Special Collections opened its doors in 1969, when Roger
H. Guedalla and George Quasha of the University’s English
Department purchased a Modern Literature collection, which contained
books and manuscripts focusing on the extraordinary group of authors
and poets who had been involved with the Black Mountain College in
North Carolina. These manuscripts are now housed within our Historic
and Literary Manuscripts Collection (MC 100) and include original
materials by Robert Creeley, Charles Olson, and Fielding Dawson.
The manuscript and rare book collections document and support a wide
range of disciplines. Collection highlights include:
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The Senator
Jacob K. Javits Collection contains two million separate
items, including printed documents, photographs, and motion
picture footage. |
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Chinese Cookbook Collection:
over 2,600
English- language cookbooks donated by historian
Dr.
Jacqueline M. Newman. |
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Long
Island Collection: book, manuscript, map, and digitized
collections on all aspects of Long Island history, including:
politics; environmental science; literature;
and the arts. |
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AIDC
100 Archives: the collections of individuals and corporations
that provide leadership and focus for the Automatic Identification
Data Capture industry. |

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The William
Butler Yeats Microfilmed Manuscripts Collection is the most
extensive collection of the famed Irish poet and author’s
manuscripts in existence housed outside of Ireland.
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University
Photographic Collection
The photographic
image collection consists of over 10,000 positive and negative
prints, 35 mm negatives, printed contact sheets, 35 mm slides
and mounted, oversized materials. |
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Contemporary Letters and Literature: manuscripts
and works by Pietro
di Donato, John
Ciardi, Jorge
Carrera Andrade, and Robert
Payne. |
The University
Archives includes printed, manuscript, and ephemeral materials
created by the administration, faculty, staff, and students at
Stony Brook. The holdings include complete sets of The Statesman,
the student newspaper, Specula, the yearbook, faculty directories,
annual reports, catalogs, departmental papers, and extensive photograph
collections.
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