Collections & Exhibits - The University of Chicago Library

Collections
Collection Thumbnail	Title	Formats	Subjects
	American Environmental Photographs, 1891-1936 Images from more than 4,500 glass lantern slides, glass negatives, and photographic prints, created by faculty members and students of the University of Chicago Department of Botany between 1891 and 1936, influential in the development of modern ecological studies. These photographs provide an overview of important representative natural landscapes across the nation	Formats Digital Images Photographs	Subjects University of Chicago History of Science Environmental Science
	American Institute of Indian Studies The AIIS collection from the Center for Art and Archaeology in Gurgaon, Haryana, India, has over 125,000 photographs in the collection. The images fall into the broad categories of architecture, sculpture, terracotta, painting and numismatics.	Formats Digital Images Photographs	Subjects South Asia Southern Asia Art Architecture
	Bond Photograph Library Photographs taken during World War II by an American serviceman, Frank Bond.	Formats Digital Photographs	Subjects Southern Asia History South Asia
	Center for the Art of East Asia Digital Collections Materials from art historical research conducted by the Center for the Art of East Asia in collaboration with cultural institutions around the world. Features photographs, videos, audio clips, and 3D models of dispersed objects that came from China’s Buddhist cave complexes, temples, funerary tombs, and their original environments.	Formats Digital Images Photographs Video	Subjects Art Chinese Studies East Asian Studies
	Government College of Arts and Crafts (Chennai) The Museum of Contemporary Art, housed within the Government College of Arts and Crafts, has a photograph collection dated from the mid 1800s. The subjects of these photographs range from the hill tribes of Niligiris to pagodas and monuments of the Madras Presidency to guns and antiques from Fort St. George.	Formats Digital Images Photographs	Subjects South Asia Southern Asia Architecture Anthropology
	Hensley Photo Library Photographs taken during World War II by an American serviceman, Glenn S. Hensley.	Formats Digital Photographs	Subjects History Southern Asia South Asia
	Jackson, William Henry. Photographs, 1870-1878 William Henry Jackson, photographer (1843-1942). The William Henry Jackson Photograph collection consists of 85 unique photographs and 17 duplicate prints of the West taken for the U.S. Geological Survey of the Territories (1870-78). Areas include Colorado, Mexico, Montana, Utah, and Wyoming.	Formats Digital Archives & Manuscripts Photographs	Subjects Geography
	Keagle Photograph Library Photographs taken during World War II by an American serviceman, Robert Keagle.	Formats Digital Photographs	Subjects History Southern Asia South Asia
	Middle East Photograph Archive A digital archive of early photographs of the Middle East. Most of the photographs date to the second half of the nineteenth century. The archive is particularly strong in photographs of nineteenth century Cairo.	Formats Digital Photographs	Subjects Middle East Ancient Near East Photography
	Postcards on Wright's Airplane Ascension at Le Mans Three picture postcards from "Agnes," Chartres, France, to "Blanche," providing eyewitness description of Wilbur Wright's flight at Le Mans, France.	Formats Digital Images Photographs	Subjects History of Science
	Prass, Marjorie Whitney. Papers, 1927-2008 This collection contains papers, photographs, costumes and ephemera belonging to Marjorie Whitney Prass, an alumna of the University of Chicago and an avid dancer. The bulk of the collection is comprised of over 200 pieces of costume clothing, accessories and props. The majority were made for Prass by her mother, Mathilde Muller Whitney, for performances at the University of Chicago.	Formats Digital Archives & Manuscripts Photographs	Subjects University of Chicago Theater
	Schaffner, Joseph Halle, Collection in the History of Science, 1642-1961 Contains correspondence and other documents from or related to prominent scientists. Includes the Marie Curie Correspondence with Charlotte Kellogg (ca. 1921-1929) and Curie Memorabilia, the Charles Darwin and Darwin Family Correspondence, the Albert Einstein-Walther Mayer Correspondence (1930-1933) and Einstein Photographs, the Isaac Newton Collection (1642-1727), and Miscellaneous Scientific Manuscripts (1744, 1777, 1820).	Formats Digital Archives & Manuscripts Photographs	Subjects History of Science
	Starr, Frederick. Papers, 1868-1935 Contains professional and personal correspondence; research material; field notebooks; diaries; class lecture notes; memorabilia; photographs; bibliographies; and scrapbooks. Correspondents include Frank Boas, W.E.B. Du Bois, Federico Gamboa, William Rainey Harper, John Haynes Holmes, Jenkin Lloyd Jones, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Julius Rosenwald, and Albion Small.	Formats Digital Archives & Manuscripts Photographs	Subjects University of Chicago Anthropology African Studies Latin American Studies Japanese Studies
	The University of Chicago Photographic Archive Ongoing project to digitize the Archival Photographic Files which contain more than 60,000 images and are the principal archive of historic photographs of individuals, buildings, and events associated with the University of Chicago.	Formats Digital Images Photographs	Subjects University of Chicago Architecture
	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
	Yerkes Glass Plates Collection The Yerkes Glass Plate Collection consists of more than 175,000 photographic glass plates negatives and their associated logbooks located at the University of Chicago and Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, WI.	Formats Digital Archives & Manuscripts Images Photographs	Subjects Astronomy & Astrophysics University of Chicago