edward E. Ayer (1841-1927), more than 17,000 pieces on the early contacts between American Indians and Europeans. The main subject areas of the Ayer collection are: Native American Archaeology, Ethnology, Art, and Language; History of the Contact between Europeans and Native Peoples; Voyages, Travels, and Accounts of Early America; Development of Cartography of the Western Hemisphere; Philippine and Hawaiian History: the history of the aboriginal peoples under the jurisdiction of the U.S. in the Philippine Islands and Hawaii.