Books and other Printed Materials

The following is a list of principal subject collections of printed materials here within the McCormick Library. A list of the library's manuscript collections [1] is also available. Most of the items belonging to the collections below have been cataloged and are listed on NUcat [2]. For more information about any of these please feel free to ask us directly.

• 20th century art movements: Art Nouveau, Dadaism, Expressionism, Futurism, Surrealism, Constructivism, Fluxus.
• Femina Collection [3]: serials, books, ephemera about women's liberation movements worldwide from 1960 to the present day.
• Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender periodicals [4].
• English and American literature of the 20th century: first editions, little magazines, broadsides, etc.
• Siege and Commune of Paris Collection [5] consisting of photographs, posters, caricatures, and more. [this used to link to a search engine]
• Swanson Collection of Edward Gordon Craig materials
• Frank Lloyd Wright Collection: books, drawings, blueprints, correspondence
• The Greene Collection of American railroad and travel history
• The Margaret Falley Collection of Irish and American genealogy
• Political pamphlets and underground newspapers
• Spanish Civil War Collection: photographs, periodicals, pamphlets, posters, books
• French Revolution pamphlets and broadsides
• Dutch, Danish, and Norwegian underground publications from World War II
• Manzanar Relocation Camp Collection
• Joseph Spear Beck Angling Collection
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt Collection
• Harry S. Truman Collection
• Elmer Gertz Collection
• Franz Boas Collection
• Film and Television Script Collection
• Samuel Johnson Collection
• Horace Collection
• Walt Whitman Collection
• Mark Twain Collection
• Soren Kierkegaard Collection
• Thomas Taylor Collection
• Maria Edgeworth Collection
• Spanish, Catalan, and Mexican Play Collections
• Science Fiction Collection
• John J. Louis Collection of Graphic Arts
• Dance of Death [6] Collection
• Kaye Collection of Deism
• Comic Books and Underground Comic Books
• Haldeman-Julius "Little Blue Book" Collection
• Private Press Collection
• and ever so much more...