Collections containing material about United States (nation)

African American Photographs Assembled for 1900 Paris Exhibition

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

Archival Finding Aids

Descriptions 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 ...

Arizona Archives Historic Photographs

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

Arizona Aviation History - The Ruth Reinhold Collection

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

Button Pin and Ribbon Collection

The 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 ...

Cleveland Memory Project

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

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 ...

The Emancipator Newsletter

The 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 ...

Finding Aids

Descriptions 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 ...

France in America

Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection

Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864-1952) was one of the first American women to achieve prominence as a photographer. Trained at the Académie Julian in Paris, she studied photography upon her return to ...

From Pi Beta Phi to Arrowmont

The 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; ...

George Grantham Bain Collection

Available 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 ...

National Photo Company Collection

Available 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 ...

PBS Frontline Video

PBS 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 ...

Sam DeVincent Collection of American Sheet Music

The Sam DeVincent Collection of American Sheet Music contains approximately 24,000 pieces of sheet music, songbooks, and folios. It was acquired for the Lilly Library in 1998. Sam DeVincent who, until ...

Southern Spaces

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

Starr Sheet Music Collection

The Starr Sheet Music Collection, containing over 100,000 separate items, is a rich resource for musicians, historians and students of American culture. It is primarily a collection of American ...

Stereograph Cards

The 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

Studies 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 ...