Archives & Special Collections
Collins Memorial Library
1500 N. Warner St. #1021
Tacoma, WA 98416-1021
archives@pugetsound.edu
The A&SC contains approximately 90 manuscript collections, which are collections of personal or family papers. Our manuscript collections are composed of personal diaries, correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, and ephemera on topics ranging from Northwest politics, history, and logging operations to Methodist missions and travels in the Far East. Many of these collections have finding aids available via Archives West, which provides access to descriptions of primary sources in the western United States. You may search for specific finding aids on Archives West, or search all finding aids related to collections here at the University of Puget Sound.
The following is a list of all of our manuscript collections. If there is a finding aid available, it is linked. If you do not see a finding aid for the collection you are interested in, please contact us for more information.
Mss 001
Albert W. Bash papers
Mss 002
Blaine Family papers
Mss 003
Homer T. Bone papers
Mss 004
Henry Brown papers
Mss 005
John M. Canse pamphlet collection
Mss 006
John Coffee papers
Mss 008
Calvin Brewster Coulter, Jr. papers and lantern slides
Mss 009
Walter S. Davis papers
Mss 010
Benjamin A. Gould collection
Mss 011
Abby Williams Hill papers
Abby Williams Hill (digital collection)
Mss 013
Stella Lilly papers
Mss 014
Mongolian Missions collection
Mss 015
Northwest Lumber Company photo album
Mss 016
Methodist Missions correspondence
Mss 017
Oregon Methodist Missions papers
Oregon Methodist Missions (digital collection)
Mss 018
John D. Regester collection on Albert Schweitzer
Mss 019
Lyle S. Shelmidine papers
Mss 020
Frank Williston papers
Mss 021
Warren Wood glass negatives, photographs and appointment notebooks
Mss 022
Leroy Ostransky papers
Mss 023
James Slater papers
Mss 024
University of Puget Sound Photograph Collection, 1888-1973
A Sound Past (digital collection)
Mss 025
John M. Finney Papers
Mss 026
Claire and Don Egge collection on China
Mss 027
Bills of Sale for Enslaved Persons
Mss 028
T.H. Callaway letter to James R. Callaway
Mss 029
Francis Wayland Hanawalt teaching notebooks
Mss 030
Civil Marriage Agreements
Mss 031
Eleanor E. Graham papers
Mss 032
Walter Lowrie papers
Mss 033
Doug Edwards papers
Mss 034
UPS Historical Materials and Miscellaneous Manuscripts
Mss 035
R. Franklin Thompson personal papers
Mss 036
Quarterly Returns...for forts on the western frontier...
Mss 037
Tom Goleeke papers
Mss 038
Vietnam Oral History Recordings
Mss 039
Ron Fields collection on Abby Williams Hill
Mss 040
Howard W. Robbins diary
Mss 041
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) pamphlets
Mss 042
Parade for Peace flyer
Mss 043
W. Houston Dougharty collection on the University of Puget Sound
Mss 044
University of Puget Sound Faculty Oral History Project
Mss 045
Calvin Brewster Coulter papers
Mss 046
Collection of small press printed materials
Mss 047
Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas records
Mss 048
Sally Fitzpatrick letters
Mss 049
Selective Service Registration broadside
Mss 050
Grafton Tyler Brown lithographed receipt
Mss 051
Tacoma Community House: A Social Settlement, by Georgina Rowland
Mss 052
Ray W. Thompson letter to his father
Mss 053
J'Anna Sharrard papers
Mss 054
Ephemera (non-University of Puget Sound)
Mss 055
Lyle Ford Drushel papers
Mss 056
Murray Johnson collection on the Cape Thompson Environmental Impact Report
Mss 057
African American Communist Party pamphlets
Mss 058
Typewriters
Mss 059
Henry Wallace Webb papers
Mss 060
Sylvia Schar ephemera collection
Mss 061
St. Louis, Arkansas and Texas Railway ledger
Mss 062
Olive Brown Seward photographs
Mss 063
Privatized Detention: An Oral History of the Northwest Detention Center
Mss 064
Dr. James Slater photograph collection
Mss 065
Collins Library zine collection
Mss 066
Ken & Rochelle Monner collection of Shereen LaPlantz book structures
Mss 067
Tacoma Playing Cards
Mss 068
Collection of women's suffrage materials
Mss 069
The National Grange in Favour of Votes for Women pamphlet
Mss 070
What President Wilson Says pamphlet
Mss 071
Labor Heroines: Ten Women Who Led the STRUGGLE booklet
Mss 072
Civilian Exclusion Order posters
Mss 073
The Story of a Lynching: An Exploration of Southern Psychology booklet
Mss 074
Report of the Eleventh Annual Convention of the National Negro Business League booklet
Mss 075
Cleveland Murphy papers
Mss 076
Shereen (Buckland) LaPlantz papers
Mss 077
Olympia Book Arts Society collection
Mss 078
"From Slavery to 'Freedom'" NAACP broadside
Mss 079
COVID-19: Archive Your Experience project
Mss 080
Collection of independent Puget Sound student publications
Mss 081
"Speech Upon Abolishing Slavery in the District of Columbia"
Mss 082
Students for a Democratic Society leaflets
Mss 083
Radical Women Publications packet
Mss 084
Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH) materials
Mss 085
America First Committee ephemera
Mss 086
Black Lives Matter calendars
Mss 087
"24 Portraits of Prominent African Americans" ephemera
Mss 088
Atomic Age ephemera
Mss 089
World War I posters
Mss 090
Deeds to Veterans
Mss 091
President Edward H. Todd scrapbook
Mss 092
A colonial-era summons
Mss 093
Race in the City of Destiny: Oral Histories of Tacoma
Mss 094
Collection of women's rights pamphlets
Mss 095
Trip to the West Coast scrapbook
Mss 096
Carol Lawrence costume collection
Mss 097
Chinese Reconciliation Project Foundation records
Mss 099
Jolafern Torgerson papers
Mss 100
Elizabeth Blackwell and Jane Webb Loudon print collection
Mss 102
Collection of United Methodist Church materials
Mss 103
Print materials on U.S. presidents
Mss 105
David G. LeSourd typescript of "An Itinerant's Career"
Mss 107
Virginia J. Washburn Morrison papers
Mss 108
Bill Baarsma collection on the University of Puget Sound
Mss 109
President Ronald R. Thomas manuscripts, "Detective Fiction and the Rise of Forensic Science"