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HIST 29613: Colloquium: Hyde Park and Chicago's South Side as Historical Laboratory

A guide to Library resources for students in Professor Kathleen Conzen's class (Fall 2013)

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Thousands of libraries, museums, and archives have contributed nearly a million collection descriptions to ArchiveGrid. Researchers searching ArchiveGrid can learn about the many items in each of these collections, contact archives to arrange a visit to examine materials, and order copies.

List of Chicago-area repositories

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Part of Nineteenth Century Index. Directory of Archives and Manuscript Repositories in the US; National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections; and National Inventory of Documentary Sources in the United States, with finding aids from 300 U.S. repositories.

UNCAP--Uncovering Chicago Archives Project
Browse individually, or search across the contents of archival finding aids created by several Chicago-area repositories.

Guides

Sarching the Catalog

Use the BASIC search and the SUBJECT index in the catalog. Here are some sample seaches:

Chicago (Ill) Maps
Chicago (Ill) Directories
Chicago (Ill)--History--Sources
Chicago (Ill)--Guidebooks
Immigrants -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Interviews

Special Collections Research Center

Links to finding aids, some digitized.

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Subjects: African Studies, African-American Studies, Art, Architecture, and Photography, Arts, Cinema and Media Studies, History, Humanities, Medieval and Byzantine Studies, Social Sciences

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