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Waldo Library, #3016
Phone: 269-387-5221
Fax: 269-387-5077
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Cistercian, Medieval, Literature & More Collections

Cistercian and Monastic Studies Collections

• Institute for Cistercian Studies Collections:
  • Dom Edmund Obrecht OCSO Gethsemani Abbey Collection
• M. Basil Pennington OCSO Archive
• Jeremiah O' Sullivan Collection
• Lawrence Braceland SJ Papers
• Msgr. Joseph Turk Papers
• Medieval Manuscripts
• Incunabula

Medieval Studies Collections

• The Aelfric Archive
• R. H. C. Davis Collection
• Edward B. Irving, Jr. Old English Collection
• Tedeschi Collection
• Medieval Manuscript Facsimiles
  • Early English Manuscripts in Facsimile Series
• Jeremy Griffiths Manuscript Sale and Auction Catalogs Collection
• Medieval Manuscript Collection
• Incunabula

Carol Ann Haenicke American Women's Poetry Collection

• Harrison Hayford Emily Dickinson Collection
• May Sarton Collection
• Katharine M. Briggs Collection
• Besmilr Brigham-William Inman Collection
• Howard Hilles-Corinne Roosevelt Robinson Collection
• Judith Moffett Literary Correspondence Collection
• Carol Bergé - Judson Crews Papers

Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Literature Collections

• Historical Children's Book Collection
• Brick Row Nineteenth Century American Literary Criticism Collection
• Irish Literature Collection
  • William Butler Yeats Collection
  • James Joyce Collection
• South African Literature Collection
  • Alan S. Paton Collection
• Walt Whitman Collection
• W. H. Auden Collection
• The Carter Burden Archibald MacLeish Collection
• Ben Tibbs Poetry and Graphic Arts Collection
• John Woods Poetry Collection
• Dr. Frederick Dunn Donald Hall Collection
• Phyllis J. Delano Authors and Homesites Collection

Nineteenth and Twentieth Century History Collections

• Dwight B. Waldo Lincoln Collection
• Fred Hartenstein Collection of Autographs
• Edwin W. Polk Colletion and Howard Mowen N.S.D.A.P. Collection

Book Arts Collections: Paper and Fine Printing

• Private Press Books, Limited Editions, and Artists' Books
  • Seamus Cooney Black Sparrow Press Collection
  • Ives Street Press Archive
  • Martin Cohen Collection of Kalamazoo Fine Press Ephemera
  • Ladislav R. Hanka Book Arts Archive
• Crimilda Pontes Graphic Arts Archive
• Tennessee Dixon's The Princess and the Peacocks Archive
• Eunice LeFevre Miniature Book Collection
• Jean E. Lowrie Collection
• Frank Allen Bookplate Collection

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