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Serving as the institutional memory of Loyola University Chicago, the University Archives collects and makes accessible records of enduring historical and legal value that document how the University fulfills its mission and reflects the accomplishments that have created its unique identity. LEARN MORE

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  • By Appointment Only

    The Loyola University Chicago Archives & Special Collections is open Monday - Thursday from 8AM to 4PM. Appointments are required. Last research appointment is 3:00PM. Classes, students, and other members of the Loyola community have priority. Masks are required.
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    Halloween Open House

    The annual Halloween Open House at the Loyola Archives & Special Collections returns! Come visit us on October 31st from 9AM to 4PM to see some of our favorite spooky items from the collection. Exorcism manuals, books about demons and devils, and items from the Edward Gorey collection will be among the displays.
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    2020-2021 Hoellen Foundation Grant

    The Loyola University Chicago Archives & Special Collections would like to thank the Hoellen Foundation for a grant of $3,500 received this academic year. In the past, this grant has been used to support Special Collections work through the digitization of reel-to-reels, films, and videos in the collection. This year the grant has been used to purchase a flat file and presentation folders for the approximately 400 19th century British social and political caricatures in the Michalak Collection. These broadsides will be housed in the flat file, while the presentation folders will provide safe and easy access for students and faculty to use the collection for study. We are very grateful to the Hoellen Foundation for their continued support of Loyola's Special Collections.
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    Campus History Book

    Written by Loyola's University Archivist and Assistant University Archivist, this book uses seldom seen photographs along with historical information from the university archives to tell the story of Loyola's campuses. Written to celebrate Loyola's 150th anniversary, it traces past and present campuses from the university's founding as St. Ignatius College in 1870 to the 21st century vision of Loyola University Chicago. LEARN MORE

  • Loyolans and COVID-19

    The Loyola University Archives is documenting how Loyolans are responding to the historic COVID-19 pandemic. Please consider contributing your story on how you are dealing with the pandemic to our new digital collection and help us document this historic time in Loyola's history.PARTICIPATE
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    Peripheral Manuscripts: Digitizing Medieval Manuscript Collections in the Midwest

    The Loyola University Chicago Archives & Special Collections is pleased to be among the 25 institutions participating in the Peripheral Manuscripts: Digitizing Medieval Manuscript Collections in the Midwest project. We will be working with Dr. Ian Cornelius, Edward L. Surtz, SJ, Professorship in English and one of the three principle investigators for the grant, and contributing approximately 20 codices and manuscript leaves from our collections. This project is supported by a Digitizing Hidden Collections grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). The grant program is made possible by funding from The Andrew M. Mellon Foundation. LEARN MORE
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    Reconstructing the Beauvais Missal

    The Loyola Special Collections is pleased to contribute an image of our leaf from the Beauvais Missal (1285) to the Reconstructing the Beauvais Missal project. The leaf came to Loyola's Special Collections following the purchase of the Milford Novitiate library by the Loyola Libraries. This leaf, along with a leaf from a manuscript of St. Thomas Aquinas's Super Quatro Libro Sententiarum (1470), was the gift of Edward J. Mandula, S.J., to the Milford Novitiate.
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    18th century French manuscript

    The newest acquisition for the Rare Book Collection is an 18th century French manuscript of Jesuit School Drama from the library of noted French theater historian the Duc de La Valliere. This manuscript contains plays by Bougeant, Arthuys, de la Rue, du Cerecau, and Poree, in addition to poems by Voltaire, Scudery, St. Martin, Saint-Everemond, and others. The play Le Monde Demasque by Bougeant is included in this manuscript and is purportedly unpublished.

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    Have a question about Loyola's history? Want to know when Samuel Insull founded the Commonwealth Edison Company? What's the oldest book in the rare book collection? Ask the Archivist! Click on the Ask the Archivist button to submit a question to the Loyola University Chicago Archives & Special Collections staff.LEARN MORE