Some of these terms are historic and problematic but still useful for discovery because they are part of item titles and/or names of organizations and institutions. We include these because they are part of the history of this topic, and will still often be included in historic documents themselves in addition to title and organization names. If you have suggestions for other search terms, please let us know (research@chicagohistory.org) and we will add them to our list.
The catalog now has fuzzy searching. If you ask for hats it will bring up an entry with the word hat and vice versa. If you do want to search only for an exact spelling of a word, put that word in quotations. For instance if you search for "hat" you will only get results for hat but not hats. If the spelling variation might be more than one or two letters different, try multiples searches for in the keyword search.
Search tips: The catalog now has fuzzy searching. If you ask for hats it will bring up an entry with the word hat and vice versa. If you do want to search only for an exact spelling of a word, put that word in quotations. For instance if you search for "hat" you will only get results for hat but not hats. If the spelling variation might be more than one or two letters different, try multiples searches for in the keyword search.
Using a dash without a space ("-") will exclude unwanted variations of the term (e.g. -"disability studies"). Using quotation marks will search the exact spelling or phrase (e.g. "mental health")
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