Becker Library Archives & Rare Books Division
Hours: Monday - Friday, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm or by appointment
Contact Archives & Rare Books at (314) 362-4236 or arb@wusm.wustl.edu
Room 702, Becker Library
MSC 8132-13-01, 660 South Euclid Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63110-1010
Upcoming Events
Upcoming Events
Becker archives roadshow - November edition: Food, recipes and parties!
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Archives & Rare Books Posts
Introducing the Becker archives roadshow
Becker Library is pleased to announce a new series of events — the Becker archives roadshow — that will begin in the Fall of 2026. The Becker archives roadshow is intended to highlight interesting and fun aspects of the 100+-year-old WashU Medicine campus, while also increasing awareness of Becker Library’s wonderful archival collections. On most [Read more]
Beautiful bindings at Becker
We often value books for their text. The text is, of course, the book’s reason for being, and book binding evolved in order to protect precious pages. But bindings have their own stories to tell, and those interested in the material aspects of book history have long appreciated them. In this post, we’ll take a [Read more]
Helen Tredway Graham, Heinbecker, Ernest Simms “… contributed measurably to Washington University’s reputation for research pre-eminence.”
The Becker Library exhibit “Compounding Potential – A History of the Neurosciences at WashU” gives a brief historical overview of neuroscience research at Washington University. The exhibit still is on display in the Glaser Gallery on the 7th floor of the Bernard Becker Medical Library for a few more days in June 2026 so it [Read more]