Robert D. Farber University Archives and Special Collections

Special Collections Spotlight

A closer look at items from the treasure trove of the Special Collections at Brandeis University

All Essays

• Havurat Shalom Records
• Oscars at Brandeis!
• Judaica Materials in Special Collections
• Marcia Freedman Papers
• Trimalchio (or, The Great Gatsby)
• Coptic Liturgy and Prayers — The Anaphora of Saint Cyril
• Theobaldus' 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, 1939-45
• Leonard Baskin and The Gehenna Press, 1951-71
• 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, 1943–49
• Burmese Palm Leaf Manuscripts
• Brandeis Special Collections on the Internet Archive — Part II in an Occasional Series
• Langston Hughes Treasures in Special Collections
• 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!
• Le Istitutioni Harmoniche by Gioseffo Zarlino, 1558
• Nahum Goldmann Collection, 1910-2004
• Punch's Pocket Book, 1844-81
• 19th-Century Playbooks
• Carl Van Vechten Photographs, 1932-64
• T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land
• Buffalo Bill Dime Novels
• Once Upon a Time… Rare and Fine Press Editions of Fairy Tales
• Diary (1859-86) 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" From the Book Collection of Charles J. Tanenbaum
• 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 Correspondence
• Victorian Ephemera
• World War II Guernsey Scrapbook
• L'Encyclopédie
• Charles Darwin's on the Origin of Species
• Sophie Tucker Scrapbooks
• Charles Korvin Photographs
• 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
• Consistoire Central Israélite de France Collection
• Isaac Newton Manuscript
• Louis Dembitz Brandeis Collection
• Eric M. Lipman Collection of Nazi Documents
• Native American Watercolors
• The Man Who Would Not Be Vice President: The 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
• Pimander, Sive de Potestate et Sapientia Dei
• Leo Frank Trial Collection, 1909-1961
• Joseph Heller's Catch-22 Manuscript and Correspondence
• Experiments and Observations on Electricity Made at Philadelphia in America
• Radical Pamphlet Collection
• Léon Lipschutz Collection of Dreyfusiana and French Judaica
• Johannes Buxtorf, Christian Hebraist (1564-1629)
• The First Bookplate
• Charter of the Confraternity of the Holy Rosary
• Helmut Hirsch Collection
• Abraham Lincoln Documents and Ephemera
• The Walter F. and Alice Gorham Collection of Early Music Imprints
• Hall–Hoag Collection of Extremist Literature in the United States
• Walt Whitman Collection
• World War I and World War II Propaganda Posters Collection
• 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, 1861-65
• 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