Architecture

125 Years of Achievement: The History of Cornell's College of Architecture, Art, and Planning

One hundred and twenty-five years ago Andrew Dickson White, the first president of Cornell University, challenged the Board of Trustees to establish a new program to provide formal academic training ...

American Landscape and Architectural Design, 1850-1920: A Study Collection from the Harvard Graduate School of Design

Approximately 2,800 lantern slides representing an historical view of American buildings and landscapes built during the period 1850-1920. The collection represents the work of Harvard faculty, such ...

Andrew D. White Architectural Photographs Collection

The Andrew Dickson White Architectural Photographs document a wide range of 19th- and early 20th-century architecture of Europe, the Middle East and the Americas, including structures, panoramas and ...

Architecture and Interior Design for 20th Century America: Photographs by Samuel Gottscho and William Schleisner, 1935-1955

The collection also provides a look at nature through the eyes of Samuel Gottscho. Another major highlight of the Gottscho-Schleisner collection are the images from the 1939 New York Worlds Fair. It ...

"Arise and Build!": A Centennial Commemoration of the 1895 Rotunda Fire

Brings some of the riches of the Special Collections Department of the University Library to the attention of the world and demonstrates the Library's expertise in making materials in diverse formats ...

Art, Architecture and Engineering Library Visual Resources Collection

Images from this collection are part of the Art, Architecture and Engineering Library Visual Resources Collection which is housed in the lower level of the Art, Architecture & Engineering Library. The ...

Baltimore Architecture Project

The Baltimore Architecture Project is part of a nation-wide database called American Architects and Buildings. The Baltimore Architecture Project is the first "partner city" of this project, and ...

Blake's Choice Selections from the Alexander Architecture Archive

Selections from the Alexander Architectural Archive, University of Texas at Austin which includes papers, photographic material, models and ephemera, representing thousands of projects in Texas as ...

Built in America: Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record, 1933-Present

A collection documenting achievements in architecture, engineering, and design in the United States and its territories through a comprehensive range of building types and engineering technologies ...

The Cape Coast Archive: Exploring & Preserving Cape Coast, Ghana

The Cape Coast Archive represents a collaborative effort by the University of Virginia Library, the United States branch of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), and Ghanaian ...

The Charette

The Charette Digital Project provides web-based public access to a regional architectural journal. Charette (vols. 1-54, 1920-1974) was the journal of the Pittsburgh Architectural Club; and was later ...

Colonial Revival in America: Annotated Bibliography

Originating from the University of Virginia’s Architecture Department, this bibliography provides an annotated listing of scholarly and popular literature that addresses the Colonial Revival in ...

Digital Image Database

Digital Image Database consists of images with a primary focus on, but not limited to, art and architecture. Use of the database is restricted to Carnegie Mellon University faculty, staff and students ...

Fiske Kimball: Master of the Diverse Arts

An exhibit mounted in the Fiske Kimball Fine Arts Library in October of 1995, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the library that was named in Kimball's honor and that holds an extensive collection ...

Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection

Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864-1952) was one of the first American women to achieve prominence as a photographer. Trained at the Académie Julian in Paris, she studied photography upon her return to ...

Greene & Greene Virtual Archives

The "Greene & Greene Virtual Archive" -- a joint project of The Gamble House/USC, Berkeley and Columbia and funded by the Getty Foundation -- was completed in June 2003. Its objective was the creation ...

Image Bank

The UW Image Bank is an extensive collection of high-quality images of art, architecture, and cultural and historical materials. The Image Bank includes images of cultural production from diverse ...

Lewis Wickes Hine: The Construction of the Empire State Building, 1930-1931

Lewis Wickes Hine (1874 -1940), photographer, sociologist and humanist, is best known for his insightful portraits of immigrants at Ellis Island and his unflinching views of housing and labor ...

Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts

Garret MS. 158 was probably made in Bologna in 1471 or after 1473. Its principal text is the Collectio antiquitatum that was the work of Giovanni Marcanova, who was born in Venice ca. 1410/1418 and ...

MIT Press Out of Print Books

The MIT Press, established as an independent publisher in 1962, is the only university press in the United States whose list is based in science and technology. The Press currently publishes some 40 ...

Penn State-University Park Campus History Digital Archives

This collection of primary source materials has been gathered and placed on the web to enable students and others to learn about the history of the Penn State-University Park campus, including its ...

Stanford Historical Photograph Collection

The Stanford Historical Photograph Collection is one of the Stanford University Archives' major collections, consisting of some 16,000 photographs from throughout Stanford's history, and covers ...

The William C. Brumfield Photograph Collection

William C. Brumfield, Professor of Russian Studies at Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, has extensively photographed and written about the wooden architecture of the Russian North, the ...