Honnold/Mudd
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Denison
Special Collections

Special Collections at The Claremont Colleges LibraryThe Claremont Colleges can boast two special collections libraries. Located in Honnold/Mudd Library, Special Collections is a place where you can connect to the past by examining rare books, reading original letters and manuscripts, and studying historical photographs and other objects. We collect, preserve, and make accessible collections that span more than 900 years of human history, with particular depth in 16th-20th centuries, the American West, science, music and theater, Asian history and culture, books and printing, and the history of The Claremont Colleges and the larger Claremont community, among other subjects, places, and eras.The Ella Strong Denison Library at Scripps College housed in the uniquely beautiful, historic Kaufmann Wing of the library building offers a wide variety of primary resources to The Claremont Colleges and wider community of scholars. Subject strengths include fine printing and artists' books, women's history, literature, and art; Denison holds the papers for the College's founder, Ellen Browning Scripps, as well as the Scripps College archives.