The Special Collections & University Archives Department contains materials related to the history of Kansas and Pittsburg State University. Special Collections includes printed material, manuscripts, correspondence, business records, and memorabilia which document the culture and inhabitants of Southeast Kansas. University Archives acts as the official repository for Pittsburg State University.
Items in Special Collections cannot be checked out but may be used on-site with the assistance of staff. Business hours are from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. and 1 to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Information about Policies and Standards can be found on the About page.
For more information about the collections highlighted here or to schedule a visit, please contact Special Collections & University Archives at: speccoll@pittstate.edu | (620) 235-4883
Browse the Special Collections & University Archives:
Axe Collections of Freethought, Socialism, Radicalism, and Anarchy
- Haldeman-Julius Collection, 1895-1996
- Individual Action Newsletters, 1952-1953
- Julius A. Wayland Collection Photographs
- Lockwood Socialist Cartoons, circa 1900
- Phillip and Ida Hayman Callery Collection, 1880-1976
- Caney Valley Historical Society & Museum Complex
- Southeast Kansas Farm History Project, 1998-2012
- The Booster, Pittsburg High School Newspaper, 1929-1950
Jefferson Highway Association, 1915-Present
- Jefferson Highway Association, Crawford County Division, Records, 1915-2023
- Jefferson Highway Maps, 1915-Present
- Arnold Clayton Watkins Collection, 1942-1945
- Carson J. Robison, the Cowboy Radio Singer, 1903-1988
- Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg Collection, circa 1975-2022
- Crawford County, Kansas, Sheriff's Department Daily Jail Ledger, 1922-1935
- Eugene DeGruson Papers, 1841-1997
- Eva Jessye Collection, 1885-1994
- Frank Victor (Vic) Sullivan Collection, 1923-1974
- Frontenac, Kansas Collection
- George Hobson Civil War Diaries, 1861-1865
- Gordon Parks Collection, 1912-2006
- Hearl Maxwell Collection, 1911-1931
- Ira Clemens Photograph Album, 1923
- Irene P. Ertman Collection
- Laura Dewey Bridgman Collection, 1879-1883
- Maps & Atlases
- Nell “Nelly Don” Donnelly Reed Collection
- Pittsburg, Kansas Fire Department Call Register, 1907-1917
- Smasher's Mail Newspaper Collection, 1901
- Southeast Kansas Postcard Collection
- Sperry-Galligar Collection
- Ted Watts Art Collection
- William Deward and Hazel Angwin Chute Letters, 1946-1948
- Woody Meiszner Postcards of Pittsburg Collection
- Yale African American Cemetery Collection
- 110th Anniversary Historical Photographs
- Apple Day Programs, 1908-2016
- Black Student Movement, 1968-1978
- Commencement, 1903-Present
- Football Programs, 1916-2013
- Horace Mann Scrapbook Collection, 1942-1953
- Little Balkans Review, 1980-1989
- Printing Plates of Pittsburg State University
- Publications About Pittsburg
- Student Handbooks, 1926-1966
- The Educational Leader, 1937-1959
- The Techne, 1917-1937
- William Aaron Brandenburg Collection
- Yearbooks, 1910-2023
