1. Photo Purchase Prizes

The library maintains a collection of photographs and photographically-based works by RIT students. Additions to the collection are selected every year from the annual Student Honor Show sponsored by the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences. Established in 1981, the collection now numbers over 125 items. A record for the collection is included in the library catalog and a descriptive list of all items in the collection is available.

2. Elmer Messner Collection

The Elmer Messner Collection has approximately 1,500 original drawings for political cartoons by Messner published in the newspapers of Rochester, New York, and other cities in the United States between 1934 and 1977. Messner was a graduate of RIT and taught drawing at the institute for over 20 years. The collection also includes about 30 cartoons by other noted political cartoonists, many of which are inscribed to Messner. The collection was donated to the RIT Archives in 1978 by Grace Messner, the artist's widow. An inventory of the collection was prepared by Gladys Taylor.

3. John Scott Clubb Collection

The John Scott Clubb Collection has approximately 4,000 original drawings for political cartoons published in the newspapers of Rochester, New York, from 1905 to 1934. An inventory of the collection was prepared by Gladys Taylor.