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AccessAll access to archival collections is provided in accordance with the Polices Governing the Use of Archives, Manuscripts, and Special Collections.Policies for access to official records of the University of Chicago are defined by the Regulations Governing Access to Official Records of the University of Chicago.Access to the holdings of the University Archives is provided through the Library's catalog, guides, finding aids, and inventories in the Special Collections Research Center. Finding aids converted to digital form can be searched in the Library's online finding aids database.
OverviewThe University Archives was established as part of the University of Chicago Library in 1946. It was incorporated within the Department of Special Collections in 1953 and forms part of the holdings of the Special Collections Research Center. Included in the Archives are official records and publications; minutes of the Board of Trustees and other boards and statutory bodies; records of administrative units including academic divisions, professional schools, departments, offices, programs, and interdisciplinary committees; papers of faculty members, trustees, administrators, students, and alumni; serial publications; photographs; video and film; sound recordings; and memorabilia. The archives of the John Crerar Library were added in 1984. The current extent of the holdings of the Archives is 32,315 linear feet. Among faculty members, trustees, students, and others represented by papers in the Archives are: Edith and Grace Abbott, Mortimer J. Adler, Herbert L. Anderson, William Benton, Sophonisba Breckinridge, Ernest W. Burgess, Thomas C. Chamberlin, S. Chandrasekhar, Fairfax M. Cone, Will Cuppy, Michael Danos, Allison Davis, Fred Eggan, Mircea Eliade, Alfred E. Emerson, Lloyd A. Fallers, Enrico Fermi, Robert W. Fogel, George B. Foster, James Franck, William Rainey Harper, Samuel N. Harper, Philip M. Hauser, Robert J. Havighurst, Robert Herrick, Everett C. Hughes, Robert M. Hutchins, Morris Janowitz, Frank Knight, Norman Maclean, Richard McKeon, George Herbert Mead, Charles E. Merriam, William Vaughn Moody, John G. Morris, Robert S. Mulliken, John Nuveen, William F. Ogburn, Walter Paepcke, Robert Park, Robert Redfield, Max Rheinstein, Beardsley Ruml, Eva Watson Schutze, Theodore W. Schultz, John Simpson, Henry Simons, Amos Alonzo Stagg, Richard G. Stern, George Stigler, Leo Strauss, Harold Swift, Marion Talbot, Sol Tax, Charlotte Towle, John T. Wilson, Louis Wirth, Quincy Wright, and Florian Znaniecki. The Archives also holds the records of a number of related institutions and organizations. Among these are the original or Old University of Chicago of 1857-1886, the Baptist Theological Union, the Baptist Union Theological Seminary, the American Institute of Sacred Literature, the Chicago Institute, the Chicago Manual Training School, the South Side Academy, and the John Crerar Library.For further information, contact: Special Collections Research Center |
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