The main source of the material featured in Toledo's Attic is the Canaday Center of the University of Toledo.
The Canaday Center’s rare book collection is focused on several areas: Southern writers such as William Faulkner and Eudora Welty; Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, and the Imagist poets; African-American literature; Henry David Thoreau; the history of books and fine printing; William Dean Howells; Leigh Hunt; and a collection on the stock market and financial speculation. In addition, the Center has a large collection of books published in the 19th and early 20th century on women’s social and literary history.
The Canaday Center collects, preserves, and makes available historical records of persons and organizations important to the history of Toledo and northwest Ohio. Collections include records and personal papers of political figures, civic leaders, labor unions, social service agencies, and Toledo corporations. A detailed guide to the Manuscripts Collection is available.
The final component of the Canaday Center is the University Archives. The University of Toledo Archives serves as the institutional memory of the university. By collecting, preserving, and making available the historical records that document the university from its founding in 1872 to the present day, the archives serves students, faculty, staff, alumni, administrators, and community members. Collections include office files, personal papers of UT faculty members, publications of the university, files on student organizations, photographs, and theses and dissertations by UT graduate students. Most of the collections are available to researchers under the provisions of Ohio’s public record laws.
Ward M. Canaday Center for Special Collections, located on the fifth floor of Carlson Library, houses the library’s rare books, manuscript collections, and the University of Toledo’s archives. Because of the rarity and uniqueness of the collections, the materials of the Canaday Center do not circulate. Researchers wishing to use the collections must register and use the materials in the Center’s supervised reading room and agree to follow rules for using the collections. The collections are open to the general public as well as University of Toledo faculty and students.
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