The Ames Library
Tate Archives & Special Collections
Current Holdings
The Special Collections vault holds materials that are rare, valuable, or too delicate for the library's circulating collection. In contrast to the University Archives, each collection here is distinct and unrelated to the others, although some do have a connection to the University.
Organizational records & Individuals' manuscript collections
- 6th District Nursing Association Records
- Leslie Arends Congressional Collection
- Robert Lee Bankert Papers
- Harvey Beutner Papers
- Frank Bohnhorst Papers
- Robert Bray Papers
- Fred Brian Collection of World War II Correspondence
- Jared Brown Collection of Biographical Sources
- College Alumni Club Records
- Maude Essig Papers
- Susan Anderson Freed Papers
- Arrah Lee Gaul Collection
- Thomas Griffiths Papers
- Arthur D. Jordan Collection
- Dave Kinded Papers
- Marjorie Kouns Collection
- Ruth Krieger Family Collection
- Robert Leh Papers
- Marden Family Collection
- James McGowan Papers
- Melby Family Collection
- Robert Mowery Papers
- Minor Myers, jr. Personal Papers
- Nursing Lantern Slides Collection
- Abram Plum Collection
- John Wesley Powell Collection: primary and secondary source material
- Pratt Family Collection
- Schultz Collection of Juvenile Literature
- William Eben Schultz Papers
- Charles M. Smith Collection
- Sandra Steingraber Collection
- Marcia Thomas Collection of Powell Bibliography Sources
- David Vayo, Works from 1984-present
- Vietnam Periodicals (English-language)
- R. Bedford Watkins Collection
- Wayne Wantlund Papers
- William Luther White Papers
- James Whitehurst Papers
- Karen Zander Collection
- Zeta Eta of Delta Omicron Collection
Book collections (all monographs are searchable in the library's online catalog; links below provide
collection descriptions and browseable title lists, when appropriate)
- Artists Books Collection
- Blackstock Press Collection
- Beat Writers Collection
- Book Arts Collection
- Conduct of Life Collection
- Pearl Funk Limited Editions Club Collection
- John T. Gernon Collection - First Editions of Detective Fiction
- Dave Kindred Collection of juvenile sports literature
- Lakeside Press Collection
- Selections from Minor Myers, jr's Personal Collection
- John Wesley Powell and the American West
- W.E. Schultz Collection of John Gay and the 18th & 19th Century British Stage