Collections & Exhibits - The University of Chicago Library

Collections
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	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	John Crerar Collection of Rare Books in the History of Science and Medicine The John Crerar Collection of Rare Books in the History of Science and Medicine consists over 25,000 rare volumes transferred to the Special Collections Research Center upon the John Crerar Library’s merger with the University of Chicago.	Formats Books & Journals	Subjects History of Science History of Medicine
	K-12 Curriculum Materials The collection specializes in curriculum resources and professional development materials for K-12 teaching. The collection is comprised of materials in a variety of formats, including professional literature, teacher's manuals, DVDs, picture books, and early reading materials.	Formats Books & Journals	Subjects Education
	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
	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
	R.R. Donnelley and Sons Training Department Library The R.R. Donnelley and Sons Training Department Library consists of 1,200 books on the history of printing and printing processes alongside examples of finely printed books, bindings, advertising art, and graphic design formerly of the Training Department Library of R.R. Donnelley and Sons Company, a commercial printing company in Chicago.	Formats Books & Journals	Subjects History of Print Chicago and Illinois
	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
	University of Chicago Library Test Collection The University of Chicago Library maintains a collection of separately published standardized printed instruments utilized in the fields of education and psychology. The collection now includes more than 5,600 separately published tests, some dating back to the early twentieth century.	Formats Books & Journals	Subjects Education Psychology
	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
	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