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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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• Much of the Changing Men Collection was microfilmed in 2002 and is available from Primary Source Microfilm.
• Frederick Hanham's, Natural Illustrations of the British Grasses, (Bath, 1846) offers a collection of some 62 actual specimens of British grasses, dried and pasted in and, after a century and a half, still perfectly preserved. From the Natural History materials.
• The Ray Stannard Baker Bee Collection is named after a graduate of Michigan Agricultural College who went on to be a Pulitzer Prize winning author of a biography of Woodrow Wilson. Baker used the pen name "David Grayson" for a series of nine "Adventures in Contentment" books read by audiences of millions world wide.