Rare Books at The Milton S. Eisenhower Library
Mailing Address
MSEL-Department of Rare Books and Manuscripts
3400 North Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218
Contact: Earle Havens
Phone: 410-516-8662
E-mail: earle.havens@jhu.edu
Web: Milton S. Eisenhower Library
Catalog: Find Rare Books
Hours of Service
Monday-Friday 8:30 am - 5:00 pm
Thursday, 8:30 am - 8:00 pm
Materials to be used on Thursday evenings must be requested no later than 4:30pm that afternoon.
Overview
The rare book collection at the Eisenhower Library contains over 60,000 volumes, and is strongest in the humanities and social sciences. This includes medieval and Renaissance manuscript books as well as many facsimile editions of similar works, the Machen collection of incunabula (books printed before 1501), and fine printed books.
Special Services
- Cameras (at curator discretion)
- Digital cameras (at curator discretion)
- Photo print service
- Photocopies
- Photoduplication services
- Scanning
Type of Materials
- Books and Monographs
- Digital Collections
- Digital Exhibits
- Exhibitions
- Government Documents
- Maps
- Primary Resources
- Serials
- Vertical File Material
Detailed Description of Collections
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- Architectural Documents
- Artifacts
- Audiovisual Materials
- Books and Monographs
- Digital Collections
- Digital Exhibits
- Exhibitions
- Government Documents
- Institutional Records
- Maps
- Microforms
- Musical Scores
- Newspapers
- Oral Histories
- Personal Papers
- Photographs
- Primary Resources
- Printed Ephemera
- Prints and Drawings
- Serials
- Vertical File Material