Collections at University of Virginia

1907 & 1920 Sanborn Maps of Charlottesville

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

Absalom, Absalom! Electronic, Interactive! Chronology

Interactive (Flash-based) chronology mapping of the complex structure of this work by William Faulkner. Augmented by digital audio files of talks by Faulkner at UVA in the 1957 and 1958, and page ...

African Art: Aesthetics and Meaning

African 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 ...

Albemarle County, Charlottesville City, University of Virginia Planimetric Data

This collection provides access to comprehensive collections of historical aerial photographs of Albemarle County, Virginia and the City of Charlottesville. Over 900 photographs, originally produced ...

American Civil War Collections at the Electronic Text Center

Eight 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 Soldier Surveys

During 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

The 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 ...

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

Brings 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 ...

Attributions of Authorship in the European Magazine, 1782-1826

This database integrates into one comprehensive, searchable list all 2,074 known attributions of authorship of anonymous, pseudonymous, or incompletely attributed articles, letters, reviews, and poems ...

Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman's Magazine, 1731-1868: An Electronic Union List

Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman's Magazine, 1731-1868: An Electronic Union List identifies 2,362 anonymous or pseudonymous authors of 25,585 letters, articles, reviews, poems, and other ...

The Biddle Edition Archive

A 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 ...

The Cabell Family Papers

The 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 ...

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

The Cape Coast Archive represents a collaborative effort by the University of Virginia Library, the United States branch of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), and Ghanaian ...

Cavalier Daily Digital Archive

Digital 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 ...

Chiricahua and Mescalero Apache Texts

The 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 ...

Colonial Revival in America: Annotated Bibliography

Originating 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 ...

The Digital Elvis Project

A 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 Maps and Geospatial Data and Links

Geostat 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 ...

Early American Fiction Collection (1789-1875)

The 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 ...

Explorations in Black Leadership

Digitization 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 ...

Fiske Kimball: Master of the Diverse Arts

An exhibit mounted in the Fiske Kimball Fine Arts Library in October of 1995, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the library that was named in Kimball's honor and that holds an extensive collection ...

Free eBook Library for the Microsoft Reader and Palm

Over 2,100 publicly-available ebooks from the University of Virginia Library's Etext Center, including classic British and American fiction, major authors, children's literature, American history, ...

The Geography of Slavery in Virginia

The 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 ...

Historical Archaeology in Loudoun Valley and Harpers Ferry

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

Historical Census Browser

"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 ...

In Search of Native Azaleas: Henry Skinner's 1951 Southern Collecting Trip

Between March and August, 1951, Henry T. Skinner drove 25,000 miles through the southeastern and eastern United States searching for native azaleas. From this field survey, approximately 8,000 ...

Japanese Text Initiative

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

The Jeffersonian Cyclopedia

9,000 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 ...

The Journal of Scriptural Reasoning

Published by the Society of Scriptural Reasoning, the Journal gathers religion and text scholars into a conversation in which the richness and depth of diverse scriptural readings can be uncovered, ...

The Journal of Textual Reasoning

Published by the Society for Textual Reasoning, the Journal publishes essays in the exegetical analyses of Jewish texts and the practice and theory of textual reasoning.

The Journal of the History of Ideas

Published in its original edition in 1973-74 and last reprinted in 1977-1980, the Journal of the History of Ideas was a culminating work in a tradition that had been energized by the fight against ...

Latviešu Tautas Dziesmas (Latvian Dainas)

Dainas 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 ...

Letters of Delegates to Congress: 1774-1789

A 25 volume searchable and browseable collection of letters from all the delegates to the first Congress of the United States.

Mark Twain in His Times

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

The Modern English Collection

Presents the Modern English Collection of the University of Virginia Library. The Collection includes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, letters, manuscripts, and illustrations from 1500 to the ...

The Ovid Collection

The Electronic Text Center's holdings include a variety of Metamorphoses resources. A Latin text (apparently from Ehwald's edition, ca. 1903), eight other digitized versions of the Latin, some scanned ...

Patients' Voices in Early 19th Century Virginia: Letters to Doct. James Carmichael & Son

In 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 ...

Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection

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

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

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

The Renaissance in Print: Sixteenth-Century French Books in the Douglas Gordon Collection

Special Collections Digital Services and the University of Virginia French Department have launched an ambitious collaborative project that will make rare books from the French Renaissance era ...

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

Between 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 ...

Salem Witch Trials: Documentary Archive and Transcription Project

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

The Sesquicentennial of the Death of Edgar Allan Poe: a Commemoration

Commemorates the 150th anniversary of Edgar Allan Poe's death and his time at the University of Virginia.

Studies in Bibliography Ebook Archive

In partnership with the University of Virginia's Bibliographical Society, the Electronic Text Center is now proud to offer freely available Microsoft Reader ebooks of the entire backlist of Studies in ...

Television News of the Civil Rights Era 1950-1970

This 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 ...

Thomas Jefferson Digital Archive

A continually expanding collection of electronic texts, digital scholarship, and University of Virginia collections relating to Thomas Jefferson.

The Tibetan & Himalayan Library

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

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

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

The University of Virginia Collection of Historic Dress

The 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 ...

Vanity Fair Portfolio

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

Vietnam Powwow: The Vietnam War as Remembered by Native American Veterans

The 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 ...

The View from Here

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

Viewing Suriname: A Collaborative Collection

A growing collection of maps and images and other media resources related to the natural and cultural landscapes of Suriname.

The Virginia Elections and State Elected Officials Database Project, 1776-2008

Update (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

The 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

The 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 ...

The Walt Whitman Archive

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

The Winnifred Eaton Digital Archive

Winnifred 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 ...

The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources 1745-1799

Extensive 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 ...