Special Collections
Title
Special Collections
Description
Materials in Special Collections total over 90,000 items. The collections are diverse and range from a substantial rare book collection with material dating to the eighth century to the comic arts collection, focused on underground comics, classic comic strips, and graphic novels. The collections include books, periodicals, manuscripts, maps, posters, printed ephemera, and artifacts.
See our subject guides for more information on areas of strength in the collections. A complete alphabetical listing of collections can be accessed below.
Collection Tree
- Special Collections
- Albert and Mary Louise Lord Collection
- Anthony C. DeBellis Collection of Humanistic Literature
- Center for the Literary Arts Collection
- Comic Art Collection
- Allen C. Bluedorn Comic Collection
- Bonnet-Brown Comic Art Syndicate Collection
- Edgar Everett Martin Papers, 1926-1972; 1935-
- Frank Stack Papers, 1957-
- John Tinney McCutcheon Collection of Editorial Cartoons
- Miss Mizzou Collection
- Missouri Creators Comic Collection
- Mort Walker Collection, 1946-2001
- Ralph Barton Collection
- Underground Comics Syndicate Proofs Collection
- V. T. Hamlin Collection
- Allen C. Bluedorn Comic Collection
- Confederate Currency Collection
- Council of National Defense Collection
- Cuneiform Tablets
- Daniel Webster Speeches Collection, 1806-1932
- Dime Novels
- Fine Press Materials in Special Collections
- Fourth of July Orations Collection
- Fragmenta Manuscripta
- Frank Luther Mott Collection of American Best Sellers, 1662-1945
- Gary E. and Janet J. Venable Antiquarian Atlas & Map Collection
- Helen Montgomery Jenkins Collection
- Historic Textbook Collection
- Incunabula
- Jacques Flach Collection
- John G. Neihardt Collection
- Lanford Wilson Collection
- Limited Editions Club Collection
- Martin and Margaret Hiller Collection of Audiovisual Materials on China, 1945-1948
- Mary Lago Collection
- Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
- Modern Manuscripts and Correspondence, ca. 1700-1992
- Pages from the Past Collection
- Plat Books of Missouri Counties Collection
- Poster Collection
- Press Ephemera Collection
- Rare Book Collection
- Sanborn Maps of Missouri Collection
- September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack Collection
- Theatre Program Collection
- Thomas Moore Johnson Collection of Philosophy
- Twentieth-Century Political Pamphlet Collection
- Walter Miller Library
- Walter Williams Library
- William Least Heat-Moon Papers
- William Peden Short Story Collection
![The flowers personified : being a translation of Grandville's Les fleurs animées / [translated] by N. Cleaveland; illustrated with steel engravings, beautifully colored.](https://library.missouri.edu/specialcollections/files/square_thumbnails/69a5c26ed077d28430f7e78203697afb.jpg "The flowers personified : being a translation of Grandville's Les fleurs animées / [translated] by N. Cleaveland; illustrated with steel engravings, beautifully colored.")
![Hortus floridus in quo rariorum & minus vulgarium florum icones ad vivam varamq[ue] formam accuratissime delineatae. Et secundum quatuor anni tempora divisae exhibentur incredibili labore ac diligentia Crisp: Passaei junioris delineatae ac suum in ordinem redactae Ao 1614.](https://library.missouri.edu/specialcollections/files/square_thumbnails/6dd1be7100775160edc61f0eb81a7713.jpg "Hortus floridus in quo rariorum & minus vulgarium florum icones ad vivam varamq[ue] formam accuratissime delineatae. Et secundum quatuor anni tempora divisae exhibentur incredibili labore ac diligentia Crisp: Passaei junioris delineatae ac suum in ordinem redactae Ao 1614.")