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Henry Chandler Cowles with students American Environmental Photographs, 1891-1936
Images from more than 4,500 glass lantern slides, glass negatives, and photographic prints, created by faculty members and students of the University of Chicago Department of Botany between 1891 and 1936, influential in the development of modern ecological studies. These photographs provide an overview of important representative natural landscapes across the nation
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Digital
Images
Photographs
Subjects
University of Chicago
History of Science
Environmental Science
American Recipes, Crerar Ms 109 American Recipes, 1855-1905
Manuscript collection of cooking recipes. Includes recipes and home remedies. Also includes newspaper clippings, pasted in, with additional loose recipes in multiple hands, laid in.
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Digital
Archives & Manuscripts
Subjects
History
Letterhead of the  Anti-Saloon League Anderson, William H. and the Anti-Saloon League. Papers, 1903-1928
Contains correspondence, press releases, speeches, and reports. Material documents Anderson's work with the Anti-Saloon League and the League's relations with John D. Rockefeller and the Black Belt Farms Company. Correspondents include Charles S. Whitman, two-time governor of New York.
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Digital
Archives & Manuscripts
Subjects
History
Illustration from Letter Baldwin, Loammi. Papers, 1821-1842
Loammi Baldwin was a pioneering civil engineer who lived in Massachusetts from 1780 to 1838. He planned and executed public works projects in several Eastern states including canals, public monuments, dams, and tunnels. His lifework was a series of dry docks he built on commission by the United States government in 1833. The collection contains 247 handwritten letters both from and to Baldwin and his business associates, colleagues, and family members. The letters reveal aspects of Baldwin's personal life as well as his professional projects and meditations.
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Digital
Archives & Manuscripts
Subjects
American History
Before and After the Fire, Davie's atlas Chicago 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.
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Digital
Maps
Subjects
Chicago and Illinois
History
Maps
Bond Photograph Library Bond Photograph Library
Photographs taken during World War II by an American serviceman, Frank Bond.
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Digital
Photographs
Subjects
Southern Asia
History
South Asia
Mary Bowen Brainerd's calling card Brainerd, Mary Bowen. Papers. 1895-1915
Mary Bowen Brainerd, writer. The Mary Bowen Brainerd Papers consist of correspondence, research notes, and drafts of a dissertation.
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Digital
Archives & Manuscripts
Subjects
Literature
University of Chicago
Letter of John Adams to an unknown person - July 28, 1798 Butler-Gunsaulus Collection, 1527-1915
Chiefly letters and manuscripts by notable American men such as John Adams, William Cullen Bryant, DeWitt Clinton, Stephen A. Douglas, Frederick Douglass, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Horace Greeley, Washington Irving, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, William Henry Seward, George Washington and many more. Also contains a small number of manuscripts by Europeans, including Erasmus and the Marquis de Lafayette.
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Digital
Archives & Manuscripts
Subjects
American History
Postage stamp from correspondence. Carter, Henry Kendall. Papers, 1823-1880
The Henry Kendall Carter Papers (1823-1880, bulk 1840-1870) are made up of business documents, primarily concerning Carter's time in New Orleans (circa 1842-1874), personal and business correspondence, and personal memo books and diaries (1850-1878). Together, these items shed light on business life in Antebellum New Orleans, and on the realities of personal and business life in a divided country during the Civil War.
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Digital
Archives & Manuscripts
Subjects
American History
Central Europe Maps 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.
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Digital
Maps
Subjects
European History
Slavic/Eastern Europe/Eurasia
Geography
Maps
Cover of 	  Sky-ride pamphlet Century of Progress - International Exposition Publications, 1933-1934
Published informational and promotional material produced for the Century of Progress Exhibition, Chicago, Illinois, 1934.
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Digital
Books & Journals
Subjects
Chicago and Illinois
American History
Aimed at the Pimp Flyer 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.
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Digital
Archives & Manuscripts
Subjects
American History
Chicago and Illinois
Sun Ra 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.
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Archives & Manuscripts
Audio
Music Scores
Subjects
Music
Chicago and Illinois
1945 Chicago shimpo front page 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 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.
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Digital
Maps
Subjects
American History
Chicago and Illinois
Maps
Geography
Chicago in the 1920s and 1930s 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.
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Digital
Maps
Subjects
Sociology
American History
Chicago and Illinois
Maps
Chicago 1900-1914 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.
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Digital
Maps
Subjects
Chicago and Illinois
American History
Maps
The Chicagoan Vol 7 no 9 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.
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Digital
Books & Journals
Subjects
Chicago and Illinois
American Literature
American History
Subpoena for Gen. Horace Porter to testify in the Virginia Circuit Court, November 25, 1867 Davis, Jefferson, Trial Papers. MS 979, 1865-1868
These fourteen documents indicate the legal entanglements, ambiguous delays, political floundering, and shifting of responsibilities that occurred during the period from Jefferson Davis' first indictment for treason, on May 10, 1866, through March 6, 1868, when the trial, finally set for March 26, 1868, was postponed again.
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Digital
Archives & Manuscripts
Subjects
American History
Seal on Love letter from Duckworth to Susan Buller, his second wife, January 21, 1808 Duckworth, Sir John Thomas. Papers, 1808-1812
Contains correspondence, naval orders and instructions, and reports. Also includes an 1811 broadside printed in Newfoundland. Topics highlight some of Duckworth's decisions as British governor and naval commander of Newfoundland on the eve of the War of 1812.
Formats
Digital
Archives & Manuscripts
Subjects
History
Earl J. Hamilton Collection on the History of Economics
The Earl J. Hamilton Collection on the History of Economics contains over 3,000 rare and scholarly titles, with particular strengths in the economy of Spain and the life of John Law of Lauriston.
Formats
Books & Journals
Subjects
Economics
Special Collections
European History
Americae nova Tabula.jpg 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
European Transportation Map European Transportation Maps of the 19th Century
Maps showing European transportation facilities during the 19th century documenting an extraordinary change. At the beginning of the 19th century movement was largely along dirt roads and depended on horses or foot travel. By the end of the 19th century, transportation had become enormously faster, more reliable, and more comfortable. I that did not show railroad lies.
Formats
Digital
Maps
Subjects
History
European History
Maps
Government Maps of Chicago 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
Hart, Schaffner and Marx Labor Agreement Records Hart, Schaffner and Marx Labor Agreement. Records, 1919-1920
The Hart, Schaffner and Marx Labor Agreement grew out of the unsuccessful nineteen-week strike of workers in the Chicago men’s clothing industry in 1910. It was initially signed by representatives of the workers and Hart, Schaffner and Marx and represented a compromise between the United Garment Worker’s (UGW) demand for a closed shop and the management desire for an open one.
Formats
Digital
Archives & Manuscripts
Subjects
American History
David Heaton Papers Heaton, David F. Papers, 1837-1853
The David F. Heaton Papers contain personal and professional correspondence, documenting Heaton's work as a clerk in the General Land Office during the presidency of Andrew Jackson and in the private sector as an expert in land transfer and ownership.
Formats
Digital
Archives & Manuscripts
Subjects
American History
Hensley Photo - Learned Man 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
Hyde Park Center 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
Keagle Photos - Fishermen Keagle Photograph Library
Photographs taken during World War II by an American serviceman, Robert Keagle.
Formats
Digital
Photographs
Subjects
History
Southern Asia
South Asia
Ebenezer Lane Papers 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
European City Planning Map Late 19th- and Early 20th-Century European City-Planning Maps
Late 19th- and early 20th-century European city-planning maps that are held at the University of Chicago Library's Map Collection. Some are maps of actual plans for the future, not all of which (for example those of Cabourg and Moscow) were actually carried out.
Formats
Digital
Maps
Subjects
History
Political Science
Maps
Latin American Cities 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
Elon N. Lee and Edson S. Bastin Papers 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
Tax Receipt, 1819 Lewis, Fielding. Papers, 1783-1900
Fielding Lewis, plantation owner. Papers contain business records, legal documents, tax receipts and other records that document the management of an ante-bellum plantation on the James River. The collection also includes receipts for purchase of slaves as well as daily expenses.
Formats
Digital
Archives & Manuscripts
Subjects
American History
Lace curtain fragment and letter of authentication Lincoln Collection. Lincoln Miscellaneous Manuscripts, 1587-1924
The Lincoln Miscellaneous Manuscript section of the William E. Barton Collection of Lincolniana contains material relating to Abraham Lincoln, his parentage, the Civil War, and his presidency. Included are briefs, pardons, and commissions in Lincoln's hand, original letters of Mary Todd Lincoln, one of the few extant letters written by Lincoln to his wife, a letter written by Willie Lincoln while accompanying his father on a trip to Chicago, and letters written by members of the Lincoln cabinet and other notable political and military figures of the time.
Formats
Digital
Archives & Manuscripts
Subjects
American History
Bristol Family Papers 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 family portrait 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
Drawing from document on the naming of Douglas Hall. Old University of Chicago. Records, 1856-1890
The first University of Chicago, a Baptist school, was incorporated in 1857 on land donated by Senator Stephen A. Douglas. The University closed in 1886 due to financial difficulties. The records contain records of the Board of Trustees, and faculty, matriculation records, catalogs, student publications, and other historical materials, including two scrapbooks.
Formats
Digital
Archives & Manuscripts
Subjects
University of Chicago
Paperdoll 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
Plan of the Fortifications of the City of Paris ... 1848? Paris in the 19th Century
Maps and views of 19th-century Paris that are held at the University of Chicago Library's Map Collection. The maps document the transformation of Paris from a compact city of half a million in 1800 into an industrial metropolis of nearly 3.5 million a century later.
Formats
Digital
Maps
Subjects
History
Maps
European History
Geography
Philip Klutznick 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
PhiloLogic Logo Philologic Full-text Collection
Searchable full-texts available via the locally-developed Philologic full-text search, retrieval and analysis tool. The collection includes texts from Bibliopolis, Chadwyck-Healey, Alexander Street Press, the ARTFL project and others which cover a variety of humanities disciplines in a variety of languages.
Formats
Digital
Books & Journals
Subjects
Literature
History
Religion
Midwest Planning Map Planning Maps of Midwestern Cities in the 1920s and 1930s
Government planning maps of Midwestern cities from the 1920s and 1930s. Most of the maps are zoning or land-use maps.
Formats
Digital
Maps
Subjects
Political Science
American History
Maps
Geography
Marjorie Whitney Prass Papers - dress 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
Rome Collection of Manuscripts Rome Collection of Manuscripts
The Rome Collection of Manuscripts comprises 53 volumes dealing primarily with papal politics and diplomacy. The documents are mainly fair copies and range in date from the 15th through the 18th centuries.
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Archives & Manuscripts
Subjects
History
Humanities and Social Science
Religion
RSJ2.jpg 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
Brighton Park, prepared by Department of Sociology, The University of Chicago 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
Engraving of the Colosseum 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
Notebook 3, Mexico, 1897 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
UNCAP Folders 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
United States Supreme Court: Portraits and Autographs Title Page United States Supreme Court: Portraits and Autographs
This collection is based on a bound album of manuscripts collected by Louis Silver (JD ’28), a noted rare book collector. It was donated to the Law School Library in the late 1950’s. The album contains letters and other signed documents from Supreme Court Justices, plus portraits and/or photographs of those Justices.
Formats
Digital
Archives & Manuscripts
Images
Subjects
U.S. Law
Law
American History
cap_and_gown.jpg The University of Chicago Campus Publications
The University of Chicago Campus Publications digital collection provides access to serial and occasional publications documenting the history of the University of Chicago and the work of its faculty, students, and alumni. Included in this collection are publications issued by administrative units of the University of Chicago as well as those published by independent student organizations on campus.
Formats
Archives & Manuscripts
Books & Journals
Subjects
University of Chicago
Mary Calvert at telescope 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
Harper, William Rainey (Archival Photographic Files) University of Chicago. Founders' Correspondence, 1886-1892
Consists of typewritten transcripts of correspondence between John D. Rockefeller, founding donor of the University of Chicago, and others involved in the establishment of the University. Correspondents include William Rainey Harper, Thomas W. Goodspeed, Frederick T. Gates, and others.
Formats
Digital
Archives & Manuscripts
Subjects
University of Chicago
Blaine Hall, 1911 University of Chicago. Laboratory Schools. Work Reports. Records. 1898-1934
The Laboratory School Work Reports Records are made up of monthly and quarterly reports about the Elementary and Secondary division of the University of Chicago's Laboratory School.
Formats
Digital
Archives & Manuscripts
Subjects
University of Chicago
Letter from S.S. Cavalry, Berlin University of Chicago. Office of the President. Harper, Judson and Burton Administrations. Records, 1869-1925
This collection contains records of the University of Chicago Office of the President, covering the administrations of the first three presidents of the University: William Rainey Harper (1891-1906), Harry Pratt Judson (1906-1923), and Ernest DeWitt Burton (1923-1925). Included are administrative records such as correspondence, memoranda, and reports.
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Digital
Archives & Manuscripts
Subjects
University of Chicago
World War I Service Record of student University of Chicago. Office of the Registrar. World War I Service. Records, 1917-1919
The World War I Service Records consist of 3X5 cards recording war service of University of Chicago students, including dates of enlistment and discharge, ranks and assignments, and war service credit given by the University, 1917-1919.
Formats
Digital
Archives & Manuscripts
Subjects
University of Chicago
History
Late Nineteenth Century Urban Rail Urban Rail Transit - Late 19th- and early 20th-century maps
Late 19th- and early 20th-century urban rail transit maps that roughly illustrate the history of urban rail transit between the 1860s and the 1920s. These years were the heyday of urban rail transit. Virtually every city in the Western world and in its colonial offshoots had street railroads during much or all of this period.
Formats
Digital
Maps
Subjects
History
Maps
European History
American History
Diploma of Service: Heinrich Jonas Hergt, 1708 Wagoners' Guild of Apolda, Germany. Records. 1677-1862
This small collection contains documents relating to the Wagoners' Guild of Apolda, Germany, and its members. It consists of 33 pieces from 1677-1862, including a journeyman's passbook of 1820, numerous certificates of apprenticeship and journeyman's work, birth certificates, and miscellaneous guild documents.
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Digital
Archives & Manuscripts
Subjects
History
Madeline Wallin Papers 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
Ida B. Wells Campaign Card 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
Lincoln Bookplate William E. Barton Collection of Lincolniana
The 1932 purchase of the William E. Barton Collection of Lincolniana formed the nucleus of the Library's distinguished holdings of books, manuscripts, and artifacts concerning the life and times of Abraham Lincoln. The Barton family established an endowment fund that has enabled the University to expand and shape Barton's original 3,500 volume collection into a major resource for exploring the social, economic, and political history of the United States in the nineteenth-century.
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Archives & Manuscripts
Books & Journals
Subjects
American History
Special Collections
Rush Medical College, Matriculation Ticket Winston, Thomas. Papers, 1854-1927
Thomas Winston was a physician with Illinois troops during the Civil War. These papers relate primarily to Winston's activities as a surgeon during the Civil War. Includes biographical material, case histories, lists of medical supplies, receipts for effects of soldiers, and various documents relating to individual soldiers. Also contains some material relating to real estate after the Civil War.
Formats
Digital
Archives & Manuscripts
Subjects
American History
Medicine
Letterhead Republican State Committee Woodruff, Timothy Lester. Papers, 1897-1909
Timothy Lester Woodruff (1858-1913), Republican politician. Lieutenant Governor of New York, 1896-1902. Contains correspondence and a speech. Material deals primarily with campaigns, patronage, and other political issues, some with references to Theodore Roosevelt and Lemuel Quigg. Correspondents include Thomas Platt, Frank S. Black, John D. Rockefeller, James Sherman, and James Wadsworth.
Formats
Digital
Archives & Manuscripts
Subjects
American History
Political Science
World's Columbian Exposition - Java Theater 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
Bd-267 Yerkes Glass Plates Collection
The Yerkes Glass Plate Collection consists of more than 175,000 photographic glass plates negatives and their associated logbooks located at the University of Chicago and Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, WI.
Formats
Digital
Archives & Manuscripts
Images
Photographs
Subjects
Astronomy & Astrophysics
University of Chicago
Not Your Sister (zine) 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