Library Guides: Art History and Visual Arts: Special Collections

Arts collections in the Special Collections Research Center

Artists' books, a list from most recently published to oldest

Personal Papers

Michael Camille Papers
Margaret Rickert Papers
The Papers document Rickert’s research on medieval art and illuminated manuscripts, 1918-1967.
Harrie Vanderstappen Papers
Daniel Clowes Archive
Marie Zoe Greene-Mercier Papers.
Artist and arts activist trained a tthe New Bauhaus School of Design in Chicago.
Harold Haydon Papers
Earl Rosenthal Papers

Archives and manuscripts

Local special collections and archives

Archives of American Art (remote resource)
The Digitization on Demand program makes copies of manuscripts and ephemera from this Smithsonian collection--and transcripts of oral histories- to individual researchers for a fee ($40 per reel) for personal research use.
Black Metropolis Research Consortium
Center for Research Libraries
A repository for specialized research materials, including foreign and domestic newspapers; foreign and US state government documents; archival materials in microform; large microform research collections. Request items through Interlibrary Loan.
Charles Deering Memorial LIbrary, Northwestern University LIbrary
Home of Northwestern's Art Library and Special Collections department.
Chicago Collections Consortium
Chicago History Museum Library
Chicago Public Library Special Collections
Marjorie I.Mitchell MultiMedia Center, Northwestern University Library
University of Chicago students, staff and faculty are eligible to borrow materials in the circulating collections.
Newberry Library
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The Newberry Library
60 West Walton St
Chicago, IL 60610

General Reference Questions:
Phone: (312) 255-3506 (brief questions)
Email: reference at newberry.org (detailed questions)

Local and Family History Reference Questions
Phone: (312) 255-3512 (brief questions)
Email: genealogy at newberry.org (detailed questions)

Databases available for on-site use include: ArchiveGrid;
ProQuest Historical Chicago Tribune and Historical New York Times; Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps.
Paul V. Galvin Library, Illinois Institute of Technology -
Ryerson and Burnham Library, Art Institute of Chicago
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The Art Institute has many materials on Japanese art, Western artists influenced by Asian art, and materials about the World's Columbian Exposition.