Rauner Special Collections Library

Sometimes a book's form and content give little indication of the life its author led. Birch Bark Poems , by Charles Fletcher Lummis, is...

In the age of the internet we forget that there once was a time when the news was not accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. In those day...

It must have seemed impossible. In the early 1800s, George Baxter awed England with his innovative color prints, easily mistaken for hand pa...

Rauner's Paradisi in Sole... A few weeks ago, the W. D. Jordan Library at Queen's University in Ontario posted an image on Insta...

We are always blogging about the really cool things you can find in Rauner. Usually, once things come here, they stay, but today we focus on...

Mileage stamps When the United States entered World War II in 1942, the American economy shifted to a rationing system administered by...

Wess Jolley, our Records Manager, is retiring later this month. He was interim director of Special Collections for about a year. During that...