Rare Books and Manuscripts

Rare Books and Manuscripts holds manuscript collections by or about authors, literary research, printers, political issues, film history, science and math research, Southeast and East Asian war correspondents, and translators' papers. 

Arizona Archives Online (AAO) contains finding aids that provide more detailed information for some of these collections. To limit a search to ASU's Rare Books and Manuscripts holdings, select "Special Collections" under Arizona State University.

Not all manuscript collections have an AAO finding aid. The Accession Records of Rare Books and Manuscripts contain brief descriptions of some unprocessed collections.

The authors below represent selections of authors represented in the manuscript collection. These collections have finding aids that provide more detailed information about the contents and extent of the collection.

Beat Generation

• William Seward Burroughs Papers

Biographer

• George Eells Papers
• Ted Morgan Papers

Children's Authors

• Shaaron Cosner Papers
• Marion T. Place Papers

War Correspondents in China

• Jack Belden Papers 
• China War Reporting Conference Records
• Francis McCracken Fisher Papers
• A. T. Steele Papers and A. T. Steele Photographs (ASU Digital Repository)

Holocaust (Shoa) Survivor

• Gerda Weissman Klein and Kurt Klein Papers

Literary Research

•  Nicholas A. Salerno Literary Papers

Printers

• Edwin Bliss Hill Papers

Political

• Lucile B. Kaufman Papers

Science/Math 

• Michael Helfert Viewing Earth From Space Collection
• Robert S. Lopez Collection
• Wendell L. Minckley Papers

Science Fiction

• Paul Cook Papers
• Alan Dean Foster Papers

Southeast Asian

• Guardian of the Flame Sri Lanka Manscripts Collection and Manuscripts Images (ASU Digital Repository)
• Mimijac Palgen Cambodian Photographs (ASU Digital Repository)
• William W. Sage Collection on Laos

Translators' Papers

• Robert E. Bjork Translators' Papers

 

Authors

• William Seward Burroughs Papers
• Paul Cook Papers
• Shaaron Cosner Papers
• Alan Dean Foster Papers
• Helmut E. Gerber Papers
• Marianne M. Jennings Papers
• Gerda Weissman Klein and Kurt Klein Papers
• Larry P. Kusche Papers
• Phyllis G. and Walter Leonard Papers
• Ted Morgan Papers
• Marion T. Place Papers
• Glendon and Kathryn Swarthout Papers
• Elleston Trevor Papers

Film

• Gene Blakely Collection
• Richard Derr Papers
• George Eels Papers
• Peter Lawford Papers
• Dorée Leslie Papers
• Motion Picture Poster Collection
• Movie Press Kits
• Stan Singer Collection
• Star Wars Collection

Television

• Steve Allen Papers
• Gene Blakely Collection
• Philo T. Farnsworth and George Everson Papers

Theatre

• American Theatre Playbills Collection
• ASU Department of Theatre Records
• Gene Blakely Collection
• Benjamin Bradford Collection
• National Theatre Collection
• Playbill Collection
• Guy Floyd Steely Papers
• Ruth Sullivan Tarrant Collection
• Kristin Bervig Valentine Collection

These collections are limited to no more than two linear feet of materials.

• Pamela Kahn Baca Papers
• Aubrey Beardsley Papers and Notes
• Dick Fleming Papers
• Frank Bunker and Lillian Gilbreth Collection
• Beckian Fritz Goldberg Papers
• Frederic W. Goudy Typographical Collection
• Nicholas Greenwald Oral History
• Ernest L. Guirey and H. C. Nixon Manuscript
• Josephine Harris Papers
• Charles Lamb Collection
• Maryjane Tonight at Angels Twelve Manuscript
• Arlys L. McDonald Collection 
• Earl R. Mesnier Collection
• Lloyd C. Henning Collection Regarding the Roycrofters
• Stan Singer Collection
• Frank Smothers Collection