Special Collections
Title
Special Collections
Description
The University of Missouri Special Collections is primarily focused on the history and development of the written word, printing, publishing, and journalism. 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. Materials in Special Collections total over 200,000 items.
Collection Strengths
See our subject guides for more information on areas of strength in the collections. A complete alphabetical listing of collections can be accessed below.
Collections
- Special Collections
- Comic Art Collection
- Allen C. Bluedorn Comic Collection.
- Bonnet-Brown Comic Art Syndicate Collection.
- Dime Novels.
- Edgar Everett Martin Papers, 1926-1972; 1935-
- Editorial Cartoons Syndicate Proofs Collection, 1970-1998.
- Frank Stack Papers, 1957-
- George Fett Original Cartoons.
- 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 Collections.
- Journalism and Media History Collections
- Literary and Historical Manuscripts
- Maps and Visual Materials
- Rare Books
- Albert and Mary Louise Lord Collection.
- Anthony C. DeBellis Collection of Humanistic Literature.
- Center for the Literary Arts Collection.
- Council of National Defense Collection.
- Cuneiform tablets.
- Daniel Webster Speeches Collection, 1806-1932.
- Fine Press Materials in Special Collections.
- Fourth of July Orations Collection.
- Fragmenta Manuscripta Collection.
- Helen Montgomery Jenkins Collection.
- Historic Textbook Collection.
- Incunabula
- Jacques Flach Collection.
- John G. Neihardt Collection.
- Legacy Bookbindery Collection
- Limited Editions Club Collection.
- Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts.
- Pages from the Past Collection
- Press Ephemera Collection.
- Private Collection of Antiquarian Books and Manuscripts.
- Theater Program Collection.
- Thomas Moore Johnson Collection of Philosophy.
- Twentieth-Century Political Pamphlet Collection.
- Walter Miller Library.
- Special Collections
- Comic Art Collection
- Allen C. Bluedorn Comic Collection.
- Bonnet-Brown Comic Art Syndicate Collection.
- Dime Novels.
- Edgar Everett Martin Papers, 1926-1972; 1935-
- Editorial Cartoons Syndicate Proofs Collection, 1970-1998.
- Frank Stack Papers, 1957-
- George Fett Original Cartoons.
- 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 Collections.
- Allen C. Bluedorn Comic Collection.
- Journalism and Media History Collections
- Literary and Historical Manuscripts
- Maps and Visual Materials
- Rare Books
- Albert and Mary Louise Lord Collection.
- Anthony C. DeBellis Collection of Humanistic Literature.
- Center for the Literary Arts Collection.
- Council of National Defense Collection.
- Cuneiform tablets.
- Daniel Webster Speeches Collection, 1806-1932.
- Fine Press Materials in Special Collections.
- Fourth of July Orations Collection.
- Fragmenta Manuscripta Collection.
- Helen Montgomery Jenkins Collection.
- Historic Textbook Collection.
- Incunabula
- Jacques Flach Collection.
- John G. Neihardt Collection.
- Legacy Bookbindery Collection
- Limited Editions Club Collection.
- Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts.
- Pages from the Past Collection
- Press Ephemera Collection.
- Private Collection of Antiquarian Books and Manuscripts.
- Theater Program Collection.
- Thomas Moore Johnson Collection of Philosophy.
- Twentieth-Century Political Pamphlet Collection.
- Walter Miller Library.
- Comic Art Collection
