{"id":4944,"date":"2013-03-29T14:18:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T18:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spec.lib.miamioh.edu\/?page_id=4944"},"modified":"2025-07-07T16:00:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T20:00:50","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/spec.lib.miamioh.edu\/home\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"region region-content\">\n<div class=\"post-entry\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10782 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/spec.lib.miamioh.edu\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/website-e1529006287779.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"914\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spec.lib.miamioh.edu\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/website-e1529006287779.jpg 914w, https:\/\/spec.lib.miamioh.edu\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/website-e1529006287779-300x82.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spec.lib.miamioh.edu\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/website-e1529006287779-768x209.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spec.lib.miamioh.edu\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/website-e1529006287779-100x27.jpg 100w, https:\/\/spec.lib.miamioh.edu\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/website-e1529006287779-150x41.jpg 150w, https:\/\/spec.lib.miamioh.edu\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/website-e1529006287779-200x54.jpg 200w, https:\/\/spec.lib.miamioh.edu\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/website-e1529006287779-450x123.jpg 450w, https:\/\/spec.lib.miamioh.edu\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/website-e1529006287779-600x163.jpg 600w, https:\/\/spec.lib.miamioh.edu\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/website-e1529006287779-900x245.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 914px) 100vw, 914px\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2><em>About the Walter Havighurst Special Collections, The University Archives &amp; Preservation<\/em><\/h2>\n<p>The Walter Havighurst Special Collections, The University Archives &amp; Preservation holds over 125,000 volumes, including rare books, manuscripts, and special subject collections. Collection strengths include: the history and culture of the Ohio Valley\/Old Northwest Territory; the history of transportation, especially in the 19th century; the American Civil War; pre- and post-revolutionary Russian history, art and literature; William Holmes McGuffey and his Readers; 19th century gift books; and children\u2019s literature, especially the 18th through the 20th centuries, including 19th century schoolbooks. Included are over 600,000 postcards. Cataloged materials in the Special Collections &amp; Archives may be searched through the <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.miamioh.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">library catalog<\/a>. For manuscript collections, please see the finding aids on the individual collection pages.<\/p>\n<p>The archives held at Miami University are comprised of three archives: the Miami University Archives, which contains manuscripts, publications, photographs, and artifacts dealing with Miami University history; the Western College Memorial Archives, which holds materials from the Board of Trustee records dating back to 1853; and the Oxford College Archives, which documents the history of the women&#8217;s college. Archival records may be accessed online through our<strong> <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/archivesspace.lib.miamioh.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ArchivesSpace instance<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About the Walter Havighurst Special Collections, The University Archives &amp; Preservation The Walter Havighurst Special Collections, The University Archives &amp; Preservation holds over 125,000 volumes, including rare books, manuscripts, and special subject collections. 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