Chicago and Illinois in the Twentieth Century:
Selected Modern Manuscript and Archival Collections
Print versions of finding aids for the following collections are available in the Special Collections Research Center.
Finding aids that have been converted to digital form can be searched in the online finding aids database.
For more detailed information on holdings, please contact the Special Collections Research Center.
- Edith and Grace Abbott. Papers. Finding Aid
- ACT UP-Chicago. Records.
- American Civil Liberties Union. Illinois Division. Records.
- Archival Biographical Files. HTML Guide
- Archival Photographic Files. HTML Guide
- Louis E. Asher. Papers.
- Atomic Scientists of Chicago. Records.
- Atomic Scientists Printed and Near-Print Material. Records.
- Laird Bell. Papers.
- William Benton. Papers.
- Sophonisba Breckinridge. Papers. Finding Aid
- William Harlowe Briggs Collection of Dramatic Criticism.
- Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Records.
- Ernest W. Burgess. Papers. Finding Aid
- A Century of Progress International Exposition. Press Releases. [Crerar Ms. 225]
- A Century of Progress International Exposition. Publications. [Crerar Ms. 226]
- A Century of Progress International Exposition. Scrapbook. [Crerar Ms. 227]
- A Century of Progress International Exposition. J. K. Wilcox, Checklist of the Official Publications of the Century of Progress International Exposition and Its Exhibitors, 1933. [Crerar Ms. 228]
- Chicago Citizens Committee to Study the Disorders of Convention Week. Records.
- Chicago Citizens Police Committee. Records.
- Chicago Civil Service League. Records.
- Chicago Committee of Fifteen. Records. [Ms. 1028]
- Chicago Foreign Language Press Survey. Records.
- Chicago Heart Association. Records. [Crerar Ms. 43]
- Chicago Jazz Archive
- Chicago Laryngological and Otological Society. Records. [Crerar Ms. 69]
- Chicago Lying-In Hospital. Records.
- Chicago Neurological Society. Records. [Crerar Ms. 57]
- Chicago Pedicatric Society. Records. [Crerar Ms. 47]
- Chicago Psychological Association. Records. [Crerar Ms. 81]
- Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy. Records.
- Civic Disarmament Committee for Handgun Control. Records.
- Cleaner Air Committee of Hyde Park-Kenwood. Records.
- Commission on Race and Housing. Records.
- Fairfax M. Cone. Papers.
- John Crerar Library. Records.
- Clarence S. Darrow. Papers.
- James T. Farrell. Papers.
- Fight for Freedom Committee. Chicago Chapter. Records.
- Morris Fishbein. Papers.
- John Gunther. Papers.
- Clifford G. Grulee. Papers. [Crerar Ms. 49]
- Harry Hansen. Papers.
- Philip M. Hauser. Papers.
- Ludvig Hektoen. Papers. [Crerar Mss. 74-75]
- James B. Herrick. Papers. [Crerar Ms. 44]
- Julius H. Hess. Papers.
- Julius H. Hess. Papers. [Crerar Ms. 51]
- Bayard Taylor Holmes. Papers. [Crerar Mss. 91-99]
- Frances Hooper. Papers.
- Hyde Park Historical Society. Collection. Finding Aid
- Hyde Park-Kenwood Community Conference. Records.
- Illinois Joint Commission for the Merit System. Records.
- Walter Johnson. Papers.
- Jenkin Lloyd Jones. Papers.
- Philip M. Klutznick. Papers.
- Ferdinand Kramer. Papers.
- League of Nations Association. Mid-West Branch. Records.
- Salmon O. Levinson. Papers.
- Ralph S. Lillie. Papers. [Crerar Ms. 58]
- Frank O. Lowden. Papers.
- Arno B. Luckhardt. Papers. [Crerar Ms. 17]
- Charles E. Merriam. Papers.
- Robert E. Merriam. Papers.
- Harriet Monroe. Papers.
- Harriet Brainard Moody. Papers.
- Hoke Norris. Papers. Finding Aid
- John Nuveen. Papers.
- Elizabeth H. Paepcke. Papers.
- Walter P. Paepcke. Papers. Finding Aid
- Bessie Louise Pierce. Papers.
- Playbills and Programs. Collection.
- Julius Rosenwald. Papers. Finding Aid
- Ryerson Family. Papers.
- Thomas V. Smith. Papers.
- Society of Medical History of Chicago. Records. [Crerar Ms. 33]
- Harold H. Swift. Papers.
- University of Chicago. Board of Trustees. Minutes.
- University of Chicago. Committee on Education, Training, and Research in
Race Relations. Records. Finding Aid - University of Chicago. Office of Public Relations. Political Investigations. Records.
- University of Chicago. Presidents' Papers
- University of Chicago. Presidents' Papers. 1889-1925. Finding Aid
- University of Chicago Service League. Records.
- Ida B. Wells. Papers. Finding Aid
- Napier Wilt. Index of Chicago Theatrical Performances.
- Louis Wirth. Papers.