The Ryerson & Burnham Digital Collections are comprised of various searchable digital image and text collections. These collections include only limited selections from our archival collections, and represent a relatively small portion of our total holdings; the majority of our collections are not digitized. These digital collections include:

1. Electronic surrogates of selected original archival materials from Ryerson & Burnham archival collections. Such materials may include photographs, slides, architectural drawings and prints, correspondence, printed papers and other materials.
   • Historic Architecture and Landscape Image Collection
   • Magic of America
   • Archival Image Collection
     
     
2. Ryerson & Burnham archival finding aids, which are text resources that describe the holdings of our archival collections along with related biographical, administrative and access information.
   • Finding Aids Collection
     
     
3. Digital editions of other architectural image and text resources from the collections of the Ryerson & Burnham Libraries.
   • Chicago Architectural Sketch Club
   • Chicago Architects Oral History Project

For example, a keyword search across all collections for "Daniel Burnham" will retrieve portraits of Burnham, archival images of buildings designed by the architect, some correspondence to Burnham, a list of the years in which Burnham participated in the Chicago Architectural Sketch Club competitions, mentions of Burnham from several oral histories, as well as descriptions of Burnham-related archival holdings from all collections.

Given the breadth of collections in this digital archive, you may wish to limit your searches to either image or text collections.

See Also:

• Archives Collection Overview
• Collection Descriptions
• Find Special & Digital Collections