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Before and after the fire: Chicago in the 1860s, 1870s, and 1880s Sheet maps of Chicago from the 1860s, 1870s, and 1880s that are held at the University of Chicago Library's Map Collection. |
Formats Digital Maps |
Subjects Chicago and Illinois History Maps |
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Brainerd, Mary Bowen. Papers. 1895-1915 Mary Bowen Brainerd, writer. The Mary Bowen Brainerd Papers consist of correspondence, research notes, and drafts of a dissertation. |
Formats Digital Archives & Manuscripts |
Subjects Literature University of Chicago |
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Caballero, Fernán. Papers, 1855-1877 Fernán Caballero, pseudonym of Cecilia Francisca Josefa de Arrom, (1796-1877), Spanish author. The papers consists primarily of correspondence from Caballero to French scholar Antoine de Latour, but also includes other correspondence, manuscripts and articles. |
Formats Digital Archives & Manuscripts |
Subjects Spanish Literature Portuguese Literature |
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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 Committee of Fifteen. Records, 1909-1927 Also known as Manuscript Codex 1028, these twenty-six volumes were gathered for an investigation of Chicago crime, focusing on prostitution and the illegal sale of alcohol. Notes are from on-scene investigations, summaries of court records and newspaper clippings. |
Formats Digital Archives & Manuscripts |
Subjects American History Chicago and Illinois |
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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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Chicago in the 1890s Sheet maps of Chicago in the 1890s that are held at the University of Chicago Library's Map Collection. The 1890s were an extraordinary decade for Chicago, perhaps the only period in the city's history when its status as a "world city" would be disputed by few. |
Formats Digital Maps |
Subjects American History Chicago and Illinois Maps Geography |
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Chicago in the 1920s and 1930s: the view from the Chicago School (the Social Science Research Committee maps) "During the 1920s and 1930s numerous scholars at the University of Chicago did research on Chicago itself. These scholars, whose work is sometimes associated with the label "Chicago School," or "Chicago School of Sociology," played a major role in establishing urban studies as an important academic enterprise. All of these maps were produced under the aegis of the Social Science Research Committee or its immediate predecessor, the Local Community Research Committee. |
Formats Digital Maps |
Subjects Sociology American History Chicago and Illinois Maps |
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Chicago, 1900-1914 Sheet maps of Chicago from the years between 1900 and the onset of World War I. The maps portray a city where much that was true of Chicago in the 1890s remained the case. Chicago continued to grow, reaching a population (not counting suburbs) of nearly 2.2 million in 1910, and perhaps 2.4 million in 1914, when (by some measures) it was still the world’s sixth largest city. |
Formats Digital Maps |
Subjects Chicago and Illinois American History Maps |
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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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Field, Eugene. Correspondence, 1884-1895 Eugene Field, writer, poet. The Eugene Field Correspondence consists of 301 letters written to Eugene Field by various admirers, friends, family members, and business associates during the years 1884 - 1895. The collection also contains newspaper and magazine clippings pertaining for the most part to Field and his poetry. |
Formats Digital Archives & Manuscripts |
Subjects Literature |
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Government maps of Chicago in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s During the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, there was a slow growth in the planning role of municipal governments in many large American cities, including Chicago. Cartographic materials of various sorts were one of the byproducts of this growth. |
Formats Digital Maps |
Subjects American History Political Science Chicago and Illinois Maps Geography |
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Hyde Park Center. Collection, 1910-1917 Established in 1908, the Hyde Park Center was an independent welfare organization providing services to children and youth in the neighborhood, such as a free kindergarten and playground, clubs and activities, and job training for youth. |
Formats Digital Archives & Manuscripts |
Subjects American History Chicago and Illinois |
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Italian Women Writers (IWW) The Italian Women Writers project (IWW) is a long-term research endeavor to preserve and provide access to an extensive corpus of literature written by Italian women authors. |
Formats Digital |
Subjects Italian Literature |
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Lane, Ebenezer, Family. Papers, 1811-1866 The Ebenezer Lane Family Papers contain materials relating to Lane and his son, also named Ebenezer. The papers of the father (1793-1866) document his career as an attorney and judge, with materials including financial records, legal documents, letterbooks, notes on law cases, and a travel diary. |
Formats Digital Archives & Manuscripts |
Subjects American History Chicago and Illinois |
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Lee, Elon N. and Edson S. Bastin. Papers, 1864-1919 Elon N. Lee and Edson S. Bastin, early students. The Elon N. Lee and Edson S. Bastin Papers consist of Edson S. Bastin's correspondence (1866-1919), Elon Lee's diary (1864-1865), drafts of essays, and miscellaneous ephemera concerning the Old University of Chicago (1867-1881). |
Formats Digital Archives & Manuscripts |
Subjects Chicago and Illinois American History |
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Murdock, Fanny Bristol and Sarah Bristol Family. Papers, 1836-1866 These papers contain the personal correspondence of Fanny Murdock, her mother Sarah Bristol, and other family members in the mid-19th century. They document the family life and war-related difficulties of a Mississippi family. Material in the collection dates from 1836 to 1866. |
Formats Digital Archives & Manuscripts |
Subjects American History Women's Studies |
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O'Hara, James E. Papers, 1866-1970 James E. O'Hara (1844-1905), Lawyer and Republican Congressman, 1883-1887. Contains letters from family and constituents, photographs, a biographical sketch (1970) written by O'Hara's granddaughter, Vera Jean O'Hara Rivers, and memorabilia. |
Formats Digital Archives & Manuscripts Images |
Subjects American History African-American Studies |
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Philip M. Klutznick: Community Builder, Jewish and Civic Leader, Diplomat Digital archive drawn from the Philip M. Klutznick Papers highlighting his multi-faceted life and career as a pioneering community developer, philanthropist, United Nations representative, U.S. Secretary of Commerce and leader of the American and international Jewish community. |
Formats Digital Archives & Manuscripts |
Subjects Chicago and Illinois American History |
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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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Rose and Chess Two medieval French manuscripts written and decorated in France ca. 1365, Le Roman de la Rose and Le Jeu des échecs moralisé, were originally bound together but later separated and have once again been reunited both in the University of Chicago Library collections and as digital facsimiles. |
Formats Digital Archives & Manuscripts |
Subjects Medieval Studies French Literature |
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Social Scientists Map Chicago Geographer Chauncy Harris often argued that Chicago in the first half of the 20th century was the most studied city in the world. This claim is unprovable, but there were certainly an enormous number of scholarly studies of Chicago between the 1920s and the middle of the 20th century. Many of these included maps. |
Formats Digital Maps |
Subjects Sociology Political Science American History Chicago and Illinois Maps |
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Wallin, Madeline. Papers, 1887-1955 Madeline Wallin was one of the first female graduate students at the University of Chicago. A student of political science, she received her Ph.M. in 1893. Contains personal correspondence, graduate school papers, articles, and photographs. Includes accounts of student life at the new University of Chicago and material relating to the University of Chicago Settlement League. |
Formats Digital Archives & Manuscripts |
Subjects Women's Studies University of Chicago |
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Wells, Ida B. Papers, 1884-1976 Ida B. Wells, (1862-1931) teacher, journalist and anti-lynching activist. Paper contain correspondence, manuscript of Crusade for Justice: the Autobiography of Ida B. Wells, diaries, copies of articles and speeches by Wells, articles and accounts about Wells, newspapers clippings, and photographs. |
Formats Digital Archives & Manuscripts |
Subjects Women's Studies Chicago and Illinois African-American Studies |
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Whitman, Walt, "The Bible as Poetry." Manuscript, 1883 Original manuscript of Whitman's essay, first published in The Critic in 1883. Included with the manuscript are two portraits of Whitman, a copy of the published essay and Whitman's cover letter to the publishers Jeannette Leonard Gilder and Joseph B. Gilder. Codex MS 263. |
Formats Digital Archives & Manuscripts |
Subjects English Literature |
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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 |