Collections & Exhibits - The University of Chicago Library

Collections
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	Bibliotheca Homerica Langiana The Bibliotheca Homerica Langiana (BHL), given by M. C. Lang, is a collection of editions and translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey with the goal of tracing their transmission in printed form.	Formats Books & Journals	Subjects Special Collections Classics
	Book Arts Collection The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center holds artists' books, notable bindings, and novel book structures.	Formats Books & Journals	Subjects Arts History of Print Special Collections
	Celia and Delia Austrian Study Collection of Drama The Celia and Delia Austrian Study Collection of Drama consists of English-language theater published before 1900, including extensive holdings of British drama and related publications from between 1600 and 1800.	Formats Books & Journals	Subjects English Literature Special Collections
	Earl J. Hamilton Collection on the History of Economics The Earl J. Hamilton Collection on the History of Economics contains over 3,000 rare and scholarly titles, with particular strengths in the economy of Spain and the life of John Law of Lauriston.	Formats Books & Journals	Subjects Economics Special Collections European History
	Early Modern Maps of the Americas The Early Modern Maps of the Americas Collection follows the representation of the Americas in early modern cartography. The maps date from the 16th through the 18th centuries giving a wide perspective of how the Americas were illustrated.	Formats Digital Maps	Subjects European History Geography Maps Native American Studies Special Collections
	Encyclopaedia Britannica Collection of Children’s Literature The Encyclopaedia Britannica Collection of Children’s Literature is a collection of approximately 10,000 books intended for children, with a major emphasis on nineteenth-century American and English books.	Formats Books & Journals	Subjects Education Literature Special Collections
	German Almanacs and Taschenbücher Around 1,700 volumes of Musenalmanache and Taschenbücher, small-format literary almanacs published in Germany from around 1750 to 1850.	Formats Books & Journals	Subjects German Literature Special Collections
	Harry and Branka Sondheim Jewish Heritage Collection The Harry and Branka Sondheim Jewish Heritage Collection is a rich resource for the study of the Jewish life and customs from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.	Formats Books & Journals	Subjects Jewish Studies Special Collections
	Helen and Ruth Regenstein Collection of Rare Books In 1965 Helen and Ruth Regenstein established the Helen and Ruth Regenstein Collection of Rare Books in order to secure for the University of Chicago Library excellent copies of important works of literature and the humanities in first or early editions.	Formats	Subjects English Literature Special Collections
	Hengstenberg Collection The Hengstenberg Collection, assembled by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg in nineteenth-century Berlin, consists of approximately 10,000 bound volumes and 2,500 unbound books and pamphlets, chiefly in the departments of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century theology, church history, and biblical literature	Formats Books & Journals	Subjects Religion Special Collections
	Historical Children’s Book Collection The Historical Children’s Book Collection is a collection of over 15,000 volumes intended for children and juvenile readers, ranging from the eighteenth century to the present day.	Formats Books & Journals	Subjects Education Literature Special Collections
	Islamic Lithographs Collection The Islamic Lithographs Collection, acquired by the University of Chicago Library in 2004, consists of approximately 330 nineteenth- to twentieth-century Arabic lithograph printed books, mostly published in Iran and India, through Egypt, Turkey, and the Levant are also represented. Over 200 titles in this collection have been digitized and can be accessed from the Library's online catalog.	Formats Digital Books & Journals	Subjects Arabic Area Studies Islamic Studies Middle East Religion Special Collections
	Lincke Collection of Popular German Literature Formerly a nineteenth-century Leipzig rental library, the Lincke Collection is an important source for European popular literature published between around 1790 to 1875.	Formats Books & Journals	Subjects German Literature Special Collections
	St. Albans Collection of Music The St. Albans Collection of Music came to the University of Chicago as 34 volumes of printed and manuscript music acquired by successive Duchesses of St. Albans between 1780 and 1860. The collection provides an interesting and unusually complete picture of the musical life of an aristocratic English family in Georgian and early Victorian times.	Formats Music Scores	Subjects Music Special Collections
	Wachs Collection of Nineteenth-Century English Poetry The Wachs Collection of Nineteenth-Century English Poetry consists of approximately 600 books of nineteenth-century English poetry, including many special copies, collected by Dr. Gerald N. Wachs and donated to the Library by his family.	Formats Books & Journals	Subjects English Literature Special Collections
	William E. Barton Collection of Lincolniana The 1932 purchase of the William E. Barton Collection of Lincolniana formed the nucleus of the Library's distinguished holdings of books, manuscripts, and artifacts concerning the life and times of Abraham Lincoln. The Barton family established an endowment fund that has enabled the University to expand and shape Barton's original 3,500 volume collection into a major resource for exploring the social, economic, and political history of the United States in the nineteenth-century.	Formats Archives & Manuscripts Books & Journals	Subjects American History Special Collections