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Featured Collections

The University Libraries collects and makes accessible materials that meet the teaching and research needs of the university community and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The University Libraries' collections include vast numbers of print volumes, newspapers, audio-visual materials, digital resources, maps, and archival materials.

Ornate gold textile with a dragon and cloud motifs, bordered by geometric patterns, and featuring calligraphic text.

Collection of Vietnamese Edicts and Official Documents

This collection contains a set of thirty-two imperial edicts and high-level bureaucratic documents dating from the Lê (1428–1789) and Nguyễn (1802–1945) dynasties of imperial and colonial Vietnam, all handwritten in Chinese characters (chữ Nho).

Luis Alberto Sánchez Papers

This collection of correspondence, manuscripts, and other materials documents the leadership of Luis Alberto Sánchez in the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance Party (APRA), his relationship with Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre, Peruvian political history, mid-20th century Latin American...

Handwritten lemon tart recipe from historical recipe book

Historical Recipe Books

These unique handwritten recipe books (1697-1846) from the Eberly Family Special Collections Library include British and Scottish food recipes as well as medicinal and textile dying recipes.

Penn State Froth

The nation's second oldest college humor magazine, Penn State Froth was founded in 1909 and published from 1910 to 1985. The magazine was founded and established to replace Penn State University's first humor magazine, "The Lemon," which published its final issue on June 10, 1908. Froth became...

Penn State University Archives Photograph Collection

This photograph collection is one of the most heavily utilized collections in the Penn State University Archives. The collection contains approximately 500,000 images: black and white prints, color prints, oversized photos (larger than 8”x10”), color slides, photographic negatives, digital scans...

Thomas W. Benson Political Protest Collection

The Thomas W. Benson Political Protest Digital Collection is a unique educational and scholarly resource documenting and exploring themes associated with the student anti-war movement and campus unrest in America during the late 1960s and early 1970s.