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In 1985, the LSU Libraries organized the Special Collections division to administer the rare books, manuscripts, and other special research collections already held by the libraries. The division's principal mission is to preserve these collections, add to them, and make them available for use. Special Collections offers resources for original research in many fields, ranging from the humanities and social sciences to the natural sciences, agriculture, aquaculture, the fine arts, and design.

Special Collections is located in Hill Memorial Library.

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LSU Libraries Special Collections
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Abraham Garrison Letters, 1862-1863
20 items
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Actors and Musicians Photographs, 1880-1920
64 items
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Allendale Plantation Records, circa 1900-1930
70 items
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Andrew D. Lytle's Baton Rouge Photograph Collection
799 items
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Armand Duplantier Family Letters, LSU Libraries
94 items
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Army Corps of Engineers River Snagboat C.R. Suter Photographs, 1885-1889
20 items
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Beachrock Research Slides of Richard J. Russell Collection
497 items
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Bowman-Turnbull Family Papers, 1777-1948
345 items
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Charles L. Thompson Photographs
19 items
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Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park Photographs
29 items
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Civil War Context and Conflict at LSU Libraries
117 items
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Civil War Photograph Album, 1862-1900
134 items
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Colville River Delta, Alaska Collection
2142 items
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Daily Reveille Newspaper Collection
1 items
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Donn Young Photographs
285 items
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Doussan family papers, 1827-1872
94 items
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E. Roger Jones, Sr. Post Card Album Photos, circa 1906
22 items
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E.A. McIlhenny Natural History Collection
3 items
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Early Louisiana French Correspondence
101 items
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Edith Dabney Doll Collection
82 items
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Edwin Benedict Letters, 1862-1863
13 items
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Efforts to Resist Integration in Louisiana
7 items
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Elfrieda Schultzman Upton Photographs
64 items
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Fonville Winans' Aerial Views of Baton Rouge
459 items
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Forest Hill Civilian Conservation Corps Photo Album, circa 1935
1 items
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G. H. Suydam Photograph Album
20 items
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General Foster Joseph Tate photograph album
103 items
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George C. Strong Photograph Album
44 items
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George Francois Mugnier New Orleans Scenes
61 items
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Gras-Lauzin Family Papers
70 items
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Great Southern Lumber Company Collection, 1924-1938
136 items
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Hermann Moyse, Sr. World War I Collection
18 items
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Historic Images of Baton Rouge from LSU Libraries
8 items
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Hope Farm Plantation Photograph Collection, circa 1870
13 items
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Huey P. Long Photograph Album, 1928-1935
31 items
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John B. Heroman, Sr. photograph collection, circa 1885-1940
15 items
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John James Audubon Drawings and Proofs, 1840-1844
51 items
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John James Audubon in Louisiana
39 items
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John Langdon Ward Lantern Slides
107 items
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John Merritt Letters, 1861-1874
67 items
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John S. Billiu Civil War Letters, 1861-1862
12 items
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Joseph Watson Correspondence
12 items
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Karl D. Reyer Postcard Collection, 1945-1959
66 items
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Kent Furlow Photographica Collection, circa 1860-1965
24 items
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LSU Libraries Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections
23 items
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LSU Libraries Mardi Gras Collection
41 items
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LSU Libraries Postcard Collections
608 items
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LSU Special Collections Online
49 items
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Lettres de Louisiane
38 items
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Louis Hasslemans' Musicians Photographs
41 items
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Louisiana Coastal Ecology, Richard J. Russell Collection
210 items
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Louisiana Early English Corpus
220 items
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Louisiana Images from the Standard Oil Collection, Univ. of Louisville
2136 items
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Louisiana Railroad Depot Photograph Collection
129 items
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Louisiana Runaway Slave Advertisements, 1836-1865
1996 items
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Lutrill Amos Payne Sr. Scrapbook, 1951-1988
2 items
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Maps of Louisiana Collection
50 items
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Marshall Dunham Photograph Album
200 items
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Medieval Manuscript Facsimiles Inventory
29 items
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Mingo Family African American Photographs, 1887-1955
32 items
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Minnie C. Hunt Diary, 1866-1867
1 items
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Mississippi River Flood of 1927 Photograph Album
215 items
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Natchez Photographs
19 items
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Nathaniel P. Banks letterpress copybook, 1863-1864
1 items
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Native Flora of Louisiana - Watercolor drawings by Margaret Stones
235 items
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New Orleans Centennial Exposition Stereoscopic Views
65 items
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New Orleans Image Collections at the LSU Libraries
61 items
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New Orleans Negative Exposures and Prints, circa 1900-1930
65 items
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P.D. Montgomery Letters, 1857-1864
16 items
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Perine-Giles-Sartain Engravings, circa 19th century
76 items
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Pintado Papers
1164 items
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Ray Brees Photographs, 1959-1960
37 items
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Robert A. Mullen Correspondence, 1863-1865
16 items
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Rodriguez Family Photographs, circa 1865-1890
31 items
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Sidonie de la Houssaye Collection
81 items
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Sobre las Olas- Mexican Music from Nineteenth-Century New Orleans
48 items
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Steamboat Images, circa 1842-1962
84 items
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Tensas River National Wildlife Refuge Ivory Billed Woodpecker Records
106 items
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Thomas H. and Joan W. Gandy Photograph Collection
161 items
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Thomas R. Chaney Papers, 1863-1916
79 items
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W.G. Raoul Letters, 1862-1864
20 items
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William Barth Photographs of Mississippi and Atchafalaya River operations
249 items
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William C.C. Claiborne Letters and Depositions, 1799-1846
18 items
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William J. Thornton Music Collection
60 items
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William Waller Survey Collection
153 items
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Wright-Boyd Family Papers at LSU Libraries
20 items
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