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Overview | Using rare books | Exhibits
Among the special collections held by the department are MIT's rare book collections. The rare book collections consist of selected volumes from the early MIT Libraries, the personal libraries of several of MIT's founders, and smaller collections donated by individuals. Among the latter are the Vail Collection, which contains early works on electricity, ballooning, and aeronautics; the Gaffield Collection about glass and glassmaking; the Baldwin Collection containing works on nineteenth-century civil engineering; and the I. Austin Kelly Collection, which includes significant volumes on early European and American science, technology, and industry. Volumes from the personal library of William Barton Rogers, the first president of MIT, represent Rogers's broad interests in the educational, scientific, and intellectual life of the nineteenth century--the vision of the man who founded MIT.
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