​Fragmenta Manuscripta is a collection of over 200 manuscript leaves and fragments dating from the eighth to the seventeenth century. Originally…

The Fourth of July Orations Collection contains published pamphlets of addresses made on Independence Day from 1791-1925. The speeches explore topics…

Scope and Content A fine press is a printing establishment that adheres to particularly high standards in terms of the skill of the workers, the…

Currently includes works from Cartoonists & Writers’ Syndicate, North America Syndicate, Inc., and United Feature Syndicate.
Syndication is the…

Biographical Sketch Edgar Everett ("Abe") Martin (1898-1960) was born in Indianapolis. His family later moved to Monmouth, Illinois where his father…

The Rare Book Room was given to the library by the Department of Surgery and is dedicated to Dr. Donald Silver, an Emeritus professor of the…

Dime novels were published from the middle nineteenth century through the early twentieth century and were largely pulp fiction aimed at a…

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Photographs, negatives, and color slides of Lanford Wilson in his house and garden, taken in the 1980s and 1990s…

Scope and Contents The Daniel Webster Speeches Collection contains pamphlets of speeches made by and about Daniel Webster, for the most part…

Special Collections holds eight cuneiform tablets whose exact provenance is unknown. Six of the tablets date from the Ur III period (2100-2000 BCE),…

Historical Note The Council of National Defense was created in 1916 to coordinate the U.S. war effort during World War I. Members consisted of the…

Historical Note In 1912, the United States Treasury department gifted the University of Missouri Libraries a collection of bills from the Confederate…

The Comic Art Collection has particular strength in underground comic books, graphic novels, and published reprints of classic comic strips and…

Scope and Contents These materials were donated to the University of Missouri Libraries by the Center for the Literary Arts in 2006. The materials…

Scope and Content Note Published strips, cartoons, and features by various comic strip artists of the 1930s, including Burne Hogarth, V.T. Hamlin,…

Biographical Note [information from the School of Journalism] Betty Houchin Winfield, PhD, is a specialist in political communication and mass media…

Biographical Sketch Anthony C. DeBellis taught Italian language and literature at the University of Missouri from 1966 to 1981. Most of his rare…

The collection consists of microform copies of Golden Age era comic books. For specific titles, see the inventory.

Biographical Note Albert Bates Lord and Mary Louise Lord’s private libraries were donated by the Lord family to the University of Missouri Libraries…