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Albert and Mary Louise Lord Collection.

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

Allen C. Bluedorn Comic Collection.

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

Anthony C. DeBellis Collection of Humanistic Literature.

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

Betty Winfield Newspaper Collection.

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

Bonnet-Brown Comic Art Syndicate Collection.

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

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Center for the Literary Arts Collection.

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

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Comic Art Collection

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

Confederate Currency Collection.

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

Council of National Defense Collection.

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…

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Cuneiform Tablets.

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

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Daniel Webster Speeches Collection, 1806-1932.

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

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Diane Gorodnitzki Photographs of Lanford Wilson.

Scope and Contents

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

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Dime Novels.

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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Donald Silver Rare Book Room, J. Otto Lottes Health Sciences Library

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…

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Edgar Everett Martin Papers, 1926-1972; 1935-

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

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Fine Press Materials in Special Collections.

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…

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Fourth of July Orations Collection.

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

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Fragmenta Manuscripta Collection.

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

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Frank Luther Mott Collection of American Best Sellers, 1662-1945.

Scope and Contents The earliest book Mott considered for inclusion was Michael Wigglesworth'sThe Day of Doom(Cambridge: Samuel Green, 1662), and the…

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Frank Stack Papers, 1957-

Biographical Sketch Frank Stack was born October 31, 1937 in Houston, Texas. He was educated at the University of Texas (B.F.A.), University of…

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Gary E. and Janet J. Venable Antiquarian Atlas & Map Collection

The Venable Collection documents the history of cartography, geography, and exploration from the sixteenth through the early twentieth century.…

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Helen Montgomery Jenkins Collection.

Biographical Note Helen Montgomery Jenkins (1913-2013) was born in Topeka, Kansas, and graduated from the University of Missouri with a B.A. in…

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Historic Textbook Collection.

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…

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Incunabula

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