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| Asia Collections |
Echols Collection on Southeast Asia
The Echols Collection is the foremost library resource on Southeast
Asia in the United States. Annually it adds more than 8,000 titles to its
collection. It is the most comprehensive body of material on a global region
in the Cornell University Library system and the largest collection on Southeast
Asia in the United States.
http://www.library.cornell.edu/Asia/ECHOLS/index.htm |
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Wason Collection on East-Asia
The Charles W Wason Collection on East Asia is the premiere collection
of East Asian manuscripts and artwork in the United States.
http://wason.library.cornell.edu/ |
South Asia Collection
With material from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal,
the South Asia Collection is the fourth largest in the United States and
the largest intershelved collection combining both Indic and Western languages.
Collections in rural sociology, anthropology, communications, education,
regional planning and art history are also noteworthy among the South Asia
Collection. The holdings also include the Gandhi Memorial Library, which
Cornell received as a gift in 1949.
http://www.library.cornell.edu/sasa/sac.htm |
| Mann Library Collections |
Language
of Flowers Collection
The remarkable Language of Flowers Collection was donated to the library
by award-winning garden writer Isabel Zucker '26. The 147 volumes in this
collection include many early 19th-century texts on the art of expressing
emotions, sentiments, and moral lessons through floral arrangements. They
are a valuable resource for researchers in Victorian culture, horticulture
as art, and women's lifestyles.
http://www.mannlib.cornell.edu/collections/development/
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Phillips Beekeeping
Collection
An endowment named in honor of apiculturist and Cornell professor Dr.
Everett Franklin Phillips (1878-1951) supports the world's largest and most
valuable cllection of books and manuscripts on bees and beekeeping. The
Phillips Beekeeping Collection endowment, established in the mid-1920s,
is Mann Library's oldest endowment, originally funded by New York State
beekeepers and royalties received from the Dyce Honey Patent
http://www.mannlib.cornell.edu/collections/development/
specialcollections/phillips.cfm |
Rice Poultry
Collection
The Rice Poultry Collection, named after Cornell professor James E.
Rice, America's first professor of poultry husbandry, is a major repository
of information on poultry science. Over 800 pre-1900 volumes, the earliest
works in the poultry collection, are housed in Special Collections.
http://www.mannlib.cornell.edu/collections/development/
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| Rare and Manuscript Collections |
Fiske Icelandic
Collection
The Fiske Icelandic Collection, located in the Division of Rare and
Manuscript Collections, is the largest repository of works on Iceland and
on Nordic medieval studies in North America. The collection, which Cornell
University Library received in 1905, contains over 32,000 titles in a variety
of European languages and in diverse media.
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/Fiske/
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Human Sexuality
Collection
The Human Sexuality Collection seeks to preserve and make accessible
primary sources that document historical shifts in the social construction
of sexuality, with a focus on U.S. lesbian and gay history and the politics
of pornography. Lesbian, bisexual, gay, and transgendered politics on the
national level is a major strength of the Collection. http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/HSC
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History
of Science Collection
The library's History of Science Collections house one of the world's
finest selections of rare scientific books. More than 35,000 volumes document
the historical development of the physical and biological sciences, technology,
and nonclinical medicine from the Renaissance through the nineteenth century,
focussing mainly on developments in Europe and America.
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/collections/scienceandtech.html |
| Witchcraft
Collection
Cornell's Witchcraft Collection contains over 3,000 titles documenting
the history of the Inquisition and the persecution of witchcraft. Highlights
from the Witchcraft Collection include many early texts from the period
when the theory of the heresy of witchcraft was being formulated, including
fourteen Latin editions of one of the more sinister works on demonology,
the Malleus maleficarum, which codified church dogma on heresy.
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/collections/witchcraft.html |
Ornithology
The Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections holds over forty manuscript
collections concerning all aspects of ornithology, and over 300 rare books
which richly chronicle the history of both the science of ornithology and
the art of bird illustration from the 16th-19th centuries. Centered around
a remarkable group of rare bird books given to Cornell by Kenneth E. and
Dorothy V. Hill, the Hill Ornithology Collection (see online
exhibition) focuses mainly on North American ornithology and on works
published before 1900, but its scope is wide.
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/collections/ornith.html |
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E. B. White
E. B. White (1899-1985), Cornell class of 1921, began building his collection
at Cornell in 1961. He continued to add to the collection up until the time
of his death. The E.B. White Collection consists of approximately 36,000
items, including 2,350 books and other printed items, more than 28,000 letters,
and 5,500 related items such as manuscripts, documents, clippings, photographs,
films, notecards, cassette tapes, bound photocopies, medals and awards by,
to, or about E.B. White, spanning the entire range of his activities throughout
his life. Letters consist of ca. 3,000 letters by White and 25, 000 letters
to him from others.
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/collections/ebwhite.html
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| George
Bernard Shaw
The Bernard F. Burgunder Collection is one of the largest collections
of Shaw manuscripts and books in the world. It contains approximately
3000 books and several thousand manuscripts and letters, by or about Shaw.
The Burgunder Collection covers all aspects of Shaw's life and work with
particular strength in the area of theatre
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/collections/shaw.html |
James Joyce
The Joyce Collection is one of the richest in the world dealing with
Joyce's early writing career and life before 1920. It includes letters by
Joyce, letters to or relating to Joyce by his family and friends, many of
his early manuscripts, and other documents.
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/collections/joyce.html |
Cornell
University Archives
The Archives collects and preserves records of historical, legal, fiscal,
and/or administrative value to Cornell University. Holdings include official
records and reports of the university, its officers, and component parts;
private papers of faculty, students, staff, and alumni; official and student
publications; maps and architectural records; audiovisual materials including
still photographs and negatives, motion picture film, oral history interviews,
and audio and video tapes; and artifacts and ephemera documenting Cornell's
history.
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/collections/cuhist.html
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Andrew Dickson
White Architectural Photographs
The Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library,
is home to the Andrew Dickson White Architectural Photographs Collection,
comprised of approximately 13,000 nineteenth- and early twentieth-century
photographs of architecture, decorative arts and sculpture. White (1832-1918),
the first president of Cornell University, established the collection by
donating several thousand images from his personal architectural library.
http://cidc.library.cornell.edu/adw/adw.asp |
Cornell
University Collection of Political Americana
The collection consists of published material, ephemera, and artifacts dating
to between 1800 and 1976, including ballots and slates of candidates; promotional
broadsides, handbills, and posters; political cartoons lithographs and prints,
pamphlets, leaflets, and brochures; songbooks and sheet music; badges, pins,
ferrotypes and celluloid buttons; campaign ribbons, souvenirs and more.
http://cidc.library.cornell.edu/political/ |
Samuel J.
May Anti-Slavery Collection
The Cornell University Library owns one of the richest collections of anti-slavery
and Civil War materials in the world. Andrew Dixon White was instrumental
in bringing an extensive collection of slavery and abolitionist materials
gathered by his close friend, Reverend Samuel Joseph May, to the Cornell
Library. Numbering over 10,000 titles, May's pamphlets and leaflets document
the anti-slavery struggle at the local, regional, and national levels.
http://www.library.cornell.edu/mayantislavery/ |
French Revolution
These collections offer an unparalleled opportunity for the intensive study
of 18th and early 19th-century France and present extraordinary strengths
for research on the Ancien Régime, the French Revolution, the Napoleonic
period, and the Restoration. The collection is strongest in the areas of
economy and finance, the Revolutionary government, and Revolutionary culture,
with unusual strength in popular culture.
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/collections/frenchrev.html |
| For more
Rare and Manuscript Collections see: http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/collections/rmccollections.html |
| Olin Library Collections |
| Map Collection
The Map & Geospatial Information Collection on the Lower Level of
Olin Library houses a geographically comprehensive collection of over
237,000 maps, 3,000 books and atlases, 400 compact disks, and many other
related research materials. The Collection is a full depository library
for federal government maps and digital spatial data.
http://www.library.cornell.edu/okuref/maps/map.htm |
Electronic Text Center
The Electronic Text Center features more than 100 full-text scholarly
sources on CD-ROM, some of which are networked and available through the
Library Gateway. The center behind the reference desk in Olin Library.
http://www.library.cornell.edu/okuref/cet/cet.html
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Slavic &
East European Collections
The Slavic and East European Collections contains over 300,000 volumes,
both in vernacular languages of the area and in Western European languages.
The collection is integrated into Olin Library.
http://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/slav/
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