Attention Visiting Researchers: The Liberian Collections are currently closed for research. The Liberian Collections maintains the world’s largest non-governmental collection of Liberian materials. Holdings spanning back to the 1820s include personal papers of Liberian political leaders, intellectuals and scholars, ethnographic research records, government publications, newspapers and photographs.

Subcollections (6)

List of items in this collection
  Title
 

William V.S. Tubman Papers, 1904-1992, LCP2005/014 and Endangered Archives Programme EAP 027

William V. S. Tubman (1895-1971), Liberia’s longest serving President, served from 1944–1971. Tubman’s presidency ...

 

Liberian Government Archives II, 1911-1968, LCP2006/003

The collection consists of correspondence, reports, records, minutes, and other miscellaneous manuscript items. These materials are typically either photocop...

 

The A. Romeo Horton Collection, 1959-2007, LCP2012/03

A. Romeo Horton was best known in Liberia as a banker, the founder and former president of Liberia's first indigenous bank, the Bank of Liberia. Horton ...

 

Liberian Government Archives I, 1828-1911, LCP006

The collection consists of correspondence, reports, records, minutes, and other miscellaneous manuscript items. These materials are typically either photocop...

 
 

Dorith Ofri-Scheps Collection, 1991-1992

Dorith Minna Ofri-Scheps (1930-2015), known as "Jɛbɛ" to the Vai people, ...