Digital Humanities: DH at UIC

Chicago and graphic design share a long, vital association that stems back to the city's role as the geographical and railway center of the industrial part of the country. As it became a center for the production and distribution of printed materials, Chicago became importance in the world of graphic design. This collection reflects that prominence.

Embellished title pages: medical texts from the 16th and 17th centuries. These reproductions of title pages from the rare book collection of the Library of the Health Sciences show examples of the many fascinating ways printers embellished their books with elaborate engravings, woodcuts, and color typography. The title pages reproduced here were printed between 1505 and 1677 in a variety of European cities.

The project is an effort to preserve fragile book jackets of the H.D. Carberry Collection of Caribbean Studies and to provide access for scholars and general readers through the digitization of the images. Collected over the period from the 1940's through the nineties by Jamaican nationalist poet and Supreme Court Justice H.D. Carberry, the Carberry Collection is comprised of 1000 volumes, two thirds of which are literature and about one third history and politics.

The Sheet Music Collection comprises about 10,000 pieces of music, ranging from popular music of the late-19th and early-20th centuries as well as classical music scores. The selections presented here are in the public domain and include patriotic hymns and marches, Broadway hits, Tin Pan Alley, and other examples of Americana.

The collection consists of items related to the British administration of Sierra Leone, including public and private papers of British officials in the colony of Sierra Leone, 1792-1825.

Originally established in 1927, the Society of Typographic Arts currently focuses on local and regional issues as well as on any global issues that might affect Chicagoland designers. The collection includes a selection of exhibition catalogs and other publications.

Dozens of composite photographs from past graduating classes of the College of Medicine and its predecessors. The images date as far back as the 1880s and up to the early 1990s. All photographs are black and white and feature head shots of members of the class with names.

Since its founding in 1983, Gallery 400, a not-for-profit arts exhibition space at the University of Illinois at Chicago, has presented exhibitions and programs that address a broad range of recent developments and aesthetic concerns and have included more than 1,000 artists to date.

The Image of Research is a competition, sponsored by the UIC Graduate College and the University Library and open to any student enrolled in a graduate or professional degree program at UIC. Held annually since 2008, the competition invited students to submit an image with aesthetic appeal that the student created as part of their research.

Assorted images of UIC taken by the Photo Services unit of the Library. Reproductions are available for purchase.

Over 400 images from UIC's beginnings as a campus at Navy Pier.