Collections at University of Chicago

Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project

Presents materials from Lincoln's Illinois years (1830-1861), supplemented by resources from Illinois' early years of statehood (1818-1829). Thus Lincoln/Net provides a record of Lincoln's career, but ...

The Abraham Lincoln Songster

Integrates digital facsimiles of Lincoln campaign song sheets together with full-text searchable lyrics of these songs and some RealAudio sound recordings. The Abraham Lincoln Songster is an ...

Ancient Near East and the Mediterranean World

Project to digitize approximately 36 volumes from the Library's Ancient Near East and Classics collections. This digital project was part of a larger project that preserved almost 9,000 volumes in ...

Asia in the Eyes of Europe

1000 copies of this catalog were published in conjunction with the exhibition Asia in the Eyes of Europe: Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries held in the Department of Special Collections, the ...

The Berlin Collection

The broad pattern of the collection's content was reasonably presented in the early outlines. The manuscripts were relatively small in number but they were the foundation of the University's later ...

A Century of Progress: The 1933-34 World's Fair Collection

On May 27, 1933 Postmaster General James A. Farley officially opened the gates to A Century of Progress. When the fair closed October 31, 1934, thirty-nine million visitors had paid to walk through ...

Chopin Early Editions

Contains digitized images of first and early print editions of musical compositions by Chopin, housed in the Special Collections Research Center of the University of Chicago Library.

Digital Dictionaries of South Asia

A project led by the the University of Chicago's Southern Asia Department and Chicago's South Asia Language and Area Center to make available at least one bi-lingual dictionary for each of the ...

The Digital South Asia Library

A pilot project to improve access through development of the infrastructure for inter-continental electronic document delivery to and from selected South Asia libraries and creation of new electronic ...

EFTS (Electronic Full-Text Sources)

Provides the primary means of access to, as well as information on, full-text scholarly resources available at the University of Chicago. Texts are arranged by language, subject, and searching ...

EOS (Electronic Open Stacks)

EOS (Electronic Open Stacks) is the Library's home for page-turned image-based texts. One can navigate these texts by way of the digital table of contents or by locating a particular page from the ...

The First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820

This was a joint project between the University of Chicago Library and the Filson Historical Society of Louisville, Kentucky, to digitize 745 rare books, pamphlets, newspapers, maps, prints, and ...

Italian Women Writers

The Italian Women Writers project (IWW) is a long-term research endeavor to preserve and provide access to an extensive corpus of literature written by Italian women authors. Its goal is to bring ...

Pamphlets and Periodicals of the French Revolution of 1848

The Center for Research Libraries, the University of Chicago Library, and the ARTFLProject, (American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language) have cooperated on a project to ...

Smart Museum of Art On-line Database Project

Provides access to inventory records and digitized images from the collections of the Smart Museum of Art which spans more than 5,000 years of artistic creation. Users may search by artist's name, ...

South Asia at Chicago: Fifty Years of Scholarship

Online exhibition based on materials drawn from the South Asia collections at the University of Chicago Library and including sections on the following themes: the institutional history of South Asian ...