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Exhibitions

…Dr. Joyce Brothers at some point in your life, whether you watched her television shows, listened to her advice on the radio, read her columns in Good Housekeeping, or spotted…

Preserving Cornell University History

…include information about who has the authority to grant permission or adjust the restriction. University Archives staff will administer restrictions and advise researchers in navigating restrictions, but may request involvement…

Finding Materials

…online catalog, please contact rareref@cornell.edu. Restricted Collections Please be aware that many of our materials have restrictions. These need to be addressed before you can access the material, and whenever…

The Cornell Wordsworth Collection

…Coleridge. Also worthy of special notice are a substantial number of literary manuscripts of both poets, a large number of letters written to and about them by their friends and…

Contact Us

…or to their college libraries. Additional Contact Information Mailing Address: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library, Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 Phone: 607-255-3530 Fax: 607-255-9524…

Making a Gift to RMC

…as financial support. If you would like to donate materials to Cornell Library’s rare book and manuscript collections, please contact us at the address below: The Division of Rare and…

Donating to the HSC

…their older records with us. The donations have lined the shelves in our climate-controlled vault with over 600 cubic feet of manuscripts, 100 international and 900 U.S. periodicals, and over…

Finding Transgender & Intersex In the Library

…in the history of embryology, we have valuable 16th and 17th century texts of sex differentiation and hermaphrodites. We also collect items aimed at contemporary activists such as the Intersex…

25th Anniversary

…Survive A Plague is the story of two coalitions—ACT UP and TAG (Treatment Action Group)—whose activism and innovation turned AIDS from a death sentence into a manageable condition. Despite having…

European History & Culture

…that number in the thousands of volumes, along with a unique gathering of materials on the Rhaeto-Romance language. Fiske also established the library’s 37,000-volume Icelandic Collection. The collection contains virtually…