Special Collections is the Library’s principal repository for print and manuscript primary sources. The collections number nearly 200,000 volumes and more than 11,000 linear feet of a diverse array of literary and historical manuscripts, personal papers, and college archives that span more than 900 years of human history. The collections are available for research, teaching, and study in person, and, increasingly, digitally in the Claremont Colleges Digital Library.
Visit the Special Collections Access Guide for help discovering and requesting Special Collections materials and contact Special Collections with questions.
The Claremont Colleges Digital Library, also known as the CCDL, consists of over 70 collections of historical and visual resources and collections created both by and for The Claremont Colleges community. Topics include Anthropology, Fine Arts, Geography, History, Illuminated Manuscripts, Language and Literature, Library Science, Music, Political Science, Psychology, Religion, Sciences, Social Sciences, Women and Gender. Also included are California History, Environment, Italian Renaissance, Japanese American Incarceration and World War II, Management, Native Americans, Photography, The Claremont Colleges History, and Water.
