The Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) offers scholars and students a vibrant research and learning environment. We collect, preserve, and provide access to materials that document the history of our global society, including original manuscripts, photographs, architectural renderings, industrial design prototypes, graphic artworks, audio and moving image recordings, and much more. Today, the SCRC’s collections total approximately 150,000 printed items and over 30,000 linear feet of archival material in 2,400 separate collections, as well as the holdings of the renowned Belfer Audio Archive and the University Archives. Together, these collections offer unfiltered access to primary source material, the “authentic voice” of a writer or creator, from which scholars and students can develop their own views and create their own narratives.
Correspondence (1937-1965); personal papers (1950-1952); photographs of Harriton and his work (1918-1962); manuscripts by Harriton on art and artists (1949-1964); scrapbooks (1915-1962); published material (1922-1964); and biographical material.
Correspondence, some in French and Russian, telegrams, scrapbooks, photograph albums, costume sketches, and other materials relating to the San Francisco Ballet, Sergei Diaghilev's Ballet Russe, and others. Correspondents include Agnes De Mille, Romola Nijinsky, Ruth Page, Leopold Stokowski, Igor Stravinsky, and others.
The papers of the American cartoonists for The New Yorker (1926-1974) include correspondence (letters from John Taylor Arms, Peggy Bacon, Isabel Bishop, Warren Chappell, Eric Hodgins, and Alan Watts); cartoons and drawings; exhibition catalogs; notebooks; business files and financial records; and memorabilia, including clippings, photographs, and scrapbooks. .
Daughter of Kate Campbell Vickery and Charles Rowe Vickery, American Congregationalist missionaries to India and Singapore. Includes photographs, writings, notes, and diaries, as well as Vickery family genealogical material.
Correspondence, diary, expedition journal, financial material, scientific notebook and sketches, photographs, published material, including articles and newspaper clippings, and scrapbooks. Correspondence (1854-1902) includes that of Alexander Agassiz, Charles E. Beecher, E.D. Cope, James D. Dana, J.S. Diller, G.K. Gilbert, G. Brown Goode, Asa Gray, Robert T. Hill, Anna Hyatt Huntington, Hyatt’s father, Alpheus Hyatt, Audella Beebe Hyatt, Jules Marcou, Harriet Randolph Hyatt Mayor, A.S. Packard, Charles Schuchert, and Charles Walcott.
Papers of the American comic strip cartoonist. Original artwork for product advertising for Pepsi-Cola and Wheaties, comic strips (proof sheets and clippings), correspondence, his idea file for comic strips (1922-1951), memorabilia and photographs. Correspondents include Milton Caniff, Al Capp, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Rube Goldberg, Vernon Greene, Fred Harman, W. Averell Harriman, National Cartoonists Society, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., Charles M. Schulz, and Fred Waring.
American Association of University Women. Syracuse Branch.
Clippings, directories, files, minutes, photographs, publications, recordings, reports, scrapbooks and other material of the women's education and advocacy group.
The American Locomotive Company was incorporated in 1901, the result of the merger of the Schenectady Locomotive Engine Manufactory with seven small companies. In 1955 it became Alco Products, Inc. and was acquired in 1964 by the Worthington Corporation. In addition to steam and diesel engines and generators, the American Locomotive Company also manufactured high quality steel and military tanks, with unsuccessful ventures in automobile manufacture (1905-1913) and the production of nuclear energy (1954-1962). Collection contains advertising and publicity, correspondence, financial records (annual reports, ledgers, etc.), technical drawings and technical manuals, maps, news clippings, personnel records, photographs, sketches and drawings, and more.
Papers of the American sculptor, specializing in equestrian figures and animals. Correspondence, 1887-1965; diaries, 1925-1958; articles; exhibition catalogs; financial and legal material; manuscripts; and photographs.
Correspondence, photographs, family histories, scrapbooks, manuscripts, diaries, address books and more, most relating to John Dustin Archbold and his daughter Anne Archbold.
American journalist, humor writer and sports cartoonist. Collection contains manuscripts, copies of his columns, correspondence, clippings, scrapbooks, photographs, memorabilia and published material.
Papers of the American industrial designer; professor, Syracuse University. Office records for Pulos Design Associates, Inc., including correspondence, drawings, photographs and slides for jobs for various clients.
Bethaida "Bea" González was a school board member, Common Council president, and candidate for mayor in Syracuse, New York. Campaign materials including correspondence, donor lists, notes, news clippings, and other materials; programs, correspondence, plaques, and certificates; family photographs, general news articles about González, programs from events where González spoke, and materials related to other candidates in local and national campaigns in 2001, 2004, 2005, and 2008.
Papers of the American Jewish painter, lithographer, etcher, illustrator, sculptor.Born in Russia. Correspondence (1911-1962), including a series of letters (1936-1958), some in scrapbook form, by Kopman to his art dealer, G.D. Thompson; manuscript poems, and prose, some in Yiddish; legal and financial papers; sketches; and photographs of Kopman's work and his family. Incoming letters, arranged alphabetically, include those from the Art Institute of Chicago, David Burliuk, the Federal Art Project, Rockwell Kent, Katharine Kuh, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, Clifford Odets, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Phillips Memorial Gallery, Hugo Robus, Frederic F. Sherman, Raphael Soyer, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and Carl Zigrosser.
American industrial designer, particularly of tableware. Collection includes catalogs, design sketches, scrapbooks, photographs, correspondence, and a considerable number of items of table- and kitchen-ware (china, metal, stoneware, plaster, steel, glass, wood).
Papers of the American journalist, founder and editor of Forbes. Collection includes business and family correspondence (1897-1964); manuscript and/or published articles, biographical sketches, books and pamphlets, magazine and newspaper columns, novels, stories, speeches; and memorabilia, including clippings, photographs, and scrapbooks. Notable correspondents include Bruce Barton, Calvin Coolidge, Robert Dollar, George Eastman, Thomas Edison, Benjamin F. Fairless, James A. Farley, William Randolph Hearst, Herbert Hoover, Eddie Rickenbacker, John D. Rockefeller, Charles M. Schwab, Wendell Willkie, Owen D. Young, and others.
Files, correspondence, photographs, printed material, posters, and artifacts (hair combs) relating to Betty Miller, the Miller Hair Comb Museum, and the Antique Comb Collectors Club International (AC3I)
Papers of the American print and radio journalist, war correspondent, author. Includes correspondence, manuscripts, clippings, newspaper columns, photographs, scrapbooks, audio recordings, and films.
Miscellaneous printed material and correspondence relating to cultural life in Central New York. Theatres, clubs, musical performances, academic commencements, local politics, sporting events, etc.
Papers of the American business executive. Collection includes Correspondence, including notices and memorandums to workers and staff (1918-1959); manuscripts (1934-1956); material relating to the George F. Johnson, Jr., Memorial Fund (1948-1951); photographs and photograph albums (1899-1958); plaques (1935-1957); clippings of the Workers' Pages from the Binghamton Sun (1948-1956); petitions signed by the workers (1946-1956); clippings, press releases, articles, advertisements, and brochures (1916-1959); and scrapbooks (1947-1957).
Papers of the American author, illustrator, novelist, painter, poet. Correspondence (1916-1963); manuscript drafts of writings and poetry with original drawings by Shaw; exhibition catalogs; photographs; and scrapbooks of magazine articles and clippings compiled by Shaw of his and his friends' work (1921-1935). Incoming correspondence includes that of Josef Albers, Ruth Chatterton, George Gershwin, Sinclair Lewis, H.L. Mencken, George Jean Nathan, The New Yorker, Maxwell Perkins, Smart Set, Deems Taylor, and Monty Woolley.
Scrapbook of clippings and correspondence related to Watts-Dunton's book about Victorian poet Algernon Charles Swinburne, with supplemental material acquired by collector John S. Mayfield.
Materials related to Clifford Strait's connection with Syracuse University and fellow alumni and the creation of his newsletter for the Gamma Omicron chapter of Delta Tau Delta
Papers of the American poet, artist (1898-1975). Collection contains correspondence (1942-1973); scrapbooks (1940-1972); manuscript and published poems; memorabilia, including articles about Constance Walker, and photographs. Notable correspondents include Alben Barkley, Hubert H. Humphrey, John V. Lindsay, Edward R. Murrow, Eleanor Roosevelt, Adlai Stevenson, and Harry S. Truman.
Papers of the Pulitzer Prize-winning American science journalist; science editor for the Scripps-Howard Newspapers and science correspondent for NBC News from 1940-1950. Collection includes correspondence and research files, articles, lectures, book manuscripts, and scrapbooks of columns and feature articles on astronomy, atomic energy, and medicine (1916-1977).
Papers of the U.S. Postal Service employee and poet. Correspondence (1940-1976); scrapbooks relating to the Postal Services' Suggestions Program to which Kalugin submitted over 500 suggestions (1963-1976); manuscript and/or published novels, poems, and short stories.
Don Francisco was advertising manager for the California Fruit Growers Exchange, worked with the Los Angeles advertising agency Lord & Thomas, and from 1945-1956 with the J. Walter Thompson Agency in New York. From 1940-1945, he worked with the radio division of the Office of Inter-American Affairs in the U.S. State Department. Collection includes correspondence; material on the Office of Inter-American Affairs and advertising agencies; articles, reports, speeches, promotional materials, photographs, and scrapbooks.
Spanning 1926 to 1977, the Doris Caesar Papers comprises biographical material, correspondence-subject files, artwork, writings, and memorabilia of the New York-born sculptor (1892-1971). Correspondents include Alexander Archipenko, Alexander Calder, Frank Kacmarcik, William Pachner, and James A. Porter. The collection illuminates Caesar's personal life and the evolution of her artistic career.
Papers of the American broadcast and print journalist. Correspondence, incoming and outgoing (1918-1961); financial and legal materials, correspondence, manuscripts, and clippings relating to Josef Bard, Sinclair Lewis, and Maxim Kopf as well as Thompson's son, Michael Lewis and other family members; diaries, and appointment books (1928-1960); financial and legal material; photographs; memorabilia and articles about Dorothy Thompson. Also includes typescript and published versions of her "On the Record" column, and typescripts of various articles, speeches, and radio scripts. Correspondents include authors (John Gunther, Wallace Irwin, Alfred M. Lilienthal, Edgar A. Mowrer, Vincent Sheean, Johannes Urzidil), literary figures (Jean Cocteau, Rose Wilder Lane, Thomas Mann, Rebecca West), politicians and statesmen (Bernard M. Baruch, Winston Churchill, Ely Culbertson, Ralph E. Flanders, Felix Frankfurter, Charles de Gaulle, Cordell Hull, Clare Boothe Luce, Jan Masaryk, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Franklin D. and Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman).
Over 1,000 pieces of original cartoon artwork including material from the Syracuse Post-Standard, comic strips, original artwork by other cartoonists, biographical material, photographs, newspaper and magazine clippings, proofs, posters, and a scrapbook.
Papers of the American businessman, son of the founder of Welch Grape Juice Co.; succeeded his father as its president in 1926, and subsequently resigned to spend his life and fortune on good works for the Methodist Church. Collection includes correspondence, sermons, speeches, articles, brief notes on the history of the Welch Grape Juice Company, and scrapbooks pertaining to Welch's Methodist Church-related activities.
Papers of the American clergyman, educator. Chaffee was a Presbyterian minister in New York City. Correspondence, letters to magazines to which Chaffee contributed, notes, sermons, scrapbooks, diaries, and published material. Sermons (1914-1936) include such topics as religion, specifically Christianity, and its relationship to politics, labor, technocracy, war, pacifism, communism, and socialism.
American physician, World War I army and Syracuse, New York. Collection includes correspondence, photographs, scrapbooks, other material relating to his experiences establishing hospitals in France during World War I.
American publishing firm, founded 1852. Papers include those of founder Edward P. Dutton, John Macrae, and the company's business records, inclucing correspondence, letter books, photographs, clippings, publishers' catalogs, authors' scrapbooks, general files, legal files, financial material, production records, and publicity files.