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	Adventures in the Soviet Imaginary: Children's Books and Graphic Art Adventures in the Soviet Imaginary examines both the intensive and extensive dimensions of Soviet posters and children books.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Aug. 22 — Dec. 30, 2011 View web exhibit >>	Subjects Slavic/Eastern Europe/Eurasia Art
	African Americans in the Sciences The Library joins the University of Chicago in its celebration of the anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birth with Highlights from the Library's African American Collections.	Locations Crerar Library, 1st Floor: Other Spaces Jan. 7 — Jan. 31, 2005	Subjects African-American Studies
	African-American Studies: Resources in the University of Chicago Library This exhibition explores the University of Chicago Library's broad array of research materials documenting African-American history and culture.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Feb. 1 — June 1, 1999	Subjects African-American Studies
	American Popular Music and Entertainment: The Gay Nineties to the Great Depression Exploring a unique era in American musical and cultural history, the exhibit features sheet music, cylinders, discs, and phonographs from the extensive private collection of Allen G. Debus, the Morris Fishbein Professor of History of Science and Medicine at the University of Chicago.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center March 1 — May 31, 1989	Subjects Music
	Animal-Vegetable-Mineral: Natural History Illustration from the John Crerar Collection The art and beauty of illustrated natural history books is celebrated in this exhibition. The collection exemplifies the development of natural history illustration and the role of the image in disseminating knowledge of the natural sciences.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center May 1 — Sept. 30, 1991	Subjects History of Science Art
	Arcangela Tarabotti: A Literary Nun in Baroque Venice The exhibition focuses on the writing and cultural context of Arcangela Tarabotti, a Benedictine nun who published defenses of women that protested against social injustice, especially that of forced religious vocations.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center April 1 — Aug. 31, 1997	Subjects Women's Studies Italian Literature
	Art in the Stacks The Special Collections Research Center is known for being the University of Chicago Library’s center for rare books, manuscripts, and university archives. Nestled within these materials, there is a lesser known aspect of our collections—art. Art in the Stacks highlights these holdings with a selection of original paintings, drawings, and sculptures, in addition to artists’ books and other works on paper produced in the 20th and early 21st centuries.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center June 19 — Sept. 15, 2017 View web exhibit >>	Subjects Art
	An Art of Persuasion: Soviet Posters from the Library's Collections The exhibit showcases twenty-four Soviet political posters from the 1930s. Drawn from the E.M. Bakwin Collection of Soviet Posters and the War Poster Collection in the Library, the exhibition explores the role that these images played in rallying the peoples of the Soviet Union to take up social, political, and war-time causes.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center July 1 — Oct. 31, 1987	Subjects Art Slavic/Eastern Europe/Eurasia
	Artivism: Italy and Social Justice Art activism in Italy in the 1960s and 1970s	Locations Regenstein 3rd Floor Reading Room June 11 — Dec. 15, 2018 View web exhibit >>	Subjects Music Art Italian Literature
	Audubon's Birds This exhibition serves as a model for an irregular series of displays from the set of Audubon prints over the next few years.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center March 1 — May 1, 1996	Subjects Organismal Biology Art
	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
	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
	The Book in the Age of Theatre. 1550-1750 This exhibition explores the relationship between the printed book and the theater during a key period in their developments in Europe.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Jan. 1 — April 1, 2001	Subjects Theater
	Carl Van Vechten Carl Van Vechten (1880-1964, University of Chicago Ph.B. '03), arts critic, novelist and photographer, played an important role in the American literary and arts scene of the 1920s through the 1940s. In addition to the acclaim he received for his own work, Van Vechten was instrumental in promoting the careers of other writers and artists, among them Langston Hughes, Gertrude Stein and Wallace Stevens.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center July 1 — Oct. 1, 1994	Subjects American Literature Photography
	Chicago Celebrates Darwin The John Crerar Library presents Chicago Celebrates Darwin, an exhibit which revisits the Darwin Centennial Celebration hosted by the University in 1959. We look back at the original letters, pictures, and documents from that conference to get a sense of the atmosphere and the importance of the events, including the effect of Darwin’s theories on the research and popular opinion of the day.	Locations Crerar Library, 1st Floor: Other Spaces Oct. 19 — March 26, 2010 View web exhibit >>	Subjects University of Chicago Ecology & Evolution Organismal Biology Biological Sciences Chicago and Illinois
	Chicago Central: A History of Rails and Trains in the City The exhibit examines some elements of this history, including the city's stations, trains and rail workers and innovations in train technology.	Locations Crerar Library, 1st Floor: Other Spaces April 16 — Oct. 12, 2012	Subjects Chicago and Illinois Technology
	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
	Culture of the Camera: The Irving Leiden Collection Culture of the Camera: The Irving Leiden Collection	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Jan. 1 — Dec. 31, 1979	Subjects Photography
	Curated Mysticism: Visual Representations of the Cosmos and Consciousness Humans have had a long history of interpreting the "symbols" around them, from divining the future through the arrangement of stars in the night sky, to tracing out the lines of luck and life on palms, to predicting future fortunes from a stack of cards. This rich visual tradition of mysticism has trickled down to us today in the form of magazine horoscopes, "cootie catchers" (origami fortune tellers), appropriated evil eyes, and more recently, the outpouring of mandala colouring books.	Locations Regenstein 1st Floor Reading Room May 16 — July 31, 2016	Subjects Religion Art
	Cyrus Leroy Baldridge: Illustrator, Explorer, Activist Cyrus Baldridge (1889-1977) was an artist, illustrator, and author whose travels took him across Africa, Europe, Asia, and the Far East. His artistic training began at age 9, followed by education at the University of Chicago. Baldridge also developed an acute social and political awareness through a range of experiences, from working in a social settlement house to cattle ranching in Texas.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center June 27 — Sept. 9, 2016	Subjects Humanities Social Sciences Art
	Degrees of Distinction: Eva Overton Lewis and Julian Herman Lewis, MD, PhD at the University of Chicago and Beyond Eva Overton Lewis (1893-1945) was a University of Chicago graduate, a charter member of the University of Chicago's Beta Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, and the daughter of entrepreneur Anthony Overton Jr. Julian Herman Lewis, MD, PhD (1891-1989) was a University of Chicago graduate, pathologist, educator, and author of The Biology of the Negro (1942). This exhibit sheds light on their early life, their families, their time at the University of Chicago, their union and children, and their travels.	Aug. 7 — Aug. 7, 2024 View web exhibit >>	Subjects Chicago and Illinois African-American Studies
	The Diaghilev Ballet Russes, 1909 - 1929: An Exhibition of Original Designs and Documents This exhibition is being held on the occasion of a dance history seminar funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center July 1 — Oct. 1, 1975	Subjects Dance
	Dog Fight: The Animal Experimentation Debate in Twentieth-Century Chicago What should be done with unclaimed pound dogs? This question inspired fierce debates in Chicago, where an unusual city ordinance in 1931 granted scientists at the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, and other local medical schools access to stray dogs for experimental purposes. This exhibition explores both sides of that controversy and shows how it continues to shape the ways we discuss biomedical ethics and scientific progress.	May 8 — Sept. 1, 2023 View web exhibit >>	Subjects University of Chicago Chicago and Illinois History of Science History
	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
	Envisioning Earth This exhibit points to historical references to conservation and the environment; the approach is one that is multidisciplinary, accomplished through music, literature, and cartography.	Locations Regenstein 3rd Floor Reading Room May 1 — Sept. 4, 2017 View web exhibit >>	Subjects Literature Music Maps
	Eva Watson Schutze and the Philosophers' Circle Eva Watson Schutze, wife of a young German instructor at the University of Chicago, was a founding member of the Phot-Secession, a turn-of-the-century movement led by Alfred Steglitz that sought to establish photography as one of the fine arts. The exhibit includes letters, diaries and memoirs.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Jan. 1 — April 1, 1985	Subjects Photography
	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
	Firmness Commodity and Delight Firmness, Commodity, and Delight was the inaugural exhibition in the new Special Collections gallery, running from May through July 2011. The exhibition celebrated the opening of the new SCRC exhibition gallery and the completion of the Joe and Rika Mansueto Library with a display of books, manuscripts, and archival drawings and photographs representing our collections in architecture. The exhibition also had two items provided by the architectural firms who designed the Mansueto and Special Collections spaces – one drawing each from Murphy/Jahn (Helmut Jahn) and Booth Hansen. The exhibition was presented in conjunction with "500 Years of the Illustrated Architecture Book," a city-wide festival marking the publication of the first illustrated book on architecture, the Fra Giocondo edition of Vitruvius's De architectura libri decem.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center May 9 — July 29, 2011 View web exhibit >>	Subjects Architecture
	Frederic Chopin and His Publishers This exhibition, which surveys the relationship between Chopin's music and its publishing history, includes first editions, images of Chopin and his associates; facsimiles of autograph manuscripts; and later editions prepared by Chopin's students and performers of his music.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Feb. 1 — April 30, 1998	Subjects Music History of Print
	From Dreamland to Showcase: Jazz in Chicago, 1912 to 1996 This show highlights the development of jazz music and musicians in the Chicago area through the use of sheet music, photographs, recordings, music manuscripts, posters and other treasures from the University Library's Chicago Jazz Archive and from private collections.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Oct. 1 — Feb. 28, 1997	Subjects Music
	From Sausage to Hot Dog: the Evolution of an Icon The hot dog is an American creation, and Chicago even has its own style. But where did this popular food come from and how did it develop? This exhibit looks to the hot dog's origins in sausage-making practices brought by European immigrants to the Midwest. We consider techniques used in neighborhood butcher shops and the rise of industrial meat production. Homemade recipes and artisanal makers past and present are also examined.	Locations Crerar Library, 1st Floor: Other Spaces Oct. 29 — Dec. 31, 2013 View web exhibit >>	Subjects History of Science History American History Chicago and Illinois
	The Graphics of Revolution and War: Iranian Poster Arts Designed for mass distribution and aimed towards a large public audience, posters embed social, political, and religious concerns that frequently are articulated through both text and image. Perhaps more so than at any other moment in recent history, posters served as powerful modalities for mobilization and communication during the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and the Iran-Iraq War (1980-88).	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Oct. 15 — Dec. 18, 2011 View web exhibit >>	Subjects Art Middle East
	A Gray City Playbill: Student Theatre at The University of Chicago, 1895-1950 This exhibit of programs, photographs, and scripts from 55 years of student productions narrates the history of dramatic satire at the University. Beginning with the Dramatic Club, the University's first theater group, founded in 1895, the exhibit traces the development of the University's famous student theater.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Nov. 1 — Feb. 1, 1982	Subjects Theater
	Hands Making Paper: The Art of Japanese Papermaking More than thirty-five examples of traditional paper types from Japan, including the multi-layered, tie and fold dyed, gilt, and printed papers, were displayed for the first time in Chicago in this exhibit.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center June 1 — Sept. 1, 1988	Subjects Art Technology
	Huidobro Vicente in Avant-Garde This major exhibition of photographs, manuscripts and books traces the life and work of the avant-garde poet Vicente Huidobo (1893-1948).	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Jan. 1 — March 1, 1988	Subjects Art Spanish Literature
	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
	Imaging/Imagining: the Body as Data Imagining/Imagining the Body as Data examines the data revolution that has transformed modern medical imaging with technologies such as Magnetic Resonance, Computed Tomography and Ultrasound imaging.	Locations Crerar Library, 1st Floor: Other Spaces March 25 — June 21, 2014	Subjects Photography Medicine Organismal Biology Biological Sciences
	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
	Italian Drama of the Renaissance: An Exhibition of Books from the Collection of the University of Chicago Library This exhibition highlights the University's strong collection of Renaissance drama, which "includes some of the rarest editions of Italian plays ... and examples of every known dramatic genre from the sixteenth century to the middle of the eighteenth century" and recognizes the gifts of Louis H. Silver, Ira J. Hechler, and Howard Weingrow.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Nov. 1 — Dec. 31, 1961	Subjects Italian Literature Theater
	James Baldwin Among The Philosophers James Baldwin’s work is widely recognized for its religious overtones and influences as well as for its critiques of racism and heterosexual norms. His work is equally important as a contribution to American philosophy.	Locations Regenstein 4th Floor Reading Room Sept. 25 — Dec. 31, 2017 View web exhibit >>	Subjects African-American Studies Religion English Literature Philosophy
	Jazz-The Chicago Scene: The Art of Stephen Longstreet The Chicago jazz scene of the 1920s and 1930 is memorialized in this exhibit, which showcases over 60 watercolors, drawings, and collages by art-historian and long-time jazz observer Stephen Longstreet.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Oct. 1 — Nov. 30, 1989	Subjects Music
	John Morris: Photo Journalism Showcasing the gift of the papers of John Morris, one of the mid-century's most important photographic editors, the exhibit presents photographs by Toni Frissell, Eliot Elisofon, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Cornell Capa and explains Morris's central role in their use in some of the world's most important news stories.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Oct. 1 — Dec. 1, 1990	Subjects Photography
	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
	The Late Sketches and Autographs of Beethoven The books in which Beethoven carried out his sketching can be identified as falling into one of three categories: collections of loose leaves, large sketchbooks, and pocket books. The first of these, loose leaves, were used by Beethoven early in his life (from around 1786 to 1799) to draft compositions, as well as to write out compositional exercises, often for the keyboard. These loose leaves were later collected, sorted, and sewn together into book format by the composer himself.	Locations Regenstein 3rd Floor Reading Room June 21 — Dec. 14, 2019 View web exhibit >>	Subjects Music
	The Legacy of Virdung: Rare Books in the Collection of Frederick R. Selch Important in the Study of the History of Musical Instruments Rare books on the history, design, and use of musical instruments collected by Frederick R. (Eric) Selch (1930-2000) will be on view in this traveling loan exhibition.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center March 1 — June 1, 2006	Subjects Music
	Livres D'Artiste: An Exhibition of Books from the Collection of Dr. & Mrs. Sam Berkman The display includes roughly fifty books, on loan from Mr. And Mrs. Sam Berkman, representing thirty-five artists who took part in the collective livre d'artiste effort near the turn of the century in Paris.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center May 1 — Oct. 1, 1981	Subjects Art History of Print
	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
	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
	Matisse's Jazz "Matisse's Jazz" displays the Library's copy of Henri Matisse's famous livre d'artiste, published in 1947.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Nov. 1 — Feb. 28, 1997	Subjects Art
	Max Liebermann (1847-1935) Max Liebermann was a German-born Jewish painter and etcher whose career was marked by both success and controversy. The untraditional, proletarian style of his early work contrasted sharply with the academic art then in vogue in Germany. His later impressionist tendency contrasted no less severely.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center April 1 — April 1, 1986	Subjects Jewish Studies Art
	Max Liebermann: The Eye of the Artist Max Liebermann (1847-1935), the German Jewish artist who shocked audiences in the 1870s with his somber and rough-textured depictions of workers and later rose to prominence with light-infused scenes of leisure that evoke the style of the French Impressionists, is the subject of this exhibition.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Sept. 1 — March 1, 2001	Subjects Jewish Studies Art
	Meatpacking in the Midwest: The Thomas E. Wilson Family Collection From the Civil War through the 1930s, Chicago was the center of the meatpacking industry in the United States. The Thomas E. Wilson Family Collection provides a snapshot of one family-owned meatpacking business in Chicago during the first half of the twentieth century. The collection captures the meatpacking industry in the Midwest through the lens of one family's experience at the top.	View web exhibit >>	Subjects Special Collections Chicago and Illinois Business
	Music in the University of Chicago Library: Selected for an Exhibition at the Joseph Regenstein Library Representative of the Library's music collection, this exhibition includes fine first editions, works of general historical interest, and music manuscripts showing how the contemporary composer works.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center July 1 — Oct. 31, 1972	Subjects Music
	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 Reading Spring "On Reading Spring" is divided into six thematic sections, each offering a discreet meditation on the unfolding of the season through experiences commonly ascribed to spring: Refreshment, Vulnerability, Epiphany, Restoration, Tenderness, and Joy. By pairing a selection of the Special Collections Research Center’s rare and unusual published works with archival letters, diaries, photographs, musical manuscripts and early drafts of poems composed between March and June, "On Reading Spring" considers the ways in which diverse works reveal a sympathetic vernal experience across disciplines, cultures, and time periods.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center April 6 — June 30, 2020 View web exhibit >>	Subjects Music Art Literature Photography
	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
	The Origins of Color The Origins of Color exhibit explores the historical and scientific development of pigments and dyes and their production and uses in both fine art as well as craft manufacture. The exhibit featured books from our collections together with mineralogical samples, vials of pigments and dyes, and various samples of textiles and other end products of color processes. We thank the John Crerar Foundation for their support of this exhibit.	Locations Crerar Library, 1st Floor: Other Spaces April 16 — Nov. 2, 2007	Subjects Materials Science Art History of Science Technology
	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
	Over There and Here: Posters from the Great War The exhibit showcases posters commissioned and circulated during World War I by the Committee on Public Information.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Feb. 1 — April 1, 1983	Subjects Art
	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
	Planes, Trains and Automobile: The Transportation Revolution in Children's Picture Books This exhibition reflects growing interest in the artistic and historical significance of children's literature. "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" examines how illustrators in several countries exploited the great changes in travel and transportation that succeeded the coming of the railroad.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center March 1 — Aug. 30, 1995	Subjects Art Literature
	Plays, Playwrights, and Players: A Selection from the Drama and Theatre Collection This exhibit presents rare books, playbills, and posters illustrating the depth of the University Library's drama collections, considered to be among the best in the country.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Oct. 1 — Feb. 1, 1982	Subjects Theater
	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
	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
	Race and the Design of American Life: African Americans in Twentieth-Century Commercial Art Drawing from collections of food packaging, advertisements, children's books, album covers, and other household goods, this exhibit traces the vexed history of African Americans in commercial art—as images and as makers of their own image—and their vital role in shaping the rise and establishment of our modern consumer society.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Oct. 14 — Jan. 4, 2014 View web exhibit >>	Subjects African-American Studies Art
	Ralph Shapey Manuscripts The exhibit showcases some of the manuscripts and sketches Ralph Shapey has donated, which vividly demonstrate his methods for scanning text and seating ensembles. The scores themselves are included as well.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Jan. 1 — Dec. 1, 1981	Subjects Music
	ReFraming Graphic Medicine: Comics and the History of Medicine Throughout the history of comics, the visual stories of health, illness and medical practice complement the traditional history of medicine. Spanning from the origins of comics to contemporary works of graphic medicine, this exhibit traces a unique visual history of the illness experience and the evolution of Western healthcare practices and broadens our understanding of how the history of medicine is constructed.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center May 9 — July 16, 2022 View web exhibit >>	Subjects History of Medicine Medicine Art
	Scenes of Jewish Life from the Ludwig Rosenberger Library of Judaica An exhibition of books and prints featuring illustrations of Jewish life and customs and highlighting the work of Bernard Picart, a French Protestant book illustrator who settled in Amsterdam and produced engravings of Jewish life based on first-hand observation.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Nov. 1 — June 30, 1997	Subjects Jewish Studies Art
	Science at the University of Chicago: A History from the Library's Archival Photofiles This exhibit draws from the rich collection of University of Chicago photographs available in the Library's online Archival Photofiles Collection and highlights the history of the science departments.	Locations Crerar Library, 1st Floor: Other Spaces Oct. 20 — March 31, 2009	Subjects Photography History of Science Architecture
	The Science of Sustainability This exhibit takes a close look at some aspects of sustainable building design and how they can produce greener buildings.	Locations Crerar Library, 1st Floor: Other Spaces April 5 — Oct. 1, 2010 View web exhibit >>	Subjects Environmental Science Urban Studies Organismal Biology Chicago and Illinois University of Chicago
	Something's Brewing: The Art, Science and Technology of Beer Brewing The Crerar Library exhibit, Something's Brewing: The Art, Science and Technology of Brewing, explores the development of brewing, from the ancient Sumerians' rice-based beverages to the rise and fall of the Chicago brewing industry.	Locations Crerar Library, 1st Floor: Other Spaces Jan. 8 — March 31, 2007 View web exhibit >>	Subjects Chicago and Illinois Materials Science History of Science Technology
	Sounds from Tomorrow's World: Sun Ra and the Chicago Years, 1946-1961 This exhibit explores Sun Ra’s Chicago years through images and sound recordings of his poetry and music, vinyl records and album artwork, promotional materials and early controversial broadsheets. While living in Chicago, Herman Poole “Sonny” Blount became Sun Ra—the leader of the Arkestra and a composer and arranger of some of the most avant-garde jazz of the time.	Locations Regenstein 3rd Floor Reading Room Dec. 1 — Aug. 20, 2010 View web exhibit >>	Subjects Music Chicago and Illinois
	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
	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
	The Studio in the Field: Techniques of Early Wildlife Photography The Studio in the Field traces the development of wildlife photography as a popular cultural pursuit, focusing on the innovative techniques and strategies devised to craft pictures that would appear convincingly natural to nineteenth-century audiences.	Locations Crerar Library, 1st Floor: Other Spaces April 6 — Sept. 15, 2015	Subjects Organismal Biology Environmental Science Biological Sciences Photography
	Super Metroid: A 20th Anniversary Retrospective This exhibit celebrates the art of the videogame as seen in one of its early classics. Additionally, this exhibit explores the creative activity that lies beyond the game itself, from concept art and promotional materials to the fan art the game still inspires twenty years later.	Locations The Joseph Regenstein Library Jan. 28 — March 22, 2014 View web exhibit >>	Subjects Arts
	Sweet Home Chicago: Chocolate and Confectionery Production and Technology in the Windy City Drawing from items in the substantial cookery collection at the John Crerar Library, this exhibit explores the history of chocolate and confectioners in the city and the science and technology of the candy making process.	Locations Crerar Library, 1st Floor: Other Spaces Oct. 10 — June 11, 2011 View web exhibit >>	Subjects Advertising Chicago and Illinois Technology
	T. Kimball Brooker Prize for Undergraduate Book Collecting The Brooker Prize is awarded annually to second- and fourth year students with outstanding book collections. This exhibit provides an opportunity for award winners to share selections from their collections with a wider audience.	Locations Regenstein 1st Floor Reading Room View web exhibit >>	Subjects Latin American Studies Medieval Studies Gender Studies Arts
	They Saw Stars: Art and Astronomy This John Crerar Library exhibit highlights works of art and literature influenced by astronomy, either through scientific study, a fascination with the night sky, or as an inspiration for the literary imagination. Both contemporary and historical works are included.	Locations Crerar Library, 1st Floor: Other Spaces June 2 — Nov. 1, 2005 View web exhibit >>	Subjects History of Science Art Astronomy & Astrophysics
	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
	Under Your Feet, Chicago's Water, Freight, Subway and Storm Tunnels Under Your Feet explores the system—from the first water tunnels completed in 1867, to the now defunct freight tunnels of the early 1900's, to the subway system we use today, to the Deep Tunnel project and storm tunnels of the future.	Locations Crerar Library, 1st Floor: Other Spaces Feb. 14 — March 31, 2006 View web exhibit >>	Subjects Technology Art Chicago and Illinois
	Victorian Song Victorian Song	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Jan. 1 — Dec. 31, 1977	Subjects Music
	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
	Writing for the Eyes from Antiquity to the Renaissance Interactions between the visual and verbal arts are explored in this exhibition of illustrated texts that contain descriptions of actual or imagined works of art.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center April 1 — Oct. 31, 2003	Subjects Literature Art