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	1900: Books from the Collection of Robert Rosenthal Featuring books published in the year 1900 that were collected by the late Robert Rosenthal, curator of Special Collections from 1953 to 1989, this exhibition recaptures the forgotten culture of the turn of the century.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Jan. 1 — May 31, 1996	Subjects History
	Anthropology at Chicago: Tradition, Discipline, Department Marking the fiftieth anniversary of the Department of Anthropology, this exhibit traces anthropology at Chicago from the early work of Frederick Starr through the notable era of Fay-Cooper Cole, Edward Sapir, Robert Redfield, William Lloyd Warner, and A.R. Radcliffe-Brown. Concluding sections review the contributions of Sol Tax, Milton Singer, McKim Marriott, Fred Eggan, Lloyd Fallers, David Schneider, Clifford Geertz, and other leaders of late-twentieth-century American anthropology.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Jan. 1 — Dec. 31, 1979	Subjects Anthropology University of Chicago
	Asia in the Eyes of Europe: Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries From the time of the Renaissance onward, Western consciousness has been shaped by a multitude of diverse and rapidly changing images of Asia and its peoples. This exhibition examines the process of Western exploration and discovery of Asia.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Jan. 1 — May 31, 1991	Subjects History Southern Asia
	The B. Heller & Co. Collection Founded by Benjamin Heller, whose family practiced sausage-making for generations, Chicago-based B. Heller & Co. began in 1893. Eager to take advantage of new developments in food science and chemistry as well as his skills as a salesman, Benjamin Heller was the quintessential American entrepreneur.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center March 1 — June 30, 2009 View web exhibit >>	Subjects Advertising Chicago and Illinois
	Banks and Bubbles: The Earl J. Hamilton Collection on the History of Economics Exhibition of works on the history of economics, in particular, the development of commerce and trade in England, France, and Spain in the 17th and 18th centuries.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center June 1 — Oct. 31, 1995	Subjects Economics History
	Beneath the Surface: World War I Submarine Warfare from Robert M. Grant Collection Robert M. Grant, Carl Darling Buck Professor Emeritus in the Department of New Testament and Early Christian Literature in the Divinity School, maintained an interest in submarines throughout his career. This exhibition, which may surface as a surprise to some, is drawn from Professor Grant's research collection, and is one of a series of exhibits highlighting the breadth and variety of the University of Chicago faculty's private collections.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Feb. 1 — May 31, 1988	Subjects European History Military & Naval Sciences
	The Berlin Collection Showcasing the collection of nearly 100,000 books and manuscripts purchased by William Rainey Harper in Berlin in 1891, which became the core of the University of Chicago Library's holdings and have had an abiding influence on the course of scholarly investigation at the University.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Jan. 1 — Dec. 31, 1979 View web exhibit >>	Subjects University of Chicago Library
	The Black Metropolis Research Consortium: Fifteen Years of Preserving and Documenting Black History and Culture in Chicago The Black Metropolis Research Consortium (BMRC) is a Chicago-based membership association that aids in expanding broad access to its members’ holdings of materials that document African American and African diasporic history, politics and culture, with a specific focus on materials relating to Chicago. Our members include universities, libraries, museums, community, arts-based and government archives. It is the mission of the BMRC to connect all who seek to document, share, understand and preserve Black experiences. In 2021, the BMRC celebrates its 15th anniversary. This exhibit documents the origins of the BMRC, its efforts to aid discoverability and access to Black historical collections, and the consortium’s flagship Summer Short-term Fellowship and Archie Motley Archival Internship programs.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center View web exhibit >>	Subjects American History History African-American Studies
	Books from a Friend: The Old Northwest Depicted from the Collection of Florence Lowden Miller This exhibit showcases rare books and maps from the Collection which record the exploration and settlement in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries early travelers to the American Midwest.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Nov. 1 — Jan. 1, 1989	Subjects American History
	Building Collections: Celebrating Twenty-Five Years of the Joseph Regenstein Library Drawing on the concept of "building" as both physical space and intellectual activity, this exhibition highlights twenty-five of the notable book, manuscript, and archival collections acquired by the University Library since 1970.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Sept. 1 — Jan. 31, 1996	Subjects University of Chicago Library
	Building for a Long Future: The University of Chicago and Its Donors, 1889-1930 This exhibition explores the motivations and purposes of the varied group of donors who supported the University of Chicago from the time of its founding in the late 1880s to the conclusion of the extensive campus building campaign of the late 1920s and early 1930s.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center May 1 — Dec. 31, 2001 View web exhibit >>	Subjects University of Chicago
	A Catalogue to an Exhibition of Notable Books and Manuscripts from the Collections of the University of Chicago Library Prepared for the Dedication of the Joseph Regenstein Library This exhibition showcases 109 highlights from the the Department of Special Collections on the occasion of the dedication of the Regenstein Library.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Jan. 1 — Dec. 31, 1970	Subjects University of Chicago Library Special Collections
	Catalyst for Change: On the Occasion of Martin Runkle's Retirement as Library Director This exhibition covers the career of Martin Runkle, on the occasion of his retirement as University of Chicago Library Director	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Aug. 1 — Oct. 1, 2004	Subjects University of Chicago Library
	The Chain Reaction: December 2, 1942 and After This exhibition was organized to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the world's first controlled, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction, an achievement of Enrico Fermi and his colleagues at the Metallurgical Laboratory at the University of Chicago.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Oct. 1 — Dec. 1, 1992	Subjects History of Science University of Chicago Physical Sciences
	Closeted/OUT in the Quadrangles: A History of LGBTQ Life at the University of Chicago Historical view of LGBT faculty, student, and staff life at the University of Chicago.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center March 30 — June 12, 2015 View web exhibit >>	Subjects LGBTQIA Studies University of Chicago
	Collecting Western Americana: Books from the Library of John Blew This exhibition examines the work of several important nineteenth-century publishers who edited historical documents of the American West and made them available to a broad audience of readers and scholars.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Feb. 1 — April 30, 2002	Subjects American History
	A Collector's Churchill This exhibition is one of a series based on faculty book collections. The exhibit provides a fresh look at the public career of Winston Churchill through the eyes of James H. Lorie, a prolific collector of Churchilliana.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Jan. 1 — Dec. 1, 1981	Subjects European History
	Columbian Commemorations 1892-1893: European and American Perspectives The exhibition surveys the 400th anniversary celebrations of Christopher Columbus's arrival in America. Memorabilia from the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition including invitations, guidebooks, portfolios of photographs, books, and a special commemorative edition of Harriet Monroe's poem, "Ode," which she read at the opening ceremonies of the Fair.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Aug. 1 — Oct. 31, 1993	Subjects History
	December 2, 1942 and After: The Scientist's Movement in America This exhibit draws on the University of Chicago Archives to present the pivotal role Chicago has played institutionally in the development of the international atomic scientists' movement that took root in America as crucial consequence of the events of December 2, 1942.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Dec. 1 — March 1, 1983	Subjects University of Chicago
	Discovery, Collection, Memory: The Oriental Institute at 100 On the University of Chicago's Campus at 58th Street and University Avenue is one of the world's premier institutions for the study of the Ancient Middle East, the Oriental Institute. The OI has its roots alongside the very founding of the University of Chicago when President Harper mentored a young scholar named James Henry Breasted to pursue a degree in Egyptology. Breasted went on to direct the Haskell Museum around 1900 and secured funding from John D. Rockefeller, Jr. in May 1919 to begin the Oriental Institute. The OI has conducted 100 years of excavation, research, and scholarship. Focusing on the geographical areas of Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, and Afghanistan, OI scholars have worked rigorously to discover cultural heritage, decipher ancient languages, and to reconstruct the histories of long-lost civilizations. This exhibit remembers the OI's past through a collection of archival fragments, artifacts, and ephemera.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Sept. 16 — Dec. 13, 2019	Subjects Archaeology - Ancient Near East University of Chicago
	The Dreyfus Affair: In the Public Eye Almost one-hundred years after it captured worldwide attention and threatened to topple the government of the Third Republic of France, the Dreyfus Affair continues to evoke strong response. The exhibit explores contemporary popular perceptions of the affair through these media in examples drawn from the Ludwig Rosenberger Collection of Judaica.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Oct. 1 — March 1, 1989	Subjects European History Jewish Studies
	The Ecstatic Journey: Athanasius Kircher in Baroque Rome Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680), a German Jesuit priest, was called to Rome as Professor of Mathematics at the Roman College in 1635, two years after Galileo's trial and condemnation by the Roman Inquisition. Kircher was also a consummate exploiter of the power of the printed book, as this exhibition illustrates through first and early editions of his works and related materials.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Feb. 1 — April 1, 2000	Subjects European History
	Education for Life: 100 Years of the Laboratory Schools This exhibition examines the pedagogical philosophy of John Dewey and the founding group of Lab Schools teachers, educators, recent advances in academic standards and educational technology, and demonstrates the varied experiences of students at all levels as they learned and explored individual potential in Lab Schools classrooms, laboratories, theaters, machine shops, art studios, and field trips.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center May 1 — Oct. 31, 1996	Subjects Education University of Chicago
	The Eighteenth Century Views of the Past This exhibition includes historiographical and antiquarian works in the fields of history, literature, art, music, and science, and illustrates the 18th century's preoccupation with its own past as a way to understand the present.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Jan. 1 — Dec. 31, 1978	Subjects European History
	Elective Affinities: Private Collectors and Special Collections in Libraries Elective Affinities: Private Collectors and Special Collections in Libraries	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Jan. 1 — Dec. 31, 2001	Subjects Special Collections University of Chicago Library
	En Guerre: French Illustrators and World War I En Guerre will offer a fresh examination of World War I through the lens of French graphic illustration of the period.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Oct. 14 — Jan. 2, 2015 View web exhibit >>	Subjects European History Art
	Encountering the American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820 This exhibition explores the fascinating history of this first American west from the beginning of European American settlement to the end of the frontier period. Includes interrelated themes such as the contrast between native and European American attitudes toward the land, the encounters and confrontations of the pioneer migration era, the role of politics on the early frontier, and the shaping of Western cultural and social institutions.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Feb. 1 — April 30, 2002	Subjects American History
	Encyclopedism from Pliny to Borges The exhibit traces the variety of forms the encyclopedia and the idea of encyclopedic knowledge have taken from the first through 20th centuries.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center May 1 — Sept. 30, 1990	Subjects History Linguistics
	Expanding Sources: Recent Additions to Special Collections As academic fields expand and diversify, Special Collections is building collections to support these new directions. Researchers are drawing on original materials in many areas including race and gender, cinema and media, graphic design, arts practice, and cross-cultural global studies. This exhibition displays recent acquisitions with research potential for a range of disciplines. The materials represent many formats, including children’s books, family letters, journals, fine book design, posters, research notes, clothing, board games, and printed ephemera.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Jan. 6 — April 24, 2020 View web exhibit >>	Subjects University of Chicago Library Chicago and Illinois University of Chicago
	A Family Album--Unfamiliar Faces and Places from the University Archives This exhibit invites students, faculty, staff, and friends of the University to help identify some of the mysterious people and places represented in unidentified photographs from the University Archives.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Feb. 1 — April 1, 1982	Subjects Photography University of Chicago
	A Family Tradition: An Exhibition of Books from the Gifts of George Eckels and Virginia Eckels Malone The exhibit offers a selection from the gifts of two generations of notable book collectors and supporters of the University of Chicago Library. Begun in 1916 with the gift of George Eckels's collection of Cromwelliana, the Eckels family's generous support of the University Library has been continued by his daughter Virginia, culminating in her 1979 additions to the Library's collections.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Nov. 1 — April 1, 1981	Subjects History
	Friends of the Library Friends of the Library	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Jan. 1 — Dec. 31, 1979	Subjects University of Chicago Library
	A Gray City Dinner Party: Commemorative Dinner Plates from the University Archives In June 1930, the University of Chicago Magazine notified the alumni of the creation of a special set of Spode dinner plates featuring views of twelve of the University's Gothic buildings. The exhibit offers these notable artifacts of the University's invention of its own self-imagination along with documents and advertisements from the original release.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Jan. 1 — Dec. 1, 1985	Subjects University of Chicago
	The Great Ideas: The University of Chicago and the Ideal of Liberal Education Drawing on the papers of Robert Hutchins, Mortimer Adler, William Benton and Walter Paepcke, this exhibition explores the cultural milieu that made the "Great Ideas" central to the University's educational mission both on and off campus.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center May 1 — Sept. 30, 2002	Subjects University of Chicago Education
	Harold Swift and the Higher Learning This exhibition marks the centenary of the birth of Harold H. Swift, who in 1914 became the first alumnus to be appointed to the University Board of Trustees, as well as its youngest member.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Jan. 1 — Jan. 1, 1986	Subjects University of Chicago
	Highlights from the History of the John Crerar Library This exhibit presents the history of the John Crerar Library thematically, celebrating the role of the library as an intellectual resource in the city of Chicago, placing the Library within the context of Chicago industrial growth, and highlighting the individuals and institutions that supported, created, and sustained the Library.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Dec. 1 — April 1, 1990	Subjects University of Chicago
	I Step Out of Myself: Portrait Photography in Special Collections An exhibition of portrait photography collections in the University Archives.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Jan. 12 — March 20, 2015 View web exhibit >>	Subjects Art Photography University of Chicago
	Images of Science and Exploration in the Victorian Century This exhibition examines three of the most notable achievements of the Victorian age: the development of the theory of natural selection by Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace; the decades-long search for the Northwest Passage by a succession of British expeditions, including the ill-fated venture of John Franklin; and the discovery by Lord Rayleigh and William Ramsay of argon.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center March 1 — June 30, 1997	Subjects Ecology & Evolution Chemistry History
	In Lincoln's Time: Sources on 19th century America in the William E. Barton Collection The exhibition is the first public presentation of the William E. Barton Collection of Lincolniana, and present a balanced account of Lincoln's life in his own work through books, manuscripts, autograph letters, portraits, and artifacts.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center May 1 — Sept. 30, 1986	Subjects American History
	Innovations and Innovators: The School of Social Service Administration's Contribution to Direct Practice Social Work, 1945-1975 This exhibition honors the 50th anniversary of the publication of Charlotte Towle's influential work, Common Human Needs (1945), and three decades of innovation in social work practice by Towle and her colleagues at the School of Social Service Administration.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center April 1 — June 30, 1995	Subjects Social Services University of Chicago
	Integrating the Life of the Mind: African Americans at the University of Chicago, 1870-1940 This exhibit presents original manuscripts, rarely seen portraits and photographs, African American publications, books by African American graduates of the University of Chicago, and other documents that trace the interlocking strands of academic and gradual social integration through the mid-twentieth century.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Sept. 1 — Feb. 28, 2009 View web exhibit >>	Subjects African-American Studies University of Chicago
	John Gunther: Inside Journalism The papers of John Gunther, one of the most prominent journalists of the 20th century, have been made public for the first time in this exhibition. Gunther got his start as a literary editor for the Daily Maroon at the University of Chicago, where he graduated in 1922.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Sept. 1 — Jan. 1, 1991	Subjects University of Chicago Journalism
	Julius Rosenwald 1862-1932: An exhibition honoring the One Hundredth Anniversary of his birth This exhibition commemorates the centennial of the birth of Julius Rosenwald, president and chairman of the board of Sears, Roebuck & Co., and a major philanthropist in support of progressive and social welfare reforms.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Jan. 1 — Jan. 31, 1962	Subjects Chicago and Illinois Jewish Studies Social Services
	Kentucky and the Revolutionary Era, 1770-1815: An Essay Prepared by William T. Hutchinson on the Occasion of an Exhibition of Manuscripts and Early Printed Books from the Reuben T. Durrett Collection Showcasing the Reuben T. Durrett Collection, which records the early history of trans-Appalachian settlement of Kentucky and the Ohio River valley.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Nov. 1 — Feb. 28, 1978	Subjects American History
	The Library: A Retrospective View This exhibit presents a broad, retrospective look at the origins, development, holdings, and operations of the University of Chicago's Library.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Feb. 1 — Jan. 1, 1981	Subjects University of Chicago
	Life of the Spirit, Life of the Mind: Rockefeller Memorial Chapel at 75 Drawing on photographs and documents from the University Archives, this exhibition explores how the planners of Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, Chapel Deans, the student body, and the broader community have interpreted this mission to shape the architecture of the Chapel as well as the programs it supports.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center March 1 — June 1, 2004	Subjects University of Chicago
	Looking Back at the First Regenstein Library Construction Project Reproductions of construction photographs produced for the 1995 exhibition celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Regenstein Library provide an appropriate backdrop to the start of the Regenstein Reconfiguration Project. University yearbooks and other publications from the archives complement the images on view.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Jan. 1 — Dec. 1, 1999	Subjects University of Chicago
	Looking to Learn, Too: Visual Pedagogy at the University of Chicago This exhibition explores the ways in which objects, artifacts, and images have been collected, deployed, and displayed in teaching, research, and self-representation since the early days of the University.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center May 1 — Oct. 31, 1996	Subjects Art University of Chicago
	The Ludwig Rosenberger Collection of Judaica: A Selection Exhibited at the Joseph Regenstein Library This exhibition features 126 items from the Rosenberger Collection, arranged in three sections that correspond to emphases in the collection: Pre-Emancipation, 1200-1777; The Enlightenment and Emancipation, 16656-1858; and The Modern World, 1840-1940.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center March 1 — May 31, 1976	Subjects Jewish Studies European History American History
	Mapping the Young Metropolis Between 1915 and 1940, a small faculty in the University of Chicago Department of Sociology, working with dozens of talented graduate students, intensively studied the city of Chicago . They aspired to use the approaches of social science in developing a new field of research, and they took the city as their laboratory.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center June 22 — Sept. 11, 2015 View web exhibit >>	Subjects Sociology Chicago and Illinois
	The Meaning of Dictionaries The exhibit features historical dictionaries from the Special Collections Research Center's holdings, as well as archival materials such as correspondence, page proofs, word citation cards, photographs and other items from the University of Chicago Press Records covering the making of The Dictionary of American English and Dictionary of Americanisms.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center March 1 — July 31, 2007	Subjects English Literature History
	Mirror of Marvels: Images of Antiquity in Renaissance Rome This exhibition traces the varied responses of sixteenth-century scholars as they recovered, reconstructed and resurrected the "half-buried marvels" of Rome.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center March 1 — Sept. 1, 1988	Subjects European History
	My Budapest: Portrait of a European City Celebrating Budapest and Hungary as a significant part of continental culture and history, the exhibit is drawn from Louis Szathmary's renowned Hungarian collection of over 15,000 volumes, featuring books, artifacts, and documents.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center May 1 — Oct. 1, 1989	Subjects European History
	The Napoleonic Sanhedrin: 1807-1808 On 6 October 1806 a body appointed by Napoleon and known as the assembly of Jewish Notables invited members of the Jewish communities of Europe to participate in a "Sanhedrin." This exhibition presents the event through archival materials from the Napoleonic government and from the court itself.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center June 1 — Jan. 1, 1987	Subjects Jewish Studies European History
	On Equal Terms: Educating Women at the University of Chicago Since the University welcomed its first students in the fall of 1892, women have had very different stories to tell about the experiments in co-education and faculty diversification; the experience of the classroom, the laboratory, the dorm, and the streets of Hyde Park; the issues of mentorship, intellectual community, and career advancement; and the opportunities for political action and community involvement, for friendship, romance, and sexual experimentation.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center March 1 — July 31, 2009 View web exhibit >>	Subjects Women's Studies University of Chicago Library
	On the Edge: Medieval Margins and the Margins of Academic Life This exhibition explores the symmetry between medieval margins and the modern margins of academic life.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center May 19 — Sept. 10, 2012 View web exhibit >>	Subjects Art European History History of Print
	One in Spirit: A Retrospective View of the University of Chicago An introduction to the scope and diversity of the University Archives; not a history but an array of documentation and iconographic resources for the history of an institution.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Nov. 1 — March 31, 1974	Subjects University of Chicago
	Our Lincoln: Bicentennial Icons from the Barton Collection of Lincolniana Marking the 200th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, this exhibition presents a selection of documents and artifacts from the University of Chicago Library's William E. Barton Collection of Lincolniana.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Jan. 1 — Feb. 28, 2009 View web exhibit >>	Subjects Chicago and Illinois American History
	Paul B. Moses: Trailblazing Art Historian The extraordinary life of the art historian Paul B. Moses (1929–1966) was one defined by barriers overcome. Through his writings, photographs, video clips, personal correspondence, ephemera, and original art, the exhibition tells the story of his journey from Ardmore, Pennsylvania and Haverford College, where he was the first African-American student ever admitted, to the University of Chicago, where he distinguished himself through innovative teaching and scholarship until his untimely death.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Sept. 12 — Dec. 16, 2022 View web exhibit >>	Subjects Chicago and Illinois University of Chicago History Art
	Preserving the Photofiles: Digitizing Images at the University of Chicago On view is a selection from the rich collection of more than 60,000 images in the University Archives Photographic Files, documenting individuals, buildings, activities, and events associated with the University, dating back to the pre-Civil War period founding of the Old University of Chicago.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Sept. 1 — Jan. 31, 2003	Subjects University of Chicago Photography
	The Presidents of the University of Chicago: A Centennial View This exhibition, the fourth in a series marking the Centennial of the University of Chicago, examines the distinctive contributions of each of the ten chief executives of the university over the past century.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Oct. 1 — Feb. 1, 1993 View web exhibit >>	Subjects University of Chicago
	Printing for the Modern Age: Commerce, Craft, and Culture in the RR Donnelley Archive The R. R. Donnelley Archive preserves a fascinating array of historical materials dating from the mid-nineteenth to the late twentieth century, offering research potential in modern social and cultural history, the history of printing and the graphic arts, the history of advertising and mass consumption, economic and labor history, Chicago urban and community history, and modern cultural studies, among many other fields.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Sept. 1 — Feb. 28, 2007 View web exhibit >>	Subjects History of Print Chicago and Illinois American History
	Reading the Greens: Books on Golf from the Arthur W. Schultz Collection The exhibition is drawn from the Arthur W. Schultz Golf Collection, which includes more than 1,600 books on the history of golf presented to the University of Chicago Library by Arthur W. Schultz, an alumnus and Life Trustee of the University of Chicago.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center May 1 — Sept. 30, 1998 View web exhibit >>	Subjects History
	Recipes for Domesticity: Cookery, Household Management, and the Notion of Expertise This exhibition, drawn primarily from the Rare Books Collection, provides a sampling of European and American cookbooks and domestic manuals from court chefs of the 15th century to cooking icons of the 20th century.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center April 22 — July 13, 2013 View web exhibit >>	Subjects European History American History
	Red Press Red Press: Radical Print Culture from St. Petersburg to Chicago represents the Bolshevik revolution as it was waged through broadsides, pamphlets, periodicals and posters. Many materials are drawn from the archive of Samuel N. Harper, son of the University’s founding president, the first American Russianist, and eyewitness to the revolution. Through these rare printed sources visitors can trace the worldwide spread of revolutionary and antirevolutionary media and ideas.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Sept. 25 — Feb. 2, 2018 View web exhibit >>	Subjects History Slavic/Eastern Europe/Eurasia
	Robert Rosenthal: A Memorial Exhibition This exhibition opens the day of the University memorial service for Robert Rosenthal, who died on December 27, 1989, while visiting friends and book dealers in Edinburgh, Scotland. Mr. Rosenthal joined the staff of the University of Chicago Library in 1950 as Assistant Curator for Manuscripts, Archives, and Lincolniana.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Feb. 1 — March 1, 1990	Subjects University of Chicago
	Samuel Harper and the Russia He Knew Samuel Harper, son of the University's founding president William Rainey Harper, pioneered Russian studies in this country. The materials he collected during his visits-from postcards to political propaganda-compose this exhibit, displayed in the alcoves of the Special Collections gallery.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Nov. 1 — Feb. 1, 1990	Subjects History
	Scholars and Scholarship of the Renaissance: An Exhibition from the Collections of the University of Chicago Library As part of a year-long celebration of the Renaissance, this exhibition features selections from the Library's collections that exemplify "a few of the many varieties of scholarly pursuits that marked the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries."	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Jan. 1 — Dec. 1, 1964	Subjects European History
	Science and Conscience: Chicago's Met Lab and the Manhattan Project Based on archives and manuscripts in the Special Collections Research Center, Science and Conscience presents unique historical documents and artifacts, many not previously exhibited. Items on display are drawn from records of scientists’ organizations and the papers of those who worked on the Manhattan Project and at Chicago’s Met Lab, including Enrico Fermi, James Franck, Herbert L. Anderson, Samuel K. Allison, Samuel Schwartz, Francis W. Test, Lawrence Lanzl, John H. Balderston, Jr., Albert Wattenberg, Eugene Rabinowitch, Paul Henshaw, William A. Higinbotham, and Donald MacRae, among others.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Feb. 19 — April 13, 2018 View web exhibit >>	Subjects History University of Chicago
	The Seminary Co-op Documentary Project: Capturing the Bookstores Distinctive Character and History After 51 years, the Seminary Co-op Bookstore left cherished home in the basement of the former Chicago Theological Seminary. The importance of the Co-op in the history of the University and for the greater Chicago and intellectual community warranted a significant effort to document it before it began the next phase of its life and to renew interest in this valuable asset on Chicago's South Side.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center April 1 — July 31, 2013	Subjects University of Chicago
	Sir Nicholas Bacon Collection, The: Sources on English Society, 1250-1700 The Bacon collection allows one to view the development of English rural and agricultural society in considerable detail.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center April 1 — June 30, 1972	Subjects European History
	Souvenirs! Get Your Souvenirs! Souvenirs can come in all shapes and sizes; they can be simple or complex, tasteful or tacky. This exhibition presents various souvenirs created for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, the 1933 Century of Progress International Exposition, and the City of Chicago. It draws on collections throughout the Special Collections Research Center, catalyzed by the Ian Mueller Collection of Chicago Memorabilia.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center July 22 — Oct. 4, 2013 View web exhibit >>	Subjects Special Collections American History Chicago and Illinois
	Specialized Encyclopedias This related to the major exhibition on encyclopedism. Focusing on "Specialized Encyclopedias fro which there was no room in the major exhibition cases, this smaller selection from the literature included such titles as Buffon's Des oiseaux and encyclopedias addressing aspecialized audiences such as women or children.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Jan. 1 — Dec. 1, 1990	Subjects History
	Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae With over 900 engravings of views and monuments of Classical and early modern Rome, the selections in this exhibition reveal the nature and variety of the University of Chicago's Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae collection, and the rarity and quality of individual prints.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Jan. 1 — Dec. 31, 1966	Subjects European History Art Architecture
	Stephen A. Douglas and the American Union The life and career of Senator Stephen A. Douglas (1813-1861), a divisive leader in political struggles over slavery, settlement of the Western territories, and the dissolution of the Federal union, is the subject of this exhibition. Drawn from the Douglas papers and other printed, manuscript and archival holdings, the exhibition marks the Douglas family's recent gift of significant additional materials.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Feb. 1 — June 1, 1994	Subjects American History
	Teaching Western Civ At Chicago Drawing on the rich holding of the University of Chicago Archives, this exhibition examines the complex series of events which led to the inception of the Western Civ course offerings at the University of Chicago.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center June 1 — Oct. 1, 1987	Subjects History
	Tensions in Renaissance Cities Rome, Florence, Geneva, London; Renaissance cities used art and literature to express their growing pains. After the Black Death, recovering cities developed in a geography of interdependence, connected by fluctuating kingdoms, mercantile networks, and the newborn printing press. This exhibit charts the tensions of capitals from Venice to Mexico City as they looked eastward, westward, backward toward antiquity, or upward to the celestial geographies offered by magic, science, and theology.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center March 27 — June 9, 2017 View web exhibit >>	Subjects European History
	This Library Will Contribute to the Liberation of the Mind, the Understanding of Civility, the Exaltation of the Spirit This Library Will Contribute to the Liberation of the Mind, the Understanding of Civility, the Exaltation of the Spirit	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Jan. 1 — Dec. 31, 1970	Subjects University of Chicago Library
	Through the Lens: Stephen Lewellyn Photographs of the University of Chicago The prints on display, works by photographer Stephen Lewellyn, document University events, personalities, and campus scenes from the mid-1940s to the late 1960s, and were made from more than 10,000 negatives Lewellyn presented as a gift to the University of Chicago Archives.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Sept. 1 — Jan. 31, 2003	Subjects Photography University of Chicago
	Tradition of Aquinas and Bonaventure, The: Text and Commentary during Seven Centuries This exhibition illustrates the influence of Aquinas and Bonaventure during the 700 years following their deaths, focusing on texts and commentary, with the history of the texts presented in manuscripts, incunabula, and more recent scholarly editions.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Jan. 1 — Dec. 31, 1974	Subjects Religion European History
	Travels with Ida: Letters and Photographs from Abroad Selected from the Ida Noyes Papers in the University Archives Beside the voluminous correspondence between Ida and La Verne Noyes, the exhibit presents Ida Noyes's diaries, and the hand-colored photographs she took and developed on the way. The exhibit not only sheds light on the life of one of the most influential women in the University's early history, it also presents a unique view on the world as it looked to one of the privileged travelers able to circle the globe before the beginning of the 20th century.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center May 1 — Sept. 1, 1982	Subjects University of Chicago
	The University of Chicago Centennial Catalogues This online presentation reproduces the complete text and accompanying images from four University of Chicago Centennial Exhibition Catalogues, published in conjunction with a series of physical exhibitions organized by the Department of Special Collections to celebrate the 1991-92 Centennial of the University of Chicago.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Jan. 1 — Feb. 1, 1993 View web exhibit >>	Subjects University of Chicago
	The University of Chicago Faculty: A Centennial View "The University of Chicago Faculty: A Centennial View" examines the careers of twenty-eight representative scholars from the institution's first century.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Oct. 1 — Dec. 1, 1992 View web exhibit >>	Subjects University of Chicago
	University of Chicago Press: A Century of Scholarly Publishing, 1891-1991 This exhibition, organized by the Library in conjunction with the University of Chicago Press, marks the Centennial of the University of Chicago Press by tracing its history from its beginnings as a small private corporation to its current status as America's largest university press.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center June 1 — Sept. 1, 1992	Subjects University of Chicago
	Uses of Gothic The University of Chicago's remarkable adherence to Gothic design and quadrangular planning through four decades of rapid social change and shifting architectural fashion form the theme of this exhibit.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center May 1 — Sept. 1, 1983	Subjects University of Chicago
	The Virtual Tourist in Renaissance Rome: Printing and Collecting the Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae This exhibition examines the publishing history of Antonio Lafreri's Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae through several generations of printmakers and print publishers, showcasing the Library's Speculum Romanae Magnificantiae Digital Collection.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Sept. 1 — Feb. 29, 2008	Subjects European History Art
	A Voice for Justice: The Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells This web exhibit showcases the achievements of civil rights activist Ida B. Wells (1862-1931) and documents her lifelong campaign for the rights and lives of African Americans in the nineteenth and twentieth-century United States of America.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center View web exhibit >>	Subjects Chicago and Illinois American History African-American Studies
	War, Trauma, Memory It seems an understatement to note that war is traumatic to those who experience it in any way, shape or form. The pieces in this exhibit reflect their creators’ experiences in wars from the 16th century through the present day. Each of these pieces was published or made public by their creators; by that action the creator invites us into the captured moment. We see, not a moment of trauma itself but a time after that moment, whether that be seconds or years. In this exhibit, the trauma of war is represented by that very absence of trauma, through the experience creators share with viewers, listeners or readers.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center April 30 — Aug. 31, 2018	Subjects History
	We Are Chicago:Student Life in the Collections of the University of Chicago Archives Drawn from the historical collections of the University Archives, We Are Chicago highlights student experiences over a span of 120 years. This exhibition features recent donations to the collections along with rarely seen materials. Costumes, photographs, T-shirts, letters, posters, publications, and memorabilia will combine to make this the largest and most inclusive exhibition in the ongoing Special Collections archival series, Discover Hidden Archives Treasures.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Jan. 2 — March 31, 2012 View web exhibit >>	Subjects University of Chicago
	Will Cuppy: The Natural History of a Modern Humorist As a columnist for The New Yorker and other publications, Will Cuppy (Ph.B. '07, A.M. '14) satirized evolutionary theory and commented on the ironies of human history.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Nov. 1 — Jan. 1, 1994	Subjects University of Chicago
	William Benton: A Public Life This exhibition examines the range and substance of Benton's contributions within a number of distinct but interlocking spheres: founder of Benton and Bowles, vice-president and trustee of the University of Chicago, pioneer in educational films and radio, owner and publisher of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Muzak entrepreneur, unofficial advisor to the isolationist America First Committee, charter member and vice-chairman of the Committee for Economic Development, Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, founding delegate to UNESCO, liberal Senator from Connecticut, opponent of Joseph McCarthy, and creator of the Benton Foundation for philanthropy in education and communications.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Jan. 1 — May 1, 1987	Subjects University of Chicago