- Eli Siegel Collection - http://www.EliSiegelCollection.net/
Collection includes books on literature, philosophy, history, art, economics, and science, many of which contain handwritten annotations by Mr. Siegel (1902-1978). The Collection is open by appointment to persons seriously studying Aesthetic Realism.
- The Rothschild Archive - http://www.rothschildarchive.org
Located in London, England, the archive was established to preserve the record of a family that was widely recognized for contributions to the economic, political, and social history of many countries throughout the world.
- ASU Special Collections - http://www.asu.edu/lib/speccoll/
Collection of rare books and manuscripts and numerous special-interest collections centered around particular persons or topics of interest to scholars. Located at Arizona State University.
- Marion Thompson Collection - http://www.vpl.vancouver.bc.ca/branches/LibrarySquare/spe/marionth.html
A collection of rare children's books published between 1870 and 1940 located in Vancouver, B.C., Canada. Some books have restricted access due to condition or value.
- University of Alberta Bruce Peel Special Collections Library - http://www.library.ualberta.ca/specialcollections/index.cfm
Collection includes many rare and fragile works including pre-18th John Bunyan, 18th century English poetry and plays, and Victorian and Edwardian Children's Fiction. Access restrictions apply.
- Los Angeles Public Library - Rare Books Department - http://www.lapl.org/central/rare_books.html
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.
- SFSU J. Paul Leonard Library -- Special Collections & Archives - http://www.library.sfsu.edu/special/archives1.html
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.
- Margaret Herrick Library - http://www.oscars.org/mhl/
Offers extensive research and reference collections about the motion picture industry.
- The Morrison Collection - http://uk.geocities.com/Morrison1782/
A collection held at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) containing Chinese books, manuscripts, and operas collected by Dr. Robert Morrison between 1807 and 1824.
- Long Island Division at the Queens Borough Public Library - http://www.queenslibrary.org/central/longisland/index.asp
A local history collection of the four counties of Long Island. Includes specialized publications from current and past publishers, family manuscripts, historical maps and atlases, and turn of the 20th century photographs.
- Guelph Public Library (GPL) Local History Archives - http://www.library.guelph.on.ca/localhistory/
Public and private records on the history of Guelph, Ontario, Canada featuring a guide for genealogists, finding aids, and a searchable photograph database.
- The Thomas B Mack Florida Citrus Archives - http://www.geocities.com/tbm_flcitrusarchives/index.html?984794507150
Collection includes documents, labels, photographs, maps, ledgers of Florida citrus history.
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library - http://www.library.yale.edu/beinecke/
Features one of the few original, remaining Gutenberg Bibles, a sunken sculpture garden and translucent marble "windows." Located on the campus of Yale University.
- Simon Fraser University Library Special Collections - http://www.lib.sfu.ca/about/collections/specificcollections/specialcollections/spcl.htm
Located in Burnaby, British Columbia, the library houses several types of collections including one on children's literature.
- University of California, Irvine - Special Collections and Archives - http://www.lib.uci.edu/libraries/collections/special/special.html
Collections of rare books, manuscripts, photographs, works distinguished for their illustrations, bindings, or fine printing, several distinguished subject collections, and University Archives. Restrictions on access apply.
- National First Ladies Library - http://www.firstladies.org/
Located in the home of Ida McKinley in Canton, Ohio, this library includes biographies, photos, oral histories, and other materials about U.S. First Ladies.
- University of Oregon Special Collections and University Archives - http://libweb.uoregon.edu/speccoll/
Houses rare books and manuscripts including the papers of Sen. Wayne Morse, children's literature, documentation of women in society, missionaries, feminist and lesbian periodicals, Oregon trail diaries, and architectural materials.
- The Scherer Library of Musical Theatre at Goodspeed - http://www.goodspeed.org/library/
Collection of scores, sheet music, scripts, original cast recordings, programs, photographs, and theatre memorabilia in a facility located in East Haddam, Connecticut.
- Bibliotheca Alexandrina - http://www.bibalex.org/
Includes materials in a variety of languages plus a special collection of United Nations resources.
- Sybil Campbell Library - http://pages.britishlibrary.net/scl/
Collection built by the British Federation of Women Graduates includes material relating to women's writing and history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, women's education, biographies, and women in wartime.
- National Air Photo Library - http://airphotos.NRCan.gc.ca/
Collection containing millions of aerial photographs of Canada from the 1920s to present.
- Getty Research Library - http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/library/
Collection emphasizes the history of architecture. Contains rare books, prints, maps, photographs, optical devices, and manuscripts located in Los Angeles, CA.
- The Jacob M. Lowy Collection - http://www.collectionscanada.ca/6/6/
Hebraica and Judaica, Rare Bibles, and Hebrew Incunables spanning several centuries.
- Balson Holdings Family Trust - http://www.bhft.com/
Historical collections including politics, maps, coins, bank notes, and African artifacts.
- Pitcairn Islands Study Center - http://library.puc.edu/pitcairn/
A museum-research facility at Pacific Union College containing materials on Pitcairn and the Mutiny on the Bounty.
- Josep Bosch Historical Newspapers Collection - http://www.josepbosch.net/
A project to recover, restore, preserve and exhibit historical newspapers from all over the world. The emphasis is to collect newspapers published in the city or country where the event took place.
- King's College London, Foyle Special Collections Library - http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/iss/library/speccoll/
Collection has particular strengths in modern Greek and Byzantine studies, Portuguese studies, voyages and travels, theology, literature, medicine and science. Some materials have restricted access.
- The Toppan Rare Books Library - http://ahc.uwyo.edu/about/departments/toppan.htm
Housed at the University of Wyoming, Laramie, the collection specializes in the history and literature of America (particularly the West), the history and literature of the British Isles and Europe, world-wide travel and exploration, fishing, hunting, and natural history, and books written by women authors (particularly before 1900).
- The Great White Fleet - http://www.greatwhitefleet.info
Presents the history and a collection of rare items related to the 1908 fleet of battleships called the Great White Fleet.
- Civil War Newspapers - http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/the-civil-war.htm
Contains readable, searchable Harper's Weekly Civil War newspapers from 1861-1865.
- Children's Literature Research Collections - http://special.lib.umn.edu/clrc/
Contains children's literature collections available for research use at the University of Minnesota Elmer L. Anderson Library, including Kerlan, Hess, Treasure Island, Oz, and Paul Bunyan.
- Literature for Children - http://susdl.fcla.edu/juv/
A collection of digitized children's literature titles from the 17th through 20th centuries.
- The Yale Map Collection - http://www.library.yale.edu/MapColl/
Houses rare sheet maps (pre-1850) and other map and reference collections.
- Canberra Bushfires - http://canberrafires.xsnet.org/
Photo galleries and information documenting the Canberra Bushfires of 2003.
- Burton Library Special Collections - http://www.detroit.lib.mi.us/Special_Collections/special_collections.htm
Books, maps, and genealogies, most of which is specific to the Detroit area. Library card required for access.
- San Francisco Performing Arts Library & Museum - http://www.sfpalm.org/collections/collections.htm
A collection of materials about performing arts including dance, music, and theater, with an emphasis on the San Francisco Bay area.
- Vanderbilt University Special Collections and University Archives - http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/speccol/collections.shtml
Collection contains manuscripts, photographs, performing arts materials, and rare books in divinity, history of religion and Methodism, history of fine paper and printing, significant Mark Twain editions, a collection of 18th and 19th-century accounts by travelers to Latin America, Mesoamerican codices, and a subject collection in demonology and witchcraft.
- University of Southern California Special Collections - http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/collections/
Collections include Los Angeles regional history, American literature, Lion Feuchtwanger and the German emigre experience, natural history, and university history.
- An Gorta Mor: The Great Hunger Archive - http://www.thegreathunger.org
Collection of books and art about the Irish famine, including digitized handwritten pages from the Board of Guardians meetings in Killarney.
- Collect Britain - http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/
Presents images and sounds from the British Library, chosen to evoke places in the UK and beyond.
- University of Michigan Special Collections Library - http://www.lib.umich.edu/spec-coll/
A variety of collections including an assortment of ancient papyri dating to 300 BC. Papyri topics include Biblical fragments, religious writings, public and private documents, private letters, astronomical, astrological, mathematical, and magical texts.
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