Scope and Content From the Collection: The Collection of Medieval Manuscripts, Early Prints, Religious and Historical art and scripture contains manuscripts, early prints, wood carvings, print illustrations, paintings, booklets, and newspaper articles ranging across seven distinct time periods from 1175-1980, the bulk from 1175-1643. A majority of these manuscripts were created in Italy, Germany, and France. The first time period of these materials is The Romanesque period (1000-1150 A.D.), which contained styles of art...

Scope and Content: From the Collection: The Helen Farr Sloan’s political cartoon collection (1802-1950) contains a variety of prints of political cartoons, illustrations, and caricatures from several different magazines. The collection contains pages from magazines, pages from books, and other prints that were not a part of a publication. The magazines featured include Puck, Judge, Vanity Fair (British, 1868-1914), Vanity Fair (American, 1913-1936), Harper’s Weekly, Gil Blas, Le Charivari, Truth, The New Yorker, The Illustrated...

Scope and Contents This collection documents performances produced by the Performing Arts Division of Wilkes University, from 1933 to the present. It consists primarily of programs and photographs.