Digital Collections
Digitized materials from Special Collections and Archives are available in several online repositories.
- HathiTrust Digital Library
- Missouri Digital Heritage
- Missouri Over There
- MOspace Institutional Repository
- Reveal Digital
- University of Missouri Digital Library
The following collections have been fully or partially digitized.
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…
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),…
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…
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…
Fragmenta Manuscripta Collection.
Fragmenta Manuscripta is a collection of over 200 manuscript leaves and fragments dating from the eighth to the seventeenth century. Originally…
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.…
John Tinney McCutcheon Collection of Editorial Cartoons.
Biographical Sketch John Tinney McCutcheon (1870-1949) is often referred to as “the Dean of Cartoonists” and is best known for his political and…
Martin and Margaret Hiller Collection of Audiovisual Materials on China, 1945-1948.
Scope and Contents The Hiller Collection documents cities, industries, farming, and everyday life in China during the second phase of the Chinese…
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts.
Special Collections maintains a small collection of European manuscripts intended to demonstrate the physical characteristics of the manuscript books,…
Pages from the Past Collection
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…
Plat Books of Missouri Counties Collection.
Description Note Documenting the ownership and locations of plots of land in Missouri counties, the 111 items in the collection are an invaluable…
Private Collection of Antiquarian Books and Manuscripts.
The University Libraries and a private collector are partnering to make an extensive collection of medieval and early modern materials available to…
Rare Books
The Rare Books Collection is the default designation for materials in Special Collections that are acquired as individual items. Like Special…
Sanborn Maps of Missouri Collection.
History The Sanborn Fire Insurance Map Company, established in 1867, compiled and published maps of U.S. cities and towns for the fire…
Twentieth-Century Political Pamphlet Collection.
Scope and Contents The collection consists of ephemeral political materials distributed by and for members of national organizations and…
University of Missouri Archives
University Archives is the depository of official records of the University of Missouri as well as of the administrative records of the University of…
War Poster Collection.
Scope and Contents The collection consists of posters from both World War I and World War II with tourist and other miscellaneous posters from the…