This is an alphabetical listing of major collections held by Special Collections at the Libraries. For more information on an individual collection, click on the “more information” link below each collection. Additionally, if an online finding aid or a digital surrogate of the collection is available, these are also listed. For additional information on these named collections and the general rare book collections, consult Blais, The Claremont Colleges’ on-line catalog, the Special Collections card catalog, the Denison Library card catalog, and the staff in each special collections. All collections are located in Special Collections in Honnold/Mudd Library unless otherwise indicated.
A
Edward Aborn Collection
(more information) |(Finding Aid)
Hollis P. Allen Collection
(more information)| (Finding Aid)
William B. Allen Civil Rights Papers
Arion Press Collection, Andrew Hoyem
Matthew Arnold Collection
Asian Studies Collection
Averell Collection
B
Aubrey Beardsley Collection (located in Denison)
(more information)| (Denison Library)
Bodman Collection
Bolsa Chica Collection
(more information)|(Finding Aid)
Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning Collection (located in Denison)
(more information)| (Denison Library)
Robert Burton Collection
Samuel Butler Collection
“Globe fait pour être dirigé, c. 1785.” from Ballons by the Ariel Press from the Carruthers Collection.
C
California College in China Collection
James Carruthers Memorial Aviation Collection
China Missionaries Collections: Grace Rowley papers
China Missionaries Oral History Project
The Claremont Colleges Archives
Claremont Community Players Playbill Collection
Claremontiana
William W. Clary Oxford Collection
Reverend Walton E. Cole Papers
(more information)| (Finding Aid)
Congregational Church Papers
(more information) | (Finding Aid)
Corrin Collection
Bernard H. Craven Playbill Collection
Crispin Collection
D
Kewen Dorsey Collection
Dryden Collection
E
T.S. Eliot Collection (located in Denison)
Raymond Morgan Elliott Papers
F
Charles R. and Hanna F. Flack Collection on Bookplates
Frampton Collection
G
Gomperz Correspondence
(more information) |(Finding Aid)
Frederic Goudy Collection (located in Denison)
Grabhorn Press (located in both Honnold/Mudd and Denison Libraries)
H
The Frontispieces from Georg Andreas Böckler’s Theatrum Machinarum Novum, from the Hoover Collection.
Alexa Fullerton Hampton Collection (located in Denison)
Phil Townsend Hanna Collection (located in Denison)
Haskett Family Collection
(more information) |(Finding Aid)
Ernest Hemingway Collection
(more information) | (Finding Aid)
Hoover Collection
Howard-Miller Collection (located in Denison)
Andrew Hoyem, Arion Press Collection
Rupert Hughes Collection of Material on George Washington
J
Louise Seymour Jones Collection (located in Denison)
Jordan Photograph Collection
L
T. E. Lawrence Collection
Francis Haynes Lindley Memorial Collection
Lindley Scrapbooks
(more information) | (Finding Aid)
M
Arthur Machen Collection
Ida Rust Macpherson Collection (located in Denison)
George Martin Papers
William Smith Mason Collection of Western Americana
Mavor Collection of Russian Economic History
General Jose Maria Maytorena Papers
(more information)| (Finding Aid)
Joaquin Miller in 1904, from the Joaquin Miller Collection.
Frederick McCormick Korean Collection
Robert Guy McCutchan Collection of Hymnology
William McPherson Collection
(more information) | (San Gabriel Mission Matrimonial Investigation Records digital collection)
Addison M. Metcalf Collection of Gertrude Steiniana (located in Denison)
Mexican Newspapers Collection
Joaquin Miller Collection
(more information) | (Finding Aid)
Howard Mills Collection
(more information) | (Finding Aid)
William Morris and the Kelmscott Press (located in Denison)
N
Napoleonia
Nepal Papers
Nineteenth-Century Political Pamphlets
Nineteenth-Century Religious Pamphlets
Nordic Collections
Charles K. North and Herbert R. Rifkind Collection
O
Oxford Collection, William W. Clary
P
Pacific Coast Steamship Companies Papers Collection
(more information) | (Finding Aid)
Pacifica Collection of Austronesian Languages
Padua Hills Theatre Playbill Collection
(for more information: Contact Special Collections)
Marion Parks Papers
(more information) |(Finding Aid)
Lee Pattison Papers on the Federal Works Project in Music (located in Denison)
John I. Perkins Collection (located in Denison)
William B. Pettus Papers
(part of the California College in China Collection)
Geraldine Womack and Norman D. Philbrick Library of Dramatic Arts and Theatre History
Alexander Pogo Collection on Classical Antiquity (located in Denison)
Printing Ephemera (located in both Honnold/Mudd and Denison Libraries)
R
Charles K. North and Herbert R. Rifkind Collection
Grace Rowley papers, China Missionaries Collections
Rude-Frankenfield Papers
Second Lt. George T. Rudkin Collection of World War II Letters & Pictures
S
Early American School Books Collection
Ernestine Schumann-Heink Collection
Scripps College Archives (located in Denison)
Scripps College Press Archive (located in Denison)
Ellen B. Scripps Collection
John Laurence Seymour Collection
William B. Simpson Collection
(more information) | (Finding Aid)
Upton Sinclair Collection
Brian Stonehill Papers
Kimberly Stuart Papermaking Collection (located in Denison)
T
Edward John Trelawny Collection
(more information) | (Finding Aid)
Tschebotarioff Papers
“Monterey Cypress-Grove”, 1867, from the Vischer Collection.
V
Drawings and Photographs of Edward Vischer
(more information) | (Finding Aid)
H. Jerry Voorhis Papers
(more information) | (Finding Aid)
W
Wagner Collection of Western Americana
Irving Wallace Archive
War Relocation Authority Records
(more information) | (Finding Aid)
Mrs. Humphry Ward Collection
Water Resources Collection
Wheeler Scrapbook—Book One, Page 1 (more information).
Wellingtoniana
Western College Association Collection
Wheeler Scrapbooks
Elbert A. Wickes Theatre Arts Collection
Michael G. Wilson Collection
Wing Pamphlets
Woodford Collection
Y
Max Yavno Photograph Collection
Z
Zamorano Club Keepsake Collection
(more information) | (Finding Aid)