France

The Imperial Stamp Collection was housed at the Library and given to Special Collections when that department was organized in the 1960s. The Collection consists of world maps with stamps from the colonies of the Dutch, German, Italian, French and British Empires together with pages for the Belgian Congo and United States possessions.

Born in Iola, Kansas, Raymond Carey (1901-1972) studied at Southwestern College (Kansas), Oxford University, and the University of Chicago. He was a professor of history at the University of Denver from 1945 to 1971, specializing in modern European history. This collection includes a copy of Carey's dissertation, materials from his classes, and French historical documents.

The Waneeta Stevic Althoff Papers consist of cards and letters between Madelaine Pichon and Gilberta Martinet of France and Waneeta Althoff during the years 1918-1925.