The Poetry Collection

 

Devoted to 20th century poetry in English and English translation, The Poetry Collection contains over 100,000 first edition volumes by poets writing in English, chapbooks, broadsides, 5,000 runs of little literary magazines, as well as recordings, poets' notebooks, letters, and other manuscripts. Of particular note are extensive manuscript holdings of Robert Graves, Wyndham Lewis, Robert Duncan, Helen Adam, William Carlos Williams, Robert Kelly, Theodore Enslin, Clark Coolidge, Michael Palmer, John Logan, John Montague and others. The Poetry Collection also holds the archives of The Jargon Society, Alcherina, The Wormwood Review, Kayak, Mica, The Lost and Found Times, White Pine Press, Earth's Daughters and the archives of The Hallwalls and CEPA galleries, among many, many others. The Poetry Collection also holds one of the world's premier collections of James Joyce manuscripts. It contains manuscripts, family portraits, Joyce's private library and thousands of pages of corrected manuscripts and dozens of notebooks used in Joyce's composition of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake.

 

For more information visit The Poetry Collection or contact Michael Basinski.

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The University Archives

 

 The University Archives is a rich and varied special collection. Among the many collections housed in The University at Buffalo Archives are many collections of papers of UB humanities professors. The papers of faculty from Philosophy are particularly well represented. Among the papers available are The Marvin Farber papers on philosophy and phenomenology, ca. 1920s-1980s; The Mitchell Franklin papers, 1922-1986; The Dale Riepe papers, 1937-1980; The Peter H. Hare papers, 1968-1999 and The Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society: papers of Peter Hare (ed.), 1971-2002; The George F. Hourani Papers, 1927-1984; The William T. Parry papers, 1919-1984; and The Thomas D. Perry Papers, 1957-1982. Other notable collections include: The Leslie A. Fiedler Papers, 1951-1969; The Milton Plesur papers, 1970-1985 and the papers of Charles David Abbott, 1930-1961. Among the unique Collections relating to Buffalo and Western New York Architecture with The University Archives are Frank Lloyd Wright - Darwin Martin House and Graycliff collections. This collection includes correspondence, photographs, architectural drawings related to the design, construction, and use of WNY structures designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Of additional interest to the work of Wright are the Jaroslav Joseph Polivka papers concerning Frank Lloyd Wright, 1945-1959. The University Archives also house the Buffalo Social History Project and American Dream Series collections, 1976-1978 and The Sound of Swing from 1982-1985 and Jazz Singer from 1994 to 1995, which are audio recordings of UB professor Robert Rossberg's radio programs.

 

For more information visit The University Archives or contact lib-archives@buffalo.edu

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The Rare Books Collection

 

The University at Buffalo 's Rare Book Collection houses more than 20,000 titles. The foundation of this Collection rests upon the Library of Thomas B. Lockwood. The Rare Book Collection also includes The Goldsman Collection of Literature for Boys, which contains more than 500 books and magazines from the period 1890-1920, rare book collections such as The Julian Park Collection, The Gran Colombia Collection, The Joseph Brennan Collection, The Frank A. Hartman Ornithology Collection, and the The George Kelley Paperback and Pulp Fiction Collection (see below).

The George Kelley Paperback and Pulp Fiction Collection is comprised of well over 25,000 pulp-fiction books and magazines. The earliest date from the 1940s. The Collection contains hundreds of paperbacks from this period, and thousands from the 1950s and 1960s. Many of these never appeared in hardcover. The remainder are paperback originals published in the 1970s and 1980s. Detective and mystery stories make up the largest part of the Collection, followed by science fiction paperbacks and magazines.

Dr. Kelley donated the Collection to Lockwood Library in 1994, and is an alumnus of the State University of New York at Buffalo. Currently, he is a professor in the business administration department of Erie Community College. Dr. Kelley was awarded a Ph.D. in English in 1996 by the University. He also holds master's degrees from the University in business administration, library science, and English.

For more information about The Rare Books Collection contact Michael Basinski or lib-archives@buffalo.edu

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The Music Library

 

Among the collections housed in the Music Library are archives of materials related to 20th-century composers Morton Feldman, Lejaren Hiller, Allen Sapp, and Leo Smit, as well as other UB faculty members, including Jan Williams and Yvar Mikhashoff. Other special collections of interest include a large collection of manuscripts and first editions of works by Fernando Päer (1771-1839) and a collection of more than three hundred holographs of composer Ferdinand Praeger (1815-1891).

  

For more information visit the special collections and archives in the UB Music Library or contact musique@buffalo.edu.

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