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University of Wisconsin-Madison Special Collections
This collection presents a variety of materials selected from the Department of Special Collections in the UW–Madison Libraries. Items have been chosen to showcase the department's holdings, highlight specific collections, and provide broader access to material that is rare, fragile, or otherwise difficult to work with.
In addition to the materials found here, a number of Special Collections' books have been scanned in their entirety and can be found elsewhere in the Digital Collections, especially in the Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture and in the History of Science and Technology Collection. The Publishers' Bindings Online Collection also pulled heavily from Special Collections materials.
The Department of Special Collections was founded in 1946 and now features one of the nation's leading collections for history of science. Other collection strengths include literary magazines, the Cairns Collection of American Women Writers Before 1920, Italian history and culture, European political movements, the history of the book, and philosophy and theology, among others. For more information about these collections, visit the Special Collections website.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Special Collections Sample items in the collection
![[Letter to M. Pillot]](https://asset.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/AX7VKOS76YWBK9C/M/h300-4a276.jpg)
![Giuochi di carte bellissimi : de regola, e memoria ; consecreti bell[i]ssimi per passar l'otio e'ltempo](https://asset.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/SLUXBA5PBEIPP9B/M/h300-c7ae1.jpg)
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This compilation (including design, introductory text, organization, and descriptive material) is copyrighted by University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents.
This copyright is independent of any copyright on specific items within the collection. Because the University of Wisconsin Libraries generally do not own the rights to materials in these collections, please consult copyright or ownership information provided with individual items.
Images, text, or other content downloaded from the collection may be freely used for non-profit educational and research purposes, or any other use falling within the purview of "Fair Use".
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