Arts(Collections may be listed under more than one subject.)Sub-categories: Architecture (23), Dance (1), Film (22), History of art (2), Music (39), Photography (111), Popular culture (1), Visual arts (79) 1893 Chicago World Columbia Exposition Collection Home Full DescriptionIllinois Harvest is a free public gateway combining search, aggregation, and discovery services. We provide organized and thematic access to digitized and born-digital resources about Illinois, ... 1893 Chicago World Columbia Exposition, Copy of Collection Home Full DescriptionIllinois Harvest is a free public gateway combining search, aggregation, and discovery services. We provide organized and thematic access to digitized and born-digital resources about Illinois, ... American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920 Collection Home Full DescriptionA 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 ... The Barbara Curtis Adachi Bunraku Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 ... Global Performing Arts Database (GloPAD) Collection Home Full DescriptionGloPAD 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 ... Hemispheric Institute Digital Video Library Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics is a consortium of institutions, artists, and scholars dedicated to exploring the relationship between expressive behavior (broadly construed as ... Illinois Art and Literature Collection Home Full DescriptionIllinois Harvest is a free public gateway combining search, aggregation, and discovery services. We provide organized and thematic access to digitized and born-digital resources about Illinois, ... The Joseph Urban Stage Design Models & Documents Stabilization & Access Project Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 ... The New Deal Stage: Selections from the Federal Theatre Project, 1935-1939 Collection Home Full DescriptionThis 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 ... UC Image Service Collections Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 ... Architecture Back to Top 125 Years of Achievement: The History of Cornell's College of Architecture, Art, and Planning Collection Home Full DescriptionOne hundred and twenty-five years ago Andrew Dickson White, the first president of Cornell University, challenged the Board of Trustees to establish a new program to provide formal academic training ... American Landscape and Architectural Design, 1850-1920: A Study Collection from the Harvard Graduate School of Design Collection Home Full DescriptionApproximately 2,800 lantern slides representing an historical view of American buildings and landscapes built during the period 1850-1920. The collection represents the work of Harvard faculty, such ... Andrew D. White Architectural Photographs Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Andrew Dickson White Architectural Photographs document a wide range of 19th- and early 20th-century architecture of Europe, the Middle East and the Americas, including structures, panoramas and ... Architecture and Interior Design for 20th Century America: Photographs by Samuel Gottscho and William Schleisner, 1935-1955 Collection Home Full DescriptionThe collection also provides a look at nature through the eyes of Samuel Gottscho. Another major highlight of the Gottscho-Schleisner collection are the images from the 1939 New York Worlds Fair. It ... "Arise and Build!": A Centennial Commemoration of the 1895 Rotunda Fire Collection Home Full DescriptionBrings some of the riches of the Special Collections Department of the University Library to the attention of the world and demonstrates the Library's expertise in making materials in diverse formats ... Art, Architecture and Engineering Library Visual Resources Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionImages from this collection are part of the Art, Architecture and Engineering Library Visual Resources Collection which is housed in the lower level of the Art, Architecture & Engineering Library. The ... Baltimore Architecture Project Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Baltimore Architecture Project is part of a nation-wide database called American Architects and Buildings. The Baltimore Architecture Project is the first "partner city" of this project, and ... Blake's Choice Selections from the Alexander Architecture Archive Collection Home Full DescriptionSelections from the Alexander Architectural Archive, University of Texas at Austin which includes papers, photographic material, models and ephemera, representing thousands of projects in Texas as ... Built in America: Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record, 1933-Present Collection Home Full DescriptionA collection documenting achievements in architecture, engineering, and design in the United States and its territories through a comprehensive range of building types and engineering technologies ... The Cape Coast Archive: Exploring & Preserving Cape Coast, Ghana Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Cape Coast Archive represents a collaborative effort by the University of Virginia Library, the United States branch of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), and Ghanaian ... The Charette Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Charette Digital Project provides web-based public access to a regional architectural journal. Charette (vols. 1-54, 1920-1974) was the journal of the Pittsburgh Architectural Club; and was later ... Colonial Revival in America: Annotated Bibliography Collection Home Full DescriptionOriginating from the University of Virginia’s Architecture Department, this bibliography provides an annotated listing of scholarly and popular literature that addresses the Colonial Revival in ... Digital Image Database Collection Home Full DescriptionDigital Image Database consists of images with a primary focus on, but not limited to, art and architecture. Use of the database is restricted to Carnegie Mellon University faculty, staff and students ... Fiske Kimball: Master of the Diverse Arts Collection Home Full DescriptionAn exhibit mounted in the Fiske Kimball Fine Arts Library in October of 1995, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the library that was named in Kimball's honor and that holds an extensive collection ... Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionFrances Benjamin Johnston (1864-1952) was one of the first American women to achieve prominence as a photographer. Trained at the Académie Julian in Paris, she studied photography upon her return to ... Greene & Greene Virtual Archives Collection Home Full DescriptionThe "Greene & Greene Virtual Archive" -- a joint project of The Gamble House/USC, Berkeley and Columbia and funded by the Getty Foundation -- was completed in June 2003. Its objective was the creation ... Image Bank Collection Home Full DescriptionThe UW Image Bank is an extensive collection of high-quality images of art, architecture, and cultural and historical materials. The Image Bank includes images of cultural production from diverse ... Lewis Wickes Hine: The Construction of the Empire State Building, 1930-1931 Collection Home Full DescriptionLewis Wickes Hine (1874 -1940), photographer, sociologist and humanist, is best known for his insightful portraits of immigrants at Ellis Island and his unflinching views of housing and labor ... Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts Collection Home Full DescriptionGarret MS. 158 was probably made in Bologna in 1471 or after 1473. Its principal text is the Collectio antiquitatum that was the work of Giovanni Marcanova, who was born in Venice ca. 1410/1418 and ... MIT Press Out of Print Books Collection Home Full DescriptionThe MIT Press, established as an independent publisher in 1962, is the only university press in the United States whose list is based in science and technology. The Press currently publishes some 40 ... Penn State-University Park Campus History Digital Archives Collection Home Full DescriptionThis collection of primary source materials has been gathered and placed on the web to enable students and others to learn about the history of the Penn State-University Park campus, including its ... Stanford Historical Photograph Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Stanford Historical Photograph Collection is one of the Stanford University Archives' major collections, consisting of some 16,000 photographs from throughout Stanford's history, and covers ... The William C. Brumfield Photograph Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionWilliam 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 ... Dance Back to Top Allison Delarue Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionBallet 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, ... Film Back to Top African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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, ... America’s Story from America's Library Collection Home Full DescriptionA 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’ ... Before and After the Great Earthquake and Fire: Early Films of San Francisco, 1897-1916 Collection Home Full DescriptionSite offers a perspective on the effects the San Francisco earthquake and subsequent fires of 1906 had on the development of the city. Seventeen films shot before the devastating events and seven shot ... Buckaroos in Paradise: Ranching Culture in Northern Nevada, 1945-1982. Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 ... Edison Motion Pictures Collection Home Full DescriptionEdison's laboratory was responsible for the invention of the Kinetograph (a motion picture camera) and the Kinetoscope (a peep-hole motion picture viewer). Most of this work was performed by Edison's ... The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920 Collection Home Full DescriptionDocuments the historical formation and cultural foundations of the movement to conserve and protect America's natural heritage, through books, pamphlets, government documents, manuscripts, prints, ... Explorations in Black Leadership Collection Home Full DescriptionDigitization of text, video and audio documenting the personal and professional lives of prominent African-American leaders, supporting a program co-sponsored by the Virginia Institute for Public ... Film Literature Index Collection Home Full DescriptionA July 2002 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities provided for converting to electronic format 700,000 entries of an authoritative paper-based film and television literature index, 1976 ... Gone with the Wind Collection Home Full DescriptionAn 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 ... Inventing Entertainment: The Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies Collection Home Full DescriptionFeatures motion pictures, sound recordings, photographs, and original magazine articles. Includes histories of Edison's invention and manufacture of motion pictures and sound recordings, and a special ... J. Willis Sayre Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 ... The Last Days of a President: Films of McKinley and the Pan-American Exposition, 1901 Collection Home Full DescriptionPresents twenty-eight films from the Paper Print Collection of the Library of Congress. Produced by the Edison Manufacturing Company from March to November 1901, these actuality motion pictures ... The Life of a City: Early Films of New York, 1898-1906 Collection Home Full DescriptionSite contains forty-five films from 1898 to 1906 highlighting the character of New York City around the turn of the century. A selected bibliography and information about early cameramen are also ... Origins of American Animation Collection Home Full DescriptionOffers information on the origins of American animation from 1900-1921, provided by the U.S. Library of Congress. Details the animation of such subjects as automobiles, boys, family, flowers, World ... Pictorial & Graphics Collections Collection Home Full DescriptionThe moving image collection contains film and video of a wide variety of formats. The film collection contains films dating back to 1914 and includes 35mm, 16mm, 8mm and Super 8mm formats. The ... Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929 Collection Home Full DescriptionAssembles a wide array of Library of Congress source materials from the 1920s that document the widespread prosperity of the Coolidge years, the nation's transition to a mass consumer economy, and the ... Silicon Genesis: An Oral History of Semiconductor Technology Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Silicon Genesis project was the inspiration of Rob Walker, Silicon Valley native and engineer, who has been involved with semiconductors since the 1960s at Fairchild, Intel and as a founder of LSI ... The Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures Collection Home Full Description68 motion pictures produced between 1898 and 1901 of the Spanish-American War and the subsequent Philippine Revolution. The Spanish-American War was the first U.S. war in which the motion picture ... Television News of the Civil Rights Era 1950-1970 Collection Home Full DescriptionThis digital archive is based on an extensive collection of 16 mm news footage from the Roanoke TV station, WSLS. The Virginia Center for Digital History is experimenting with using the GDMS for ... Theodore Roosevelt: His Life and Times on Film Collection Home Full DescriptionTheodore Roosevelt was the first U.S. president to have his career and life chronicled on a large scale by motion picture companies (even though his predecessors, Grover Cleveland and William McKinley ... Veterans History Project Collection Home Full DescriptionWith 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 ... The View from Here Collection Home Full DescriptionDigitization 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, ... History of art Back to Top Arizona Archives Historic Photographs Collection Home Full DescriptionArchives' 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, ... University of Michigan Museum of Art Collection Home Full DescriptionThis collection contains digital images of collections held at the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA). Music Back to Top The Abraham Lincoln Songster Collection Home Full DescriptionIntegrates digital facsimiles of Lincoln campaign song sheets together with full-text searchable lyrics of these songs and some RealAudio sound recordings. The Abraham Lincoln Songster is an ... African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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, ... African-American Sheet Music, 1850-1920: From the Collections of Brown University Collection Home Full DescriptionSelected from the Sheet Music Collection at the John Hay Library at Brown University. Consists of 1,305 pieces of American-American sheet music dating from 1850 through 1920. Includes many songs from ... America Singing: Nineteenth-Century Song Sheets Collection Home Full DescriptionCollection of 4,291 song sheets for popular music from the Rare Book and Special Collections Division of the Library of Congress. Consisting of lyrics produced between the turn of the nineteenth ... Buckaroos in Paradise: Ranching Culture in Northern Nevada, 1945-1982. Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 ... California Gold: Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 ... Chopin Early Editions Collection Home Full DescriptionContains digitized images of first and early print editions of musical compositions by Chopin, housed in the Special Collections Research Center of the University of Chicago Library. Database of Recorded American Music Collection Home Full DescriptionCurrently, there are over 1,500 CDs (9,800 compositions) in DRAM. The basis for the current collection is the diverse catalogue of American music recordings by New World Records. From folk to opera, ... Dayton C. Miller Flute Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionComprising nearly 1,700 flutes and other instruments, statuary, iconography, books, music, tutors, patents, and other materials mostly related to the flute, the Dayton C. Miller Flute Collection draws ... The Digital Elvis Project Collection Home Full DescriptionA site that provides access to all material needed for variable format readings or stagings of the play Elvis People, written by Doug Grissom of the UVA Drama Department, which explores the impact of ... Digital Scores Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Loeb Music Library, using the systems and services for image digitization developed by the Harvard University Library's (HUL) Library Digital Initiative, is creating an expansible resource of ... Ethnomusicology Musical Instrument Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionContains over 250 images of musical instruments from the collection of the University of Washington Ethnomusicology Division. Eugene Ormandy: A Centennial Celebration Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 ... Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier: The Henry Reed Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionA multi-format ethnographic field collection of traditional fiddle tunes performed by Henry Reed of Glen Lyn, Virginia. Recorded by folklorist Alan Jabbour in 1966-67, when Reed was over eighty years ... Hispano Music & Culture of the Northern Rio Grande: The Juan B. Rael Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionAn online presentation of a multi-format ethnographic field collection documenting religious and secular music of Spanish-speaking residents of rural Northern New Mexico and Southern Colorado. In 1940 ... Historic American Sheet Music: 1850-1920 Collection Home Full Description3,042 pieces of sheet music drawn from the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University and presenting a significant perspective on American history and culture through a ... Historic Sheet Music, 1800-1922 Collection Home Full DescriptionApproximately 9,000 pieces of Sheet Music published from 1800 to 1922, although the majority is from 1850 to 1920. The bulk was published in many different cities in the United States, but some of the ... The Hoagy Carmichael Collection, 1899-1981 Collection Home Full DescriptionDigitized artifacts pertaining to the life and career of master songwriter Hoagland "Hoagy" Carmichael (1899-1981), and including music scores, lyric sheets, photographs, correspondences, scrapbooks, ... IN Harmony: Sheet Music from Indiana Collection Home Full DescriptionIndiana University Libraries, in partnership with the Indiana State Museum, the Indiana Historical Society, and the Indiana State Library, propose creating an online sheet music collection that will ... Indiana University Sheet Music Collection Home Full DescriptionSheet music is held in several repositories at Indiana University. This web site allows you to search some of the holdings from the Lilly Library's approximately 150,000 pieces of sheet music, ... Keffer Collection of Sheet Music, ca. 1790-1895 Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Keffer Collection of Sheet Music at the University of Pennsylvania contains 2,531 scores ranging in date from ca. 1790 to 1895. The great majority of the items were published in the United States ... The Leonard Bernstein Collection, ca. 1920-1989 Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 Collection Home Full DescriptionExhibition about Leopold Stokowski from the collections in the Annenberg Rare Book & Manuscript Library. The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music Collection Home Full DescriptionHighlights include: Images of the covers and each page of music published before 1923 and in the public domain Search capability Digital workflow management system is currently under development ... Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature On-Line Collection Home Full DescriptionSelected 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 ... Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1820-1860, 1870-1885 Collection Home Full DescriptionMusic for the Nation: American Sheet Music contains more than 62,500 pieces of historical sheet music registered for copyright: more than 15,000 registered during the years 1820-1860 and more than 47, ... Musical Scores Collection Home Full DescriptionIllinois Harvest is a free public gateway combining search, aggregation, and discovery services. We provide organized and thematic access to digitized and born-digital resources about Illinois, ... A New Deal for the Arts Collection Home Full DescriptionDuring 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, ... "Now What a Time": Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals, 1938-1943 Collection Home Full DescriptionApproximately one hundred sound recordings, primarily blues and gospel songs, and related documentation from the folk festival at Fort Valley State College (now Fort Valley State University), Fort ... Omaha Indian Music Collection Home Full DescriptionOmaha 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 ... Pacific Northwest Sheet Music Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Pacific Northwest Sheet Music Collection contains music from and about Washington State, the Pacific Northwest and the University. The user can listen to the recording while viewing the musical ... Performing Arts in America 1875-1923 Collection Home Full DescriptionPerforming 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 ... Sam DeVincent Collection of American Sheet Music Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Sam DeVincent Collection of American Sheet Music contains approximately 24,000 pieces of sheet music, songbooks, and folios. It was acquired for the Lilly Library in 1998. Sam DeVincent who, until ... Southern Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip Collection Home Full DescriptionThe collection is part of the American Folklife Center of the U.S. Library of Congress. Beginning in Port Aransas, Texas on March 31, 1939, and ending at the Library of Congress on June 14, 1939, John ... Starr Sheet Music Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Starr Sheet Music Collection, containing over 100,000 separate items, is a rich resource for musicians, historians and students of American culture. It is primarily a collection of American ... Voices from the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection, 1940-1941 Collection Home Full DescriptionPresents "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 ... "We'll Sing to Abe our Song!": Sheet Music about Lincoln, Emancipation, and the Civil War: From the Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana Collection Home Full DescriptionCollection of over two hundred sheet music compositions on the subject of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War. Spanning the years from Lincoln's presidential campaign in 1859 through the centenary of ... Western Americana Photographs Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionConsists 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 ... William P. Gottlieb Photographs from the Golden Age of Jazz Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 ... Photography Back to Top 19th Century Actors Photographs Collection Home Full Description610 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 ... African American Photographs Assembled for 1900 Paris Exhibition Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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, ... ALA Archives Digital Collections Collection Home Full DescriptionGroup 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 Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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. ... Albemarle County, Charlottesville City, University of Virginia Planimetric Data Collection Home Full DescriptionThis collection provides access to comprehensive collections of historical aerial photographs of Albemarle County, Virginia and the City of Charlottesville. Over 900 photographs, originally produced ... Albert “Dutch” Roth Photograph Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 ... Allison Delarue Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionBallet 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, ... Alvin H. Waite Photographs Collection Home Full DescriptionAlvin 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 ... America from the Great Depression to World War II: Color Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1939-1945 Collection Home Full DescriptionThe collection encompasses the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Resettlement Administration (1935-1937), the Farm ... America’s Story from America's Library Collection Home Full DescriptionA 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’ ... American Environmental Photographs, 1891-1936: From the University of Chicago Library Collection Home Full DescriptionApproximately 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 Collection Home Full DescriptionThis 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 Collection Home Full DescriptionApproximately 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 ... America's First Look into the Camera: Daguerreotype Portraits and Views, 1839-1864 Collection Home Full DescriptionSelections 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 Collection Home Full DescriptionContains over 350 images of archaeological sites, artifacts and structures from the Middle East, specifically Egypt and Israel, dating from 3000 BCE to 200 CE. Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar Collection Home Full DescriptionAdams's Manzanar work is a departure from his signature style of landscape photography. Although a majority of the photographs are portraits, the images also include views of daily life, agricultural ... Architecture and Interior Design for 20th Century America: Photographs by Samuel Gottscho and William Schleisner, 1935-1955 Collection Home Full DescriptionThe collection also provides a look at nature through the eyes of Samuel Gottscho. Another major highlight of the Gottscho-Schleisner collection are the images from the 1939 New York Worlds Fair. It ... Arizona Archives Historic Photographs Collection Home Full DescriptionArchives' 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 Collection Home Full DescriptionRuth 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 ... Armchair Travel in India c1900: The Stereoscopic Experience Collection Home Full DescriptionNot 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 ... Around the World in the 1890s: Photographs from the World's Transportation Commission, 1894-1896 Collection Home Full DescriptionImages 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 Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 ... Auto Club Digital Archive Collection Home Full DescriptionProvides 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 ... Berenice Abbott: Changing New York, 1935-1938 Collection Home Full DescriptionPhotographs 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 ... Boyd and Braas Photographs Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 ... Brady-Handy Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionE. and H.T. Anthony acquired Brady's Civil War negatives as payment for his debt to that photographic supply company. These negatives, distinguished by the prefix LC-B8, were purchased by the Library ... Built in America: Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record, 1933-Present Collection Home Full DescriptionA collection documenting achievements in architecture, engineering, and design in the United States and its territories through a comprehensive range of building types and engineering technologies ... By Popular Demand : Portraits of the Presidents and First Ladies, 1789-Present Collection Home Full DescriptionCompilation of formal and informal portraits of United States presidents from the collection of the Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress. California Historical Society Digital Archive Collection Home Full DescriptionThis 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 ... CalPhotos Collection Home Full DescriptionCalPhotos 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 Capital and the Bay: Narratives of Washington and the Chesapeake Bay Region, ca. 1600-1925 Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Capital and the Bay: Narratives of Washington and the Chesapeake Bay Region, ca. 1600-1925 comprises 139 books selected from the Library of Congress's General Collections and two books from its ... Charlotta Bass / California Eagle Digital Archive Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 ... China Christian Colleges and Universities Image Database Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 ... Chinese Historical Society Digital Archive Collection Home Full DescriptionIncludes 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 ... Civil War Photographs Collection Home Full DescriptionCivil 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 ... Clark Kinsey Photographs Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionClark 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 ... Class and Faculty Photographs 1860-1911, Oxford College of Emory University Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 ... Creative Americans: Portraits by Carl Van Vechten, 1932-1964 Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 ... Daguerreotypes at Harvard Collection Home Full DescriptionImages of more than 3,500 daguerreotypes, the first publicly-announced photographic process, from photograph collections throughout the University used in research and instruction. Dayton C. Miller Flute Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionComprising nearly 1,700 flutes and other instruments, statuary, iconography, books, music, tutors, patents, and other materials mostly related to the flute, the Dayton C. Miller Flute Collection draws ... Dunbar Economic Development Digital Archive Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 ... Early Images of Egypt Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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. ... Edward S. Curtis Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 ... EIKON Image Database for Biblical Studies Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 Collection Home Full DescriptionContains over 250 images of musical instruments from the collection of the University of Washington Ethnomusicology Division. The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920 Collection Home Full DescriptionDocuments the historical formation and cultural foundations of the movement to conserve and protect America's natural heritage, through books, pamphlets, government documents, manuscripts, prints, ... Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionFrances 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 ... Frank M. Hohenberger Photograph Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionDigital 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 ... Greene & Greene Digital Archive Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Greene & Greene Digital Archive contains images of drawings, architectural plans, rooms, furnishings, books, sketches, photographs, correspondence, and other historical documents related to the ... Guide to the Pennsylvania Bridges Collection, 1884-1915 Collection Home Full DescriptionThe collection contains photographs of railroad bridges in Pennsylvania, mostly in the Pittsburgh area, 1891-1915. Photographs include technical drawings, depicting structural details and complete ... The Hedda Morrison Photographs of China, 1933-1946 Collection Home Full DescriptionMore 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 ... Historic Aerial Photo Imagebase Collection Home Full DescriptionDigital 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 ... Historical New Haven Digital Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 ... Icelandic and Faroese Photographs of Frederick W. W. Howell Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 ... Images of African Americans from the 19th Century Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of The New York Public Library is pleased to offer this selection of images of 19th-century African Americans. They are presented in the hope that ... Internet Mission Photography Archive Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 ... J. Willis Sayre Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 ... Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive Collection Home Full DescriptionThis 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 ... John C. H. Grabill Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionThe collection includes a visual record of railroad development, coaches and wagons, mining, smeltering, and milling, freighting, emerging cities and towns, parades, cattle roundups and branding, ... John H. White: Portrait of Black Chicago Collection Home Full DescriptionFrom 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, ... Kautz Family YMCA Archives Collection Home Full DescriptionThis 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 ... King County Snapshots Collection Home Full DescriptionKing 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 ... Korean American Digital Archive Collection Home Full DescriptionFunded 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 ... LA Examiner Digital Archive Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 Collection Home Full DescriptionOffers 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. Lawrence & Houseworth Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionIn 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 ... The Leonard Bernstein Collection, ca. 1920-1989 Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 ... Lewis Wickes Hine: The Construction of the Empire State Building, 1930-1931 Collection Home Full DescriptionLewis Wickes Hine (1874 -1940), photographer, sociologist and humanist, is best known for his insightful portraits of immigrants at Ellis Island and his unflinching views of housing and labor ... The Making of Ann Arbor Collection Home Full DescriptionOnline 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 ... The Manuscripts and Archives Digital Images Database (MADID) Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 Collection Home Full DescriptionThis 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 ... Meeting of Frontiers Collection Home Full Description70,000 images chronicling the parallel experiences of the United States and Russia in settling their frontiers in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska. The bilingual Russian/English Meeting of Frontiers/ ... Modern Photographers Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionA 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 ... Mountjoy Prison Portraits of Irish Independence: Photograph Albums in the Thomas A. Larcom Collection Collection Home Full Description150 salt and albumen print photographs in two albums, of prisoners confined in Mountjoy Prison, Dublin, in August 1857 and November 1866. National Child Labor Committee Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionThe collection consists of more than 5,100 photographic prints and 355 glass negatives, given to the Library of Congress, along with the NCLC records, in 1954 by Mrs. Gertrude Folks Zimand, acting for ... National Photo Company Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionAvailable online are a growing proportion of the glass negatives and a selection of about 1,900 photographic prints for which copy negatives exist. The scanned photographic prints represent a small ... A New Deal for the Arts Collection Home Full DescriptionDuring 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 Northern Great Plains, 1880-1920: Photographs from the Fred Hultstrand and F.A. Pazandak Photograph Collections Collection Home Full DescriptionOver nine hundred black and white and hand-colored photographs taken from the collections of Fred Hultstrand and F.A. Pazandak have been mounted on this site. Photos depict pioneer and town life from ... Oliver S. Van Olinda Photographs Collection Home Full DescriptionA 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 ... Panoramic Photographs from the National Archives Collection Home Full DescriptionThis 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 ... Panoramic Photographs: Taking the Long View, 1851-1991 Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 Collection Home Full DescriptionParallel 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 ... Photochrom Prints Collection Home Full DescriptionLate 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, ... Portraits Database Collection Home Full DescriptionAn ongoing database of over 200 historical portraits of men and women well known in the Pacific Northwest region and also nationwide. These include, among others, architects, artists and writers, ... The Power of Woe, The Power of Life: Images of Women in Prints from the Renaissance to the Present Collection Home Full DescriptionDigital 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. ... Prints & Photographs Online Catalog Collection Home Full DescriptionUnique 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 ... Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929 Collection Home Full DescriptionAssembles a wide array of Library of Congress source materials from the 1920s that document the widespread prosperity of the Coolidge years, the nation's transition to a mass consumer economy, and the ... Robert Montgomery Bird: Writer and Artist Collection Home Full DescriptionRobert 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 ... Samuel Putnam Avery Print Collection and Related Works Collection Home Full DescriptionNearly 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 ... Seattle Water and Power Supply Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionThis 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 ... Selected Civil War Photographs Collection Home Full DescriptionContains 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 ... Siberian Digital Photo Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 ... Small-Town America: Stereoscopic Views from the Robert Dennis Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionA few big cities -- and many more small towns -- long ago made the Mid-Atlantic states of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut one of the most densely populated regions in North America. This website ... The South Texas Border, 1900-1920: Photographs from the Robert Runyon Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionA 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 ... Stanford Historical Photograph Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 ... Stereograph Cards Collection Home Full DescriptionThe online Stereograph Cards category is limited to individual stereographs that have been cataloged online, generally because they have associated copy negatives, transparencies, or digital files. In ... Theatre Productions and Players, 1900-1957: Vandamm Studio Photographs Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 ... U.S. Steel Gary Works Photograph Collection, 1906-1971 Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Digital Library Program at Indiana University presents the U.S. Steel Photograph Collection. The collection contains photographs of the Gary Works steel mill and the town of Gary, Indiana. The ... The United States and its Territories, 1870-1925: the Age of Imperialism Collection Home Full DescriptionTexts 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, ... University Archives Photograph Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 ... The View from Here Collection Home Full DescriptionDigitization 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 Collection Home Full DescriptionA growing collection of maps and images and other media resources related to the natural and cultural landscapes of Suriname. Voices from the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection, 1940-1941 Collection Home Full DescriptionPresents "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 Collection Home Full DescriptionSelection 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 ... Washington As It Was: Photographs by Theodor Horydczak, 1923-1959 Collection Home Full DescriptionSpanning 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 ... Western Americana Photographs Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionConsists 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 ... The William C. Brumfield Photograph Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionWilliam 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 Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 ... WPA/TVA Images Collection Home Full DescriptionAn on-line searchable database of information describing photographic images taken by Works Progress Administration (WPA) workers of archaeological projects conducted in preparation for Tennessee ... Wright Brothers Negatives Collection Home Full DescriptionAmong 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 ... Popular culture Back to Top Southern Spaces Collection Home Full DescriptionUsing 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 ... Visual arts Back to Top 125 Years of Achievement: The History of Cornell's College of Architecture, Art, and Planning Collection Home Full DescriptionOne 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 ... The 19th-Century American Trade Card Collection Home Full DescriptionMore than 1,000 images of 19th c. advertising trade cards selected from the Historical Collections at Baker Library, Harvard Business School. As one of the most popular forms of advertising in the ... African American Cinema Collection, 1907-2001 Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 ... African Art: Aesthetics and Meaning Collection Home Full DescriptionAfrican artifacts have generally been exhibited with reference only to cultural context and use. In view of recent studies of African aesthetic principles and related moral and religious values, there ... Allison Delarue Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionBallet 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, ... America’s Story from America's Library Collection Home Full DescriptionA 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’ ... American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera Collection Home Full DescriptionThe library of Peter Force, acquired by the Library of Congress in 1867, furnished the basis of the Printed Ephemera Collection. Force himself had secured many of the pieces assembled by an earlier ... Art, Architecture and Engineering Library Visual Resources Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionImages 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 ... Athanasius Kircher at Stanford Collection Home Full DescriptionKircher Correspondence implementation was unveiled in conjunction with an international conference held at Stanford - Baroque Imaginary: the World of Athanasius Kircher S.J. (1602-1680). A large ... Ben Shahn at Harvard Collection Home Full DescriptionBen 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 ... Birket Foster, Victorian Illustrator: A Memorial Exhibit in Honor of Charles W. Mann, Jr. (1929-1998) Collection Home Full DescriptionBirket 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 ... Built in America: Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record, 1933-Present Collection Home Full DescriptionA collection documenting achievements in architecture, engineering, and design in the United States and its territories through a comprehensive range of building types and engineering technologies ... By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943 Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 ... Cartoon Prints, American Collection Home Full DescriptionThe prints illustrate the rise and decline of allegorical expression and the evolution of important symbols such as Uncle Sam, Liberty, and Justice. Because of the testimony they provide to earlier ... Charles W. Cushman Photograph Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionCharles 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 ... Claire Holt Papers 1930-1969 Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 ... Colonial Revival in America: Annotated Bibliography Collection Home Full DescriptionOriginating from the University of Virginia’s Architecture Department, this bibliography provides an annotated listing of scholarly and popular literature that addresses the Colonial Revival in ... Cruikshank Artwork at Princeton University Library Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 ... CTHEORY Multimedia Collection Home Full DescriptionCTHEORY Multimedia is a journal of Web based interactive art grouped around a common conceptual theme. The site complements CTHEORY, an existing electronic review of theory, techno-culture and society ... Daguerreotypes at Harvard Collection Home Full DescriptionImages of more than 3,500 daguerreotypes, the first publicly-announced photographic process, from photograph collections throughout the University used in research and instruction. Degas at Harvard Collection Home Full DescriptionA 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 Image Database Collection Home Full DescriptionDigital 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 ... Dürer's Passions Collection Home Full DescriptionHighlights and excerpts from a Fall 2000 exhibition on display at the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums. The English Emblem Book Project Collection Home Full DescriptionA collaborative project with the University Libraries' Arts and Humanities Library's Digital Resources Center, Special Collections and Preservation Department, the Emblem Book Project undertakes to ... The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920 Collection Home Full DescriptionDocuments 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 Collection Home Full DescriptionOne 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 Collection Home Full DescriptionAn 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 ... Fuertes Illustrations Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionIncludes a database with 2500 of these illustrations, as well as an exhibit based on the journal he kept during the 1899 Harriman Alaska expedition. A Grand Legacy: Arts of the Ottoman Empire Collection Home Full DescriptionHighlights 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 Collection Home Full DescriptionOver 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 ... History of Art: Visual Resources Collections at the University of Michigan Collection Home Full DescriptionThe core of these collections includes 310,000 35-mm. slides and 50,000 lantern slides. In addition there are more than 186,000 archival research photographs, and negative collections of approximately ... Icelandic and Faroese Photographs of Frederick W. W. Howell Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 ... The Illustrated Book, 1780-1830: Selected from the Collection of Harris N. Hollin Collection Home Full DescriptionAn online exhibit of surrogates for items in the collection of Harris N. Hollin. Including images of more than 40 plates and excerpts from the texts, the exhibit is thematically organized and focuses ... Image Bank Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 ... Images Online Collection Home Full DescriptionBritish Library Images Online: a unique resource for commercial picture buyers, enabling you to license thousands of images from the British Library's unparalleled collections. An Introduction to the Mercator Globes at Harvard Map Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionA presentation of images of the Mercator Globes at the Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library with zooming and navigation. Mercator was a prolific publisher of maps and atlases, but he is ... Investigating the Renaissance Collection Home Full DescriptionAn 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 ... The Lewis Walpole Library Digital Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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. ... Lorado Taft Papers, 1857-1953 Collection Home Full DescriptionPapers 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 ... The Manuscripts and Archives Digital Images Database (MADID) Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 ... Map Collections, 1500-1999 Collection Home Full DescriptionThe focus of Map Collections is Americana and Cartographic Treasures of the Library of Congress. These images were created from maps and atlases and, in general, are restricted to items that are not ... Maryland ArtSource Collection Home Full DescriptionBased 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 ... McKenney and Hall Indian Tribes of North America Collection Home Full DescriptionText and 121 hand colored lithographs from: The history of the Indian tribes of North America, with biographical sketches and anecdotes of the principal chiefs. Embellished with one hundred and twenty ... Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts Collection Home Full DescriptionGarret MS. 158 was probably made in Bologna in 1471 or after 1473. Its principal text is the Collectio antiquitatum that was the work of Giovanni Marcanova, who was born in Venice ca. 1410/1418 and ... Meeting of Frontiers Collection Home Full Description70,000 images chronicling the parallel experiences of the United States and Russia in settling their frontiers in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska. The bilingual Russian/English Meeting of Frontiers/ ... Menus Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionThis 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. ... MESL at Cornell University Collection Home Full DescriptionA 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 ... MIT Press Out of Print Books Collection Home Full DescriptionThe MIT Press, established as an independent publisher in 1962, is the only university press in the United States whose list is based in science and technology. The Press currently publishes some 40 ... Motley Collection of Theatre & Costume Design Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 ... Mr. Lincoln's Virtual Library Collection Home Full DescriptionMr. 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 ... A New Deal for the Arts Collection Home Full DescriptionDuring 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, ... Panoramic Maps, 1847-1929 Collection Home Full DescriptionContains 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 ... Parallel Histories: Spain, the United States, and the American Frontier Collection Home Full DescriptionParallel 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 ... Performing Arts in America 1875-1923 Collection Home Full DescriptionPerforming 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 ... Piet Mondrian: The Transatlantic Paintings Collection Home Full DescriptionDeveloped 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 Collection Home Full DescriptionIn 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 ... Portraits Database Collection Home Full DescriptionAn ongoing database of over 200 historical portraits of men and women well known in the Pacific Northwest region and also nationwide. These include, among others, architects, artists and writers, ... The Power of Woe, The Power of Life: Images of Women in Prints from the Renaissance to the Present Collection Home Full DescriptionDigital 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. ... Prints & Photographs Online Catalog Collection Home Full DescriptionUnique 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 ... Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929 Collection Home Full DescriptionAssembles a wide array of Library of Congress source materials from the 1920s that document the widespread prosperity of the Coolidge years, the nation's transition to a mass consumer economy, and the ... Quilts and Quiltmaking in America, 1978-1996 Collection Home Full DescriptionQuilts 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" ... Samuel Putnam Avery Print Collection and Related Works Collection Home Full DescriptionNearly 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 Collection Home Full DescriptionSargent at Harvard is a searchable database of images and information relating to the American artist John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) in the collections of the Harvard University Art Museums (Fogg Art ... Scenic Collections Database Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 ... The Shahnama Project Collection Home Full DescriptionThe "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, ... Smart Museum of Art On-line Database Project Collection Home Full DescriptionProvides 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, ... Southern Spaces Collection Home Full DescriptionUsing 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 ... The Swiss Poster Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionEstablished in 1985 by Ruedi Ruegg, Swiss graphic designer, and Carnegie Mellon School of Design Professor Daniel Boyarski, The Swiss Poster Collection is a critical selection of more than 300 works ... U.S. Trademark History Timeline Collection Home Full DescriptionTimeline display of digital representations of marks used by humans from earliest times to designate ownership, sometimes as property owner or sometimes as manufacturer. Universes in Collision: Men and Women in 19th-Century Japanese Prints Collection Home Full DescriptionThis exhibit was held at the Bayly Art Museum at the University of Virginia May 24 to October 5, 1997. University of Michigan Museum of Art Collection Home Full DescriptionThis collection contains digital images of collections held at the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA). The University of Pennsylvania Art Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionThe University of Pennsylvania has a remarkable and eclectic collection of more than 6,000 objects and artifacts acquired over the past 250 years. The collection is exhibited in various buildings and ... UofI Advertising Exhibit Collection Home Full DescriptionSamples 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 ... Vanity Fair Portfolio Collection Home Full DescriptionOver 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 ... Western Americana Photographs Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionConsists 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 ... William Blake: Illustrated Books Collection Home Full DescriptionThree original books in "relief etching" by William Blake, who composed the texts, designed the texts and decorations, and printed the pages: America: A Prophecy (1793 [1794?]), Europe: A Prophecy ( ... William Morris and His Circle Collection Home Full DescriptionThis 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 ... World War I Posters Collection Home Full DescriptionThe World War I posters include posters made in America and in France between 1914 and 1920 to advertise war efforts and issues. WPA Posters Collection Home Full DescriptionA 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 ... |
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