Collections containing material about Global (general region)

Andrew D. White Architectural Photographs Collection

The Andrew Dickson White Architectural Photographs document a wide range of 19th- and early 20th-century architecture of Europe, the Middle East and the Americas, including structures, panoramas and ...

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

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

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

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

British Library Direct

The British Library has a vision to make the world's intellectual, scientific and cultural heritage accessible, and to bring our collections to everyone - at work, school, college or home. British ...

A Celebration of Women Writers

A 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 Global Change Science

The Center for Global Change Science (CGCS) seeks to better understand the fundamental processes and mechanisms controlling the global environment. The interdisciplinary Center, founded in 1990, ...

Cooperative Mobility Program

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

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

Discusses 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 Chart of the World Server

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

The Dillingham Commission Reports

The 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 ...

Electronic Data Center

The Emory University General Libraries Electronic Data Center mounts popular data sets in a variety of subject areas. These sets, searchable using an HTML template format which allows novice data ...

Ethnomusicology Musical Instrument Collection

Contains over 250 images of musical instruments from the collection of the University of Washington Ethnomusicology Division.

The Fantastic in Art and Fiction

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

GATT Digital Library: 1947-1994

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

Global Legal Information Network (GLIN)

The 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 ...

Global Performing Arts Database (GloPAD)

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

Household Words: Women Write from and for the Kitchen

An 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.

Image Bank

The UW Image Bank is an extensive collection of high-quality images of art, architecture, and cultural and historical materials. The Image Bank includes images of cultural production from diverse ...

Internet Mission Photography Archive

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

Maps of Africa

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

Nuremberg Trials Project: A Digital Document Collection

The 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 ...

Panoramic Photographs: Taking the Long View, 1851-1991

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

Program on Internet and Telecoms Convergence

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

Technical Reports

The EECS Technical Memorandum Series provides a dated archive of EECS research. It includes Ph.D. theses and master's reports as well as technical documents that complement traditional publication ...

Theodore Roosevelt: His Life and Times on Film

Theodore 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 ...

The Universal Digital Library: Million Book Collection

he mission is to create a Universal Library which will foster creativity and free access to all human knowledge. As a first step in realizing this mission, it is proposed to create the Universal ...

The WTO History Project

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

WTO Seattle Collection

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