These are guides and/or finding aids on the various special collections in the Browne Popular Culture Library. Following these guides are links to the finding aids for our manuscript collections.

• Advertising Trade Card Collection
• Alternative and Underground Press Collection
• Beauty Pageant Collection
• Audio Literature Collection
• Automotive Vertical File Collection
• Big Little Books - browse a list by title in the library catalog
• Bridge Tally Card Collection
• Calendars
• Comic books
• Disney
• Display Photos Collection
• Doing the Decades
• Fanzines
• Film Resources in the BPCL
• Games Collection
• Greeting Cards
• Kennedy Collection
• Little Blue Books
• Little Leather Library
• Lyceums and Chautauquas
• Mail Order Catalogs
• Mike Douglas Collection
• Movie Lobby Cards
• Movie Press Kits
• Movie Scripts
• Nickel Weeklies
• Obama Collection
• Periodicals in the BPCL
• Personal Growth Leaflets
• Pin-back Button Collection
• Postcards
• Posters (movie, WWI, WWII, misc.)
• Pulp Magazines
• Radio Script Contents for the Du Pont Presents "The Cavalcade of America"
• Realia Collection
• Soap Opera Episodes on Microfilm
  • Scripts from The Edge of Night, Another World, Guiding Light from the 1950's through the 1970's
  • Also includes an inventory of scripts from Search for Tomorrow from the 1950's and 60's
• Somerville Gates Collection
• Spider-Man Collection
• Star Trek Memorabilia Collection (Marie Wakefield)
• Television Resources in the BPCL
• Titanic Collection
• Trading Cards - Sport and Non-Sport
• Vertical File Collection
  • Houses materials from the 19th and 20th centuries (flyers, advertisements, handouts, etc.) that supplement primary research materials housed in the Browne Popular Culture Library
• World's Fairs
• Yearbook Collection

Manuscript Collections

• Mystery/Detective Fiction Manuscript Collections
• Romance Manuscript Collections
• Science Fiction, Fantasy & Related Collections
• Popular Entertainment Manuscript Collections
• Popular Culture Studies: A History - Manuscript Collections
• Other Manuscript Collections in the BPCL
• A-Z List of Manuscript Collections

If you need assistance with any of these guides or finding aids, please stop by the BPCL Reference/Service Desk, call us at 419-372-2450, or email us at pcldesk@bgsu.edu.