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An introduction to the materials available in Clark University's Archives and Special Collections.

Archives and Special Collections
at Goddard Library


Welcome to Clark University's Archives and Special Collections at the Robert H. Goddard Library.  We are the repository for approximately 7,000 linear feet of rare books, manuscripts, and other materials.

You can contact us at archives@clarku.edu or 508-793-7206.


Postcard depicting Jonas Clark Hall and the Science Building.

Service Expectations

  • For all research / scanning requests, please contact archives@clarku.edu.
    • We endeavor to acknowledge receipt of email requests within 24-hours of receiving your request.
  • Research work is time and labor intensive and may take up to a month, depending on staff and the volume of requests at any given time. 
  • We are happy to make scans of requested materials for you.
    • Requests must adhere to copyright.  
    • Small-scale scanning projects (10-15 images) will be accommodated as soon as possible, usually within two weeks.
    • Large scanning projects (15 or more images) may take up to a month, and on a rare occasion more time may be necessary.
  • Requests by researchers to visit onsite should be made well in advance, a two week minimum notice is requested.
    • Research visits will be accommodated depending on staff availability.
    • For cancellations, a one week notice is requested.
  • Please acknowledge use of our materials in your publication, presentation, display, etc..
    • Our preferred acknowledgement is, "Courtesy of Clark University Archives and Special Collections." 

Thank you!

An image of a puffin, facing to the left.

John James Audubon's seven volumes of "The Birds of America", 1840-1844

Book of Hours, 1423

The Book that Went to the Moon, an autobiography of Robert H. Goddard, bound by Achille St Onge

Albert A. Michelson's interferometer. Michelson was the first American to win a Nobel Prize in Physics.