Collections containing material about Modern (1701-present)

125 Years of Achievement: The History of Cornell's College of Architecture, Art, and Planning

One hundred and twenty-five years ago Andrew Dickson White, the first president of Cornell University, challenged the Board of Trustees to establish a new program to provide formal academic training ...

1893 Chicago World Columbia Exposition

Illinois 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

Illinois 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

On 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 ...

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 ...

19th Century Actors Photographs

610 cartes-de-visite studio portraits of entertainers, actors, singers, comedians and theater managers who were involved with or performed on the American stage in the mid- to late 1800s.Many of these ...

The 19th-Century American Trade Card

More 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

Presents 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

The 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

Between 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

Integrates 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

Biographies of and writings by Abraham Lincoln and his contemporaries; works pertaining to slavery in the United States and to the American Civil War.

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 ...

AdHoc Image and Text Database on the History of Christianity

A faculty-library initiative at Yale Divinity School to support and coordinate resources relating to the history of Christianity at Yale University. Ad Hoc contains almost 2600 items and includes both ...

African American Cinema Collection, 1907-2001

The 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

Digital 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 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, ...

African American Women Writers of the 19th Century

A 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

351 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

Selected 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 ...

Albany Library: Historical Photograph Collection

The 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 ...

The Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers at the Library of Congress, 1862-1939

The 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 ...

Allison Delarue Collection

Ballet in the nineteenth century was an ideal medium for the manifestation of the Romantic movement. The Delarue Collection offers not only vignettes of this extraordinary time of artistry and grace, ...

America from the Great Depression to World War II: Color Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1939-1945

The 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 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 ...

An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals, ca. 1490-1920

A 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 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 Context of China's Christian Colleges and Schools

This 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

Approximately 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

Early American history with a focus on the Midwestern states.

American Indians of the Pacific Northwest: From the University of Washington Libraries

This digital collection integrates over 2,300 photographs and 7,700 pages of text relating to the American Indians in two cultural areas of the Pacific Northwest, the Northwest Coast and Plateau. ...

American Landscape and Architectural Design, 1850-1920: A Study Collection from the Harvard Graduate School of Design

Approximately 2,800 lantern slides representing an historical view of American buildings and landscapes built during the period 1850-1920. The collection represents the work of Harvard faculty, such ...

American Leaders Speak: Recordings from World War I and the 1920 Election

The 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

These 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 Notes: Travels in America, 1750-1920

American 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

"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

American 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 ...

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 Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera

The 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

A 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

An 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 ...

America's First Look into the Camera: Daguerreotype Portraits and Views, 1839-1864

Selections from the Library's daguerreotype collection that consists of more than 650 photographs dating from 1839 to 1864. Portrait daguerreotypes produced by the Mathew Brady studio make up the ...

Anaheim Public Library: Photograph Collection on Anaheim Local History

Anaheim 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, ...

Anarchism Pamphlets in the Labadie Collection

The 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 ...

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 ...

Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar

Adams'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

Established 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 ...

Architecture and Interior Design for 20th Century America: Photographs by Samuel Gottscho and William Schleisner, 1935-1955

The collection also provides a look at nature through the eyes of Samuel Gottscho. Another major highlight of the Gottscho-Schleisner collection are the images from the 1939 New York Worlds Fair. It ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

Asahel Curtis Photo Company Photographs

The 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 ...

Asia in the Eyes of Europe

1000 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 ...

Auto Club Digital Archive

Provides 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

The 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 ...

The Barbara Curtis Adachi Bunraku Collection

The 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

Presents 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 ...

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 — ...

Before and After the Great Earthquake and Fire: Early Films of San Francisco, 1897-1916

Site 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 ...

The Belfast Group

In 1963 Philip Hobsbaum, a recently-arrived lecturer in English at Queen's University, Belfast, organized a writing workshop made up of students, faculty, and a number of writers from the local ...

Berenice Abbott: Changing New York, 1935-1938

Photographs 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 ...

Bibliotheca Schoenbergensis: An Exhibition from the Collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg

Selection from Lawrence Schoenberg's collection of illustrated medieval and early modern manuscripts. The collection includes items from the eleventh to the eighteenth century, monastic, university, ...

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 ...

Birket Foster, Victorian Illustrator: A Memorial Exhibit in Honor of Charles W. Mann, Jr. (1929-1998)

Birket Foster was part of one of the great periods of book illustration in England. A former apprentice of Thomas Bewick, he worked for the London News early in his career, and soon after he began to ...

Blake's Choice Selections from the Alexander Architecture Archive

Selections 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

Comprised 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

The 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

E. 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 ...

Buckaroos in Paradise: Ranching Culture in Northern Nevada, 1945-1982.

The 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 ...

Built in America: Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record, 1933-Present

A collection documenting achievements in architecture, engineering, and design in the United States and its territories through a comprehensive range of building types and engineering technologies ...

By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943

The 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

"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

The 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

This 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

The 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

The 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 ...

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, ...

Centralia Massacre Collection

The 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

Brings 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

On 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

Historical materials pertaining to cities and towns of Champaign County, Illinois, including Champaign and Urbana.

Charles W. Cushman Photograph Collection

Charles Weever Cushman, amateur photographer and Indiana University alumnus, bequeathed approximately 14,500 Kodachrome color slides to his alma mater. The photographs in this collection bridge a ...

Charlotta Bass / California Eagle Digital Archive

The 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

The 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 ...

Chemistry at the University of Texas: 1883-1940

Online exhibit offering an overview of the first decades of chemical science at the University of Texas, from the University's founding in 1883, until the engineering component was split off and moved ...

Chicago

Extensive 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 ...

China Christian Colleges and Universities Image Database

The China Christian Colleges and Universities Image Database provides detailed descriptions of 10,000 photographs and films held in the archives of the United Board for Christian Higher Education in ...

Chinese Historical Society Digital Archive

Includes 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

Early 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 ...

Civil War Maps, 1861-1865

The 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

Civil 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 ...

Claire Holt Papers 1930-1969

The 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 ...

Clark Kinsey Photographs Collection

Clark Kinsey's work as a photographer documented a vital aspect of the Pacific Northwest's economic and industrial history. Raised near Snoqualmie, Washington, Clark first practiced photography in the ...

Class and Faculty Photographs 1860-1911, Oxford College of Emory University

The Early Emory College Class Photograph Project consists of more than 1,110 still images dating from 1860-1911. The photographs document the class members of Emory College in Oxford, Georgia, which ...

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 Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln

In 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

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 ...

Columbia American History Online

Each 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

Illinois 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

The Constituent Mail Analysis Project (CMAP) explores the possibilities for studying constituent mail using congressional correspondence management system files generated by the United States Senate ...

The Core Historical Literature of Agriculture

The Core Historical Literature of Agriculture (CHLA) is a core electronic collection of agricultural texts published between the early nineteenth century and the middle to late twentieth century. Full ...

Cornell University Geospatial Information Repository

An 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 ...

Cornell University Library Technical Reports and Papers

The Computer Science Technical Reports is a collection of 2100 technical reports produced by students, faculty and staff of the Cornell University Computer Science Department. Spanning a period from ...

County and Local Histories (Illinois)

Early histories of Illinois counties, cities, and towns, including portrait and biographical records and numerous pictorial works.

Creative Americans: Portraits by Carl Van Vechten, 1932-1964

The 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 ...

CTHEORY Multimedia

CTHEORY Multimedia is a journal of Web based interactive art grouped around a common conceptual theme. The site complements CTHEORY, an existing electronic review of theory, techno-culture and society ...

Cultural Readings: Colonization & Print in the Americas

"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, ...

Dayton C. Miller Flute Collection

Comprising nearly 1,700 flutes and other instruments, statuary, iconography, books, music, tutors, patents, and other materials mostly related to the flute, the Dayton C. Miller Flute Collection draws ...

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 ...

Degas at Harvard

A searchable web site, offered as an introduction to the holdings of works of art by Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas in the collections of Harvard University. Although most of the Degas works at Harvard ...

Digital Scores Collection

The Loeb Music Library, using the systems and services for image digitization developed by the Harvard University Library's (HUL) Library Digital Initiative, is creating an expansible resource of ...

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 ...

Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention 1774-1789

Selections 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

The 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 19th-Century Russian Readership & Culture: A Hypertext Archive

A collection on early 19th-century Russian readership, culture and the press. It consists of: a) texts drawn from fiction, journals, memoirs and travel accounts; and b) supplementary materials -- ...

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 ...

Early Images of Egypt

The 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. ...

Early Virginia Religious Petitions

Images 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, ...

Economic Growth Center Digital Library

This 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 ...

Edison Motion Pictures

Edison'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 ...

Education in Illinois

General histories of early public schooling in Illinois, as well as histories of various colleges and universities in the state.

Edward S. Curtis Collection

The 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

This 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 ...

Electronic Theses/Dissertations

The ETD Program at The University of Tennessee is a joint library, graduate office, and information technology office initiative. The program began in 1998 and to date nearly 300 ETDs have been ...

The Eleuterio Escobar Collection

Exhibition 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

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 ...

The Emma Goldman Papers

Emma 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, ...

Emory Women Writers Resource Project

Working with faculty and graduate students for Emory's English Department, the Beck Center is creating both HTML and SGML versions of selected works by American and British women. Spanning the 17th - ...

The English Emblem Book Project

A collaborative project with the University Libraries' Arts and Humanities Library's Digital Resources Center, Special Collections and Preservation Department, the Emblem Book Project undertakes to ...

eScholarship Repository

A service of the eScholarship initiative of the California Digital Library. Research and scholarly output included here has been selected and deposited by the individual University of California units ...

The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920

Documents the historical formation and cultural foundations of the movement to conserve and protect America's natural heritage, through books, pamphlets, government documents, manuscripts, prints, ...

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- ...

Federal Courts Finder

An 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 ...

Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier: The Henry Reed Collection

A 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 ...

Film Literature Index

A July 2002 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities provided for converting to electronic format 700,000 entries of an authoritative paper-based film and television literature index, 1976 ...

Finding Aid to the Collected Personal and Company Papers of Louis and Jacob Blaustein

In 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

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 ...

The First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820

This 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

This 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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Frank M. Hohenberger Photograph Collection

Digital surrogates for 800 photographs in the Frank M. Hohenberger Photograph Collection mounted on a web site that includes a complete finding aid and contextual information about Hohenberger and his ...

Free Speech Movement Digital Archive

Presents 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

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; ...

From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1822-1909

Presents 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 ...

Fuertes Illustrations Collection

Includes a database with 2500 of these illustrations, as well as an exhibit based on the journal he kept during the 1899 Harriman Alaska expedition.

Garden and Forest: A Journal of Horticulture, Landscape Art, and Forestry (1888-1897)

Garden and Forest: A Journal of Horticulture, Landscape Art, and Forestry (1888-1897) was the first American journal devoted to horticulture, botany, landscape design and preservation, national and ...

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 ...

Genealogy Resources

Extensive resources for genealogy enthusiasts, particularly those relating to Illinois. General and professional directories, social registers, local histories, portrait and biographical records, " ...

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 ...

A Geological Hand Atlas of the Sixty-Seven Counties of Pennsylvania

This 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. ( ...

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 ...

George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress: 1741-1799

Correspondence, letterbooks, commonplace books, diaries, journals, financial account books, military records, reports, and notes from the approximately 65,000 items in the collection accumulated by ...

Gone with the Wind

An online exhibit about the making of the film derived from items in the David O. Selznick Collection which includes 5,000 acid free boxes, half million feet of nitrate film, one million feet of ...

A Grand Legacy: Arts of the Ottoman Empire

Highlights and excerpts from a 1999-2000 exhibition on display at the Arthur M Sackler Museum, Harvard University Art Museums.

Greene & Greene Digital Archive

The Greene & Greene Digital Archive contains images of drawings, architectural plans, rooms, furnishings, books, sketches, photographs, correspondence, and other historical documents related to the ...

Greene & Greene Virtual Archives

The "Greene & Greene Virtual Archive" -- a joint project of The Gamble House/USC, Berkeley and Columbia and funded by the Getty Foundation -- was completed in June 2003. Its objective was the creation ...

A Guide to the "First Temple of the Atom" Documents

A 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 ...

Guide to the Pennsylvania Bridges Collection, 1884-1915

The collection contains photographs of railroad bridges in Pennsylvania, mostly in the Pittsburgh area, 1891-1915. Photographs include technical drawings, depicting structural details and complete ...

The Hedda Morrison Photographs of China, 1933-1946

More than 5,000 photographs from the Harvard-Yenching Library, Harvard College Library taken by Hedda Hammer Morrison (1908-1991) during her residence in Beijing from 1933 to 1946. Her photographs ...

Herbert Simon Collection

The Herbert Simon Collection represents the work of a pioneer in the fields of artificial intelligence and cognitive science. It is a rare opportunity to be able to browse through the papers of a ...

Hispano Music & Culture of the Northern Rio Grande: The Juan B. Rael Collection

An 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

Digital 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

3,042 pieces of sheet music drawn from the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University and presenting a significant perspective on American history and culture through a ...

Historic Sheet Music, 1800-1922

Approximately 9,000 pieces of Sheet Music published from 1800 to 1922, although the majority is from 1850 to 1920. The bulk was published in many different cities in the United States, but some of the ...

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 Maps Online

Includes 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

The 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

Over 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 ...

The Hoagy Carmichael Collection, 1899-1981

Digitized artifacts pertaining to the life and career of master songwriter Hoagland "Hoagy" Carmichael (1899-1981), and including music scores, lyric sheets, photographs, correspondences, scrapbooks, ...

Holocaust Denial on Trial

In 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. ...

Icelandic and Faroese Photographs of Frederick W. W. Howell

The photographs of Iceland and the Faeroes by Frederick W.W. Howell, along with photographs of Iceland by Henry A. Perkins and Magnús Ólafsson, comprise an important visual record of Icelandic and ...

Illinois Art and Literature

Illinois 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

Contains 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 ...

The Illustrated Book, 1780-1830: Selected from the Collection of Harris N. Hollin

An online exhibit of surrogates for items in the collection of Harris N. Hollin. Including images of more than 40 plates and excerpts from the texts, the exhibit is thematically organized and focuses ...

Images of African Americans from the 19th Century

The 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

Handbooks 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)

Concentrating 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

The 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

Site 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 ...

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 ...

Inventing Entertainment: The Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies

Features 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 ...

Islamic Manuscripts

Microfilm copies of three out of print Princeton-produced bibliographies of its Arabic manuscript collection were digitized and made available on the web. The three titles are: Descriptive Catalog of ...

J. Willis Sayre Collection

The collection consists of a selection of 9,856 images from more than 24,000 photographs of theatrical and vaudeville performers, musicians, and entertainers who played in Seattle between about 1900 ...

The Jack London Online Collection

Jack London (born Jan. 12, 1876, died Nov. 22, 1916) is best known for his books The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and The Sea-Wolf, and a few short stories, such as "To Build a Fire" and "The White ...

James B. Reston Papers

James B. Reston (1909-95) papers include correspondence, publications, manuscripts, memoranda, reports, speeches, interview transcripts, and photographs relating to Reston's career with the Associated ...

Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive

This 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

JARDA 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

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 ...

John C. H. Grabill Collection

The 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

From 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, ...

John W. Mauchly and the Development of the ENIAC Computer

Online exhibition that portrays a history of the emergence of modern computing as seen through the eyes of one of its two principal inventors, John W. Mauchly (1907-1980), who worked at the Moore ...

The Joseph Urban Stage Design Models & Documents Stabilization & Access Project

The Joseph Urban Stage Design Models and Documents stabilization and access project, funded by a $207,289 from NEH will preserve 240 three-dimensional stage models created by Joseph Urban for New York ...

The 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 ...

Judging a Book by Its Cover

The advent of gold-stamped decoration, circa 1832, was the most important factor in the acceptance of publishers' bindings. Gold stamping brought to the mass-produced book some of the prestige ...

Keffer Collection of Sheet Music, ca. 1790-1895

The Keffer Collection of Sheet Music at the University of Pennsylvania contains 2,531 scores ranging in date from ca. 1790 to 1895. The great majority of the items were published in the United States ...

King County Snapshots

King 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 ...

The Kolb-Proust Archive for Research

The Kolb-Proust Archive for Research, a project of the Library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is devoted to the study of French novelist Marcel Proust and his time. Currently ...

Korean American Digital Archive

Funded 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 Comprehensive Bibliographic Database

The 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

The 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

The 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

Early 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

Presents 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 ...

Latin Americanist Research Resources Project

Bibliographic 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, ...

Lawrence & Houseworth Collection

In 1867 the Library of Congress acquired a set of more than 900 albumen silver half stereographs published by Lawrence and Houseworth of San Francisco. The acquisition also included the third edition ...

The Leonard Bernstein Collection, ca. 1920-1989

The composer, conductor, writer, and teacher Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) was one of 20th-century America's most important musical figures. The Leonard Bernstein Collection is one of the largest and ...

The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music

Highlights include: Images of the covers and each page of music published before 1923 and in the public domain Search capability Digital workflow management system is currently under development ...

Letopis Zhurnal'nykh Statei Online Index (1956-1975)

The Indiana University Digital Library Program presents Letopis' Zhurnal'nykh Statei, a digitized serial publication that indexes Soviet-era periodicals from 1956 to 1975. The paper version, in ...

Lewis Wickes Hine: The Construction of the Empire State Building, 1930-1931

Lewis 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 ...

LIDS Technical Reports

The Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) is an interdepartmental research laboratory at the MIT. The laboratory conducts theoretical as well as applied research in the fields of ...

The Life of a City: Early Films of New York, 1898-1906

Site 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 ...

Ling Long Women's Magazine, Shanghai 1931 to 1937

Ling 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 ...

Living off the Land: Tobacco and Crop Science History in North Carolina, 1850-1950

Living 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, ...

Lomax Collection of Photographs Depicting Folk Musicians

Roughly 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 ...

Louis Agassiz Fuertes and the Harriman Alaska Expedition

Presents selections from a journal that American illustrator Louis Agassiz Fuertes (1874-1927) kept during an expedition along the Alaskan coast funded by American financier Edward Henry Harriman ( ...

Making of America (MoA): Cornell University

The 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

Making 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

Online 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

The 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

Documents 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

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 ...

Maps of Liberia, 1830-1870

The 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 ...

The Martyred President: Sermons Given on the Occasion of the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

A 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 ...

McKenney and Hall Indian Tribes of North America

Text 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 ...

Menus Collection

This 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

The 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

Histories of Illinois regiments in the Civil War; war memorials; participation of Illinois soldiers during the first and second world wars.

Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature On-Line

Selected 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 ...

MIT Press Out of Print Books

The 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 ...

Modern Photographers Collection

A selection of images from the work of nationally and internationally renowned local photographers Art Hupy, Ernest Kassowitz, Kyo Koike, Frank Kunishige, Mary Randlett and others. These photographers ...

Mountjoy Prison Portraits of Irish Independence: Photograph Albums in the Thomas A. Larcom Collection

150 salt and albumen print photographs in two albums, of prisoners confined in Mountjoy Prison, Dublin, in August 1857 and November 1866.

Mr. Lincoln's Virtual Library

Mr. 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

Music 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

Illinois 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

The collection consists of more than 5,100 photographic prints and 355 glass negatives, given to the Library of Congress, along with the NCLC records, in 1954 by Mrs. Gertrude Folks Zimand, acting for ...

National Photo Company Collection

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 ...

Natural Resources

Illinois Harvest is a free public gateway combining search, aggregation, and discovery services. We provide organized and thematic access to digitized and born-digital resources about Illinois, ...

A New Deal for the Arts

During 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

This 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 ...

The Nineteenth Century in Print: The Making of America in Books and Periodicals

This collection comprises books and periodicals published in the United States during the nineteenth century, primarily during the second half of the century. Most of the materials were digitized ...

The Northern Great Plains, 1880-1920: Photographs from the Fred Hultstrand and F.A. Pazandak Photograph Collections

Over 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

Biographies and autobiographies of Illinois politicians, social reformers, educators, journalists, military leaders, labor activists, ministers, jurists, and others.

"Now What a Time": Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals, 1938-1943

Approximately 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

A 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

Omaha 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 ...

Operations Research Center

Operations research (OR) is the professional discipline that deals with the application of scientific methods to decision making. MIT’s Operations Research Center brings together faculty with various ...

Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen, Local 160 Records, 1884-1927

The 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 ...

Origins of American Animation

Offers information on the origins of American animation from 1900-1921, provided by the U.S. Library of Congress. Details the animation of such subjects as automobiles, boys, family, flowers, World ...

Pacific Northwest Historical Documents Database

A collection of writings, diaries, letters, and reminiscences drawn from various sources within the Manuscripts, Special Collections, University Archives collections that recount the early settlement ...

Pamphlets and Periodicals of the French Revolution of 1848

The Center for Research Libraries, the University of Chicago Library, and the ARTFLProject, (American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language) have cooperated on a project to ...

Panoramic Maps, 1847-1929

Contains 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 from the National Archives

This exhibit of panoramic photographs is but a small sample of the wide variety of panoramic images in NARA's still picture holdings located at the National Archives Building at College Park, Maryland ...

Panoramic Photographs: Taking the Long View, 1851-1991

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 ...

The Papers of John Jay

The 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

Parallel 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 ...

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 ...

A People at War

This 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 ...

Performing Arts in America 1875-1923

Performing Arts in America 1875 -1923, a web site of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, captures a glimpse of this world. With visual and audio images drawn from the extensive ...

Peter Parker Collection

Peter 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 ...

Photochrom Prints

Late 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, ...

Piet Mondrian: The Transatlantic Paintings

Developed by the Harvard Art Museum, this detailed web site uses archival photographs, stereomicroscopy, X-rays, ultraviolet and infrared light to examine seventeen of Mondrian's works. Known as the " ...

Pioneering the Upper Midwest: Books from Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, ca. 1820-1910

Portrays 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

The 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 ...

The Poet's Voice: A Digital Poetry Collection

The Woodberry Poetry Room, named in honor of Harvard alumnus and Professor George E. Woodberry (A.B., 1877), opened in 1931 in Widener Library for the purpose of bringing alive the poet's voice and ...

Powers of Persuasion: Poster Art from World War II

Part 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 ...

Project Euclid

The end result is a vibrant online information community for independent and society journals. This will assure that mathematics and statistics will continue to benefit from a healthy balance of ...

Project Matterhorn Publications and Reports, 1951-1958

Digitized versions of the declassified Project Matterhorn records, a secret Department of Energy and Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory project from the 1950s. The archival collection is marked up in ...

Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929

Assembles 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

Each 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 ...

Puerto Rico at the Dawn of the Modern Age: Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century Perspectives

Portrays 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

Quilts 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

Books 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

Represents 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 ...

The Rhone Family of Fayette Co., Texas

Exhibition 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 ...

Robert Montgomery Bird: Writer and Artist

Robert Montgomery Bird (1805/6-1854) was a writer of considerable note. Born in New Castle, Delaware, one hundred and ninety years ago (February 5, 1805 or 1806), he was raised there and in ...

Rural Life and Agriculture

Illinois 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, ...

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 ...

Samuel Putnam Avery Print Collection and Related Works

Nearly 1,100 etchings, lithographs, and some drawings, by prominent 19th-century printmakers. Most of these works are part of the S. P. Avery Collection, complemented by holdings found in the general ...

San Bernardino Public Library: Historical Treasures of San Bernardino

San 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

The 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

The 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 ...

Sargent at Harvard

Sargent at Harvard is a searchable database of images and information relating to the American artist John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) in the collections of the Harvard University Art Museums (Fogg Art ...

Scenic Collections Database

The 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 ...

Selected Civil War Photographs

Contains 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

Permanent 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 ...

Small-Town America: Stereoscopic Views from the Robert Dennis Collection

A 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

The 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 ...

South Central China and Tibet: The Hotspot of Diversity

For 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 ...

The South Texas Border, 1900-1920: Photographs from the Robert Runyon Collection

A 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

Searchable 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

The 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 ...

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 ...

The Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures

68 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 ...

Stanford Geological Survey Collection

The Stanford Geological Survey (SGS) existed for 100 years, from 1895 until 1995. During this time, students and faculty from Stanford's School of Earth Sciences went into the field to survey and map ...

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 ...

Survey of Race Relations

In 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 ...

The Swinburne Project: A Digital Archive of the Life and Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne

Algernon Charles Swinburne is a major Victorian writer and cultural figure. The vast majority of his writings, however, are out of print. The Swinburne Project provides a searchable electronic edition ...

The Swiss Poster Collection

Established in 1985 by Ruedi Ruegg, Swiss graphic designer, and Carnegie Mellon School of Design Professor Daniel Boyarski, The Swiss Poster Collection is a critical selection of more than 300 works ...

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 ...

Thomas Jefferson Digital Archive

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

The Thomas Jefferson Papers, 1606-1827

The 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 ...

Thomas Merton's Red Diary

In 1964 and 1965 Thomas Merton used a red-leather "day-by-day" calendar for the year 1959 as a diary. Unlike his other published diaries and journals, this diary was not used for personal entries; ...

Tokens & Treasures: Gifts to Twelve Presidents

Features 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

The 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

Illinois 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

Few 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

This 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

Cummulative bibliographies of Senate hearings, prints, and publications received weekly from the Senate Library.

U.S. Steel Gary Works Photograph Collection, 1906-1971

The 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 ...

UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library: De la Guerra Family Photographs

Mainly 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-

The 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

The 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

Contains 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

The 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

The 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

The 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

The 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

The 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

Edward 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

The 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

The 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

The 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

The 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

The 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

On 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

These 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

This 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

In 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

The 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

Among 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

This 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

This 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

This 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

The 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

This 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

This 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

The 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

This 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

Egan'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

This 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

This 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

This 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

This 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

These 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

This 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

This 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

This 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

The 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

Collected 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

The 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 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

Edward 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 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

The 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

S. 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

The 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 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 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 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 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 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

The 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

The 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 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

The 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

The 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 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 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)

Biographical 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

The 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

Holograph 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

The 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

This 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

The 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

The 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

The 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

Linda 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

Ochoa [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

The 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

The 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

This 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 ...

United States and Brazil: Expanding Frontiers, Comparing Cultures

The United States and its Territories, 1870-1925: the Age of Imperialism

Texts 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

The 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

History of the University of Illinois and persons associated with it.

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 ...

Victorian Women Writers Project

The goal of the Victorian Women Writers Project is to produce highly accurate transcriptions of works by British women writers of the 19th century, encoded using the Standard Generalized Markup ...

Vietnam War Era Ephemera Collection

The 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 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 ...

Voices from the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection, 1940-1941

Presents "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

Selection 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

Consists 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 ...

War Posters

Through partial coincidence and good fortune, two of the most significant collections in the world of posters from World War I and World War II are located within close physical proximity, in ...

Washington As It Was: Photographs by Theodor Horydczak, 1923-1959

Spanning 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 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 ...

When Nixon Met Elvis

On December 21, 1970, Elvis Presley met with President Richard Nixon in the Oval Office. This exhibit tells the behind-the-scenes story of this remarkable event.

William Blake: Illustrated Books

Three original books in "relief etching" by William Blake, who composed the texts, designed the texts and decorations, and printed the pages: America: A Prophecy (1793 [1794?]), Europe: A Prophecy ( ...

William Morris and His Circle

This web exhibition of "William Morris and His Circle" incorporates selected images derived from the 1996 Ransom Center exhibition which contained over seventy-five items, including manuscripts of ...

William P. Gottlieb Photographs from the Golden Age of Jazz

The Music Division at the U.S. Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., owns the William P. Gottlieb Collection, which comprises over 1,600 photographs of celebrated jazz artists and documents about ...

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 ...

Women Working, 1800-1930

Provides 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

Ephemera 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 ...

Words and Deeds in American History: Selected Documents Celebrating the Manuscript Division's First 100 Years

In 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 ...

Workplace Issues Today

The 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 ...

World War I Posters

The World War I posters include posters made in America and in France between 1914 and 1920 to advertise war efforts and issues.

World War II Poster Collection

The 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 ...

WPA Cards Digital Archive

The 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

The 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

A 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

An on-line searchable database of information describing photographic images taken by Works Progress Administration (WPA) workers of archaeological projects conducted in preparation for Tennessee ...

Wright American Fiction 1851-1875

Digital renditions of the novels listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography of American Fiction 1851-1875 produced by nine libraries in the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC). Wright's ...

Wright Brothers Negatives

Among the materials the Wright Brothers estate gave the Library of Congress in 1948 were 300 glass plate negatives and two nitrate negatives, most taken by the Wright brothers themselves between 1897 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Yale Medicine Thesis Digital Library

Starting with the School of Medicine graduating class of 2002, the Medical Library and Office of Student Research have begun a collaboration to electronically publish the full text of student theses ...