Collections & Exhibits - The University of Chicago Library

Collections
Collection Thumbnail	Title	Formats	Subjects
	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
	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
	Book Arts Collection The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center holds artists' books, notable bindings, and novel book structures.	Formats Books & Journals	Subjects Arts History of Print Special Collections
	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
	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 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
	Chicago Jazz Archive The collections span more than eight decades of Chicago and general jazz history. The collections include recordings, publications, photographs, articles, posters, programs, ticket stubs, and other ephemera of musicians, clubs, record companies, and jazz organizations.	Formats Archives & Manuscripts Audio Music Scores	Subjects Music Chicago and Illinois
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	Chopin Early Editions Digitized version of the Library's collection of early printed editions of Chopin's musical compositions. The collection can be searched by a variety of data points including uniform title, genre, plate number, dedicatee, publisher. place of publication, etc., allowing scholars to study the differences between scores as they were published concurrently in different countries with variant texts.	Formats Digital Music Scores	Subjects Music
	Goodrich, Adelaide Eunice. Collection, ca. 1837-1916 Adelaide Eunice Goodrich (1861-19??). Actress and author. Collection contains prompt books of plays, scrapbooks, photographs, and a small group of patents and other legal documents of her father H. C. Goodrich.	Formats Digital Archives & Manuscripts	Subjects Theater
	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
	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
	Gregorian Chant Digital Manuscript Collection The Gregorian Chant Manuscript Collection was digitized from a set of microforms that came to the University of Chicago Library in the 1990s. Reproductions were obtained from various Western European institutions, libraries, and religious houses mainly in France and England. The collection of liturgical codex manuscripts dates from the 9th through 17th centuries with a concentration in the 12th and 13th centuries and include antiphonaries, missals, graduals, breviaries, sacramentaries, kyriales, tropers, sequentiaries, and others. The first twelve titles in this collection have been digitized and can be accessed from the Library's online catalog.	Formats Digital Microform	Subjects Music
	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
	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
	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
	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
	Masters' Papers in Art History & Visual Arts The database contains records for the Library's collection of over 850 M.A. and M.F.A. papers submitted by students from the Department of Art History and the Committee on Visual Arts and their antecedents.	Formats Books & Journals	Subjects Art
	Max Epstein Photographic Archive The Max Epstein Photographic Archive is a collection of reproductions of painting, sculpture, drawings, architecture, photography and decorative arts of Eastern and Western art dating from the neolithic period to the twentieth century.	Formats Photographs	Subjects Architecture Art
	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
	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
	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
	Paper Dolls. Collection This collection consists of paper dolls and accompanying paper clothing and accessories. The dolls were found in an 1839 volume of the New York Mirror, a weekly gazette of literature and the fine arts. Made by hand from scraps of magazines and wallpaper, the dolls are each unique, well-preserved examples of a typically fragile and ephemeral folk art.	Formats Digital Images	Subjects University of Chicago Art
	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
	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
	Salloch, William and Marianne, Collection of Prints and Drawings: People with Books. 1500-1814 The eight prints and drawings in the collection depict people reading or holding books in various settings. The works date from the 16th through 19th centuries. Two etchings by Rembrandt are included.	Formats Digital Images	Subjects Art History of Print
	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
	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
	St. Albans Collection of Music The St. Albans Collection of Music came to the University of Chicago as 34 volumes of printed and manuscript music acquired by successive Duchesses of St. Albans between 1780 and 1860. The collection provides an interesting and unusually complete picture of the musical life of an aristocratic English family in Georgian and early Victorian times.	Formats Music Scores	Subjects Music Special Collections
	UNCAP: Uncovering New Chicago Archives Program Electronic finding aids to contemporary poetry collections and the Chicago Jazz Archive at the University of Chicago Library and to important archival collections that chronicle Black Chicago from Chicago Defender, The DuSable Museum, The Vivan Harsh Collection of the Chicago Public Library, and the South Side Community Art Center.	Formats Archives & Manuscripts	Subjects Chicago and Illinois American History African-American 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
	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
	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
	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