Historical & Special Collections

With nearly three thousand linear feet of manuscripts, over three hundred thousand rare books, and more than seventy thousand visual images—photographs, prints, paintings, and objects—Historical & Special Collections houses one of the world's most comprehensive collections of research materials for the study of legal history. Its chief mission is to acquire, catalog, preserve, and make available to researchers materials that document the history of the law in general and of Anglo-American law in particular.

Collections About the Collections Rare Books & Early Manuscripts Modern Manuscripts The Red Set Art & Visual Materials	Research Assistance Research Assistance History of HLS & Harvard University HLS Graduates: A Biographical Research Guide Deans of Harvard Law School HLS Alumnae/i Who Became Justices of the Supreme Court Historical Collections Databases	Et Seq. Blog HSC Channel 852 RARE: You Can (Sometimes) Judge a Book by Its Cover New Exhibit: Long Road to Equality 852 RARE: Gentlemen in the Countryside 852 RARE: Men, Baking, and Women’s Rights
Exhibitions About Exhibitions Current Exhibition Past Exhibitions	Policies & Procedures About HSC Planning Your Visit Reading Room Rules Reproduction & Publication	Quick Links HOLLIS HOLLIS Classic OASIS: Archival Finding Aids VIA: Visual Resources

Image credits (l-r): Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Civil War Scrapbook, digital image sequence 61 (detail); HLS MS 188 (detail); Clarence Clyde Ferguson (detail); Sir Thomas Willes Chitty Bart., caricature by Edmond Xavier Kapp, olvwork176344 (detail). Harvard Law School Library, Cambridge, MA.