The University of Iowa Libraries’ home for rare books, manuscript collections and primary source materials.

Main Collecting Areas:

History of the book- from medieval manuscripts to zines
Iowa
Film and TV
Railroadiana
University Archives
History of Hydraulics
Fluxus and Avant Garde
Science Fiction and fandom
WWI and WWII letters and diaries
Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, Abraham Lincoln
Leigh Hunt and the English Romantics
Cookbooks and the Culinary Arts
International Dada Archive
Voyages and Travels
French Revolution
Artists’ Books
Chautauqua
Civil War
Maps