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' Big Blue Books
- Haldeman-Julius Photograph Collection, 1889-1968
- Individual Action Newsletters, 1952-1953
- James Tate and Eugene DeGruson Correspondence, 1962-1983
- Julius A. Wayland Collection Photographs
- Lockwood Socialist Cartoons
- Arnold Clayton Watkins Collection, 1942-1945
- Carson J. Robison, the Cowboy Radio Singer, 1903-1988
- Crawford County, Kansas, Sheriff's Department Daily Jail Ledger, 1922-1935
- Eva Jessye Collection, 1885-1994
- Frontenac, Kansas Historical Collection
- Frontenac, Kansas Historical Documents
- George Hobson Civil War Diaries, 1861-1865
- Gordon Parks, Filming of The Learning Tree, Collection
- Hearl Maxwell Collection, 1911-1931
- Hearl Maxwell Collection, 1911-1931 Photographs
- Irene P. Ertman Collection
- 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
- Yale African American Cemetery Documents
- 110th Anniversary Historical Photographs
- Apple Day Programs, 1908-2016
- 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
- William Aaron Brandenburg Collection Photographs
- Yearbooks, 1910-2005