Museum of Northern Arizona: Harold S. Colton Memorial Library

3101 N. Ft. Valley Rd.
Flagstaff, AZ 86001

Phone
928-774-5213
Fax
928-779-1527

Harold S. Colton Memorial Library

The Harold S. Colton Memorial Library and the Katharine Bartlett Reading Room began with the donation of Harold S. and Mary Russell-Ferrell Colton's personal library. As the collection grew, the library found a home in the Museum's Research Center building, built in 1954.

The library's collection has grown to include several hundred periodicals, around 50,000 books, over 25,000 separates, several thousand maps, over 300 manuscript holdings, and several hundred linear feet of MNA archives.

The Harold S. Colton Library's collections are strongest in the fields of archaeology, ethnology, and geology, with slightly less emphasis on biology, geography, history, art, and museology. With its strong retrospective collection, the library is an indispensable resource for anyone doing research on the Colorado Plateau region.

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