Archival Collections

Archival collections housed in Stephen O. Murray and Keelung Hong Special Collections are varied and wide-ranging, due to the broad variety of scholarly programs offered at Michigan State University. Additionally, many of these collections support our non-archival holdings, offering a unique perspective into the work and lives of their creators.

These archival collections span over 4,000 linear feet, and include materials from Michigan writers such as Richard Ford, Jim Harrison, and Diane Wakoski; records and papers on mid-to-late 20th century activities in Africa such as the papers of Cora Weiss and Mary-Louise Hooper; rich Midwest Latinx and Chicanx collections, including the papers of Jose Trevino, and Gilbert Salazar; the personal papers of Gladys-Marie Fry, the leading authority on African American textiles; the papers of American psychiatrist and author Robert Coles; the photographic print collections of Leonard Freed; the Don Yates collection on Jorge Luis Borges, one of the most important writers of the 20th century; the Jack and Melissa Bodnar collection of Michigan Rock History, documenting the counterculture as it evolved out of Detroit; and many, many more.

For more information, please contact Leslie McRoberts

To search the collections: https://findingaids.lib.msu.edu/