Collections List

This area contains 200 manuscript collections, comprising nearly 1800 linear feet of material, plus a number of individual manuscript items. Each of these collections is described in brief on ODYsseus the Libraries’ online catalog. Additionally, many have detailed finding aids, searchable here. Others will be added to this list as they are completed. If you find you have questions about the collections after you have read the catalog entries or finding aids, please contact us.
William L. Fox, Jr.

William L. Fox, Jr. Papers

William L. Fox, Jr. was the 18th President of St. Lawrence University.  He holds a Bachelor of Arts from St. Lawrence University (1975), a Master of Divinity from Harvard University (1978), and a Ph.D from George Washington University (1989).  He served as President of St. Lawrence University from 2009-2021, the President of Culver-Stockton College in Canton, Missouri, 2003-2009, and held a number of roles at Goucher College between 1999-2003.  He also held ministerial positions at the Pilgrim Congregation Church in Pomona, California, Universalist National Memorial Church in Washington D.C., and Theodore Parker Unitarian Church in Boston.  He published numerous books and articles on topics related to American Higher Education, religious thought, and Scottish Rite Freemasonry.

Print Collection Collection number: #223

William Rose Benet Collection

The collection consists of galley proofs for books of poetry by various authors (Frances Frost, Howard Griffin, Alfred Noyes, Edith Sitwell and Stephen Spender).

Print Collection Collection number: #53
1845 - 1959
Members of the Women’s Collective at the opening of the Canton Women’s Shelter, 1979

Women Together

This collection contains records of Women Together: The Journal of North Country Women.

Print Collection Collection number: #180
1977 - 1981
Work on Waste bumper sticker.

Work on Waste (WOW) Anti-incineration Records

This collection contains material primarily focusing on the contentious solid waste disposal debate in St. Lawrence County during the 1980's and early 1990’s and the vehement opposition to an incineration option proposed by county leaders, organized by the environmental advocacy group Work on Waste.

Print Collection Collection number: #164
1983 - 2000
Exhibition Catalog.

World's Columbian Exposition Catalog Collection

The collection contains catalogs and brochures from several of the exposition pavilions as well as books and magazine articles pertaining to the fair.

Print Collection Collection number: #172
1893 - 1893

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Our Manuscript collection is comprised of 221 distinct collections, comprising nearly 1800 linear feet of material. Each of these collections is described in brief on records in the SLU Libraries’ online catalog. Additionally, our manuscript collections have detailed finding aids, which are available on this page and through our catalogs  If you find you have questions about the collections after you have read the catalog entries or finding aids, please contact us.

Paul Doty, Interim Librarian for Special Collections & University Archives Voice: (315) 229-5483 e-mail: pdoty@stlawu.edu