Featured items:
- First editions of:
- Jonah's Gourd Vine (1934)
- Mules and Men (1935)
- Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)
- Tell My Horse (1938)
- Moses, Man of the Mountain (1939)
- Dust Tracks on a Road (1942)
On loan from Boston Public Library, Special Collections in the Central Library.
- Facsimile of holograph manuscript of Their Eyes Were Watching God, chapter one and beginning of chapter two
Courtesy of Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
- Facsimile of holograph manuscript of Dust Tracks on a Road, chapter entitled "Love"
Courtesy of Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
- Facsimiles of photographs of Zora Neale Hurston taken by Carl Van Vechten and Prentiss Taylor
Courtesy of Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
- Illustrations by Jerry Pinkney from Their Eyes Were Watching God, University of Illinois Press, 1991.
Text on loan from Redwood Library.
- Correspondence regarding the Mule Bone controversy, including facsimiles of letters written by Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes and others
Courtesy of Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
- Facsimiles of selected letters to Zora Neale Hurston regarding her books.
Courtesy of University of Florida, Smathers Libraries, Special Area Studies Collections
- Facsimiles of photographs of Eatonville, Florida in the early twentieth century, home of Zora Neale Hurston and first incorporated African American town in America.
Courtesy of University of Florida, Smathers Libraries, Special Area Studies Collections
- Collection of hoodoo artifacts
On loan from Professor Jack G. Montgomery, Western Kentucky University
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