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. Guidelines for Use of Special Collections Material
For more information about the collections highlighted here or to schedule a visit, please contact: Professor Steve Cox, Archivist & Curator of Special Collections | | (620) 235-4883
Browse the Special Collections & University Archives:
Axe Collections of Freethought, Socialism, Radicalism, and Anarchy
- Gene DeGruson Collection Photographs
- Haldeman-Julius Collection
- Individual Action Newsletters, 1952-1953
- Julius A. Wayland Collection Photographs
- Lockwood Socialist Cartoons
- Phillip and Ida Hayman Callery Collection, 1880-1976
- Caney Valley Historical Society & Museum Complex
- Southeast Kansas Farm History Project
- The Booster, Pittsburg High School Newspaper, 1929-1950
- Arnold Clayton Watkins Collection, 1942-1945
- Carson J. Robison, the Cowboy Radio Singer, 1903-1988
- Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg Collection, ca. 1975-2022
- Crawford County, Kansas, Sheriff's Department Daily Jail Ledger, 1922-1935
- Eva Jessye Collection, 1885-1994
- Frontenac, Kansas Collection
- George Hobson Civil War Diaries, 1861-1865
- Gordon Parks, Filming of The Learning Tree, Collection
- Hearl Maxwell Collection
- Ira Clemens Photograph Album, 1923
- Irene P. Ertman Collection
- James Tate and Eugene DeGruson Correspondence, 1962-1983
- Jefferson Highway Association, Crawford County Division, Records, 1915-2005
- Laura Dewey Bridgman Collection, 1879-1883
- Pittsburg, Kansas Fire Department Call Register, 1907-1917
- Smasher's Mail Newspaper Collection, 1901
- Southeast Kansas Postcard Collection
- Ted Watts Art Collection
- Theodore M. Sperry Journals, 1950-1995
- 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
- Football Programs, 1916-2013
- Horace Mann Scrapbook Collection, 1942-1953
- Student Handbooks, 1926-1966
- The Educational Leader, 1937-1959
- The Techne, 1917-1937
- William Aaron Brandenburg Collection
- Yearbooks, 1910-2010