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Collection Thumbnail	Title	Formats	Subjects
	19th-Century Maps of the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia 19th-century maps of the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia. Most of these maps were published in Western Europe, and nearly all the others were published in Russia or in the United States. The maps are products of--or were designed to support--the major European and Russian activities in the region: exploration, scientific research, resource exploitation, conquest, and administration.	Formats Digital Maps	Subjects Middle East African Studies Slavic/Eastern Europe/Eurasia Geography
	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
	Ancient Near East and the Mediterranean World Materials from the Library's Ancient Near East and Classics collections, focusing on volumes published between 1850 - 1950, many of which have a significant number of illustrations or plates.	Formats Digital Books & Journals Images Photographs	Subjects Classics Ancient Near East
	Archicofrad’a del Sant’simo Sacramento y Caridad. Records, 1555-1858 Mexico (City). Archicofrad’a del Sant’simo Sacramento y Caridad. Records of the Archconfraternity of the Blessed Sacrament of the metropolitan cathedral of Mexico City, from 1555 to 1858. Contains legal, financial, and other documents relating to the activities of the confraternity.	Formats Digital Archives & Manuscripts	Subjects Latin American Studies
	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
	Asian Cities - Late 19th- and early 20th-century maps Late 19th- and early 20th-century sheet maps of Asian (or partly Asian) cities that are held at the University of Chicago Library's Map Collection. Several of the cities portrayed in these maps are now among the world's largest, but they were all much smaller places during the years when the maps were compiled.	Formats Digital Maps	Subjects Chinese Studies Japanese Studies Korean Studies Maps
	Bakwin, Dr. Harry and Dr. Ruth Morris Bakwin. Soviet Posters. Collection This collection contains nineteen Soviet political posters produced in the early 1930s, collected by the American physicians Dr. Harry Bakwin and Dr. Ruth Morris Bakwin during two trips to the Soviet Union. The majority of the posters promote the First Five Year Plan (1928-1932), a series of industrial targets designed by the Stalinist regime to build up heavy industry in the Soviet Union.	Formats Digital Images	Subjects Slavic/Eastern Europe/Eurasia
	Bekker, Immanuel. Papers, 1806-1853 Immanuel Bekker (1785-1871) Philologist. The Papers consist entirely of correspondence addressed to Bekker. Some are semi-official communications (Niebuhr, W.V.Humboldt); many are of a scholarly nature, occasionally with extensive Greek quotations. Those written by Bekker's closer intimates are often typical of the need felt in the Romantic era to open one's heart to a friend, while a few are no more than short invitations (Reimer). The letters cover the period 1806 to 1853.	Formats Digital Archives & Manuscripts	Subjects Classics
	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
	Bibliography of East Asian Periodicals (Colonial Korea 1900-1945) A comprehensive list of Korean periodicals, 1900-1945	Formats	Subjects Korean Studies
	Bibliotheca Homerica Langiana The Bibliotheca Homerica Langiana (BHL), given by M. C. Lang, is a collection of editions and translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey with the goal of tracing their transmission in printed form.	Formats Books & Journals	Subjects Special Collections Classics
	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
	Central Europe - 18th-Century Maps Maps of the area in the middle part of Europe that, in the 18th century, was largely administered by members of the German-speaking nobility. Its boundaries, with some notable exceptions, coincided roughly with those of the then somewhat moribund Holy Roman Empire. It incorporated present-day Germany, Austria, Hungary, and the Czech Republic, and large parts of Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, and the Kaliningradskaia oblast' as well as northeastern Italy and German-speaking Switzerland.	Formats Digital Maps	Subjects European History Slavic/Eastern Europe/Eurasia Geography Maps
	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
	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
	Digital South Asia - Maps Catalogs of maps and maps themselves, ranging from historical to topographic as well as GIS data	Formats Digital Maps	Subjects Maps South Asia Southern Asia
	Digital South Asia Library Digital resources for the study of South Asia.	Formats Digital	Subjects South Asia Southern Asia
	Early Modern Maps of the Americas The Early Modern Maps of the Americas Collection follows the representation of the Americas in early modern cartography. The maps date from the 16th through the 18th centuries giving a wide perspective of how the Americas were illustrated.	Formats Digital Maps	Subjects European History Geography Maps Native American Studies Special Collections
	Electronic Open Stacks (EOS) Interface for page-turned image-based (facsimile) books. The collection primarily contains materials from the Ancient Near East and Classics collections.	Formats Digital Books & Journals	Subjects Classics Ancient Near East
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	Keagle Photograph Library Photographs taken during World War II by an American serviceman, Robert Keagle.	Formats Digital Photographs	Subjects History Southern Asia South Asia
	Latin American Cities - Late 19th- and early 20th-century maps Late 19th- and early 20th-century sheet maps of Latin American cities that are held at the University of Chicago Library's Map Collection.	Formats Digital Maps	Subjects History Latin American Studies Maps Geography
	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
	The Manna Dey Collection This collection includes news clippings and memorabilia documenting the long and varied career of Manna Dey. Dey was a renowned vocalist, musician, music director, and playback singer from Kolkata, India.	Formats Digital	Subjects Southern Asia South Asia Music
	The Maps of Heinrich Kiepert Geographer Heinrich Kiepert (1818-1899) is generally reckoned one of the more important scholarly cartographers of the second half of the 19th century. This Web page provides access to some Kiepert maps held at the University of Chicago Library's Map Collection.	Formats Digital Maps	Subjects Classics Middle East Geography Maps
	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
	Middle Eastern Posters. Collection The Middle Eastern Posters collection comprises posters produced by government offices and private organizations, primarily in Iran and Afghanistan.	Formats Digital Images	Subjects Political Science Middle East
	North Korean Stamp Collection The images found here in the North Korean Stamp Collection provide a valuable window into shifting politics and culture of North Korea and a different perspective of the nation’s historical place in the modern world. The Collection also serves as a well-curated primary resource for scholars to expand Korean studies in the philatelic realm.	Formats Digital Images	Subjects Korean Studies Area Studies
	Official Publications of India Publications of the central and provincial governments of British India.	Formats Books & Journals	Subjects South Asia Southern Asia
	Postcard Collection of Colonial Korea The Postcard Image Collection of Colonial Korea was created between 1900 and 1945 in Korea or abroad. It captures over 8,000 postcard images of Korea.	Formats Digital Images	Subjects Korean Studies
	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
	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 Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae A digital version of the Library's extensive collection of Antonio Lafreri's Renaissance-era Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae prints and maps which depicted major monuments and antiquities in Rome. The site also contains a set of virtual itineraries through Rome, guided by scholars from around the country.	Formats Digital Images Maps	Subjects Classics European History Art Architecture
	Starr, Frederick. Liberian Research Collection, 1892-1914 Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago Frederick Starr maintained these research materials for his book, Liberia: Description, History, Problems.	Formats Digital Archives & Manuscripts	Subjects African Studies Anthropology
	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
	Woodhouse's English-Greek Dictionary, 1910 A keyword searchable edition of S. C. Woodhouse's English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language (London: George Routledge & Sons, 1910)	Formats Digital Books & Journals	Subjects Classics
	Yoshitoyo, Ichiryusai. Mashin teate kiho no ben, Makiyama Sensei demp 1800s Handwritten text in Japanese, "About the special way to treat the measles; Dr. Makiyama's remedy." Illustrated with colored woodcut. Includes typescript translation of text from Japanese into English.	Formats Digital Archives & Manuscripts	Subjects Japanese Studies History of Medicine