This collection contains material documenting various aspects of dressmaking from around the turn of the 20th century. Included are tailoring school advertisements, pattern books and sketchbooks, and pattern cards.

This collection consists of materials author Patricia Cornwell collected as part of her extensive research for her publications. The collection primarily contains notebooks, pamphlets, and newspaper articles about the history and culture of 18th and 19th-century medicine and crime. Additionally, there are primary source documents about the abolitionist movement, suffragettes, Prince Albert Victor, and other 19th-century celebrities, education, and literature.