Mailing Address
Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery
1000 Hilltop Circle
Baltimore, MD 21202
Contact:
Tom Beck, Chief Curator
beck@umbc.edu
(410) 455-3827
Susan Graham, Special Collections Librarian
sgraha1@umbc.edu
(410) 455-5825
Lindsey Loeper, Special Collections Archivist
lindseyloeper@umbc.edu
(410) 455-6290
Phone: 410-455-2353
E-mail: speccoll@umbc.edu
*Web: http://aok.lib.umbc.edu/specoll/
*Finding Aids: http://aok.lib.umbc.edu/specoll/manuscripts.php
*Access to Collections: http://aok.lib.umbc.edu/specoll/rules.php
Hours of Service
Monday - Friday: 1 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Thursday extended hours: 4 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Intersession, Summer Term and other hours by appointment
Overview
The Special Collections Department of the Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery University of Maryland, Baltimore County includes those materials that due to rarity, condition, form, or source are best handled separately from the General Collection. The collections of rare books, photographs, artifacts, manuscripts and archives housed in this department are available for research use by faculty, students and visiting scholars. All materials are non-circulating and the stacks are closed. Access to materials is provided by the online Library Catalog (catalogusmai), several online databases and a variety of print and online finding aids. A knowledgeable staff is available to assist researchers and to retrieve materials for study. Copying services are available when it will not harm the material and is permitted by federal copyright law. Eating, drinking and the use of pens are all prohibited in the reading room. Users of materials must register daily upon entering Special Collections.
UMBC Special Collections blog
Special Services
- Cameras (at curator discretion)
- Digital cameras (at curator discretion)
- Microfilm/microfiche printouts
- Photo print service
- Photocopies
- Photoduplication services
- Scanning
Type of Materials
- Audiovisual Materials
- Books and Monographs
- Digital Collections
- 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
Detailed Description of Collections
- Architectural Documents
- Artifacts
- Audiovisual Materials
- Books and Monographs
- Digital Collections
- Digital Exhibits
- Exhibitions
- Government Documents
- Institutional Records
- Maps
- Microforms
- Musical Scores
- Newspapers: The Department is the depository for a complete run of the print holdings of the Baltimore Sun (1837-1968)and the Evening Sun (1910-1964). Additional newspaper holdings from other cities and states include the Mourat Collection of late 19th and early 20th century newspapers. An index to the titles and holdings is available. Special Collections maintains a growing Baltimore Sun Archives which includes photographs, negatives, transperencies, and archival collections documenting the Sun's history dating to 1837.
- Oral Histories: Interviews with many of UMBC's founding faculty and staff were conducted to commemerate the 30th and 40th anniversaries.
- Personal Papers: Persons of note include Baltimore City mayor and Maryland governor Ferdinand Latrobe, Baltimore Sun and Brody Winery founder Philip Wagner, local science fiction author Brian C. Daley, and the papers of the Stabler Family, upon whose land UMBC now resides.
- Photographs: Holdings include over 2 million images in print, negative, and digital format. Of local interest are the Baltimore Sun and Baltimore News-American holdings, images produced by the Hughes Company showing street scenes of Baltimore in the early 1900s, Lewis Hine prints of Maryland child laborers, Civil War photographs, the archives of local photographers Jim Amos, Jack Engeman and Richard Jacquish.
- Primary Resources
- Printed Ephemera
- Prints and Drawings
- Serials: Dating to the late 18th Century, the serials in the Arnold Collection include newsletters, reports, and government statistics.
- Vertical File Material