SPECIAL COLLECTIONS & UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES

10am to 4pm M-FLove Library Room 150

619.594.6791askscua@sdsu.edu

- SPECIAL COLLECTIONS & UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES -Discover rare, beautiful, unique, and valuable books, periodicals, manuscripts, and documents. Research using photographs, prints, postcards, memorabilia, scrapbooks, and oral histories.

University Archives holds materials which document the history of San Diego State since its founding as a Normal School in 1897.

Print CollectionsSpecial Collections holds over 80,000 printed volumes.

Some of our collecting strengths include:

Edward Gorey Personal LibraryAlternative Religious Movements

Print CollectionsSpecial Collections holds over 80,000 printed volumes.

Some of our collecting strengths include:

Historic Astronomy CollectionHenry James Collection

Print CollectionsSpecial Collections holds over 80,000 printed volumes.

Some of our collecting strengths include:

Natural HistoryJanus Press Collection

Print CollectionsSpecial Collections holds over 80,000 printed volumes.

Some of our collecting strengths include:

Surfing CollectionSpeculative Fiction

Manuscript and Archival CollectionsSpecial Collections holds over 500 manuscript and archival collections

San Diego HistoryChicana(o) History

Manuscript and Archival CollectionsSpecial Collections holds over 500 manuscript and archival collections

Women’s StudiesPerforming Arts

Religious Studies

Graphic and Ephemera CollectionsArtwork, prints, broadsides, drawings, postcards, comics, zines, sheet music,

bookplates, and magic lantern slides.

Zines & Mini-ComicsComic Arts Collection

Graphic and Ephemera CollectionsArtwork, prints, broadsides, drawings, postcards, comics, zines, sheet music,

bookplates, and magic lantern slides.

Adams Ephemera CollectionsPeabody Magic Lantern Collection

Digital CollectionsSeveral collections from our holdings have been digitized.

Fernandez Poster CollectionAdams Trade Card Collection

Digital CollectionsSeveral collections from our holdings have been digitized.

Meades Sheet Music CollectionSan Diego Photograph Collection

Digital CollectionsSeveral collections from our holdings have been digitized.

WW2 Correspondence CollectionOld Globe Photograph Collection

University ArchivesUniversity Archives document the history of San Diego State University

San Diego State Historical CollectionUniversity Archives Photograph Collection

University ArchivesUniversity Archives document the history of San Diego State University

University Archives Topical FilesUniversity Archives Biographical Files

University ArchivesUniversity Archives document the history of San Diego State University

University Senate RecordsAssociated Students Records