Special Collections & Archives

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Collection Highlights

  • Pair of polarizing lenses held by man standing out of frame

    Polaroid Corporation Collection

    Records from one of the most creative and innovative companies of the 20th century.

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    Schwartz Art Collection

    Displayed throughout campus to inspire students to think creatively.

  • Woman in print dress standing on Stock Exchange floor surrounded by men

    Muriel Siebert Collection

    American businesswoman Muriel F. Siebert (1928-2013) was the first woman to buy a seat on the New York Stock Exchange and the first woman to own and direct a brokerage firm that was a member of the NYSE.

  • Drawing of two women in Victorian dress at a piano with Davids Prize Soap label beneath

    Advertising Ephemera

    More than 8,000 trade cards representing the full range of products and businesses advertised through this medium from the 1870s through the 1890s.

Lehman Brothers 1850-2008

The story of one of the country’s oldest investment banks, its reach into nearly every sector of the American economy, and the impact of the firm’s collapse.

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