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The Ames Library covers the countries of South Asia, featuring current and historic books and journals from and about the region. The Ames Library also includes the Ames Rare collection, a rich special collection of historic rare books, journals, and manuscripts and archival materials dating back to 1597.
In 1961, after more than 50 years of dedicated collecting materials on the British-Indian colonial interaction, Charles Lesley Ames, a Saint Paul publisher, gave his library to the University of Minnesota. This gift of over 25,000 titles, included manuscripts, photographs, maps, prints and drawings from the period 1590-1960.
Several others followed Mr. Ames' example and gave their libraries to enrich the Ames Library: The Abdus Salam Collection of Persian and Urdu materials, The Long Beach Collection of Bengali materials, The Trois Johnson Collection of Portuguese materials on Goa.
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