About — Elisa's Cake by the #Pound

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

Thank you -- and we plan to keep adding more!

Waving back! Our #DouglassDay event makes us smile every year too. And big thanks to your mom for here work that first year.😍

I recognize this cake! Thank you for joining us at the Newberry today. Also, eat more cake!

A librarian stands in front of large screen that displays digitized Black history material while a room full of event attendees look on.

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...

If you live in Chicago you should be eating Elisa's Cake by the #Pound our official #DouglassDay baker for the past several years!

Cake decorated with pink, red and white roses with the words All Rights for All.

Our #DouglassDay cake by Elisa's Cake by the #Pound is gorgeous and delicious!

Participants at Douglass Day Transcribing event sitting at tables, with laptops, at the Newberry Library in Chicago.

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.

Explore all 150K items: collections.newberry.org/asset-management

It's adorable! Mostly. There is an illustration of a tiny child casually toting a rifle while hunting "wild beasts and birds" with the gingerbread dog. 1914 was a different time.

We just hit 150,000 items (that's 1.6 million files!) in our digital collections. One of the recent additions that put us over the top? This 1914 children's book, "The Gingerbread Dog." 🐶
collections.newberry.org/asset-manage...

Screenshot of the Newberry Library Digital Collections homepage featuring a pastel illustration of a polar bear on ice with mountains and a sun; a banner invites browsing the digital collections, with “Browse all” and “Recently added” thumbnails below.

Screenshot of the Newberry Transcribe homepage with a purple handwriting background; a large panel reads “Newberry Transcribe — Unlock history!” with buttons for “Learn more” and “Browse manuscripts,” and a row of project tiles below.

📌 Where to find us:

🔍 Browse our digital collections -- thousands of rare maps, manuscripts, postcards, and more, all free and online collections.newberry.org

✍️ Help us transcribe historical documents on Newberry Transcribe (no experience needed, just curiosity) nt.newberry.org

Vintage illustrated postcard: a man and woman stand at a ping-pong table holding paddles. Handwritten text at upper right reads, ‘How shall I begin.’

How shall I begin? With a first post, of course. Follow along for highlights from our digital collections 🏓
collections.newberry.org/asset-manage...
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