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Jan
29
A Pressing Call: 500 Years of Women Printing
Regenstein Library, The Special Collections Research Center
Jan
29
In the Gaze of Time: Ritual Portraiture, the works of Luis A. Sahagún
Gordon Parks Arts Hall, 5815 S Kimbark Ave
Jan
29
ISAC Museum Exhibit: Chicago on the Nile: 100 Years of the Epigraphic Survey in Egypt
1155 East 58th Street, Chicago, IL 60637
Jan
29
ISAC Museum Satellite Exhibit: ISAC’s “Fifty-Cent Men”: How the Gold Reserve Act Altered the Business of Archaeology
5807 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL 60637