Collections & Exhibits - The University of Chicago Library

Collections
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	Ancient Near East and the Mediterranean World Materials from the Library's Ancient Near East and Classics collections, focusing on volumes published between 1850 - 1950, many of which have a significant number of illustrations or plates.	Formats Digital Books & Journals Images Photographs	Subjects Classics Ancient Near East
	Archives of Czechs and Slovaks Abroad (ACASA) The Archives of Czechs and Slovaks Abroad (ACASA) consists of several thousand books, brochures, periodicals, anniversary publications, almanacs, and personal papers of Czechs and Slovaks who have lived outside of Czechoslovakia for some portion of their lives.	Formats Archives & Manuscripts Books & Journals	Subjects Slavic/Eastern Europe/Eurasia
	Berlin Collection One of the Library’s foundational collections, the Berlin Collection includes nearly 100,000 books and manuscripts on a wide range of topics including Renaissance humanism, classical philology, the history of science and technology, and the German Enlightenment.	Formats Archives & Manuscripts Books & Journals	Subjects Classics Humanities Religion
	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
	Century of Progress - International Exposition Publications, 1933-1934 Published informational and promotional material produced for the Century of Progress Exhibition, Chicago, Illinois, 1934.	Formats Digital Books & Journals	Subjects Chicago and Illinois American History
	Cervantes: Text and Image Collection of scanned editions of Don Quixote and associated texts focusing on illustrations and critical texts. Created in conjunction with the Ekphrasis in the Age of Cervantes conference hosted by the University of Chicago in 2004.	Formats Digital Books & Journals	Subjects Spanish Literature Portuguese Literature
	Chicago Shimpo [シカゴ新報] The Chicago Shimpo [シカゴ新報], which publishes articles in Japanese and English, is the only Japanese-American newspaper in the Chicago media market.	Formats Digital Books & Journals	Subjects Japanese Studies Chicago and Illinois Journalism
	The Chicagoan A jazz-aged magazine, modeled on the New Yorker, that aimed to portray the city as a cultural hub and counter its image as a place of violence and vice. The magazine contains a wealth of material on the literary, cultural, artistic, athletic and social milieu of Chicago between 1926-1934.	Formats Digital Books & Journals	Subjects Chicago and Illinois American Literature American History
	Digital Dictionaries of South Asia Dictionaries that encompass the languages of the current nation-states of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.	Formats Digital Books & Journals Reference Works	Subjects Linguistics South Asia Southern Asia
	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
	Electronic Full Text Sources (EFTS) The Library makes available a wide variety of full-text, searchable scholarly texts. A large number are mounted under PhiloLogic, the University of Chicago's Full-Text System.	Formats Digital Books & Journals	Subjects Literature
	Electronic Open Stacks (EOS) Interface for page-turned image-based (facsimile) books. The collection primarily contains materials from the Ancient Near East and Classics collections.	Formats Digital Books & Journals	Subjects Classics Ancient Near East
	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
	Goodspeed Manuscript Collection 68 New Testament manuscripts including Greek, Syriac, Ethiopic, Armenian, Arabic, and Latin manuscripts ranging in date from the 5th to the 20th centuries.	Formats Digital Archives & Manuscripts Books & Journals	Subjects Religion Medieval Studies
	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
	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
	Louis Szathmary Hungarica Collection In 1991, the University of Chicago Library received a gift of more than 15,000 volumes on the history and culture of the Hungarian people, donated by Louis Szathmary, a noted Chicago bibliophile and restaurateur. The majority of materials are in the Hungarian language, but the collection also contains nearly 1,500 volumes in German, Latin, French and English.	Formats Books & Journals	Subjects Slavic/Eastern Europe/Eurasia
	Modern Poetry Poetry holds a special place at the University of Chicago Library, particularly after Harriet Monroe presented us with her poetry library, papers and the editorial files of Poetry magazine in 1931. The collection continues to grow, with a particular focus on modern poetry from the Chicago area. Highlights include first editions and manuscripts of works by Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, William Butler Yeats, Marianne Moore and Michael Anania.	Formats Archives & Manuscripts Books & Journals	Subjects Literature
	Official Publications of India Publications of the central and provincial governments of British India.	Formats Books & Journals	Subjects South Asia Southern Asia
	Philologic Full-text Collection Searchable full-texts available via the locally-developed Philologic full-text search, retrieval and analysis tool. The collection includes texts from Bibliopolis, Chadwyck-Healey, Alexander Street Press, the ARTFL project and others which cover a variety of humanities disciplines in a variety of languages.	Formats Digital Books & Journals	Subjects Literature History Religion
	Reg Reads Collection The Reg Reads Collection is a small collection of popular fiction and non-fiction on the 1st Floor of Regenstein.	Formats Books & Journals	Subjects Humanities and Social Science Literature
	Russian Satirical Journals, 1905-1907 The University of Chicago Library’s collection Russian Satirical Journals, 1905-1907 consists of 110 titles in 378 issues. It is primarily comprised of journals, but some newspapers, broadsides, and illustrated periodicals are also included. The full collection has been digitized. This collection documents some of the most important events of the period known as the first Russian Revolution of 1905-1907. It was during this unprecedented rise of national self-identity that the first Russian Constitution and Russian Parliament were initially created. The first Russian Revolution was a period of struggle for political, social and human rights, and the press, which had previously been subject to censorship, enjoyed a new freedom which had never before appeared in Russia.	Formats Digital Books & Journals	Subjects History Slavic/Eastern Europe/Eurasia European History Political Science
	The University of Chicago Campus Publications The University of Chicago Campus Publications digital collection provides access to serial and occasional publications documenting the history of the University of Chicago and the work of its faculty, students, and alumni. Included in this collection are publications issued by administrative units of the University of Chicago as well as those published by independent student organizations on campus.	Formats Archives & Manuscripts Books & Journals	Subjects University of Chicago
	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
	Woodhouse's English-Greek Dictionary, 1910 A keyword searchable edition of S. C. Woodhouse's English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language (London: George Routledge & Sons, 1910)	Formats Digital Books & Journals	Subjects Classics
	World's Columbian Exposition. Records, 1891-1895 This collection includes documents and ephemera from the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. It includes photographs, newspaper clippings, reports, guides, and visitor memorabilia.	Formats Digital Archives & Manuscripts Books & Journals Photographs	Subjects Chicago and Illinois
	Zines The zine collection focuses on those related to Chicago, by or about people who have a relationship to the city. Collecting began in 2010.	Formats Books & Journals	Subjects Chicago and Illinois History of Print Literature