In 2018, the Chicago History Museum acquired a Chicago Sun-Times photography collection of more than five million images spanning over 75 years of Chicago history. While a portion of the collection can be viewed and searched on this site, the full digital collection of over 2 million images can be accessed via the collection inventories on Airtable - learn more here.
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Featuring 150 images from the Chicago History Museum’s Chicago Sun-Times collection, Millions of Moments is a first look at highlights from five million negatives spanning the 1940s to the early 2000s—one of the largest newspaper photograph collections ever acquired by an American museum.
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Featuring 150 images from the Chicago History Museum’s Chicago Sun-Times collection, Millions of Moments is a first look at highlights from five million negatives spanning the 1940s to the early 2000s—one of the largest newspaper photograph collections ever acquired by an American museum.
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Find out more about the collection, including how CHM acquired it.
Press Release
View CHM's press release for the collection.
Contact Us
Questions? Contact us at rightsrepro@chicagohistory.org
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Processing of the Chicago Sun-Times collection is generously supported by
the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, the TAWANI Foundation, and Bon and Holly French.
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Processing of the Chicago Sun-Times collection is generously supported by
the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, the TAWANI Foundation, and Bon and Holly French.