Open Directory - Reference: Libraries: Special Collections
See also: - Collection of letters, maps, documents, books, music, engravings, and other materials from Europe and the Americas ranging from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. - Collection of rare books, manuscripts, and numerous special-interest collections centered around particular persons or topics of interest to scholars. Located at Arizona State University. - Collection of books and art about the Irish famine, including digitized handwritten pages from the Board of Guardians meetings in Killarney. - Historical collections including politics, maps, coins, bank notes, and African artifacts. - Features one of the few original, remaining Gutenberg Bibles, a sunken sculpture garden and translucent marble "windows." Located on the campus of Yale University. - Includes materials in a variety of languages plus a special collection of United Nations resources. - Selected histories, genealogical data, newspapers, and civil war manuscripts from central Pennsylvania at the Ellen Clarke Bertrand Library. - Books, maps, and genealogies, most of which is specific to the Detroit area. Library card required for access. - Contains children's literature collections available for research use at the University of Minnesota Elmer L. Anderson Library, including Kerlan, Hess, Treasure Island, Oz, and Paul Bunyan. - Contains readable, searchable Harper's Weekly Civil War newspapers from 1861-1865. - Collection focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North and South American maps and other historic materials. - 56,000 volumes on personal growth, metaphysics, ancient civilizations, and holistic health. - Collection includes books on literature, philosophy, history, art, economics, and science, many of which contain handwritten annotations by Mr. Siegel (1902-1978). The Collection is open by appointment to persons seriously studying Aesthetic Realism. - Electronic research center on the Philippines. - Public and private records on the history of Guelph, Ontario, Canada featuring a guide for genealogists, finding aids, and a searchable photograph database. - The Hannah Arendt Collection, which resides at Bard College's Stevenson Library, consists of Arendt's personal library. - A collection of rare books, maps, newspapers, and photos, especially those relating to the Society of Friends. - Illuminated and illustrated books scanned for online viewing. Collection consists of books from the 1800's to the 1920's. - Rare research collections including those specific to Indiana. Some materials are for display purposes only. - Part of the special collections library at the University of Virginia. - A project to recover, restore, preserve and exhibit historical newspapers from all over the world. The emphasis is to collect newspapers published in the city or country where the event took place. - Contains works of literature, performing arts, and histories of crime, labor, and printing dating back to the 1800's. - Collection specializes in the Renaissance and Reformation time periods. - A collection of digitized children's literature titles from the 17th through 20th centuries. - Over 16,000 volumes predominantly in English and Spanish, dating from the fifteenth century. The majority of materials were published in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Catalog available online. Collection may be consulted by appointment only at the library in Los Angeles, California. - Brief history and an assortment of photos taken of the famous Mayview Manor, Blowing Rock, NC in the 1930s. - Rare books and manuscripts from the State Library of Victoria's collection of precious and historically significant books. - Photographs of misericords found in British and European churches, Cathedrals, Hospitals and Courts. - Rare editions of literary and artistic works dating from 1476 to present. - Private library for research concerning the phenomenon of Munchausen. - [English, French] Collection containing millions of aerial photographs of Canada from the 1920s to present. - Located in the home of Ida McKinley in Canton, Ohio, this library includes biographies, photos, oral histories, and other materials about U.S. First Ladies. - A museum-research facility at Pacific Union College containing materials on Pitcairn and the Mutiny on the Bounty. - Research articles and historic photographs. - Archive of San Francisco State University, the library also contains source materials relating San Francisco Bay area history, and the Marguerite Archer Collection of Historic Children's Materials. - Collection of esoteric, occult, and magick writings. Monthly membership fees required. - Catalogue database of over 85,000 cartoons covering British social and political history. Based at the University of Kent. - Presents the history and a collection of rare items related to the 1908 fleet of battleships called the Great White Fleet. - Collection of Islamic Literature in Leicestershire England. Search the catalogue in various languages. - [English, French] Hebraica and Judaica, Rare Bibles, and Hebrew Incunables spanning several centuries. - A collection held at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) containing Chinese books, manuscripts, and operas collected by Dr. Robert Morrison between 1807 and 1824. - Located in London, England, the archive was established to preserve the record of a family that was widely recognized for contributions to the economic, political, and social history of many countries throughout the world. - Housed at the University of Wyoming, Laramie, the collection specializes in the history and literature of America (particularly the West), the history and literature of the British Isles and Europe, world-wide travel and exploration, fishing, hunting, and natural history, and books written by women authors (particularly before 1900). - Houses rare sheet maps (pre-1850) and other map and reference collections. - American and British children's books dating from 1530 to the present housed at the University of Southern Mississippi McCain Library. - Collection houses rare research materials, children's literature, historic maps and photographs, a special section on the history of Chinese immigrants to Canada. - Including media in a wide range of subject areas, including science fiction and fantasy, Native American history, citrus history and California history. - Collection includes many rare and fragile works including pre-18th John Bunyan, 18th century English poetry and plays, and Victorian and Edwardian Children's Fiction. Access restrictions apply. - Includes four core collections: the History of Science Collection, The Fine and Theater Arts Collection, the British and American Authors Collection, and The Art of the Book. Located at the University of Arizona Library in Phoenix, Arizona. - Special collections department houses several unique collections ranging from religion to politics. Works date from the 13th-20th centuries. - Contains sections on children's literature, performing arts, Florida history, rare books, and university archives. - Contains 20,000 items including maps, postcards, prints and engravings. - A variety of collections including an assortment of ancient papyri dating to 300 BC. Papyri topics include Biblical fragments, religious writings, public and private documents, private letters, astronomical, astrological, mathematical, and magical texts. - Houses rare books and manuscripts including the papers of Sen. Wayne Morse, children's literature, documentation of women in society, missionaries, feminist and lesbian periodicals, Oregon trail diaries, and architectural materials. - Collections include Los Angeles regional history, American literature, Lion Feuchtwanger and the German emigre experience, natural history, and university history. - Historical collection including a collection of letters, documents, and early printings of the Declaration of Independence. - Collection contains manuscripts, photographs, performing arts materials, and rare books in divinity, history of religion and Methodism, history of fine paper and printing, significant Mark Twain editions, a collection of 18th and 19th-century accounts by travelers to Latin America, Mesoamerican codices, and a subject collection in demonology and witchcraft. - Religious collections including an Jewish history collection.
