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

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

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

Martin Hiller was a captain in the Army Air Corps, the predecessor to the Air Force, and later retired as an Air…

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

The collection is available to all researchers. Request materialsfor use in the Special Collections reading room. These materials have been collected…

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

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

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

Biographical Sketch [information supplied by Walker] Addison Morton Walker was born in Eldorado, Kansas in 1923, reared in Kansas City and graduated…

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…

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

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…

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…

The Rare Book Collection is the default designation for materials in Special Collections that are acquired as individual items. Like Special…

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

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

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.…

Biographical Sketch Thomas Moore Johnson (1851-1919) was an attorney, collector, and student of philosophy in Osceola, Missouri. Though his formal…