Special Collections contains materials of enduring value, for their intellectual content and well as for their historical significance.  Special Collections in the Leatherby Libraries serves as the repository for collections of papers, rare books, both antiquarian and modern, art work, periodicals, photographs, broadsides, media, ephemera, and realia.

Scope

• 1st Editions
• Abraham Lincoln and Civil War books
• Babylon 5 collection
• Book Art
• California history
• Cold War Propaganda
• Disciples of Christ books and periodicals
• Fine and small press books, especially literature and poetry
• History of printing
• Indians of North America, including Tuscarora, Iroquois, and the California tribes
• Orange County biographies—oral history transcripts.
• Orange County, California history
• Rare and antiquarian books
• Silent film history of the Edison Studios and Thanhouser films
• UPI photograph collection