Humanities and Cultural Studies researchers may be interested in the following archival and special collections resources available at the USF Tampa Library.
The music collections provide an opportunity to explore over 10,000 pieces of African American, Floridian, and 19th and 20th century sheet music, early songsters and hymnals, and the collected works of Bela Bartok and USF pianist/composer Robert Helps. The Dion Boucicault Theatre Collection is one of the largest Boucicault collections in the world and includes both manuscripts and printed plays, as well as play scripts, sides, letters, and musical scores. Visual arts collections include albumen prints, animation cels, glass plate negatives, and chromolithographic prints.
Several thousand volumes of iconic works and literary criticism, plus manuscript materials, a number of first editions and first printings of classic titles, European and Latin American authors, pulp magazines and dime novels, and a digital archive of the SFRA Review.
Four distinct collections that include thousands of pieces of American music from the 19th and 20th centuries. A fifth collection features contemporary Japanese sheet music.