Local Interest

Collections of local interest include first editions by Hart Crane, black writers Charles Chesnutt, and Langston Hughes, and books from the personal library of Henry Adams with a presentation copy of Mont Saint Michel and Chartres. In addition, Special Collections contains 80% of the books from the original collection of the Western Reserve College library of 1850, which were used to educate the doctors, lawyers, and theologians of the Western Reserve. Local interest items in Special Collections have been the subject of web pages providing more contextual information about their subject areas such as the Rabbi Daniel Jeremy Silver Collection, the Ernest J. Bohn Housing and Planning Library, and Selected Philanthropic Families of Case Western Reserve University.

Cleveland Philanthropic Families

Cleveland Philanthropic Families explores the connections among the families and visionaries who brought Case Western Reserve University into existence.  (Note that this is a temporary link for the Fall Semester 2009 to a "retired" web site.  Links within the site should work; however, links out of the site will not work or will not work correctly.)