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Photograph of Carlotta Anderson and her uncle Laurance Labadie.
  • Julie Herrada
As the only grandchild of Jo and Sophie Labadie, Carlotta Anderson was fascinated by her family's history. She wrote an authoritative biography of her grandfather, researched anarchism, labor unions and Detroit history before the auto industry, and preserved original family documents dating back to the nineteenth century. Anderson was a dear friend of the Labadie Collection and, shortly before her death she donated important papers that are now open for research.
Photo of Dovlatov
  • Kate Foster Hutchens
The late-Soviet-period author's appearance on campus and in our archives are explored in this guest blog post by Caitlin Moriarty, Special Collections Reader Services Assistant.
Photograph: Portrait of Eleanor Burke Leacock sitting at a desk, with a book case visible behind her.
  • Juli McLoone
"Utterly stunned, I walked down Broadway with a frie[n]d, repeating over and over to him, “Do you realize there are some things I will not be able to do simply because I am a woman? Do you realize…” I could not stop recounting the incident." In these words, anthropologist Eleanor Leacock recalls the moment in 1943 when she was denied an Assistantship solely because of her gender and she realized the full extent of discrimination that she would face as a female academic.
  • Kate Foster Hutchens
Arthur Miller, Marge Piercy, and...Grandma? They might all be shelved together amid these stately gray volumes.
Freddy emerges from desk
  • Rosemary Santos Pal
Part of the Special Collections Library's Film, Theatre and Television Archives, the Robert Shaye-New Line Cinema Papers contains material on Robert Shaye’s career as a founder of New Line Cinema, producer, director, distributor and actor in Hollywood. New Line Cinema’s famous productions include the Nightmare on Elm Street series, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Austin Powers and the Lord of the Rings movies.


Photo of blue binders on shelves in Special Collections Reading Room
  • Kate Foster Hutchens
Many finding aids for our archives and manuscript materials are online, but some are not (yet). When a Special Collections catalog record says “Unpublished finding aid available in repository,” these are what we’re talking about.
Packing the collection in Hayden's office as he gives a phone interview to a reporter in Africa.
  • Julie Herrada
We are elated to announce that the Tom Hayden Papers are now part of the Special Collections Library's Joseph A. Labadie Collection.