This is a guide by type to 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.
Archives
Bolsa Chica Collection
The Claremont Colleges Archives
Scripps College Archives (located in Denison)
Scripps College Press Archive (located in Denison)
Brian Stonehill Papers
(view online finding aid at the OAC)
Irving Wallace Archive
Artifacts
(Many collections have some artifacts associated with them, including family memorabilia, or items that form a portion of a collection.)
Bookplates
(for example see the Charles R. and Hanna F. Flack Collection on Bookplates or the Louise Seymour Jones Collection)
(for more information: Contact Special Collections)
Claremont Colleges banners, T-shirts, and other items
(for more information: Contact Special Collections)
D’Estournelles family silver, furniture, and memorabilia
(for more information: Contact Special Collections)
Honnold family memoribilia
(for more information: Contact Special Collections)
Ship model
(for more information: Contact Special Collections)
Tahitian wooden objects
(for more information: Contact Special Collections)
Theater model
(for more information: Contact Special Collections)
Westergaard memorabilia
(for more information: Contact Special Collections)
Artworks
Prints and drawings
(for more information: Contact Special Collections)
Original Native American paintings (located in Denison)
(for more information: Contact Special Collections)
Geraldine Womack and Norman D. Philbrick Library of Dramatic Arts and Theatre History: theatrical posters, costume designs, engravings and prints
Posters from World War I and II
(for more information: Contact Special Collections)
Max Yavno Photograph Collection
(view online finding aid at the OAC)
Films and videos
The Claremont Colleges Archives: including a video narrated by Ronald Reagan about Claremont McKenna College
Irving Wallace Archive
Hymnbooks
Robert Guy McCutchan Collection of Hymnology: 17th to 20th century American and British hymnals
Incunabula
(Early printed books are contained in these collections.)
Bodman Collection: Italian Renaissance, 15th and 16th centuries
Crispin Collection: early Bibles, missals, and psalters
Hoover Collection: mining and metallurgy
Oxford Collection, William W. Clary: Oxford University and the City of Oxford, England, 1200 to present
John I. Perkins Collection: Rare Book Room at Denison
Michael G. Wilson Collection
Maps
William Smith Mason Collection of Western Americana: c1600 to present, maps of the West and California
Wagner Collection of Western Americana: original maps, atlases, and 629 photostat maps made before 1800 that include California
Water Resources Collection: maps associated with water issues in California
Manuscripts
(Personal papers)
Averell Collection: Civil War manuscripts of Maj. Gen. William Woods Averell
Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning Collection (located in Denison)
China Missionaries Collections: Grace Rowley papers
(view online finding aid at the OAC)
The Claremont Colleges Archives: published and unpublished manuscripts associated with The Claremont Colleges
Eva LeGallienne
(part of the Ida Rust Macpherson Collection)
General Jose Maria Maytorena Papers: 1910 Mexican Revolution
William McPherson Collection
(more information | San Gabriel Mission Matrimonial Investigation Records digital collection)
Addison M. Metcalf Collection of Gertrude Steiniana: Gertrude Stein papers, manuscripts, photographs, books (located in Denison)
Joaquin Miller Collection: turn-of-the-century, western writer
Marianne Moore
(part of the Ida Rust Macpherson Collection (located in Denison))
Oxford Collection, William W. Clary: notebooks of John Abbott, an undergraduate at Balliol College, Oxford, ca. 1599
From the San Gabriel Marriage Investigation Acts from the McPherson Collection.(more information).
San Gabriel Mission Matrimonial Investigation Records: 1788–1861 (part of the William McPherson Collection)
May Sarton
(part of the Ida Rust Macpherson Collection (located in Denison))
Ellen B. Scripps Collection
(view online finding aid at the OAC)
George Sterling
(for more information: Contact Special Collections)
Terry-Irving-Craig Collection
(Part of the Geraldine Womack and Norman D. Philbrick Library of Dramatic Arts and Theatre History)
Twain: manuscript of Mark Twain’s A Tramp Abroad
(for more information: Contact Special Collections)
H. Jerry Voorhis Papers: H. Jerry Voorhis (U.S. House of Rep., 1936–46) So. Calif., 1919–84
Mrs. Humphry Ward Collection
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
(Descriptions may be found in Dutschke, C.W. Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the Claremont Libraries. Copies located in Honnold and Denison Special Collections, and Honnold Reference: Z 6621 H5814 1986.)
Bodman Collection: Italian renaissance Book of Hours, and manuscript letters
Robert Burton Collection: Vita Spatrum
Crispin Collection: sermons, Bibles, books of hours, missals, psalters, and antiphonals
John I. Perkins Collection (located in the Rare Book Room at Denison)
Wig Antiphonal
(for more information: Contact Special Collections)
Music Scores
Ernestine Schumann-Heink Collection: personal music library of Madame Ernestine Schumann-Heink (1861–1936), Austrian-born opera singer
John Laurence Seymour Collection: scores and librettos of 17th to 20th century European operas
Charles K. North and Herbert R. Rifkind Collection: flute music scores
Newspapers
California newspapers
(for more information: Contact Special Collections)
Claremont Colleges student newspapers
(for more information: Contact Special Collections)
Mexican Newspapers Collection: 1821–1927
Pamphlets
(see also Playbills)
Mavor Collection of Russian Economic History: 19th and early 20th centuries
Nineteenth-Century Political Pamphlets
Nineteenth-Century Religious Pamphlets
Tschebotarioff Papers: Russia, the Ukraine and the Cossack movements
Water Resources Collection
Wing Pamphlets: more than 700 political tracts from 17th century England
Photographs
China Missionaries Collections: Grace Rowley papers
(view online finding aid at the OAC)
The Claremont Colleges Archives
Edward S. Curtis’s The North American Indian
(part of the William Smith Mason Collection of Western Americana)
Frampton Collection: images of the City of Claremont and of The Claremont Colleges, 1945–1967
Haskett Family Collection: southwestern U.S. views, portraits of American Indians, European stereoscopic views, and Matthew Brady’s Civil War Generals carte de visite set
Jordan Photograph Collection: fifty photographs from the time of the Russian Revolution
Mavor Collection of Russian Economic History: 19th and early 20th centuries
Addison M. Metcalf Collection of Gertrude Steiniana: Gertrude Stein papers, manuscripts, photographs, books (located in Denison)
William McPherson Collection
Marion Parks Papers: histories and photographs, Southern California, 1920–1940s
Olive Percival Collection
(for more information: Contact Special Collections)
Max Yavno Photograph Collection
(view online finding aid at the OAC)
Playbills
Geraldine Womack and Norman D. Philbrick Library of Dramatic Arts and Theatre History: English and American playbills
Bernard H. Craven Playbill Collection: from drama, dance, music, and film productions from 1966–1987
Claremont Community Players Playbill Collection
Elbert A. Wickes Theatre Arts Collection
Schoolbooks
Early American School Books Collection: over 100 volumes published between 1713 and 1879; given by Mrs. George Mauger
Scrapbooks
The Claremont Colleges Archives: in particular, many early Pomona College scrapbooks
Lindley Scrapbooks (part of the Francis Haynes Lindley Memorial Collection)
(more information | view online finding aid at the OAC)
George Martin Papers: papers and scrapbooks from 1900–1962, Los Angeles area
Wheeler Scrapbooks: early history of Pomona College and the City of Claremont