Collections

Special Collections contains over 450,000 printed works, numerous manuscript and archival collections, and an extensive collection of ephemera. Listed below are some of the highlights of our materials.

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Did you Know...

• Special Collections holds four newspapers produced by the African American students at MSU as part of the Ethnic Studies Collection: The Grapevine Journal, People's Choice, Speak, and The Legacy.
• Most of the digitized radicalism documents represent items that have been frequently requested by MSU students for their research papers over the past 25 years.
• Special Collections displays and highlights materials from its collections in exhibit cases that surround the reading room. These displays are changed several times a year.