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The 19th-Century American Trade Card

More than 1,000 images of 19th c. advertising trade cards selected from the Historical Collections at Baker Library, Harvard Business School. As one of the most popular forms of advertising in the ...

The African American Experience in Ohio, 1850-1920

Digital collection of over 30,000 pages of manuscripts, printed text, and images from many separate Ohio collections presents the history of African Americans in Ohio from 1850 to 1920. Major topics ...

African-American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907

351 pamphlets presenting a panoramic and eclectic review of African American history and culture, spanning almost one hundred years. Works include sermons on racial pride and political activism; ...

The Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers at the Library of Congress, 1862-1939

The online version of the Alexander Graham Bell family papers at the Library of Congress comprises a selection of 4,695 items (totaling about 51,500 images). This presentation contains correspondence ...

American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940

These life histories were written by the staff of the Folklore Project of the Federal Writers' Project for the U.S. Works Progress (later Work Projects) Administration (WPA) from 1936-1940. Typically ...

American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera

The library of Peter Force, acquired by the Library of Congress in 1867, furnished the basis of the Printed Ephemera Collection. Force himself had secured many of the pieces assembled by an earlier ...

Auto Club Digital Archive

Provides documentation on the region's transportation history from the Auto Club's Corporate Archives. The Digital Archive includes: a selection of about 100 historic strip maps, illustrating the ...

"California As I Saw It": First-person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900

"California as I Saw It:" First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900 consists of the full texts and illustrations of 190 works documenting the formative era of California's history ...

California Cultures

A collection of digitally reformatted primary resources selected from University of California libraries and bearing on the social live, culture, and commerce both of California's immigrants and its ...

California Historical Society Digital Archive

This collection contains over 15,600 photographs from the California Historical Society Collection of over 23,000 photographs. The full archive was placed on long-term deposit at USC in 1990 and ...

Centralia Massacre Collection

The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), sometimes known as the Wobblies, is a radical labor organization that was most active from 1900 to the 1930's. This collection of pamphlets, leaflets and ...

Charlotta Bass / California Eagle Digital Archive

The Charlotta Bass/California Eagle Photograph Collection is comprised of almost 500 photographs that were among the personal papers and artifacts of Charlotta Bass, publisher of the California Eagle ...

Cooperative Mobility Program

CMP researchers contributed to a major new study of worldwide mobility trends, commissioned by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD). This study, Mobility 2001, is the first ...

DigitalCommons@ILR

The Martin P. Catherwood Library at Cornell’s School of Industrial & Labor Relations collects key materials on workplace issues by special arrangement with government offices, commissions, task forces ...

Dunbar Economic Development Digital Archive

The Dunbar Economic Development Corporation (Dunbar EDC) collection contains photographs and artifacts which document the Vernon-Central neighborhood of Los Angeles which is the historic core of the ...

The Emma Goldman Papers

Emma Goldman (1869-1940) stands as a major figure in the history of American radicalism and feminism. An influential and well-known anarchist of her day, Goldman was an early advocate of free speech, ...

Finding Aid to the Collected Personal and Company Papers of Louis and Jacob Blaustein

In 2004, the Sheridan Libraries received an extraordinary collection of papers related to the personal and professional life of Jacob Blaustein, who together with his father Louis, founded the ...

Ford-MIT Alliance

The Ford Motor Company has engaged MIT in addressing an array of 21st century industry challenges. The multi-million dollar alliance, begun in 1997, focuses on three research areas: product ...

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 ...

GATT Digital Library: 1947-1994

"Provides access to documents and information of and about the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), an organization that promoted international commerce and the reduction of trade barriers ...

Greene & Greene Digital Archive

The Greene & Greene Digital Archive contains images of drawings, architectural plans, rooms, furnishings, books, sketches, photographs, correspondence, and other historical documents related to the ...

Human Ecology Historical Photographs

A database of selected images and information from the records of the College of Home Economics, Cornell University. The photographs are organized by general subjects: Resident Teaching; International ...

Inside an American Factory: Films of the Westinghouse Works, 1904

Site houses twenty-one early films held at the Library of Congress. Originally intended to showcase Westinghouse's operations, the films are today a testament to the conditions found at early American ...

International Motor Vehicle Program

The International Motor Vehicle Program (IMVP) has had a major impact on the global automobile industry and related economies since it was launched in 1979. IMVP has focused on trends in the global ...

Key Workplace Documents

An extensive collection of key workplace federal documents from the Commission on Family and Medical Leave, Congressional Budget Office, Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue Briefs, ...

LA Examiner Digital Archive

The Los Angeles Examiner Collection consists of approximately 1.4 million prints and negatives from the Los Angeles Examiner newspaper. Almost every event and individual receiving news coverage in Los ...

LA Star Digital Archive

The Los Angeles Star (La Estrella de Los Angeles) is available through a partnership with The Huntington Library, who generously allowed USC to digitize their complete holdings of this newspaper. ...

Living off the Land: Tobacco and Crop Science History in North Carolina, 1850-1950

Living off the Land is a digital resource that features original images and other documents relating to North Carolina's agricultural history and economy. The project highlights some of the rich, ...

Materials Systems Laboratory

The Materials Systems Laboratory (MSL) analyzes the competitive position of materials and the strategic implications of materials choice in the automotive, electronic, and aerospace industries. To ...

Menus Collection

This collection represents menus, place mats, and other graphic materials from many of the Puget Sound area's most famous restaurants and dining facilities in the years between 1889 and 2003. ...

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 ...

National Child Labor Committee Collection

The collection consists of more than 5,100 photographic prints and 355 glass negatives, given to the Library of Congress, along with the NCLC records, in 1954 by Mrs. Gertrude Folks Zimand, acting for ...

Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen, Local 160 Records, 1884-1927

The Order was founded in 1868 in Amboy, Illinois as the Conductors Union. This collection contains records relating to the Wyoming Valley-Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania Division 160. In addition to ...

Program on Internet and Telecoms Convergence

MIT Program on Internet and Telecoms Convergence (ITC) research aims to further the Internet's evolution by clearly identifying an evolving array of technical, economic, or policy-related hurdles. The ...

Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929

Assembles a wide array of Library of Congress source materials from the 1920s that document the widespread prosperity of the Coolidge years, the nation's transition to a mass consumer economy, and the ...

Railroad Maps 1828-1900

Represents an important historical record, illustrating the growth of travel and settlement as well as the development of industry and agriculture in the United States. They depict the development of ...

Relaciones Geográficas Collection

An exhibition based on documents with dates ranging from 1578 to 1586 and comprising original responses to a questionnaire initiated by the Spanish Crown in 1577, requesting information about Spanish ...

Seattle Water and Power Supply Collection

This collection showcases images of hydroelectric power and water supply facilities built in Washington State from the late 1890s to the 1950s. Many of these dams, power plants and reservoirs were ...

Silicon Genesis: An Oral History of Semiconductor Technology

The Silicon Genesis project was the inspiration of Rob Walker, Silicon Valley native and engineer, who has been involved with semiconductors since the 1960s at Fairchild, Intel and as a founder of LSI ...

Sloan School of Management

Through innovative research, MIT Sloan faculty create and redefine ideas at the forefront of management theory and practice around the globe.

Sunk in Lucre's Sordid Charms: South Sea Bubble Resources in the Kress Collection at Baker Library

Digital images and full text from pamphlets, books, broadsides, prints, and ephemera focusing on the South Sea Bubble stock market crisis in the early part of the eighteenth century. The resources are ...

The Triangle Factory Fire

This site includes selected information on a terrible and unnecessary tragedy involving the death of many young working women in a New York City sweatshop at the beginning of the 20th century and the ...

U.S. Steel Gary Works Photograph Collection, 1906-1971

The Digital Library Program at Indiana University presents the U.S. Steel Photograph Collection. The collection contains photographs of the Gary Works steel mill and the town of Gary, Indiana. The ...

U.S. Trademark History Timeline

Timeline display of digital representations of marks used by humans from earliest times to designate ownership, sometimes as property owner or sometimes as manufacturer.

UofI Advertising Exhibit

Samples of print advertising included in the Library's D'Arcy and Woodward Advertising Collections. The ads in these collections are valuable to many including researchers and educators of advertising ...

Women Working, 1800-1930

Provides access to digitized books (over 3,500), manuscripts (7,500 pages) and images (1,200) from the collections of Harvard University Libraries and Museums on the topic of women in the U.S. economy ...

Workplace Issues Today

The Martin P. Catherwood Library at Cornell’s School of Industrial & Labor Relations established Workplace Issues Today (WIT) in 1999 as a selective news center where faculty, students and interested ...

WPA Cards Digital Archive

The Works Progress Administration Los Angeles Household Census Cards collection dates from 1939. The physical cards which number nearly half a million items are owned by USC's Information Services, ...

WPA Maps Digital Archive

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) conducted a land use survey from Dec. 18, 1933 to May 8, 1939 for the City of Los Angeles, Department of City Planning. It covered approximately 460 square ...

WPA Posters

A collection of 908 boldly colored and graphically diverse original posters produced from 1936 to 1943 as part of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal. Of the 2,000 WPA posters known to exist, the ...

WPA/TVA Images

An on-line searchable database of information describing photographic images taken by Works Progress Administration (WPA) workers of archaeological projects conducted in preparation for Tennessee ...

The WTO History Project

Our unique collection of interviews with protest organizers and participants sheds light on the behind-the-scenes cooperative (and sometimes contentious) relationships among social movement ...

WTO Seattle Collection

A collection of interviews and images depicting the protests of the WTO ministerial meeting held in Seattle on November 29 - December 3, 1999. The collection illustrates the efforts to bring activists ...