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Appointments are strongly encouraged, make yours today! Walk-ins welcome for easily retrievable materials. University of Washington Libraries’ Special Collections collects, preserves and makes accessible rare books, manuscripts, papers, records, photographs, moving images and architectural drawings. Allen Library South, BasementUniversity of WashingtonBox 352900Seattle, WA 98195-3080 USACampus Map | Building Map | Accessibility InformationPhone: 206-543-1929 University of Washington Libraries’ Special Collections collects, preserves and makes accessible rare books, manuscripts, papers, records, photographs, moving images and architectural drawings. Special Collections is open to the public:

Browse or search the Digital Collections which are exclusive to the UW Libraries Special Collections Division. SeaTac-Seattle Minimum Wage History Project International Longshore and Warehouse Union, Pacific Coast Pensioners Association Oral History Project The Working in the Time of COVID-19 Oral History Project The Seattle Labor Chorus Oral History Project Permanent URI for this communityhttps://digital.lib.washington.edu/handle/1773/2661

Databases, online lists, bibliographies, and external resources. Appointments are strongly encouraged, make yours today! Walk-ins welcome for easily retrievable materials jQuery(document).ready(function($) { $(function(){ var week6193 = new $.LibCalWeeklyGrid( $("#s-lc-whw6193"), { iid: 395, lid: 6193, systemTime: false }); });}); See UW Academic Calendar for dates of instruction, finals, and observed holidays. Note: hours are not finalized until about 5-6 weeks prior to the start of the quarter.

Please check back or contact the department if you are planning future visits. Special CollectionsUniversity of WashingtonBox 352900Seattle, WA 98195-2900 USA In “Denizens of the Deep: Sea Creatures Real and Imagined”, librarians and curators from across the UW Libraries bring together items highlighting the breadth of material and content available about the sea, ocean and... | EXHIBIT Daisy Lee Tibbs Dawson was a peace activist and educator and the only African American to be memorialized in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial. Special Collections curated an exhibit about her legacy.

| EXHIBITS The Daily does a deep dive into the “Invisible Cities” Exhibit in Special Collections. | THE DAILY The Daily does a deep dive into the “History of Costume” Exhibit in Special Collections. | THE DAILY Special Collections is creating a public archive of materials spanning Early Music Seattle’s (EMS) 45 years of history in order to preserve the history and impact of EMS and make the materials accessible for...

| EARLY MUSIC SEATTLE Special Collections brings together the University of Washington Libraries’ most rare and unique resources. From papyrus to born-digital, our holdings span history and the globe, and offer boundless opportunities for exploration and discovery. Students, faculty, and visitors are invited to examine manuscripts, printed works, artists’ books, photographs, maps, and other materials in the protected environment of the Special Collections reading room. Our digital collections are available on the web. We welcome volunteers and interns to assist us in our work.

If you are interested in learning more about opportunities available in Special Collections please contact us! Fall 2024 UW Libraries Special Collections will be exploring the zeitgeist of Seattle in the ’20s — 100 years ago and today! Join us in exploring popular culture and current events of Seattle in the 2020s and 1920s. The UW Libraries is home to the largest library collection in the Pacific Northwest with over 9 million books, journals, millions of microforms, thousands of maps, rare books, film, audio and video recordings, including... A depository for publications from the US government, Canada, the United Nations, the European Union and the State of Washington Premier collection of maps in Washington state.

A large current international and domestic newspaper collection, with emphasis on Slavic, South and Southeast Asian papers and a selection of American and European papers The Libraries’ major resource of rare published and archival materials covering a broad range of topics, formats and periods. Strengths in Pacific NW history; architecture; book arts; 19th c. American literature; historical photography; historical children’s literature. Also home to the University of Washington Archives. University of Washington Special Collections collects and preserves items such as rare books, historical manuscripts, archival collections, and more.

To search for archival material, you must look through ArchivesWest, where Special Collections posts finding aids for their collections. For searching for books and other media at Special Collections, you must search through the UW Libraries catalog. To access these and other collections, you must first create an account in UW Special Collections’ request system, which you can do here. After creating an account, you will need to submit requests to view these items and book an appointment. UW Special Collections has a helpful guide for making requests and scheduling appointments on their website. If you need assistance with appointments, you can contact UW Special Collections at the email address speccoll@uw.edu or the phone number 206-543-1929.

Archival material in UW Special Collections is organized first by accession number and then by box number. Accession numbers help archives organize collections by grouping together material that have something in common such as a specific time period. Many large collections have multiple accession numbers, while a smaller collection might have only one accession number. The Earl Robinson papers, for example, is a massive collection with eleven accession numbers. These accession numbers make it easier for people to find archival material from a certain year. After accession numbers, archival material is organized by box number.

Archival material is contained in boxes to ensure that they will be preserved for future generations. Finding aids will typically list the contents of the box so you can figure out what box to view for your research. A finding aid might also list the contents of a folder within a box. A folder in a finding aid is usually listed after a forward slash symbol (/).

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