In addition to general collections and online subscription databases, ejournals, and ebooks, the Library holds over 250 named collections which are distinguished by their specialized subject matter, age, uniqueness, or value. Most of the listed collections are located in the John Hay Library. A list of digitized collections is available at the Center for Digital Initiatives site.
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- Backus (Isaac) Papers
- Bailey (William Whitman) Papers
- Baptist Collection
- Baptist biographies Collection
- Barbour (Clarence A.) Papers
- Barrett (Ellen M.) Papers
- Bianchi Papers
- Blake Collection
- Bookplates Collection
- Botta (Anne Charlotte Lynch) Papers
- Broadsides Collection
- Brooks Family Papers
- Brown (Ben W.) Papers
- Brown (Harold) Papers
- Brown (John Nicholas) (1861-1900) Papers
- Brown (Natalie Bayard) Papers
- Brown Corporation Committee on Agricultural Lands Records
- Brown University Archives Collection
- Brown University Archives – Biographical Files Collection
- Brown University Archives – Photograph Collection
- Brown University Archives – Prints Collection
- Brown University Archives – Scrapbooks Collection
- Brown University Archives – Theatre Collection
- Brown University Archives – World War I Correspondence Collection
- Brown University Dept. of Mathematics Meeting Minutes Collection
- Brown University Library Russian Exchange Records
- Brown University Miscellaneous Papers
- Brown-Ives Shakespeare Collection
- Brownell (Henry Howard) Papers
- Buchan (John) Collection
- Bullard Napoleon Collection
- Burning Deck Archive
- Butler Hospital Records
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- Cameron (William H.) Papers
- Canfield (Eli Hawley) Papers
- Cape Verde Collection
- Carriers Addresses Collection
- Carroll (Michael R.) Papers
- Carvely (Andrew) Collection
- Céard (Henry) and Émile Zola Papers
- Chace (Elizabeth Buffum) Papers
- Chambers Dante Collection
- Chapin (Charles V.) Personal Library
- Chapin (Charles Value) Papers
- Church Collection
- Ciaraldi Comics Collection
- Civil War Manuscripts Collection
- Cohen (Bob) Papers
- Corthell (Elmer L.) Personal Library
- Cramer Silver Collection
- Crosby (Harry) Papers
- Crost (Lyn) Papers
- Curtis (Minerva G.) diaries
- Cushman Collection
- Cutter (Bloodgood H.) Papers
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- Damon (S. Foster) Festival Papers
- Damon Blake Collection
- Damon Occult Collection
- Dante Collection
- Dard Hunter Collection
- Dated Book Collection
- Davenport Collection
- Dealers' Catalogs Collection
- Denison (Frederic) Baptist biograpies Collection
- Dexter (Robert C. and Elisabeth A.) Papers
- Dickinson Family Papers
- Dickson (James C.) Papers
- Dixon (Nathan Fellows) Family Papers
- Dorr (Thomas Wilson) Papers
- Downs family Papers
- Dr. Bob Papers
- Dreyfus Affair Periodicals Collection
- Drowne Family Collection
- Dupee Fireworks Collection
- Dupee Mexican History Collection
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- H.G. Wells Collection
- Hall-Hoag Collection
- Hamilton (Mary) Letters
- Hamm Etchings Collection
- Harris Collection
- Hay (John Milton) Collection
- Hay (John Milton) Personal Library
- Hay (John, b. 1915) Papers
- Heath (Dwight B.) Collection
- Herlihy (David) Papers
- Hill (Walter Nickerson) Papers
- History of Science Collection
- Hitler Personal Library
- Hoffman (William Henry) Napoleon I Collection
- Horace Foster Collection
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- Ladd Observatory Records
- Lamont Collection
- Langdon Collection of Pageants Collection
- Laughlin Collection
- Lawrence (T.E.) Collection
- Lewis (David C.) Papers
- Lincoln (Abraham) Collection
- Linton (William James) Papers
- Littlefield (Katherine Frances) Papers
- Lord (Augustus Mendon) letters and autographs Collection
- Lovecraft Collection
- Lownes (Albert Edgar) Collection
- Lownes Science Collection
- Luce (Nancy) Papers
- Lustig Bookplates Collection
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- Maas (Willard) Papers
- Machiavelli Collection
- Magic Collection
- Mann (Horace) family Papers
- Mann (Marty) Archive
- Manning (James) Papers
- Marks (Elaine) Papers
- Martensen (Augustus) Papers
- Masters (Edgar Lee) Papers
- Mazansky Swords Collection
- McConoughey (Artha May) Papers
- McLellan Lincoln Collection
- Medina Microfilm Collection
- Mel B. Yoken Collection
- Metcalf Collection
- Metcalf Peaceana Collection
- Mexican History Collection
- Migueis Collection
- Military Collection
- Miller Collection
- Minassian Collection
- Morrill Act Papers
- Morse (Carleton D.) Whaling Collection
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- Palm Leaf Manuscripts Collection
- Patent Medicine Bottle Collection
- Paterson (William) Papers
- Perelman (S. J.) Papers
- Persian Miniature Paintings Collection
- Phonorecords (Special Collections) Collection
- Photographs Collection
- Pillar Collection
- Pingree (David E.) Collection
- Pinkham family correspondence
- Poland (William Carey) Papers
- Portuguese Africa Collection
- Posters Collection
- Poulin Comics Collection
- Pound (Ezra) and William Carlos Williams Papers
- Powel (Harford W.H.) T.S. Eliot Collection
- Preston Archive
- Prints Collection
- Prophet (Nancy Elizabeth) Papers
- Providence Symphony Collection
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- Rare Books Collection
- Redding (J. Saunders) Papers
- Reitman Collection
- Reynolds (Horace Mason) Papers
- Reynolds Family Correspondence Collection
- Rhode Island College Miscellaneous Papers
- Rhode Island Feminist Theatre Archive
- Rhode Island Medical Society Collection
- Rhode Island Sheet Music Collection
- Rhode Island Society for the Collegiate Education of Women Records
- Rhode Island Women's Health Collective Archive
- Rider Collection
- Robinson (Ezekial Gilman) Papers
- Robinson (James J.) Papers
- Robinson Sports Collection
- Rodney (Thomas) Papers
- Romance Novels Collection
- Russell (Jonathan) Papers
- Russian Exchange Records
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- Saint Martin's Press Archive
- Saklad Collection
- Sargent (Frances Herriott) Papers
- Schirmer Collection
- Schor (Naomi) Papers
- Scotland (Orkney Islands) Collection
- Scott Library Collection
- Screenplays, 1938-1980 Collection
- Sears (Barnas) Papers
- Selle (Earl Albert) Papers
- Shaw (George Bernard) Collection
- Sheet Music Collection
- Sherman (Stuart C.) Papers
- Silver (Cramer) Collection
- Silver (Rollo) Collection
- Skidmore Collection
- Slides (John Hay Library) Collection
- Small Books Collection
- Smith (Robert Holbrook) Papers
- Smith Magic Collection
- Snell Mycology Collection
- Snyder (Clarence H.) Collection
- St. Martin's Press Archive
- Stamp Collection
- Starred Book Collection
- Stephens (C.A.) Collection
- Stevens (Mitchell L.) Papers
- Stillwell Papers
- Swan Antarctic Collection
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- Tefft (Thomas Alexander) Architectural Drawings Collection
- Television Scripts Archive
- Textbook Collection
- Thatcher (Henry Knox) Papers
- Third & Elm Press Archive
- Thoreau (Henry David) Collection
- Tierney Collection Archive
- Tinker Collection
- Turner (William Mason) Papers
- Tyler correspondence from E. Pound and W.C. Williams Papers
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- Waggoner Collection
- Wandering Jew Collection
- Ward (Lester Frank) Collection
- Watson (John Brown) Collection
- Weeks Family Papers
- Weird Tales Collection
- Wellman (Manly Wade) Papers
- Wells (H.G.) Collection
- Wengenroth Collection
- Whaling Collection
- Wheaton Collection
- Wheaton (Henry) Papers
- White (William Wurts) Family Papers
- Williams Table Collection
- Wilmeth (Don B.) research files
- World War I Correspondence Collection
- Wyllys (Samuel) Papers
- Wyman (Loraine) Collection
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