The Ames Library
Tate Archives & Special Collections
Current Holdings
The Special Collections vault holds materials that are rare, valuable, or too delicate for the library's circulating collection. In contrast to the University Archives, each collection here is distinct and unrelated to the others, although some do have a connection to the University.
Organizational records & Individuals' manuscript collections
- 6th District Nursing Association Records
- Leslie Arends Congressional Collection
- Jared Brown Collection of Biographical Sources
- Arrah Lee Gaul Collection
- Arthur D. Jordan Collection
- Minor Myers, jr. Personal Papers
- Nursing Lantern Slides Collection
- John Wesley Powell Collection: primary and secondary source material
- Schultz Collection of Juvenile Literature
- Sandra Steingraber Collection
- Marcia Thomas Collection of Powell Bibliography Sources
- Vietnam Periodicals (English-language)
Book collections (all monographs are searchable in the library's online catalog; links below provide
collection descriptions and browseable title lists, when appropriate)
- Artists Books Collection
- Blackstock Press Collection
- Beat Writers Collection
- Book Arts Collection
- Conduct of Life Collection
- Pearl Funk Limited Editions Club Collection
- John T. Gernon Collection - First Editions of Detective Fiction
- Lakeside Press Collection
- Selections from Minor Myers, jr's Personal Collection
- John Wesley Powell and the American West
- W.E. Schultz Collection of John Gay and the 18th & 19th Century British Stage