Walker Library: Special Collections: Home

Welcome to Special Collections!

Special Collections is the rare book facility for Walker Library. Its mission is to acquire, preserve, and provide access to valuable, unique, and fragile materials.

Spotlight Collection
Samuel McHarry's The Practical Distiller, or, An Introduction to Making Whiskey, Gin, Brandy, Spirits, &c. &c

Current Exhibit
A Serious Collection of Fun Books Pop-Up and Movable Books, Past and Present

The Margaret Lindsley Warden Collection For Equine Studies

Distilling, Fermenting, and Brewing Collection

Illustration of a Person Fighting an Alligator

Early Tennessee Imprints

Dimensional and Artists' Books

Robert Allen Ragland Sr. Memorial Civil War

University Collection

Lee and Sophia Owen Eudora Welty Collection

Special Collections Reference Area

Past Exhibits

Printing the Civil War

The American Body

Artists' Books: Student Works

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Past Exhibits