Special Collections Spotlight
A closer look at items from the treasure trove of the Special Collections at Brandeis University
Featured Essay: Havurat Shalom Records
Brandeis University's Archives and Special Collections department now holds the Havurat Shalom records collection, which contains materials, created in 1968-76, documenting the founding and early years of this groundbreaking institution.
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, 1909-961
- 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