Collections containing material about North America (continent)

ALA Archives Digital Collections

Group pictures of librarians attending the ALA conferences in U.S. and Canada, covering the period of 1894-1932 and images library buildings in photographic papers and postcards.

Alaska, Western Canada and United States Collection

The Alaska and Western Canada collection is a digital collection of historic photographs documenting the geographic area of Alaska and the Canadian provinces of Yukon Territory and British Columbia. ...

Alvin H. Waite Photographs

Alvin H. Waite was an outdoorsman and traveler, and, along with his friends and associates Albert Barnes and Henry M. Sarvant, became one of Tacoma's most important landscape photographers during the ...

American Studies Information Community

The Census of American Studies Resources on the Web supports the creation, discovery, and delivery of an annotated directory of American Studies resources on the web. Entries in the directory are ...

Archives of Irish America

The Archives of Irish America has been building upon a pilot project started in 1997 to survey and collect materials related to the New York Irish community. Under a multi-year grant from the Irish ...

Ben Shahn at Harvard

Ben Shahn at Harvard is a searchable database of images and information relating to works by the American artist Ben Shahn (1899 - 1969) in the collections of the Harvard University Art Museums and ...

By Popular Demand : Portraits of the Presidents and First Ladies, 1789-Present

Compilation of formal and informal portraits of United States presidents from the collection of the Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress.

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 ...

Evans Early American Imprint Collection

The University of Michigan, NewsBank/Readex Co., and the American Antiquarian Society are cooperating in a Text Creation Partnership to create 6,000 accurately keyed and fully searchable SGML/XML text ...

Kautz Family YMCA Archives

This collection includes selected historical images from the Kautz Family YMCA Archives. The majority of images come from the photo collection, but the database also includes some images from the ...

Posner Memorial Collection

The Posner Memorial Collection of six hundred twenty-two titles includes landmark titles of the history of western science, beautifully produced books on decorative arts and fine sets of literature. ...

Television News of the Civil Rights Era 1950-1970

This digital archive is based on an extensive collection of 16 mm news footage from the Roanoke TV station, WSLS. The Virginia Center for Digital History is experimenting with using the GDMS for ...