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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

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 materia…
Image Source: Water fountain from the Jesuit Iconography Collection

University of Wisconsin-Madison Special Collections Sample items in the collection

  • Die neüwen Inseln-- so hinder Hispanien gegen Orient bey dem land Indie ligen
  • Unser Kaiser
  • Irlandiae regnum
  • [Letter to M. Pillot]
  • The Golden Ass Well managed, and Midas Restored to Reason
  • Lease of an Exhedra
  • Русскому народу на память о войнѣ съ японцами. Пѣсня русскаго манджурскаго воина
  • Giuochi di carte bellissimi : de regola, e memoria ; consecreti bell[i]ssimi per passar l'otio e'ltempo
  • Геройство Портъ-Артурцевъ
  • Bruxelles  : Panorama (Palais de Justice et Eglise de la Chapelle)
  • Irlandiae regnum
  • Water fountain
  • Receipt of Money
  • Instruction for Payment
  • Scielta di varii secreti
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    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".

    In all other cases, please consult the terms provided with the item, or contact the Libraries.

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  • Carl Rakosi Papers and Audio
  • Jesuit Iconography
  • Secrets Reveal'd: Early Modern Printed Books of Alchemy and "Chymistry"
  • Selections from the William B. Cairns Collection of American Women Writers 1650-1940

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