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Have you ever wondered about the locked rooms on the second floor? What kind of treasures might be hiding behind those doors?
If you’re curious check out our Puget Sound Archives and Special Collections page, where you’ll find information about archives in general, the contents of our archives and special collections, and procedures for how to use the Collins materials.
Treasures you might find in our archives include:
- Historical photographs (you can see some online in A Sound Past)
- Historical papers (especially those of Abby Williams Hill, whose paintings you can see around campus)
- Papers, yearbooks, and more documenting Puget Sound history.
In the Special Collections, you’ll find:
- Artists books
- The Geneva Bible
- The only book of Descartes’s published during his lifetime, Les principes de la philosophie
- Books and pamphlets from and about the Pacific Northwest
Explore the web page, get to know what the Archives and Special Collections have to offer, and let us know at archives@pugetsound.edu if you have a research project for which you’d like to use these resources!