Contact Info
Archive, Manuscript & Rare Book collections are accessed in Olin Library at the Special Collections reading room.
HOURS: Monday - Friday 9:00-5:00 by appointment
LOCATION: Olin Library, 1st floor, Danforth Campus
REQUESTS / APPOINTMENTS: 314-935-5495 spec@wumail.wustl.edu
*collections stored offsite require advance notice for retrieval and use
Questions about a specific topic? Contact:
University Archives: Sonya Rooney
Rare Books: Cassie Brand
Manuscript: Joel Minor
Local History: Miranda Rectenwald
Dowd Illustration Research Archive: interim curator
Film & Media Archive: Andy Uhrich
Finding Aids by Subject: Cold War
Collections below are located at Special Collections in Olin Library. Click each title for more information:
- Black Film Promotional Material CollectionThe collection contains ca. 2,700 promotional items including photographic stills, programs, advertising materials, lobby cards, pressbooks, and posters, representing approximately 400 films, ranging in date from 1915 to 1980.
- Monsanto Company Records
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See Series 9 for materials about the "House of the Future" as built at Disneyland - Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) Collection
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Series 02 includes comic books from underground and mainstream press. - City of St. Louis, Office of the Mayor Records, 1943-1981Links to multiple finding aids, all dating from the Cold War time frame.
Collections below are from the Dowd Illustration Research Archive at WashU. Click each title for more information.
- Humanities Comics Collection (MGHL00016),
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- Periodical Collectionsincludes -- Fantasy and Science Fiction; Fantastic Stories of Imagination; Good Housekeeping; Holiday
- Kaltenthaler Comic Books and Zines Collection (MGHL00015)
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Online Primary Sources
- Thrill Seekers: The Rise of Men's MagazinesThis online exhibit charts the growth of men's magazines from the 1940s to the 1960s. Drawing from collections in Washington University's Modern Graphic History Library, this exhibit features artwork of some of the most prominent men's magazines of the mid-twentieth century, such as Esquire, Playboy, Sports Illustrated, and Fortune, as well as lesser-known pulp fiction and girlie magazines. Artists featured include Al Parker, Robert Weaver, Ernest Trova, Robert Andrew Parker, and Cliff Condak, among others.
Secondary Sources
It's a Man's World : Men's adventure magazines : the postwar pulps by Call Number: MGHL Reference book
Front Page by Call Number: NC974 .D87 2003 (W Campus)
The Art of Playboy by Call Number: N6512 B69 1985 (W Campus)St. James encyclopedia of popular culture
Call Number: full-text online
