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Rare Books and Special Editions: about 6,000 items, including about two dozen examples of early printed books, the Alfred R. Justice Chess Collection, the Charles Dickens Collection, a small but growing collection of artists' books, and about 160 individual, original leaves from manuscript and printed books dating from the 10th to the 20th century.

Manuscript Collections: more than 350 collections of personal papers, records, photographs, correspondence, diaries, and other unique materials originally belonging to a particular person or organization, usually connected to Colorado College or Colorado Springs, including the Helen Hunt Jackson Papers and the Colorado Springs Century Chest Collection.

Ephemera Collections: Colorado Springs playbills and programs, Pikes Peak area tourist brochures, bumper stickers, Colorado restaurant and event menus, the Colorado College Zine Collection, and other printed materials.

Colorado Collection: about 12,000 books, periodicals, photographs, papers, and oral history materials focusing on the American West, especially Colorado Springs and the Pikes Peak region, including the Cobos Collection.

Colorado College Collection: about 2,000 books by Colorado College faculty and alumni, a complete collection of Colorado College publications, photographs, and information files, and the college archives.

Special Collections Digitized Collections

Colorado College

• Colorado College Oral History Collection
• Digital CC
• Digitized CC publications at the Internet Archive
• Historical tour of the Colorado College campus
• Presidents of Colorado College

Colorado Springs

• Century Chest
• Colorado Springs Area Early Views
• Helen Hunt Jackson (transcriptions of most of HHJ's correspondence and diaries)

Colorado, the Southwest, and the American West

• Gilpin Glass Slide Collection
• Southwestern Ruins, Villages, Pueblos, and Missions, 1846-1940
• Women of Northwestern Colorado: Oral History
• Colorado Menus Collection
• United States Japanese Relocation Center Papers (Camp Amache)
• Sand Creek Papers
• George H. Stone Collection of Colorado Views
• Cobos Collection (sound archive)

International

• World War I Posters
• Donald Jackson Collection of Original Leaves
• Alice Bemis Taylor Collection of Autographs