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We Are Chicago: Student Life in the Collections of the University of Chicago Archives
Special Collections Research Center Exhibition Gallery
January 17, 2012 - March 23, 2012
Since arriving on campus for the first time in 1892, students at the University of Chicago have helped to shape a stimulating and distinctive campus environment. Students have created and contributed to a constantly changing mix of organizations, social events, arts, drama, athletics, and political activism. Blackfriars and Mirror Review musicals, anti-war demonstrations, Order of the C, Washington Prom, Lascivious Costume Ball, political debates, The Phoenix humor magazine, and the Chicago-Japanese baseball tournament with Waseda University have all been part of student life.
We Are Chicago highlights these and many other student experiences over a span of 120 years. Drawn from the historical collections of the University Archives, We Are Chicago features recent donations to the collections along with rarely seen materials from the University's past. Costumes, photographs, T-shirts, letters, posters, publications, and memorabilia will combine to make this the largest and most inclusive exhibition in the ongoing Special Collections archival series, Discover Hidden Archives Treasures.
