Digital Exhibits

This exhibit explores the life and legacy of Loyola's founder, Arnold J. Damen, S.J. Curated by Bryan Morey, former graduate student staff member at the Loyola University Chicago Archives and Special Collections.

Arnold J. Damen, S.J.: Loyola's Founder, Man of Missions

This digital exhibit series highlights the impressive accomplishments and contributions of Loyola's Nurse Veterans. The first exhibit in the planned series focuses on the contributions of Loyola nurses during World War II.

Celebrating Loyola's Nurse Veterans

Curated by former graduate student staff member Bryan Morey, this exibit explores the adventures of Loyola alumnus Edward Kelly (1908-1968).

Edward Kelly: Loyola's Globe-Trotter

Curated by former undergraduate student staff member Bianca Barcenas, this exhibit explores medical education at Loyola University during the 1930s. It includes the story of alumnus Dr. Perry V. Hartman, Jr. (Class of 1933).

Exploring Medical Education in the 1930s: The Loyola School of Medicine

This digital exhibit explores the hidden niches and corners of current and former Lake Shore Campus buildings and landmarks. It is based on the physical tour conducted on an annual basis by former University Archivist  Michael J. Grace, S.J.

Hidden Loyola

Created by visiting scholar Dr. Marjorie Lorch, Professor of Neurolinguistics at Birkbeck, University of London, this exhibit explores the many contributions of Vincent V. Herr, S.J., to experimental, clinical, and social psychology during the mid-20th century.

Innovations in Language Research: Vincent V. Herr, S.J.

Curated by former undergraduate student staff member Brendan Reynolds, this exhibit explores the history of Loyola's John Felice Rome Center.

John Felice Rome Center

Curated by former graduate student staff member Bryan Morey, this exhibit explores the history of Loyola Academy on Loyola's Lake Shore Campus.

Loyola Academy

A chronology of Loyola history from its founding in 1870 to the 21st century.

Loyola Timeline

Learn about some of the traditions that have been followed at Loyola University Chicago.

Loyola Traditions

Curated by Kathy Young, University Archivist, this exhibit is a digital interpretation of the booklet published for Loyola's Centennial in 1970.

One Hundred Years of Knowledge in the Service of Man

This exhibit explores the life and legacy of one of Loyola's most beloved and longest serving presidents, Raymond C. Baumhart, S.J. Curated by Bianca Barcenas, former undergraduate student staff member at the Loyola University Chicago Archives and Special Collections.

The Legacy of Raymond C. Baumhart, S.J.

Created by former student staff member Olivia Fossier, this exhibit takes a look at the history of women's varisty sports at Loyola University Chicago.

Women's Athletics at Loyola

This digital exhibit interrprets the catalog created for the physical Edifying and Curious Letters exhibit in Cudahy Library, which explored the writings of Jesuit explorers, missionaries, educators, and historians whose accounts informed Europeans about the lands and peoples of the New World. 

Edifying and Curious Letters: Jesuit Accounts of the Americas, 1565-1896

The digital version of the physical exhibit which ran at the Loyola Univesrity Museum of Art (LUMA) from February through June 2014, this exhibit features the Edward Gorey collection of Thomas Michalak. The physical exhibit of the Michalak collection was a companion to the traveling Edward Gorey exhibit on display at LUMA. 

G is for Gorey - C is for Chicago: The Collection of Thomas Michalak

Based on Raymond V. Schoder, S.J.'s lecture notes and slides on Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J., this exhibit exploress the work and travels of the poet. Schoder was a faculty member in Loyola's Classical Studies department. 

Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J.

This digital exhibit was created in conjunction with the physical exhibit of the political cartoons of Art Young which was on display in the Donovan Reading Room from August 2016 through March 2017.

It's Hell But Here We Are Again

One of the first digital exhibits for the Loyola Libraries, this digital exhibit was originally created in the 1990s by staff members of Loyola's Science Library. Featuring images from Loyola's Rare Book Collection, it explores the contributions of the Society of Jesus to the Sciences.

Jesuits and the Sciences: 1540-1999

Created by former student staff member Sarah Morsheimer, this exhibit explores the letters of five women writers, Joanna Baillie, Alice Brown, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Louise Imogen Guiney and Sarah Orne Jewett, found in the Autograph Collection. All of these women established themselves in literary circles throughout the United States and the United Kingdom and produced great works of literature, poetry, drama and essays.

This digital exhibit was inspired by a project and book from the University of Otago in New Zealand, In Her Hand: Letters of Romantic-Era British Women Writers in New Zealand Collections. 

Letters of 19th and 20th century Women Writers

This exhibit reveals the ways in which faculty, staff, and students at Loyola responded to the conflict in El Salvador and the murder of Fr. Ellacuría and his fellow priests.  Using archival footage of Ellacuría's visit to Loyola, as well as images and documents from a number of other sources, this exhibit shows how Loyola played a central role in the solidarity movement in the 1980s and early 1990s.

The Ellacuria Tapes: A Martyr at Loyola

Established by Dr. Kyle Roberts, the goal of the Jesuit Libraries Provenance Project was to uncover the history of the acquisition and use of Loyola’s original library books. It grew out of an initiative to reconstruct the earliest library catalogue of St Ignatius College (founded 1870), the forerunner to Loyola University Chicago. Students photographed and wrote blog posts about the books they found in Loyola's Rare Book Collection and the circulating collection.

The Jesuit Libraries Provenance Project

This timeline was created for Loyola University Chicago’s 150th anniversary and explores Loyola’s history through the lens of student life. This project was developed by the Sesquicentennial Scholars, a team of graduate students working with the Loyola University Archives and Special Collections and the Women and Leadership Archives, with support from the Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities.

Loyola at 150: Student Life Timeline

For the past 150 years, Loyola University Chicago has been a vital part of Chicago's educational world. Combined with the story of its now-affiliated neighbor from 1930-1991, Mundelein College, Loyola's history speaks to the broader history of Catholic higher education, the college experience, and Chicago. Then and Now: 150 Years at Loyola University Chicago displays some of that history through the themes of social justice and faith, student life, and Loyola's multiple campuses. Along the way it explores how Loyola University Chicago has changed over the years, where it is today, and what it might look like in the future. 

Then and Now: 150 years at Loyola University Chicago