Open-access, sustainable, and secure resource created to preserve and provide access to research, scholarship, and creative works created by the university community for the benefit of Loyola students, faculty, staff, and the larger academic community. Includes faculty scholarship, peer reviewed journals, digitized theses and dissertations, and yearbooks.
Managing Unit: University Libraries
Collections of digitized and born-digital materials held by the Loyola University Chicago Libraries.
Managing Unit: University Libraries
A variety of collections and exhibits running on the Omeka platform.
Managing Unit: University Libraries
This exhibit traces the history of student activism at Mundelein College from the 1940s through the early 1970s. In particular, the exhibit shows the ways in which students took part in the Antiwar and Civil Rights Movements, which eventually came to a head in May 1970. This exhibit Activist Mundelein explores the history of civic engagement through a collection of audiovisual materials, most significantly the Mundelein College Oral History Project. Other sources, including newspapers and photographs, strengthen the exhibit’s main arguments. The exhibit includes four sections: Activist Mundelein, 'We started in '68,' Antiwar Mundelein, and May 1970.
Managing Unit: Women and Leadership Archives
Bishop Francis C. Kelley Papers were digitized by the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City to be hosted at Loyola University Chicago. Bishop Kelley's Papers relate to the Catholic Church Extension Society Records which are located at Loyola University Chicago Archives and Special Collections.
Managing Unit: University Archives
This exhibit explores the life and legacy of Fr. Damen, who was born in the Netherlands in 1815, and came to America to become a Jesuit missionary in 1837. In 1857, he arrived in Chicago and founded Holy Family Parish on the city's near west side. In 1870, he founded St. Ignatius College next to Holy Family Church, and he served as its first president from 1870-1872. St. Ignatius was rechartered as Loyola University in 1909.
Managing Unit: University Archives
Blackacre was the student newspaper of the Loyola School of Law from 1967 through 2000. It covered events at the school as well as significant legal events in Illinois and the United States.
Managing Unit: University Archives
Established in 1905 by Father Francis C. Kelley, the Catholic Church Extension Society provides funding and resources to dioceses and parishes in the United States that lack resources. The Extension Society has helped to build churches, educate and support clergy and seminarians, and has assisted clergy in providing service to Catholics in all areas of the United States as well as in Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines. These collections are from the CCES Photograph Collection and records at the Loyola University Chicago Archives and Special Collections.
Managing Unit: University Archives
Lectures from the Third Centennial Symposium "Current Evolution of Man's Sense of Values", held January 5-7, 1970. The digitized items represent only a small percentage of the Centennial records held in the Archives. Please visit www.luc.edu/archives for more information and to contact an archivist.
Managing Unit: University Archives
The Century of Progress World's Fair ran from 1933 through 1934 in Chicago. The images in this collection were taken by Samuel Insull, Jr.
Managing Unit: University Archives
College of Dentistry yearbooks between 1912 and 1993. There are some gaps in the collection.
Managing Unit: University Archives
Images of Chicago in the mid to late 20th century from collections at the Loyola University Chicago Archives & Special Collections.
Managing Unit: University Archives
Yearbooks for the College of Commerce (now the Quinlan School of Business). For most years information for the College of Commerce will be found in the Loyolan yearbooks.
Managing Unit: University Archives
Learn about Jesuit explorers, missionaries, educators, and who historians whose accounts of the New World informed Europeans about the new lands and peoples they encountered.
Managing Unit: University Archives
Edward William Kelly received his degree from Loyola University Chicago in the 1920s after beginning his college career at John Carroll University near Cleveland, Ohio. Kelly made a name for himself by hitchhiking to California and India with friends on very limited budgets. He also worked on several ships during college and in his early career as an accountant and researcher. This exhibit highlights Kelly's travel experiences and his early career after graduating from Loyola.
Managing Unit: University Archives
This collection focuses on the Women’s Liberation Movement of the 1970s through highlighting documents from the Connie Kiosse Papers. Kiosse was an active member within Chicago’s Women’s Liberation movement throughout the 1970s and was among the founding members of The Feminist Voice, one of Chicago’s first feminist newspapers.
Managing Unit: Women and Leadership Archives
Documents and letters written by founding fathers and presidents, including Abraham Lincoln, Alexander Hamilton, and John Adams.
Managing Unit: University Archives
Didactic and additional primary source material to accompany the G is for Gorey—C is for Chicago: The Collection of Thomas Michalak exhibit.
Managing Unit: University Archives
Raymond V. Schoder, S.J., lectured widely on many topics including Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J. This exhibit highlights Schoder's lectures on Hopkins' life, travels, and poetry using both his lecture notes and photographs he took to accompany his lectures.
Managing Unit: University Archives
One of the largest dairy farms in Lake County, Hawthorn-Mellody served the North Shore as far South as Evanston. The farm occupied more than 1,200 acres of land owned by the Cuneo family at the height of its popularity and production. Though it was torn down in 1970 due to a decrease in attendance and an inability to compete with more modern facilities, it still holds a place in the memories of Chicago and Lake County residents. Beyond functioning as a state of the art dairy farm, Hawthorn-Mellody also ran a successful, if small, amusement park including a petting zoo, a small western town, and even a steam train. John Cuneo Sr., the owner of the farms, hoped it would serve as a fun, educational center for adults and children alike to learn about agriculture and the dairy industry. If the impressive machinery and "free of human touch" production process convinced visitors to try Hawthorn-Mellody milk, Mr. Cuneo was only too happy.
Managing Unit: University Archives
Exhibit based on the famous yearly tour of hidden architectural treasures at the Lake Shore Campus given by Michael Grace, S.J., the images in this exhibit highlight the great architecture of Loyola and how the campus has been transformed over the years.
Managing Unit: University Archives
The history of Holy Family Parish (Chicago, IL) is highlighted through items from Loyola's Special Collections.
Managing Unit: University Archives
Immaculata High School, also known as “The Immaculata,” was a Catholic, all-girls school located in Uptown on Chicago’s northeast side. The Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (BVM) conducted the school from its opening in 1921 to its closing day sixty years later.
Managing Unit: Women and Leadership Archives
An exhibit of the life and work of political cartoonist Art Young, active throughout the first part of the twentieth century.
Managing Unit: University Archives
Images and Photographs from the Jesuitica Collection.
Managing Unit: University Archives
Studies and records of the Society of Jesus 1540-1773.
Managing Unit: University Archives
The 19th and 20th centuries are rich with the literary works of women writers who, previous to that point, were largely dismissed by patriarchal attitudes and other societal restraints. A number of women authors between these two centuries received literary fame for their works, but for many, the recognition of their work has declined over time. A book from the University of Otago in New Zealand, In Her Hand: Letters of Romantic-Era British Women Writers in New Zealand Collections inspired this exhibit as a way to pay respect to women writer's whose names and works have been widely forgotten. In this exhibit, five women writers, Joanna Baillie, Alice Brown, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Louise Imogen Guiney and Sarah Orne Jewett, and their letters are presented. 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. Through their letters, we gain a glimpse into the personal lives and relationships of these literary experts. All letters are from the Autograph Collection at the Loyola University Chicago Archives and Special Collections.
Managing Unit: University Archives
Fr. Henry Dumbach, S.J. founded Loyola Academy as an all boys high school to serve Catholic families on Chicago's north side. Dumbach Hall, the original home of the Academy, was the first building constructed on what would become Loyola's Lake Shore Campus in Rogers Park. This exhibit explores Loyola Academy's history as well as the many extracurricular activities at the school.
Managing Unit: University Archives
Commencement programs listing graduates, faculty, university administration, and speakers from 1898 to present. The entirety of the collection has not been digitized.
Managing Unit: University Archives
Course catalogs and bulletins of St. Ignatius College and Loyola University Chicago from 1870 to 2002. This collection includes catalogs for the Collge of Arts & Sciences, School of Social Work, Stritch School of Medicine, Niehoff School of Nursing, Chicago College of Dental Surgery, School of Business Administration, School of Education, Institute of Pastoral Studies, the Graduate School, etc.
Managing Unit: University Archives
Loyola's student newspaper was established in 1924. It ran under the name the Loyola News until 1969. The name was changed to the Loyola Phoenix in 1970. The entirety of the Loyola News and Loyola Phoenix have not been digitized and some gaps do exist, for example most of 1963. Issues will be added as they are digitized and some issues will not be digitized due to condition.
Managing Unit: University Archives
Digitized theses and disserations from masters and doctoral students at Loyola, starting in 1929 and contining through the mid-90s, plus current documents dating to 2019.
Managing Unit: University Libraries
A historical timeline of Loyola University of Chicago 1870-2015. This timeline of Loyola University of Chicago history is based upon "Loyola University of Chicago: The First 110 Years" by Robert C. Hartnett, S.J., and Richard M. Menges; "One Hundred Years of Knowledge in the Service of Man"; "Highlights of the Development of Loyola University of Chicago, 1870-1977" by Robert C. Hartnett, S.J.; "Chronology of Loyola University of Chicago"; and "Loyola at 70" and an unpublished manuscript history of Loyola University by Joseph Roubik, S.J.
Managing Unit: University Libraries
A collection of history, traditions and customs of Loyola Univerisity students, staff and faculty. As with any institution over time, the spirit of a place - its buildings, people, and community - moves traditions to unfold. A simple action evolves into a rite of passage or an annual event; a particular spot becomes a gathering place for friends long after their student days are past. Loyola's traditions have been shaped by thousands of students, faculty, staff, alumni, and friends who have passed through its doors since 1870 and reflect our unique Jesuit character.
Managing Unit: University Archives
Images documenting the people, places, and events at Loyola Chicago. The entirety of this collection has not been digitized. Please visit www.luc.edu/archives for more information and to contact an archivist.
Managing Unit: University Archives
An exhibit detailing the history of the twenty-four Presidents (23 Jesuits and 1 layperson) who have guided Loyola University Chicago since its founding in 1870 as St. Ignatius College.
Managing Unit: University Archives
The Loyolan, Loyola's yearbook, was first published in 1924 and remained in publication until 1986. The Loyolan primarily includes information about all the colleges and schools of Loyola, however for some years the College of Commerce (now the Quinlan School of Business), the School of Medicine, and the Chicago College of Dental Surgery have separate yearbooks. The Rome Center also publishes a separate yearbook.
For some years no issue of the Loyolan was published, most notably for 1974 however it was also not published from 1943 to 1946 during World War II. In addition, for 1952 to 1954 a souvenir issue of Cadence was produced to replace the Loyolan.
Managing Unit: University Archives
Photographs from the March Madness 2018 Men's Basketball NCAA Tournament.
Managing Unit: University Archives
Mercedes McCambridge pursued careers in radio, theater and film and in 1945 won an Academy Award and two Golden Globe Awards for her portrayal of Sadie Burke in the feature film All the Kings Men. From 1969 until her death in 2004 she was a leading force in the international fight against alcoholism.
Managing Unit: Women and Leadership Archives
The Michalak Collection features 19th century British satire and caricature in books and broadsides. Caricatures from the 18th and 19th centuries by George Cruikshank, Robert Cruikshank, Isaac Cruikshank, James Gillray, Thomas Rowlandson, Richard Dighton, Samuel De Wilde, Wiliam Heath, and others.
Managing Unit: University Archives
Digitized versions of the class photos taken each year of Mundelein graduates from 1932-1993.
Managing Unit: Women and Leadership Archives
The Mundelein College Photograph collection consists of approximately 20,000 photos and negatives. This is a small sampling of the images from the collection that have been digitized. Please contact wlarchives@luc.edu for more information.
Managing Unit: Women and Leadership Archives
The Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (BVMs) founded Mundelein College in answer to George Cardinal Mundelein's call for a Catholic college for women in Chicago. The college opened its doors to its first students in 1930 as the world's first self-contained skyscraper college for women. During its sixty year existence, Mundelein offered its students a comprehensive liberal arts education, pioneering such programs as Weekend College, graduate religious education for women, graduate liberal studies, and Latina outreach. The Mundelein College Foundations exhibit collection consists of 64 items, spanning from the groundbreaking for the school's Skyscraper building in 1929 to its dedication in 1931. These items were selected from the Mundelein College Records and Photograph Collection and include correspondence, architectural drawings, newspaper articles, and photographs related to Mundelein College's founding, construction, and dedication.
Managing Unit: Women and Leadership Archives
Mundelein College published the inaugural issue of its student newspaper The Skyscraper on January 30, 1931. The Skyscraper informed the Mundelein community about local and national events as well as "all the news, views, rumor, and humor of the students of Mundelein College." The newspaper was an entirely student-run operation and continued to be published until May 1969. Various other student newspapers replaced The Skyscraper after 1969 until 1991, but none equaled the longevity and prominence of The Skyscraper.
Managing Unit: Women and Leadership Archives
The Mundelein College Yearbook Collection contains all eight of the yearbooks produced over the life span of the college. The years covered include 1931, 1932, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1972, and 1985. Every page, including advertisements, front and end matter, has been digitized.
Managing Unit: Women and Leadership Archives
This exhibit is a digital interpretation of the booklet "One Hundred Years of Knowledge in the Service of Man" created for Loyola University Chicago's Centennial in 1970. The booklet was produced by Michael J. Ward, Director of Centennial Public Relations, Loyola University of Chicago and designed by Gene Tarpey. The text is reproduced in full, however images have been substituted as necessary.
Managing Unit: University Archives
The Peace Studies Origins: From Mundelein College to Loyola University Chicago digital exhibit documents the story of Mundelein College’s Peace Studies program and how the program became an interdisciplinary minor at Loyola University Chicago, when Mundelein College affiliated with Loyola in 1991. Funding for this oral history project came from Professor Kathleen Maas Weigert, the first Carolyn Farrell, BVM, Professor in Women and Leadership, through the Gannon Center for Women and Leadership at Loyola University Chicago. She now serves as a professor of Sociology at the university. Professor Maas Weigert partnered with the Women and Leadership Archives (WLA) for the project as the WLA holds the records of Mundelein College and their Peace Studies program.
Managing Unit: Women and Leadership Archives
Margaret (Peggy) Roach was born in Chicago on May 16, 1927 and had a career than spanned over fifty years, only retiring five years before her death on April 20, 2006. The Peggy Roach online exhibit explores Peggy's early life, her leadership in high school and college, her accomplishments as a front line civil rights activist in the 1960s, her continuing work for civil rights and social justice for the disadvantaged and poor, her commitment to justice through religious inspiration, and her many awards.
Managing Unit: Women and Leadership Archives
Monthly (previously weekly) publication of the Polish Women's Alliance of America, originally a fraternal society that focused on the needs of women & their families.
Managing Unit: Women and Leadership Archives
History and work of the Chicago Women's Club. “Practical Work” draws heavily from the collection of CWC annual announcements and images at the Women and Leadership Archives at Loyola University Chicago, in addition to utilizing Club minutes housed at the Chicago History Museum.
Managing Unit: Women and Leadership Archives
Part of the Loyola Archives & Special Collections, the Rare Book Collection contains approximately 20,000 volumes reflecting the liberal arts foundation of Loyola. The areas of Philosophy, Religion, History and Geography, and Language and Literature are well represented with over 15 languages included in the collection. These digitized volumes represent a small portion of the entire collection. The Rare Book Collection is open to all researchers. Appointments to use the collection are required. www.luc.edu/archives
Managing Unit: University Archives
The Schoder digital collection is a selection from the slides taken by Rev. Raymond V. Schoder, S.J., who taught in the Classical Studies department at Loyola University. The Schoder collection consists of 17,000 slides taken from approximately 1950 to 1986 and includes classical sites of Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, and Ancient Egypt; sites in the Middle East, Asia, South America, Europe, Soviet Union, and the United States; architecture; and art. The digital collection currently includes over 230 images pertaining to Ancient Egypt; Ancient Greek settlements; the Soviet Union; and Japan, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.
Managing Unit: University Archives
Rome Center yearbooks covering the years 1964-2009.
Managing Unit: University Archives
The St. Ignatius Collegian began publication in 1901 and continued until 1912. In 1913 it was renamed the Loyola University Magazine. The publication includes essays, poems, and articles written by students as well as information on what is happening at St. Ignatius College and information from other Jesuit schools.
Managing Unit: University Archives
Programs from the Annual Award Dinner held by the Stritch School of Medicine. Starting in 1950, these programs include information on Stritch Medal and Sword of Loyola awardees. The digitized items here represent only a small percentage of records relating to the Stritch Annual Award Dinner held in the Archives. Please visit www.luc.edu/archives for more information and to contact an archivist.
Managing Unit: University Archives
Yearbooks from the Stritch School of Medicine covering 1985-2008, plus older selections from the early 20th century.
Managing Unit: University Archives
In May 1986, Loyola University Chicago awarded Ignacio Ellacuría, S.J., rector of the University of Central America in San Salvador and a well-known liberation theologian, an honorary doctorate. Three years later, he was one of the six Jesuits, along with their housekeeper and her daughter, brutally murdered in their shared home on the university’s campus. The tragedy of the Salvadoran Martyrs became an impetus for worldwide activism and solidarity with the peoples of El Salvador and a call for a broader movement to end U.S. aid to El Salvador. This movement was alive and well at Loyola.
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 variety of sources, this exhibit shows how Loyola played a central role in the solidarity movement in the 1980s and early 1990s.
Managing Unit: University Libraries
Rev. Baumhart served as Loyola University Chicago's twenty-first president from 1970 to 1993. As the longest serving president at Loyola, Rev. Baumhart implemented many changes and opportunities for growth on all of Loyola's campuses. By 1993, as a result of Baumhart's efforts, Loyola Chicago became a financially stable, nationally recognized university with a research-focused faculty. This exhibit explores Baumhart's early life, presidency, post-resignation life, and university legacy.
Managing Unit: University Archives
This exhibit traces the history of the Legion of Young Polish Women from its founding at the beginning of the Second World War (WWII) to the present. The exhibit is divided into four sections; the first three sections are arranged thematically, exploring the Legion’s founding and early years (1939-1950), the organization’s activities and causes, and its iconic events. The final section of the exhibit explores how the Legion of Young Polish Women has continued to remain a vital part of Chicago’s Polish-American community and what it means to its members.
Managing Unit: Women and Leadership Archives
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.
Managing Unit: University Archives
Photographs and negatives documenting student life at Loyola including athletics, Curtain Guild, and campus scenes. The entirety of the collection has not been digitized. Please visit www.luc.edu/archives for more information and to contact an archivist.
Managing Unit: University Archives
Today was a national Catholic magazine published by-monthly during the school year by CISCA (Chicago Interscholastic Catholic Action) an organization founded at Loyola during the 1920s. The magazine reports on Catholic and social justice issues. The issues in this collection run from 1946 to 1956.
Managing Unit: University Archives
Virginia Gaertner Broderick is one of the most well-known and influential religious artists of the 20th Century. The Virginia Broderick Exhibit highlights her artistic talents and her influence within the Christian community.
Managing Unit: Women and Leadership Archives
This collection provides a sampling of several women artists’ collections that provide an overview of ten artist’s careers through artwork, exhibition catalogs, press coverage, correspondence, photographs, resumes, artists’ statements and other unique documents.
Managing Unit: Women and Leadership Archives
The Loyola University Chicago (LUC) Women and Leadership Archives (WLA) Voices from Mundelein: Media Portal documents the experiences of members of the Mundelein College community during the institution’s operation between 1930 and 1991. The portal showcases the stories of women religious as part of the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (BVMs) who operated the school, as well as led instruction of the college’s courses. The site also contains recollections of the college’s alumnae as they reflect on classes, extracurricular activities, and periods of religious and political change. Lastly, Voices from Mundelein features the experiences of lay faculty and staff as they shaped and transformed Mundelein College from the 1960s onward into a more inclusive institution for people of color and adult students. This web portal presents more than thirty interviews within a context that documents and describes the development of Mundelein College as a Catholic women’s college in Chicago that changed with the times.
Managing Unit: Women and Leadership Archives
This collection focuses on the contributions of women through a variety of social justice activities in the 20th and 21st Centuries in the United States including women’s rights, civil rights, peace movements, workers’ rights, homelessness, poverty, business ethics, and healthcare reform.
Managing Unit: Women and Leadership Archives
The Women in Science exhibit focuses on the contributions women have made to the field of science over the past 100 years, highlighting several key collections in the Women and Leadership Archives. Such specific areas as biology, botany, chemistry, earth science, nursing, physics, and psychology both within the world of academia and outside of it are just a few of the disciplines that women have contributed to. Numerous photographs, articles, authored textbooks, awards and certificates of achievements, letters of correspondence, pamphlets, and various forms of scientific paraphernalia help illustrate just how large of an impact these women have had throughout the years. The exhibit includes materials from such collections as the Alice Bourke Hayes, Ph.D. Papers, the Katherine DeLage Taft Papers, the Mundelein College Archives, and the Visiting Nurse Association North Records. Please contact the archives at wlarchives@luc.edu for more information.
Managing Unit: Women and Leadership Archives
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