Archival Collections
Our archival holdings include many individual collections. Finding aids for each are listed below.
- Acme man scripts
- Akron Beacon Journal Spelling Bee News Clippings
- Akron Crime Clinic Collection
- Akron Mineral Society
- Akron Motorcycle Dealers and People
- Akron OASIS Collection
- Arbeiter Saengerbund Freiheit Club Collection
- Bain E. “Shorty” Fulton Collection includes information pertaining to the Akron Municipal Airport, early aviation in Akron, Lighter-Than-Air flight, the Soap Box Derby and the Rubber Bowl.
- Berrodin Collection
- Bloetscher Collection
- Bronson History of Tallmadge and the Western Reserve – Contents
- Coach House Theatre Collection
- Coming Together Project
- Coss Collection
- Cunningham/Cunningham-McCafferty Funeral Home Records, 1906 – 1966
- D. Bruce Mansfield Collection
- Daniel and Anna K. Bender Family Collection
- David McCann Collection
- Dixon Collection
- Eastman Collection: Fairy Tales, Myths and Legends
- Edwin Shaw Hospital – Briar Hill Cemetery Records
- Fairlawn Garden Club Collection
- Fairlawn West United Church of Christ
- Fortnightly Study Club Collection
- Frank-Klein Collection
- Frederick J. Ilse Collection
- Garden Forum of Greater Akron Collection
- German American Club Collection
- Greater Akron Legal Secretaries Association
- Greater Akron Touchdown Club
- H. L. Ginaven Collection
- Hal Fry Collection
- Harriet Leaf Collection
- Imagine Akron 2025
- Inventure Place/Inventor’s Hall of Fame
- Jewish Community Board of Akron Collection
- John Morgan Collection
- John F. Seiberling Collection
- Joseph D. Jesensky Collection
- Junior League of Akron radio scripts
- Kepler Coss Collection of materials about Green Township
- Krumory Senior Citizens Center Collection
- Lawrence Collection is an extensive collection of historical materials pertaining to the history of Tallmadge, Ohio. This collection is housed at the Tallmadge Branch Library.
- Lewis Tobias Collection
- Lighter-Than-Air Collection
- Lutz Collection of Veterans’ Burial Cards
- Memories of Downtown
- Neighborhood History Project
- Noble Elderkin Collection
- Northern Ohio Golf Charities Collection includes information about the American Golf Classic and the World Series of Golf.
- Old-Time Athletes Association
- Ott Gangl Collection
- Ott Gangl Kenley Players Collection
- Ott Gangl Ohio Ballet Collection
- Our Lady of the Elms Family History Collection
- Pfahl Collection
- Phi Chapter Delta Kappa Gamma Collection
- Pi Beta Phi Akron Alumnae Club
- Pierson Collection
- Polly Paffilas Collection
- Ralph Holaday Collection
- Ralph E. (Koehn) Kane Collection
- Richard Gardner Collection
- Roadway Express Collection
- Robert O. Orr Collection
- Robert W. Little Collection
- Roderic B. Dibbert Collection
- Rubber City Retreads Collection
- Saalfield and Werner Publishing Companies Collection
- Six-Hour Day Collection
- Smith-Clouse Collection
- Soap Box Derby Collection
- Sounds of the City
- Summit County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society
- Summit Regional Council of Catholic Women
- Thomas Knowles Collection
- “The Times They Were A-Changin’: Akron Remembers 1968” Oral History Project Collection
- Trucking History Collection
- U.S. Naval Air Station, Akron Collection
- Van Dusen and Marquardt Family Collection
- Veterans’ Grave Registration Cards (burials prior to 1941)
- Veterans’ Burial Reports, Ohio Department of Health (burials after 1941)
- Wallpaper Project
- Western Reserve Girls Scouts Index
This index, prepared by Carole James, volunteer archivist for the Western Reserve Girl Scout Museum, includes citations for articles that appeared in the Akron Beacon Journal and the Akron Times Press for the years 1917-1932 about local Girl Scout activities. It is available at the reference desk in the Special Collections Division. - William W. Cox – Mohawk Rubber Company Collection
- Women’s Art League Collection

