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The B. Heller & Co. Collection
Founded by Benjamin Heller, whose family practiced sausage-making for generations, Chicago-based B. Heller & Co. began in 1893. Eager to take advantage of new developments in food science and chemistry as well as his skills as a salesman, Benjamin Heller was the quintessential American entrepreneur. |
Locations
The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center March 1 — June 30, 2009 View web exhibit >> |
Subjects
Advertising Chicago and Illinois |
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Expanding Sources: Recent Additions to Special Collections
As academic fields expand and diversify, Special Collections is building collections to support these new directions. Researchers are drawing on original materials in many areas including race and gender, cinema and media, graphic design, arts practice, and cross-cultural global studies. This exhibition displays recent acquisitions with research potential for a range of disciplines. The materials represent many formats, including children’s books, family letters, journals, fine book design, posters, research notes, clothing, board games, and printed ephemera. |
Locations
The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Jan. 6 — April 24, 2020 View web exhibit >> |
Subjects
University of Chicago Library Chicago and Illinois University of Chicago |
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Julius Rosenwald 1862-1932: An exhibition honoring the One Hundredth Anniversary of his birth
This exhibition commemorates the centennial of the birth of Julius Rosenwald, president and chairman of the board of Sears, Roebuck & Co., and a major philanthropist in support of progressive and social welfare reforms. |
Locations
The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Jan. 1 — Jan. 31, 1962 |
Subjects
Chicago and Illinois Jewish Studies Social Services |
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Mapping the Young Metropolis
Between 1915 and 1940, a small faculty in the University of Chicago Department of Sociology, working with dozens of talented graduate students, intensively studied the city of Chicago . They aspired to use the approaches of social science in developing a new field of research, and they took the city as their laboratory. |
Locations
The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center June 22 — Sept. 11, 2015 View web exhibit >> |
Subjects
Sociology Chicago and Illinois |
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Our Lincoln: Bicentennial Icons from the Barton Collection of Lincolniana
Marking the 200th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, this exhibition presents a selection of documents and artifacts from the University of Chicago Library's William E. Barton Collection of Lincolniana. |
Locations
The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Jan. 1 — Feb. 28, 2009 View web exhibit >> |
Subjects
Chicago and Illinois American History |
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Paul B. Moses: Trailblazing Art Historian
The extraordinary life of the art historian Paul B. Moses (1929–1966) was one defined by barriers overcome. Through his writings, photographs, video clips, personal correspondence, ephemera, and original art, the exhibition tells the story of his journey from Ardmore, Pennsylvania and Haverford College, where he was the first African-American student ever admitted, to the University of Chicago, where he distinguished himself through innovative teaching and scholarship until his untimely death. |
Locations
The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Sept. 12 — Dec. 16, 2022 View web exhibit >> |
Subjects
Chicago and Illinois University of Chicago History Art |
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Printing for the Modern Age: Commerce, Craft, and Culture in the RR Donnelley Archive
The R. R. Donnelley Archive preserves a fascinating array of historical materials dating from the mid-nineteenth to the late twentieth century, offering research potential in modern social and cultural history, the history of printing and the graphic arts, the history of advertising and mass consumption, economic and labor history, Chicago urban and community history, and modern cultural studies, among many other fields. |
Locations
The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Sept. 1 — Feb. 28, 2007 View web exhibit >> |
Subjects
History of Print Chicago and Illinois American History |
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Souvenirs! Get Your Souvenirs!
Souvenirs can come in all shapes and sizes; they can be simple or complex, tasteful or tacky. This exhibition presents various souvenirs created for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, the 1933 Century of Progress International Exposition, and the City of Chicago. It draws on collections throughout the Special Collections Research Center, catalyzed by the Ian Mueller Collection of Chicago Memorabilia. |
Locations
The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center July 22 — Oct. 4, 2013 View web exhibit >> |
Subjects
Special Collections American History Chicago and Illinois |
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A Voice for Justice: The Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells
This web exhibit showcases the achievements of civil rights activist Ida B. Wells (1862-1931) and documents her lifelong campaign for the rights and lives of African Americans in the nineteenth and twentieth-century United States of America. |
Locations
The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center View web exhibit >> |
Subjects
Chicago and Illinois American History African-American Studies |