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Sub-types: Blueprints (1),   Illustrations (1),   Lantern slides (1),   Maps (40),   Paintings (1),   Photographs / slides / negatives (433),   Postcards (1),   Posters and broadsides (52),   Prints and drawings (114)


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Greene & Greene Virtual Archives

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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 ...


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The Shahnama Project

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The "Shahnameh" (The Book of Kings), the national epic of the Iranian people, was completed by the poet Ferdowsi in A.D. 1010. Its traditional 60,00 couplets outline the exploits of Persian heroes, ...


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

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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 ...


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America’s Story from America's Library

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A web site designed for children and families. The site combines kid-friendly graphics with the incomparable American historical collections of the Library in more than 1,000 stories about our nation’ ...


Maps of Africa

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Maps of Africa features antiquarian maps from the collections of the late Dr. Oscar I. Norwich and the Stanford University Libraries, dating from the late 15th to the early 20th century. They are a ...


Civil War Maps, 1861-1865

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The Civil War Map collection of the Geography and Map Division consists of reconnaissance, sketch, coastal, and theater-of-war maps which depict troop activities and fortifications during the Civil ...


Collect Britain: Putting History in its Place

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Collect Britain presents 90,000 images and sounds from the British Library, chosen to evoke places in the UK and beyond. It includes: over 650 recordings of English regional accents and dialects from ...


Death of the Father: An Anthropology of Ends in Political Authority

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International anthropological study of the closure of political authority in the 20th century.


Digital Anthropology Resources for Teaching

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DART is a partnership with the London School of Economics, funded jointly by the NSF (US) and the JISC (UK). Four postdoctoral Fellows, two in each partner Anthropology department, are developing ...


Digital Chart of the World Server

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A 1:1,000,000-scale vector basemap of the world. Originally designed for the Defense Mapping Agency (now known as National Imagery and Mapping Agency), this edition is the ESRI product and PSU was ...


Digital Cultural Heritage Community

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Materials from East Central Illinois archives, museums, and libraries for third, fourth, and fifth grade social science curriculum.


The Digital South Asia Library

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A pilot project to improve access through development of the infrastructure for inter-continental electronic document delivery to and from selected South Asia libraries and creation of new electronic ...


A Geological Hand Atlas of the Sixty-Seven Counties of Pennsylvania

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This is an electronic version of: A geological hand atlas of the sixty-seven counties of Pennsylvania :embodying the results of the field work of the survey, from 1874 to 1884 . By J. P. Lesley. ( ...


1907 & 1920 Sanborn Maps of Charlottesville

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More than 40 detailed hand-drawn maps produced by the Sanborn Map Company. Browsable via clickable map index or an index of 1920 street and building names. Maps for 1920 currently available online ...


Historical Maps Online

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Includes digital images of approximately 85 maps dating back over 350 years. The maps depict North America, the Northwest Territory, the state of Illinois, and counties and townships within the state ...


Historical New Haven Digital Collection

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The Historical New Haven Digital Collection, a teaching tool developed over the past two years, now contains over 1,500 images, 800 interactive maps and 90 statistical documents relating to the city ...


Immigration to the United States (1789-1930)

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Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930, is a web-based collection of selected historical materials from Harvard's libraries, archives, and museums that documents voluntary immigration to the US ...


Map Collections, 1500-1999

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The Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress holds more than 4.5 million items, of which Map Collections represents only a small fraction, those that have been converted to digital form.


Parallel Histories: Spain, the United States, and the American Frontier

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Parallel Histories: Spain, the United States, and the American Frontier is a bilingual, multi-format English-Spanish digital library site that explores the interactions between Spain and the United ...


UC Los Angeles, Special Collections, Young Research Library: Southern California Cadastral and Tract Maps Collection

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The tract and cadastral maps in this collection are of real estate developments located in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and Ventura counties. The maps are listed by location using the Thomas ...


UC Los Angeles, Special Collections, Young Research Library: Map Collection on Los Angeles, California, the United States and the World

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Collection consists of maps of Los Angeles, other parts of the United States, and various places in the world. Includes maps of California, California Geological Survey maps, tract maps of the San ...


UC Los Angeles, Special Collections, Young Research Library: Pamphlet Maps Collection on California

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Collection consists of hundreds of pamphlet maps of various places around the world.


The First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820

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This was a joint project between the University of Chicago Library and the Filson Historical Society of Louisville, Kentucky, to digitize 745 rare books, pamphlets, newspapers, maps, prints, and ...


Louis Agassiz Fuertes and the Harriman Alaska Expedition

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Presents selections from a journal that American illustrator Louis Agassiz Fuertes (1874-1927) kept during an expedition along the Alaskan coast funded by American financier Edward Henry Harriman ( ...


Mapping the National Parks

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Documents the history, cultural aspects and geological formations of areas that eventually became four US National Parks (Yellowstone, Acadia, Grand Canyon, and Great Smoky Mountains). The collection ...


Maps of Liberia, 1830-1870

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The Geography and Maps Division of the U.S. Library of Congress presents online images of its collection of maps of Liberia, dating from 1830 to 1870, as part of its American Memory Web resource. The ...


Mark Twain in His Times

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This interpretive archive, drawn largely from the resources of the Barrett Collection, focuses on how "Mark Twain" and his works were created and defined, marketed and performed, reviewed and ...


Meeting of Frontiers

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Multimedia English-Russian digital library that tells the story of the American exploration and settlement of the West, the parallel exploration and settlement of Siberia and the Russian Far East, and ...


Pictorial & Graphics Collections

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The photographs and graphics section encompasses a variety of research materials, including photographs, architectural plans, postcards, historical maps, artwork and ephemera, most of which are ...


Panoramic Maps, 1847-1929

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Contains about 1,700 idealized schematic views of towns and cities in the U.S. and Canada. Offered as part of the American Memory online resource compiled by the National Digital Library Program of ...


Penn State-University Park Campus History Digital Archives

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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 ...


Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection

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An ongoing digitization project that commenced in 1992, includes digital surrogates of thousands of maps from around the world. The General Libraries received a grant in 1998 from TexShare to digitize ...


Railroad Maps 1828-1900

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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

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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 ...


Stanford Geological Survey Collection

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The Stanford Geological Survey (SGS) existed for 100 years, from 1895 until 1995. During this time, students and faculty from Stanford's School of Earth Sciences went into the field to survey and map ...


Texas, Texans, and the Alamo

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The Center's Barker Texas History Collection contains books, manuscript collections, maps, newspapers, and other materials that document the historical development of Texas from Spanish colonization ...


The Thomas Jefferson Papers, 1606-1827

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The complete Thomas Jefferson Papers from the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress consists of approximately 27,000 documents. This is the largest collection of original Jefferson documents ...


The Tibetan & Himalayan Library

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The Tibetan and Himalayan Library (THL) is a publisher of websites, information services, and networking facilities relating to the Tibetan plateau and southern Himalayan regions. THL promotes the ...


Viewing Suriname: A Collaborative Collection

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This site presents a growing collection of media resources related to the natural and cultural landscapes of Suriname. Images are presented as slides, panoramas and maps. Links to other Surinam ...


Vascular Plant Herbarium

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The flora digitization project is an initiative to add plant images to the Herbarium’s existing distribution maps of the vascular plants of Tennessee. The project began with a grant from The ...


Sea of Korea Maps Digital Archive

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This archive consists of 172 original old maps, dating from 1606 to 1895, in English, French, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Latin, German and Russian. It was formed by digitizing the combination of two ...


WPA Maps Digital Archive

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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 ...


Mr. Lincoln's Virtual Library

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Mr. Lincoln's Virtual Library highlights two collections at the Library of Congress that illuminate the life of Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), the sixteenth president of the United States. The Abraham ...


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University of Michigan Museum of Art

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This collection contains digital images of collections held at the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA).


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Class and Faculty Photographs 1860-1911, Oxford College of Emory University

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The Early Emory College Class Photograph Project consists of more than 1,110 still images dating from 1860-1911. The photographs document the class members of Emory College in Oxford, Georgia, which ...


History of Art: Visual Resources Collections at the University of Michigan

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The Department of the History of Art 's electronic database consists of approximately 257,000 text records that catalog the analog and digital holdings of the Eleanor S. Collins Visual Resources ...


The Making of Ann Arbor

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Online pictorial history of Ann Arbor, Michigan resulting from a collaboration between the University of Michigan Library, the Ann Arbor District Library, and the University of Michigan Bentley ...


Poetry Here and Then

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A sampling of the papers of Michigan poets from various collections housed at the Bentley Historical Library, featuring handwritten and typed manuscripts, letters and essays as well as photographs, ...


Armchair Travel in India c1900: The Stereoscopic Experience

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Not everyone was able to travel to India a century ago. Many people who did visit India published travel accounts in which they shared their accounts and impressions. Technological advances allowed ...


Kautz Family YMCA Archives

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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 ...


Scenic Collections Database

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The scenery renderings in the Performing Arts Archives of the University of Minnesota Libraries are a stunning graphic collection of over 1,600 color paintings and drawings of scenic backdrops. They ...


Archives of Irish America

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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 ...


Baltimore Architecture Project

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A collaborative effort led by the Sheridan Libraries, with the Athenaeum of Philadelphia and Towson University, the project will incorporate digital images, biographical information about Baltimore's ...


Maryland ArtSource

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Based at the Sheridan Libraries, Maryland ArtSource is the collaborative effort of eight cultural and arts organizations in Baltimore dedicated to promoting art information resources that illuminate ...


Inside Wood

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InsideWood is an Internet-accessible wood anatomy reference, research, and teaching tool designed for use by a community of users that includes botanists, archaeologists, park naturalists, ...


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

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The NCSU Libraries Special Collections Research Center is laying the groundwork for "Living off the Land," an online research site intended to bring together historical tobacco and crop science- ...


University Archives Photograph Collection

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The Special Collections Research Center is engaged in a multi-year project to digitize and create metadata for selected photographs from the 250,000-image University Archives Photograph Collection ...


Allison Delarue Collection

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Ballet in the nineteenth century was an ideal medium for the manifestation of the Romantic movement. The Delarue Collection offers not only vignettes of this extraordinary time of artistry and grace, ...


Cruikshank Artwork at Princeton University Library

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The Cruikshank online exhibit is a searchable database of materials from George, Isaac, Percy and Robert Cruikshank. It is designed to illustrate the juxtaposition between prints and book ...


Portfolio

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Portfolio is a web site designed to facilitate ready access to a selection of frequently requested images in the Princeton University Library's Department of Rare Books and Special Collections. ...


The Shahnama Project

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The "Shahnameh" (The Book of Kings), the national epic of the Iranian people, was completed by the poet Ferdowsi in A.D. 1010. Its traditional 60,00 couplets outline the exploits of Persian heroes, ...


Princeton University Library Papyrus Home Page

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This home page, including a descriptive and digital images of selected Princeton Papyri and is presented as part of the Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS) Project, which was made ...


Lincoln Highway Digital Image Collection

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The Lincoln Highway Association archive was donated to the University of Michigan's Transportation Library in 1937. The archive, transferred to the Special Collections Library in 1992, consists of ...


Labadie Collection, University of Michigan

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The Labadie Collection was established in 1911 when Joseph Labadie, a prominent Detroit anarchist, donated his library to the University of Michigan. Although the Collection was originally concerned ...


Art, Architecture and Engineering Library Visual Resources Collection

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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 ...


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

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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 ...


19th Century Actors Photographs

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610 cartes-de-visite studio portraits of entertainers, actors, singers, comedians and theater managers who were involved with or performed on the American stage in the mid- to late 1800s.Many of these ...


The African American Experience in Ohio, 1850-1920

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A selection of manuscript and printed text and images illuminating the history of black Ohio from 1850 to 1920, a story of slavery and freedom, segregation and integration, religion and politics, ...


African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship

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The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship showcases the Library's incomparable African American collections. Displaying more than 240 items, including books, government documents, ...


ALA Archives Digital Collections

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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

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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. ...


Albert “Dutch” Roth Photograph Collection

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The Albert “Dutch” Roth collection contains some of the finest images taken of the Great Smoky Mountains region in the early to mid-twentieth century. Mr. Roth is recognized as one of the most ...


Alvin H. Waite Photographs

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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 ...


The American Context of China's Christian Colleges and Schools

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This project is investigating the interaction between various China Christian educational institutions and American liberal arts colleges between 1900 and 1950. It is funded by the Luce Foundation and ...


American Environmental Photographs, 1891-1936: From the University of Chicago Library

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Approximately 4,500 photographs documenting natural environments, ecologies, and plant communities in the United States at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century. ...


American Indians of the Pacific Northwest: From the University of Washington Libraries

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This digital collection integrates over 2,300 photographs and 7,700 pages of text relating to the American Indians in two cultural areas of the Pacific Northwest, the Northwest Coast and Plateau. ...


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

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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 ...


The American Library Association Archives

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The ALA Archives consists of official records, correspondence, publications, photographs, sound recordings, films, and videotapes. This research material is arranged in five general areas: 1) ...


American Memory from the Library of Congress

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The American Memory Web site continued to receive wide acclaim as a provider of free high quality, educationally valuable American cultural and historical resources. At the end of 2003, more than 8.5 ...


American Originals Part II

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American Originals presents a tiny sampling of records from the National Archives. It represents the larger historical record that documents our national life in all its complexity. While offering ...


American Originals

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"American Originals" is a changing exhibit that has presented the nation's greatest documentary treasures in the Rotunda of the National Archives Building since December 1995. Over the years, the ...


American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920

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A multimedia anthology illustrating the vibrant and diverse forms of popular entertainment, especially vaudeville, that thrived from 1870-1920. Included are 334 English- and Yiddish-language ...


America's First Look into the Camera: Daguerreotype Portraits and Views, 1839-1864

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Selections from the Library's daguerreotype collection that consists of more than 650 photographs dating from 1839 to 1864. Portrait daguerreotypes produced by the Mathew Brady studio make up the ...


Ancient Near East Photographs

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This collection, created by Professor Scott Noegel, documents artifacts and archaeological sites of the ancient Near East. While the majority of the collection depicts structures and sites dating from ...


Andrew D. White Architectural Photographs Collection

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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 ...


Around the World in the 1890s: Photographs from the World's Transportation Commission, 1894-1896

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Images by American photographer William Henry Jackson showing railroads, elephants, camels, horses, sleds and sleighs, sedan chairs, rickshaws, and other types of transportation. Jackson also ...


Asahel Curtis Photo Company Photographs

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The Asahel Curtis Photo Company Photographs of 1,677 items provides one of the most valuable photographic records of Seattle, Washington State, Alaska and the Klondike covering a period from the 1850s ...


Latin Americanist Research Resources Project

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This project is one of the original pilot projects of the AAU/ARL Global Resources Program and USC is one of forty-four ARL Library members, along with ARL, the Mellon Foundation and several non-ARL ...


Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library Digital Images Online

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Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library is Yale University's principal repository for literary papers and for early manuscripts and rare books in the fields of literature, theology, history, and the ...


Making it in Los Angeles

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Angelenos have always been, literally, making it. From the early inhabitants of El Pueblo who made handcrafts to the contemporary resident who may make movies, clothing, or any one of thousands of ...


Specialized Libraries & Archival Collections

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We collect, make available, and preserve primary source and rare materials in Special Collections’s main areas of strength: Los Angeles regional history; American literature; Lion Feuchtwanger and the ...


Berenice Abbott: Changing New York, 1935-1938

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Photographs taken by master American photographer Berenice Abbott as part of a Federal Artists Project documenting changes in New York, 1935-1938. The New York images are the products of one artist's ...


Biomedical Image Library (BIL)

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A central catalog and collection of biomedical images produced in support of basic biomedical research. Biologists, medical scientists, and clinicians will be able to use the Biomedical Image Library ...


The Boston Transit Collection at the Fogg Art Museum

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Comprised of approximately 700 glass plate negatives and prints documenting the construction of the city's subway and elevated railway systems between 1895 and the beginning of World War II, the ...


Women's Literary Salons Archive, 1975-1985: New York, Cerridwen, Paris, Los Angeles

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Ephemera from the Collection of Gloria Orenstein, Gender Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Southern California, made available online to contribute to the debate about feminism in the ...


Botanical and Cultural Images of Eastern Asia, 1907-1927: Ernest Henry Wilson's Photographs

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The Arnold Arboretum’s collection of eastern Asian photographs represents the work of intrepid plant explorers who traveled to exotic lands in the early years of the twentieth century and returned to ...


Boyd and Braas Photographs

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The partnership of William F. Boyd and George H. Braas began in 1890 and ended when Boyd left the partnership to form his own business. This small collection shows the aftermath of the Seattle fire of ...


Bridging the Bay: Bridging the Campus

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A collaborative exhibit documenting the design and politics of Bay Area bridges.


Buckaroos in Paradise: Ranching Culture in Northern Nevada, 1945-1982.

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The Buckaroos in Paradise Collection presents documentation of a Nevada cattle-ranching community, with a focus on the family-run Ninety-Six Ranch. The documentation was largely the work of the ...


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

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The Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) and the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) are among the largest and most heavily used collections in the Prints and Photographs Division of the ...


The Barbara Curtis Adachi Bunraku Collection

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The Barbara C. Adachi Bunraku Collection was donated by Ms. Adachi to Columbia University's C. V. Starr East Asian Library in 2000. This extensive collection documents the significant post-World War ...


The Cabell Family Papers

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UVa possesses tens of thousands of manuscripts relating to the Cabell Family. This online collection consists of over 150 HTML pages as well as hundreds of scanned primary source documents. ...


California Cultures

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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 Gold: Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties

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The WPA California Folk Music Project is a multi-format ethnographic field collection that includes sound recordings, still photographs, drawings, and written documents from a variety of European ...


Calisphere

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Calisphere is the University of California's free public gateway to a world of primary sources. More than 150,000 digitized items — including photographs, documents, newspaper pages, political ...


CalPhotos

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CalPhotos is a collection of 157,061 photos of plants, animals, fossils, people, and landscapes from around the world. A variety of organizations and individuals have contributed photographs to ...


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

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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 ...


Chemistry at the University of Texas: 1883-1940

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Online exhibit offering an overview of the first decades of chemical science at the University of Texas, from the University's founding in 1883, until the engineering component was split off and moved ...


China Christian Colleges and Universities Image Database

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The China Christian Colleges and Universities Image Database provides detailed descriptions of 10,000 photographs and films held in the archives of the United Board for Christian Higher Education in ...


Claire Holt Papers 1930-1969

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The Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections has digitized 1,733 slides from the Claire Holt Collection. Claire Holt, a specialist in Indonesian culture, was a feature writer and art critic for the ...


Clark Kinsey Photographs Collection

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Clark Kinsey's work as a photographer documented a vital aspect of the Pacific Northwest's economic and industrial history. Raised near Snoqualmie, Washington, Clark first practiced photography in the ...


Collect Britain: Putting History in its Place

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Collect Britain presents 90,000 images and sounds from the British Library, chosen to evoke places in the UK and beyond. It includes: over 650 recordings of English regional accents and dialects from ...


Cultural Readings: Colonization & Print in the Americas

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"Cultural Readings" attempts to use the internet to review this complex history. The web site originates from two exhibitions of rare printed and manuscript materials held in Philadelphia, ...


Days of Cal

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This Web site is a multimedia tour through the history of the University of California at Berkeley. The site was created by Steven Morgan Friedman, working with University Archivist Bill Roberts and ...


Degas at Harvard

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A searchable web site, offered as an introduction to the holdings of works of art by Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas in the collections of Harvard University. Although most of the Degas works at Harvard ...


Digital Anthropology Resources for Teaching

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DART is a partnership with the London School of Economics, funded jointly by the NSF (US) and the JISC (UK). Four postdoctoral Fellows, two in each partner Anthropology department, are developing ...


Digital Image Database

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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 ...


The Digital South Asia Library

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A pilot project to improve access through development of the infrastructure for inter-continental electronic document delivery to and from selected South Asia libraries and creation of new electronic ...


When Nixon Met Elvis

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On December 21, 1970, Elvis Presley met with President Richard Nixon in the Oval Office. This exhibit tells the behind-the-scenes story of this remarkable event.


Richard Thomas Walker Duke, Jr. and the Duke Family Papers at the University of Virginia

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UVa Special Collections houses many of the Virginia-related Duke Family papers. This online collection provides historical contextualization of the primary source material. The site, focusing on ...


Early Images of Egypt

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The Frank H. McClung Museum at the University of Tennessee has in its Photographic Archives a special section of 209 Nineteenth - early Twentieth Century prints related to ancient and modern Egypt. ...


EIKON Image Database for Biblical Studies

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The EIKON Image Database for Biblical Studies is a faculty-library initiative that provides digital resources for teaching and research in the field of Biblical studies. Images in the EIKON database ...


Ethnomusicology Musical Instrument Collection

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Over 250 photographs of musical instruments from around the world. The growing collection is housed in the University of Washington Ethnomusicology Division which invites one or more international ...


Eugene Ormandy: A Centennial Celebration

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The exhibition celebrates the centennial of Eugene Ormandy's birth and pays tribute to his extraordinary 64-year career. The materials on display are a part of the Eugene Ormandy Archive, which ...


The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920

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Documents the historical formation and cultural foundations of the movement to conserve and protect America's natural heritage, through books, pamphlets, government documents, manuscripts, prints, ...


Fisher Fine Arts Library Image Collection

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One of two digital image collections now available to users from our digital images project, this collection contains over 100,000 metadata records for slides in our fine arts libraries. About 30,000 ...


Fiske Kimball: Master of the Diverse Arts

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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 ...


Global Performing Arts Database (GloPAD)

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GloPAD is a development of GloPAC, the Global Performing Arts Consortium, a group of organizations and individuals committed to providing interactive, multimedia and multilingual tools to enable ...


Gone with the Wind

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An online exhibit about the making of the film derived from items in the David O. Selznick Collection which includes 5,000 acid free boxes, half million feet of nitrate film, one million feet of ...


Daguerreotypes at Harvard

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Images of more than 3,500 daguerreotypes, the first publicly-announced photographic process, from photograph collections throughout the University used in research and instruction.


Harvard/Radcliffe Online Historical Reference Shelf

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Electronic access to frequently consulted sources on the history of Harvard and Radcliffe including annual reports, narrative histories, writings, statistics, founding documents, Massachusetts ...


The Hedda Morrison Photographs of China, 1933-1946

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More than 5,000 photographs from the Harvard-Yenching Library, Harvard College Library taken by Hedda Hammer Morrison (1908-1991) during her residence in Beijing from 1933 to 1946. Her photographs ...


Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art: Insight Images

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Over 17,000 images of works of art contained within the Johnson Museum of Art are currently available for viewing using Luna Imaging's Insight® software which allows for several display and database ...


Historical Archaeology in Loudoun Valley and Harpers Ferry

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Archaeological and historical research concerning 18th and 19th century sites in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, and nearby Loudoun Valley, Virginia, as well as the broader region of the upper Potomac ...


Historical New Haven Digital Collection

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The Historical New Haven Digital Collection, a teaching tool developed over the past two years, now contains over 1,500 images, 800 interactive maps and 90 statistical documents relating to the city ...


History of the American West, 1860-1920: Photographs from the Collection of the Denver Public Library

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Over 30,000 photographs, drawn from the holdings of the Western History and Genealogy Department at Denver Public Library, illuminate many aspects of the history of the American West. Most of the ...


The Hoagy Carmichael Collection, 1899-1981

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Digitized artifacts pertaining to the life and career of master songwriter Hoagland "Hoagy" Carmichael (1899-1981), and including music scores, lyric sheets, photographs, correspondences, scrapbooks, ...


Holocaust Denial on Trial

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In 2000 British Holocaust denier David Irving sued Emory University professor Deborah Lipstadt and her British publisher, Penguin Books, for libel. Their London trial made headlines around the world. ...


Icelandic and Faroese Photographs of Frederick W. W. Howell

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The photographs of Iceland and the Faeroes by Frederick W.W. Howell, along with photographs of Iceland by Henry A. Perkins and Magnús Ólafsson, comprise an important visual record of Icelandic and ...


UC Image Service Collections

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The CDL’s Image Services project provides access to more than 240,000 digital images from licensed and freely-available collections, including Museums and the Online Archive of California, Art Museum ...


Images of African Americans from the 19th Century

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Selections from the Photographs and Prints Division of the Schomburg Center of the New York Public Library - a division devoted to collecting and preserving images documenting the life and history of ...


Images Online

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Images Online gives users access to around 15,000 images from the British Library's collections; new images are being added on a weekly basis. It offers search, order and purchase facilities. Images ...


The International Dunhuang Project (IDP)

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Over 100,000 manuscripts, artefacts, paintings and textiles, discovered over the last century at archaeological sites on the Eastern Silk Road (Chinese Central Asia), are possibly the single most ...


Internet Mission Photography Archive

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The Internet Mission Photography Archive offers historical images from Protestant and Catholic missionary collections in Britain, Norway, Germany, and the United States. The photographs, which range ...


The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire Digital Collection

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On April 18, 1906, San Francisco was wrecked by a powerful earthquake and for the next few days was consumed by fires that destroyed a large portion of the city. The earthquake's epicenter was located ...


African American Photographs Assembled for 1900 Paris Exhibition

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The Paris Exposition of 1900 included a display devoted to the history and "present conditions" of African Americans. W.E.B. Du Bois and special agent Thomas J. Calloway spearheaded the planning, ...


Albany Library: Historical Photograph Collection

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The Albany Library Historical Photograph Collection includes images related to the history of Albany, from the late 1800s to 2001. Notable aspects of the collection includes images of homes and ...


America from the Great Depression to World War II: Color Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1939-1945

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The photographs of the Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection form an extensive pictorial record of American life between 1935 and 1944. This U.S. government ...


Anaheim Public Library: Photograph Collection on Anaheim Local History

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Anaheim Public Library's photograph collection includes images of historical interest of the City of Anaheim and other areas of Orange County from the 1860s to 2002. Images document public, ...


Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar

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In 1943, Ansel Adams (1902-1984), America's best-known photographer, documented the Manzanar War Relocation Center in California and the Japanese Americans interned there during World War II. In " ...


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

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The collection of more than 45,000 items (negatives, transparencies and prints) came to the Library of Congress in the early 1980s. The online collection provides access to 29,000 negatives and color ...


Brady-Handy Collection

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In 1954 the Library of Congress purchased from Alice H. Cox and Mary H. Evans, the daughters of Levin C. Handy approximately 10,000 original, duplicate, and copy negatives. The L.C. Handy Studio had ...


Cartoon Prints, American

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This assemblage of more than 500 prints made in America during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries encompasses several forms of political art. Most of the prints are from the division's PC/US ...


Charles W. Cushman Photograph Collection

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Charles Weever Cushman, amateur photographer and Indiana University alumnus, bequeathed approximately 14,500 Kodachrome color slides to his alma mater. The photographs in this collection bridge a ...


Civil War Photographs

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Civil War Photographs provides online access to about 7,000 different images made during the American Civil War (1861-1865) and in its immediate aftermath. The images were scanned from the Prints and ...


Edward S. Curtis Collection

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The Edward S. Curtis Collection offers a unique glimpse into Curtis's work with indigenous cultures. The more than 2,400 silver-gelatin photographic prints were acquired by the Library of Congress ...


Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection

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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 ...


George Grantham Bain Collection

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The George Grantham Bain Collection represents the photographic files of one of America's earliest news picture agencies. The collection richly documents sports events, theater, celebrities, crime, ...


Immigration to the United States (1789-1930)

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Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930, is a web-based collection of selected historical materials from Harvard's libraries, archives, and museums that documents voluntary immigration to the US ...


John C. H. Grabill Collection

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The one hundred and eighty-eight photographs sent by John C.H. Grabill to the Library of Congress for copyright protection between 1887 and 1892 are thought to be the largest surviving collection of ...


Lawrence & Houseworth Collection

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In 1867 the Library of Congress acquired a set of more than 900 albumen silver half stereographs published by Lawrence and Houseworth of San Francisco. The acquisition also included the third edition ...


Lomax Collection of Photographs Depicting Folk Musicians

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Roughly 400 snapshot photographs made in the course of sound recording expeditions carried out by John Avery Lomax, Alan Lomax, and Ruby Terrill Lomax, between 1934 and ca. 1950 for the Archive of ...


National Child Labor Committee Collection

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Working as an investigative photographer for the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC), Lewis Hine (1874-1940) documented working and living conditions of children in the United States between 1908 ...


National Photo Company Collection

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The National Photo Company Collection documents virtually all aspects of Washington, D.C. life. During the administrations of Presidents Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover, the National Photo ...


Panoramic Photographs: Taking the Long View, 1851-1991

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The Panoramic Photograph Collection contains approximately four thousand images featuring American cityscapes, landscapes, and group portraits. These panoramas offer an overview of the nation, its ...


Parallel Histories: Spain, the United States, and the American Frontier

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Parallel Histories: Spain, the United States, and the American Frontier is a bilingual, multi-format English-Spanish digital library site that explores the interactions between Spain and the United ...


San Bernardino Public Library: Historical Treasures of San Bernardino

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San Bernardino Public Library's photograph collection includes images of family life, work life, daily activities in the community that would be of historical interest to the people of San Bernardino ...


San Francisco Performing Arts Library & Museum: Chinese Theater Images in California

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The San Francisco Performing Arts Library & Museum's collection of images related to Chinese Theater in California ranges from 1883-2004, although the majority of the photographs document performers ...


Santa Ana Public Library: Santa Ana History Room Photograph Collection

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The Santa Ana History Room photograph collection includes images of historical interest of the city of Santa Ana and other areas of Orange County from the late 1800's to 2002. The images chronicle a ...


Southern Spaces

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Using ideas of place and space as organizing principles, Southern Spaces is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal that employs emerging technologies to produce innovative scholarship about the ...


Stereograph Cards

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Stereographs consist of two nearly identical photographs or photomechanical prints, paired to produce the illusion of a single three-dimensional image, usually when viewed through a stereoscope. The ...


Transportation History Collection: Railroads

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The Transportation History Collection in the Special Collections Library of the University of Michigan contains a unique body of printed and visual materials on transportation technology and travel. ...


UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library: De la Guerra Family Photographs

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Mainly studio portraits of members of the de la Guerra family, descendants of Don José Antonio Julian de la Guerra y Noriega. Includes views of the family home in Santa Barbara, member of the family ...


UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library: Land Case Maps Collection

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The Land Case maps collection comprises maps found in private land claim cases in the U.S. Northern and Southern District Courts. The maps were created to establish ownership of the land represented. ...


UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, West Coast Region Photographs, ca. 1946-1970

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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Region 1 photograph collection consists of photographs from records of the NAACP Region 1 Office, and includes material from NAACP ...


UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library: Photograph Collection of Family Members and Descendents of General M.G. Vallejo

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The collection, received from a member of the Emparan family, includes portraits (some inscribed) of General Mariano G. Vallejo, his wife, their children, Salvador Vallejo, Napoleon Vallejo, Fannie ...


UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library: San Francisco News-Call Bulletin Newspaper Photograph Archive

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The Bancroft Library's holdings of The San Francisco News-Call Bulletin newspaper photograph archive consist almost entirely of original photographic negatives of San Francisco Bay Area news events ...


UC Berkeley, Environmental Design Archives: St. Francis Wood Virtual Collection

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The St. Francis Wood Virtual collection contains digital images of drawings, photographs, correspondence and other historical documents relating to the architecture and landscape architecture of the ...


UC Berkeley, Environmental Design Archives: William W. Wurster/Wurster, Bernardi & Emmons Collection, 1922-1974

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Records of the architectural firm Wurster, Bernardi, and Emmons (WBE) span the years 1922-1974, and include the files of its parent firm, William W. Wurster (Wurster). The collection is organized into ...


UC Berkeley, Water Resources Center Archives: Joseph Barlow Lippincott Papers, 1882-1942

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This is an annotated listing of reports, papers and photographs in the J.B. Lippincott collection, Water Resources Center Archives, University of California, Berkeley. The collection is arranged here ...


UC Davis, Special Collections: K.W. (Kyung Won) Lee Papers, 1972-1998

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These papers cover K. W. Lee's professional life from 1977 to 1983. They are limited to his two main activities during those years: the Chol Soo Lee case and the founding of the Koreatown newspaper. ...


UC Irvine, Special Collections and Archives: Anne Frank Photographs

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The collection is comprised of photographs of businesses and cultural festivals within Southeast Asian American communities. The photographs were taken by Anne Frank, librarian of the Southeast Asian ...


UC Irvine, Special Collections and Archives: Brigitte Marshall Collection on Southeast Asian Refugees

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This collection consists of printed materials, audio and videocassettes, and photographs taken by Brigitte Marshall, who worked as a volunteer in refugee camps in Thailand and as an English-language ...


UC Irvine, Special Collections and Archives: Collection on Refugee Forums

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This collection consists of the administrative files of the Refugee Forum of Orange County (RFOC), and the California State Refugee Forum (CSRF), and other documents relating to these organizations. ...


UC Irvine, Special Collections and Archives: Fort Chaffee Photographs

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This collection is comprised of black and white photographs and negatives taken of Vietnamese and Cambodian refugees living at Fort Chaffee, a military base in Arkansas. The photographs document the ...


UC Irvine, Special Collections and Archives: Gayle Morrison Files on Southeast Asian Refugees

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This collection contains materials acquired by Gayle Morrison during the time she served with the Lao Family Community, Inc., and the Governor's Task Force regarding issues of Southeast Asian refugees ...


UC Irvine, Special Collections and Archives: Linda Vo Collection on the Southeast Asian American Experience Archive Project

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The collection is comprised of student projects from the Southeast Asian American Experience class (course number 151H) taught by Linda Vo. The class was first offered in 2003 within the Asian ...


UC Irvine, Special Collections and Archives: Ly Kien Truc Photographs of the Hi-Tek Demonstrations

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This collection consists of 98 color photographic prints taken by Ly Kien Truc, publisher of Van Hoa, a bi-weekly Vietnamese magazine. The photographs are of the 1999 demonstrations over the posting ...


UC Irvine, Special Collections and Archives: Mitchell I. Bonner Photographs and Ephemera

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This collection comprises approximately 3,000 photographs and slides taken by Mitchell Bonner between 1975 and 2001, as well as printed ephemera collected by him. The images document Iu Mien, Lao, ...


UC Irvine, Special Collections and Archives: Mitsuye Yamada Papers

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The Mitsuye Yamada Papers are comprised of correspondence, clippings, memoranda, printed resource materials, videotapes and audiotapes that reflect her career as a poet and political activist. Of ...


UC Irvine, Special Collections and Archives: Orange County Californio Families Portrait Photograph Album

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This collection comprises an album of 66 studio photographs, carte de visites, and tintypes of early and prominent Californio family members. The families are predominantly from the Orange County area ...


UC Irvine, Special Collections and Archives: Orange County Manuscript Maps

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Four manuscript survey maps and one plat map depicting areas of Orange County and attributed to the noted surveyor and judge Richard Egan. One map is dated 1878 and 1879 by Egan. The other maps are ...


UC Irvine, Special Collections and Archives: Orange County Rancho Title Abstracts

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This collection comprises 3 bound, handwritten title abstracts, prepared by the Abstract and Title Insurance Company of Los Angeles, containing transcriptions of documents, dating back as early as ...


UC Irvine, Special Collections and Archives: Paul Tran Files on Southeast Asian Refugees

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This collection contains correspondence, audiovisual materials, publications of organizations, artifacts, artwork, and other documents related to Southeast Asian refugees. Materials from the refugee ...


UC Irvine, Special Collections and Archives: Pleasants Family Papers

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This collection comprises the personal papers of J.E. Pleasants and his first and second wives, Mary Refugio Carpenter Pleasants and Adelina Pleasants, and includes diaries, correspondence, ...


UC Los Angeles, Special Collections, Young Research Library: Edward Ross Roybal Papers

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Edward Ross Roybal (1916- ) was a public health educator for the California Tuberculosis Association (1942-44), the director of health education for the Los Angeles County Tuberculosis and Health ...


UC Los Angeles, Special Collections, Young Research Library: Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee Records

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The Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee (formerly the Citizen's Committee for the Defense of Mexican American Youth) formed in 1942 in reaction to the indictment of 22 young men for murder. 12 defendants ...


UC Los Angeles, Special Collections, Young Research Library: Brian Urquhart Collection on Ralph J. Bunche

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Collection consists of papers of, about, and collected by Ralph J. Bunche and later used by his colleague and biographer, Brian Urquhart. Includes manuscripts, his notebooks, project files, audiotape ...


UC Los Angeles, Special Collections, Young Research Library: Ralph J. Bunche Papers

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Collection consists of correspondence, speeches, manuscripts, articles, publications, and photographs related to the life and career of Ralph J. Bunche. Includes materials related to his teaching and ...


UC Los Angeles, Special Collections, Young Research Library: Estelle Ishigo Papers

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The Estelle Ishigo Papers are a part of the Japanese American Research Project (JARP) Collection (Collection 2010). JARP is considered one of the finest collections of primary sources in the United ...


UC Los Angeles, Special Collections, Young Research Library: Grace M. Thomas Collection on Ralph J. Bunche

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Collection consists of newspaper clippings relating to the career and death of Dr. Ralph J. Bunche and a black and white photographic print of the members of his junior high school class, including ...


UC Los Angeles, Special Collections, Young Research Library: Manzanar War Relocation Center Records

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The Manzanar War Relocation Center was located in the Owens Valley in Central California. The United States Army initially established the camp as the Owens Valley Reception Center under the ...


UC Los Angeles, Special Collections, Young Research Library: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archive

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Collection consists of photonegatives documenting events and people in Southern California and photographic prints documenting events and people in Southern California, the U. S., and the world. The ...


UC Los Angeles, Special Collections, Young Research Library: Alice Greenfield McGrath Papers

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Collection consists of correspondence, photographs, publications, and printed material related to the activities and interests of Alice Greenfield McGrath, including Mexican American causes in Los ...


UC Los Angeles, University Archives: Biographical Files (Reference Collection)

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Biographical information and photographs of faculty and staff affiliated with: the Los Angeles State Normal School (LASNS), 1881-1919; the University of California, Southern Branch, 1919-1926; the ...


UC Santa Barbara, California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives: Self-Help Graphics Archives

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The Self-Help Graphics & Art, Inc. Collection (SHGA) consists of eight series distributed among fifty-seven archival boxes that occupy twenty-seven linear feet of space. These boxes hold information ...


UC Santa Barbara, California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives: Centro Cultural de la Raza Archives - Catalog of Slides

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The Centro Cultural de la Raza archives represents activities at and involving CCLR and its members between 1971 and 1999. The collection consists of 8 series contained in 156 archival boxes occupying ...


UC Santa Barbara, California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives: Royal Chicano Air Force Archives

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The Royal Chicano Air Force Archives consists of eight series distributed among 43 archival boxes that occupy approximately 20 linear feet of space. In addition, there are 550 prints housed in 22 ...


UC Santa Barbara, California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives: Lucero, Linda Collection of La Raza Graphics/La Raza Silkscreen Center

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Linda Lucero Collection on La Raza Silkscreen Center/La Raza Graphics [1971-1985]. As early as 1970, La Raza Silkscreen/La Raza Graphics Center was producing silkscreen prints by Chicano and Latino ...


UC Santa Barbara, California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives: Prigoff, James Collection

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The James Prigoff slide collection is an important visual resource that helps document the Chicano visual arts movement in California, and in particular, the San Diego and Tijuana area. The collection ...


UC Santa Barbara, California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives: Galeria de la Raza Archives - Catalog of Slides

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The Galería de la Raza Collection (GDLR) consists of seven series distributed among 68 archival boxes that occupy about 37.5 linear feet of space. Also, there are 304 silkscreen prints, housed in flat ...


Washington As It Was: Photographs by Theodor Horydczak, 1923-1959

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Spanning from the mid 1920s through the 1950s, the Theodor Horydczak collection (about 14,350 photographs online) documents the architecture and social life of the Washington metropolitan area in the ...


Women Working, 1800-1930

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Women Working, 1800-1930 explores women's roles in the US economy between 1800 and the Great Depression and includes documentation of working conditions, conditions in the home, costs of living, ...


World War I Posters

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The World War I posters include posters made in America and in France between 1914 and 1920 to advertise war efforts and issues.


Wright Brothers Negatives

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Among the materials the Wright Brothers estate gave the Library of Congress in 1948 were 300 glass plate negatives and two nitrate negatives, most taken by the Wright brothers themselves between 1897 ...


JARDA

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JARDA is a digital "thematic collection" within the CDL's OAC documenting the experience of Japanese Americans in World War II internment camps. Curators, archivists, and librarians from ten ...


Japanese Text Initiative

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The University of Virginia Library Electronic Text Center and the University of Pittsburgh East Asian Library sponsor the Japanese Text Initiative, a collaborative effort to make texts of classical ...


James B. Reston Papers

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James B. Reston (1909-95) papers include correspondence, publications, manuscripts, memoranda, reports, speeches, interview transcripts, and photographs relating to Reston's career with the Associated ...


The Jack London Online Collection

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Materials that reflect on the life and influence of one of turn-of-the-century America's most enduring authors.


John H. White: Portrait of Black Chicago

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From June through October 1973 and briefly during the spring of 1974, John H. White, a 28-year-old photographer with the Chicago Daily News, worked for the federal government photographing Chicago, ...


John W. Mauchly and the Development of the ENIAC Computer

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Online exhibition that portrays a history of the emergence of modern computing as seen through the eyes of one of its two principal inventors, John W. Mauchly (1907-1980), who worked at the Moore ...


The Joseph Urban Stage Design Models & Documents Stabilization & Access Project

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The Joseph Urban Stage Design Models and Documents stabilization and access project, funded by a $207,289 from NEH will preserve 240 three-dimensional stage models created by Joseph Urban for New York ...


From Pi Beta Phi to Arrowmont

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In 1912, the Pi Beta Phi Fraternity for Women founded the Pi Beta Phi Settlement School in Gatlinburg, Tennessee as a service project to commemorate its 50th anniversary. Thanks to a grant from the ...


The First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820

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This was a joint project between the University of Chicago Library and the Filson Historical Society of Louisville, Kentucky, to digitize 745 rare books, pamphlets, newspapers, maps, prints, and ...


The Leonard Bernstein Collection, ca. 1920-1989

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The composer, conductor, writer, and teacher Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) was one of 20th-century America's most important musical figures. The Leonard Bernstein Collection is one of the largest and ...


Leopold Stokowski: Making Music Matter

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Exhibition about Leopold Stokowski from the collections in the Annenberg Rare Book & Manuscript Library.


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

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Presents photographs taken by Lewis Wickes Hine from March 1930 to May 1931, which depict the construction of the Empire State Building in New York City. Notes that the photographs are part of the ...


Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project

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Presents materials from Lincoln's Illinois years (1830-1861), supplemented by resources from Illinois' early years of statehood (1818-1829). Thus Lincoln/Net provides a record of Lincoln's career, but ...


Ling Long Women's Magazine, Shanghai 1931 to 1937

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Ling long women's magazine, published in Shanghai from 1931 to 1937, was popular during a time of dramatic material, social, and political change in China. Today, the magazine offers researchers a ...


Louis Agassiz Fuertes and the Harriman Alaska Expedition

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Presents selections from a journal that American illustrator Louis Agassiz Fuertes (1874-1927) kept during an expedition along the Alaskan coast funded by American financier Edward Henry Harriman ( ...


The Manuscripts and Archives Digital Images Database (MADID)

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The Manuscripts and Archives Digital Images Database (MADID) contains digital reproductions of photographs, posters, drawings, text documents, and other images taken from the research collections of ...


Marian Anderson: A Life in Song

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This exhibition celebrates the artistic development and musical career of Marian Anderson. Renowned throughout the world for her extraordinary contralto voice, she is also remembered for her dignity ...


Mark Twain in His Times

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This interpretive archive, drawn largely from the resources of the Barrett Collection, focuses on how "Mark Twain" and his works were created and defined, marketed and performed, reviewed and ...


The Martyred President: Sermons Given on the Occasion of the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

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A browseable and searchable database of 57 sermons published on the occasion of Abraham Lincoln's assassination. The sermons derive from various geographical regions and represent a variety of ...


Medical Historical Library Exhibits

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The Medical Historical Library has exhibits on the history of the medical school, hospital, and the schools of nursing and public health, and New Haven's Hospitals. In addition, 1600 prints and ...


Meeting of Frontiers

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Multimedia English-Russian digital library that tells the story of the American exploration and settlement of the West, the parallel exploration and settlement of Siberia and the Russian Far East, and ...


Modern Photographers Collection

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A selection of images from the work of nationally and internationally renowned local photographers Art Hupy, Ernest Kassowitz, Kyo Koike, Frank Kunishige, Mary Randlett and others. These photographers ...


Motley Collection of Theatre & Costume Design

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The Motley Collection of Theatre and Costume Design is a valuable source of documentation on the history of theatre and is housed in the Rare Book and Special Collections Library. It is a rare ...


Mount St. Helens Post-Eruption Chemistry Database

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The collection provides a look at both the human and the scientific sides of studying the eruption of a volcano. The slides were taken by Professor William Zoller, Professor of Chemistry, University ...


Mountjoy Prison Portraits of Irish Independence: Photograph Albums in the Thomas A. Larcom Collection

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150 salt and albumen print photographs in two albums, of prisoners confined in Mountjoy Prison, Dublin, in August 1857 and November 1866.


MouseSite

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MouseSite is a resource for exploring the history of human computer interaction beginning with the pioneering work of Douglas Engelbart and his colleagues at Stanford Research Institute in the 1960s.


Pictorial & Graphics Collections

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The photographs and graphics section encompasses a variety of research materials, including photographs, architectural plans, postcards, historical maps, artwork and ephemera, most of which are ...


MESL at Cornell University

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A collection of images sourced from participating institutions and available to project members. The two-year project explored the legal, technical, and practical issues involved in using digital ...


A New Deal for the Arts

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During the depths of the Great Depression of the 1930s and into the early years of World War II, the Federal government supported the arts in unprecedented ways. For 11 years, between 1933 and 1943, ...


The New Deal Stage: Selections from the Federal Theatre Project, 1935-1939

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This online presentation includes over 13,000 images of items selected from the Federal Theatre Project Collection at the Library of Congress. Featured here are stage and costume designs, still ...


Human Ecology Historical Photographs

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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 ...


The Northern Great Plains, 1880-1920: Photographs from the Fred Hultstrand and F.A. Pazandak Photograph Collections

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Presents photographs from the Fred Hultstrand and F. A. Pazandak photograph collections, provided by the U.S. Library of Congress. Contains photographs of rural and small town life at the turn of the ...


Quilts and Quiltmaking in America, 1978-1996

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Quilts and Quiltmaking in America showcases materials from two American Folklife Center collections, the Blue Ridge Parkway Folklife Project Collection (1978) and the "All-American Quilt Contest" ...


Omaha Indian Music

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Omaha Indian Music features traditional Omaha music from the 1890s and 1980s. The multiformat ethnographic field collection contains 44 wax cylinder recordings collected by Francis La Flesche and ...


Online Archive of California (OAC)

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Federates collections of digital materials such as manuscripts, photographs, and art held in the libraries, museums, and archives across California through a single, searchable database.


Panoramic Photographs from the National Archives

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This exhibit of panoramic photographs is but a small sample of the wide variety of panoramic images in NARA's still picture holdings located at the National Archives Building at College Park, Maryland ...


A People at War

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This exhibit highlights the contributions of the thousands of Americans, both military and civilian, who served their country during World War II. Themes include Prelude to War, New Roles, Women Who ...


Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection

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The Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection is an extensive compilation of correspondence, notes, reports, printed materials, photographs, negatives, and artifacts spanning a period of ...


Photochrom Prints

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Late 19th and early 20th century travel views primarily of Eastern and Central European destinations (including the former Austro-Hungarian Empire). Includes cities and towns in Austria, Belgium, ...


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

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Ready reference aid of 156 frequently requested formal and informal including at least one likeness of each of the forty-one presidents and most of the first ladies. Popular subjects, such as images ...


Prints & Photographs Online Catalog

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Unique in their scope and richness, the prints and photographs collections today number more than 13.7 million images. These include photographs, fine and popular prints and drawings, posters, and ...


The Rhone Family of Fayette Co., Texas

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Exhibition based on the Rhone Family Papers. The Papers document aspects of the lives of members of a central Texas black family from 1886 to 1971. Calvin Lindley Rhone (1867-1921) and his wife Lucia ...


Horace Howard Furness Collection

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Digital surrogates for objects selected from the Furness Memorial (Shakespeare) Library, University of Pennsylvania, which includes both texts and images, that illuminate the theater, literature, and ...


Selected Civil War Photographs

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Contains 1,118 black and white photographs of the Civil War selected from the collections of the Library of Congress. The three main areas of focus are: 1) the main eastern theater, 2) the Federal ...


The September 11 Digital Archive: Saving the Histories of September 11, 2001

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Permanent digital archive of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks in New York, Virginia and Pennsylvania. Contains first hand accounts, emails, weblogs, audio and moving images, documents, and interviews. Also ...


Siberian Digital Photo Collection

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The Center for Slavic and East European Studies received a gift of these photographs from Vera and Robert Eby. The photos were donated to the Center in the name of their son, James Peter Eby, who is ...


Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature On-Line

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Selected audio recordings and text files of oral literature made by Professor Milman Parry of the Department of the Classics at Harvard University in 1933-35 in Yugoslavia and the epic texts collected ...


South Asia at Chicago: Fifty Years of Scholarship

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Online exhibition based on materials drawn from the South Asia collections at the University of Chicago Library and including sections on the following themes: the institutional history of South Asian ...


The South Texas Border, 1900-1920: Photographs from the Robert Runyon Collection

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A collection of 8,241 items documenting the Lower Rio Grande valley during the early 1900s. It includes glass negatives, lantern slides, nitrate negatives, prints, and postcards, representing the life ...


Southern Changes Online: The Journal of the Southern Regional Council, 1978-2003

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Searchable database of Southern Changes, the quarterly journal of the Southern Regional Council. It is the major house organ of the SRC, a leading force in the Civil Rights Movement. Coverage begins ...


Cartulaire du St. Aubin

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Online version of the 12th century cartulary (769-1175), Cartulaire du St. Aubin, which was published in 1903 by A. Picard, Paris.


Stanford Historical Photograph Collection

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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 ...


Tennessee Documentary History, 1796-1850

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The "Tennessee Documentary History, 1796-1850," on-line project will contain 2,000 documents and images relating to the history of antebellum Tennessee. With financial support from the Institute of ...


Texas, Texans, and the Alamo

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The Center's Barker Texas History Collection contains books, manuscript collections, maps, newspapers, and other materials that document the historical development of Texas from Spanish colonization ...


Theatre Productions and Players, 1900-1957: Vandamm Studio Photographs

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The thousands of items in this digital presentation are a sampling of an archive of more than 75,000 images of theatrical personalities and productions. Images in the current presentation represent ...


Performing Arts in America 1875-1923

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Performing Arts in America 1875 -1923, a web site of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, captures a glimpse of this world. With visual and audio images drawn from the extensive ...


The Triangle Factory Fire

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This web exhibit presents original documents and secondary sources on the Triangle Fire, held by the Cornell University Library. They are housed in the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation ...


Fungal Herbarium

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UT Scientists have been gathering, studying, and describing a collection of over 60,000 specimens in the UT Fungal Herbarium. This collection is especially strong in specimens from the Great Smoky ...


U.S. Forest Service Southern Research Station Photograph Collection (1897-1952)

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In collaboration with the Forest History Society and The Biltmore Company, the library has digitized primary research materials, including photographs, diaries, correspondence, artifacts, and printed ...


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

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Offers access to more than 2,200 photographs of the Gary Works steel mill and the corporate town of Gary Indiana. Resources provided by the Indiana University Digital Library Program and the Calument ...


U.S. Trademark History Timeline

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


Lorado Taft Papers, 1857-1953

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Papers of Lorado Taft, B.L. 1879, M.L. 1880 (1860-1936), including diaries (1876-78), course notes and themes (1875-79), general correspondence (1881-1936), family correspondence (1882-1900, 1918-30 ...


Image Bank

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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 ...


Western Waters Digital Library

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The Western Waters Digital Library (WWDL) is dedicated to providing access to water-related resources about the Trans-Mississippi region of North America. The currently available resources include ...


The WTO History Project

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The protests against the World Trade Organization that rocked Seattle, Washington in late 1999 were an incredibly significant moment in the history of popular protests. Not only did the protestors ...


The View from Here

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Digitization of materials in a variety of formats - audio, video, text and images - documenting the local manifestation of events or movements of national importance (the Vietnam War, Civil Rights, ...


Viewing Suriname: A Collaborative Collection

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This site presents a growing collection of media resources related to the natural and cultural landscapes of Suriname. Images are presented as slides, panoramas and maps. Links to other Surinam ...


The Walt Whitman Archive

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The Walt Whitman Archive is an electronic research and teaching tool that sets out to make Whitman's vast work, for the first time, easily and conveniently accessible to scholars, students, and ...


Vascular Plant Herbarium

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The flora digitization project is an initiative to add plant images to the Herbarium’s existing distribution maps of the vascular plants of Tennessee. The project began with a grant from The ...


WPA/TVA Images

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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 ...


Western Americana Photographs Collection

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Consists of photographs of Indians of the Americas and views of the American West, including landscapes, cityscapes, and mining, railroad, and agricultural operations. Also included are views of towns ...


South Central China and Tibet: The Hotspot of Diversity

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For over a century, Arboretum staff have explored and documented the natural and cultural resources of Asia. In 1924, a three-year expedition departed for one of the most unusual areas on earth—the ...


Korean American Digital Archive

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Funded through a California State Library LSTA grant, the archive includes over 13,000 document images, over 1,900 photographs, and about 180 sound files relating to the "first wave" Korean-American ...


Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive

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This collection of 222 photographs from the Hearst Collection of the Los Angeles Examiner in the USC Regional History Collection, documents the relocation of Japanese Americans in California during ...


Greene & Greene Digital Archive

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


Auto Club Digital Archive

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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 Historical Society Digital Archive

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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 ...


Charlotta Bass / California Eagle Digital Archive

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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 ...


Chinese Historical Society Digital Archive

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Includes 1,040 color images of artifacts excavated from the site of the original Los Angeles Chinatown; an additional 150 images document artifacts from the site of a Chinese laundry in Santa Barbara ...


Dunbar Economic Development Digital Archive

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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 ...


LA Examiner Digital Archive

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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

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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. ...


The Last Jews of Libya

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Offers information on the last Jews of Libya, provided by Vivienne Roumani-Denn. Discusses the history of Libya and the Jewish community of Libya. Contains testimonies of Libyan Jews.


Veterans History Project

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With Public Law 106-380, signed by President Bill Clinton in October 2000, Congress directed the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress to develop and coordinate a program to collect and ...


Voices from the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection, 1940-1941

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Presents "Voices from the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection," an ethnographic field collection that documented the everyday life of residents of the Farm ...


"Votes for Women" Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920

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Selection of 38 pictures includes portraits of many individuals who have been frequently requested from the holdings of the Prints and Photographs Division and the Manuscript Division. Also featured ...


The William C. Brumfield Photograph Collection

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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 ...


William P. Gottlieb Photographs from the Golden Age of Jazz

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The Music Division at the U.S. Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., owns the William P. Gottlieb Collection, which comprises over 1,600 photographs of celebrated jazz artists and documents about ...


J. Willis Sayre Collection

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The collection consists of a selection of 9,856 images from more than 24,000 photographs of theatrical and vaudeville performers, musicians, and entertainers who played in Seattle between about 1900 ...


Oliver S. Van Olinda Photographs

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A collection of 420 photographs depicting life on Vashon Island, Whidbey Island, Seattle and other communities of Washington State's Puget Sound from the 1880s to the 1930s. This collection provides a ...


The Pacific Northwest Olympic Peninsula Community Museum

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Northwestern Olympic Peninsula communities and The University of Washington worked together to create this Web-based museum to showcase aspects of the rich history and culture of the region. This ...


Portraits Database

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An ongoing digital collection of photographs of individuals well known not only in the Pacific Northwest, but also nationally. Drawn from the Manuscripts, Special Collections, University Archives ...


Seattle Water and Power Supply Collection

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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 ...


WTO Seattle Collection

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The protests depicted in this collection took place between November 29, 1999 and December 3, 1999, when the World Trade Organization (WTO) held its ministerial meeting in Seattle. This collection of ...


Historic Aerial Photo Imagebase

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Digital preservation of and access to aerial photography of Illinois was the focus of a joint pilot project of the University's Map and Geography Library, Digital Imaging and Media Technology ...


King County Snapshots

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King County Snapshots presents King County, Washington, through 12,000 historical images carefully chosen from the twelve organizations' collections. These cataloged 19th and 20th century images ...


Plants Toxic to Animals

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The Veterinary Medicine Library has created a collection of digitized images of poisonous plants. Plants are listed both by common and scientific names. Support for this project was provided by Dr. ...


Guide to the Pennsylvania Bridges Collection, 1884-1915

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The collection contains photographs of railroad bridges in Pennsylvania, mostly in the Pittsburgh area, 1891-1915. Photographs include technical drawings, depicting structural details and complete ...


France in America

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Catt Collection Suffrage Photographs

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Carrie Lane Chapman Catt (1859-1947) was an internationally recognized suffragist, feminist and political activist. The Catt photograph collection consists of over 800 photographs of suffrage leaders ...


Ethnic Wedding Photographs

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The Katrina Thomas Ethnic Wedding Photograph Collection consists of over 800 photographs of ethnic weddings in the United States. From 1965-2001, freelance photographer Katrina Thomas undertook the ...


History of Haverford College

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Haverford College has been collecting materials relating to its history since 1831, two years before it formally opened. The College Archives includes records produced by offices, committees, and ...


Peace Collection Ephemera

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This collection of material constitutes primarily oversize items too large to be stored with the manuscript collections from which they came. Included are documents, graphics, newspaper advertisements ...


Stamp/Sticker/Seal/Envelope Collection

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The stamp, sticker, seal and envelope collection currently contains over 1,400 items and continues to expand. These items have been donated over many years to the Peace Collection (SCPC) by individual ...


Theater Photography from the Theresa Helburn Collection

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This image database includes descriptions and low-resolution copies of over 1100 production and publicity photographs relating to the Theatre Guild. Each photograph has been indexed by photographer ...


Truman-Underhill Photograph Collection

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The collection includes the six albums displayed below and three folders, one containing 24 hollow-cut bust silhouettes (created 1800-1850?), and two folders of miscellaneous photographs. 16 ...


Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Staff and Officers

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The WILPF was founded in 1915, with Jane Addams as one of its first leaders. An attempt was made in the 1990s to provide a complete listing of all the organization's staff and officers from its ...


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

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An electronic exhibit, co-curated by the University of Virginia's Digital Image Center, featuring images of Jefferson's Rotunda, the Stanford White Rotunda and the modern Rotunda.


Cleveland Memory Project

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Here serious researchers and casual browsers will find thousands of historical photographs, as well as a growing collection of ebooks documenting the history of greater Cleveland and the Western ...


Humphrey Family Photographs of Euclid Beach Park

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A Cleveland icon for more than 70 years,Euclid Beach Park can trace its origins to the golden age of amusement parks. Multitudes of similar venues appeared near the nation’s cities and along rail ...


Cleveland Along the Nickel Plate Road® During the 1920’s

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In 1922 the New York, Chicago, & St. Louis Railway (Nickel Plate Railway or NKP) took a series of photographs along its right-of-way and adjacent neighborhoods from Euclid through the west side of ...


Cleveland Press Shakespeare Photographs

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The site includes approximately 400 images from publicity photographs featuring regional production companies --Cleveland's Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival, the Stratford Festival in Ontario, Canada ...


Feeding Cleveland: Urban Agriculture

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A recurring theme in 20th century Cleveland that continues to the present day is that during difficult economic periods communities of people have come together to raise food crops on city land. The ...


Fenn College On-Line

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On September 1, 1965 Fenn College became Cleveland State University. This exhibit, our vision of what an early Fenn College Web site might have looked like had the Internet been around in the 1960's, ...


German Americans of Cleveland

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German Americans of Cleveland is third in a series of websites developed or planned by the Cleveland State University Library to explore the ethnic influence that helped shape the history and ...


Hungarian Americans of Cleveland

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Hungarian Americans of Cleveland is one of a series of websites developed or planned by Cleveland State University Library to explore the ethnic influence that helped shape the history and development ...


Irish Americans of Cleveland

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Irish Americans of Cleveland is one of a series of websites developed or planned by Cleveland State University Library to explore the ethnic influence that helped shape the history and development of ...


Notable Blacks of Cleveland

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African Americans of Note in Cleveland contains approximately 2000 images of 500 individuals selected from the photographs in the Cleveland Press Collection. This collection was donated to the ...


Photographs from the Berea Children's Home

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In 1864, the German Methodist Episcopal Church founded the German Methodist Orphan Asylum to shelter Civil War orphans. Known today as the Berea Children's Home, they serve children and youth needing ...


Photographs of the Cleveland Metroparks

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The Cleveland Metroparks is one of city’s highlights. Conceived by engineer William Stinchcomb back in 1917, this system of sixteen reservations encircles the city of Cleveland to create a 21,000 acre ...


Polish Americans of Cleveland

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Polish Americans of Cleveland was developed by the Cleveland State University Library to explore the ethnic influence that helped shape the history and development of Cleveland.


Postcards of Cleveland

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Walter Leedy began his comprehensive collection of Cleveland postcards, now numbering nearly 8,000 in earnest in 1989. The earliest of Leedy's postcards date from 1898, before many people traveled ...


Praying Grounds: African American Faith Communities

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An ongoing documentary and oral history project which will ultimately offer audio and video recordings of oral histories and musical performances, as well as photographs, newspaper articles, ...


The Clay Herrick Slide Collection

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Clay Herrick (1911-1993) was an historian, a civic leader who worked to preserve Cleveland's historic buildings and an author whose book Cleveland Landmarks received the Western Reserve Architectural ...


The Cleveland Cultural Gardens Collection

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The Cleveland Cultural Gardens, extending along East Blvd. and Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. in Cleveland's University Circle area, is a unique collection of landscaped, themed gardens each ...


The Cleveland Press Collection

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Comprised of hundreds of thousands of clippings and photographs, The Cleveland Press Collection is the former editorial library, or "morgue," of The Cleveland Press and is now part of Cleveland State ...


The Cleveland Union Terminal Collection

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The Cleveland Union Terminal Collection is the archives of the company that built the Terminal Tower, the union passenger station, the complex of office buildings, post office, department store and ...


The Cuyahoga County Engineer's Photography Collection

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Over 1,200 images from the the Cuyahoga County Engineer's Office, documenting Engineer's Office projects to install and maintain the civil infrastructure ...


The Cuyahoga County Public Library Collection

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The images reproduced here currently are courtesy of the South Euclid Historical Society and represent Cuyahoga County Public Library's inaugural effort to digitally preserve and present images that ...


The Greater Cleveland Ethnographic Museum Collection

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The Greater Cleveland Ethnographic Museum was established in 1975 to preserve the traditions and histories of Cleveland ethnic communities. Although the museum closed in 1981, it was able to capture ...


The Photograph Albums of Glenallen

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Like the other Severance estates that lined Taylor and Mayfield Roads in Cleveland Heights in the early 20th century, the life of Glenallen, the estate of Elisabeth Severance Allen Prentiss, was also ...


The Shaker Heights Collection

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Founded in 1912, Shaker Heights is situated on the eastern side of Cleveland, Ohio. Famous for its planned garden-city design, neo- traditional architecture,and green spaces, the city of Shaker ...


Yesterday's Lakewood

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This illustrated history consists of over 2,500 photographic images from the Lakewood Historical Society and Cleveland State University Special Collections. The site gives viewers an opportunity to ...


Cleveland Heights & University Heights, Ohio: A Collection of Historic Images

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Cleveland Heights and University Heights are first ring suburbs located on the “heights” east of Cleveland, Ohio. While each is incorporated as a separate city, they share a school district and ...


The Gerald R. Sherratt Library Historical Photograph Collection

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The Gerald R. Sherratt Library Historical Photograph Collection is a composite of photographs from many sources covering places and events in Iron County, Utah and the surrounding areas.


Allen Leigh Photograph Collection

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The Allen Leigh Photograph Collection contains images of scenery and life in Southern Utah. Ashdown Gorge, Brian Head, Cedar Breaks, and Navaho Lake are featured. His photographs also show the ...


Beaver Murdock Academy Collection

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Originally the Beaver Branch of Brigham Young University, the school became independent in 1908 and was renamed Murdock Academy. Housed in the buildings of Fort Cameron, a former military base outside ...


Branch Agricultural College

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The name of Southern Utah University has changed several times. It began as the Southern Branch of the State Normal School of the University of Utah in 1897. Administrative oversight switched to the ...


Branch Normal School

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Southern Utah University was founded in 1897 as the Southern Branch of the State Normal School, but was called simply the Branch Normal School (BNS). The photographs in this collection represent the ...


College of Southern Utah

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The name of Southern Utah University has changed several times to reflect administrative and mission changes. From 1953 to 1969, it was known as the College of Southern Utah, emphasizing its role as a ...


Crawford Family Zion National Park

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The Crawford Family Zion National Park Collection consists of diaries and photographs by William Louis Crawford, 1873-1935, and his son, J. L. (Jasper Louis) Crawford, 1914-. Living and farming in ...


Dixie National Forest Photograph Collection

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The Dixie National Forest Photograph Collection contains over 8,000 photographs taken during the 20th Century on and near the largest national forest in Utah.


Drama Collection

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The Southern Utah University Drama Collection contains a sampling of photographs from theatre productions during the 70's, 80's, and 90's. SUU has over a hundred year tradition of fine music, ...


Emery County History

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The Emery County Archives Collection includes photos representing the history of Castle Valley: the towns, the people, coal mining, the uranium boom, ranching, rock art and other evidence of the ...


Iron County Extension Office

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Iron Mining District Photograph Collection

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Iron Mining has been the principal industry in the Cedar City area for 150 years. The photographs in this collection document mining industry activities from the 1920s to the 1980s.


Arizona Bushmasters

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Arizona Landscapes Collection

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This collection consists of still images of cities, towns, scenic viewpoints, lumbering activities, and streetscapes from across Arizona, 1864-1970.


Arizona Military Museum Images

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The Arizona Military Museum, an Arizona Centennial Legacy Project, is operated by a Historical Society whose purposes are: “To enhance the appreciation of the military history of Arizona and the ...


Arizona State Archives - State, County and Local Government Records

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Government records protect the right of citizens, promote accountability for government officials and provide continuity. Records in the Arizona State Archives were created by individuals or agencies ...


Arizona Territorial Post Offices

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This exhibit is small representative sample of items in the archives of the Postal History Foundation in Tucson. Each page contains, in philatelic terms, a “cover” - either an envelope or postcard ...


Arizona's Saints and Shady Ladies

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The many wonderful photographs in the Arizona Historical Foundation’s collections have inspired this exhibit of Arizona Women and their diverse contributions. Historians have often downplayed the role ...


ASU Science Pioneers: 1955 - 1970

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Arizona State University’s early research scientists were scholarly pioneers of earth, ice, animal, mineral, and space. In Arizona State’s first days of transformation from a small college to a true ...


Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company (A.T.&S.F.Ry.Co.) Collection Highlights

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Basketry from the Pueblo Grande Museum

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The baskets in the Museum’s collection come from private donations by collectors, from the basket weavers themselves, and from occasional purchases by their non-profit support group, the Pueblo Grande ...


Congressman John Rhodes Collection

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The John J. Rhodes Papers consist of correspondence, reports, financial and travel records and printed matter. The collection documents Rhodes' congressional career from 1953 1983 and significant ...


Day Family Collection

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The Day Family became known in the Colorado Plateau region for their activities as traders on the Navajo Reservation. During their time on the Reservation, they served as agents, and became close with ...


Historic Downtown Glendale

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This collection represents South 1st Avenue, now 58th Drive and Glendale Avenue, from around 1910 to 1950. It depicts early development in downtown Glendale, Arizona. The collection also includes ...


Early Cave Creek, Arizona

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This collection documents the growth, activities and history of the Sonoran Desert Foothills spanning the time period of the 1870’s to the 1920’s. Within this time span military operations, mining ...


Early Life in Taylor, Arizona 1878 - 1940

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The artifacts and historic sites that are included in this collection not only serve as examples of daily pioneer living in Taylor, Arizona, but also provide insight into the changes which occurred as ...


Cochise College Libraries - Cochise County Historical & Archeological Collection

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The theme of this collection is the unique history and culture of Southeastern Arizona. The centerpiece of the collection is a video created by the Cochise College Library media department that ...


Father Augustine Schwarz Photograph Collection

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Glendale Community College Archives

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Since its inception the Library Media Center (LMC) has been charged with the college’s internal production needs entailing still, moving images, and audio recordings. The production of this material ...


Glendale Public Library History

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In 1937 a $6,000 bond issue and a Public Works Administration grant from the government enabled the city to construct a $12,000 library building in 1938. The 2,200 sq. ft. building would serve a ...


Harvey Girls of the Winslow Harvey Houses

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Fred Harvey saw a need for better food and service along the rails and in 1876 pioneered a chain of restaurants and inns known as Harvey Houses from Chicago to San Francisco. Experience soon ...


Highlights of the Catholic Diocese of Tucson

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Highlights of the Catholic Diocese of Tucson includes documents and letters from the time of Bishop Salpointe, from the late 1860’s to the mid 1880’s. Most of the documents are written by or addressed ...


Historic Arizona County Road Maps

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This collection of historic Arizona county maps includes maps of each Arizona county, dating from the mid 1880s to the late 1920s. Most of the maps were produced by the County Engineer or County ...


The Hohokam of Pueblo Grande

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Pueblo Grande was a major Hohokam village on the north bank of the Salt River in what is now Phoenix, Arizona. Pueblo Grande was occupied for 1000 years, from about AD 500 - 1450. In addition to ...


Images of the Catholic Diocese of Tucson

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The Images collection consists of photographs of bishops and priests who served Catholics of Arizona from as early as the 1860s. Most of the earliest priests and bishops came from France through the ...


Maricopa Pottery (Connell Collection)

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Men, Mines and Money

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These photos represent a small portion of the collection from Herbert V. Young who was engaged as secretary to the general manager of the United Verde Copper Company mine from 1912-1955 ...


Mohave Museum - History of Transportation in Mohave County

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This collection of photographs, 1890’s through the 1940’s, provide a snapshot of the role transportation systems and vehicles played in the development of Mohave County. Subjects presented are: horses ...


Murder & Mayhem: The Strange Saga of Winnie Ruth Judd

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Mr. Lincoln's Virtual Library

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Mr. Lincoln's Virtual Library highlights two collections at the Library of Congress that illuminate the life of Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), the sixteenth president of the United States. The Abraham ...


Adjutants General of Arizona

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The Arizona Adjutants General exhibit is comprised of photographs of Adjutants General in Arizona from territorial days to the present. An Adjutant General is the highest ranking officer of a state’s ...


Arizona Archives Historic Photographs

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Archives' photographs focus upon the unique cultural heritage of the state and territory of Arizona, beginning in 1863. The collection includes about 90,000 images, including photographs, slides, ...


Arizona Aviation History - The Ruth Reinhold Collection

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Ruth Reinhold (1902-1985), an aviation pioneer, was one of the first woman pilots in Arizona. She marked many milestones, from barnstorming to teaching pilots to fly four-engine bombers during World ...


Navajo County Historical Society Collection Highlights

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This collection showcases the art and artifacts that document the history of Navajo County. This items are currently on display at the Navajo County Historical Society, Holbook, Arizona branch.


Old Trails Museum Collection Highlights

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Collections on display bear testament to the diverse history of this area. Winslow is one of 41 recognized sites on the Colorado Plateau with fossilized remains of the Columbian Mammoth from the ...


Phoenix Jewish News Photographs Collection

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The Jewish News Photographic Collection consists of over 10,000 photographs and other documentation donated by the Jewish News of Greater Phoenix to the Arizona Jewish Historic Society in May 2007. ...


Phoenix College - The Early Years

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This collection of photographs provides a feel for what Phoenix College was like during its first several decades. Images were selected to represent college life, as well as the architecture of the ...


Powwow Photographs by Ann Leonard

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The Powwow Photographs by Ann Leonard collection consists of 69 color digital photographs by Arizona State University’s Labriola National American Indian Data Center’s Library Aid, Ann Leonard. ...


ClaraVision

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ClaraVision is the University Archives digital collection of photographs, postcards, artifacts, textual documents, and other ephemera in the Archives holdings ...


1906 Earthquake and Silicon Valley

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This is a collection of photographs, College records, newspaper clippings, and personal accounts that tell the story of how the Santa Clara College community fared through, and reacted to, the ...


Silicon Valley History Online

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The goal of Silicon Valley History Online is to create a gateway to the major historical resources of California's Santa Clara Valley. You will find photographs, maps, letters, postcards, manuscripts ...


George Palmer Putnam Collection of Amelia Earhart Papers

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The Amelia Earhart collection offers a rare glimpse into the life of America's premier woman aviator. In 1928 she was the first woman to across the Atlantic. As an inspiration for women to pursue non- ...


Amelia Earhart at Purdue

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This collection documents Earhart's association with Purdue University. In 1935, Earhart joined the staff of Purdue University, serving as a counselor on careers for women. In 1936, the Purdue ...


Purdue Buildings and Campus Scenes

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This collection is a rich source of Purdue history, showing the campus grow from its earliest years to present. Currently there are more than 2,600 images in the collection.


Purdue History in Photographs

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Purdue Photo history some of the earliest images of Boilermaker Pete and the Boilermaker Special. Other images include the campus pump, Dr Elliott, scenes of the 1913 flood, an early football poster, ...


Purdue Students

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Many photographs of Purdue students starting with early theatrical productions through current images of students on water slides. Many photographs are from the Purdue Playshop. Other images include ...


Best of the OSU Archives

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The "Best of the OSU Archives" is a digital collection consisting of frequently requested items as well as others that are not so well known. The collection is representative of the breadth and depth ...


Oregon State Baseball

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Photographs, video, ephemera, essays and statistics documenting more than 100 years of OSU baseball players, coaches, and teams.


Oregon Multicultural Archives Digital Collection

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The Oregon Multicultural Archives Digital Collection consists of images that document the lives and activities of ethnic minorities in Oregon. The images are drawn from the archival collections that ...


Oregon Explorer

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Oregon Explorer is a comprehensive digital library of Oregon’s natural resources. This state-of-the-art, Web-based resource uses advanced information technology to access and integrate data from state ...


Sahuaro Ranch History

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This collection has two components. It features images from the last private owner of Sahuaro Ranch, Richard S. Smith, as well as photographs from the early administration of this historic site by the ...


Scottsdale's History in Images

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An essential portion of Scottsdale history is contained in a photograph collection located in the Scottsdale Room. This collection showcases the history and growth of what has changed from a small ...


Scottsdale Remembers: Recollections of Our Past

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Many active community organizations worked to create the Scottsdale of today and some worked to preserve its past. This collection contains material from three Scottsdale repositories: the ...


Senator Barry M. Goldwater: An Arizona Legend

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These images (some rare and rarely seen) were selected from over 5,000 photographs found in the Personal and Political Papers of Senator Barry M. Goldwater (1909-1998). They document his interests in ...


Sharlot Hall Museum American Indian Image Collection

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This collection of still images is related to the American Indians of Arizona and the Southwest (1865-1970). Tribes include Navajo, Apache, Yavapai, Hualapai, Papago, Hopi, Mohave, Paiute, Yaqui, ...


Sharlot Hall Museum Buildings Image Collection

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This collection of still images is related to structures in Prescott Yavapai County, and Northern Arizona. Included are stage stations, businesses, residences, banks, schools, churches, hotels, ...


Sharlot Hall Museum Map Collection

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The Sharlot Hall Museum Map Collection consists of approximately 5,000 maps relating to Prescott, Arizona, Yavapai County, and Arizona and the west in general, 1850-present.


Sharlot Hall Museum Military Image Collection

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This collection of still images represent military activity in Arizona, specifically Yavapai County and Northern Arizona, 1864-Present. Subjects included in the collection are Ft. Whipple, Camp Verde ...


Sharlot Hall Museum Mining Image Collection

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This collection of still images is related to mining activities in Yavapai County and Northern Arizona(1864-1975). Gold, copper, iron, onyx, and silver mining are represented, as well as placer, ...


Sharlot Hall Museum Transportation Image Collection

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This collection of still images is related to transportation in Northern Arizona(1864-1965). Subjects represented in this collection are railroads, stagecoaches, train depots, bridges, freighting, and ...


Sharlot M. Hall: Arizona's Curator

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Sharlot M. Hall, the first woman to hold any salaried office in territorial Arizona, was a forward-thinking woman, a woman of vision and daring living during an era when most women didn't dare have ...


Show Low Collection Highlights

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The Show Low Historical Society Museum has a varied collection of objects and photographs that document the history of the City of Show Low, including images from the Rodeo-Chediski fire.


Thunderbird School of Global Management - Historical Collections

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This collection depicts the story of Thunderbird Field I, a vital World War II air training base at which more than 10,000 pilots learned to fly. The collection then shows the early years of the ...


Tohono O'odham Collection, 1970 - 1980, Helga Teiwes Photographer

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This exhibit is composed of 109 photographs of the Tohono O’odham people taken by Arizona State Museum photographer Helga Teiwes during the years 1970 – 1980. The exhibit is arranged into eleven ...


Trading Post Families of Winslow, AZ

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Trading posts were not just a western phonenoma, as Congress established Federal Trading Houses at the urging of George Washington in 1796. By the time posts were dotting the landscape in northern ...


Tucson Territorial Pioneer Project

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USS Arizona Silver Service Collection

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The Arizona Capitol Museum is home to the silver service that was donated to the USS Arizona by the citizens of this state in 1919. This service is comprised of 59 distinct pieces on display at the ...


Western Ways Features Company Photographs

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The Western Ways Features Company Photographs were selected from over 22,000 photographic prints and negatives contained within the Western Ways Feature Manuscript and Photograph Collection, ca. 1930- ...


The Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection

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The Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection consists of photographs produced and gathered by Frank G. Carpenter (1855-1924) and his daughter Frances (1890-1972) to illustrate his writings on travel and ...


Ball State University Campus Photographs

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The Ball State University Campus Photographs digital collection is a representative sampling of more than 40,000 photographs, negatives and other images from Ball State University's Photographic ...


Daniel W. Hartwig Indiana Courthouse Photographs Collection

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The Daniel W. Hartwig Indiana Courthouse Photographs digital collection consists of over 500 digital photographs documenting county courthouses throughout Indiana. County courthouses form the symbolic ...


Alvin W. Holmes Covered Bridge Photographs

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The Alvin W. Holmes Covered Bridge Photographs digital collection is a representative sampling of more than 300 photographs and slides documenting covered bridges in Indiana and other locations taken ...


Other Side of Middletown Photographs

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n the 1920s, Robert and Helen Lynd conducted a sociological study of Muncie that was published in 1929 as Middletown: A Study in American Culture. Unfortunately, the Lynds virtually overlooked the ...


Otto Sellers Phography

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Spurgeon-Greene Photographs

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Richard A. (Dick) Greene was born in Richmond, Indiana, in 1903, but his family moved to Muncie while he was a child. In 1945, Greene started his Seen and Heard in Our Neighborhood column for the ...


W. A. Swift Photographs

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W. A. Swift was born in Metamora, Indiana, on August 17, 1877. He moved to Muncie in 1918 and was working for the Delaware Engraving Company as a photographer by 1923. He was a commercial photographer ...


U. S. Civil War Resources for East Central Indiana

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The purpose of the project is to build a digital repository of unique U.S. Civil War materials from East Central Indiana for teaching, learning, and research by elementary, high school, college/ ...


Works Progress Administration Miniature Furniture

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The Atlantic World: America and the Netherlands

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Creative Americans: Portraits by Carl Van Vechten, 1932-1964

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The Carl Van Vechten photographs collection at the Library of Congress consists of 1,395 photographs taken by American photographer Carl Van Vechten (1880-1964) between 1932 and 1964. The bulk of the ...


WSU Libraries Digital Collections

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The Digital Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University (WSU) Libraries is an expanding series of collections that provide access to maps, historical photos and texts. ...


Frank M. Hohenberger Photograph Collection

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Digital surrogates for 800 photographs in the Frank M. Hohenberger Photograph Collection mounted on a web site that includes a complete finding aid and contextual information about Hohenberger and his ...


William Muschenheim Digital Archive

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The William Muschenheim Digital Archive is a searchable database of 3500 scans of architectural drawings and photographs from the Muschenheim collections at the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts ...


Broadway Park: Renewing Ann Arbor's Public Riverfront

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The goal of the Broadway Park Redesign Project is to encourage public discussion and proposals for improving Broadway Park and the nearby riverfront. The larger aim is to make the public riverfront ...


Early Detroit Images

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The Library of Michigan Digitization for Preservation and Access Grant was awarded to the Detroit Public Library in 2005. The grant allowed for the creation of a digital database of 19th century and ...


Saline Area Historical Photos

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The Saline Area Historical Photos Collection is comprised of over 700 photographs of Saline, Michigan. This collection covers a time span of more than 100 years, from the 1860s to the late 1900s, and ...


Saline Valley Farms Photographs

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The Saline Valley Farms collection is comprised of photographs from the Saline Valley Farms, an economic experiment in cooperative living and farming that was developed by Harold Gray in 1932. ...


Ypsilanti Historical Society Photo Archives

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The Archives of the Ypsilanti Historical Society collection is comprised of photographs dating from the 1850s to the present. When completed this collection will contain approximately 5,000 ...


Freedom House Project

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Freedom House was founded in 1949 by African American social workers Muriel S. and Otto P. Snowden to centralize community activism in the fight for neighborhood improvement, good schools, and harmony ...


E. W. Scripps Papers

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E. W. Scripps Papers is a collection of letters and photos from the Scripps Manuscript Collection at Ohio University. Edward Willis Scripps (1854-1926) was a businessman and journalist associated with ...


Images from the Fremont News Messenger

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The News-Messenger is the only daily newspaper headquartered in Sandusky County, Ohio. It serves its home city of Fremont, all of Sandusky County and portions of adjacent counties in Northwest Ohio. ...


Lake Erie's Yesterdays

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The late local historian Charles E. Frohman of Sandusky, Ohio, collected more than 14,000 historic photographs documenting Lake Erie’s Western Basin, its shoreline communities,and the Erie Islands. ...


The George Edward Anderson Collection

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This collection includes 14,020 photographic images of people and places in Utah and elsewhere in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Anderson's collection of negatives contains something of ...


The C.R. Savage Collection

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C.R. Savage, born 16 August 1832 in England , became one of the foremost 19 th century landscape photographers of the western United States , as well as a renowned studio portrait photographer, with ...


Huntington Bagley Collection

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Elfie Huntington, the deaf photographer with a sense of humor, and Joseph Daniel Bagley, fellow photographer and business partner, bee-keeper and sometime town wit, received their photographic ...


Brigham Young University Campus Photographs

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This collection contains historical photographs that document campus life at Brigham Young University, Brigham Young University—Idaho, and Brigham Young University—Hawaii. Images include student life ...


Clark County Idaho Historical Photograph Collection

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The Clark County Idaho Historical Photograph Collection consists of 5,000 images that depict people, events and locations from the early history and subsequent development of Clark County, Idaho. The ...


Edith Irvine Collection

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The photographic collection, all of which has been digitized for this online collection, consists of 293 images as follows: 85 of Mokelumne Hill, Calaveras County, California; 81 of the Electra Power ...


George Beard Photograph Collection

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There are 1799 photographs in the George Beard Photograph Collection, primarily consisting of exquisite landscapes of Beard’s adopted mountain west. Usually these landscapes were not identified by ...


Selections from the Brigham Young University Digital Collections

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This selection includes the collections: Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, Fruits of their Labor: Oral Histories, Frank Call Photograph Collection 1909-1911, Walter Mason Camp digital collection, Laie ...


Brigham Young University Digital War II Photograph Collections

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This is an aggregation of three of the Brigham Young University's digital photograph collections surround Americans in World War II. These collections are: the J Malan Heslop WWII Photograph ...


The Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad: Cleveland's Iron Cross

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The Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad (WLE) was founded in 1871 and it was originally designed to span the distance from the Ohio River through the coal fields of southeastern Ohio to the ports on Lake ...


Colorado Plateau Digital Archives

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The Colorado Plateau Digital Archives from the Cline Library at Northern Arizona University (NAU) contains regional archival treasures held by the Cline Library. This includes thousands of vintage and ...


Digital Treasures Repository

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The Digital Treasures Repository is a Central/Western Massachusetts Resource Sharing (C/WMARS) Project. It is a digital library collection of the agricultural and industrial cultural history of ...


Documenting the American South

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Documenting the American South (DocSouth) is a digital publishing initiative that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture. ...


Digital Past

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Digital Past, based at the North Suburban Library System in Illinois, offers a treasure trove of photographs, postcards, diaries, oral histories, documents, movies, interpretive exhibits, and other ...


Illinois Air Photo Imagebase

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The Illinois Air Photo Imagebase is a joint pilot project of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) Map and Geography Library, the University Library's Digital Imaging and Media Technology ...


Indiana Historical Society

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The Indiana Historical Society Digital Image Collections archive consists of images gathered by the Indiana Historical Society. The repository includes such collections as the Photography of O. James ...


Traveling Culture: Circuit Chautauqua in the Twentieth Century From The University of Iowa

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This digital collection presents 7,949 publicity brochures, promotional advertisements and talent circulars for some 4,546 performers who were part of the Chautauqua circuit. These talent brochures ...


Biblioteca Digital de Castilla-La Mancha

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Biblioteca de Castilla-La Mancha is coordinated by Bibliotecas Publicas del Estado, who are responsible for the network of public libraries in their respective provinces and other entities of regional ...


Biblioteca Valenciana Digital

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In order to provide a wide diffusion for the rich Valencian bibliographical heritage, in 2002, our Generalitat, through the Biblioteca Valenciana, started a digitization project called Biblioteca ...


Biblioteca Virtual de La Rioja

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LA RIOJA Virtual Library is a cooperative project of digitization of the bibliographic heritage of La Rioja, whose purpose is to facilitate the preservation and conservation and enable the management ...


Gallica: La Bibliothèque Numérique de la Bibliothèque Nationale de France

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Gallica: La Bibliothèque Numérique de la Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BnF) proposes to provide access to 70,000 digitized works, more than 80,000 images, and several thousand sound resources. The ...


The Sylvia and Harry Rebell Digital Collections

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The Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary: The Sylvia and Harry Rebell Digital Collections contains a number of digitized collections from JTS including bookplates, field recordings, manuscripts ...


Eleanor Roosevelt Speech Collection

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The Eleanor Roosevelt Speech Collections in cludes an audio recording and accompanying transcript document Eleanor Roosevelt's speech to a convocation in Assembly Hall at Ball State Teachers College ( ...


Peace Collection Photographs

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Two of the oldest and most frequently used photograph collections at the SCPC come from the Jane Addams Collection (DG 001) and from the Universal Peace Union Records (DG 038). In the former, only ...


Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München

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The Munich Digitisation Centre (MDZ) handles the digitisation and online publication of the cultural heritage preserved by the Bavarian State Library and by other institutions. It provides one of the ...


A Celebration of the Human Spirit: Japanese-American Relocation Camps in Arizona

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The Arizona Historical Foundation houses two collections pertaining to Arizona’s two World War II Japanese Relocation Camps, Gila River and Poston. Wade Head served as director of the Poston camp from ...


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War Posters

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Through partial coincidence and good fortune, two of the most significant collections in the world of posters from World War I and World War II are located within close physical proximity, in ...


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Digital General Collection

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We have brought together all print materials converted to electronic text into a single collection, called the Digital General Collection. This collection includes materials that have been reformatted ...


Early English Books Online

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The University of Michigan, the University of Oxford, the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), and ProQuest Information and Learning are engaged in an exceptional partnership to create ...


Evans Early American Imprint Collection

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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 ...


The United States and its Territories, 1870-1925: the Age of Imperialism

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Texts and photographs drawn from the University of Michigan Library's Southeast Asia collection, comprises the full text of monographs and government documents published in the United States, Spain, ...


Eighteenth Century Collections Online

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The University of Michigan and Thomson-Gale are cooperating in a Text Creation Partnership to create 10,000 accurately keyed and fully searchable SGML/XML text editions from among the 150,000 titles ...


American Social Hygiene Posters

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These 212 images produced primarily by the American Social Hygiene Association and the United States Government have received quite a bit of attention, including coverage on NPR and a spike of blog ...


Witness to the Early American Experience

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The contents of Witness to the Early American Experience are drawn from the collections of New York University and the New-York Historical Society.


Allison Delarue Collection

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Ballet in the nineteenth century was an ideal medium for the manifestation of the Romantic movement. The Delarue Collection offers not only vignettes of this extraordinary time of artistry and grace, ...


Bentley Image Bank

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The Bentley Image Bank includes images from the holdings of the Bentley Historical Library at the University of Michigan.


African American Cinema Collection, 1907-2001

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The African American Cinema Collection presents posters, lobby cards, and press books from the 1920s to the 1990s. This collection is unique in the Southeast and illustrates the often-delicate ...


American Memory from the Library of Congress

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The American Memory Web site continued to receive wide acclaim as a provider of free high quality, educationally valuable American cultural and historical resources. At the end of 2003, more than 8.5 ...


Evanion Catalogue

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This is a collection of some 5,000 items of Victorian ephemera and occasional printing, formed by Henry Evans (c.1832-1905), a conjuror and ventriloquist, who performed under the stage name Evanion. ...


By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943

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The By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943 collection consists of 908 boldly colored and graphically diverse original posters produced from 1936 to 1943 as part of Franklin ...


UC Los Angeles, Special Collections, Young Research Library: California Ephemera Collection

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Collection consists of broadsides, clippings, brochures, and other ephemeral materials relating to California. Subjects include: abortion, Alcatraz Island, building and loan associations, California ...


UC Santa Barbara, California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives: Ochoa, Victor Papers

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Ochoa [Victor] Collection. Art files, exhibition files, ephemera, posters and prints and other printed matter, photographs and slides, correspondence files, and recordings of the Chicano painter/ ...


UC Santa Barbara, California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives: Galeria de la Raza Archives - Catalog of Slides

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The Galería de la Raza Collection (GDLR) consists of seven series distributed among 68 archival boxes that occupy about 37.5 linear feet of space. Also, there are 304 silkscreen prints, housed in flat ...


War Posters

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Through partial coincidence and good fortune, two of the most significant collections in the world of posters from World War I and World War II are located within close physical proximity, in ...


World War II Poster Collection

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The Government and Geographic Information and Data Services Department at Northwestern University Library has a comprehensive collection of over 300 posters issued by U.S. Federal agencies from the ...


Menus Collection

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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. ...


Networking Artists & Poets: Assemblings from the Ruth & Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete & Visual Poetry

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Curated by Craig Saper, Assistant Professor, University of the Arts.


A New Deal for the Arts

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During the depths of the Great Depression of the 1930s and into the early years of World War II, the Federal government supported the arts in unprecedented ways. For 11 years, between 1933 and 1943, ...


The New Deal Stage: Selections from the Federal Theatre Project, 1935-1939

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This online presentation includes over 13,000 images of items selected from the Federal Theatre Project Collection at the Library of Congress. Featured here are stage and costume designs, still ...


Powers of Persuasion: Poster Art from World War II

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This online exhibit features 33 posters and 1 sound file from a more extensive exhibit that was presented in the National Archives Building in Washington, DC, from May 1994 to February 1995. Like the ...


The Swiss Poster Collection

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The Special Collections division of the Carnegie Mellon University Libraries houses a collection of Swiss posters that represent the Swiss Posters of the Year competition and other Swiss posters from ...


Performing Arts in America 1875-1923

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Performing Arts in America 1875 -1923, a web site of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, captures a glimpse of this world. With visual and audio images drawn from the extensive ...


WPA Posters

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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 ...


Vietnam War Era Ephemera Collection

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The text are selections from Vietnam War era ephemera collection of printed ephemera including pamphlets, posters, manifestos, newsletters, booklets, and open letters created by the various Seattle- ...


France in America

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Stamp/Sticker/Seal/Envelope Collection

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The stamp, sticker, seal and envelope collection currently contains over 1,400 items and continues to expand. These items have been donated over many years to the Peace Collection (SCPC) by individual ...


Arizona Territorial Post Offices

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This exhibit is small representative sample of items in the archives of the Postal History Foundation in Tucson. Each page contains, in philatelic terms, a “cover” - either an envelope or postcard ...


Mr. Lincoln's Virtual Library

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Mr. Lincoln's Virtual Library highlights two collections at the Library of Congress that illuminate the life of Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), the sixteenth president of the United States. The Abraham ...


ClaraVision

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ClaraVision is the University Archives digital collection of photographs, postcards, artifacts, textual documents, and other ephemera in the Archives holdings ...


Silicon Valley History Online

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The goal of Silicon Valley History Online is to create a gateway to the major historical resources of California's Santa Clara Valley. You will find photographs, maps, letters, postcards, manuscripts ...


George Palmer Putnam Collection of Amelia Earhart Papers

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The Amelia Earhart collection offers a rare glimpse into the life of America's premier woman aviator. In 1928 she was the first woman to across the Atlantic. As an inspiration for women to pursue non- ...


Best of the OSU Archives

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The "Best of the OSU Archives" is a digital collection consisting of frequently requested items as well as others that are not so well known. The collection is representative of the breadth and depth ...


Oregon State Baseball

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Photographs, video, ephemera, essays and statistics documenting more than 100 years of OSU baseball players, coaches, and teams.


World War I Posters from the Elisabeth Ball Collection

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The World War I Posters from the Elisabeth Ball Collections is a representative sampling of more than 2,000 WWI lithographs from Italy, France, Belgium, England, Australia, Germany, the United States ...


WSU Libraries Digital Collections

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The Digital Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University (WSU) Libraries is an expanding series of collections that provide access to maps, historical photos and texts. ...


Early Detroit Images

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The Library of Michigan Digitization for Preservation and Access Grant was awarded to the Detroit Public Library in 2005. The grant allowed for the creation of a digital database of 19th century and ...


Colorado Plateau Digital Archives

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The Colorado Plateau Digital Archives from the Cline Library at Northern Arizona University (NAU) contains regional archival treasures held by the Cline Library. This includes thousands of vintage and ...


Digital Treasures Repository

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The Digital Treasures Repository is a Central/Western Massachusetts Resource Sharing (C/WMARS) Project. It is a digital library collection of the agricultural and industrial cultural history of ...


Documenting the American South

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Documenting the American South (DocSouth) is a digital publishing initiative that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture. ...


Digital Past

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Digital Past, based at the North Suburban Library System in Illinois, offers a treasure trove of photographs, postcards, diaries, oral histories, documents, movies, interpretive exhibits, and other ...


Indiana Historical Society

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The Indiana Historical Society Digital Image Collections archive consists of images gathered by the Indiana Historical Society. The repository includes such collections as the Photography of O. James ...


Traveling Culture: Circuit Chautauqua in the Twentieth Century From The University of Iowa

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This digital collection presents 7,949 publicity brochures, promotional advertisements and talent circulars for some 4,546 performers who were part of the Chautauqua circuit. These talent brochures ...


Biblioteca Digital de Castilla-La Mancha

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Biblioteca de Castilla-La Mancha is coordinated by Bibliotecas Publicas del Estado, who are responsible for the network of public libraries in their respective provinces and other entities of regional ...


Biblioteca Valenciana Digital

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In order to provide a wide diffusion for the rich Valencian bibliographical heritage, in 2002, our Generalitat, through the Biblioteca Valenciana, started a digitization project called Biblioteca ...


Biblioteca Virtual de La Rioja

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LA RIOJA Virtual Library is a cooperative project of digitization of the bibliographic heritage of La Rioja, whose purpose is to facilitate the preservation and conservation and enable the management ...


British History Online

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British History Online is the digital library containing some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles. Created by the Institute of ...


Gallica: La Bibliothèque Numérique de la Bibliothèque Nationale de France

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Gallica: La Bibliothèque Numérique de la Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BnF) proposes to provide access to 70,000 digitized works, more than 80,000 images, and several thousand sound resources. The ...


The Sylvia and Harry Rebell Digital Collections

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The Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary: The Sylvia and Harry Rebell Digital Collections contains a number of digitized collections from JTS including bookplates, field recordings, manuscripts ...


Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München

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The Munich Digitisation Centre (MDZ) handles the digitisation and online publication of the cultural heritage preserved by the Bavarian State Library and by other institutions. It provides one of the ...


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Maryland ArtSource

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Based at the Sheridan Libraries, Maryland ArtSource is the collaborative effort of eight cultural and arts organizations in Baltimore dedicated to promoting art information resources that illuminate ...


Allison Delarue Collection

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Ballet in the nineteenth century was an ideal medium for the manifestation of the Romantic movement. The Delarue Collection offers not only vignettes of this extraordinary time of artistry and grace, ...


University of Michigan Museum of Art

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This collection contains digital images of collections held at the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA).


AdHoc Image and Text Database on the History of Christianity

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A faculty-library initiative at Yale Divinity School to support and coordinate resources relating to the history of Christianity at Yale University. Ad Hoc contains almost 2600 items and includes both ...


African Art: Aesthetics and Meaning

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A web-based exhibit from the Bayly Museum includes images of objects that exemplify African aesthetic and moral principles and display some of the finest pieces in the Bayly's large collection.


Mackenzie Collection

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The earliest recorded excavations of a Buddhist monument in India happened at Amaravati between 1798 and 1817. The drawings that documented these excavations were collected by Colonel Colin Mackenzie ...


American Memory from the Library of Congress

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The American Memory Web site continued to receive wide acclaim as a provider of free high quality, educationally valuable American cultural and historical resources. At the end of 2003, more than 8.5 ...


Beautiful Birds: Masterpieces from the Hill Ornithology Collection, Cornell University Library

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Beautiful Birds traces the development of ornithological illustration in the 18th and 19th centuries and highlights the changing techniques — from metal and wood engraving to chromolithography — ...


Ben Shahn at Harvard

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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 ...


Blake's Choice Selections from the Alexander Architecture Archive

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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 ...


The Boston Transit Collection at the Fogg Art Museum

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Comprised of approximately 700 glass plate negatives and prints documenting the construction of the city's subway and elevated railway systems between 1895 and the beginning of World War II, the ...


California Cultures

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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 Gold: Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties

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The WPA California Folk Music Project is a multi-format ethnographic field collection that includes sound recordings, still photographs, drawings, and written documents from a variety of European ...


Calisphere

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Calisphere is the University of California's free public gateway to a world of primary sources. More than 150,000 digitized items — including photographs, documents, newspaper pages, political ...


Smart Museum of Art On-line Database Project

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Provides access to inventory records and digitized images from the collections of the Smart Museum of Art which spans more than 5,000 years of artistic creation. Users may search by artist's name, ...


Degas at Harvard

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A searchable web site, offered as an introduction to the holdings of works of art by Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas in the collections of Harvard University. Although most of the Degas works at Harvard ...


UofI Advertising Exhibit

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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 ...


Dürer's Passions

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Highlights and excerpts from a Fall 2000 exhibition on display at the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums.


The Fantastic in Art and Fiction

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Graphic material from the Cornell witchcraft collections provides an unusual and rarely seen counterpoint to a comparative literature course analyzing German, Anglo-American, French, and Latin- ...


Fisher Fine Arts Library Image Collection

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One of two digital image collections now available to users from our digital images project, this collection contains over 100,000 metadata records for slides in our fine arts libraries. About 30,000 ...


A Grand Legacy: Arts of the Ottoman Empire

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Highlights and excerpts from a 1999-2000 exhibition on display at the Arthur M Sackler Museum, Harvard University Art Museums.


Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art: Insight Images

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Over 17,000 images of works of art contained within the Johnson Museum of Art are currently available for viewing using Luna Imaging's Insight® software which allows for several display and database ...


UC Image Service Collections

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The CDL’s Image Services project provides access to more than 240,000 digital images from licensed and freely-available collections, including Museums and the Online Archive of California, Art Museum ...


Images Online

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Images Online gives users access to around 15,000 images from the British Library's collections; new images are being added on a weekly basis. It offers search, order and purchase facilities. Images ...


The International Dunhuang Project (IDP)

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Over 100,000 manuscripts, artefacts, paintings and textiles, discovered over the last century at archaeological sites on the Eastern Silk Road (Chinese Central Asia), are possibly the single most ...


Investigating the Renaissance

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An interactive demonstration by conservators and scientists in the Straus Center for Conservation, located in the Fogg Art Museum showing the ways in which computer technology can be harnessed to add ...


UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library: Drawings of Indians and California Scenery

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The drawings are mainly by Henry B. Brown with a few by J.R. Bartlett. The collection includes some copy photos "by Merriam" of Brown's drawings. Subject matter includes images of mining camps, mining ...


UC Berkeley, Environmental Design Archives: St. Francis Wood Virtual Collection

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The St. Francis Wood Virtual collection contains digital images of drawings, photographs, correspondence and other historical documents relating to the architecture and landscape architecture of the ...


UC Berkeley, Environmental Design Archives: William W. Wurster/Wurster, Bernardi & Emmons Collection, 1922-1974

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Records of the architectural firm Wurster, Bernardi, and Emmons (WBE) span the years 1922-1974, and include the files of its parent firm, William W. Wurster (Wurster). The collection is organized into ...


UC Los Angeles, Special Collections, Young Research Library: Estelle Ishigo Papers

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The Estelle Ishigo Papers are a part of the Japanese American Research Project (JARP) Collection (Collection 2010). JARP is considered one of the finest collections of primary sources in the United ...


UC Santa Barbara, California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives: Self-Help Graphics Archives

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The Self-Help Graphics & Art, Inc. Collection (SHGA) consists of eight series distributed among fifty-seven archival boxes that occupy twenty-seven linear feet of space. These boxes hold information ...


UC Santa Barbara, California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives: Royal Chicano Air Force Archives

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The Royal Chicano Air Force Archives consists of eight series distributed among 43 archival boxes that occupy approximately 20 linear feet of space. In addition, there are 550 prints housed in 22 ...


UC Santa Barbara, California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives: Lucero, Linda Collection of La Raza Graphics/La Raza Silkscreen Center

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Linda Lucero Collection on La Raza Silkscreen Center/La Raza Graphics [1971-1985]. As early as 1970, La Raza Silkscreen/La Raza Graphics Center was producing silkscreen prints by Chicano and Latino ...


UC Santa Barbara, California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives: Ochoa, Victor Papers

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Ochoa [Victor] Collection. Art files, exhibition files, ephemera, posters and prints and other printed matter, photographs and slides, correspondence files, and recordings of the Chicano painter/ ...


UC Santa Barbara, California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives: Prigoff, James Collection

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The James Prigoff slide collection is an important visual resource that helps document the Chicano visual arts movement in California, and in particular, the San Diego and Tijuana area. The collection ...


The Lewis Walpole Library Digital Collection

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The Lewis Walpole Library Digital Collection has been enriched with the addition of images from prints, drawings, paintings, and text focusing on Horace Walpole and his house called Strawberry Hill. ...


Fuertes Illustrations Collection

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Louis Agassiz Fuertes was a native of Ithaca, New York and the nation's most notable ornithological painter since Audubon. Cornell University holds a large collection of Fuertes' bird illustrations, ...


Mark Twain in His Times

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This interpretive archive, drawn largely from the resources of the Barrett Collection, focuses on how "Mark Twain" and his works were created and defined, marketed and performed, reviewed and ...


Medical Historical Library Exhibits

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The Medical Historical Library has exhibits on the history of the medical school, hospital, and the schools of nursing and public health, and New Haven's Hospitals. In addition, 1600 prints and ...


Networking Artists & Poets: Assemblings from the Ruth & Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete & Visual Poetry

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Curated by Craig Saper, Assistant Professor, University of the Arts.


A New Deal for the Arts

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During the depths of the Great Depression of the 1930s and into the early years of World War II, the Federal government supported the arts in unprecedented ways. For 11 years, between 1933 and 1943, ...


Penn State-University Park Campus History Digital Archives

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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 ...


Peter Parker Collection

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Peter Parker was a medical missionary and diplomat to China in the early 19th Century. Parker specialized in treating diseases of the eye, particularly cataracts, but also performed general surgical ...


Photochrom Prints

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Late 19th and early 20th century travel views primarily of Eastern and Central European destinations (including the former Austro-Hungarian Empire). Includes cities and towns in Austria, Belgium, ...


Piet Mondrian: The Transatlantic Paintings

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Developed by the Harvard Art Museum, this detailed web site uses archival photographs, stereomicroscopy, X-rays, ultraviolet and infrared light to examine seventeen of Mondrian's works. Known as the " ...


Portrait Engravings Collection

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In the era before photography, portrait engravings were the only means of distributing images of famous individuals, including noted physicians and scientists. Many of these portraits were engraved ...


The Power of Woe, The Power of Life: Images of Women in Prints from the Renaissance to the Present

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Digital surrogates for prints depicting women. The collection of surrogates is introduced as follows: "Images of women are powerful, perhaps more powerful than we can allow ourselves to say or see. ...


Robert Montgomery Bird: Writer and Artist

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Robert Montgomery Bird (1805/6-1854) was a writer of considerable note. Born in New Castle, Delaware, one hundred and ninety years ago (February 5, 1805 or 1806), he was raised there and in ...


Salem Witch Trials: Documentary Archive and Transcription Project

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This faculty-led project consists of an electronic collection of primary source materials relating to the Salem witch trials of 1692 and a new transcription of the court records. Electronic texts, ...


Samuel Putnam Avery Print Collection and Related Works

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Nearly 1,100 etchings, lithographs, and some drawings, by prominent 19th-century printmakers. Most of these works are part of the S. P. Avery Collection, complemented by holdings found in the general ...


Sargent at Harvard

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Sargent at Harvard is a searchable database that contains images and textual information relating to American painter John Singer Sargent (1856-1925). The database covers the Sargent collections of ...


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

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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

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This web exhibit presents original documents and secondary sources on the Triangle Fire, held by the Cornell University Library. They are housed in the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation ...


Universes in Collision: Men and Women in 19th-Century Japanese Prints

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This exhibit was held at the Bayly Art Museum at the University of Virginia May 24 to October 5, 1997.


The University of Pennsylvania Art Collection

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A virtual museum based on the University of Pennsylvania's eclectic collection of 5,700 art objects and artifacts acquired over the past 250 years and being developed by the Office of the Curator and ...


Vanity Fair Portfolio

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Over a span of nearly fifty years (1868-1914), the society magazine Vanity Fair established its reputation as one of the most popular and respected periodicals in English journalism. In its second ...


William Morris and His Circle

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This web exhibition of "William Morris and His Circle" incorporates selected images derived from the 1996 Ransom Center exhibition which contained over seventy-five items, including manuscripts of ...


Walt Whitman Manuscripts

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NYPL has been a major contributor to The Walt Whitman Archive, an editorial project funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services to digitize and transcribe manuscripts by Walt Whitman (1819- ...


"Votes for Women" Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920

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Selection of 38 pictures includes portraits of many individuals who have been frequently requested from the holdings of the Prints and Photographs Division and the Manuscript Division. Also featured ...


Portraits Database

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An ongoing digital collection of photographs of individuals well known not only in the Pacific Northwest, but also nationally. Drawn from the Manuscripts, Special Collections, University Archives ...


Birket Foster, Victorian Illustrator: A Memorial Exhibit in Honor of Charles W. Mann, Jr. (1929-1998)

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Birket Foster was part of one of the great periods of book illustration in England. A former apprentice of Thomas Bewick, he worked for the London News early in his career, and soon after he began to ...


France in America

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Quakers and Slavery

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The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) were the first corporate body in Britain and North America to fully condemn slavery as both ethically and religiously wrong in all circumstances. It is in ...


Stamp/Sticker/Seal/Envelope Collection

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The stamp, sticker, seal and envelope collection currently contains over 1,400 items and continues to expand. These items have been donated over many years to the Peace Collection (SCPC) by individual ...


Harvard Map Collection Digital Maps

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Cleveland Memory Project

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Here serious researchers and casual browsers will find thousands of historical photographs, as well as a growing collection of ebooks documenting the history of greater Cleveland and the Western ...


Humphrey Family Photographs of Euclid Beach Park

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A Cleveland icon for more than 70 years,Euclid Beach Park can trace its origins to the golden age of amusement parks. Multitudes of similar venues appeared near the nation’s cities and along rail ...


Cleveland Along the Nickel Plate Road® During the 1920’s

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In 1922 the New York, Chicago, & St. Louis Railway (Nickel Plate Railway or NKP) took a series of photographs along its right-of-way and adjacent neighborhoods from Euclid through the west side of ...


Cleveland Press Shakespeare Photographs

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The site includes approximately 400 images from publicity photographs featuring regional production companies --Cleveland's Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival, the Stratford Festival in Ontario, Canada ...


Feeding Cleveland: Urban Agriculture

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A recurring theme in 20th century Cleveland that continues to the present day is that during difficult economic periods communities of people have come together to raise food crops on city land. The ...


Fenn College On-Line

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On September 1, 1965 Fenn College became Cleveland State University. This exhibit, our vision of what an early Fenn College Web site might have looked like had the Internet been around in the 1960's, ...


German Americans of Cleveland

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German Americans of Cleveland is third in a series of websites developed or planned by the Cleveland State University Library to explore the ethnic influence that helped shape the history and ...


Hungarian Americans of Cleveland

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Hungarian Americans of Cleveland is one of a series of websites developed or planned by Cleveland State University Library to explore the ethnic influence that helped shape the history and development ...


Irish Americans of Cleveland

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Irish Americans of Cleveland is one of a series of websites developed or planned by Cleveland State University Library to explore the ethnic influence that helped shape the history and development of ...


Notable Blacks of Cleveland

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African Americans of Note in Cleveland contains approximately 2000 images of 500 individuals selected from the photographs in the Cleveland Press Collection. This collection was donated to the ...


Photographs from the Berea Children's Home

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In 1864, the German Methodist Episcopal Church founded the German Methodist Orphan Asylum to shelter Civil War orphans. Known today as the Berea Children's Home, they serve children and youth needing ...


Photographs of the Cleveland Metroparks

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The Cleveland Metroparks is one of city’s highlights. Conceived by engineer William Stinchcomb back in 1917, this system of sixteen reservations encircles the city of Cleveland to create a 21,000 acre ...


Polish Americans of Cleveland

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Polish Americans of Cleveland was developed by the Cleveland State University Library to explore the ethnic influence that helped shape the history and development of Cleveland.


Postcards of Cleveland

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Walter Leedy began his comprehensive collection of Cleveland postcards, now numbering nearly 8,000 in earnest in 1989. The earliest of Leedy's postcards date from 1898, before many people traveled ...


Praying Grounds: African American Faith Communities

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An ongoing documentary and oral history project which will ultimately offer audio and video recordings of oral histories and musical performances, as well as photographs, newspaper articles, ...


The Clay Herrick Slide Collection

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Clay Herrick (1911-1993) was an historian, a civic leader who worked to preserve Cleveland's historic buildings and an author whose book Cleveland Landmarks received the Western Reserve Architectural ...


The Cleveland Cultural Gardens Collection

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The Cleveland Cultural Gardens, extending along East Blvd. and Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. in Cleveland's University Circle area, is a unique collection of landscaped, themed gardens each ...


The Cleveland Press Collection

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Comprised of hundreds of thousands of clippings and photographs, The Cleveland Press Collection is the former editorial library, or "morgue," of The Cleveland Press and is now part of Cleveland State ...


The Cleveland Union Terminal Collection

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The Cleveland Union Terminal Collection is the archives of the company that built the Terminal Tower, the union passenger station, the complex of office buildings, post office, department store and ...


The Cuyahoga County Engineer's Photography Collection

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Over 1,200 images from the the Cuyahoga County Engineer's Office, documenting Engineer's Office projects to install and maintain the civil infrastructure ...


The Cuyahoga County Public Library Collection

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The images reproduced here currently are courtesy of the South Euclid Historical Society and represent Cuyahoga County Public Library's inaugural effort to digitally preserve and present images that ...


The Greater Cleveland Ethnographic Museum Collection

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The Greater Cleveland Ethnographic Museum was established in 1975 to preserve the traditions and histories of Cleveland ethnic communities. Although the museum closed in 1981, it was able to capture ...


The Photograph Albums of Glenallen

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Like the other Severance estates that lined Taylor and Mayfield Roads in Cleveland Heights in the early 20th century, the life of Glenallen, the estate of Elisabeth Severance Allen Prentiss, was also ...


The Shaker Heights Collection

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Founded in 1912, Shaker Heights is situated on the eastern side of Cleveland, Ohio. Famous for its planned garden-city design, neo- traditional architecture,and green spaces, the city of Shaker ...


Yesterday's Lakewood

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This illustrated history consists of over 2,500 photographic images from the Lakewood Historical Society and Cleveland State University Special Collections. The site gives viewers an opportunity to ...


Cleveland Heights & University Heights, Ohio: A Collection of Historic Images

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Cleveland Heights and University Heights are first ring suburbs located on the “heights” east of Cleveland, Ohio. While each is incorporated as a separate city, they share a school district and ...


Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company (A.T.&S.F.Ry.Co.) Collection Highlights

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Mr. Lincoln's Virtual Library

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Mr. Lincoln's Virtual Library highlights two collections at the Library of Congress that illuminate the life of Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), the sixteenth president of the United States. The Abraham ...


ClaraVision

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ClaraVision is the University Archives digital collection of photographs, postcards, artifacts, textual documents, and other ephemera in the Archives holdings ...


Silicon Valley History Online

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The goal of Silicon Valley History Online is to create a gateway to the major historical resources of California's Santa Clara Valley. You will find photographs, maps, letters, postcards, manuscripts ...


George Palmer Putnam Collection of Amelia Earhart Papers

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The Amelia Earhart collection offers a rare glimpse into the life of America's premier woman aviator. In 1928 she was the first woman to across the Atlantic. As an inspiration for women to pursue non- ...


George Winter Collection of Writings and Paintings

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As one of Indiana’s best known artists, George Winter is credited with documenting the forced relocation of Native Americans from Indiana in his artwork. Purdue's Archives and Special Collections has ...


Best of the OSU Archives

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The "Best of the OSU Archives" is a digital collection consisting of frequently requested items as well as others that are not so well known. The collection is representative of the breadth and depth ...


Ball State University Department of Theatre and Dance Costumes

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The Ball State University Department of Theatre and Dance Costumes digital collection consists of selected images of theatre costumes created and maintained by the Ball State University Department of ...


WSU Libraries Digital Collections

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The Digital Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University (WSU) Libraries is an expanding series of collections that provide access to maps, historical photos and texts. ...


William Muschenheim Digital Archive

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The William Muschenheim Digital Archive is a searchable database of 3500 scans of architectural drawings and photographs from the Muschenheim collections at the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts ...


Broadway Park: Renewing Ann Arbor's Public Riverfront

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The goal of the Broadway Park Redesign Project is to encourage public discussion and proposals for improving Broadway Park and the nearby riverfront. The larger aim is to make the public riverfront ...


Early Detroit Images

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The Library of Michigan Digitization for Preservation and Access Grant was awarded to the Detroit Public Library in 2005. The grant allowed for the creation of a digital database of 19th century and ...


The Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad: Cleveland's Iron Cross

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The Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad (WLE) was founded in 1871 and it was originally designed to span the distance from the Ohio River through the coal fields of southeastern Ohio to the ports on Lake ...


Colorado Plateau Digital Archives

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The Colorado Plateau Digital Archives from the Cline Library at Northern Arizona University (NAU) contains regional archival treasures held by the Cline Library. This includes thousands of vintage and ...


Digital Treasures Repository

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The Digital Treasures Repository is a Central/Western Massachusetts Resource Sharing (C/WMARS) Project. It is a digital library collection of the agricultural and industrial cultural history of ...


Digital Past

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Digital Past, based at the North Suburban Library System in Illinois, offers a treasure trove of photographs, postcards, diaries, oral histories, documents, movies, interpretive exhibits, and other ...


Biblioteca Digital de Castilla-La Mancha

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Biblioteca de Castilla-La Mancha is coordinated by Bibliotecas Publicas del Estado, who are responsible for the network of public libraries in their respective provinces and other entities of regional ...


Biblioteca Valenciana Digital

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In order to provide a wide diffusion for the rich Valencian bibliographical heritage, in 2002, our Generalitat, through the Biblioteca Valenciana, started a digitization project called Biblioteca ...


Biblioteca Virtual de La Rioja

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LA RIOJA Virtual Library is a cooperative project of digitization of the bibliographic heritage of La Rioja, whose purpose is to facilitate the preservation and conservation and enable the management ...


British History Online

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British History Online is the digital library containing some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles. Created by the Institute of ...


Gallica: La Bibliothèque Numérique de la Bibliothèque Nationale de France

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Gallica: La Bibliothèque Numérique de la Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BnF) proposes to provide access to 70,000 digitized works, more than 80,000 images, and several thousand sound resources. The ...


The Sylvia and Harry Rebell Digital Collections

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The Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary: The Sylvia and Harry Rebell Digital Collections contains a number of digitized collections from JTS including bookplates, field recordings, manuscripts ...


Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München

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The Munich Digitisation Centre (MDZ) handles the digitisation and online publication of the cultural heritage preserved by the Bavarian State Library and by other institutions. It provides one of the ...


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