Get ready for #Scav2024 with a free screening of The Hunt by Sean Daily Doc Films on Sunday, April 28th at 1:00 pm! Then, on Monday, April 29th, check out our new exhibit Scav Hunt at UChicago: Seeking Fun, Finding Tradition! Scav Hunt

#SeenInTheClassroom This 1602 edition of #Montaigne 's #Essais has a contemporary binding with nineteenth century illustrations of a young woman on the front cover and a monk on the back cover. #RareBooks

Final days to see Bibliosaurus! Dinosaurs in the Popular Imagination! Who better than #Barbie to demonstrate that dinosaurs transformed from objects of intense scientific inquiry into outsize figures in everyday life. 🦕SUE the T. rex 🦖

Tomorrow! Bring your little ones to UChicago's campus and join a storytime event with Carmenita Peoples! She will bring stories of imagination, art, and nature to honor the living legacy of UChicago professor and artist, Jessica Stockholder. Register: events.uchicago.edu/event/233071-s…

Margaret Danner (1915-1984) was a Chicago poet and the first African American to serve as assistant editor to POETRY magazine. She won various awards and fellowships for her poetry. Pictured here is her book “Iron Lace” (PS3554.A58.I7 1968).

#NationalPoetryMonth #RareBooks

94% totality in Chicago today, but 100% totality in our archives! A newly acquired collection from an emeritus #Astronomy professor featured these offprints from 1925 and 1945. #Eclipse2024

May your #Eclipse2024 experience be cheerier/less apocalyptic than the one depicted in Johann Hebestreit's 'Prognosticon physicum des Jhars Jhesu Christi 1565'! Call no. BF1783.H43 1565 #RareBooks #Woodcuts #16thCentury

UChicago astronomers from Yerkes Observatory have studied solar eclipses since 1900. In total, they went on at least ten solar eclipse expeditions between 1900 and 1952, providing invaluable data to test fundamental physics. Learn more: ms.spr.ly/6013c0tBv

An #ArchivesSnapshot of a 'Heliosaurus' prominence during the June 1918 total #SolarEclipse taken on the Yerkes Observatory expedition to WY and CO. Get ready for the upcoming #TotalSolarEclipse on Monday! #ArchivesHashtagParty
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Mildred Mead was a prolific photographer of Chicago neighborhoods, especially Maxwell Street. This #ArchivesSnapshot #ArchivesHashtagParty is courtesy of member UChicago Special Collections Research Center
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An #ArchivesSnapshot from down Lake Michigan for today's #ArchivesHashtagParty :

A group of students for a University Field Ecology class sit on a dune advancing over a forest in Porter County, Indiana. #IndianaDunes

Photographic Archive ID: apf8-02331

This volume is an edition of Emily Dickinson’s (1830-1886) poetry, edited and published posthumously by Mabel Loomis Todd and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, and printed in Boston in 1890. Call number: PS1541.A15H58

#NationalPoetryMonth #EmilyDickinson #RareBooks

It’s the first day of April and #NationalPoetryMonth ! This first edition of #LeavesOfGrass by #WaltWhitman was printed in 1855 by the Rome brothers in Brooklyn. The frontispiece is an engraving of the author by Samuel Hollyer. #FirstEditions #RareBooks

alc PS3201 1855

#HappyBirthday to The University of Chicago alumna Georgiana Simpson, born #OTD in 1865! She was the first African American woman to earn a PhD in the U.S. We were delighted to find her name in Alpha Kappa Alpha ephemera saved by alumna Eva Overton Lewis. Can you spot her in this booklet & menu?

UChicago symposium to honor pioneering work of W. Allison Davis, April 25-26. news.uchicago.edu/story/uchicago…. Professor Davis's papers are in Special Collections.

Attention UChicago 2nd and 4th-year bibliophiles! Do you have a book collection you want to show off? Read about the Brooker Prize for Undergraduate Book Collecting and enter for a chance to win a cash prize. The deadline is April 15. lib.uchicago.edu/about/brooker/