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A closer look at items from the treasure trove of the Robert D. Farber University Archives and Special Collections at Brandeis University
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To learn more about these and other collections held in Brandeis University's Special Collections, please email ascdepartment@brandeis.edu.
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The Archives and Special Collections department houses the gems of the Brandeis library. The rare book collection includes incunabula; books published in the 16th - 18th centuries on such subjects as history, English and American literature, philosophy, and Judaica; first and limited editions; and fine press publications. Book collections of note include the Baldwin Shakespeare collection and the McKew-Parr Collection on Magellan and the Age of Discovery. Special Collections also holds literary manuscripts of European and American authors such as John Cheever and Joseph Heller, as well as music collections and photographic collections. In addition, it includes collections of materials on the Spanish Civil War, left- and right-wing movements in the United States in the latter half of the twentieth century, anti-Semitism, the Holocaust, twentieth-century anti-alien and anti-radical movements in the United States, and Zionism. The department also includes the papers of prominent political figures such as Louis D. Brandeis, Benjamin Disraeli, and Daniel Webster.
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- Oscars at Brandeis!
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- Theobaldus's Phisiologus de Naturis Duodecim Animalum, 1493
- Children's Literature Collection
- The Crimean War in the French and British satirical press
- The Lenny Bruce Collection
- Theresienstadt concentration camp documents, 1939-1945
- Leonard Baskin & The Gehenna Press, 1951-1971
- Witches, Demons, and Ghosts in Special Collections
- Zora Neale Hurston’s Jonah’s Gourd Vine
- Dr. and Mrs. Bernard H. Kessner Collection of Doughty Birds
- Franz Lehman letters and other material, 1943-1949
- Burmese Palm Leaf Manuscripts
- Brandeis Special Collections on the Internet Archive - Part II in an occasional series
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- Colonel Edward H. McCrahon Family Collection of World War I Posters
- Fore-edge paintings
- Stereoscopic Slides of the Holy Land, from the Dan Tassel photography collection
- Trustman Collection of Honoré Daumier Lithographs
- Brandeis Special Collections on the Internet Archive - Part I in an occasional series
- Ernest A. Young papers, 1871-1936
- Wright and Ellison first editions
- Thomas Paine's Common Sense, 1776
- Miniature Books
- Louis Nye collection, 1609-1714
- Spanish Civil War periodical collection, 1923-2009
- Leonardo da Vinci collection
- Roger Tory Peterson Photographs
- Thomas Aquinas’s Summa theologica
- ¡Jovenes! (circa 1937)
- Le Istitutioni Harmoniche by Gioseffo Zarlino, 1558
- Nahum Goldmann collection, 1910-2004
- Punch's Pocket Book, 1844-1881
- 19th-century playbooks
- Carl Van Vechten photographs, 1932-1964
- T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land
- Buffalo Bill Dime Novels
- Once upon a time...Rare and Fine Press Editions of Fairy Tales
- Diary (1859-1886) of William Ayrton
- Women's History Month: Women in Publishing
- Pennyroyal Caxton bible
- More than Just a John Hancock: The Signers of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution Collections
- African, Afro-Caribbean and African American photographs and ephemera collection
- Revolutionary books and revolutionary wars
- Shakespeare collection
- History of the Indian Tribes of North America
- Pauline Trigère papers
- Joan Crawford awards
- Max Nomad papers
- Hugo Oehler collection
- The Three Ages of the Colonies
- Merchant's scale and weight box
- Paris Commune posters
- Leo Rosten papers
- Albert Eugene Kahn papers
- Muriel and Jeremy Josse Collection of Holy Land Maps
- Jewish Resistance Collection
- Marcel Proust letters
- Arthur Laurents collection
- Victorian Ephemera
- World War II Guernsey scrapbook
- L'Encyclopédie
- Charles Darwin's Origin of Species
- Sophie Tucker scrapbooks
- Charles Korvin photographs, circa 1937-1938
- Autograph collection, 1621-1985, undated
- French Revolution pamphlets, 1761-1807
- William Lloyd Garrison collection
- Bernice and Henry Tumen collection
- Walter E. Fernald Developmental Center’s Samuel Gridley Howe Library collections
- Jack J. and Therese G. Katz collection of Chinese snuff bottles
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- Isaac Newton manuscript
- Louis Dembitz Brandeis collection
- Eric M. Lipman collection of Nazi documents
- Native American watercolors
- Daniel Webster collection
- Spitzer family papers
- The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye and the Kelmscott Press
- Perry Miller Collection on the Colonial Religious Experience in America
- Nuremberg Chronicle (Liber Chronicarum)
- Dante's Divine Comedy, censored by Spanish Inquisition
- Diary of a World War I Aid Worker
- Lewis S. Feuer Papers
- The First Part of the Life and raigne of King Henrie the IIII
- A Few Illuminated Medieval Manuscripts at Brandeis
- Bern Dibner Collection in the History of Science
- Rare Gift Books
- Spanish Civil War Poster Collection
- Paul Iribe's Le Témoin
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- Leo Frank Trial Collection, 1909-1961
- Joseph Heller Catch-22 manuscript and correspondence
- Experiments and Observations on Electricity Made at Philadelphia in America, by Benjamin Franklin
- Radical Pamphlet Collection
- Léon Lipschutz collection of Dreyfusiana and French Judaica
- Johannes Buxtorf, Christian Hebraist (1564-1629)
- The First Bookplate
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- Helmut Hirsch Collection
- The Walter F. and Alice Gorham Collection of Early Music Imprints
- Abraham Lincoln documents and ephemera
- Hall-Hoag Collection of Extremist Literature in the United States
- Walt Whitman Collection
- World War I and World War II Propaganda Posters Collection
- Identifying a Renaissance Manuscript
- McKew Parr Collection: Magellan and the Age of Discovery
- Sacco and Vanzetti collections
- Three Books of Renaissance Cryptography and the Secret of Shakespearean Authorship
- Victor Young Collection
- Sermones Thesauri Novi de Tempore, 1496, bound in Hebrew manuscript
- 14th-century Italian illuminated breviary leaf: Feast of Epiphany
- Michael Lally Civil War letters, 1861-1865
- Geneva Bible. London: Deputies of Christopher Barker, Printer to the Queenes most excellent Majestie, 1589
- S.M.S., William Copley, Letter Edged in Black Press, Inc., 1968
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