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	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 Geography Slavic/Eastern Europe/Eurasia African Studies Middle East
	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	Formats Digital Images Photographs	Subjects Environmental Science Environmental Studies History of Science University of Chicago
	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 Architecture Art Southern Asia
	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.	Formats Digital Archives & Manuscripts	Subjects History
	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 Ancient Near East Classics
	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.	Formats Digital Archives & Manuscripts	Subjects History
	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
	Army Medical Malaria Research Project From the 1940's to the 1960's, researchers at the University of Chicago did research on malaria under the sponsorship of the Army. This bibliography contains the major publications resulting from this research.	Formats Books & Journals	Subjects History of Medicine
	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 Maps Chinese Studies Japanese Studies Korean Studies
	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
	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.	Formats Digital Archives & Manuscripts	Subjects American History
	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 Maps Chicago and Illinois History
	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
	Bond Photograph Library Photographs taken during World War II by an American serviceman, Frank Bond.	Formats Digital Photographs	Subjects South Asia Southern Asia History
	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.	Formats Digital Archives & Manuscripts	Subjects University of Chicago Literature
	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.	Formats Digital Archives & Manuscripts	Subjects American History
	Caballero, Fernán. Papers, 1855-1877 Fernán Caballero, pseudonym of Cecilia Francisca Josefa de Arrom, (1796-1877), Spanish author. The papers consists primarily of correspondence from Caballero to French scholar Antoine de Latour, but also includes other correspondence, manuscripts and articles.	Formats Digital Archives & Manuscripts	Subjects Portuguese Literature Spanish Literature
	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.	Formats Digital Archives & Manuscripts	Subjects American History
	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 Maps Geography Slavic/Eastern Europe/Eurasia European History
	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 American History Chicago and Illinois
	Century of Progress: The 1933-34 World's Fair Pamphlets selected from the Library's official collection of pamphlets, brochures, and booklets published specifically for the Century of Progress World's Fair between 1933 and 1935.	Formats Digital Books & Journals	Subjects American History Chicago and Illinois
	Cervantes: Text and Image Collection of scanned editions of Don Quixote and associated texts focusing on illustrations and critical texts. Created in conjunction with the Ekphrasis in the Age of Cervantes conference hosted by the University of Chicago in 2004.	Formats Digital Books & Journals	Subjects Portuguese Literature Spanish Literature
	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 Chicago and Illinois Music
	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 Geography Maps Chicago and Illinois American History
	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 Maps Chicago and Illinois American History Sociology
	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 Maps Chicago and Illinois American History
	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 American History American Literature Chicago and Illinois
	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
	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.	Formats Digital Archives & Manuscripts	Subjects American History
	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 Southern Asia South 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 Southern Asia South Asia Maps
	Digital South Asia Library Digital resources for the study of South Asia.	Formats Digital	Subjects Southern Asia South Asia
	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
	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 Special Collections Native American Studies Maps Geography European History
	Electronic Full Text Sources (EFTS) The Library makes available a wide variety of full-text, searchable scholarly texts. A large number are mounted under PhiloLogic, the University of Chicago's Full-Text System.	Formats Digital Books & Journals	Subjects Literature
	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 Ancient Near East Classics
	Ethnographic Maps of the 19th Century 19th-century ethnographic maps that are held at the University of Chicago Library's Map Collection. Most of these maps show the distribution of particular ethnic groups or languages. A few show the geography of other aspects of culture.	Formats Digital Maps	Subjects Maps Anthropology Sociology
	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 Maps European History History
	Field, Eugene. Correspondence, 1884-1895 Eugene Field, writer, poet. The Eugene Field Correspondence consists of 301 letters written to Eugene Field by various admirers, friends, family members, and business associates during the years 1884 - 1895. The collection also contains newspaper and magazine clippings pertaining for the most part to Field and his poetry.	Formats Digital Archives & Manuscripts	Subjects Literature
	The First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820 A collaboration between the University of Chicago Library and the Filson Historical Society of Louisville, Kentucky, to digitize 745 rare books, pamphlets, newspapers, maps, prints, and manuscripts presenting a wide-ranging historical overview of the Ohio River Valley and trans-Appalachian West from the earliest Euro-American settlement to the passing of the frontier beyond the Mississippi River.	Formats Digital Archives & Manuscripts Books & Journals Maps	Subjects American History
	Geological Survey of Illinois The reports of the first Illinois Geological Survey, directed first by Dr. Joseph G. Norwood from 1851-1855 and by Amos H. Worthen from 1858-1875, are a rich resource of information about Illinois geology, landscape and mineral resources.	Formats Digital Books & Journals	Subjects Geophysical Sciences
	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
	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 Medieval Studies Religion
	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 Southern Asia South Asia Anthropology Architecture
	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 Geography Maps Chicago and Illinois American History Political Science
	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
	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 Library Photographs taken during World War II by an American serviceman, Glenn S. Hensley.	Formats Digital Photographs	Subjects South Asia Southern Asia History
	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
	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. The first 52 titles in this collection have been digitized and can be accessed from the Library's online catalog.	Formats Digital Books & Journals	Subjects Islamic Studies Religion Middle East Area & Cultural Studies Arabic
	Italian Women Writers (IWW) The Italian Women Writers project (IWW) is a long-term research endeavor to preserve and provide access to an extensive corpus of literature written by Italian women authors.	Formats Digital	Subjects Italian Literature
	Jackson, William Henry. Photographs, 1870-1878 William Henry Jackson, photographer (1843-1942). The William Henry Jackson Photograph collection consists of 85 unique photographs and 17 duplicate prints of the West taken for the U.S. Geological Survey of the Territories (1870-78). Areas include Colorado, Mexico, Montana, Utah, and Wyoming.	Formats Digital Archives & Manuscripts Photographs	Subjects Geography
	K-12 Curriculum Materials The collection specializes in curriculum resources and professional development materials for K-12 teaching. The collection is comprised of materials in a variety of formats, including professional literature, teacher's manuals, DVDs, CD-ROMs, and online databases.	Formats Books & Journals	Subjects Education
	Keagle Photograph Library Photographs taken during World War II by an American serviceman, Robert Keagle.	Formats Digital Photographs	Subjects South Asia Southern Asia History
	Lafayette Manuscripts, 1792-1834 Contains 37 documents, primarily correspondence written by or to Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Montier, Marquis de Lafayette (1757-1834). Also included are letters related to Lafayette's son, George Washington du Motier de Lafayette (1779-1849) and grandson, Edmond du Motier de Lafayette (1818-1888).	Formats Digital Archives & Manuscripts	Subjects Political Science
	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
	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 Maps History Political Science
	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 Geography Maps Latin American Studies History
	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 American History Chicago and Illinois
	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
	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
	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
	Manuscripts on Cultural Anthropology, 1931-1992 Manuscripts on Cultural Anthropology is a digital collection of 204 titles encompassing a significant body of field-based research and other primary materials documenting over 100 Mesoamerican languages and their change over time. The collection of unpublished and some published works contains vocabulary lists, dictionaries, grammars, corpora of texts and elicited sentences, concordances, and guides to holdings of other research collections, as well as supporting ethnographic and cultural materials, including field notes.	Formats Digital Microform	Subjects Anthropology
	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 Maps Geography Classics Middle East
	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
	Microfilm Collection of Manuscripts on Cultural Anthropology The Microfilm Collection of Manuscripts on Cultural Anthropology (MCMCA) is a series of field notes in anthropology. It was an attempt to deal with a perennial problem in the discipline: field notes likely to be of enormous scholarly value are not normally published.	Formats Microform	Subjects Anthropology
	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 Photography Ancient Near East Middle East
	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 Middle East Political Science
	Modern Poetry Poetry holds a special place at the University of Chicago Library, particularly after Harriet Monroe presented us with her poetry library, papers and the editorial files of Poetry magazine in 1931. The collection continues to grow, with a particular focus on modern poetry from the Chicago area. Highlights include first editions and manuscripts of works by Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, William Butler Yeats, Marianne Moore and Michael Anania.	Formats Archives & Manuscripts Books & Journals	Subjects Literature
	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 Women's Studies American History
	O'Gorman Mahon. Papers, 1824-1892 James Patrick Mahon, also known as "The O'Gorman Mahon" was an Irish politician and adventurer. The collection contains correspondence, materials from court cases, documents pertaining to business ventures, a letter book, a diary, a passport, election posters, and two scrapbooks of newspaper clippings. Papers document Mahon's various political, military and business activities.	Formats Digital Archives & Manuscripts Images	Subjects Political Science
	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 African-American Studies American History
	Official Publications of India Publications of the central and provincial governments of British India.	Formats Books & Journals	Subjects Southern Asia South Asia
	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
	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 Art University of Chicago
	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 Geography European History Maps History
	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 American History Chicago and Illinois
	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 Religion History Literature
	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 Geography Maps American History Political Science
	Postcards on Wright's Airplane Ascension at Le Mans Three picture postcards from "Agnes," Chartres, France, to "Blanche," providing eyewitness description of Wilbur Wright's flight at Le Mans, France.	Formats Digital Images Photographs	Subjects History of Science
	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 Theater University of Chicago
	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 Political Science European History Slavic/Eastern Europe/Eurasia
	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
	Schaffner, Joseph Halle, Collection in the History of Science, 1642-1961 Contains correspondence and other documents from or related to prominent scientists. Includes the Marie Curie Correspondence with Charlotte Kellogg (ca. 1921-1929) and Curie Memorabilia, the Charles Darwin and Darwin Family Correspondence, the Albert Einstein-Walther Mayer Correspondence (1930-1933) and Einstein Photographs, the Isaac Newton Collection (1642-1727), and Miscellaneous Scientific Manuscripts (1744, 1777, 1820).	Formats Digital Archives & Manuscripts Photographs	Subjects History of Science
	Slavery and Indentured Servitude Collection, 1752-1864 Contains seven documents pertaining to indentured servants (1766-1785). The remaining documents relate to slavery and include bills of sale, a memorandum describing the slave trade in Havana (1783), estate inventories, public notices, letters, deeds, a will, and indemnity bonds. Many of the documents are facsimiles.	Formats Digital Archives & Manuscripts	Subjects American History
	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 Chicago and Illinois Maps Sociology Political Science American History
	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 Architecture Art European History Classics
	Standards in the Library The John Crerar Library collected major national, association and foreign standards extensively from the 1920s/30s until about 1975. These are in print format, and presently housed in Regenstein Library on the B level. They are available for borrowing, in-house consultation and photocopying. Some of the major foreign standards were cancelled as follows: British - 1969; German - 1970; the International Electrotechnical Commission - 1971. From 1986-94, the Library purchased some standards in microfiche. Most of these are from ASME, ANSI, IEEE, and UL with a few from other organizations. These are also located on Regenstein’s B Level. The Library no longer purchases any current standards on a regular basis.	Formats	Subjects
	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 Anthropology African Studies
	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 Japanese Studies Latin American Studies African Studies Anthropology University of Chicago
	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 African-American Studies American History Chicago and Illinois
	University of Chicago Library Test Collection The University of Chicago Library maintains a collection of separately published standardized printed instruments utilized in the fields of education and psychology. The collection now includes more than 5,600 separately published tests, some dating back to the early twentieth century.	Formats Books & Journals	Subjects Psychology Education
	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 Architecture University of Chicago
	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
	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
	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.	Formats Digital Archives & Manuscripts	Subjects University of Chicago
	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
	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 American History European History Maps History
	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.	Formats Digital Archives & Manuscripts	Subjects History
	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 University of Chicago Women's Studies
	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 African-American Studies Chicago and Illinois Women's Studies
	Whitman, Walt, "The Bible as Poetry." Manuscript, 1883 Original manuscript of Whitman's essay, first published in The Critic in 1883. Included with the manuscript are two portraits of Whitman, a copy of the published essay and Whitman's cover letter to the publishers Jeannette Leonard Gilder and Joseph B. Gilder. Codex MS 263.	Formats Digital Archives & Manuscripts	Subjects English Literature
	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 Medicine American History
	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
	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 Political Science American History
	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
	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
	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 Literature History of Print Chicago and Illinois

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