Loyola University Digital Exhibits
Loyola University Archives and Special Collections hosts several digital collections on Catholic and Jesuit themes.
Catholicism
Jesuit Libraries Provenance Project
The goal of the project is to uncover the history of the acquisition and use of Loyola’s original library books. It grew out of an initiative to digitally reconstruct the earliest surviving library catalogue of St Ignatius College (founded 1870), the forerunner to Loyola University Chicago.
Catholica Collection, Villanova University
The Catholica Collection makes available digital content of Catholic materials including books, journals, papers, and manuscripts dealing with the Roman Catholic Church in general, and in particular works created or published in the Americas. This includes a number of collections featuring periodicals, publications, references, personal papers, parish and diocese records, photographs, etc.
American Catholic History Research Center and University Archives
Archives house the papers and organizational records of hundreds of historically significant Catholics and Catholic organizations, particularly those related to Catholic involvement in the history of American labor, as well as more than 5,000 museum objects.
Alfred Hamy’s Jesuit Portrait Gallery
Digitization of Galerie Illustrée de la Compagnie de Jésus (Paris: 1893), the gallery contains 405 engravings of notable Jesuits from the 16th century to the 19th century.
African-American Catholics of the United States
African American Catholics of the United States contains over 200 images of African American clergy, religious, and laity, plus others in ministry to them, in parishes and schools, religious communities, and lay organizations since 1900. Archives staff selected the images from the records of the Black and Indian Mission Collection, the Catholic Negro-American Mission Board, and … Read more
Catholic Native American Collections, Marquette University
Collection of digitized photographs from four smaller collections, taken by Catholic missionaries to Native groups, searchable together or individually.
American Catholic History Classroom
The Classroom is a primary document site featuring a range of materials related to the American Catholic experience, organized into teaching-module “exhibits” including documents, photographs, and media.
The Catholic Research Resources Portal
Search providing freely available access to rare, unique and/or uncommon materials related to Catholicism in libraries, seminaries, special collections, and archives from around the world.
Catholic News Archive
Archive of digitized Catholic newspapers around the United States since 1831, and includes editorials, pictures, and advertisements as well as articles, all text searchable.