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 [1] 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 [2]. 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 [3] MS19
African-American Documents [4], 17th-18th Century MS101
Agentzia [5] MS54
Aldridge, Ira [6] MS4
Algren, Nelson MS37
America First [7] MS10
Andersen Awards [8] MS121
Architects, French 19th Century [9] MS58
Armory Show [10] MS95
Auhagen, Friedrich [11] MS110
Beardsley, Aubrey [12] MS115
Beck, Joseph MS117
Berkeley Folk Festival [13] MS63
Berkeley Free Speech Movement [14] MS68
Berry, Francis MS39
Biblioteca Femina MS72
Bilbie, Henry G. [15] Western MS. 83
Breit, Harvey [16] MS1
Breton, André [17] MS160
Brett, Dorothy [18] MS27
Buttons (political, etc.) MS112
Century of Progress [19] MS60, MS122
Charleston County [20], South Carolina MS119
Chicago Comm. on Women's Affairs [21] MS126
Chicago Theatres Scrapbooks [22] MS131
China (Strawn) MS20
Civil War [23] MS62, MS86
Clarke, Elizabeth [24] MS127
Clergy Consultation Service [25] MS128
Columbus Railroad MS57
Comm. to Defend America [26] MS67
Concrete Poetry MS28
Father Coughlin [27] MS25
Cragg, Miriam MS70
Craig, Edward Gordon [28] MS100
Cuneo [29] MS55
Cutler, Manasseh [30]
Daiches, David MS29
Dawes, Charles G. [31]
Dawes, Helen MS84 [32]
Dawes, Rufus MS84 [32]
Dean, Teresa [33] MS48
Democratic Nat'l Convention, 1968 [34] MS61
Derleth, August Wm. MS65
Di Prima, Diane MS79
Dolan, Thomas MS24
Donohue, C.W. [35] MS113
Dorr, Joseph B. [36] MS62
Dublin Gate Theatre [37]
Edinburgh Drama Conf., 1963 [38] MS26
Edwards, George MS64
Election Campaigns MS114
Eliot, T.S. [39] MS2
Erickson, Rolf MS109
Expositions [19] MS60
Fair, Ronald [40] MS80
Falley, Margaret [41] MS102
Fansler/Whitman [42] MS89
Finlay, Ian Hamilton [43] MS35
Garnett, David [44] MS3
Garnett, Edward [44] MS3
Garnett, Richard [44] MS3
Gascoyne, David [45]-Library Collection MS167
General Seeger [46] Production Archive [46] MS134
Gertz, Elmer MS97
Gerz, Jochen MS54
Glass plate negatives MS105
Goldwater, Barry [47] MS87
Graduate Committee on the Study of Women, 1981 MS74
Graves, Abraham D. MS40
Greenleaf Mss. MS41
Gregory, Lady MS23
Haag, Charles [48] MS105
Hamill & Barker [49] MS90
Hammer, Victor [50] MS137
Hand & Flower Press [51]
Harford and Lynn [52]
Harvey, Nellie [53] MS123
Herman, Jan [54] MS51
Higgins, Dick [55] MS132
Hone, Joseph MS46
Hungry Generation [56] MS47
IL Caucus for Adolescent Health [57] MS138
IL Comm. on the Status of Women - see Clarke [58] MS127
IL Citizens Council/Women - see Clarke [58] MS127
Irish National Theater Society MS6
JANE - see Kamen [59] MS125
Janin, Jules [60] MS12
Johnson, Lionel [61]
Johnson, Samuel MS44
Jones, Leroi [62] MS7
Jones, Wayne [63] MS103
Journal for the Protection of All Beings MS9
Joyce, James [64] MS8
Kamen, Paula [65] MS125
King, S.W. MS82
Knauss, Jenny [66]-Collection MS93
Jenny Knauss Personal Papers [67] MS162
Krutch, Joseph W. MS81
Landy, Avrom M. [68] (Paris Commune) MS106
Lawrence, D.H. [69] MS11, MS88
Leopold & Loeb [70] MS85
Levy, Hyman [71] MS69
Little Miami Railroad MS57
Loujon Press [72] MS83
Maclaren-Ross, J. MS56
Man Behind the Mask MS75
Manzanar Relocation Camp [73]
Marx, Erica [51]
Maxwell, John M. MS75 [74]
McCutcheon, John T. [75]
McIntyre and Heath [76] MS133
Mediterranean Shipping Co. [77] MS148
Mill, John Stuart MS13
Miller, Kaye MS61
Moore, George MS98
Mott, Michael [78] MS59
Mountsier/D.H. Lawrence [79] MS88
N.O.W./Chicago MS66
Nesbit, Wilbur Dick [80] MS53
Nezval, Vitezslav-see Breton
Nin, Anais [81] MS14
Nineteenth Century Women [53] MS 123
Nixon, Wm. Penn MS45
Norman poetry (Poinsot) MS50
Norway WWII (Quisling) MS52
Nuremberg Trial [82] MS71
Nutting, Helen (Joyce [83]) MS30
Nutting, Myron (Joyce [83]) MS30
Outsider Magazine MS15
O'Brien, Kate [84] MS16
O'Faolain, Sean [85] MS96
O'Neill, James [86] MS18
Orlev, Uri [87] MS159
Pearson, Hesketh [88] MS129
Peet, Rev. Stephen [89]
Péret, Benjamin-see Breton
Pinker, James B [90]. AS5
Poinsot, M.C. MS50
Potts, Paul [91] MS156
Prampolini, E. [92]
Pritchett, V.S. [93] MS17
Quisling, Vidkun MS52
Radium Dial Poisoning - see Donohue
Railroads MS57
Réalités Nouvelles [94] MS161
Republican Nat'l Comm [95]. MS92
Riding (Jackson), Laura [96] MS31
Right Wing MS87
Rosenberg Defense Comm. [97] MS78
Scott, John MS49
Shakespeare - see Maxwell
Shuman, Andrew [98] MS34
Slavery (Charleston County [99]) MS119
Smith, Elmer MS44
Spanuth, Hans MS43 [100]
Spencer, Herbert MS103
Spoerri, J.F. MS42
Spolin, Viola MS155 [101]
Stage for Action [102] MS99
Straus, Ralph MS32
Strawn, Silas [103] MS20
Study Club [104] (women, Chicago) MS70
Styers, Aleta [105] MS66
Suffrage [53] MS123
Sulzer, William [106] MS38
Symons, Arthur [107] MS124
Tambimuttu [108] MS120
Tiller, Terence MS36
U.N. Tapes [109] (women) MS107
Uri Orlev Collection, 1956-2009 [87] MS159
U.S. Presidents Correspondence [110] MS111
U.S.Vice Presidents Correspondence [110] MS111
Wagner, D.R. MS21
Wakefield Vellum Document [111]s [112]
Warhol, Andy [113] MS104
Waterfield, Robin [114] MS157
Weaver, Willis [115] MS86
Weissner, Carl [116] MS22
Wexelson, Wilhelm [117] MS52
Whannel, Paddy [118]
Wheeler, Ada MS94
Whitman, Walt [42] MS89
Wickes, Sarah [53] MS123
Wilkinson, Margorie [119] MS116
Willing, Jessie G. MS91
Wilson, Colin MS33
Wilson, Lucy [120] MS130
Women, 19th Century [53] MS123
Women's Collection [121] MS77
Women's Franchise [122] MS123
WWII Propaganda MS108
Wright, Richard [123] MS5
Wright, Thomas-Scrapbooks on William Blake [124] MS166
Yeats, John B. [125] MS6, MS23
Yeats, William B. [125] MS6, MS23
Zenia Railroad MS57

Links:
[1] https://www.library.northwestern.edu/sites/www.library.northwestern.edu/files/users/Special%20Collections%20and%20Archives/Alpha%20correspondence.doc
[2] http://www.library.northwestern.edu/ead/index.html
[3] http://files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/ableman.pdf
[4] http://files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/african_american_CI.pdf
[5] http://files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/agentzia.pdf
[6] http://findingaids.library.northwestern.edu/catalog/inu-ead-spec-archon-492
[7] http://files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/americafirst.pdf
[8] http://findingaids.library.northwestern.edu/catalog/inu-ead-spec-archon-137
[9] http://files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/19th_century_french_architects.pdf
[10] http://files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/armory.pdf
[11] http://files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/auhagen.pdf
[12] http://files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/beardsley.pdf
[13] http://files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/berkeley.pdf
[14] http://files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/free_speech_movement.pdf
[15] http://files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/bilbie_journal.pdf
[16] http://findingaids.library.northwestern.edu/catalog/inu-ead-spec-archon-490
[17] http://files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/breton.pdf
[18] http://findingaids.library.northwestern.edu/catalog/inu-ead-spec-archon-521
[19] http://files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/worldsfairs.pdf
[20] http://files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/Charleston%20SC.pdf
[21] http://files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/chicago_comm_womens_affairs.pdf
[22] http://files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/chicago_theatres.pdf
[23] http://files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/civilwar.pdf
[24] http://files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/clarke_comm_women.pdf
[25] http://findingaids.library.northwestern.edu/catalog/inu-ead-spec-archon-503
[26] http://files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/comm_defend_america.pdf
[27] http://files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/coughlin.pdf
[28] http://files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/craig.pdf
[29] http://files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/cuneo.pdf
[30] http://files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/manasseh%20cutler.pdf
[31] http://files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/Dawes%20register.pdf
[32] http://files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/Dawes Rufus&Helen.pdf
[33] http://findingaids.library.northwestern.edu/catalog/inu-ead-spec-archon-97
[34] http://files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/democratic_national_convention_1968.pdf
[35] http://findingaids.library.northwestern.edu/catalog/inu-ead-spec-archon-502
[36] http://files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/dorr_collection.pdf
[37] http://files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/dublin_gate_theatre20130514.pdf
[38] http://files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/edinburg new.pdf
[39] http://files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/eliot_correspondence.pdf
[40] http://files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/ronald_fair.pdf
[41] http://files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/falley.pdf
[42] http://files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/fansler_whitman.pdf
[43] http://files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/finlay.pdf
[44] http://findingaids.library.northwestern.edu/catalog/inu-ead-spec-archon-491
[45] http://findingaids.library.northwestern.edu/catalog/inu-ead-spec-archon-1451
[46] http://files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/general_seeger.pdf
[47] http://files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/goldwater.pdf
[48] http://files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/haag.pdf
[49] http://files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/Hamill%20and%20Barker.pdf
[50] http://findingaids.library.northwestern.edu/catalog/inu-ead-spec-archon-21
[51] http://files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/erica_marx.pdf
[52] http://files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/harford_lynn_correspondence.pdf
[53] http://findingaids.library.northwestern.edu/catalog/inu-ead-spec-archon-102
[54] http://findingaids.library.northwestern.edu/catalog/inu-ead-spec-archon-112
[55] http://findingaids.library.northwestern.edu/catalog/inu-ead-spec-archon-1413
[56] https://www.library.northwestern.edu/sites/www.library.northwestern.edu/files/users/Special%20Collections%20and%20Archives/Hungry%20Generation%20guide.pdf
[57] http://files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/illinois_caucus_adolescent_health.pdf
[58] http://www.library.northwestern.edu/files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/clarke_comm_women.pdf
[59] http://www.library.northwestern.edu/files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/kamenJANE.pdf
[60] http://www.library.northwestern.edu/pdf/jules_janin.pdf
[61] http://files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/lioneljohnson.pdf
[62] http://files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/leroi%20jones.pdf
[63] http://findingaids.library.northwestern.edu/catalog/inu-ead-spec-archon-104
[64] http://files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/joyce.pdf
[65] http://files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/kamenJANE.pdf
[66] http://findingaids.library.northwestern.edu/catalog/inu-ead-spec-archon-700
[67] http://findingaids.library.northwestern.edu/catalog/inu-ead-spec-archon-413
[68] http://files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/pariscommune_landy.pdf
[69] http://files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/lawrence.pdf
[70] http://findingaids.library.northwestern.edu/catalog/inu-ead-spec-archon-1458
[71] http://files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/levy.pdf
[72] http://files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/loujon.pdf
[73] http://files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/manzanar_archive.pdf
[74] http://findingaids.library.northwestern.edu/catalog/inu-ead-spec-archon-101
[75] http://findingaids.library.northwestern.edu/catalog/inu-ead-spec-archon-699
[76] http://findingaids.library.northwestern.edu/catalog/inu-ead-spec-archon-113
[77] http://findingaids.library.northwestern.edu/catalog/inu-ead-spec-archon-20
[78] http://findingaids.library.northwestern.edu/catalog/inu-ead-spec-archon-701
[79] http://www.library.northwestern.edu/files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/lawrence.pdf
[80] http://files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/wilbur_dick_nesbit.pdf
[81] http://findingaids.library.northwestern.edu/catalog/inu-ead-spec-archon-504
[82] http://findingaids.library.northwestern.edu/fedora/get/inu:inu-ead-spec-0071/inu:EADbDef11/getDescriptiveSummary
[83] http://www.library.northwestern.edu/files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/joyce.pdf
[84] http://files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/o%27brien.pdf
[85] http://files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/OFAOLAIN.pdf
[86] http://files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/oneill.pdf
[87] http://findingaids.library.northwestern.edu/catalog/inu-ead-spec-archon-144
[88] http://files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/pearson.pdf
[89] http://files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/peet.pdf
[90] http://findingaids.library.northwestern.edu/catalog/inu-ead-spec-archon-1409
[91] http://findingaids.library.northwestern.edu/catalog/inu-ead-spec-archon-17
[92] http://files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/prampolini.pdf
[93] http://files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/v_s_pritchett.pdf
[94] http://files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/realites.nouvelles.pdf
[95] http://files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/republican_national_committee.pdf
[96] http://findingaids.library.northwestern.edu/catalog/inu-ead-spec-archon-501
[97] http://files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/rosenberg.pdf
[98] http://files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/shuman.pdf
[99] http://www.library.northwestern.edu/files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/charleston.pdf
[100] http://files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/spanuth.pdf
[101] http://findingaids.library.northwestern.edu/catalog/inu-ead-spec-archon-624
[102] http://files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/stage.pdf
[103] http://files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/silas_strawn.pdf
[104] http://files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/studyclub.pdf
[105] http://files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/styers.pdf
[106] http://files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/sulzer_scrapbook.pdf
[107] http://files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/symons.pdf
[108] http://files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/Tambimuttu_archive.pdf
[109] http://findingaids.library.northwestern.edu/catalog/inu-ead-spec-archon-108
[110] http://files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/uspresidentialdocs.pdf
[111] http://files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/wakefield.pdf
[112] http://www.library.northwestern.edu/pdf/wakefield.pdf
[113] http://files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/warhol.pdf
[114] http://findingaids.library.northwestern.edu/catalog/inu-ead-spec-archon-19
[115] http://files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/weaver.pdf
[116] http://files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/weissner.pdf
[117] http://files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/wexelsen.pdf
[118] http://findingaids.library.northwestern.edu/catalog/inu-ead-spec-archon-1348
[119] http://findingaids.library.northwestern.edu/catalog/inu-ead-spec-archon-96
[120] http://files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/wilson_scrapbook.pdf
[121] http://files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/womenscollection.pdf
[122] http://www.library.northwestern.edu/findingaids.library.northwestern.edu/catalog/inu-ead-spec-archon-102
[123] http://files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/wright_black_power.pdf
[124] http://findingaids.library.northwestern.edu/catalog/inu-ead-spec-archon-1334
[125] http://files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/yeats.pdf