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...

• Researchers have traveled to East Lansing, specifically to visit the Comic Art Collection, from Australia, Austria, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Japan, and Ann Arbor, Michigan!
• A unique resource for research, found in our Ethnic Studies Collection, is a locally assembled collection of over 150 boycott and other Latino buttons and badges representing numerous causes in the Latino community since 1936.
• Numerous first editions works of eminent gay and lesbian writers from the past such as Walt Whitman, Gertrude Stein, and William Burroughs are available here for research. For more information see the GLBT Materials.