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The Department of Special Collections and University Archives collects, preserves, and makes available primary materials of enduring historical and cultural value. Its collections, including manuscripts, photographs, sound recordings, digital files, and archival records, are made available at no cost to any researcher with a demonstrated need.
Noteworthy collections in SCUA include the papers of W.E.B. Du Bois and Horace Mann Bond (African-American intellectuals), Congressman Silvio E. Conte, Benjamin Smith Lyman, William Smith Clark, and William Penn Brooks (natural scientists), Sidney Topol (telecommunications pioneer), Jozef Obrebski (ethnographer), William Lederer, Charles Whipple, Leonard Lewin, and Harvey Swados (writers), and the papers of a number of individuals and organizations dedicated to promoting positive social change, including Carl Oglesby, Mary Wentworth, Randy Kehler, the Liberation News Service, and antinuclear organizations.
Information about all manuscript collections is included in UMarmot. Use the search box and menus to the right to navigate our collections and to locate collections of interest.
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