Clark Special Collections serves the traditional function of a conventional university archive and operates as a repository for historical materials that document the origin of the U.S. Air Force, the Academy, and other topics related to the history of human flight. Holdings include photographs, oral histories, yearbooks, building plans, reports, and other papers and publications. Several rare book collections are also housed in Special Collections including the Gimbel Aeronautical Library and the Falconry collections. Clark Special Collections at the United States Air Force Academy is home to more than:
IMAGE NOTE: Lt. General A.P. Clark, for whom Special Collections Branch is named, is pictured in his role as Superintendent of the United States Air Force Academy in 1970.
The Friends of the Air Force Academy Library is a nonprofit charitable organization formed to enhance the quality of the Academy's McDermott Library as an educational, research, scientific, and cultural institution. Clark Special Collections Branch has the Memorial Honor Books maintained by the Friends of the Library on permanent display. The Friends also sponsor annual research fellowships for selected visiting scholars. Their website hosts a number of collections and exhibits about the McDermott Library Collections and the Air Force Academy including the Graduate Memorial Database and the Genesis of Flight Online.
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