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e-mail: rareref@cornell.edu
Web: http://rmc.library.cornell.edu

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Campus map showing the Kroch Library location.

The Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections includes printed volumes, manuscripts, photographs, paintings, prints, and other visual media. The largest collections chronicle medieval and Renaissance studies, the Reformation, eighteenth-century France and England, American history, Anglo-American literature, Icelandic history and culture, and the history of science. Other collections focus on architecture and city planning, agriculture, graphic arts, human sexuality, medicine, New York State history, ornithology, witchcraft, and women’s studies. The division also houses the Cornell University Archives. These collections are brought together on Level 2B, offering students and scholars an ideal setting in which to conduct research.