Social Studies(Collections may be listed under more than one subject.)Sub-categories: Anthropology (101), Civics (80), Criminology (7), Current events/issues (3), Economics (53), Geography (29), History of social studies (1), Human behavior (1), Sociology (7), State history (199), Technology and civilization (1), United States Constitution (1), United States government (7), United States history (331), World history (89) Anthropology Back to Top 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 ... The African American Experience in Ohio, 1850-1920 Collection Home Full DescriptionDigital collection of over 30,000 pages of manuscripts, printed text, and images from many separate Ohio collections presents the history of African Americans in Ohio from 1850 to 1920. Major topics ... African American 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 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 ... African-American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907 Collection Home Full Description351 pamphlets presenting a panoramic and eclectic review of African American history and culture, spanning almost one hundred years. Works include sermons on racial pride and political activism; ... 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 ... An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals, ca. 1490-1920 Collection Home Full DescriptionA collection of over two hundred social dance manuals beginning with a rare late fifteenth-century source, "Les basses danses de Marguerite d'Autriche" (c.1490) and ending with Ella Gardner's 1929 " ... 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 Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940 Collection Home Full DescriptionThese life histories were written by the staff of the Folklore Project of the Federal Writers' Project for the U.S. Works Progress (later Work Projects) Administration (WPA) from 1936-1940. Typically ... American Social Hygiene Posters Collection Home Full DescriptionThese 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 ... The American Soldier Surveys Collection Home Full DescriptionDuring WWII, the Army conducted hundreds of surveys of American troops, covering topics relating to soldiers' attitudes toward the war, morale, and education. The collective survey results affected ... 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 ... 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. Archival Sound Recordings Collection Home Full DescriptionThe aim of the Project is to increase access to the British Library Sound Archive's extensive collections of recordings and supporting materials. This innovative project will: - Make 4000 hours of ... Archives of Irish America Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 ... 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 ... Asia for Educators Collection Home Full DescriptionAsian for Educators is a joint project of the East Asian Curriculum Project (EACP), for teachers and students at the pre-collegiate level, and the Project on Asia in the Core Curriculum, for teachers ... Asia in the Eyes of Europe Collection Home Full Description1000 copies of this catalog were published in conjunction with the exhibition Asia in the Eyes of Europe: Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries held in the Department of Special Collections, 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 ... 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 ... Baseball Cards 1887-1914 Collection Home Full DescriptionPresents 2,100 early baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection. Dating from 1887 to 1914 and issued as black-and-white photographs or color prints, these forerunners to sports trading ... The Boston Transit Collection at the Fogg Art Museum Collection Home Full DescriptionComprised 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 ... Botanical and Cultural Images of Eastern Asia, 1907-1927: Ernest Henry Wilson's Photographs Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 ... Bracton Online Collection Home Full DescriptionA digital presentation of Bracton: De Legibus Et Consuetudinibus Angliæ (Bracton on the Laws and Customs of England), the first comprehensive attempt to rationally articulate English law. The 13th ... 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 ... The Burney Collection of Newspapers Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 700 or so bound volumes of newspapers and news pamphlets gathered by the Revd Charles Burney (1757-1817) represent the largest single collection of 17th and 18th century English news media ... "California As I Saw It": First-person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900 Collection Home Full Description"California as I Saw It:" First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900 consists of the full texts and illustrations of 190 works documenting the formative era of California's history ... California Cultures Collection Home Full DescriptionA 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 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 ... Cartulaire du St. Aubin Collection Home Full DescriptionOnline version of the 12th century cartulary (769-1175), Cartulaire du St. Aubin, which was published in 1903 by A. Picard, Paris. A Celebration of Women Writers Collection Home Full DescriptionA Celebration of Women Writers is a collection of electronic text transcriptions (many with illustrations) edited by volunteer Mary Mark Ockerbloom. This sister site to The On-Line Books Page has ... Center for Japanese Studies Publications Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Scholarly Publishing Office (SPO) is working with the Center for Japanese Studies to make its publication series more accessible, both through the Web and through print. The Out-of-Print Books ... 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 ... Chiricahua and Mescalero Apache Texts Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Electronic publication of Harry Hoijer's Chiricahua and Mescalero Apache Texts is a web-accessible Apache language linguistic database and text archive available to the public at no charge as part ... 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 ... Collect Britain: Putting History in its Place Collection Home Full DescriptionCollect Britain is the British Library's largest digitisation project to date. The site goes live on May 21st 2003. By summer 2004 you can view and hear a staggering 100,000 images and sounds from our ... Counting California Collection Home Full DescriptionA new initiative committed to enhancing California citizens' access to the growing range of social science and economic data produced by government agencies. In a departure from more static formats, ... Death of the Father: An Anthropology of Ends in Political Authority Collection Home Full DescriptionDiscusses the effects of the death of a leader on a nation, such as the deaths of German politician and leader Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and Soviet political leader Joseph Stalin (1879-1953). Traces ... Digital Anthropology Resources for Teaching Collection Home Full DescriptionDART 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 ... The Digital South Asia Library Collection Home Full DescriptionA 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 ... 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. ... Economic Growth Center Digital Library Collection Home Full DescriptionThis project, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, will digitize and make accessible to the global research community a selection of Mexican state statistical abstracts from the Yale University ... El Clamor Publico Digital Archive Collection Home Full DescriptionThis archive is available through a partnership with The Huntington Library, who generously allowed USC to digitize their complete holdings of this newspaper. Billed as Los Angeles' "Periodica ... The Eleuterio Escobar Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionExhibition based on the Benson Latin American Collection at the University of Texas at Austin. The collection houses the papers of Eleuterio Escobar (b. 1894 - d. 1970), a prominent San Antonio ... 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 Fantastic in Art and Fiction Collection Home Full DescriptionGraphic 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- ... 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 ... 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. 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 ... Historical Archaeology in Loudoun Valley and Harpers Ferry Collection Home Full DescriptionArchaeological 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 ... 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 ... History of the American West, 1860-1920: Photographs from the Collection of the Denver Public Library Collection Home Full DescriptionOver 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 ... Household Words: Women Write from and for the Kitchen Collection Home Full DescriptionAn exhibition from the Esther B. Aresty Collection - a collection of works on the culinary arts spanning five centuries and representing cultures from nearly every part of the world. Human Ecology Historical Photographs Collection Home Full DescriptionA 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 ... InscriptiFact Collection Home Full DescriptionThe InscriptiFact Project is a database designed to allow access via the Internet to high-resolution images of ancient inscriptions from the Near Eastern and Mediterranean Worlds. The target ... 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 ... Italian Women Writers Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Italian Women Writers project (IWW) is a long-term research endeavor to preserve and provide access to an extensive corpus of literature written by Italian women authors. Its goal is to bring ... Japanese Text Initiative Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 ... JARDA Collection Home Full DescriptionJARDA 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 ... Kelsey Museum Artifacts Database Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Kelsey Museum Artifact Database is an online version of the museum catalogue intended to aid researchers. 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 ... 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. Latin Americanist Research Resources Project Collection Home Full DescriptionBibliographic information of a cross-section of over 500 journals published in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, ... Latviešu Tautas Dziesmas (Latvian Dainas) Collection Home Full DescriptionDainas are Baltic folk songs in verse form. This project is an electronic edition of the 12 volumes of Latviešu tautas dziesmas, edited by Arveds Švābe, Kārlis Straubergs, and Edīte ... Ling Long Women's Magazine, Shanghai 1931 to 1937 Collection Home Full DescriptionLing 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 ... Linking the Americas Collection Home Full DescriptionA collaboration between the Stanford University Libraries and the Stanford University Press, made possible by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The project offers a significant body of ... Making it in Los Angeles Collection Home Full DescriptionAngelenos 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... Newspapers Digitisation Project: British Newspapers 1800-1900 Collection Home Full DescriptionThe aim is to select and to digitise complete runs of UK newspaper titles that are published between 1800 and 1900. It is proposed to select a mixture of UK national, regional and local newspaper ... 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 ... 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 ... Peter Parker Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionPeter 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 ... Pioneering the Upper Midwest: Books from Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, ca. 1820-1910 Collection Home Full DescriptionPortrays the states of Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin from the seventeenth to the early twentieth century through first-person accounts, biographies, promotional literature, local histories, ... 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. ... Puerto Rico at the Dawn of the Modern Age: Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century Perspectives Collection Home Full DescriptionPortrays the early history of the commonwealth of Puerto Rico through first-person accounts, political writings, and histories drawn from the Library of Congress's General Collections. Among 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" ... Relaciones Geográficas Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionAn 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 ... Renaissance Festival Books Collection Home Full DescriptionRenaissance festival books describe and illustrate the magnificent festivals and ceremonies that took place in Europe between 1475 and 1700 - marriages and funerals of royalty and nobility, ... The Rhone Family of Fayette Co., Texas Collection Home Full DescriptionExhibition 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 ... 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 ... South Asia at Chicago: Fifty Years of Scholarship Collection Home Full DescriptionOnline 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 ... South Central China and Tibet: The Hotspot of Diversity Collection Home Full DescriptionFor 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 ... Southern Changes Online: The Journal of the Southern Regional Council, 1978-2003 Collection Home Full DescriptionSearchable 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 ... 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 ... Sunk in Lucre's Sordid Charms: South Sea Bubble Resources in the Kress Collection at Baker Library Collection Home Full DescriptionDigital 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 ... Survey of Race Relations Collection Home Full DescriptionIn the early 1920s, a group of scholars set out to make an investigation of economic, religious, educational, civic, biological, and social conditions among Chinese, Japanese, and other non-European ... Texas, Texans, and the Alamo Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 Tibetan & Himalayan Library Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 ... 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. Vietnam Powwow: The Vietnam War as Remembered by Native American Veterans Collection Home Full DescriptionThe following is a collection of narratives written or spoken by Native American veterans about the Vietnam War. Currently, no such collection is available, a surprising absence in that Native ... 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: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921 Collection Home Full DescriptionConsists of 167 books, pamphlets and other artifacts documenting the suffrage campaign. They are a subset of the Library's larger collection donated by Carrie Chapman Catt, longtime president of the ... West Semitic Research Project Collection Home Full DescriptionThe West Semitic Research Project is an academic project affiliated with the University of Southern California School of Religion and directed by Dr. Bruce Zuckerman. For the past 20 years WSRP has ... 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 Winnifred Eaton Digital Archive Collection Home Full DescriptionWinnifred Eaton (1875-1954), writing under the pseudonym of Onoto Watanna, was the first person of Asian descent to publish a novel in the US. Perhaps more significantly, she was the first Asian ... Women Working, 1800-1930 Collection Home Full DescriptionProvides access to digitized books (over 3,500), manuscripts (7,500 pages) and images (1,200) from the collections of Harvard University Libraries and Museums on the topic of women in the U.S. economy ... Women's Literary Salons Archive, 1975-1985: New York, Cerridwen, Paris, Los Angeles Collection Home Full DescriptionEphemera 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 ... Civics Back to Top Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project Collection Home Full DescriptionPresents 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 ... Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress Collection Home Full DescriptionThe complete Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress consists of approximately 20,000 documents. The collection is organized into three "General Correspondence" series which include incoming ... The Abraham Lincoln Quarterly Collection Home Full DescriptionBetween 1940 and 1952, the Abraham Lincoln Association published fifty-two issues of The Abraham Lincoln Quarterly, a journal with original articles regarding all facets of Abraham Lincoln's life and ... 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 ... Abraham Lincoln, Slavery, and the Civil War Collection Home Full DescriptionBiographies of and writings by Abraham Lincoln and his contemporaries; works pertaining to slavery in the United States and to the American Civil War. The African American Experience in Ohio, 1850-1920 Collection Home Full DescriptionDigital collection of over 30,000 pages of manuscripts, printed text, and images from many separate Ohio collections presents the history of African Americans in Ohio from 1850 to 1920. Major topics ... African American 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’ ... American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940 Collection Home Full DescriptionThese life histories were written by the staff of the Folklore Project of the Federal Writers' Project for the U.S. Works Progress (later Work Projects) Administration (WPA) from 1936-1940. Typically ... American Originals Collection Home Full Description"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 Originals Part II Collection Home Full DescriptionAmerican 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 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 ... Anarchism Pamphlets in the Labadie Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionThe pamphlets digitized here comprise a very small part of a much larger collection of pamphlets owned by the Labadie Collection on the topic of anarchism. In order to maintain a simple way for the ... ASIL Newsletter UN21 Interest Group Collection Home Full DescriptionEach Newsletter issue carries a restatement of the essential goals of the United Nations Decade of International Law so that new members (and seasoned ones as well) can readily recall the reason for ... The Avalon Project at Yale Law School: Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Avalon Project, a collaboration between the Yale Law School and Yale Law Library, makes historical and present day legal documents available online. This international collection focuses ... Bracton Online Collection Home Full DescriptionA digital presentation of Bracton: De Legibus Et Consuetudinibus Angliæ (Bracton on the Laws and Customs of England), the first comprehensive attempt to rationally articulate English law. The 13th ... Bridging the Bay: Bridging the Campus Collection Home Full DescriptionAt a time when the Bay Area’s bridges are being analyzed and new structures are being planned, it is important to recognize the diversity and depth of the research collections that exist on the ... 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 ... "California As I Saw It": First-person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900 Collection Home Full Description"California as I Saw It:" First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900 consists of the full texts and illustrations of 190 works documenting the formative era of California's history ... A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875 Collection Home Full DescriptionBrings together online the records and acts of Congress from the Journals of the Continental Congress through The Congressional Globe, which ceased publication with the Forty-second Congress in 1873. ... The Charters of Freedom Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Charters of Freedom web page on the National Archives & Records Administration website offers high resolution versions of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights ... The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln Collection Home Full DescriptionIn 1953, the Abraham Lincoln Association published The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, a multi-volume set of Lincoln's correspondence, speeches, and other writings. Roy P. Basler and his editorial ... Constituent Mail Analysis Project Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Constituent Mail Analysis Project (CMAP) explores the possibilities for studying constituent mail using congressional correspondence management system files generated by the United States Senate ... Cornell Death Penalty Project Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Cornell Death Penalty Project takes no official position on the wisdom or desirability of the death penalty. In particular, the empirical arm of the Project is dedicated to neutral examination of ... Counting California Collection Home Full DescriptionA new initiative committed to enhancing California citizens' access to the growing range of social science and economic data produced by government agencies. In a departure from more static formats, ... Death of the Father: An Anthropology of Ends in Political Authority Collection Home Full DescriptionDiscusses the effects of the death of a leader on a nation, such as the deaths of German politician and leader Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and Soviet political leader Joseph Stalin (1879-1953). Traces ... DigitalCommons@ILR Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Martin P. Catherwood Library at Cornell’s School of Industrial & Labor Relations collects key materials on workplace issues by special arrangement with government offices, commissions, task forces ... Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention 1774-1789 Collection Home Full DescriptionSelections from the Continental Congress Broadside Collection (253 titles) and the Constitutional Convention Broadside Collection (21 titles) contain 274 documents relating to the work of Congress and ... Early Virginia Religious Petitions Collection Home Full DescriptionImages of 423 petitions submitted to the Virginia legislature between 1774 and 1802 from more than eighty counties and cities. Drawn from the Library of Virginia's Legislative Petitions collection, ... The Eleuterio Escobar Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionExhibition based on the Benson Latin American Collection at the University of Texas at Austin. The collection houses the papers of Eleuterio Escobar (b. 1894 - d. 1970), a prominent San Antonio ... The Emancipator Newsletter Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Emancipator Newsletter, published monthly in Jonesborough, Tennessee in 1820 by Elihu Embree, advocated the abolition of slavery. Embree, a Quaker, had established what is probably the country's ... The Emma Goldman Papers Collection Home Full DescriptionEmma Goldman (1869-1940) stands as a major figure in the history of American radicalism and feminism. An influential and well-known anarchist of her day, Goldman was an early advocate of free speech, ... 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 ... Federal Courts Finder Collection Home Full DescriptionAn electronic full-text collection of decisions handed down by the eleven Federal Circuit Courts of Appeal. This site serves as a full-text archive for decisions handed down in the Federal Circuit ... Free Speech Movement Digital Archive Collection Home Full DescriptionPresents a collection of material relating to the student protests at Berkeley in 1964 and 1965. Site contains journals, newsletters, photographs, oral histories, books, pamphlets, reports, minutes of ... From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1822-1909 Collection Home Full DescriptionPresents 397 pamphlets published from 1824 through 1909, by African-American authors and others who wrote about slavery, African colonization, Emancipation, Reconstruction, and related topics. The ... GATT Digital Library: 1947-1994 Collection Home Full Description"Provides access to documents and information of and about the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), an organization that promoted international commerce and the reduction of trade barriers ... George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress: 1741-1799 Collection Home Full DescriptionCorrespondence, letterbooks, commonplace books, diaries, journals, financial account books, military records, reports, and notes from the approximately 65,000 items in the collection accumulated by ... Global Legal Information Network (GLIN) Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Global Legal Information Network (GLIN) maintains and provides a database of laws, regulations, and other complementary legal sources. The documents included in the database are contributed by the ... HeinOnline Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Law Library collaborated with Cornell Information Technologies and the Hein Publishing Company in making historical law reviews available over the Internet, both in image form for authenticity, as ... HELIOS Collection Home Full DescriptionCarnegie Mellon University Libraries provide electronic access to portions of the congressional papers from the late U.S. Senator John Heinz (R-PA). Named in the senator's memory, the Heinz Electronic ... 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 ... The Jeffersonian Cyclopedia Collection Home Full Description9,000 entries on Thomas Jefferson quotations, searchable and browseable by theme, date, topic, recipient, and place of publication, relating to government, politics, law, education, political economy ... Labadie Collection, University of Michigan Collection Home Full DescriptionThe images in this database comprise the general photograph holdings of the Labadie Collection. Not included are photographs that make up part of archival collections. Letters of Delegates to Congress: 1774-1789 Collection Home Full DescriptionA 25 volume searchable and browseable collection of letters from all the delegates to the first Congress of the United States. 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 ... 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 ... Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen, Local 160 Records, 1884-1927 Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Order was founded in 1868 in Amboy, Illinois as the Conductors Union. This collection contains records relating to the Wyoming Valley-Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania Division 160. In addition to ... Permanent Court of Arbitration Web Mirror Site Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Cornell Law Library cooperates with the Permanent Court of Arbitration, in the Hague, the Netherlands, in making several of their documents available. 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 ... Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States Collection Home Full DescriptionEach Public Papers volume contains the papers and speeches of the President of the United States that were issued by the Office of the Press Secretary during the specified time period. The material is ... The Rhone Family of Fayette Co., Texas Collection Home Full DescriptionExhibition 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 ... SAGE: Selected Archives at Georgia Tech and Emory Collection Home Full DescriptionHome page for SAGE, the Selected Archives at Georgia Tech and Emory. Contains links to information about SAGE and to four online digital archives: the Fred R. Crawford Witness to the Holocaust Project ... The September 11 Digital Archive: Saving the Histories of September 11, 2001 Collection Home Full DescriptionPermanent 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 ... Technology and Law Program Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Technology and Law Program offers a cluster of graduate-level subjects associated with the Technology and Policy Program (TPP) at MIT, as well as research opportunities at the interface of law and ... 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 ... Thomas Jefferson Digital Archive Collection Home Full DescriptionA continually expanding collection of electronic texts, digital scholarship, and University of Virginia collections relating to Thomas Jefferson. The Thomas Jefferson Papers, 1606-1827 Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 ... Tokens & Treasures: Gifts to Twelve Presidents Collection Home Full DescriptionFeatures an online exhibit entitled "Tokens and Treasures: Gifts to Twelve Presidents," provided by the National Archives and Records Administration. Notes that the online exhibit is adapted from an ... Treasures of Congress Collection Home Full DescriptionFew institutions have been as central to the course of American history as the U.S. Congress. Most of the great issues in our national life have been played out there, and many of our most memorable ... The Triangle Factory Fire Collection Home Full DescriptionThis site includes selected information on a terrible and unnecessary tragedy involving the death of many young working women in a New York City sweatshop at the beginning of the 20th century and the ... U.S. Congressional Bibliographies Collection Home Full DescriptionCummulative bibliographies of Senate hearings, prints, and publications received weekly from the Senate Library. 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. 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, ... 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 ... Vietnam War Era Ephemera Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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- ... 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, ... The Virginia Elections and State Elected Officials Database Project, 1776-2008 Collection Home Full DescriptionUpdate (2005): Election data for Virginia candidates running for U.S. Congress back to the 1960s, election and service data for candidates in 2004 elections, and campaign finance data for candidates ... 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 ... Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921 Collection Home Full DescriptionConsists of 167 books, pamphlets and other artifacts documenting the suffrage campaign. They are a subset of the Library's larger collection donated by Carrie Chapman Catt, longtime president of the ... Women Working, 1800-1930 Collection Home Full DescriptionProvides access to digitized books (over 3,500), manuscripts (7,500 pages) and images (1,200) from the collections of Harvard University Libraries and Museums on the topic of women in the U.S. economy ... Words and Deeds in American History: Selected Documents Celebrating the Manuscript Division's First 100 Years Collection Home Full DescriptionIn honor of the Manuscript Division's centennial, its staff has selected for online display approximately ninety representative documents spanning from the fifteenth century to the mid-twentieth ... WPA Cards Digital Archive Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Works Progress Administration Los Angeles Household Census Cards collection dates from 1939. The physical cards which number nearly half a million items are owned by USC's Information Services, ... WPA Maps Digital Archive Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Works Progress Administration (WPA) conducted a land use survey from Dec. 18, 1933 to May 8, 1939 for the City of Los Angeles, Department of City Planning. It covered approximately 460 square ... WPA Posters 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 ... 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 ... The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources 1745-1799 Collection Home Full DescriptionExtensive archive of writings on or by George Washington. The archive is the electronic edition of John C. Fitzpatrick’s comprehensive study, "The Writings of George Washington from the Original ... Criminology Back to Top ASIL Newsletter UN21 Interest Group Collection Home Full DescriptionEach Newsletter issue carries a restatement of the essential goals of the United Nations Decade of International Law so that new members (and seasoned ones as well) can readily recall the reason for ... The Avalon Project at Yale Law School: Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Avalon Project, a collaboration between the Yale Law School and Yale Law Library, makes historical and present day legal documents available online. This international collection focuses ... Bracton Online Collection Home Full DescriptionA digital presentation of Bracton: De Legibus Et Consuetudinibus Angliæ (Bracton on the Laws and Customs of England), the first comprehensive attempt to rationally articulate English law. The 13th ... Federal Courts Finder Collection Home Full DescriptionAn electronic full-text collection of decisions handed down by the eleven Federal Circuit Courts of Appeal. This site serves as a full-text archive for decisions handed down in the Federal Circuit ... Global Legal Information Network (GLIN) Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Global Legal Information Network (GLIN) maintains and provides a database of laws, regulations, and other complementary legal sources. The documents included in the database are contributed by the ... Nuremberg Trials Project: A Digital Document Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionThe documents, which include trial transcripts, briefs, document books, evidence files, and other papers, have been studied by lawyers, scholars, and other researchers in the areas of history, ethics ... Permanent Court of Arbitration Web Mirror Site Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Cornell Law Library cooperates with the Permanent Court of Arbitration, in the Hague, the Netherlands, in making several of their documents available. Current events/issues Back to Top Holocaust Denial on Trial Collection Home Full DescriptionIn 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. ... PBS Frontline Video Collection Home Full DescriptionPBS Frontline Video contains records linking to Frontline programs, from "Country Boys" to "Is Wal-Mart Good for America?". Since 1983, Frontline has been an American public television's public ... Workplace Issues Today Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Martin P. Catherwood Library at Cornell’s School of Industrial & Labor Relations established Workplace Issues Today (WIT) in 1999 as a selective news center where faculty, students and interested ... Economics Back to Top 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 ... The African American Experience in Ohio, 1850-1920 Collection Home Full DescriptionDigital collection of over 30,000 pages of manuscripts, printed text, and images from many separate Ohio collections presents the history of African Americans in Ohio from 1850 to 1920. Major topics ... African-American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907 Collection Home Full Description351 pamphlets presenting a panoramic and eclectic review of African American history and culture, spanning almost one hundred years. Works include sermons on racial pride and political activism; ... The Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers at the Library of Congress, 1862-1939 Collection Home Full DescriptionThe online version of the Alexander Graham Bell family papers at the Library of Congress comprises a selection of 4,695 items (totaling about 51,500 images). This presentation contains correspondence ... American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940 Collection Home Full DescriptionThese life histories were written by the staff of the Folklore Project of the Federal Writers' Project for the U.S. Works Progress (later Work Projects) Administration (WPA) from 1936-1940. Typically ... American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera 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 ... 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 ... "California As I Saw It": First-person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900 Collection Home Full Description"California as I Saw It:" First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900 consists of the full texts and illustrations of 190 works documenting the formative era of California's history ... California Cultures Collection Home Full DescriptionA collection of digitally reformatted primary resources selected from University of California libraries and bearing on the social live, culture, and commerce both of California's immigrants and its ... California Historical Society Digital Archive 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 ... Centralia Massacre Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), sometimes known as the Wobblies, is a radical labor organization that was most active from 1900 to the 1930's. This collection of pamphlets, leaflets and ... Charlotta Bass / California Eagle Digital Archive 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 ... Cooperative Mobility Program Collection Home Full DescriptionCMP researchers contributed to a major new study of worldwide mobility trends, commissioned by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD). This study, Mobility 2001, is the first ... DigitalCommons@ILR Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Martin P. Catherwood Library at Cornell’s School of Industrial & Labor Relations collects key materials on workplace issues by special arrangement with government offices, commissions, task forces ... Dunbar Economic Development Digital Archive 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 ... The Emma Goldman Papers Collection Home Full DescriptionEmma Goldman (1869-1940) stands as a major figure in the history of American radicalism and feminism. An influential and well-known anarchist of her day, Goldman was an early advocate of free speech, ... Finding Aid to the Collected Personal and Company Papers of Louis and Jacob Blaustein Collection Home Full DescriptionIn 2004, the Sheridan Libraries received an extraordinary collection of papers related to the personal and professional life of Jacob Blaustein, who together with his father Louis, founded the ... Ford-MIT Alliance Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Ford Motor Company has engaged MIT in addressing an array of 21st century industry challenges. The multi-million dollar alliance, begun in 1997, focuses on three research areas: product ... Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection 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 ... GATT Digital Library: 1947-1994 Collection Home Full Description"Provides access to documents and information of and about the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), an organization that promoted international commerce and the reduction of trade barriers ... Greene & Greene Digital Archive 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 ... Human Ecology Historical Photographs Collection Home Full DescriptionA database of selected images and information from the records of the College of Home Economics, Cornell University. The photographs are organized by general subjects: Resident Teaching; International ... Inside an American Factory: Films of the Westinghouse Works, 1904 Collection Home Full DescriptionSite houses twenty-one early films held at the Library of Congress. Originally intended to showcase Westinghouse's operations, the films are today a testament to the conditions found at early American ... International Motor Vehicle Program Collection Home Full DescriptionThe International Motor Vehicle Program (IMVP) has had a major impact on the global automobile industry and related economies since it was launched in 1979. IMVP has focused on trends in the global ... Key Workplace Documents Collection Home Full DescriptionAn extensive collection of key workplace federal documents from the Commission on Family and Medical Leave, Congressional Budget Office, Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue Briefs, ... LA Examiner Digital Archive 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. ... Living off the Land: Tobacco and Crop Science History in North Carolina, 1850-1950 Collection Home Full DescriptionLiving off the Land is a digital resource that features original images and other documents relating to North Carolina's agricultural history and economy. The project highlights some of the rich, ... Materials Systems Laboratory Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Materials Systems Laboratory (MSL) analyzes the competitive position of materials and the strategic implications of materials choice in the automotive, electronic, and aerospace industries. To ... Menus Collection 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. ... 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 ... 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 ... Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen, Local 160 Records, 1884-1927 Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Order was founded in 1868 in Amboy, Illinois as the Conductors Union. This collection contains records relating to the Wyoming Valley-Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania Division 160. In addition to ... Program on Internet and Telecoms Convergence Collection Home Full DescriptionMIT Program on Internet and Telecoms Convergence (ITC) research aims to further the Internet's evolution by clearly identifying an evolving array of technical, economic, or policy-related hurdles. The ... Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929 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 ... Railroad Maps 1828-1900 Collection Home Full DescriptionRepresents 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 Collection Home Full DescriptionAn exhibition based on documents with dates ranging from 1578 to 1586 and comprising original responses to a questionnaire initiated by the Spanish Crown in 1577, requesting information about Spanish ... Seattle Water and Power Supply Collection 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 ... 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 ... Sloan School of Management Collection Home Full DescriptionThrough innovative research, MIT Sloan faculty create and redefine ideas at the forefront of management theory and practice around the globe. Sunk in Lucre's Sordid Charms: South Sea Bubble Resources in the Kress Collection at Baker Library Collection Home Full DescriptionDigital 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 Collection Home Full DescriptionThis site includes selected information on a terrible and unnecessary tragedy involving the death of many young working women in a New York City sweatshop at the beginning of the 20th century and the ... U.S. Steel Gary Works Photograph Collection, 1906-1971 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 ... 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. 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 ... Women Working, 1800-1930 Collection Home Full DescriptionProvides access to digitized books (over 3,500), manuscripts (7,500 pages) and images (1,200) from the collections of Harvard University Libraries and Museums on the topic of women in the U.S. economy ... Workplace Issues Today Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Martin P. Catherwood Library at Cornell’s School of Industrial & Labor Relations established Workplace Issues Today (WIT) in 1999 as a selective news center where faculty, students and interested ... WPA Cards Digital Archive Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Works Progress Administration Los Angeles Household Census Cards collection dates from 1939. The physical cards which number nearly half a million items are owned by USC's Information Services, ... WPA Maps Digital Archive Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Works Progress Administration (WPA) conducted a land use survey from Dec. 18, 1933 to May 8, 1939 for the City of Los Angeles, Department of City Planning. It covered approximately 460 square ... WPA Posters 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 ... 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 ... The WTO History Project Collection Home Full DescriptionOur unique collection of interviews with protest organizers and participants sheds light on the behind-the-scenes cooperative (and sometimes contentious) relationships among social movement ... WTO Seattle Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionA collection of interviews and images depicting the protests of the WTO ministerial meeting held in Seattle on November 29 - December 3, 1999. The collection illustrates the efforts to bring activists ... Geography Back to Top 1907 & 1920 Sanborn Maps of Charlottesville Collection Home Full DescriptionMore 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... Central Eurasian Information Resource Interactive Atlas: At the University of Washington Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Central Eurasian Interactive Atlas provides access to geographic data with more than 700 attributes on demography, social infrastructure, economics and elections for 2,463 administrative units of ... Civil War Maps, 1861-1865 Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 ... Cornell University Geospatial Information Repository Collection Home Full DescriptionAn active online repository providing free access to searching, browsing and downloading of geospatial data and metadata for New York State. CUGIR began in 1998 and represents New York State within ... Digital Chart of the World Server Collection Home Full DescriptionA 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 Maps and Geospatial Data and Links Collection Home Full DescriptionGeostat collects and houses a variety of data for GIS applications to suit the teaching and research needs of faculty and students as well as the general public. Our collection is particulary focused ... A Geological Hand Atlas of the Sixty-Seven Counties of Pennsylvania Collection Home Full DescriptionThis 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. ( ... 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 ... 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 Census Browser Collection Home Full Description"The data presented here describe the population and economy of U.S. states and counties from 1790 to 1960 ... No information is available below the county level and only states are included (no ... Historical Maps Online Collection Home Full DescriptionIncludes 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 ... 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 ... 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. ... 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 ... Mapping the National Parks Collection Home Full DescriptionDocuments 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 Africa Collection Home Full DescriptionMaps 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 ... Maps of Liberia, 1830-1870 Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 ... 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 ... Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionAn 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 Collection Home Full DescriptionRepresents 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 Collection Home Full DescriptionAn 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 ... Sea of Korea Maps Digital Archive Collection Home Full DescriptionThis 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 ... 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. A Virginia Gazetteer Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Virginia Gazetteer contains the official name, type, and location of over 51,000 geographic features in Virginia. The Virginia Gazetteer is linked to an inventory of collections archived at the ... WPA Cards Digital Archive Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Works Progress Administration Los Angeles Household Census Cards collection dates from 1939. The physical cards which number nearly half a million items are owned by USC's Information Services, ... WPA Maps Digital Archive Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 ... History of social studies Back to Top The Papers of John Jay Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Papers of John Jay is an image database and indexing tool comprising some 13,000 documents (more than 30,000 page images) scanned chiefly from photocopies of original documents. Most of the source ... Human behavior Back to Top PBS Frontline Video Collection Home Full DescriptionPBS Frontline Video contains records linking to Frontline programs, from "Country Boys" to "Is Wal-Mart Good for America?". Since 1983, Frontline has been an American public television's public ... Sociology Back to Top The American Soldier Surveys Collection Home Full DescriptionDuring WWII, the Army conducted hundreds of surveys of American troops, covering topics relating to soldiers' attitudes toward the war, morale, and education. The collective survey results affected ... Central Eurasian Information Resource Interactive Atlas: At the University of Washington Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Central Eurasian Interactive Atlas provides access to geographic data with more than 700 attributes on demography, social infrastructure, economics and elections for 2,463 administrative units of ... Cornell Death Penalty Project Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Cornell Death Penalty Project takes no official position on the wisdom or desirability of the death penalty. In particular, the empirical arm of the Project is dedicated to neutral examination of ... Counting California Collection Home Full DescriptionA new initiative committed to enhancing California citizens' access to the growing range of social science and economic data produced by government agencies. In a departure from more static formats, ... Economic Growth Center Digital Library Collection Home Full DescriptionThis project, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, will digitize and make accessible to the global research community a selection of Mexican state statistical abstracts from the Yale University ... Historical Census Browser Collection Home Full Description"The data presented here describe the population and economy of U.S. states and counties from 1790 to 1960 ... No information is available below the county level and only states are included (no ... National Council on Social Welfare Proceedings (1874 – 1982) Collection Home Full DescriptionThese proceedings were issued under earlier names of the Conference as follows: 1874, Conference of Boards of Public Charities; 1875-1879, Conference of Charities; 1880-1881, Conference of Charities ... State history Back to Top 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, ... The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire Digital Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionOn 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 ... Adjutants General of Arizona Collection Home Full DescriptionThe African American Experience in Ohio, 1850-1920 Collection Home Full DescriptionDigital collection of over 30,000 pages of manuscripts, printed text, and images from many separate Ohio collections presents the history of African Americans in Ohio from 1850 to 1920. Major topics ... 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. ... Albany Library: Historical Photograph Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... American Studies Information Community Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Census of American Studies Resources on the Web supports the creation, discovery, and delivery of an annotated directory of American Studies resources on the web. Entries in the directory are ... Anaheim Public Library: Photograph Collection on Anaheim Local History Collection Home Full DescriptionAnaheim 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, ... Archives of Irish America Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 ... "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 ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... The Boston Transit Collection at the Fogg Art Museum Collection Home Full DescriptionComprised 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 ... 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 ... Bridging the Bay: Bridging the Campus Collection Home Full DescriptionAt a time when the Bay Area’s bridges are being analyzed and new structures are being planned, it is important to recognize the diversity and depth of the research collections that exist on the ... The Cabell Family Papers Collection Home Full DescriptionThe history of Virginia and that of the Cabell family are inextricably linked; indeed, since about 1726, the Cabells have been one of the Commonwealth's most interesting and influential families. This ... "California As I Saw It": First-person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900 Collection Home Full Description"California as I Saw It:" First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900 consists of the full texts and illustrations of 190 works documenting the formative era of California's history ... California 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... Cavalier Daily Digital Archive Collection Home Full DescriptionDigital Library Production Services and Alderman Library Reference Services are collaborating on a project to digitize the entire run of the UVA student newspaper, The Cavalier Daily. The text is ... A Century of Progress: The 1933-34 World's Fair Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionOn May 27, 1933 Postmaster General James A. Farley officially opened the gates to A Century of Progress. When the fair closed October 31, 1934, thirty-nine million visitors had paid to walk through ... Champaign County Collection Home Full DescriptionHistorical materials pertaining to cities and towns of Champaign County, Illinois, including Champaign and Urbana. 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 ... Chicago Collection Home Full DescriptionExtensive collection of monographs and pamphlets related to 19th and early 20th century Chicago, including general histories of Chicago; the 1893 Chicago World Columbian Exhibition; the great Chicago ... 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 ... Church and Congregational History in Illinois Collection Home Full DescriptionEarly histories of churches, congregations, and religious communities in Illinois. Also includes books about Joseph Smith and Mormonism, as well as Dwight Lyman Moody, founder of the Moody Bible ... 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 ... Community Cookbooks 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, ... Cornell University Library Historical Monographs Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionContains monographs that were originally scanned in the 1990s as part of a joint digital preservation research project with Cornell University Library and Xerox are now available for online viewing. ... County and Local Histories (Illinois) Collection Home Full DescriptionEarly histories of Illinois counties, cities, and towns, including portrait and biographical records and numerous pictorial works. 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. Days of Cal Collection Home Full DescriptionThis 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 ... Digital Cultural Heritage Community Collection Home Full DescriptionMaterials from East Central Illinois archives, museums, and libraries for third, fourth, and fifth grade social science curriculum. Digital New York City Collection Home Full DescriptionPart of the E-Books collection at Columbia University Libraries. 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 Virginia Religious Petitions Collection Home Full DescriptionImages of 423 petitions submitted to the Virginia legislature between 1774 and 1802 from more than eighty counties and cities. Drawn from the Library of Virginia's Legislative Petitions collection, ... Education in Illinois Collection Home Full DescriptionGeneral histories of early public schooling in Illinois, as well as histories of various colleges and universities in the state. Eighteenth Century Collections Online Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 ... El Clamor Publico Digital Archive Collection Home Full DescriptionThis archive is available through a partnership with The Huntington Library, who generously allowed USC to digitize their complete holdings of this newspaper. Billed as Los Angeles' "Periodica ... The Eleuterio Escobar Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionExhibition based on the Benson Latin American Collection at the University of Texas at Austin. The collection houses the papers of Eleuterio Escobar (b. 1894 - d. 1970), a prominent San Antonio ... The Emancipator Newsletter Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Emancipator Newsletter, published monthly in Jonesborough, Tennessee in 1820 by Elihu Embree, advocated the abolition of slavery. Embree, a Quaker, had established what is probably the country's ... Free Speech Movement Digital Archive Collection Home Full DescriptionPresents a collection of material relating to the student protests at Berkeley in 1964 and 1965. Site contains journals, newsletters, photographs, oral histories, books, pamphlets, reports, minutes of ... The Geography of Slavery in Virginia Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Geography of Slavery in Virginia is a digital collection of advertisements for runaway and captured slaves and servants in 18th- and 19th-century Virginia newspapers. Building on the rich ... 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 ... Harvard/Radcliffe Online Historical Reference Shelf Collection Home Full DescriptionElectronic access to frequently consulted sources on the history of Harvard and Radcliffe including annual reports, narrative histories, writings, statistics, founding documents, Massachusetts ... 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 Archaeology in Loudoun Valley and Harpers Ferry Collection Home Full DescriptionArchaeological 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 Maps Online Collection Home Full DescriptionIncludes 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 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 ... History of the American West, 1860-1920: Photographs from the Collection of the Denver Public Library Collection Home Full DescriptionOver 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 ... Human Ecology Historical Photographs Collection Home Full DescriptionA 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 ... 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, ... Illinois History and Culture Collection Home Full DescriptionContains an ever growing number of important and unique books and pamphlets from UIUC's Illinois History and Lincoln Library, including early general histories of Illinois and its principle cities and ... Immigration to the United States (1789-1930) Collection Home Full DescriptionConcentrating heavily on the 19th century, Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930, includes approximately 1,800 books and pamphlets as well as 9,000 photographs, 200 maps, and 13,000 pages from ... Indiana Magazine of History Collection Home Full DescriptionThe yearly indexes of the Indiana Magazine of History from 1980 to 2000 are currently available on the web. The 25-year index covering 1955-1979 has been marked up and will be available on the web in ... 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, ... 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 as Subject Collection Home Full DescriptionHosted by the USC Libraries, L.A. as Subject is an alliance of research archives, libraries, and collections dedicated to preserving the rich history of the Los Angeles region. L.A. as Subject is ... LA Comprehensive Bibliographic Database Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Los Angeles Comprehensive Bibliographic Database (LACBD) publishes in one comprehensive electronic edition two bibliographies: "Los Angeles and its Environs in the Twentieth Century: A ... 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. ... Labor and Social Reform Movements Collection Home Full DescriptionEarly 20th century history of labor and social reform movements, with emphasis on Illinois and Chicago. Trade unions, temperance, prostitution, suffrage, the settlement movement, etc. 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 ... Lehman Special Correspondence Files Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Special Correspondence Files of the Herbert Lehman Papers contain correspondence with nearly 1,000 individuals from 1864 through 1982. Beginning with letters from Lehman's family in the late ... 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 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 ... Making it in Los Angeles Collection Home Full DescriptionAngelenos 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... Medical Historical Library Exhibits Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 ... 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. ... Michigan County Histories and Atlases Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Michigan County Histories collection is a collaborative effort of Michigan's Council of Library Directors. Initial collection content comprises titles selected from Frances Loomis's Michigan ... 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 ... Mount St. Helens Post-Eruption Chemistry Database Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 ... 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 ... New York State Historical Literature Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Cornell University Library New York State Historical Literature is a collection of selected monographs, pamphlets and other materials with expired copyrights chosen from from the Cornell Library's ... 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 ... Notable Illinoisans Collection Home Full DescriptionBiographies and autobiographies of Illinois politicians, social reformers, educators, journalists, military leaders, labor activists, ministers, jurists, and others. 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 ... 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 ... Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen, Local 160 Records, 1884-1927 Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Order was founded in 1868 in Amboy, Illinois as the Conductors Union. This collection contains records relating to the Wyoming Valley-Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania Division 160. In addition to ... Pacific Northwest Historical Documents Database Collection Home Full DescriptionA collection of writings, diaries, letters, and reminiscences drawn from various sources within the Manuscripts, Special Collections, University Archives collections that recount the early settlement ... The Pacific Northwest Olympic Peninsula Community Museum Collection Home Full DescriptionNorthwestern 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 ... Patients' Voices in Early 19th Century Virginia: Letters to Doct. James Carmichael & Son Collection Home Full DescriptionIn 1998 the University of Virginia Libraries purchased a 700-piece collection of the correspondence and daybook of Dr. James Carmichael and his son, Dr. Edward Carmichael, of Fredericksburg, Virginia ... 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 ... 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 ... Pioneering the Upper Midwest: Books from Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, ca. 1820-1910 Collection Home Full DescriptionPortrays the states of Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin from the seventeenth to the early twentieth century through first-person accounts, biographies, promotional literature, local histories, ... Poetry Here and Then Collection Home Full DescriptionA 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, ... 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, ... Proceedings of the Board of Regents of the University of Michigan (1837-present) Collection Home Full DescriptionPlease note that as of May 2006, the Regents Proceedings Index has been updated only through June 2005, and the digitized version of the Regents Proceedings is only available through June 2005. Railroad History Collection Home Full DescriptionBooks related to the history of railroading in the United States, with some international coverage as well. Numerous publications pertaining to the Illinois Central Railroad, its history and employees ... The Rhone Family of Fayette Co., Texas Collection Home Full DescriptionExhibition 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 ... Richard Thomas Walker Duke, Jr. and the Duke Family Papers at the University of Virginia Collection Home Full DescriptionBetween 1899 and 1926, Richard Thomas Walker Duke, Jr., a prominent Albemarle County, Virginia, jurist and civic leader, recorded the most memorable events of his life in five, leather-bound volumes ... Rural Life and Agriculture 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, ... SAGE: Selected Archives at Georgia Tech and Emory Collection Home Full DescriptionHome page for SAGE, the Selected Archives at Georgia Tech and Emory. Contains links to information about SAGE and to four online digital archives: the Fred R. Crawford Witness to the Holocaust Project ... San Bernardino Public Library: Historical Treasures of San Bernardino Collection Home Full DescriptionSan 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 Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... Society of California Pioneers: Collection of Autobiographies and Reminiscences of Early Pioneers Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Autobiographies and Reminiscences are made up of 153 documents varying in length from one page to over sixty pages, the average being around five pages in length. Most include details from the ... 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 ... Tennessee Documentary History, 1796-1850 Collection Home Full DescriptionThe "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 Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 ... Travel 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, ... UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library: De la Guerra Family Photographs Collection Home Full DescriptionMainly 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: Disabled Students' Program Records, 1965- Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Disabled Students' Program Records, 1965-[ongoing], consist of materials created or collected by the leaders and administrators of the Disabled Students' Program at the University of California, ... UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library: Drawings of Indians and California Scenery Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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, Bancroft Library: George and Phoebe Apperson Hearst Papers Collection Home Full DescriptionContains personal and business papers of George Hearst and his wife, Phoebe Apperson Hearst. A small portion of the collection relates to Mr. Hearst, a rancher, mining tycoon, and politican. His ... UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library: Hale Zukas Papers, 1971-1998 Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Hale Zukas Papers, 1971-1998, consist of materials reflecting Zukas's leading role as a founder and activist for the disability rights and independent living movements. The collection includes his ... UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library: Herbert Willsmore Papers, 1968-1993 Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Herbert Willsmore papers, 1968-1993, document his residency at Cowell Hospital, his involvement with the Rolling Quads, and his work with the California State Department of Rehabilitation. The ... UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library: James Ralston Caldwell Papers Collection Home Full DescriptionThe James Ralston Caldwell papers include materials relating to the Loyalty Oath Controversy on the University of California and the University of Nevada campuses, a small amount of material relating ... UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library: Land Case Maps Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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: Papers Relating to the Loyalty Oath Controversy, University of California, 1949-1956 Collection Home Full DescriptionEdward Chace Tolman, professor of psychology, University of California, Berkeley, was the foremost leader among the faculty in the protest against the loyalty oath. These papers were transferred from ... UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library: Photograph Collection of Family Members and Descendents of General M.G. Vallejo Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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: Records of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Region I Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Records of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Region I document the daily work of the NAACP in the Western United States from 1942-1986 (bulk 1945-1977). Regular ... UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library: San Francisco News-Call Bulletin Newspaper Photograph Archive Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 Collection Home Full DescriptionThe majority of the collection documents Wurster and WBE projects. Office Records such as photographs, presentation boards, clippings and scrapbooks were most likely created and collected to promote ... UC Berkeley, Ethnic Studies Library: Chung Sai Yat Po Newspaper Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionOn April 22, 1854, the Golden Hills' News, a Chinese weekly, published its first issue in San Francisco. Although it lasted only four months, this paper inaugurated the Chinese language press in the U ... UC Berkeley, University Archives: Records of the Committee on Academic Freedom During the Loyalty Oath Controversy Collection Home Full DescriptionThese records represent primarily the files of the chair of the Committee on Academic Freedom during the loyalty oath controversy, Wendell Stanley. Included are correspondence, position papers, ... UC Berkeley, Water Resources Center Archives: Joseph Barlow Lippincott Papers, 1882-1942 Collection Home Full DescriptionThis 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 Collection Home Full DescriptionIn the Chol Soo Lee case, the correspondence between K.W. Lee and Chol Soo Lee, the newspaper coverage of the case (particularly the Sacramento Union stories by K. W. Lee), and the court documents ... UC Irvine, Special Collections and Archives: Anne Frank Photographs Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 Collection Home Full DescriptionAmong the highlights of the printed materials are a field report on how the Hmong fared after resettlement in the Fresno area; several issues of the Phanat Nikhom Press, including articles written by ... UC Irvine, Special Collections and Archives: Collection on Refugee Forums Collection Home Full DescriptionThis 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 Collection Home Full DescriptionThis 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 Collection Home Full DescriptionThis 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 Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 Collection Home Full DescriptionThis 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 Collection Home Full DescriptionThis 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 Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 Collection Home Full DescriptionThis 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 Collection Home Full DescriptionEgan's signature can be found on the survey map of lands bordering Rancho Niguel. The other maps are drawn in the same, consistent hand. All maps are drawn on thin canvas. The lines are created ... UC Irvine, Special Collections and Archives: Orange County Rancho Title Abstracts Collection Home Full DescriptionThis 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 Collection Home Full DescriptionThis 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 Collection Home Full DescriptionThis 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 Irvine, Special Collections and Archives: Robert Walsh Files on Southeast Asian Refugee Resettlement and Education Collection Home Full DescriptionThis collection comprises materials accumulated during Walsh's involvement with the Overseas Refugee Program for Southeast Asian refugees in the Philippines and Thailand, and also materials that he ... UC Irvine, Special Collections and Archives: Southeast Asian Archive Vertical File Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionThese materials have been collected by the Southeast Asian Archive since its creation in 1987. They come from a variety of sources: roughly half of the materials have been donated by individuals and ... UC Irvine, Special Collections and Archives: Southeast Asian Genetics Program Records Collection Home Full DescriptionThis collection comprises records produced by the Southeast Asian Genetics Program (SEAGEP), including correspondence and manuscripts, grant applications, research data regarding birth defects and ... UC Irvine, Special Collections and Archives: Southeast Asia Resource Action Center Records Collection Home Full DescriptionThis collection consists of the organizational files of the Southeast Asia Resource Action Center (SEARAC), a national organization created to further the development of nonprofit organizations led by ... UC Irvine, Special Collections and Archives: Van Le Files on Southeast Asian Refugees Collection Home Full DescriptionThis collection is comprised of publications and other printed ephemera on Southeast Asian refugees in California and the United States that were accumulated during the course of his work by Van Le, a ... UC Los Angeles, Fowler Museum of Cultural History: Baja California (Paipai) Indian Archaeological and Ethnographic Collections 1955-1959 Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Paipai Indians continue in present day to live in Baja California, Mexico in an area south-east of Ensenada. Materials in the Paipai collection were field collected from 1955 to 1959 and consist ... UC Los Angeles, Fowler Museum of Cultural History: Southern Coastal California (Chumash & Gabrielo) Indian Archaeological Collections Collection Home Full DescriptionCollected by The University of California, Los Angeles, Fowler Museum of Cultural History, Archaeology Collections Facility. UC Los Angeles, Fowler Museum of Cultural History: California Indian Baskets ca. 1800s-1900s Collection Home Full DescriptionThe UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History's collection includes baskets made by California American Indians in the 19th and early 20th century. The baskets represent works from the Panamint Shoshone ... UC Los Angeles, Special Collections, Young Research Library: Augustus F. Hawkins Papers Collection Home Full DescriptionCollection consists of materials documenting Augustus F. Hawkins's lengthy service as a U.S. Congressman representing South Central Los Angeles from 1963-90 and as Chairman of the House Education and ... UC Los Angeles, Special Collections, Young Research Library: Edward Ross Roybal Papers Collection Home Full DescriptionEdward 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: California Ephemera Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionCollection consists of broadsides, clippings, brochures, and other ephemeral materials relating to California. Subjects include: abortion, Alcatraz Island, building and loan associations, California ... UC Los Angeles, Special Collections, Young Research Library: Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee Records Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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: S. Guy Endore Papers Collection Home Full DescriptionS. Guy Endore (1901-70) was a prolific author of books as well as television and movie scripts. His script, G.I. Joe, was nominated for an Oscar in 1945. He was reputedly blacklisted by the Hollywood ... UC Los Angeles, Special Collections, Young Research Library: Southern California Cadastral and Tract Maps Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 Collection Home Full DescriptionCollection 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: Brian Urquhart Collection on Ralph J. Bunche Collection Home Full DescriptionCollection 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: Pamphlet Maps Collection on California Collection Home Full DescriptionCollection consists of hundreds of pamphlet maps of various places around the world. UC Los Angeles, Special Collections, Young Research Library: Ralph J. Bunche Papers Collection Home Full DescriptionCollection 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: Underground, Alternative and Extremist Literature Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionCollection consists of newspapers and other materials representing American and some British and French underground, alternative and extremist literature. Includes materials from both sides of the ... UC Los Angeles, Special Collections, Young Research Library: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Los Angeles daily news was originally named the Illustrated Daily News by Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr. when he started it in 1923. He copied the tabloid format of the New York daily news, although he ... UC Los Angeles, Special Collections, Young Research Library: Estelle Ishigo Papers Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 Collection Home Full DescriptionCollection 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 Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 Urban League Records Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Los Angeles branch of the National Urban League stems from a 1921 organization founded by Katherine Barr and others who attended Booker T. Washington's Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. The league ... UC Los Angeles, Special Collections, Young Research Library: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archive Collection Home Full DescriptionCollection 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 Collection Home Full DescriptionCollection 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) Collection Home Full DescriptionBiographical 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 San Diego, Mandeville Special Collections Library: Ben Yellen Papers, 1945-1994 Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Ben Yellen Papers document grassroots social and political activism in the arenas of western farm labor and water policy. Yellen's correspondence dates from 1948 to 1994 and encompasses a variety ... UC San Diego, Mandeville Special Collections Library: Estado que Manifiesta el que Tenian las Misiones de la Antigua California Collection Home Full DescriptionHolograph statistical report of the human and livestock population, acreage, and agricultural output at 14 Baja California missions at the end of June 1775 while under Dominican curatorship. Signed by ... UC San Francisco, Tobacco Control Archives: Asian/Pacific Islanders Tobacco Education Network Records Collection Home Full DescriptionThe organizational records in this collection document the work of APITEN's central office staff in San Francisco, and outreach to communities throughout California, as well as Mini-Grant programs, ... UC San Francisco, Tobacco Control Archives: Tobacco Free Project, San Francisco Dept. of Public Health Records Collection Home Full DescriptionThis collection documents the activities of the Tobacco Free Project of the San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFTFP). The bulk of the materials in this collection is made up of contracts, ... UC Santa Barbara, California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives: Self-Help Graphics Archives Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 Collection Home Full DescriptionLinda 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 Collection Home Full DescriptionOchoa [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 Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 ... UC Santa Cruz, Special Collections and Archives: Helen Hosmer Papers Collection Home Full DescriptionThis small collection includes a letter from Helen Hosmer to Carey McWilliams, [1969?] describing the demise of the newsletter and an incomplete run of the Rural Observer, along with miscellaneous ... 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 ... University of Illinois Collection Home Full DescriptionHistory of the University of Illinois and persons associated with it. Vietnam War Era Ephemera Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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- ... 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, ... The Virginia Elections and State Elected Officials Database Project, 1776-2008 Collection Home Full DescriptionUpdate (2005): Election data for Virginia candidates running for U.S. Congress back to the 1960s, election and service data for candidates in 2004 elections, and campaign finance data for candidates ... A Virginia Gazetteer Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Virginia Gazetteer contains the official name, type, and location of over 51,000 geographic features in Virginia. The Virginia Gazetteer is linked to an inventory of collections archived at the ... The Virginia Heritage: Guides to Manuscript & Archival Collections in Virginia Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Virginia Heritage Project concluded successfully in December 2002. Over the course of the grant, Special Collections encoded 2,203 collection guides in the EAD format, representing 27,923 pages of ... WPA Cards Digital Archive Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Works Progress Administration Los Angeles Household Census Cards collection dates from 1939. The physical cards which number nearly half a million items are owned by USC's Information Services, ... WPA Maps Digital Archive Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Works Progress Administration (WPA) conducted a land use survey from Dec. 18, 1933 to May 8, 1939 for the City of Los Angeles, Department of City Planning. It covered approximately 460 square ... WPA/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 ... WTO Seattle Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionA collection of interviews and images depicting the protests of the WTO ministerial meeting held in Seattle on November 29 - December 3, 1999. The collection illustrates the efforts to bring activists ... Technology and civilization Back to Top Transportation History Collection: Railroads Collection Home Full DescriptionThe collection of railroad material consists of over 14,000 items relating to American, Canadian, Mexican, British, French, German, and Russian railroad companies and their rolling stock. There are ... United States Constitution Back to Top The Papers of John Jay Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Papers of John Jay is an image database and indexing tool comprising some 13,000 documents (more than 30,000 page images) scanned chiefly from photocopies of original documents. Most of the source ... United States government Back to Top The Abraham Lincoln Quarterly Collection Home Full DescriptionBetween 1940 and 1952, the Abraham Lincoln Association published fifty-two issues of The Abraham Lincoln Quarterly, a journal with original articles regarding all facets of Abraham Lincoln's life and ... The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln Collection Home Full DescriptionIn 1953, the Abraham Lincoln Association published The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, a multi-volume set of Lincoln's correspondence, speeches, and other writings. Roy P. Basler and his editorial ... The Dillingham Commission Reports Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Reports of the Immigration Commission from Stanford University include statistical reviews, emigration and immigration conditions in Europe and other parts of the world, occupations of immigrants ... 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 ... The Papers of John Jay Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Papers of John Jay is an image database and indexing tool comprising some 13,000 documents (more than 30,000 page images) scanned chiefly from photocopies of original documents. Most of the source ... PBS Frontline Video Collection Home Full DescriptionPBS Frontline Video contains records linking to Frontline programs, from "Country Boys" to "Is Wal-Mart Good for America?". Since 1983, Frontline has been an American public television's public ... World War II Poster Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 ... United States history Back to Top 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, ... 1907 & 1920 Sanborn Maps of Charlottesville Collection Home Full DescriptionMore 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 ... 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 ... Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project Collection Home Full DescriptionPresents 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 ... Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress Collection Home Full DescriptionThe complete Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress consists of approximately 20,000 documents. The collection is organized into three "General Correspondence" series which include incoming ... The Abraham Lincoln Quarterly Collection Home Full DescriptionBetween 1940 and 1952, the Abraham Lincoln Association published fifty-two issues of The Abraham Lincoln Quarterly, a journal with original articles regarding all facets of Abraham Lincoln's life and ... 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 ... Abraham Lincoln, Slavery, and the Civil War Collection Home Full DescriptionBiographies of and writings by Abraham Lincoln and his contemporaries; works pertaining to slavery in the United States and to the American Civil War. 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 ... The African American Experience in Ohio, 1850-1920 Collection Home Full DescriptionDigital collection of over 30,000 pages of manuscripts, printed text, and images from many separate Ohio collections presents the history of African Americans in Ohio from 1850 to 1920. Major topics ... African American 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 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, ... African American Women Writers of the 19th Century Collection Home Full DescriptionA digital collection of some 52 published works by 19th-century black women writers. A part of the Digital Schomburg, this collection provides access to the thought, perspectives and creative ... African-American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907 Collection Home Full Description351 pamphlets presenting a panoramic and eclectic review of African American history and culture, spanning almost one hundred years. Works include sermons on racial pride and political activism; ... 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 ... The Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers at the Library of Congress, 1862-1939 Collection Home Full DescriptionThe online version of the Alexander Graham Bell family papers at the Library of Congress comprises a selection of 4,695 items (totaling about 51,500 images). This presentation contains correspondence ... Allen Leigh Photograph Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 ... 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 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 ... 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 Civil War Collections at the Electronic Text Center Collection Home Full DescriptionEight collections of Civil War letters, two that are part of Ed Ayers' Valley of the Shadow Project for which we provide XML searching and display services (Electronic Text Center). The American Context of China's Christian Colleges and Schools Collection Home Full DescriptionThis 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 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 History Collection Home Full DescriptionEarly American history with a focus on the Midwestern states. 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 Leaders Speak: Recordings from World War I and the 1920 Election Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Nation's Forum Collection consists of fifty-nine sound recordings of speeches by American leaders from 1918-1920. The speeches focus on issues and events surrounding the First World War and the ... American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940 Collection Home Full DescriptionThese life histories were written by the staff of the Folklore Project of the Federal Writers' Project for the U.S. Works Progress (later Work Projects) Administration (WPA) from 1936-1940. Typically ... American Memory from the Library of Congress Collection Home Full DescriptionAmerican Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American ... American Notes: Travels in America, 1750-1920 Collection Home Full DescriptionAmerican Notes: Travels in America, 1750-1920 comprises 253 published narratives by Americans and foreign visitors recounting their travels in the colonies and the United States and their observations ... American Originals Collection Home Full Description"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 Originals Part II Collection Home Full DescriptionAmerican 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 Social Hygiene Posters Collection Home Full DescriptionThese 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 ... The American Soldier Surveys Collection Home Full DescriptionDuring WWII, the Army conducted hundreds of surveys of American troops, covering topics relating to soldiers' attitudes toward the war, morale, and education. The collective survey results affected ... American Studies Information Community Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Census of American Studies Resources on the Web supports the creation, discovery, and delivery of an annotated directory of American Studies resources on the web. Entries in the directory are ... 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 ... 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 American Verse Project Collection Home Full DescriptionAn electronic archive of volumes of American poetry. Most of the archive is made up of 19th century poetry, although a few 18th century and early 20th century texts are included. The full text of each ... Anarchism Pamphlets in the Labadie Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionThe pamphlets digitized here comprise a very small part of a much larger collection of pamphlets owned by the Labadie Collection on the topic of anarchism. In order to maintain a simple way for the ... 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 ... Anthropology Emeritus Lecture Series at the University of California, Berkeley Collection Home Full DescriptionEstablished in 1981, The Anthropology Emeritus Lecture Series honors a designated Emeritus faculty member from the UC Berkeley Department of Anthropology with a lecture by a distinguished ... Archival Finding Aids Collection Home Full DescriptionDescriptions of many of the manuscript and university archives collections housed in the Special Collections Library are available online. These finding aids contain information on a collection's ... Archives of Irish America Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 ... "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 ... Arizona Attorney General Opinions Collection Home Full DescriptionAttorney General Opinions (1892 to current, in process) are issued when requested by the legislature (or either house of the legislature), any public officer of the State, or a county attorney, on a ... 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 ... 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 ... The Avalon Project at Yale Law School: Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Avalon Project, a collaboration between the Yale Law School and Yale Law Library, makes historical and present day legal documents available online. This international collection focuses ... Baseball Cards 1887-1914 Collection Home Full DescriptionPresents 2,100 early baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection. Dating from 1887 to 1914 and issued as black-and-white photographs or color prints, these forerunners to sports trading ... Beaver Murdock Academy Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionOriginally 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 ... 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 ... Bentley Image Bank Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Bentley Image Bank includes images from the holdings of the Bentley Historical Library at the University of Michigan. 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 ... The Berlin Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionThe broad pattern of the collection's content was reasonably presented in the early outlines. The manuscripts were relatively small in number but they were the foundation of the University's later ... The Biddle Edition Archive Collection Home Full DescriptionA searchable electronic collection of selected Lewis and Clark letters, images, and press coverage surrounding the publication of the Biddle edition of the Lewis and Clark Journals in 1814. The ... 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 ... The Boston Transit Collection at the Fogg Art Museum Collection Home Full DescriptionComprised 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 ... 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 ... Bridging the Bay: Bridging the Campus Collection Home Full DescriptionAt a time when the Bay Area’s bridges are being analyzed and new structures are being planned, it is important to recognize the diversity and depth of the research collections that exist on the ... 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 ... Button Pin and Ribbon Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionThe button, pin and ribbon collection currently contains over 1,700 items and continues to expand. These items have been donated over many years to the Peace Collection (SCPC) by individual peace ... 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. 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 ... The Cabell Family Papers Collection Home Full DescriptionThe history of Virginia and that of the Cabell family are inextricably linked; indeed, since about 1726, the Cabells have been one of the Commonwealth's most interesting and influential families. This ... "California As I Saw It": First-person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900 Collection Home Full Description"California as I Saw It:" First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900 consists of the full texts and illustrations of 190 works documenting the formative era of California's history ... California 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... Catt Collection Suffrage Photographs Collection Home Full DescriptionCarrie 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 ... Cavalier Daily Digital Archive Collection Home Full DescriptionDigital Library Production Services and Alderman Library Reference Services are collaborating on a project to digitize the entire run of the UVA student newspaper, The Cavalier Daily. The text is ... Centralia Massacre Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), sometimes known as the Wobblies, is a radical labor organization that was most active from 1900 to the 1930's. This collection of pamphlets, leaflets and ... A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875 Collection Home Full DescriptionBrings together online the records and acts of Congress from the Journals of the Continental Congress through The Congressional Globe, which ceased publication with the Forty-second Congress in 1873. ... A Century of Progress: The 1933-34 World's Fair Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionOn May 27, 1933 Postmaster General James A. Farley officially opened the gates to A Century of Progress. When the fair closed October 31, 1934, thirty-nine million visitors had paid to walk through ... 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 ... The Charters of Freedom Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Charters of Freedom web page on the National Archives & Records Administration website offers high resolution versions of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights ... 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 Diaries Collection Home Full DescriptionThe WMU United States Civil War Collection image database and supporting web pages are being completed during early 2007. The current collection consists of 8 diaries from the mid 1860s by men with ... The Civil War in America from the Illustrated London News Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Illustrated London News (ILN) in ten bound volumes encompassed the Civil War years. Each volume covers six months: January - June and July - December. The newspaper was published every Saturday ... Civil War Maps, 1861-1865 Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 ... 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 ... The Clay Herrick Slide Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionClay 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 ... Cleveland Along the Nickel Plate Road® During the 1920’s Collection Home Full DescriptionIn 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 ... The Cleveland Cultural Gardens Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 ... Cleveland Heights & University Heights, Ohio: A Collection of Historic Images Collection Home Full DescriptionCleveland 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 ... Cleveland Memory Project Collection Home Full DescriptionHere 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 ... The Cleveland Press Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionComprised 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 ... Cleveland Press Shakespeare Photographs Collection Home Full DescriptionThe site includes approximately 400 images from publicity photographs featuring regional production companies --Cleveland's Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival, the Stratford Festival in Ontario, Canada ... The Cleveland Union Terminal Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln Collection Home Full DescriptionIn 1953, the Abraham Lincoln Association published The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, a multi-volume set of Lincoln's correspondence, speeches, and other writings. Roy P. Basler and his editorial ... 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 ... Columbia American History Online Collection Home Full DescriptionEach college-level course is being transformed into a series of 8 to 10 lively online lectures, called "e-seminars." New e-seminars are added each year to expand CAHO's offerings. Each e-seminar ... Community Cookbooks 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, ... Constituent Mail Analysis Project Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Constituent Mail Analysis Project (CMAP) explores the possibilities for studying constituent mail using congressional correspondence management system files generated by the United States Senate ... Cornell Death Penalty Project Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Cornell Death Penalty Project takes no official position on the wisdom or desirability of the death penalty. In particular, the empirical arm of the Project is dedicated to neutral examination of ... Cornell University Library Historical Monographs Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionContains monographs that were originally scanned in the 1990s as part of a joint digital preservation research project with Cornell University Library and Xerox are now available for online viewing. ... 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 ... Cultural Readings: Colonization & Print in the Americas Collection Home Full Description"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, ... The Cuyahoga County Engineer's Photography Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionOver 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 Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 ... 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. Days of Cal Collection Home Full DescriptionThis 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 ... Digital Cultural Heritage Community Collection Home Full DescriptionMaterials from East Central Illinois archives, museums, and libraries for third, fourth, and fifth grade social science curriculum. 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 New York City Collection Home Full DescriptionPart of the E-Books collection at Columbia University Libraries. The Dillingham Commission Reports Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Reports of the Immigration Commission from Stanford University include statistical reviews, emigration and immigration conditions in Europe and other parts of the world, occupations of immigrants ... Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention 1774-1789 Collection Home Full DescriptionSelections from the Continental Congress Broadside Collection (253 titles) and the Constitutional Convention Broadside Collection (21 titles) contain 274 documents relating to the work of Congress and ... 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 American Fiction Collection (1789-1875) Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Early American Fiction collection includes 886 volumes, totaling 230,016 pages. 136 authors are represented. In addition, 199 manuscript items (525 pages of drafts, letters, and miscellaneous ... Early Virginia Religious Petitions Collection Home Full DescriptionImages of 423 petitions submitted to the Virginia legislature between 1774 and 1802 from more than eighty counties and cities. Drawn from the Library of Virginia's Legislative Petitions collection, ... 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 ... 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 ... El Clamor Publico Digital Archive Collection Home Full DescriptionThis archive is available through a partnership with The Huntington Library, who generously allowed USC to digitize their complete holdings of this newspaper. Billed as Los Angeles' "Periodica ... The Eleuterio Escobar Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionExhibition based on the Benson Latin American Collection at the University of Texas at Austin. The collection houses the papers of Eleuterio Escobar (b. 1894 - d. 1970), a prominent San Antonio ... The Emancipator Newsletter Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Emancipator Newsletter, published monthly in Jonesborough, Tennessee in 1820 by Elihu Embree, advocated the abolition of slavery. Embree, a Quaker, had established what is probably the country's ... The Emma Goldman Papers Collection Home Full DescriptionEmma Goldman (1869-1940) stands as a major figure in the history of American radicalism and feminism. An influential and well-known anarchist of her day, Goldman was an early advocate of free speech, ... Ethnic Wedding Photographs Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 ... Evans Early American Imprint Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 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 ... Ezra Cornell Papers Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Cornell University Library Ezra Cornell papers is a collection of selected letters, notebooks and other materials pertaining to Cornell University's founder, Ezra Cornell. The Fantastic in Art and Fiction Collection Home Full DescriptionGraphic 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- ... Federal Courts Finder Collection Home Full DescriptionAn electronic full-text collection of decisions handed down by the eleven Federal Circuit Courts of Appeal. This site serves as a full-text archive for decisions handed down in the Federal Circuit ... Feeding Cleveland: Urban Agriculture Collection Home Full DescriptionA 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 Collection Home Full DescriptionOn 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, ... 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 ... Finding Aid to the Collected Personal and Company Papers of Louis and Jacob Blaustein Collection Home Full DescriptionIn 2004, the Sheridan Libraries received an extraordinary collection of papers related to the personal and professional life of Jacob Blaustein, who together with his father Louis, founded the ... Finding Aids Collection Home Full DescriptionDescriptions of many of the manuscript and university archives collections housed in the Special Collections Library are available online. These finding aids contain information on a collection's ... The First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820 Collection Home Full DescriptionThis 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 ... First-Person Narratives of the American South, 1860-1920 Collection Home Full DescriptionThis compilation of printed texts documents the culture of the nineteenth-century American South from the viewpoint of Southerners. It includes the diaries, autobiographies, memoirs, travel accounts, ... France in America Collection Home Full DescriptionFree Speech Movement Digital Archive Collection Home Full DescriptionPresents a collection of material relating to the student protests at Berkeley in 1964 and 1965. Site contains journals, newsletters, photographs, oral histories, books, pamphlets, reports, minutes of ... From Pi Beta Phi to Arrowmont Collection Home Full DescriptionThe digital collection features photographs of the Settlement School, early Arrowmont, and the surrounding community; an historical essay collection that relates the “Pi Beta Phi to Arrowmont” story; ... From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1822-1909 Collection Home Full DescriptionPresents 397 pamphlets published from 1824 through 1909, by African-American authors and others who wrote about slavery, African colonization, Emancipation, Reconstruction, and related topics. The ... GATT Digital Library: 1947-1994 Collection Home Full Description"Provides access to documents and information of and about the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), an organization that promoted international commerce and the reduction of trade barriers ... The Geography of Slavery in Virginia Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Geography of Slavery in Virginia is a digital collection of advertisements for runaway and captured slaves and servants in 18th- and 19th-century Virginia newspapers. Building on the rich ... George Grantham Bain Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionAvailable online are 39,744 glass negatives and a selection of about 1,600 photographic prints for which copy negatives exist. This represents all of the glass plate negatives the Library holds and a ... George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress: 1741-1799 Collection Home Full DescriptionCorrespondence, letterbooks, commonplace books, diaries, journals, financial account books, military records, reports, and notes from the approximately 65,000 items in the collection accumulated by ... The Gerald R. Sherratt Library Historical Photograph Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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. German Americans of Cleveland Collection Home Full DescriptionGerman 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 ... The Greater Cleveland Ethnographic Museum Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 ... 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 ... A Guide to the "First Temple of the Atom" Documents Collection Home Full DescriptionA multimedia presentation and EAD-encoded finding aids with a virtual archive of nuclear engineering research at North Carolina State University. NC State's reactor was the first atomic installation ... Gutenberg-e Collection Home Full DescriptionThis innovative new project explores the impact of awarding a prize backed by the prestige of the American Historical Association for electronic publication of monographs in several areas of history ... Harvard Map Collection Digital Maps Collection Home Full DescriptionHarvard/Radcliffe Online Historical Reference Shelf Collection Home Full DescriptionElectronic access to frequently consulted sources on the history of Harvard and Radcliffe including annual reports, narrative histories, writings, statistics, founding documents, Massachusetts ... HELIOS Collection Home Full DescriptionCarnegie Mellon University Libraries provide electronic access to portions of the congressional papers from the late U.S. Senator John Heinz (R-PA). Named in the senator's memory, the Heinz Electronic ... 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 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 ... 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 ... Historical Archaeology in Loudoun Valley and Harpers Ferry Collection Home Full DescriptionArchaeological 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 Maps Online Collection Home Full DescriptionIncludes 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 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 ... History of Haverford College Collection Home Full DescriptionHaverford 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 ... History of the American West, 1860-1920: Photographs from the Collection of the Denver Public Library Collection Home Full DescriptionOver 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 ... Human Ecology Historical Photographs Collection Home Full DescriptionA 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 ... Humphrey Family Photographs of Euclid Beach Park Collection Home Full DescriptionA 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 ... Hungarian Americans of Cleveland Collection Home Full DescriptionHungarian 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 ... 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 ... Immigration and Emmigration Collection Home Full DescriptionHandbooks and guides for emigrants primarily those coming to the American Midwest. History of emigrant communities, with emphasis on those who settled in Illinois. Immigration to the United States (1789-1930) Collection Home Full DescriptionConcentrating heavily on the 19th century, Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930, includes approximately 1,800 books and pamphlets as well as 9,000 photographs, 200 maps, and 13,000 pages from ... Indiana Magazine of History Collection Home Full DescriptionThe yearly indexes of the Indiana Magazine of History from 1980 to 2000 are currently available on the web. The 25-year index covering 1955-1979 has been marked up and will be available on the web in ... Inside an American Factory: Films of the Westinghouse Works, 1904 Collection Home Full DescriptionSite houses twenty-one early films held at the Library of Congress. Originally intended to showcase Westinghouse's operations, the films are today a testament to the conditions found at early American ... 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 ... Irish Americans of Cleveland Collection Home Full DescriptionIrish 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 ... 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 ... JARDA Collection Home Full DescriptionJARDA 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 ... The Jeffersonian Cyclopedia Collection Home Full Description9,000 entries on Thomas Jefferson quotations, searchable and browseable by theme, date, topic, recipient, and place of publication, relating to government, politics, law, education, political economy ... 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 ... Key Workplace Documents Collection Home Full DescriptionAn extensive collection of key workplace federal documents from the Commission on Family and Medical Leave, Congressional Budget Office, Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue Briefs, ... 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 as Subject Collection Home Full DescriptionHosted by the USC Libraries, L.A. as Subject is an alliance of research archives, libraries, and collections dedicated to preserving the rich history of the Los Angeles region. L.A. as Subject is ... LA Comprehensive Bibliographic Database Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Los Angeles Comprehensive Bibliographic Database (LACBD) publishes in one comprehensive electronic edition two bibliographies: "Los Angeles and its Environs in the Twentieth Century: A ... 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. ... Labor and Social Reform Movements Collection Home Full DescriptionEarly 20th century history of labor and social reform movements, with emphasis on Illinois and Chicago. Trade unions, temperance, prostitution, suffrage, the settlement movement, etc. 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 ... 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 Learning Page...especially for teachers Collection Home Full DescriptionDesigned for teachers, the Learning Page is a companion Web site to the American Memory collections. It provides search and curricular guidance to teachers and students who use American Memory primary ... Lehman Special Correspondence Files Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Special Correspondence Files of the Herbert Lehman Papers contain correspondence with nearly 1,000 individuals from 1864 through 1982. Beginning with letters from Lehman's family in the late ... Letters of Delegates to Congress: 1774-1789 Collection Home Full DescriptionA 25 volume searchable and browseable collection of letters from all the delegates to the first Congress of the United States. 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 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 ... Lomax Collection of Photographs Depicting Folk Musicians Collection Home Full DescriptionRoughly 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 ... Making it in Los Angeles Collection Home Full DescriptionAngelenos 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 ... Making of America (MoA): Cornell University Collection Home Full DescriptionThe MOA project is a multi-institutional initiative to create and make accessible over the Internet a distributed digital library of important materials on the history of the United States. The ... Making of America (MoA): University of Michigan Collection Home Full DescriptionMaking of America (MoA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas ... 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 ... 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 ... Mapping the National Parks Collection Home Full DescriptionDocuments 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 Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 Collection Home Full DescriptionThis 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 Collection Home Full DescriptionA 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 ... 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 ... Medical Historical Library Exhibits Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 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. ... Michigan County Histories and Atlases Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Michigan County Histories collection is a collaborative effort of Michigan's Council of Library Directors. Initial collection content comprises titles selected from Frances Loomis's Michigan ... Military History Collection Home Full DescriptionHistories of Illinois regiments in the Civil War; war memorials; participation of Illinois soldiers during the first and second world wars. 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 ... Mount St. Helens Post-Eruption Chemistry Database Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 ... 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 ... 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, ... 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 ... 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 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 ... New York State Historical Literature Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Cornell University Library New York State Historical Literature is a collection of selected monographs, pamphlets and other materials with expired copyrights chosen from from the Cornell Library's ... 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 ... Notable Blacks of Cleveland Collection Home Full DescriptionAfrican 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 ... "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 ... 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 ... 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 ... Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen, Local 160 Records, 1884-1927 Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Order was founded in 1868 in Amboy, Illinois as the Conductors Union. This collection contains records relating to the Wyoming Valley-Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania Division 160. In addition to ... Pacific Northwest Historical Documents Database Collection Home Full DescriptionA collection of writings, diaries, letters, and reminiscences drawn from various sources within the Manuscripts, Special Collections, University Archives collections that recount the early settlement ... The Pacific Northwest Olympic Peninsula Community Museum Collection Home Full DescriptionNorthwestern 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... The Papers of John Jay Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Papers of John Jay is an image database and indexing tool comprising some 13,000 documents (more than 30,000 page images) scanned chiefly from photocopies of original documents. Most of the source ... 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 ... Patients' Voices in Early 19th Century Virginia: Letters to Doct. James Carmichael & Son Collection Home Full DescriptionIn 1998 the University of Virginia Libraries purchased a 700-piece collection of the correspondence and daybook of Dr. James Carmichael and his son, Dr. Edward Carmichael, of Fredericksburg, Virginia ... PBS Frontline Video Collection Home Full DescriptionPBS Frontline Video contains records linking to Frontline programs, from "Country Boys" to "Is Wal-Mart Good for America?". Since 1983, Frontline has been an American public television's public ... Peace Collection Ephemera Collection Home Full DescriptionThis 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 ... Peace Collection Photographs Collection Home Full DescriptionTwo 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 ... 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 ... A People at War Collection Home Full DescriptionThis 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 ... 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, ... The Photograph Albums of Glenallen Collection Home Full DescriptionLike 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 ... Photographs from the Berea Children's Home Collection Home Full DescriptionIn 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 Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 ... 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 ... Pioneering the Upper Midwest: Books from Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, ca. 1820-1910 Collection Home Full DescriptionPortrays the states of Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin from the seventeenth to the early twentieth century through first-person accounts, biographies, promotional literature, local histories, ... Poet at Work: Recovered Notebooks from the Thomas Biggs Harned Walt Whitman Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionThe collection contains fragments of the poem "Song of Myself," trial lines of poetry and prose, Civil War hospital notes, and personal jottings on a wide range of subjects. The wide range of topics ... Poetry Here and Then Collection Home Full DescriptionA 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, ... Polish Americans of Cleveland Collection Home Full DescriptionPolish 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. 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, ... Postcards of Cleveland Collection Home Full DescriptionWalter 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 ... Powers of Persuasion: Poster Art from World War II Collection Home Full DescriptionPart 1 includes posters which motivate the viewer by instilling patriotism, confidence, and a positive outlook. Patriotic colors of red, white, and blue predominate. Pictures of fists, muscles, tools ... Praying Grounds: African American Faith Communities Collection Home Full DescriptionAn 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, ... 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 ... Proceedings of the Board of Regents of the University of Michigan (1837-present) Collection Home Full DescriptionPlease note that as of May 2006, the Regents Proceedings Index has been updated only through June 2005, and the digitized version of the Regents Proceedings is only available through June 2005. 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 ... Quakers and Slavery Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 ... 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" ... Railroad History Collection Home Full DescriptionBooks related to the history of railroading in the United States, with some international coverage as well. Numerous publications pertaining to the Illinois Central Railroad, its history and employees ... Railroad Maps 1828-1900 Collection Home Full DescriptionRepresents 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 Collection Home Full DescriptionAn 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 ... The Rhone Family of Fayette Co., Texas Collection Home Full DescriptionExhibition 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 ... Richard Thomas Walker Duke, Jr. and the Duke Family Papers at the University of Virginia Collection Home Full DescriptionBetween 1899 and 1926, Richard Thomas Walker Duke, Jr., a prominent Albemarle County, Virginia, jurist and civic leader, recorded the most memorable events of his life in five, leather-bound volumes ... Rural Life and Agriculture 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, ... Salem Witch Trials: Documentary Archive and Transcription Project Collection Home Full DescriptionThis 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 J. May Anti-Slavery Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection gathers together over 8,500 of the important pamphlet and leaflets relating to the anti-slavery struggle at the local, regional, and national levels. Many ... 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 ... 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 ... The September 11 Digital Archive: Saving the Histories of September 11, 2001 Collection Home Full DescriptionPermanent 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 ... The Shaker Heights Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionFounded 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... South Asia at Chicago: Fifty Years of Scholarship Collection Home Full DescriptionOnline 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 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 ... Southern Changes Online: The Journal of the Southern Regional Council, 1978-2003 Collection Home Full DescriptionSearchable 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... Stamp/Sticker/Seal/Envelope Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 ... 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 ... Studies in Scarlet Collection Home Full DescriptionStudies in Scarlet presents the images of over 420 separately published trial narratives from the Harvard Law School Library's extensive trial collections. Included are a number of trials of the ... Survey of Race Relations Collection Home Full DescriptionIn the early 1920s, a group of scholars set out to make an investigation of economic, religious, educational, civic, biological, and social conditions among Chinese, Japanese, and other non-European ... 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 ... Tennessee Documentary History, 1796-1850 Collection Home Full DescriptionThe "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 Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 ... Theater Photography from the Theresa Helburn Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionThis 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 ... 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 ... Thomas Jefferson Digital Archive Collection Home Full DescriptionA continually expanding collection of electronic texts, digital scholarship, and University of Virginia collections relating to Thomas Jefferson. The Thomas Jefferson Papers, 1606-1827 Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 ... Tokens & Treasures: Gifts to Twelve Presidents Collection Home Full DescriptionFeatures an online exhibit entitled "Tokens and Treasures: Gifts to Twelve Presidents," provided by the National Archives and Records Administration. Notes that the online exhibit is adapted from an ... Transportation History Collection: Railroads Collection Home Full DescriptionThe collection of railroad material consists of over 14,000 items relating to American, Canadian, Mexican, British, French, German, and Russian railroad companies and their rolling stock. There are ... Travel 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, ... Treasures of Congress Collection Home Full DescriptionFew institutions have been as central to the course of American history as the U.S. Congress. Most of the great issues in our national life have been played out there, and many of our most memorable ... The Triangle Factory Fire Collection Home Full DescriptionThis site includes selected information on a terrible and unnecessary tragedy involving the death of many young working women in a New York City sweatshop at the beginning of the 20th century and the ... Truman-Underhill Photograph Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 ... U.S. Congressional Bibliographies Collection Home Full DescriptionCummulative bibliographies of Senate hearings, prints, and publications received weekly from the Senate Library. 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 ... United States and Brazil: Expanding Frontiers, Comparing Cultures Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 University of Virginia Collection of Historic Dress Collection Home Full DescriptionThe collection contains over 1,000 garments dating from as early as 1790, and made predominately for American women, although there are examples of men's, children's, and eastern dress as well. The ... 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 ... 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 ... Vietnam Powwow: The Vietnam War as Remembered by Native American Veterans Collection Home Full DescriptionThe following is a collection of narratives written or spoken by Native American veterans about the Vietnam War. Currently, no such collection is available, a surprising absence in that Native ... Vietnam War Era Ephemera Collection Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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- ... 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, ... The Virginia Elections and State Elected Officials Database Project, 1776-2008 Collection Home Full DescriptionUpdate (2005): Election data for Virginia candidates running for U.S. Congress back to the 1960s, election and service data for candidates in 2004 elections, and campaign finance data for candidates ... A Virginia Gazetteer Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Virginia Gazetteer contains the official name, type, and location of over 51,000 geographic features in Virginia. The Virginia Gazetteer is linked to an inventory of collections archived at the ... The Virginia Heritage: Guides to Manuscript & Archival Collections in Virginia Collection Home Full DescriptionThe Virginia Heritage Project concluded successfully in December 2002. Over the course of the grant, Special Collections encoded 2,203 collection guides in the EAD format, representing 27,923 pages of ... 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 ... Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921 Collection Home Full DescriptionConsists of 167 books, pamphlets and other artifacts documenting the suffrage campaign. They are a subset of the Library's larger collection donated by Carrie Chapman Catt, longtime president of the ... 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 ... "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 ... Western Waters Digital Library Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad: Cleveland's Iron Cross Collection Home Full DescriptionThe 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 ... When Nixon Met Elvis</ |
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