Manuscripts and Archives
Below is an alphabetical list of manuscript archives in the McCormick Library. At the present time only the underlined collections have descriptions and/or content lists available online. Contact our staff for information regarding any of the other collections of interest to you. An alphabetical database of some of the writers with materials held within these collections is also available.
In addition, the McCormick Library of Special Collections is contributing finding aids to the Northwestern University Library "Archival Collections" portal. This database provides access to collections of primary-source materials held by various departments within Northwestern University's libraries, through finding aids made searchable through EAD (Encoded Archival Description).
- Ableman, Paul MS19
- African-American Documents, 17th-18th Century MS101
- Agentzia MS54
- Aldridge, Ira MS4
- Algren, Nelson MS37
- America First MS10
- Andersen Awards MS121
- Architects, French 19th Century MS58
- Armory Show MS95
- Auhagen, Friedrich MS110
- Beardsley, Aubrey MS115
- Beck, Joseph MS117
- Berkeley Folk Festival MS63
- Berkeley Free Speech Movement MS68
- Berry, Francis MS39
- Biblioteca Femina MS72
- Bilbie, Henry G. Western MS. 83
- Breit, Harvey MS1
- Breton, André MS160
- Brett, Dorothy MS27
- Buttons (political, etc.) MS112
- Century of Progress MS60, MS122
- Charleston County, South Carolina MS119
- Chicago Comm. on Women's Affairs MS126
- Chicago Theatres Scrapbooks MS131
- China (Strawn) MS20
- Civil War MS62, MS86
- Clarke, Elizabeth MS127
- Clergy Consultation Service MS128
- Columbus Railroad MS57
- Comm. to Defend America MS67
- Concrete Poetry MS28
- Father Coughlin MS25
- Cragg, Miriam MS70
- Craig, Edward Gordon MS100
- Cuneo MS55
- Cutler, Manasseh
- Daiches, David MS29
- Dawes, Charles G.
- Dawes, Helen MS84
- Dawes, Rufus MS84
- Dean, Teresa MS48
- Democratic Nat'l Convention, 1968 MS61
- Derleth, August Wm. MS65
- Di Prima, Diane MS79
- Dolan, Thomas MS24
- Donohue, C.W. MS113
- Dorr, Joseph B. MS62
- Dublin Gate Theatre
- Edinburgh Drama Conf., 1963 MS26
- Edwards, George MS64
- Election Campaigns MS114
- Eliot, T.S. MS2
- Erickson, Rolf MS109
- Expositions MS60
- Fair, Ronald MS80
- Falley, Margaret MS102
- Fansler/Whitman MS89
- Finlay, Ian Hamilton MS35
- Garnett, David MS3
- Garnett, Edward MS3
- Garnett, Richard MS3
- Gascoyne, David-Library Collection MS167
- General Seeger Production Archive MS134
- Gertz, Elmer MS97
- Gerz, Jochen MS54
- Glass plate negatives MS105
- Goldwater, Barry MS87
- Graduate Committee on the Study of Women, 1981 MS74
- Graves, Abraham D. MS40
- Greenleaf Mss. MS41
- Gregory, Lady MS23
- Haag, Charles MS105
- Hamill & Barker MS90
- Hammer, Victor MS137
- Hand & Flower Press
- Harford and Lynn
- Harvey, Nellie MS123
- Herman, Jan MS51
- Higgins, Dick MS132
- Hone, Joseph MS46
- Hungry Generation MS47
- IL Caucus for Adolescent Health MS138
- IL Comm. on the Status of Women - see Clarke MS127
- IL Citizens Council/Women - see Clarke MS127
- Irish National Theater Society MS6
- JANE - see Kamen MS125
- Janin, Jules MS12
- Johnson, Lionel
- Johnson, Samuel MS44
- Jones, Leroi MS7
- Jones, Wayne MS103
- Journal for the Protection of All Beings MS9
- Joyce, James MS8
- Kamen, Paula MS125
- King, S.W. MS82
- Knauss, Jenny-Collection MS93
- Jenny Knauss Personal Papers MS162
- Krutch, Joseph W. MS81
- Landy, Avrom M. (Paris Commune) MS106
- Lawrence, D.H. MS11, MS88
- Leopold & Loeb MS85
- Levy, Hyman MS69
- Little Miami Railroad MS57
- Loujon Press MS83
- Maclaren-Ross, J. MS56
- Man Behind the Mask MS75
- Manzanar Relocation Camp
- Marx, Erica
- Maxwell, John M. MS75
- McCutcheon, John T.
- McIntyre and Heath MS133
- Mediterranean Shipping Co. MS148
- Mill, John Stuart MS13
- Miller, Kaye MS61
- Moore, George MS98
- Mott, Michael MS59
- Mountsier/D.H. Lawrence MS88
- N.O.W./Chicago MS66
- Nesbit, Wilbur Dick MS53
- Nezval, Vitezslav-see Breton
- Nin, Anais MS14
- Nineteenth Century Women MS 123
- Nixon, Wm. Penn MS45
- Norman poetry (Poinsot) MS50
- Norway WWII (Quisling) MS52
- Nuremberg Trial MS71
- Nutting, Helen (Joyce) MS30
- Nutting, Myron (Joyce) MS30
- Outsider Magazine MS15
- O'Brien, Kate MS16
- O'Faolain, Sean MS96
- O'Neill, James MS18
- Orlev, Uri MS159
- Pearson, Hesketh MS129
- Peet, Rev. Stephen
- Péret, Benjamin-see Breton
- Pinker, James B. AS5
- Poinsot, M.C. MS50
- Potts, Paul MS156
- Prampolini, E.
- Pritchett, V.S. MS17
- Quisling, Vidkun MS52
- Radium Dial Poisoning - see Donohue
- Railroads MS57
- Réalités Nouvelles MS161
- Republican Nat'l Comm. MS92
- Riding (Jackson), Laura MS31
- Right Wing MS87
- Rosenberg Defense Comm. MS78
- Scott, John MS49
- Shakespeare - see Maxwell
- Shuman, Andrew MS34
- Slavery (Charleston County) MS119
- Smith, Elmer MS44
- Spanuth, Hans MS43
- Spencer, Herbert MS103
- Spoerri, J.F. MS42
- Spolin, Viola MS155
- Stage for Action MS99
- Straus, Ralph MS32
- Strawn, Silas MS20
- Study Club (women, Chicago) MS70
- Styers, Aleta MS66
- Suffrage MS123
- Sulzer, William MS38
- Symons, Arthur MS124
- Tambimuttu MS120
- Tiller, Terence MS36
- U.N. Tapes (women) MS107
- Uri Orlev Collection, 1956-2009 MS159
- U.S. Presidents Correspondence MS111
- U.S.Vice Presidents Correspondence MS111
- Wagner, D.R. MS21
- Wakefield Vellum Documents
- Warhol, Andy MS104
- Waterfield, Robin MS157
- Weaver, Willis MS86
- Weissner, Carl MS22
- Wexelson, Wilhelm MS52
- Whannel, Paddy
- Wheeler, Ada MS94
- Whitman, Walt MS89
- Wickes, Sarah MS123
- Wilkinson, Margorie MS116
- Willing, Jessie G. MS91
- Wilson, Colin MS33
- Wilson, Lucy MS130
- Women, 19th Century MS123
- Women's Collection MS77
- Women's Franchise MS123
- WWII Propaganda MS108
- Wright, Richard MS5
- Wright, Thomas-Scrapbooks on William Blake MS166
- Yeats, John B. MS6, MS23
- Yeats, William B. MS6, MS23
- Zenia Railroad MS57
