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Rare Book & Manuscript Library

University of Illinois Main Library, courtesy of Killivalavan Solai, Wikimedia Commons
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  • Exhibits
  • The Viceroyalty of Peru
    • Encounter/Clash of Empires
    • Early Empire, Exploration, and Conquest
    • Law, Religion, and Economy
    • Gazing at the Spanish Viceroyalty from Afar
    • Letters from the Conde de Montemar Collection
    • Glossary
  • Building a Library
    • Antonio Cavagna Sangiuliani, Collector
    • Sciences
    • Social Life and Customs
    • Genealogy and Heraldry
    • The Arts
    • Archivio Cavagna Sangiuliani in Zelada
  • In Search of Lost Time
    • Religious Chronologics
    • Fossils and the Record of Previous Worlds
    • History in the Layers of the Earth
    • Maps and Cross-Sections
    • Earth’s Chronology from “Geotheory”
    • Radioactivity and the Science of Geochronology
  • Chez La Veuve
    • Education
    • Religion and Moral Instruction
    • Women as Skilled Printers
    • Popular Literature
    • Rabble Rousers
  • Starkiller to Skywalker
    • Script Context
    • Word Count Comparison
    • Dialogue Adjustments
    • Deleted and Rearranged Scenes
    • Han and Greedo
    • Other Changes
    • Bibliography for the Making of Star Wars
  • Once Upon a Time
    • American Indian Legends
    • Andersen's Fairy Tales and Legends
    • The Arabian Nights Entertainments
    • A Story, A Story: An African Tale
    • East of the Sun and West of the Moon
    • Indian Fairy Tales
    • Kinder- und Hausmärchen
    • Little Red Riding Hood
    • Perrault's Fairy Tales
    • Princess Splendor: The Wood Cutter's Daughter
    • Skazki: Tales and Legends of Old Russia
    • Sources and Fairy Tale Resources
  • Divine Madness
    • Heavenly Bodies
    • Beyond Frontiers
    • A Gram of Truth
    • Sailing with Sea Monsters
    • The Pursuit of More
    • Fantastic Creatures
  • Making Mr. Darcy
    • The Art of Dress
    • First Editions and Contemporary Works
    • Education and Occupation
    • Sports
    • Politics, Satire, and the Prince Regent
    • Scandal, Sex, and Romance
  • Crymes and Rhymes
    • The Broadside Ballad
    • Criminal Celebrities
    • More Bloody Versicles
  • Geographies of Risk: An Exhibition of Early Modern Conceptions and Representations of Risk
    • Gender and Risk
    • Politics And Risk
    • Privacy and Risk
    • Exploration and Risk
    • Managing Natural Risk
  • Release the Stars: Plato's Timaeus in the Renaissance
    • Part 1
    • Part 2
  • We are each other's harvest: Gwendolyn Brooks and the Formation of Black Literary Canon
    • Annie Allen
    • Ms. Gwendolyn 'Pulitzer' Brooks
    • Black Literary History
    • Brooks Anthologized
    • Black Bibliography
    • Brooks in Art

The RBML Digital Exhibits is the space where we transfer the physical exhibits from our gallery into digital form. Likewise, we feature exhibits curated solely in digital form.

List of Exhibits

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The Viceroyalty of Peru
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Building a Library
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In Search of Lost Time
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Chez La Veuve
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Starkiller to Skywalker
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Once Upon a Time
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Divine Madness
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Making Mr. Darcy
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Crymes and Rhymes
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Geographies of Risk: An Exhibition of Early Modern Conceptions and Representations of Risk
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Release the Stars: Plato's Timaeus in the Renaissance
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We are each other's harvest: Gwendolyn Brooks and the Formation of Black Literary Canon