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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |