Scope and Contents The books are useful today as a survey of pedagogical methods and contents as well as a portrayal of the American popular mind of…

The Department of Rare Books and Special collections maintains a small collection of incunabula (European books printed before 1501) and early printed…

Biographical Sketch GeoffroiJacques Flach(1846-1919) was born in Strasbourg, France, the capital of the Alsace region, on February 16, 1846. His…

Scope and Contents The Collection contains photographs, negatives, and positive proof sheets taken by photographer James D. Gossage of playwright…

Biographical Sketch John Gneisenau Neihardt (1881-1973) accepted a position at the University of Missouri-Columbia's Department of English in 1949…

Biographical Sketch John Tinney McCutcheon (1870-1949) is often referred to as “the Dean of Cartoonists” and is best known for his political and…

Biographical Note Kenneth W. Leish (Kenn.) was a freelance drama critic in New York City from 1961-1966 for Variety Magazine. Variety’s policy did…

Biographical Sketch Lanford Wilson (1937-2011) was born in Lebanon, Missouri to Ralph and Violetta Tate Wilson. In 1942 his parents divorced, and he…

This collection contains bookbinding models created by James Downey, a bookbinder and conservator who used to run the Legacy Bookbindery in Columbia,…

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

Special Collections holds modern manuscript materials in the form of books, correspondence, and personal papers. These materials were collected at…

Scope and Contents The Hiller Collection documents cities, industries, farming, and everyday life in China during the second phase of the Chinese…

Biographical Sketch Mary McClelland Lago (1919-2001) was on the University of Missouri Department of English faculty from 1977 to 1991. From 1989…

Special Collections maintains a small collection of European manuscripts intended to demonstrate the physical characteristics of the manuscript books,…

Biographical note New York cartoonist Milton Caniff was inspired to create the character of Miss Mizzou, a blond bombshell wearing only a trenchcoat,…

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

Biographical Sketch Addison Morton Walker was born in Eldorado, Kansas in 1923, reared in Kansas City and graduated from the University of Missouri.…

Pages from the Past is a collection of original manuscript and rare book leaves compiled and sold by a New York book dealer Alfred W. Stites from 1964…

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

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

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

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