Adelphi Authors Collection
The Adelphi Authors Collection has almost 400 titles by faculty, administration, alumni, staff and students. This collection covers a full range of subjects including academic teaching areas, research, fiction, musical composition, sports, translations, manuals, dissertations, and theses.

Adelphiana Collection
The Adelphiana Collection encompasses over 300 cataloged titles relating to the history of the University: charter, reports, master plan, self-studies, Middle States evaluations, bulletins, publications, by-laws, Adelphi Academy, and the Waldorf School. Some student publications and directories were published prior to Adelphi’s move to Garden City in 1929.

This Collection also includes Adelphiana Miscellany: uncataloged publications, flyers, photographs, and memorabilia; Adelphi Academy in Brooklyn (1863-1929) and College Miscellany: institutes, by-laws, committees, departments, colloquia, workshops, lectures; Board of Trustees, calendar, commencement, faculty biography, history of Adelphi, library, organizations, presidents, staff and students.

Americana Collection
The Americana Collection of over 1400 titles includes books, pamphlets, newspapers, maps, legal documents, and manuscripts covering United States history from colonial times to the present. Over 100 items were printed prior to 1800. A major emphasis of the Americana Collection is the antislavery movement in America, which includes primary source materials on slavery and an extensive range of the publications of Gerrit Smith, the Peterboro, New York, abolitionist. Americana titles of local interest can be found in the Long Island, New York City, and New York State Special Collections.

Blake Collection
The Hugo and Florentina Leipniker William Blake Collection was established by Florentina Caras Leipniker '07. Upon the death of Mrs. Leipniker, support for building the collection continued from her daughters, Mathilde Leipniker Hanning '28 and Florentina Leipniker Shupack '30 in memory of their parents. The collection of works by and about the 18th century poet and artist contains biographical studies, exhibition catalogs, and many facsimile editions. Almost all of the facsimile editions published by the Trianon Press and by the William Blake Trust are present and form the core of the collection.

Cobbett Collection
The C. Rexford Davis William Cobbett Collection has about 400 cataloged titles, including first editions, manuscripts, and biographical and critical material on the English parliamentarian, pamphleteer, and radical William Cobbett (1763-1835). Of special note are letters from Cobbett to the radical orator Henry Hunt. As a political refugee, Cobbett once lived in the area now known as New Hyde Park and wrote about his experiences in America. The collection is named in memory of Rutgers University Professor C. Rexford Davis, whose Cobbett Library was given to Adelphi. This collection was one of the early efforts of the newly founded Friends of the Adelphi University Library, which established the collection in 1948, and continues to support it.

For additional information please view our Cobbett Collection Web site.

Cuala Press Collection
The Cuala Press Collection has over 100 titles of poetry and includes plays, broadside ballad sheets, music, and ephemera printed by the private Irish press, the Dun Emer Press in Dun Emer, and the Cuala Press in Dublin, which was founded by the sisters of William Butler Yeats. In addition to works by W. B. Yeats, the collection encompasses works by Lady Gregory, J. M. Synge, Frank O'Connor, John Masefield, and many other Irish authors of the first half of the 20th century. There are also translations and edited editions of much earlier Irish writers.

Dakin Collection
The Dr. Henry Drysdale Dakin Collection was donated by his stepdaughters, who were the daughters of Dr. Christian A. Herter. The Collection consists of science titles, chiefly in the fields of biochemistry and chemistry, from the libraries of Dakin (biochemist, 1880-1952) and Herter (physician and biochemist, 1865-1910). In 1905 Dakin joined Herter's research laboratory in New York City and in that same year produced the first of a series of papers on Dakin's most important work, oxidation of organic compounds in the animal body.

Expatriate Collection
The Expatriate Collection includes over 200 titles by and related to American expatriate writers including Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, T. S. Eliot, Laura Riding Jackson, Harry and Caresse Crosby, and Paul Bowles. Especially noteworthy are the limited editions and publications of two small presses: the Seizin Press established by Robert Graves and Laura Riding Jackson in Deya, Majorca, and the Black Sun Press in Paris, for titles by Harry and Caresse Crosby and other expatriates. Both presses flourished in the first half of the 20th century.

Hauptmann Collection
The Siegfried H. Muller Gerhart Hauptmann Collection of about 250 titles and miscellaneous papers by and about the dramatist Gerhart Hauptmann (1862-1946) was donated by the late Professor Siegfried H. Muller, the long-time chairman of the Adelphi German department.

Hone Collection
The Helene and Josephine Lewinsohn William Hone Collection includes over 500 published titles and over 300 manuscript items by, about, and associated with William Hone (1780-1842), the popular and prolific British radical writer, publisher, political satirist, and social reformer, who is best known for his struggles for freedom of the press. The collection contains monographs, letters, sketches, and caricatures (most notably of George Cruikshank). It was acquired in 1993 through a gift from the Friends of the Adelphi University Library and a bequest from the Helene and Josephine Lewinsohn Estate. The collection is named in memory of Adelphi alumnae M. Helene Lewinsohn '22 and her sister Josephine Lewinsohn '19.

For more information please visit our Hone Collection Web site.

Kraus-Boelte Early Childhood Education Collection
The Kraus-Boelte Early Childhood Education Collection is named for Maria Kraus-Boelte (1836-1918), educational reformer, who was one of a remarkable group of German immigrants who played a major role in creating both the kindergarten and the profession of kindergarten teaching in the United States. This collection on kindergarten theory and the early history of the kindergarten emphasizes the contributions of Kraus-Boelte, Friedrich Froebel, Susan Elizabeth Blow, and John Kraus.

Loening Collection
Grover Cleveland Loening (1888-1976), aeronautical engineer and author, was awarded an aeronautical engineering degree by Columbia University (M.A., 1910), the first such degree ever conferred by a university in the United States. His thesis, a study of the aerodynamic basis of contemporary airplanes, was published in 1911 under the title “Monoplanes and Biplanes.” His lectures on airplane design and construction were published in 1915 as Military Aeroplanes, a textbook that was adopted by the military services in the United States and Great Britain, and sold 43,000 copies. Loening's long career in aviation included the design and building in 1921 of the five-seat Loening Flying Yacht, a monoplane flying boat, and a consulting practice during the 1930s that provided engineering advice to the Grumman Aircraft Corporation and other aircraft manufacturers.

Long Island Collection
The Long Island Collection contains over 350 titles of local historical interest, including town records, community histories, and material on local Indian tribes.

McMillan Collection
The Robert R. McMillan Political and Presidential Letters and Memorabilia Collection consists of autographed correspondence, photographs, books, and souvenirs related to his political career, involvement in the Republican Party, and work on government and voluntary boards and committees. Donated by Adelphi alumnus Robert McMillan, the collection spans the years from his campaign work for the 1960 election to the 1990s.

Morley Collection
The Christopher Morley Collection includes over 250 novels, poetry, essays, plays, and printed ephemera relating to the American editor and author Christopher Morley (1890-1957). A founder and editor of the Saturday Review of Literature and editor of Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, Morley lived in Roslyn Estates on Long Island. Many of the items in the Collection are first and/or limited editions.

New York City Collection
The New York City Collection has over 240 titles, including monographs, records, minutes, and directories, with an emphasis on New York City in the 19th century.

New York State Collection
The New York State Collection contains over 140 titles pertaining to the State, including communities outside New York City and Long Island, that focus on the State’s culture and history. The Collection also includes censuses and official records.

Ornstein Collection
The Aimee Ornstein Memorial Library of Banking and Money Management has about 100 Special Collections titles on the early history of banking in the United States, including histories of state and national banks, biographies, trust companies, and the Federal Reserve.

Panama Canal Collection
The Robert R. McMillan Panama Canal Collection includes over 80 books in addition to papers, photographs, and memorabilia. The Collection spans the early years before and after construction of the Canal and the years of Adelphi alumnus Robert McMillan’s tenure on The Board of Directors of the Panama Canal Commission (1990 -1994). Early books and publications document the building of the Canal. The papers document the transitional period prior to the changeover of control from the United States to the Republic of Panama in 1999.

Rare Book Collection
The Rare Book Collection contains about 2000 rare, expensive, fragile, and other special titles not shelved in the main stacks. Among its treasures, published from 1556 to the present, are early religious works, the illustration-plate volumes of Diderot's 18th century Encyclopédie, literary first or inscribed editions, the publications of small presses and limited editions of poetry, and contemporary artistic photography books.

St. Denis Collection
This collection consists primarily of books and manuscripts of Ruth St. Denis (1879-1968), the pioneering dancer and choreographer who founded the dance department at Adelphi. Included also are materials relating to the Denishawn School created by Ruth St. Denis and her dancing partner/husband Ted Shawn.

Spanish Civil War Collection
The Sandor Voros Spanish Civil War Collection came to Adelphi in 1970 from Sandor Voros, the archivist of the XVth International Brigade from 1937-38. The papers include writings, correspondence, records, photograph albums, and ephemera from Spanish Civil War brigades and battalions. In addition to approximately 1000 manuscript pages, there is a related group of secondary sources.

Stoelzer Collection
Donated by his daughter, Mrs. Flora Stoelzer Specht, The Richard Stoelzer Chamber Music Collection consists of musical scores and manuscripts as well as a number of rare stringed musical instruments which were used by Stoelzer’s chamber group, the Mozart Symphony Club, which toured throughout the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

For additional information please view our Stoelzer Collection Web site.

Whitman Collection
Professor Emory Holloway (1885-1977), whose Whitman: An Interpretation in Narrative won the 1927 Pulitzer Prize for biography, taught at Adelphi from 1914 to 1937 and provided the core of The Walt Whitman Collection. It includes over 100 books of poetry, biographies, bibliographies, criticism, as well as news articles and papers from the Walt Whitman Fellowship.

For additional information please view our Walt Whitman Collection Web site.

Woodruff Collection
The Hugh Allen Ward and Winifred Alling Ward Keith Collection of the Papers of Timothy L. Woodruff (1858-1913) is a rich resource for researchers interested in early 20th century New York and United States politics and the early history of Adelphi College. Mr. Woodruff served as Lieutenant Governor of New York State for three terms and as the President of the Board of Trustees of Adelphi from 1895 to 1908. The collection, which includes correspondence, manuscripts, programs, and memorabilia related to the man acknowledged as the co-founder of Adelphi College, was the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Allan R. Keith. (Mrs. Keith's father, Hugh Allen Ward, was Mr. Woodruff's nephew.)