Photography and Digital Images
The Special Collections and University Archives Department contains many collections that include photographs that document the various activities of people and organizations. These include over 100 years of photographs covering the development of the Health Sciences Center, the Chicago Undergraduate Division at Navy Pier, Chicago Circle Campus, and the University of Illinois at Chicago Among those that contain a substantial number of photographs are:
- Jane Addams Memorial Collection
- Italian-American Collection
Special Collections also contains collections that are primarily photographic in content:
The library is currently in the process of digitizing parts of its photographic collections to provide access to them for scholars, students, and the public in general.
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Bowen Country Club
The photographs of Bowen Country Club Collection in this database are from a larger collection of photos depicting the Hull-House settlement house.
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Century of Progress World's Fair
A Century of Progress International Exposition was the world's fair held in Chicago during the summers of 1933 and 1934 to commemorate the
incorporation of the city in 1833.
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Chicago Urban League Photos
The National Urban League is one of the oldest African American social service, research, and advocacy organizat
ions in the United States. A group of sociologists, social workers, and philanthropists founded the Chicago League
in 1916 to address the rapidly increasing needs of the African American community during a time of voluminous
migration.
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CITY 2000
On a quest to create a lasting record of life in Chicago In the Year 2000 more than 200 photographers spent 366 days canvassing the city and chronicling its people, places and personality. The project's eclectic mix of styles and approaches blended into an historical document that will inform those in the future long after it teaches us about ourselves. Additional CITY 2000 images are available at comerlab.lib.uic.edu
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College of Medicine Class Photos
Among the holdings in the UIC University Archives are dozens of composite photographs from past graduating classes of the College of Medicine and its predecessors.
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Hull-House Yearbook Photographs
This database contains digital images of the photographs in the Hull-House Yearbooks from the collection of the University of Illinois a
t Chicago's Special Collections Department. They span the years 1906-1941.
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The Image of Research 2008
The Image of Research collection draws on entries to the first annual interdisciplinary competition, sponsored by the UIC Graduate College and the University Library. Students were invited to submit an image with aesthetic appeal that the student created as part of their research.
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Seven Settlement Houses
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the settlement houses of Chicago led the nation in addressing problems of urbanization, immigration, and industrialization.
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Professional photographers are available to provide imaging support for web, print, and three-dimensional displays including: studio and location portraiture; event photography; editorial photography; commercial photography; architectural and scenic photography; high-resolution scans from original art, x-rays, slides, and negatives; photographic reprints from film and digital files; slides from artwork or digital files; film processing; digital file conversions, retouching, and compositing.
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