Claremont Colleges Library
Claremont Colleges Library
- Location: Claremont, CA
- Phone: (909) 607‑3977
- Email: specialcollections@claremont.edu
- Website: https://library.claremont.edu/scl/
Claremont Colleges Special Collections located in Honnold/Mudd Library is a place where you can connect to the past by examining rare books, reading original letters and manuscripts, and studying historical photographs and other objects. We collect, preserve, and make accessible collections that span more than 900 years of human history, with particular depth in 16th-20th centuries, the American West, science, music and theater, Asian history and culture, books and printing, and the history of The Claremont Colleges and the larger Claremont community, among other subjects, places, and eras.
Explore our collections in person or by visiting our exhibitions, digital collections, and blog. In our effort to facilitate access to and use of the collections, we employ a range of digital technologies, such as online patron registration and requesting, and we offer class instruction and individual research sessions in order to support teaching, learning, and scholarship.
Collections at this institution
CODEE Learning Assets Library
The Consortium for Ordinary Differential Equations Experiments (CODEE) seeks to disseminate, promote and evaluate information on the use of computer experiments and software related to ordinary differential equations (ODEs) and their applications, and to enhance the expertise of mathematics faculty in the development and use of interactive computer experiments designed to teach ODEs. CODEE was made possible by three grants from the National Science Foundation from 1992-1997, during which several newsletters were published in print form. This digital library contains electronic versions of those newsletters, which published pedagogical articles, lesson plans, computer experiments, and software reviews related to ODEs.
Institution: Claremont Colleges Library
14 Items
Connie Martinson Talks Books
Donated by Connie Martinson to the Drucker Institute and the Transdisciplinary Studies Program at Claremont Graduate University, the Connie Martinson Talks Books Collection consists of more than 2,500 television interviews with prominent authors of fiction and nonfiction taped over the last 30 years. Included in the collection are interviews with Maya Angelou, Ray Bradbury, Al Gore, Rosa Parks, Gore Vidal, Barack Obama, Studs Terkel and Joyce Carol Oates. The "Connie Martinson Talks Books" television series originates from L.A. CityView Channel 35 and can be seen on government-access cable outlets around the country and PBS in New York—and now in the …
Institution: Claremont Colleges Library
1,801 Items
Conservation at the Williamson Gallery
This collection will showcase conservation projects at the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery. Each object record is accompanied by images documenting the work prior to conservation, select stages of the treatment process, and the work after conservation. Projects underway include the treatment of the gallery's collection of Asian paintings, the plaster Shakespeare reliefs on Scripps' campus, and a 14th century wood and polychrome sculpture of St. Michael. This collection is launched in conjunction with Scripps' new major in art conservation, a field that fully embraces the interdisciplinary approach of education at the Claremont Colleges. Art conservation majors are required to take …
Institution: Claremont Colleges Library
14 Items
Dr. Walter Lindley Scrapbooks
The Lindley Scrapbooks were assembled by Dr. Walter Lindley (1852-1922), early resident of Los Angeles and prominent physician, during the late nineteenth century and first years of the twentieth century and are a part of the Francis Haynes Lindley Memorial Collection housed in Special Collections, Honnold/Mudd Library for The Claremont Colleges. The Lindley Scrapbook Collection consists of 33 scrapbooks covering the period from 1861 to 1921. A complete finding aid for this collection is available online through the Online Archive of California. The Lindley Scrapbook Collection documents through clippings, correspondence, and ephemeral materials, Dr. Lindley's professional and civic achievements, including …
Institution: Claremont Colleges Library
5,815 Items
Drucker Archives
Peter F. Drucker was a writer, professor, management consultant and self-described “social ecologist,” who explored the way human beings organize themselves and interact much the way an ecologist would observe and analyze the biological world. Hailed by BusinessWeek as “the man who invented management,” Drucker directly influenced a huge number of leaders from a wide range of organizations across all sectors of society. Among the many: General Electric, IBM, Intel, Procter & Gamble, Girl Scouts of the USA, The Salvation Army, Red Cross, United Farm Workers and several presidential administrations. Drucker’s 39 books, along with his countless scholarly and popular …
Institution: Claremont Colleges Library
2,633 Items
Edward Ellerker Williams Notebook
A collection of books, articles, and manuscripts by, about, and directly relating to Edward John Trelawny (1792-1881), author of several popular and influential works and memoirs about 19th century English poets George Gordon Noel Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, is in Special Collections, Honnold/Mudd Library. Accumulated over a period of fifty years by Donald B. Prell, the core of the Collection is composed of more than 135 published works and manuscripts. Of particular note in the Prell Collection is a manuscript notebook created by Edward Ellerker Williams (1793-1822) dating from about 1819-1820. This was the notebook on which Williams was …
Institution: Claremont Colleges Library
281 Items
Edward Vischer Drawings, Photographs and Other Material
The Edward Vischer Drawings, Photographs and Other Material is a collection of pencil drawings, loose albumen and lithograph prints of his drawings, and bound volumes of his prints. Vischer is best known for his pencil sketches of California landscapes throughout the 1860s and 1870s. He sketched a wide variety of scenes and objects, but most commonly the California missions, trees, mountains, and rural scenes. Of special interest are his drawings of the ruins of the missions, the Washoe mining region, horses and wagons, including the Pony Express, and even camels which were part of a short lived military experiment to …
Institution: Claremont Colleges Library
146 Items
Elisa Leonelli, Photojournalist
The Leonelli Collection includes photographic essays on a wide range of topics, by photo-journalist Elisa Leonelli. The photographs were originally taken on color transparency and black & white negatives with Nikon and Hasselblad cameras on 35mm and 120 mm film, mostly between 1974 and 1989, and often published in American and international magazines. They have been digitized specifically for this collection in the Claremont Colleges Digital Library. Special Collections of the Claremont Colleges Library will house the original archival collection, donated by Leonelli, so they may be made available to future generations of students and researchers. Among the subjects are: …
Institution: Claremont Colleges Library
6,447 Items
Ellen Browning Scripps 1836-1932, Journalist, Humanitarian, Educator
The Ellen Browning Scripps Collection contains correspondence, financial material, newspaper business documents, travel materials, diaries, photographs, and materials documenting Ellen Browning Scripps's many philanthropic activities. Her philanthropies include Scripps College, Scripps Clinic and Hospital, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and many other local and national projects, organizations, and institutions. The collection covers the years 1840 to 2000 with the bulk of the material ranging from 1880 to 1936. This collection also contains materials of J.C. Harper, E.W. Scripps, and other family members, business acquaintances and friends who had close relationships to Ellen Browning Scripps.
Institution: Claremont Colleges Library
955 Items
Ernestine Schumann-Heink, a Contralto’s Legacy
Ernestine Schumann-Heink (1861-1936), renowned Austrian, naturalized American, contralto/mezzo soprano, was courted by the major composers of her day, including Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss, and Johannes Brahms to perform their works. Thus, it is not surprising to find that over her long career she had collected more than 1,125 music manuscripts representing the work of 640 professional and amateur composers. These works comprise art songs, songs associated with World War I, lullabies, patriotic songs, and popular tunes; many were inscribed with dedications to her. Even though most of these songs were written by composers with whom she associated throughout her career, …
Institution: Claremont Colleges Library
1,596 Items