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Egyptian baboons 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.
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Digital
Books & Journals
Images
Photographs
Subjects
Classics
Ancient Near East
Frontispiece: Marie Rosická 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.
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Archives & Manuscripts
Books & Journals
Subjects
Slavic/Eastern Europe/Eurasia
Malaria Experiements 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.
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Books & Journals
Subjects
History of Medicine
Berlin Bookplate Berlin Collection
One of the Library’s foundational collections, the Berlin Collection includes nearly 100,000 books and manuscripts on a wide range of topics including Renaissance humanism, classical philology, the history of science and technology, and the German Enlightenment.
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Archives & Manuscripts
Books & Journals
Subjects
Classics
Humanities
Religion
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) Bibliotheca Homerica Langiana
The Bibliotheca Homerica Langiana (BHL), given by M. C. Lang, is a collection of editions and translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey with the goal of tracing their transmission in printed form.
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Books & Journals
Subjects
Special Collections
Classics
Sam Ita Book Arts Collection
The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center holds artists' books, notable bindings, and novel book structures.
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Books & Journals
Subjects
Arts
History of Print
Special Collections
SarahSiddonsPlaybill Celia and Delia Austrian Study Collection of Drama
The Celia and Delia Austrian Study Collection of Drama consists of English-language theater published before 1900, including extensive holdings of British drama and related publications from between 1600 and 1800.
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Books & Journals
Subjects
English Literature
Special Collections
Cover of 	  Sky-ride pamphlet Century of Progress - International Exposition Publications, 1933-1934
Published informational and promotional material produced for the Century of Progress Exhibition, Chicago, Illinois, 1934.
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Digital
Books & Journals
Subjects
Chicago and Illinois
American History
Cervantes Don Quixote 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.
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Digital
Books & Journals
Subjects
Spanish Literature
Portuguese Literature
1945 Chicago shimpo front page Chicago Shimpo [シカゴ新報]
The Chicago Shimpo [シカゴ新報], which publishes articles in Japanese and English, is the only Japanese-American newspaper in the Chicago media market.
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Digital
Books & Journals
Subjects
Japanese Studies
Chicago and Illinois
Journalism
The Chicagoan Vol 7 no 9 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.
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Digital
Books & Journals
Subjects
Chicago and Illinois
American Literature
American History
Digital Dictionaries of South Asia icon 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.
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Digital
Books & Journals
Reference Works
Subjects
Linguistics
South Asia
Southern Asia
Earl J. Hamilton Collection on the History of Economics
The Earl J. Hamilton Collection on the History of Economics contains over 3,000 rare and scholarly titles, with particular strengths in the economy of Spain and the life of John Law of Lauriston.
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Books & Journals
Subjects
Economics
Special Collections
European History
EFTS Logo 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.
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Digital
Books & Journals
Subjects
Literature
EOS 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.
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Digital
Books & Journals
Subjects
Classics
Ancient Near East
Anne of Green Gables Encyclopaedia Britannica Collection of Children’s Literature
The Encyclopaedia Britannica Collection of Children’s Literature is a collection of approximately 10,000 books intended for children, with a major emphasis on nineteenth-century American and English books.
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Books & Journals
Subjects
Education
Literature
Special Collections
Worthen Geological Survey 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.
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Digital
Books & Journals
Subjects
Geophysical Sciences
Rheinisches Taschenbuch German Almanacs and Taschenbücher
Around 1,700 volumes of Musenalmanache and Taschenbücher, small-format literary almanacs published in Germany from around 1750 to 1850.
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Books & Journals
Subjects
German Literature
Special Collections
Detail from Ms. 931, New Testament 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.
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Digital
Archives & Manuscripts
Books & Journals
Subjects
Religion
Medieval Studies
Haggadah shel Pesach = Die Pessach-Haggadah Harry and Branka Sondheim Jewish Heritage Collection
The Harry and Branka Sondheim Jewish Heritage Collection is a rich resource for the study of the Jewish life and customs from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
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Books & Journals
Subjects
Jewish Studies
Special Collections
Hengstenberg Collection Bookplate Hengstenberg Collection
The Hengstenberg Collection, assembled by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg in nineteenth-century Berlin, consists of approximately 10,000 bound volumes and 2,500 unbound books and pamphlets, chiefly in the departments of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century theology, church history, and biblical literature
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Books & Journals
Subjects
Religion
Special Collections
Alice in Wonderland Historical Children’s Book Collection
The Historical Children’s Book Collection is a collection of over 15,000 volumes intended for children and juvenile readers, ranging from the eighteenth century to the present day.
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Books & Journals
Subjects
Education
Literature
Special Collections
ILC.jpg 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. Over 200 titles in this collection have been digitized and can be accessed from the Library's online catalog.
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Digital
Books & Journals
Subjects
Arabic
Area Studies
Islamic Studies
Middle East
Religion
Special Collections
Cover of Teaching science to English language learners 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, picture books, and early reading materials.
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Books & Journals
Subjects
Education
Lincke bookplate Lincke Collection of Popular German Literature
Formerly a nineteenth-century Leipzig rental library, the Lincke Collection is an important source for European popular literature published between around 1790 to 1875.
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Books & Journals
Subjects
German Literature
Special Collections
Hasonmas a gyulafehervari Batthyanyi-konyvtar Missale-janak cimkeperol (1377), 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.
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Books & Journals
Subjects
Slavic/Eastern Europe/Eurasia
Detail from Department of Art History website 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.
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Books & Journals
Subjects
Art
Fire!! 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.
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Archives & Manuscripts
Books & Journals
Subjects
Literature
Records of Fort St. George Official Publications of India
Publications of the central and provincial governments of British India.
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Books & Journals
Subjects
South Asia
Southern Asia
PhiloLogic Logo 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.
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Digital
Books & Journals
Subjects
Literature
History
Religion
Reg Reads Logo Reg Reads Collection
The Reg Reads Collection is a small collection of popular fiction and non-fiction on the 1st Floor of Regenstein.
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Books & Journals
Subjects
Humanities and Social Science
Literature
RSJ2.jpg 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.
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Digital
Books & Journals
Subjects
History
Slavic/Eastern Europe/Eurasia
European History
Political Science
cap_and_gown.jpg The University of Chicago Campus Publications
The University of Chicago Campus Publications digital collection provides access to serial and occasional publications documenting the history of the University of Chicago and the work of its faculty, students, and alumni. Included in this collection are publications issued by administrative units of the University of Chicago as well as those published by independent student organizations on campus.
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Archives & Manuscripts
Books & Journals
Subjects
University of Chicago
Bayley Scales 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.
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Books & Journals
Subjects
Education
Psychology
The Poems of Dante Gabriel Rossetti: With Illustrations from His Own Pictures and Designs.original Wachs Collection of Nineteenth-Century English Poetry
The Wachs Collection of Nineteenth-Century English Poetry consists of approximately 600 books of nineteenth-century English poetry, including many special copies, collected by Dr. Gerald N. Wachs and donated to the Library by his family.
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Books & Journals
Subjects
English Literature
Special Collections
Lincoln Bookplate William E. Barton Collection of Lincolniana
The 1932 purchase of the William E. Barton Collection of Lincolniana formed the nucleus of the Library's distinguished holdings of books, manuscripts, and artifacts concerning the life and times of Abraham Lincoln. The Barton family established an endowment fund that has enabled the University to expand and shape Barton's original 3,500 volume collection into a major resource for exploring the social, economic, and political history of the United States in the nineteenth-century.
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Archives & Manuscripts
Books & Journals
Subjects
American History
Special Collections
Greek terms for "bathe" 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)
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Digital
Books & Journals
Subjects
Classics
World's Columbian Exposition - Java Theater 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.
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Digital
Archives & Manuscripts
Books & Journals
Photographs
Subjects
Chicago and Illinois
Not Your Sister (zine) 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.
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Books & Journals
Subjects
Chicago and Illinois
History of Print
Literature