Historical Note The Limited Editions Club was founded by George Macy in 1929 to publish finely printed, illustrated, and bound editions of literary…

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

Materials in Special Collections total over 90,000 items. The collections are diverse and range from a substantial rare book collection with material…

This collection includes 50 cent, 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, and 100 dollar bills. All the bills in this collection were printed in Richmond, Virginia, the…

Scope and Content Note Newspapers, magazines, calendars, bookmarks, comics, photographs of material focusing on MissMizzou, a character created by…

Biographical Note Ralph Emerson Barton (1891-1931) was a caricaturist and illustrator. Barton’s first caricature was of Thomas Hart Benton, his last…

The Missouri Creators Comics Collection includes graphic novels, zines, mini-comics, and comic books created by Missouri residents. The nucleus of the…

The collection consists of a sample of underground comics published by Rip Off Press, and includes the work of comic artists Ted Richards, Frank Stack…

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

University Archives is the depository of official records of the University of Missouri as well as of the administrative records of the University of…

The University Libraries and a private collector are partnering to make an extensive collection of medieval and early modern materials available to…

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…

Scope and Contents The Peden Collection includes volumes of short story collections and anthologies. Included are review copies as well as works by…

Scope and Contents Material by Wililam Least Heat-Moon (b. 1939). Manuscripts and additional materials from the following books:

PrairyErth (A…

History

Walter Williams (1864-1935) was President of the University of Missouri from 1930 – 1935 and served as Dean of the School of Journalism…

Biographical Sketch Walter Miller (1864-1949) was a classicist and archaeologistresponsible for the first American excavation in Greece. He received…

Biographical Sketch Vincent Trout Hamlin was born May 10, 1900 in Perry, Iowa to Erma Garland and Frederick Clarence Hamlin. He enlisted in the Army…

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The collection consists of ephemeral political materials distributed by and for members of national organizations and…

Scope and Contents The majority of the programs are for performances dated from 1945 to the present in New York, London, Washington D.C., and St.…

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The collection consists of domestic and internationalmagazines and newspapersthat show how the September 11th…

History

The Sanborn Fire Insurance Map Company, established in 1867, compiled and published maps of U.S. cities and towns for the fire…

Scope and Contents The collection contains material on private and specialty presses, dating primarily from the 1980s to the present. Many items in…

Scope and Contents The collection consists of posters from both World War I and World War II with a few tourist and other miscellaneous posters from…

In 1930 W.W. Hickson and Co. of Rockford, Illinois published plat books of townships in counties throughout Missouri. Documenting the ownership and…