HYDE PARK — The University of Chicago opened an exhibit on Monday on its long connection to Mexico.
Curated by Kathleen Feeney and Seonaid Valiant, “Researching Mexico: University of Chicago Field Explorations in Mexico, 1896-2014” is on view at the Regenstein Library, 1100 E. 57th St.
The exhibit draws on more than a century of research materials at the library on indigenous tribes of Mexico, revolutionary leaders and the cause of a deadly strain of typhus.
The materials include correspondence, diaries, photographs, sketches, recordings and objects generated and collected by scholars in the field, including anthropologist Robert Redfield, who chronicled many Mexican communities’ first exposure to modernity in the early 1920s.
The exhibit runs through Oct. 4.
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