| 1. | Eli Siegel Collection | | | Web site of the Eli Siegel Collection located in the Aesthetic Realism Foundation in New York, New York which includes 22,000 books and some of the manuscripts of Eli Siegel (1902-1978), American poet, critic, and founder of the philosophy Aesthetic Realism.
www.EliSiegelCollection.net |
| 2. | ASU Special Collections | | | Collection of 35,000 rare books and 1500 linear feet of manuscripts. Includes works by and about the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, the Doris and Marc Patten Collection of Herbals and Early Gardening Books, and the Child Drama Collection. Located at Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona.
www.asu.edu |
| 3. | Marion Thompson Collection | | | Collection of 4000 rare children's illustrated books held by the Vancouver Public Library in Vancouver, B.C., Canada. Includes access to the library's catalog.
www.vpl.vancouver.bc.ca |
| 4. | Museum | | | Preserves and makes accessible materials about the performing arts, with an emphasis on the San Francisco Bay area. Contains more than two million items, including books, periodicals, photographs, programs, playbills, newspaper clippings, audio and video tapes, costume and set designs, and other artifacts. Online catalog; materials accessible only in the library in San Francisco, California.
www.sfpalm.org |
| 6. | UBC Library - Special Collections and University Archives | | | Collection of rare books and Canadiana; extensive archival research materials, originating from within and outside the University; and important collections of historic maps and photographs. Located at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, B.C.
www.library.ubc.ca |
| 8. | University of Victoria Special Collections | | | Emphasis on Modern English and Anglo-Irish literature; Northwest Coast exploration, art, and archaeology; Canadian military and southern Vancouver Island literary culture. Located at the University of Victoria in Victoria, B.C.
gateway1.uvic.ca |
| 9. | Los Angeles Public Library - Rare Books Department | | | Over 16,000 volumes predominately in English and Spanish, dating from the fifteenth century. The majority of materials were published in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Catalog available online. Collection may be consulted by appointment only at the library in Los Angeles, California.
www.lapl.org |
| 10. | Archives | | | Archive of San Francisco State University, the library also contains source materials relating San Francisco Bay area history, and the Marguerite Archer Collection of Historic Children's Materials.
www.library.sfsu.edu |
| 11. | The Tebtunis Papyri Collection at The Bancroft Library | | | Consists of the papyrus documents that were found in the winter of 1899/1900 at the site of ancient Tebtunis, Egypt. The site provides electronic access to images of the Tebtunis Papyri as well as textual information.
sunsite.berkeley.edu |
| 12. | Margaret Herrick Library | | | Library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences offers extensive and comprehensive research and reference collections on film.
www.oscars.org |
| 13. | The Morrison Collection of Chinese Books | | | Information relating to the collection of Chinese books collected by Dr. Robert Morrison (1782-1834) between 1807 and 1824, and now held at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).
uk.geocities.com |
| 14. | Long Island Division at the Queens Borough Public Library | | | Collection consists of specialized books and publications; newspapers, both current and those which have ceased publication; family manuscripts; historical maps and atlases including Belcher Hyde and Sanborn Company maps; late 19th- and early 20th-century photographs.
www.queenslibrary.org |
| 16. | Guelph Public Library (GPL) Local History Archives | | | Valuable public and private records that establish, maintain and develop the community identity of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Web site features a guide for genealogists, finding aids, and a searchable photograph database.
www.library.guelph.on.ca |
| 20. | UCLA Department of Special Collections | | | Strengths of the department include California and regional history, the arts, history of printing, and women's studies. UCLA's University Archives are also housed here.
www.library.ucla.edu |
| 21. | University of Michigan Bentley Historical Library | | | Includes the Michigan Historical Collections and the University of Michigan's University Archives and Records Program. The site features reference services, exhibits, inventories and digitized photographs.
www.umich.edu |
| 22. | Vanderbilt University Special Collections and University Archives | | | Houses one of the finest twentieth-century Southern literature collections in the United States and is the center for the study of the Fugitive and Agrarian groups. Other collections include Southern history since the Civil War, Southern Culture, Women's Issues, Civil Rights, Religion, and the Performing Arts.
www.library.vanderbilt.edu |
| 23. | Company: Collections: Library | | | The IK library is a small reference library. Specialised subjects include archaeology, history, art, geography, the history of science, Quaternary geology, natural sciences, Carl Linnaeus and cartography. The website features description of the collections and exhibits.
www.ikfoundation.org |
| 24. | Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections | | | The Quaker Collection is a collection of material relating to the Society of Friends which includes many materials by and about Quakers. Other special collections are also described. Hours, staff and procedures for use of materials are detailed.
www.haverford.edu |
| 27. | Simon Fraser University Library Special Collections | | | Includes the Contemporary Literature Collection, concentrating on 20th century avant-garde authors, and the Wordworth Collection, described as the most extensive in Canada on this author. Located in Burnaby, British Columbia.
www.lib.sfu.ca |
| 30. | National First Ladies Library | | | Located in the home of Ida McKinley in Canton, Ohio, this library includes biographies, photos, oral histories, and other material about U.S. first ladies. The web site features photographs of each first lady, and an extensive bibliography of books and manuscript materials in repositories around the country.
www.firstladies.org |
| 35. | Kent State University Special Collections | | | Specializes in 19th and 20th century American and British literature, theatre and film, Western Americana, and the May 4, 1970 tragedy. Searchable online index.
speccoll.library.kent.edu |
| 36. | Sybil Campbell Library | | | The Collection, built up over seventy years by the British Federation of Women Graduates, contains some 8,000 items, including material relating to women's writing and history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, women's education and their personal libraries, auto/biography, and women in wartime (including refugees).
pages.britishlibrary.net |
| 37. | National Air Photo Library | | | Collection of over six million aerial photographs covering all of Canada, some dating as far back as the 1920s.
airphotos.NRCan.gc.ca |
| 38. | Getty Research Library | | | General library consists of approximately 800,000 volumes of books, serials, and auction catalogs. The special collections encompass rare books, historical photographs, and original archival materials for the study of visual arts and culture. Access via IRIS, the library's online catalog. Materials available only on site in Los Angeles, California.
www.getty.edu |
| 39. | L. Tom Perry Special Collections | | | Preserves unique primary and secondary sources (printed, manuscript, photographic, etc.) and makes them available for research in original and digital forms at Brigham Young University.
sc.lib.byu.edu |
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