- Berkeley Folk Music Festival
- Rosen Beatles Literature Collection
- Fillmore/Avalon Ballroom psychedelic rock posters
- Underground newspapers, comix, small press publications
- 1968 Northwestern Bursar's Office Takeover
- Fluxus-related archives and publications
Collection Highlights

- Slavery, Enslaved Persons, and Free Blacks in the Americas Collection
- Frederick Douglass Collection
- Death Collection
- Gay pulp fiction & LGBTQ literature
- Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender periodicals
- Worlds Fairs/Expositions
- Northwestern University Settlement Collections
- Leopold and Loeb Collections

- Daily Northwestern & Northwestern Publications
- Black Experience at the University
- Bienen School of Music recordings
- Football Films
- Northwestern History and Traditions

- Siege and Commune of Paris
- Charles Dawes Archive
- Spanish Civil War collection
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt Collection
- Manzanar Relocation Camp Collection
- Dutch, Danish, Norwegian WWII Underground Collections

- Dadaism/Surrealism/Futurism
- Garnett Family Archive
- James B. Pinker Archive
- Leroi Jones "The Moderns" Archive
- T.S. Eliot/Stephen Spender Correspondence
- Private Presses & Graphic Arts
- Georgie Anne Geyer
- Robert R. McCormick/Chicago Tribune Archive
- Chicago editors and reporters
- John T. McCutcheon & Carey Orr cartoons
- Joan Goodman Archive


- Ira Aldridge Archive
- Patricia Neal Archive
- Viola Spolin Archive
- Dublin Gate Theater Archive
- Agnes Nixon and other serial broadcasting collections
