Library Guides: Images: A Guide to Visual Resources: Collections in Chicago

UChicago's Digital Image Collections

Archivison
95,000 images of architecture, archaeological sites, gardens, parks and works of art with broad appeal in humanities teaching.
East Asian Scroll Paintings
Project of the Center for the Art of East Asia.
Georg Stahl Mural Collection
Over 600 slides, maps, and charts related to Black Art in Chicago make up the Georg Stahl Mural Collection.

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In the early 1970s, art historian Georg Stahl extensively researched and documented the Chicago Mural Movement. This material was used to teach a Mural Painting course at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with the late UChicago Professor Emeritus, Harold Hayden. In late 2014, Stahl graciously reached out to the Visual Resources Center and offered his material to help build our digital collections of Chicago Black Art.
Korean History in Postcards (UChicago)
Lantern Slides
The Department of Art History's collection of 60,000 lantern slides where digitized and transferred to the Rebuild Foundation's Stony Island Arts Bank in 2009.
Middle East Photograph Archive
The Middle East Photograph Archive consists of about 400 photographs, most dating to the second half of the nineteenth century.

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The images depict the monuments of the Middle East's medieval and ancient past as well as scenes of daily life in urban and rural locations.
Public Art Workshop Mural Archive
Images of murals and public projects of Chicago's Public Art Workshop, from the late 1960s to the early 1980s.
Renaissance Society Archive
Founded in 1915, the Renaissance Society is an independent, non-collecting contemporary art institution based at the University of Chicago.
Robert Sengstacke Photography Archive
Images from the Sengstacke Archive are provided for educational purposes and private study only. They may not be downloaded for use in electronic or print publications (including websites), exhibitions or broadcasts, without permission. The collection does not permit image export.
SAHARA in Artstor
From the Society of Architectural Historians, close to 20,000 images of architecture, landscape design, and the built environment.

Smart Museum of Art's Collection

Built on four main pillarsAsian art, European art, modern art and design, and contemporary artthe collections include recognized masterworks as well as clusters of works that introduce important, though lesser known, areas of art history. Strengths across the collections include figurative art, works on paper, and small-scale sculpture, as well as materials that illuminate artists' working methods and contexts.

South Side Community Art Center
The oldest African American Art Center in existence, the SSCAS showcases the work of emerging and established artists.
UChicago Campus Architecture Collection
Images of campus architecture and archival photographs and documents from various sources and repositories (UChicago only).
University of Chicago Digital Collections
Images and web exhibits curated by the Special Collections Research Center.

University of Chicago Photographic Archive
Images from the University Archives.

From Special Collections, University of Chicago. Includes photographs and plans of campus buildings, street scenes, plans, elevations and interior views.

UChicago Public Art Collection and Archive
Images of public art on campus and documents from the Smart Museum of Art (UChicago only).

Chicago-Area Collections

Carli Digital Collections
A wealth of Chicago-area content from the member libraries of the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI).
Art Institute of Chicago Image Collections
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