Research Libraries

Founded on the bequest of Chicago merchant Walter L. Newberry, this independent research library opened in 1887 for the study of t...

Railroad magnate Henry E. Huntington assembled one of the great collections of Anglo American civilization and endowed it with his...

Charles Follen McKim built the 1906 palazzo for Pierpont Morgans library, with frescoed ceilings and triple tiered bookcases of ra...

Henry Clay Folger spent decades collecting Shakespeare, amassing 82 copies of the 1623 First Folio, about a third of all known cop...

Run by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints and founded in 1894, the Family History Library in Salt Lake City is the la...

In the seventeenth century Duke August the Younger made Wolfenbuttel the largest library north of the Alps, cataloging some 135,00...

Commissioned by the Medici pope Clement VII and designed by Michelangelo, the Laurentian Library opened to scholars in 1571 above ...

Founded at the University of Texas at Austin in 1957, the Harry Ransom Center grew into one of the great literary and cultural arc...

Founded in 1812 by printer and patriot Isaiah Thomas, the American Antiquarian Society is the oldest historical society in the Uni...