Digital Resources is a growing on-line representation of special collections and archival materials.
It contains reproductions of print publications, websites presenting important collections in whole or in part in digital form and born-digital original scholarship.
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Henry Ives Cobb
Comprehensive survey of Cobb’s work, containing images, historical summaries, location information and map links.
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Allan J. Gelbin Papers
Overview of Gelbin holdings in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, and related resources.
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Bruce Goff Archives
Overview of Goff holdings in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, and related resources.
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Bertrand Goldberg Archive
An overview of Bertrand Goldberg holdings in the Art Institute collections and related resources
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Interstate Industrial Expedition
Indices of the 1859 Chicago Exhibition of the Fine Arts and the Great North-Western Sanitary Fair of 1865.
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Magic of America
View the electronic edition of Marion Mahony Griffin’s 1,400 page memoir and manifesto, which collates all texts and illustrations from the three known copies of the work.
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Irving Penn Archives
Selections from the Penn Archives and related resources.
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Percier and Fontaine Collection
Overview of Percier and Fontaine holdings in the Ryerson and Burnham Libraries, and related resources.
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Mary Reynolds Collection on Dada and Surrealism
Essays, images, and resources related to the artists and Surrealist advocate, Mary Reynolds.
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Without Bounds or Limits
Selections from the Daniel H. Burnham and Edward H. Bennett collections and additional resources.
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