Guides to the Archival and Manuscript Collections in the 

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections and the Kheel Center

Archivists prepare guides to archival and manuscript collections called finding aids.  These typically contain a prose description of the collection and the person or organization that produced it, as well as a list of the contents that tells users how the collection is structured and where to find particular materials in it. The Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections and the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives have finding aids for several thousand of their archival and manuscript collections. The two units have begun to put these guides into electronic format using a standardized encoding system called Encoded Archival Description (EAD) that is coming into wide use in archives. 

  Below are subject headings with links to lists of archival collections that deal with those topics, as well as links to alphabetical listings of all of our online finding aids.  Please note that these are not complete lists of all of our archival collections.  Many collections do not have guides, some guides have not yet been converted to EAD, and other guides are not yet fully converted. Patrons are advised to contact the reference services of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections at rareref@cornell.edu or (607) 255-3530 or the Kheel Center at kheel_center@cornell.edu or (607) 255-3183.

 

American History and Culture:	Women's Studies
Agriculture	Human Sexuality
African American Studies	Literary Collections:
Anti-Slavery	Anglo-American lit. (c19-20)
Architecture and Planning	Theater and Film
Civil War	Religion
Labor History	Science, Medicine and Technology:
Regional History	Life Sciences:
Genealogy	Entomology
African History and Culture	Ornithology
Asian History and Culture:	Physical Sciences and Engineering
East Asia	Social Sciences
Southeast Asia	Cornell University:
Vietnam War	University Archives
European History and Culture:	Ezra Cornell
France (18th c.)	College of Human Ecology
World Wars:	Other:
World War I	Alphabetical list of Collections at the Kheel Center Library
World War II	Alphabetical list of Collections at the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections

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