Because our material is housed offsite, please contact us with your request before visiting.
Richard and Dr. Candace Beutell Gardner Special Collections and Rare Book Room
Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs
5401 Cass Ave
Detroit, MI 48202
(313) 577-6109
spec.collections@wayne.edu
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Wayne State University Libraries' Special Collections serve as a repository for special collections materials regarding the history and development of children's literature; African American literature and culture; Detroit and Michigan history, art and literature; the sciences, including medicine and nursing; Judaica; and historical Michigan law.
Most Special Collections materials do not circulate (leave the library). Users may consult materials in the Richard and Dr. Candace Beutell Gardner Special Collections and Rare Book Room. Because our material is housed offsite, please contact us with your request before visiting.
We are open by appointment only. Appointments are limited, but we will do our best to accommodate your research needs.
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The Ellesmere Chaucer: reproduced in facsimile.
Albert Kahn, architect: Detroit, Michigan. Author's autograph presentation copy of his architectural catalog.
The Globe Theatre 3D card, designed by C. Walter Hodges. Accompanies A report to founding members and other contributors (Shakespeare's Globe in America: the reconstruction project of Wayne State University Theatre).
Report of investigation by the Detroit Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild and Wolverine Bar Association of Michigan on the summary contempt citation against George W. Crockett (of the Michigan Bar), adopted on November 16, 1949.