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SAIC History Research Guide

From Flaxman's 16mm Film Collection on Panopto

Resources Licensed for the Campus

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ARTstor
Choose one of the SAIC Collections under Image Groups for School of the Art Institute people, events and buildings.

JSTOR
Five historic AIC periodicals are available in JSTOR
- 1907-1951 Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago
- 1951-1965 Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly
- 1965-1972 Calendar of the Art Institute of Chicago
- 1973-1982 Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago
- 1966-2011 Museum Studies

Proquest Historic Newspapers
Search the Chicago Tribune (1949 - present) and New York Times (1851 - 2010) for articles about the School.
Other Licensed Resources
Over 150 licensed resources are available to SAIC students, faculty and staff.
Link above uses Flaxman’s Search Almost Everything feature to capture information from many sources at once.
See the library and archive websites for listings of all the resources available to you.

Resources in SAIC Special Collections

16mm Film Study Collection (Flaxman Library)

Faculty and alumni works can also be found and researched in campus special collections.

Resources from AIC/SAIC Accessible Online

150th SAIC Events + Historical Timeline

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Bibliography of SAIC Alumni, Staff & Faculty Publications in Flaxman Library
Early SAIC Campus Newspapers
Over a Century: A History of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1866-1981
Panopto Media Library (SAIC Videos)
SAIC Digital Collections
Digitized collections of SAIC publications, student newspapers, recent SAIC theses, and more.