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Collection Highlights

The Long 60s

• 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

Social History

• 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

Northwestern University

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

Political History

• 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

Literature & Arts

• 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

Journalism

• Georgie Anne Geyer
• Robert R. McCormick/Chicago Tribune Archive
• Chicago editors and reporters
• John T. McCutcheon & Carey Orr cartoons
• Joan Goodman Archive

Twentieth-Century Music

• Beatles Manuscripts
• John Cage Archive
• ONCE Group Archive
• Fritz Reiner Archive
• Glenn Branca Archive
• Charlotte Moorman Archive

Performance and Theatre

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

Women's History

• Karen DeCrow Archive
• Second Wave Feminism publications
• Biblioteca Femina (from the 1893 and 1933 Chicago World's Fairs)
• Jenny Knauss/Chicago Women's Liberation Union Archive
• Aleta Styers Papers
• Arlene Kaplan Daniels Papers