M & S Collection of American Radical Extremist Literature of the 20th Century
Paul Avrich anarchism collection
John Davis Batchelder Ephemera and Special Collections
Theater programs, playbills, newspapers, incunabula leaves, prints, official documents, bookplates, inaugural souvenirs, and other papers of prominent historical figures in the arts and politics primarily in the US, but also Europe. Persons represented in the collection include Albrecht Durer, Peter Schoeffer, Wynkyn de Worde, Napoleon Bonaparte, Charles Dickens, Edgar Allen Poe, Edwin Booth, and several US Presidents.
Early American Paper Money Collection
The Ralph Ellison Collection, (1937-2010)
The Collections consists of books owned by Ellison as well as journals and ephemera. The Library of Ralph Ellison Collection includes bibliographic description of books from Ralph Ellison's rooms as well as information about those book that are not displayed in the rooms. The rooms are marked as A and B in the bibliographic description. Roman numerals denote bookcase number and Arabic - shelf number (i.e., A/VII/2 would be: Room A; Bookcase VII; Shelf 2).
The Grenfell Press Archive
The collection is divided into five categories: Correspondence and Typescripts, Grenfell Press Publications, Miscellaneous Publications, and Oversize materials.
Walter Hamady and the Perishable Press collection
Walter Hamady was an artist, professor, poet and printer, who ran the Perishable Press, Limited for over forty years. The collection includes correspondence, planning documents, original art, photographs, printing plates, Hamady’s personal library, reference materials, ephemera and realia.
Victor Hammer Collection
The gift consists of materials relating chiefly to the artistic career of Victor Karl Hammer (1882-1967) in Europe and the United States after his emigration from Austria in 1939.
Selected Manuscript Holdings from the Library of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Manuscripts from the Library of Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841-1935) were a part of the larger Holmes Family Library gift to the Library of Congress in 1935. The collection contains correspondence, sermon notes, recipe books, household account books, notebooks, travel journals, tributes, diaries, an address book, a medical account book, photograph album, book of quotations, Latin vocabulary, medieval medical recipe book, and a ship's log.
Janus Press Archive
The Janus Press Archive contains material relating to the production of books, posters and broadsides, and printed ephemera bearing the Janus Press imprint, as well as other projects carried out with the assistance of its founder Claire Van Vliet, covering the period from 1955 to the present.
King Lear Archive
Preparatory materials for an edition of Shakespeare's King Lear published by Theodore Press with illustrations printed at the Janus Press.
Theater Programs, Playbills and Miscellany from the Rouben Mamoulian Collection
Collection of theater, film and concert programs for performances in New York, Washington, DC, Los Angeles, London, England and other locations, many annotated by Armenian American film and theater director Rouben Mamoulian. Arranged alphabetically by title in three separate groupings: Programs and Playbills, Miscellany and Movie Miscellany.
Manuscript Plays Collection, Library of Congress Copyright Office Drama Deposits, 1870-1973
McManus-Young clipping collection of materials on magic
Nazi Party and Other Early 20th Century German History Related Posters
Posters of the German Military Government in the Generalgouvernement Warschau (German occupied Poland) from World War I
Radical Pamphlet Collection
The Pforzheimer Collection of Bruce Rogers Materials, (1508-1957)
Bruce Rogers was one of the foremost typographers and book designers of his time. His papers include correspondence, book preparatory materials, printing samples, artwork, writings and speeches, and other items that document his professional and personal life. Carl Pforzheimer was a book collector, as well as an associate of Rogers. Included here are Rogers related materials collected by Pforzheimer.
Theodore Roosevelt Hunting Library
The collection is comprised primarily of late 19th and early 20th century publications on hunting, natural history, exploration, conservation, endangered species, cultural anthropology, ornithology and sport. The majority of the titles give instruction and techniques for hunting specific types of game in varying weather conditions, terrain and locations around the world. Other genres in the collection include memoir, art and poetry.
Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection Archive
Records of the collection of illustrated books acquired by Lessing J. Rosenwald and now held by the Library of Congress. Correspondence, Subject File, speeches and writing, printed ephemera, and miscellany related to the rare book collection and its creator, Lessing J. Rosenwald. Contains records of the Library of Congress's custodianship of the collection, administrative and legal documents, planning material for related exhibits and publications, and research files.
The Sylvester and Orphanos Archive
Provenance The Sylvester and Orphanos Archive was purchased by the Library of Congress in 2014. This original purchase includes correspondence and production materials associated with the operation of Sylvester and Orphanos Publishers from its beginning in 1976 through 2006. The archive joins the Rare Book and Special Collections Division's Sylvester and Orphanos collection, the complete catalog of its publications.
John Boyd Thacher Autographs of European Notables
Scrapbooks compiled by Thompson and Chesson, (1787-1886)
Serials and Miscellaneous Publications of the Underground Movements in Europe During World War II
Otto H. F. Vollbehr Collection of Printers' and Publishers' Marks
The Otto H. F. Vollbehr Collection of Printers' and Publishers' includes samples of such in nearly all of the major European countries. They chronicle the early example of printing through the seventeenth century.