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Martin Frost Fore-edge Painting from New at SCRC - March 2025
Special Collections

New at SCRC - March 2025

A monthly list of new archives, manuscripts, rare books, and digitized items available at the Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center
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Kim Park Manuscript Thumbnail from Official Launch of the Kim-Park Program for the Study of the Book
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Official Launch of the Kim-Park Program for the Study of the Book

A detailed list of events to mark the official launch of the Kim-Park Program for the Study of the Book, April 14-18, 2025
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Hyakumantō darani from A newly acquired eighth-century Buddhist artifact joins extraordinary Japanese rarities at Regenstein Library
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A newly acquired eighth-century Buddhist artifact joins extraordinary Japanese rarities at Regenstein Library

The UChicago Library has acquired Hyakumantō darani 百万塔陀羅尼 [One million pagodas and mantras], an exquisite piece of tangible cultural heritage from Japan.
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Rededication of Harper Library; the Parade, 1973 from Hundreds of photographs depicting UChicago student life in the 1970s added to online archive
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Hundreds of photographs depicting UChicago student life in the 1970s added to online archive

More than 850 photographs of campus life in the 1970s by alumnus Frank Gruber (AB '74) now available via the University of Chicago Photographic Archive.
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