One of a Kind: Celebrating Thirty-seven Years of Special Collections

For this exhibition, marking the thirty-seventh anniversary of the Library’s Special Collections, we have searched the vault for those one-of-a-kind pieces that have never or seldom been on display.  Here is your chance to see unique books, letters, costumes, maps, sculptures, paintings, engravings and manuscripts.  A big thank you to the many donors who have contributed to Special Collections over the years.

Some pieces you will enjoy:

• A contemporary account of the shootout at the OK corral
• The first written alphabet: a 4,000-year-old Sumerian cuneiform
• Opera Singer Helen Traubel’s gown
• A 13th-century manuscript  Bible
• Banquet ticket and menu for Charles Dickens on the eve of his U.S. Tour
• A first Edition of Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary