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University of Chicago Library's Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center
Regenstein Library
Joined March 2014
Read about one of our newest and oldest acquisitions: An eighth-century Buddhist pagoda and mantra.
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Carter G. Woodson (AB’07, AM’08), the Father of Negro History, championed the idea and formation of Negro History Week (inaugurated in 1926) that, in 1976, ultimately became Black History Month. This year marks the 150th anniversary of his birth.
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This month's free e-book, courtesy of our colleagues at the University of Chicago Press (@UChicagoPress) is Being Somebody and Black Besides: An Untold Memoir of Midcentury Black Life by George B. Nesbitt.
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Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gave three ‘glorious’ speeches on campus between 1956 and 1966.
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The keynote speaker for @uchicago's 35th Annual Commemoration Celebration of Rev. Dr. #MartinLutherKingJr is #RubyBridges: the first Black child to desegregate her elementary school…
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Hooray! Our reading room will re-open on Friday, but remain closed on Thursday. Please contact us if you have questions:
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Our emergency maintenance efforts continue, so unfortunately we will also be closed Wednesday, January 15th.
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UPDATE: We will be closed through the 14th for emergency maintenance: Please stay tuned for further updates.
🛑 Our reading room will be closed for maintenance tomorrow, Monday, January 13th. We will re-open on Tuesday the 14th. We apologize for the inconvenience.
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🛑 Our reading room will be closed for maintenance tomorrow, Monday, January 13th. We will re-open on Tuesday the 14th. We apologize for the inconvenience.
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Happy first day of #Winter Quarter! Pictured a class of female metalworking students in an undated photograph.
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Now open in our gallery and online! A Pressing Call: Five Centuries of Women Printing features the work of women who led #PrintingHouses in the 16th century, such as Charlotte Guillard, Yolande Bonhomme and Katherine Gerlach and more.
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Our gallery will open on January 2nd!
"A Pressing Call: 500 Years of Women Printing" is the new exhibition at the Regenstein Library in January 2025.
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Regenstein and Mansueto libraries will be closed Dec. 16 and all libraries will be closed for Winter Recess.
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It's Friday, time for #cake! Suits and cigarettes optional. Undated photograph from our Photo Archive. @USNatArchives
#ArchivesHashtagParty
#ArchivesFeast
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If you're celebrating #NationalCookieDay, we recommend fresh ones, not these @Oreo Big Stuf (sic and RIP) cookies packaged for Persian Gulf War troops, ca. 1990. Photo by Nathan Keay, for @uchicagomag R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company Archive.
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This image is No. 93 from our Stereograph Cards Collection 1873-1914. Viewed through a stereoscope, stereographs in this collection were advertised as “views” of people, landscape, artifacts, and locales.” We wish you all a happy celebration of #Thanksgiving2024
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Come work with us and our diverse collections! We are hiring two Reader Services and Administrative Assistants:
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It's a busy day for #Waldo: researching, working, helping patrons, and meeting with the Dean of Spooky Sciences! #HappyHalloween from the Special Collections Department of Waldo Sightings!
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In 1913, The #WomensTradeUnionLeagueOfChicago hosted the “Hallowe’en Dancing Party.” Somehow a ticket from the event made its way to Claire Friedland. She added that ticket to the #GeorgeStigler papers in an envelope labeled “A Memento from 1913."
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