Materials at Other Repositories


AIHP History of Pharmacy Archives Collection

The AIHP History of Pharmacy Archives Collection at the Wisconsin Historical Society contains the bulk of the manuscript and archival records collected over the years by AIHP. Available collections include the personal papers of prominent individuals like Robert P. Fischelis and Rufus Ashley Lyman as well as organizational records, including the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, the American Council on Pharmaceutical Education, the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy and the United States Pharmacopeial Convention.

Founded in 1941, American Institute for the History of Pharmacy (AIHP) Archives collects and preserves materials related to the history of pharmacy. Collections include a Trade Catalog Collection which comprises pharmaceutical and pharmacy-related trade catalogs published between 1829 and the 2000s; the Drug Topics Photograph Collection which documents the profession of pharmacy from about 1945 to 1970; and the Metta Lou Henderson Women in Pharmacy Collection.


Hollywood Hospital fonds, PR-2316

5.2 meters textual records; 1957- circa 1975

There are two series of files: MS-3092 consists of 510 case files for patients treated with hallucinogenic drugs at Hollywood Hospital, with opening file dates from 1957 to 1968. As some patients returned for later treatments some of the material may date from the early 1970s. These files were kept in a separate series from Hollywood's other patient case files. Most of the files contain correspondence and an autobiography recording answers to questions about early childhood, family relations, sexual history, mental health issues and problems with addictions. A standard file would also include a Minnesota Personality Profile, an analysis by a psychiatrist, a medical report on overall health, and a detailed log of the drugs that were administered and the patient's behavior while undergoing the hallucinogenic experience. Patients were also encouraged to prepare a report on their experience after the session, and to evaluate its benefit.


Peter G. Stafford Papers

1960-1971; approximately 14,000 items

This collection contains case histories, clippings, printed materials, and correspondence relating to psychedelic drugs, other drugs, the underground press, and aspects of the youth culture in the 1960s.


Weston La Barre Papers

1930-1996; 31 linear feet

The Weston La Barre papers include correspondence, publications, lectures, committee materials, teaching materials, photographs, audio recordings and scrapbooks. La Barre's professional interests included cultural anthropology, religion, psychedelic drugs such as peyote, and psychology.

Duke University Parapsychology Laboratory Records

1893-1984; 340 linear feet

This collection consists of primarily correspondence and research files on topics including extrasensory perception, psychokinesis, displacement analysis, the Psychical Research Foundation, and parapsychology research. Correspondents include J.B. Rhine, Hereward Carrington, Aldous Huxley, Julian Huxley, Joseph Jastrow, C.G. Jung, William McDougall, and Henry Margenau.


Max Rinkel papers

6 cubic feet (6 record cartons); 1925-1966

The Max Rinkel papers document Rinkel's activities as a psychiatrist and as a consultant at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center and Boston State Hospital. The collection contains professional and personal correspondence, lectures, research notebooks, audio tapes, motion picture film, photographs and lantern slides chronicling his research on insulin therapy and chemical disorders, including lysergic acid diethylamide commonly known as LSD.


The Tina & R. Gordon Wasson Ethnomycological Collection Archives

1931-1986; 28 linear feet

This collection contains correspondence, notes, memoranda, lists, notebooks, diaries, translations, drafts, typescripts, proofs, illustrations, maps, charts, stamps, artifacts, original art work, film, audio tapes, video tapes, photographs, negatives, slides, and mounted exhibit materials relating to Tina and Gordon Wassons' ethnomycological research as well as to RGW's literary and political interests.


Julio Santo Domingo Collection

This collection includes rare books, manuscripts, posters, photographs, audio material, and popular and underground cultural ephemera that documents psychoactive drugs and their physical and social effects. The collection includes scientific and medical works on cannabis, hashish, opium, coca, peyote, LSD, anesthetics and various derivatives. The bulk of the collection explores drug use by individuals and the influence such use and users had on their society, with emphasis on the 19th and 20th centuries in America and France.


Al Hubbard materials

Assorted digitized documents pertaining to Al Hubbard who was instrumental in raising awareness of the therapeutic properties of LSD in the 1950s.


Virginia Glenn papers

11.33 cubic feet; 1950-1970

Known as the "the midwife of the human potential movement," Virginia Glenn was interested in parapsychology, psychic research, astrology, spiritual healing and magic. She organized a number of seminars and lectures in the fields of psychology and parapsycholgy both of which are included in the human potential rubric. Her papers include correspondence, organized by date; articles, seminar, conference, symposium and lecture materials; calendars; notebooks; flyers; newsletters; announcements; clippings; and other miscellaneous material. This collection was compiled by Dr. Stanley Krippner who solicited material from Glenn's friends and colleagues as a memorial to her. The collection was donated to Kent State University during the early 1970's.

Gestalt Therapy collection

6.33 cubic feet; 1966-2006

This collection is comprised of a large number of audio recordings, most of them from the Annual Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Gestalt Therapy (AAGT). Additional materials include one artifact, subject files, and a portrait and photographs of Frederick Perls, and other AAGT conference records.


The Lloyd Library and Museum contains resources that encompass the history and science of plant-based medicine, pharmacy, and chemistry. The collection focuses on botany, pharmacy, herbal medicine, ethnobotany, horticulture, exploration and travel, and the history of medicine and science. Collections include rare books, manuscript collections, photographs, artifacts, and artwork.

Varro E. “Tip” Tyler papers

1926-2001; 50 linear feet

The collection consists of Tyler's publications in various forms (manuscripts, reprints, and original copies), some correspondence, and personal and professional materials, such as curriculum vitae, bibliographies, clippings, and memorabilia. The bulk of the collection is subject files, predominantly on various medicinal plants/herbs, which literally run A-Z.


MAPS Forum Archive (1996-2015)

The MAPS Forum documents day-to-day information on the development of psychedelics and psychedelic culture, discussions of topics and different perspectives on them, names of contributors and activists, dates that determine who did what when, what went on in MAPS and similar organizations, news reports, articles, summaries of scientific research, invention of ideas and coining and usage of words, laws and Federal and state relationships, social events, conferences, publications, and so forth. (Description provided by Thomas Roberts, PhD)


Charles Lee Tranter Papers

1916-1963; 6 linear feet

This collection contains correspondence and other materials pertaining to Tranter's medical studies on the effects of hallucinogenic drugs.


Michael Standard files related to Timothy Leary

1.1 linear feet (3 boxes); 1968-1997

Michael Standard (1935-2014) was an attorney who represented Timothy Leary in court proceedings and also acted as his agent for publishing projects. The collection contains multiple draft manuscripts of Leary's book It's About Time, with handwritten changes. The book was published in 1973 as Confessions of a Hope Fiend. Correspondence and contracts related to Leary's publications date from 1968 to 1973 and include letters from Timothy and Rosemary Leary. The collection also contains correspondence and court documents related to legal cases in New York, Texas, and California; transcripts and notes on interviews with Dennis Martino; documents related to archivist Michael Horowitz's grand jury testimony in August 1975 regarding Leary's archives and their seizure by the FBI; a 1970 manuscript titled Millbrook Thanksgiving by Walt Schneider; and a 1997 letter from Leary biographer Robert Greenfield.

Rosemary Woodruff Leary papers

11.15 linear feet; 11.75 mb; 1935-2006

Rosemary Woodruff Leary (1935-2002) sought to educate people about the psychedelic experience. Woodruff lived for over twenty years as a fugitive for her role in assisting her husband, Timothy Leary, escape from prison in 1970. This collection documents her relationship with Leary and her twenty years as a fugitive through correspondence, photographs, ephemera, clippings, and drafts of her unpublished memoir, A Magician's Daughter.

Timothy Leary letters to William Scanlon

1 folder; 1930s-1940s

This collection consists of fifty letters from Leary to his childhood friend and classmate, William Scanlon. The letters span Leary's late high school years through his enrollment at the United States Military Academy at West Point, his studies at the University of Alabama, and his subsequent enlistment in the United States Army. Also included is one undated letter to "Rosemary," ostensibly Rosemary Woodruff, Leary's fourth wife.

Michael Horowitz collection on Timothy Leary

9.28 linear feet (24 boxes); 1932-2015

Michael Horowitz (1938- ), an archivist, author, and publisher, safeguarded Leary's papers following his 1970 escape from prison. This collection reveals Horowitz's role as archivist, the history of the archive (most notably its seizure by the FBI in 1975), and his relationship with Leary. Horowitz's position on the role of archivists and archival neutrality is well documented.

Holding Together records

0.7 linear feet (2 boxes); 1966-1977

The Holding Together records represent the activities of Joanne Ziprin and the household she managed in Berkeley, California where Timothy and Rosemary Leary resided between 1968 and 1970. Holding Together was established to support Leary's legal defense after his arrest for marijuana possession.

Joseph Campbell papers

83.65 linear feet (203 boxes); 1905-1995

The Joseph Campbell papers date from 1905 to 1995 (bulk dates 1930s-1980s), and consist of materials related to Campbell's career as a college professor, lecturer, researcher, and author. The collection is arranged into eight Series, and holds Campbell's original writing; teaching materials; files from his appearances in film and television; his research files; correspondence; photographs; and press clippings. Campbell's files detail his research and writing work on mythology and literature, and chronicle the many lectures he gave throughout his career. The papers were previously held and processed by The OPUS Archives & Research Center at the Pacifica Graduate Institute, and include some materials that were added posthumously, such as lecture transcripts and outgoing correspondence. Projects started by Campbell in his lifetime and completed after his death, such as The Historical Atlas of World Mythology, are also held in the collection.

Timothy Leary arrest file

0.1 linear feet (1 folder); 1968-1977

The Timothy Leary arrest file was created by the Laguna Beach Police Department after Leary's 1968 arrest for possession of marijuana in Orange County, California. He was arrested with his wife, Rosemary Leary, and son John Leary. The file dates from 1968 to 1977 and contains a suspect information report on Leary; a pre-sentence report by a probation officer; Orange County prosecutor Ed Freeman's notes on the "continuing development of the case against the BEL [Brotherhood of Eternal Love] and Timothy Leary"; and news clippings.

Timothy Leary letters to Mary and David McClelland

0.21 linear feet (1 box); 1959-1962

David Clarence McClelland (1917-1998) was an American psychologist, noted for his work on motivation Need Theory. McClelland published a number of works during the 1950s and the 1990s and developed new scoring systems for the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) and its descendants. The majority of the collection consists of letters written to David and Mary McClelland during the period Leary was living in Denmark with his family. He discusses his work; personal life and family; his travels; and arrangements for moving back to America and working at Harvard University. There are also two undated reports on the effects of psilocybin written by subjects.


Complete list of collections

This repository contains rare and significant collections in the fields of mythology, archetypal psychology and world culture. Holdings include the collections of Joseph Campbell, Marija Gimbutas, James Hillman, Marion Woodman, Jane Hollister Wheelwright and Joseph Wheelwright, Christine Downing, Katie Sanford, Adolf Guggenbühl-Craig.


Joseph Campbell papers

1937-1998

The collection includes Joseph Campbell’s lecture tapes, artifacts, and his personal library (catalogued separately). There are approximately 1,200 audio taped lectures and video tapes from during the decades he taught at Sarah Lawrence College, Eranos, Esalen, and elsewhere. The approximately 650 audio tape cassettes of Campbell’s public lectures reveal the scope of his interests in comparative mythology, religious studies, the hero’s journey, Indian mythology, the literature of James Joyce and Thomas Mann, and the psychologies of Sigmund Freud and C.J. Jung.


Abram Hoffer papers

Abram Hoffer was a Canadian psychiatrist who researched extensively in schizophrenia, orthomolecular medicine, and other alternative therapies. This collection contains records created, accumulated, and used by him over the course of his career. It includes correspondence, patient files, appointment and personal diaries, subject files, conference and meeting materials, clippings, manuscripts, photographs, an audio/visual materials.


Betty Eisner papers

1927-2002; 10 linear feet

This collection contains papers documenting Betty Grover Eisner's career in clinical psychology and experimental use of LSD and other drugs. Includes narrative reports and audio recordings of drug therapy sessions, articles and conference papers, book manuscripts, journals, legal documents, journals, personal and professional correspondence, and other materials.

Willis W. Harman papers

111 megabyte(s) (90 computer files); 1977-1996

Digital only collection that includes photographs, writings, and project materials. Digital only collection that includes photographs, writings, and project materials.

John C. Lilly papers

242 linear feet (processed portion only); 1933-2012

The John C. Lilly papers contain a variety of material from over fifty years of his research in marine biology, neuroscience, and related fields.

Elizabeth Kubler Ross papers

63 linear feet (125 boxes) and 17.5 gigabyte(s); circa 1939-2019

Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross devoted her life to the study of death and dying, and has been instrumental in de-stigmatizing dying and drawing attention to the treatment of the terminally ill. Her collection consists of correspondence (largely incoming), writing, articles and clippings, photographs, audiovisual media, and other material.


Huston Cummings Smith Papers

1990-2011; 16 linear feet

The Huston Smith papers contains materials that document Smith’s personal and professional life, including correspondence, photographs, awards, lectures and presentations, genealogical information, as well as published materials.


Helen Bonny Archives for Guided Imagery and Music

16.65 linear feet (48 boxes), Circa 1955-2005

This collection contains unpublished papers, audiotapes, LPs, videos, and various other materials related to Dr. Helen Bonny's work on Guided Imagery and Music.


Timothy Leary papers

1910-2009; 263 linear feet

The Timothy Leary papers contain records created and accumulated by Leary over his entire life, as well estate records created after his death. The papers comprehensively document his life and activities: as a child, student, professional psychologist, lecturer and researcher at Harvard, unaffiliated psychedelic guru, prisoner, escapee, exile, and futurist.


Neuroscience History Archives

The Neuroscience History Archives at the UCLA Brain Research Institute collects primary source materials pertaining to twentieth-century American neuroscience. Materials within the Collection comprise the personal papers of significant neuroscientists including Daniel X. Freedman, Percieval Bailey, John Field, Robert Galambos, John D. Green, Gilbert Van Tassel Hamilton, Rafael Lorente de Nó, and Horace Winchell Magoun.

Sidney Cohen collection

1910-1987; 43 cubic feet

The Sidney Cohen Collection includes subject files covering Cohen's professional research, correspondence files from his teen years until close to his death in 1987, biographical information documenting education and government service, audio tapes of LSD conferences from the late 1950s and early 1960s, articles and manuscripts, and files from LSD and mescaline experiments Cohen conducted with Gerald Heard.

Daniel X. Freedman Papers

1921-1993; 112 linear feet

Daniel X. Freedman studied the effects of LSD at the National Institute of Mental Health in the late 1950s. This collection consists of correspondence, class syllabi, lectures, notes, grant applications, laboratory notebooks and data, manuscripts and typescripts of publications, lectures, speeches, interviews, publications, notes of committee meetings and draft reports, patient case notes and correspondence, newspaper and magazine clippings, awards, photographs, and audiotapes.

Gerald Heard papers

1935-1971; 20.5 linear feet

Collection consists of Heard's manuscripts of published and unpublished books, correspondence, sixteen boxes of tape recordings of Heard's lectures, lecture notes, articles, books from Heard's library, photographs, and ephemera related to Heard's interests in parapsychology, Vedanta, philosophy, and religion. Includes manuscripts by others as well as an oil painting of Heard by Aldous Huxley (1933).

Aldous and Laura Huxley papers

1925-2007; 50 linear feet

The Aldous Huxley papers portion of the collection consists correspondence between Aldous Huxley and publishers Harper & Row, personal correspondence, holographic notes, literary manuscripts and personal effects. The materials in the collection that comprise the personal papers of Laura Archer Huxley include personal correspondence, holographic and typewritten notes, manuscripts, collected articles, clippings, and interviews. This collection also contains photographs and audiovisual recordings of both Aldous Huxley and Laura Archera Huxley.


Abraham Maslow papers

The Abraham Maslow papers consist of a variety of topics and media. From earlier years of Maslow's life, there are class notes, as both a lecturer and a student, as well as Maslow's personal diaries and reading notes. Correspondence includes letters of recommendation, personal and professional advice, and APA business. Among the topics of the correspondence: self actualization, peak experiences, T-Groups, Eupsuchian Philosophy, humanistic psychology, The Esalen Institute, and Maslow's work with Blackfoot Indians.

Frank X. Barron papers

28.2 linear feet (94 boxes), 1974-2002

The Frank X. Barron papers include biographical files, correspondence, administrative files, teaching files, tests, research files, and written works. The files document Barron's wide variety of research interests, including creativity, twins, nuclear war, and artists. The Written Works series includes published and unpublished works, including unpublished notes and drafts of "The Sacred Mushroom in Harvard Yard" and "A Baby Named Death". Both were autobiographical works; "The Sacred Mushroom in Harvard Yard" was a memoir of Barron's relationship with Timothy Leary.


Humanistic Psychology Archives

Nearly 200 archival collections

The purpose of Humanistic Psychology Archives (HPA) is to collect, organize, preserve and make available to researchers primary resources relating to humanistic psychology, its antecedents, and its development. HPA contains and solicits materials generated by the founders, pioneers, major individuals, organizations, centers, and institutions participating in humanistic psychology, including its historical, literary, social, and artistic aspects. Major collections include the Association for Humanistic Psychology (AHP) records, George I. Brown papers, James F.T. Bugental papers, and Stanley Keleman papers. Among these collections, the Rollo May Papers include extensive manuscript and audiovisual material from the well-known psychotherapist and popular author. The Abraham Maslow Collection contains articles, lists, and index; correspondence to and from Carl Rogers and Bertha Maslow. Also included in HPA are collections related to Carl R. Rogers, Virginia Satir, Stewart B. Shapiro, Bob Tannenbaum and John Vasconcellos. Altogether, its present holdings include nearly 200 collections.

Esalen Institute collection

0.2 linear feet (1 half-size box)

This collection consists of ephemeral publications from the Esalen Institute arranged at the folder level by document type.


Nina Graboi Papers

1960-1999; 7 boxes

This collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, and research materials for Graboi's publication, One Foot in the Future: A Woman's Spiritual Journey. Subjects include hallucinogenic drugs, with a focus on LSD.


Stanley Krippner papers

7 artifacts, textual records, 1 digital object; 1995-2015


Ardath H. Emmons correspondence

1968-1980; 18 linear feet

This collection contains correspondence, notes, reports, research proposals and other materials of Ardath H. Emmons, Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies at the University of Missouri. It includes materials relating to LSD experiments at Missouri Institute of Psychiatry.


Humanistic Psychology and Parapsychology archives:

The University of West Georgia is distinguished by its academic specialties in humanistic psychology and parapsychology within the Department of Psychology. To support teaching, learning, and research, Special Collections actively collects archival materials and printed materials pertaining to these two topical areas. Notable among these collections are papers of Ingo Swann who coined the term “remote viewing,” along with his book collection; the David Wayne Hooks library which originated from the Psychical Research Foundation; the papers of scholar Sidney Jourard, who founded the American Association for Humanistic Psychology; Carmi Harari, who founded the Division of Humanistic Psychology within the American Psychology Association; the papers of former University of West Georgia professor and expert in poltergeists, William G. Roll; and the papers of Anne C. Richards who served on Association for Humanistic Education (AHE), trustee for the Field Psych Trust, and surveyed University of West Georgia students’ attitudes towards sexuality from 1981-1999. Also notable are the papers of psychologist Edith Weisskopf-Joelson who studied schizophrenia, alienation and logotherapy.

Stanley Krippner papers

88.25 Linear feet (96 boxes); 1932-2022

This collection contains the papers of Stanley Krippner, a renowned humanistic psychologist whose focus of study includes dreams, altered states of consciousness, hypnosis, shamanism, dissociation, and parapsychological subjects.

Kenneth Ring papers

65.91 Linear feet (149 boxes), 1975-2018

This collection contains the papers of Kenneth Ring, a noted researcher in near-death experiences.