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Moby Dick Prospectus from New at SCRC - February 2025
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New at SCRC - February 2025

A monthly list of new archives, manuscripts, rare books, and digitized items available at the Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center
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Hyakumantō darani from A newly acquired eighth-century Buddhist artifact joins extraordinary Japanese rarities at Regenstein Library
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A newly acquired eighth-century Buddhist artifact joins extraordinary Japanese rarities at Regenstein Library

The UChicago Library has acquired Hyakumantō darani 百万塔陀羅尼 [One million pagodas and mantras], an exquisite piece of tangible cultural heritage from Japan.
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UIC photo crop - Employees of the Bohemian Women’s Publishing Company from A Pressing Call: 500 Years of Women Printing
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A Pressing Call: 500 Years of Women Printing

Learn the stories of women drawn to printing, from its infancy in the early modern period to the present day. On view Jan. 2 – Apr. 18.
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Rededication of Harper Library; the Parade, 1973 from Hundreds of photographs depicting UChicago student life in the 1970s added to online archive
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Hundreds of photographs depicting UChicago student life in the 1970s added to online archive

More than 850 photographs of campus life in the 1970s by alumnus Frank Gruber (AB '74) now available via the University of Chicago Photographic Archive.
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