Collections A–Z
In addition to general collections and online subscription databases, ejournals, and ebooks, the Library holds over 250 named collections which are distinguished by their specialized subject matter, age, uniqueness, or value. Most of the listed collections are located in the John Hay Library. A list of digitized collections is available at the Center for Digital Initiatives site.
# | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
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- AA Grapevine Collection
- Adams (George James) Papers
- Alcoff, Linda Martin Papers
- Aldrich Collection
- American Chemical Society Records
- Ames (Robert S. and Margaret A.) Collection
- Anaesthesia Collection
- Analog: Science Fiction and Fact Records
- Anderson (Daniel J.) Papers
- Anne S. K. Brown Papers
- Anne S.K. Brown Collection
- Annmary Brown Collection
- Antarctic Collection
- Anthony (Richard H.) Papers
- Anti-Imperialism Collection
- Anti-Saloon League Collection
- Atwood (Mary Anne) Papers
- Audubon's Birds of America Collection
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B
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- Backus (Isaac) Papers
- Bailey (William Whitman) Papers
- Bakst (M. Charles) Papers
- Baptist Collection
- Baptist Biographies Collection
- Barbour (Clarence A.) Papers
- Barker (Sarah Elizabeth Minchin) Papers
- Barr (Morris Abner) Papers
- Barrett (Ellen M.) Papers
- Bartky (Sandra Lee) Collection
- Bayberry Hill Press Records
- Beckwith (David) Papers
- Benhabib (Seyla) Papers
- Bhabha (Jacqueline) Papers
- Bianchi (Martha Dickinson) Papers
- Bing Ling's Gift Books Collection
- Blake Collection
- Blake (Howard Milton) Papers
- Bookplates Collection
- Books at Brown Collection
- Borland (Mary) Papers
- Botta (Anne Charlotte Lynch) Papers
- Brennan, Teresa Papers
- Brethen Papers
- Broadsides Collection
- Brodkin (Karen) Papers
- Bromsen (Maury A.) Collection
- Brooks Family Papers
- Brown (Anne Seddon Kinsolving) Papers
- Brown (Ben W.) Papers
- Brown (Charles Wilson) collection of Brown and Wilson family Papers
- Brown (Harcourt) Papers
- Brown (Harold) Papers
- Brown (J. Carter) Papers
- Brown (John Nicholas) (1861-1900) Papers
- Brown (John Nicholas), 1900-1979 Papers
- Brown (Natalie Bayard) Papers
- Brown ACLU Records
- Brown Corporation Committee on Agricultural Lands Records
- Brown University Archives Collection
- Brown University Archives - Biographical Files Collection
- Brown University Archives - Photograph Collection
- Brown University Archives - Prints Collection
- Brown University Archives - Scrapbooks Collection
- Brown University Archives - Theatre Collection
- Brown University Archives - World War I Correspondence Collection
- Brown University Dept. of Mathematics Meeting Minutes Collection
- Brown University Herbarium Collection
- Brown University Library Russian Exchange Records
- Brown University Miscellaneous Papers
- Brown-Ives Shakespeare Collection
- Brownell (Henry Howard) Papers
- Bryson Dance Collection
- Buchan (John) Collection
- Bullard Napoleon Collection
- Burning Deck Archive
- Butler Hospital Records
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C
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- Céard (Henry) and Émile Zola Papers
- Cameron (William H.) Papers
- Canfield (Eli Hawley) Papers
- Cape Verde Collection
- Carriers Addresses Collection
- Carroll (Michael R.) Papers
- Carvely (Andrew) Collection
- Chace (Elizabeth Buffum) Papers
- Chambers Dante Collection
- Chapin (Charles V.) Personal Library
- Chapin (Charles V.) Papers
- Chapman, Abraham Papers
- Cherkofsky, Naomi Papers
- Church Collection
- Ciaraldi Comics Collection
- Ciardi (John) Papers
- Civil War Manuscripts Collection
- Clark (John Laing) Papers
- Cohen (Robert F., Jr.) Papers
- Commission on Freedom of the Press Documents and Reports
- Community Organizing Archive
- Corbett (Scott) Papers
- Corliss (George H.) Collection
- Corthell (Elmer L.) Personal Library
- Cover-to-Cover Collection
- Cramer Silver Collection
- Crosby (Harry) Papers
- Crost (Lyn) Papers
- Curtis (Minerva G.) diaries
- Cushman Collection
- Cutter (Bloodgood H.) Papers
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D
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- Damon (S. Foster) Festival Papers
- Damon Blake Collection
- Damon Occult Collection
- Dante Collection
- Dard Hunter Collection
- Dated Book Collection
- Davenport Collection
- Dealers' Catalogs Collection
- Dealey (James Quayle) photographs of China trip
- December Press Records
- Denison (Frederic) Baptist Biograpies Collection
- Dexter (Robert C. and Elisabeth A.) Papers
- Dickinson Family Papers
- Dickson (James C.) Papers
- Dixon (Nathan Fellows) Family Papers
- Dorr (Thomas Wilson) Papers
- Dotter (Earl) Collection
- Downs (T. Nelson) Collection
- Downs family Papers
- Dr. Bob Papers
- Dreyfus Affair Periodicals Collection
- Drowne Family Collection
- Dupee Fireworks Collection
- Dupee Mexican History Collection
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F
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- Fales family letters
- Farnham Archive
- Fausto-Sterling (Anne) Papers
- Fells Collection
- Feminist Theory Papers
- Fenner (Edward) Papers
- Fireworks Collection
- Fisher (Rudolph) Papers
- Foster Collection
- Fox (Mary Borland Thayer) Papers
- Fradkin (Irving A.) Papers
- Frost (Edwin Collins) and William Henry Frost Papers
- Fuller (William O.) Papers
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G
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- Gardner Collection
- Gay Paperbacks Collection
- Gaylactic Network Records
- Gerrish (Willard P.) Papers
- Gilman Land Company Records
- Glass (Jodi L.) Papers
- Gleeson (Alice Collins) Papers
- Goff family papers
- Gorham Archive
- Grapevine (AA periodical) Collection
- Green (Eleanor Burges) Papers
- Green (T.F.) Papers
- Greene (Josiah) Papers
- Greene Memorial Collection
- Greenough (Jenine Bates) Papers
- Grolier Club Records
- Grotius Collection
- Guild Papers
- Gurney (Warren S.) Papers
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H
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- H.G. Wells Collection
- Hall-Hoag Collection
- Hamilton (Henry D.) Papers
- Hamilton (Mary) Letters
- Hamm Etchings Collection
- Hanna (Muriel Marjorie Boos) Papers
- Harper Square Press Records
- Harris Collection
- Hartsock (Nancy C.M.) papers Papers
- Hawkes (John) Papers
- Hay (John Milton) Collection
- Hay (John Milton) Personal Library
- Hay (John,1915-2011) Papers
- Heath (Dwight B.) Collection
- Hedges (Elaine) Collection
- Herbarium (Brown University) Collection
- Herlihy (David) Papers
- Hill (Walter Nickerson) Papers
- History of Science Collection
- Hitler Personal Library
- Hoffman (William Henry) Napoleon I Collection
- Holden (Wheaton) Papers
- Horace Collection
- Hovan (John) Collection
- Humanities Forum of Rhode Island Records
- Hunter (Dard) Collection
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- J [top]
- K [top]
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L
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- Ladd Observatory Records
- Lamont Collection
- Land (Jon) Papers
- Langdon Papers Papers
- Laughlin Collection
- Lawrence (T.E.) Collection
- Lewis (David C.) Papers
- Lincoln (Abraham) Collection
- Linton (William James) Papers
- Littlefield (Katherine Frances) Papers
- Lord (Augustus Mendon) letters and autographs Collection
- Lovecraft Collection
- Lownes (Albert Edgar) Collection
- Lownes Science Collection
- Luce (Nancy) Papers
- Lustig Bookplates Collection
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M
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- Maas (Willard) Papers
- Machiavelli Collection
- Magic Collection
- Man (Mary) Papers
- Mann (Horace) family Papers
- Mann (Marty) Archive
- Manning (James) Papers
- Marks (Elaine) Papers
- Martensen (Augustus) Papers
- Martin (Kathryn) Papers
- Masters (Edgar Lee) Papers
- Mazansky Swords Collection
- McConoughey (Artha May) Papers
- McLellan Lincoln Collection
- Medina Microfilm Collection
- Mel B. Yoken Collection
- Metcalf Collection
- Metcalf (Edward De Forest) Papers
- Metcalf Peaceana Collection
- Mexican History Collection
- Middlebrook, Diane Papers
- Migueis Collection
- Military Collection
- Miller Collection
- Minassian Collection
- Morrill Act Papers
- Morse (Carleton D.) Whaling Collection
- Mosher (Hollis) Papers
- Muller (Otto) Papers
- Murray collection on Robert Hayden
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P
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- Palm Leaf Manuscripts Collection
- Parsons (Usher) Papers
- Patent Medicine Bottle Collection
- Paterson (William) Papers
- Perelman (S. J.) Papers
- Perry (Elizabeth Johnson) Papers
- Persian Miniature Paintings Collection
- Pharmacopoeia Collection
- Philbrick (Charles) correspondence with Hilary Master
- Phonorecords (Special Collections) Collection
- Photographs Collection
- Pillar Collection
- Pingree (David E.) Collection
- Pinkham family correspondence
- Poland (William Carey) Papers
- Portuguese Africa Collection
- Posters Collection
- Poulin Comics Collection
- Pound (Ezra) and William Carlos Williams Papers
- Powel (Harford W.H.) T.S. Eliot Collection
- Preston Archive
- Prints Collection
- Prophet (Nancy Elizabeth) Papers
- Providence Milk Commission Records
- Providence Symphony Collection
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R
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- Rare Books Collection
- Redding (J. Saunders) Papers
- Reitman (Charles) Collection
- Review Club Records
- Reynolds (Horace Mason) Papers
- Reynolds Family Correspondence Collection
- Rhode Island Baptist Heritage Center Collection
- Rhode Island College Miscellaneous Papers
- Rhode Island Disability Vote Project Records
- Rhode Island Feminist Theatre Archive
- Rhode Island Medical Society Collection
- Rhode Island Sheet Music Collection
- Rhode Island Society for the Collegiate Education of Women Records
- Rhode Island Women's Health Collective Archive
- Rhode Island Writers' Guild Records
- Rider Collection
- Roberts (Percival R.) Papers
- Robinson (Ezekial Gilman) Papers
- Robinson (James J.) Papers
- Robinson Sports Collection
- Rodney (Thomas) Papers
- Romance Novels Collection
- Rossi (Jean J.) Papers
- Russell (Jonathan) Papers
- Russian Exchange Records
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S
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- Saint Martin's Press Archive
- Saklad (Meyer) Collection
- San Fernando Poetry Journal Records
- Sargent (Frances Herriott) Papers
- Schirmer Collection
- Scholarship America Records
- Schor (Naomi) Papers
- Scotland (Orkney Islands) Collection
- Scott Library Collection
- Screenplays, 1938-1980 Collection
- Sears (Barnas) Papers
- Second Coming Press Records
- Selle (Earl Albert) Papers
- Seven Hills Garden Club Records
- Shakespearian Advertiser printing blocks Collection
- Sharp (Martha and Waitstill) Collection
- Sharpe (Mary Elizabeth) Papers
- Shaw (George Bernard) Collection
- Sheet Music Collection
- Sherman (Stuart C.) Papers
- Silver (Cramer) Collection
- Silver (Rollo) Collection
- Skidmore Collection
- Slides (John Hay Library) Collection
- Small Books Collection
- Smith (Augustus William) Papers
- Smith (Harry) Papers
- Smith (Robert Holbrook) Papers
- Smith Magic Collection
- Smith, Barbara Herrnstein Papers
- Snell Mycology Collection
- Snyder (Clarence H.) Collection
- Sorrentino (Mary Ann) Papers
- Spooner (Edna Maine) Collection
- St. Martin's Press Archive
- Stamp Collection
- Starred Book Collection
- Stephens (C.A.) Collection
- Stevens (Mitchell L.) Papers
- Stillwell Papers
- Stone Country Press Records
- Sunbury Press Records
- Swan Antarctic Collection
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T
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- Tefft (Thomas Alexander) Architectural Drawings Collection
- Television Scripts Archive
- Textbook Collection
- Thatcher (Henry Knox) Papers
- Third & Elm Press Archive
- Thoreau (Henry David) Collection
- Tierney Collection Archive
- Tilly (Louise A.) Papers
- Tinker Collection
- Tom Powers collection of Bill Wilson public talks Collection
- Trinity Repertory Company Archive
- Truesdell (Leon E.) Papers
- Turner (William Mason) Papers
- Tyler correspondence from E. Pound and W.C. Williams Papers
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W
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- Waggoner Collection
- Wandering Jew Collection
- Ward (Lester Frank) Collection
- Watson (John Brown) Collection
- Watson (Thomas J., Jr.) Papers
- Weeks Family Papers
- Wegelin (Oscar) Papers
- Weird Tales Collection
- Wellman (Manly Wade) Papers
- Wells (H.G.) Collection
- Wengenroth Collection
- West Coast Poetry Review Records
- Whaling Collection
- Wheaton Collection
- Wheaton (Henry) Papers
- White (William Wurts) Family Papers
- Whiting (Kenneth P.) Papers
- Whitman (Sarah Helen) Papers
- Williams (Blanche) Papers
- Williams Table Collection
- Wilmeth (Don B.) research files
- Winans (A. D.) Collection
- World War I Correspondence Collection
- Wyllys (Samuel) Papers
- Wyman (Loraine) Collection
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