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A gubernatorial project featuring biographies, photographs, archival finding aids, state-of-the-state addresses, and much more relating to the administrations of Charles Haskell (1907-1911) through Frank Keating (1995-2003).
The 1936 Gainesville Tornado: Disaster and Recovery provides online access to a historical film depicting the extensive damage from the severe multi-funnel tornado strike that devastated Gainesville, Georgia, on April 6, 1936. The thirty-two-and-a-half minute film, probably shot ...
In 1861 Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) became the United States' sixteenth president. But before Lincoln became the nation's chief executive, he led a fascinating life that sheds considerable light upon significant themes in American history. This World Wide Web site presents ...
A collection encompassing the 1948 Oklahoma Supreme Court case of Ada Lois Sipuel, the state's first black woman admitted to the University of Oklahoma law school.
The Arizona Adjutants General exhibit is comprised of photographs of Adjutants General in Arizona from territorial days to the present. An Adjutant General is the highest ranking officer of a state's militia or National Guard when it is not called into federal service. When ...
Africa Focus contains digitized visual images and sounds of Africa contributed over the years to the African Studies Program of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. These digital files are stored in an accessible database and provided for personal use or educational presentations ...
AlabamaMosaic is a repository of digital materials on Alabama's history, culture, places, and people. Its purpose is to make unique historical treasures from Alabama's archives, libraries, museums, and other repositories electronically accessible to Alabama residents and to ...
American Journeys contains more than 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration, from the sagas of Vikings in Canada in AD1000 to the diaries of mountain men in the Rockies 800 years later. Read the words of explorers, Indians, missionaries, traders and ...
The American Missionary Association and the Promise of a Multicultural America: 1839 - 1954 is a digital photo archives of more than 5000 photographs of the activities of and related to the American Missionary Association. Photographers working with the American Missionary ...
Text and illustrations that document the establishment of a distinctly American approach to natural science during the first half of the 19th century. The selected works were written by scientists affiliated with the Academy of Natural Sciences, the oldest continuously-operating ...
The photograph collections in the Arizona State Archives include images from state government as well as private collections. Archives' photographs focus upon the unique cultural heritage of the state and territory of Arizona, beginning in 1863. The principal focus within the ...
Attorney General Opinions (1892 to current, in process) are issued when requested by the legislature (or either house of the legislature), any public officer of the State, or a county attorney, on a question of law relating to their office.
Ruth Reinhold (1902-1985), an aviation pioneer, was one of the first woman pilots in Arizona. She marked many milestones, from barnstorming to teaching pilots to fly four-engine bombers during World War II. These images were selected from the 1200 photographs researched and ...
With the Civil War still going on and Carleton still fighting the Navajos, the U.S. War Department authorized Governor John Noble Goodwin of Arizona to raise five companies of Arizona Volunteers in 1864. Recruitment was delayed for a year, but by the fall of 1865, the First ...
The Arizona County and Local Publications collection has been contributed by the Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records' Law and Research Library. Digital publications produced by and for Arizona counties and cities are available from this collection, which is updated ...
The Arizona Electronic Atlas is an interactive atlas that allows one to create, manipulate, and download accurate and current maps and data. This site has more data available than can easily be viewed in one map, so initially four map themes were developed. These map themes are: ...
Executive Orders are issued by the Governor of Arizona to establish boards or commissions or to authorize the performance of other functions that are appropriate to the executive authority of the Governor. This listing is updated periodically. New Executive Orders are being ...
This collection consists of still images of cities, towns, scenic viewpoints, lumbering activities, and streetscapes from across Arizona, 1864-1970.
Latinos have contributed greatly to Arizona's heritage and history and in numerous endeavors. One of the more valiant contributions is that of risking one’s life for their country. Throughout Arizona’s history Latinos have been involved, from Territorial days and on into the ...
The Arizona Military Museum, an Arizona Centennial Legacy Project, is operated by a Historical Society whose purposes are: “To enhance the appreciation of the military history of Arizona and the contributions of the Militia of Arizona and the Arizona National Guard to the State ...
Since February 1863, when President Abraham Lincoln first recognized the Territory of Arizona as a protectorate of the United States of America, mining has been the backbone of the Arizona economy. And for over a century, the Arizona Geological Survey and its predecessors have ...
The Arizona State Agency Publications collection has been contributed by the Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records' Law and Research Library. Digitized publications produced by and for Arizona state agencies are available from this collection, which is updated on a ...
Government records protect the right of citizens, promote accountability for government officials and provide continuity. Records in the Arizona State Archives were created by individuals or agencies within state or local government organizations. Agency records include those ...
This exhibit is small representative sample of items in the archives of the Postal History Foundation in Tucson. Each page contains, in philatelic terms, a "cover" - either an envelope or postcard with one or more adhesive postage stamps, or an envelope or postal card with a pre ...
Federal publications are printed by the authority of Congress or by executive or judicial agencies at taxpayer expense and are distributed to federal agencies, their clientele and to depository libraries which serve the public. The Arizona State Library, Archives and Public ...
The many wonderful photographs in the Arizona Historical Foundation's collections have inspired this exhibit of Arizona Women and their diverse contributions. Historians have often downplayed the role of women in the West, denying them individual as well as collective importance ...
Arizona-Sonora Documents Online provides web access to digital images of archival collections relating to Sonora, Mexico that are located at three Arizona repositories: the University of Arizona Library Special Collections; the Arizona Historical Society-Tucson; and the Arizona ...
The photographs in this collection depict everyday sights of Arthur, Illinois, from the early 1900's to the midle of the century. Many of the photographs in this collection are made available through the generosity of Mr. Noel C. Dicks. Mr. Dicks, a local pharmacist and owner of ...
The combined records for works of art in the permanent collections of the Walker Art Center and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
Arizona State University's early research scientists were scholarly pioneers of earth, ice, animal, mineral, and space. In Arizona State's first days of transformation from a small college to a true university, these men of science were already leaders in their fields, asking ...
Album is a database of 10,000 photographs from photojournalism collections of the Kenan Research Center. The images document people, places, and events in Atlanta and the state of Georgia from 1895 to 1992. The primary content dates between 1930 and 1970. Subjects include ...
The Audio-Video Barn is full of stories about Illinois agriculture. It contains audio and video recordings of more than 130 oral-history interviews with people involved in agriculture and rural life in Illinois. It was produced by the Illinois State Museum's Oral History of ...
Claudia Chow's Banana is an interactive look at the Lees, a Chinese-American family attempting to balance Chinese traditions and Western culture.
The baskets in the Museum's collection come from private donations by collectors, from the basket weavers themselves, and from occasional purchases by their non-profit support group, the Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary. The baskets in this online collection date from the late 19th ...
The online collection consists of two short industrial films made by the Georgia Marble Company in the 1950s-1960s that document the company's history, operations, skilled laborers and craftspeople, and the widespread use of their marble, limestone and serpentine products. ...
"Beyond the Shelf" contains rare historic published Kentuckiana monographs and serials. The titles selected are included in J. Winston Coleman's landmark compilation of Kentuckiana "A Bibilography of Kentucky History", published in 1949 by the University of Press of Kentucky in ...
Black Swamp Memories is an online scrapbook of historical images and documents illustrating the history and development of the northwestern Ohio region formerly known as the Great Black Swamp. The goal of the project is to, in time, provide a comprehensive and illustrative ...
The online collection consists of selected correspondence, financial records, contracts, and advertising materials from the Douglass Theatre's records in the Middle Georgia Archives' Charles Henry Douglass, Jr. business records, and it documents the amusements available to Macon' ...
Digitized Boston city directories between 1865-1955 as the foundation for contextual information about the city including images.
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle was published from October 26, 1841 to 1955 and was revived for a short time from 1960 to 1963. Phase I, which can at present be found on this site, covers the period from October 26, 1841 to December 31, 1902, representing half of the Eagle's years of ...
This grant builds a testbed of map images of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at a scale of 1:75,000 held in three institutions; UConn, the New York Public Library and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee/American Geographical Society Library. The grant aims to build a scalable ...
This collection contains documentation relating to California Design, a triennial exhibition of decorative arts and crafts, which was active during the years 1955 to 1984.
Ethnographic photographs by various photographers in the collection of the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology are works made for hire.
Since 2000, high school students at Rome Free Academy in Rome, NY have interviewed over 120 veterans from World War II to the present as part of an elective class on World Wars of the 20th Century. Their teachers Matthew Fidler, Gary Ford and Riccardo Dursi worked with the New ...
The Arizona Historical Foundation houses two collections pertaining to Arizona's two World War II Japanese Relocation Camps, Gila River and Poston. Wade Head served as director of the Poston camp from 1942-1944, and his collection focuses on the administration and documentation ...
The Free Library of Philadelphia, with the generous support of the Institute of Museum and Library Services, invites you to visit our Web version of the 100th birthday party for the United States, the Centennial Exhibition of 1876. In these pages we present the Library's unique ...
Central Florida Memory is the beginning of an on-going, proactive force for generating excitement about the past, present, and future history of Central Florida, among all interested communities worldwide.
Charles Overstreet is a long-time citizen of Flora, Illinois with a passion for photography. During most of his eighty years, Mr. Overstreet has used his camera to record images of history. During World War II, as a member of the U. S. Army, 252nd Field Artillery Battalion, he ...
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 thirty-two year span from 1938 to 1969, during which time Mr. Cushman extensively ...
This collection will provide information about ornamental plants to gardeners, teachers and students in horticulture, etc. The site will feature annually updated profiles on approximately 1000 different garden plants undergoing trials in the Garden's Plant Evaluation Program.
Of the approximately 150 Chinese paintings in this collection guide, the majority were originally collected by UC Berkeley Professor Emeritus James Cahill and the Cahill family. The Cahill family collections, known historically as the Ching Yuan Chai Collection, are arguably ...
In celebration of Glendale’s approaching 100-year anniversary, this collection of City Council minutes dating from August 1st, 1910 to December 28th, 1914 has been compiled electronically for the first time. Minutes include roll calls of council members in attendance, agreements ...
The Civil Rights Digital Library Initiative represents one of the most ambitious and comprehensive effort to date to deliver educational content on the Civil Rights Movement via the Web. The struggle for racial equality in the 1950s and 1960s is among the most far-reaching social ...
The Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive is an Internet-accessible, fully searchable database of digitized versions of rare and unique library and archival resources on race relations in Mississippi. Mississippi was a focal point in the struggle for civil rights in America ...
The IMLS grant funded project brings Tufts, and the Virginia Center for Digital History together with the University to build a digital repository of Civil War-Era newspapers. Not only will this project provide online access to The Liberator, Philadelphia Ledger and the Richmond ...
The Clifford K. Berryman Collection consists of 13 oversized boxes containing 209 cartoons, 12 Christmas cards, and 3 facsimiles of cartoons drawn by the late Clifford K. Berryman (1869-1949). The cartoons whose dates have been identified span the years 1899- 1949, thus ...
Many of the world's treasures are fragile and threatened by development, weather or war. CLIOH's mission is to digitally document these world heritage sites in as dimensionally and texturally accurate a manner as possible, before they disappear. CLIOH is a searchable collection ...
Strip mining was a major source of employment and very important to the Wilmington Coal Field towns of Coal City, Braidwood, and Wilmington during the 1930's through the 1950's. The Wilmington Coal Field is located sixty miles south of Chicago. The growth of the city and its need ...
The Bisbee Deportation documents are comprised of about 1,600 court documents filed in 1919 and 1920 in Cochise County Superior Court, pertaining to Cochise County Case number 2725, entitled, State of Arizona, Plaintiff, vs. Phelps Dodge Corporation, A Corporation, et als., ...
The theme of this collection is the unique history and culture of Southeastern Arizona. The centerpiece of the collection is a video created by the Cochise College Library media department that documents an archaeological dig site from the era. The dig site is located at Murray ...
In May of 1881, just three months after Cochise County was formed out of southeastern Pima County, district court sessions began in Tombstone, Arizona. The 652 page collection contains brief notations by the district court clerk of matters and proceedings taken up by the judge – ...
Tour Code City and uncover a series of interactive maps, historic photographs and essays that detail how housing policy changes the cities we live in. Created by New York-based collectives, CUP and HONEST.
The collection consists of 140 albumen prints on their original 22 x 28 inch mounts. The collection comprises views of the western United States including Upper Geyser Basin National Park, a rare set of images of Mammoth Hot Springs National Park, Casa Grande Pre-Historic Ruins ...
The topics represented in this selection from Northern Arizona University Cline Library include: Colorado River running, surveying, and exploration; Grand Canyon hiking and tourism; railroad and timber; landscape photography of Northern Arizona; and Native American communities on ...
Regional Colorado newspapers from 1859-1924.
The story of the Columbia River Basin's ethnic groups has been relatively hidden, and museums, libraries, and scholars have only just begun to gather the records, images, recollections, and artifacts of these groups and to write about their histories. This collection brings ...
Columbus Public Library Association Minutes, 1881-1883 provides online access to early handwritten minutes of the Columbus Public Library Association, documenting the origin and initial development of the Columbus Public Library, later to become today's Chattahoochee Valley ...
The John J. Rhodes Papers consist of correspondence, reports, financial and travel records and printed matter. The collection documents Rhodes' congressional career from 1953 1983 and significant portions of the collection concern the Central Arizona Project, Indians, water, ...
Connecticut History Online currently contains about 14,000 images of photographs, drawings and prints which may be searched or browsed in a variety of ways, including by keyword, subject, creator, title and date. Geographical sites may be searched using a Digital Geographic ...
A unique collection of ephemera, published materials, and artifacts from U.S. national political campaigns (1800-1976). The collection consists of published material, ephemera, and artifacts dating to between 1800 and 1976, including ballots and slates of candidates; promotional ...
The Denver Public Library, in partnership with the City of Denver, the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries, Colorado Historical Society, University of Colorado at Denver Auraria Library, and University of Denver Penrose Library, will inventory, catalog, and digitize historic ...
The Cuban Heritage Collection (CHC) is the premier collection of research materials for Cuban and Cuban-American studies. It is the most comprehensive library of manuscripts, rare and contemporary books, and unique materials for the study of Cuba, its history, its people, and its ...
The Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI) represents the efforts of an international group of Assyriologists, museum curators and historians of science to make available through the internet the form and content of cuneiform tablets dating from the beginning of writing, ca ...
Digital collection of over 6,000 cylinder records from 1895-1920s with downloadable and streaming audio held by the Department of Special Collection, University of California, Santa Barbara. Collection includes recordings made by Edison, Columbia, Indestructible, US Everlasting, ...
The Cyrus F. Jenkins Civil War Diary, 1861-1862, held at the Troup County Archives, chronicles Cyrus Franklin Jenkins' experiences as an enlisted man in the Meriwether Volunteers, Company B, 13th Georgia Infantry Regiment, during the first year of the war, June 1861 to March 1862 ...
The Arts Broadcasting System (TABS) project will create a flexible, multifunctional system interface for unlimited access to 13,000 digital resources from the Dallas Museum of Art’s encyclopedic collections. The project is based on five years of planning, audience research, and ...
The Day Family became known in the Colorado Plateau region for their activities as traders on the Navajo Reservation. During their time on the Reservation, they served as agents, and became close with the Navajo. This collection includes images of Sam Day, Sr., his wife Anna, and ...
The Day Family were Anglo traders, on the Navajo Reservation in eastern Arizona. The collection includes the personal and business papers of Sam Day, Sr. (1845-1925) surveyor, Indian trader, legislator and United States Indian Commissioner; Anna Day, Sam Sr.'s wife (1872-1932); ...
Of particular note, the costume collection at the Detroit Historical Museums has over 30,000 items of clothing and accessories that represent a broad range of Detroit's citizens over the past 200 years. The collection includes examples of occupational, formal, recreational, ...
Statewide aerial photographs were first acquired for Illinois from 1936 through 1941. This historical collection consists of more than 33,000 photographic paper prints. The original silver nitrate film negatives were destroyed by the National Archives in the 1980s due to ...
This collection brings together historic costume collections from several institutions into a single searchable web accessible database. The partner institutions are libraries and museums from metropolitan Detroit. Their collections number more than 40,000 items and cover 300 ...
Because photographs are integral to the study of Africa, the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies includes photographs in its collections and is committed to making them available for scholarly research and curricular support. In December 2002, the Herskovits Library ...
Digital Past is a local history digitization program undertaken by libraries, historical societies, museums, and other cultural venues in Illinois in partnership with the North Suburban Library System in Wheeling, Illinois. It began in 1998 with a grant from the Illinois State ...
The Open Video Digital Library Toolkit (OVDLT) project will provide museums, libraries and other institutions holding moving image collections with the tools to create Web-based digital video libraries. Many museums and libraries have important video content that would be of ...
Mesopotamia's diverse contributions in writing, mathematics, literature, and law will come alive again in Discover Babylon, a joint project of UCLA's Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative, the Federation of American Scientists Learning Technologies Project, and the Walters Art ...
This demonstration project provides digital images and descriptions of the Dorothea June Grossbart Historic Costume Collection. The physical collection contains over 400 garments and accessories from the 19th and 20th centuries, and is curated by the Fashion Design and ...
The insightful and compassionate photographs of Dorothea Lange (1895 - 1965) have exerted a profound influence on the development of modern documentary photography. Lange's concern for people, her appreciation of the ordinary, and the striking empathy she showed for her subjects ...
This collection documents the growth, activities and history of the Sonoran Desert Foothills spanning the time period of the 1870's to the 1920's. Within this time span military operations, mining activity, sheep herding, pioneering and dude ranches have a part at shaping the ...
The artifacts and historic sites that are included in this collection not only serve as examples of daily pioneer living in Taylor, Arizona, but also provide insight into the changes which occurred as the citizens of Taylor adjusted to world, national and community development.
This collection captures what it was like to be a student at Yavapai College when it was a small, rural community college in the late 1960's – early 1980's. It includes the first published College Catalog, class schedule, and Student Handbook (be sure to read the sections on the ...
Published yearly since 1919, and well illustrated, the Warbler conveys information on students and faculty, chronicles important cultural and sporting events, describes organizational activities, and depicts changes in the campus layout and physical plant. This collection ...
Education by Design is an online exhibit and image database of educational visual aids produced by the Museum Extension Project (MEP), a division of the New Deal jobs creation program, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and owned by the Bienes Center for the Literary Arts at ...
The North American Indian by Edward S. Curtis is one of the most significant and controversial representations of traditional American Indian culture ever produced. Issued in a limited edition from 1907-1930, the publication continues to exert a major influence on the image of ...
The digital archive represents a comprehensive and integrated collection of sources and resources on the history and topography of London. Texts, images, and maps in the Bolles collection are all interconnected. Together they form a body of material, heterogeneous in form, but ...
eFloras.org is a Web portal that enables researchers working in natural areas to interact with core botanical data, determine plant identifications, and record research observations.
Enduring Communities: The Japanese American Experience in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, and Utah is a collaboration between educators, communities, and students and the Japanese American National Museum to create curricula about the Japanese American World War II ...
In 2002 the Enoch Pratt Free Library began to create a collection of live-action, multicultural storyteller performances to be displayed over the web. In all, 41 stories from 21 storytellers of national and regional renown have been taped and edited. Representing diverse cultures ...
The Erie Railroad Company glass plate negatives are arranged by Erie subsidiary railroads in the states of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. Mainline scenes come from all of the preceding states, as well as from Indiana and Illinois. The image content of the glass ...
Although Alfred Kroeber is universally regarded as the founder of California Indian studies, his important use of the camera as an ethnographic tool is virtually unknown. In fact, Kroeber was one of the first anthropologists to photograph California Native peoples.
Exit Art's mission is to create and present exhibitions and programs that explore the diversity of cultures and voices that continually shape contemporary art and ideas in America. Exit Art is also committed to bringing to public attention the work of under-recognized and ...
The Exploratorium's Digital Assets Collection has collected and digitized museum materials related to interactive exhibits and scientific phenomena, including images, educational activities, PDFs, QuickTime movies, and audio files.
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden is a leading center of palm research, horticulture, and conservation. Our scientists have been growing and studying the world's palms for over 70 years. We have built a large and diverse collection of living palms, a library of data and images, a ...
The photographs of the Franciscan, Augustine Schwarz, O.F.M., were donated to the Anthropology Department at Arizona State University by a niece, Elizabeth M. Jones, in 1986, and transferred to the Labriola National American Indian Data Center, University Libraries, Arizona State ...
A collection derived from the bibliography Forty-Six Important Federal Publications About Oklahoma. These documents were selected as the most important federal publications in Oklahoma's history. This collection is a joint project of the U.S. Government Information Division and ...
Feeding America is an online collection of the most important and influential 19th and early 20th century American cookbooks. The site also includes a glossary of cookery terms, essays by culinary historian Jan Longone, biographies of the cookbook authors, and multidimensional ...
The Fenians were established in Ireland and the United States in 1858 with the avowed purpose of overthrowing British rule in Ireland and establishing an Irish Republic. (In Ireland the Fenians were also known as the Irish Republican Brotherhood.) The Fenians in the United States ...
Field Trip Earth is the global resource for teachers, students, and proponents of wildlife conservation. Field Trip Earth focuses on field-based wildlife conservation research projects ongoing around the world. Some of the projects are "live," meaning that research activities, ...
The Find-It! Illinois Program is the Illinois State Library's initiative to establish and administer a statewide digital library. Key components include the Illinois Government Information (IGI) search engine and the Illinois Digital Archives (IDA). Through IGI, you can access ...
This web site provides access to materials selected from Fish and Mammal Divisions of the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology and the Fungus Collections of the University of Michigan Herbarium. It is a working prototype of a system that could provide integrated access to all ...
The Florida Folklife Collection includes approximately 150 cubic feet of administrative, survey and fieldwork files and tens of thousands of audio and video recordings dating from the 1930s through 2001. The collection consists of 88 record series documenting performances by, ...
Folkstreams.net collects, preserves, and makes available free streaming video of hard-to-find documentary films about American folk or roots culture, giving wider audience to the independent filmmakers and the diverse American artists and groups they have documented. The ...
For Our Mutual Benefit consists of a minute book, covering the years 1912-1920, from the Athens Woman's Club collection housed in the Heritage Room of the Athens-Clarke County Library that documents the social, philanthropic and reform activities of the Athens Woman's Club during ...
This exhibit of twenty-seven Forman Hanna photographs from the Arizona State Museum’s collection showcases the tradition of pictorial photography as practiced in the early twentieth century by photographers in the American West. Native Americans, cowboys and scenic landscapes ...
A selection of framed items from the collections of The Bancroft Library. Includes paintings, drawings, prints and photographs dating from the late 1600s to the mid-1970s. Subject matter is chiefly California scenes, events, towns and landmarks, as well as numerous portraits of ...
The Franklin motor car was invented by the engineer John Wilkinson and manufactured by the industrialist H. H. Franklin and marketed under his name. The Franklin was one of the most innovative motor cars of its time, featuring an air-cooled engine, scientific light weight and ...
In 1910, the Pi Beta Phi Fraternity for Women worked to open the first school to serve families in and around Gatlinburg. Thanks to a nearly quarter-million dollar grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the history of education and arts literacy in the ...
Over 30,000 public documents and 300 publications of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) are accessible from this site, a digital library created in a partnership between the Stanford University Libraries & Academic Information Resources (SULAIR) and the World Trade ...
George Edward Anderson's photographic collection reflects his lifelong commitment to his photography and his religion. The photographs taken over his career, spanning 1878-1928, demonstrate his artistry with a camera and his perfectionism. Both studio and environmental portraits ...
A pictorial WWII ( World War II) history of C Battery of the 522nd Field Artillery Battalion through the 34-page album of black and white photographs taken by George Oiye and Susumu Ito.
The Georgia Legislative Documents Project has digitized Georgia's Acts and Resolutions from 1799-1999. All but a few years of the Acts and Resolutions are currently available on-line as a searchable, full-text database. Participants in the Georgia Legislative Documents Project ...
The personal collection of Gerrit Smith himself, the Gerrit Smith Papers at Syracuse University, contain a significant volume of his collected works, publications by others on important themes of the day, and a large body of correspondence. Among the correspondents are Frederick ...
Getting the Message Out! National Political Campaign Materials, 1840-1860 presents an examination of national popular political culture in antebellum America. It includes histories of the presidential campaigns from 1840-1860, as well as primary source material, such as campaign ...
Our collection is a gathering of historic maps of Gila County dating back over 100 years. Some of these maps include historic places, names and marking of the Territory of Arizona.
Since its inception the Library Media Center (LMC) has been charged with the college's internal production needs entailing still, moving images, and audio recordings. The production of this material was required in order to support the institution's instructional program; cover ...
In 1937 a $6,000 bond issue and a Public Works Administration grant from the government enabled the city to construct a $12,000 library building in 1938. The 2,200 sq. ft. building would serve a population of 3,500. The Spanish-style mission library was located in the center of ...
GloPAD (Global Performing Arts Database) is a multimedia, multilingual, Web-accessible database containing digital images, texts, video clips, sound recordings, and complex media objects (such as 3-D images) related to the performing arts from around the world. All GloPAD records ...
The Goodspeed Collection of New Testament Manuscripts comprises 65 early Greek, Syriac, Ethiopic, Armenian, Arabic, and Latin manuscripts ranging in date from the 7th to the 19th centuries. The acquisition of these hitherto unknown manuscripts was spearheaded by Edgar J. ...
Hans Hofmann created a distinctive primordial world of color and light. He realized that in painting, unlike in nature, cause and effect are reversed: on canvas, color creates light. Hofmann wrote, "Every color emanates a very characteristic light," and the special luminosity and ...
Over 20,000 immigrants are currently being detained by the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Hard Place, a new web art by Lauren Gill and Jenny Polak project allows visitors to enter INS detention centers and see the conditions that detainees face every day.
Fred Harvey saw a need for better food and service along the rails and in 1876 pioneered a chain of restaurants and inns known as Harvey Houses from Chicago to San Francisco. Experience soon demonstrated that women made better servers, and the ‘Harvey Girls’ were borne ...
Hawaii War Records Depository is a collection of materials dealing with World War II as it affected Hawaii and its residents. It was created in 1943, during the first territorial legislature to meet after the Army declared martial law in the islands on 7 Dec. 1941. The Hawai'i ...
Images of Hawaiian language newspapers published from 1834 to 1948. Includes stories, chants, photographs, advertisements, political notices, letters to the editor. Documents a unique period in history and presents the Hawaiian view of events, genealogy and culture.
HEARTH is a core electronic collection of books and journals in Home Economics and related disciplines. Titles published between 1850 and 1950 were selected and ranked by teams of scholars for their great historical importance. It includes all aspects of historical home economics ...
The Helen Nestor photographic collection at the Oakland Museum of California in Oakland, California contains more than 2,000 prints and 20,000 negatives, is the life's work of an important documentary photographer who specialized in recording the political and social changes of ...
Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village's clothing and personal effects collection is recognized by the National Endowment for the Humanities as one of national significance. It contains over 10,000 items and ranges in date from l750 to the present day. The collection includes ...
This collection includes paintings by Henry Sugimoto, a Japanese American artist who flourished in the 1930s and continued to paint well into the 1990s.
Heritage Colorado - Digital Treasures of the West is a database that brings to the people of Colorado the special collections and unique resources of Colorado's archives, historical societies, libraries and museums in digital format. You can access photos, textual materials, ...
Highlights of the Catholic Diocese of Tucson includes documents and letters from the time of Bishop Salpointe, from the late 1860's to the mid 1880's. Most of the documents are written by or addressed to Bishop Salpointe himself. The collection also includes the first baptismal ...
Sixty-three oil paintings painted by Hisako Hibi at Tanforan Assembly Center in California and Topaz concentration camp in Utah from 1942 to 1945. Subjects include various daily activities, still lifes, and landscapes.
This collection of historic Arizona county maps includes maps of each Arizona county, dating from the mid 1880s to the late 1920s. Most of the maps were produced by the County Engineer or County Surveyor and published by the county Board of Supervisors. Some of the maps appear to ...
This collection represents South 1st Avenue, now 58th Drive and Glendale Avenue, from around 1910 to 1950. It depicts early development in downtown Glendale, Arizona. The collection also includes photos of the Sine Family, a pioneering family to Glendale, who were instrumental in ...
The Historic Pittsburgh Image Collections website contains over 8,000 visual images of the Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania region selected from dozens of photographic collections held by three cultural heritage institutions in Pittsburgh. The image collections visually ...
The Historical Maps Online digital collection contains images of maps charting the last 400 years of historical development in Illinois and the Northwest Territory, as well as topographic maps of Illinois. Designed to appeal both to map aficionados and to educational institutions ...
The project provides images of the available resources in Ponce's Autonomous Historical Archive and Museum of History. These materials respond to the History Course syllabus offered at Inter American University of Puerto Rico, and the history courses in the secondary schools of ...
The "History of Sedona" is a collection of historic images presented as a series of sub-collections divided by historical theme or context. Lacking a newspaper before the 1960s and a city government before 1988, these photographs come from private collections of area pioneer ...
This sub-collection of the "History of Sedona" illustrates the Sedona area’s agricultural heritage from the subsistence farmers and homesteaders who established elaborate irrigation systems to divert Oak Creek’s water through the rise and fall of a commercial orchard industry.
This sub-collection of the "History of Sedona" chronicles the first eight families who arrived along Oak Creek between 1876 and 1900 and whose descendants continued to live and contribute in the area through at least a second generation.
The initial goal of The HistoryMakers is to complete 5,000 interviews of both well-known and unsung African American HistoryMakers within the next five years, creating an archive of unparalleled importance and exposing the archival collection to the widest audience possible. Not ...
This multimedia web site is part of an 18-month project to catalog, digitize, and preserve every item in Indiana University’s extensive collections pertaining to the life and career of master songwriter Hoagland "Hoagy" Carmichael (1899-1981).
Pueblo Grande was a major Hohokam village on the north bank of the Salt River in what is now Phoenix, Arizona. Pueblo Grande was occupied for 1000 years, from about AD 500 - 1450. In addition to dwellings, it contained public architecture, such as the platform mound, a stone ...
There are approximately four thousand original Daumier lithographs, some proofs, and several illustrated books and woodcuts. While the vast majority of these prints are from the large editions done on newsprint, there are also many fine examples printed on wove white paper (sur ...
During the nineteenth century Illinois underwent an incredible transformation as it developed from a sparsely settled frontier region into a dynamic, prosperous, rural-urban state that exerted national leadership in a variety of fields. Illinois Alive! The Heritage and Texture of ...
IDA (Illinois Digitial Archives) is really two services under one roof. The first of these services is a search engine for images, sound files, and other multi-media events that exist on Internet sites throughout Illinois. The search engine indexes images, etc., describing the ...
The Illinois Government Information search engine is a joint project of the Illinois State Library and the University of Illinois, providing search capabilities across the state government websites of Illinois. These facilities were designed, implemented, and are operated by the ...
Illinois State University History is a growing collection that currently includes campus history books, proceedings of the first university governing board, photographs, campus history videos, and presidential letters. Support for this collection is provided by The Friends of ...
A selection of items from the collection of the Berkeley Art Museum.
The Images collection consists of photographs of bishops and priests who served Catholics of Arizona from as early as the 1860s. Most of the earliest priests and bishops came from France through the recruitment of Archbishop Salpointe and Archbishop Lamy, of Santa Fe. The ...
A collection of miniature Indian paintings from the collection of the Berkeley Art Museum.
Images of the Indian Peoples of the Northern Great Plains is a searchable online photograph database. The Project strives to broaden access to new constituencies by providing students, researchers, and the general public with direct access to important primary source material on ...
This collection offers snapshots, some over 100 years old, from Native American life in and around Winslow, AZ, a border town to the Navajo and Hopi Reservations. These two tribes comprise most of the native population near here, but Winslow became a second home to a contingent ...
INFOMINE is a virtual library of Internet resources relevant to faculty, students, and research staff at the university level. It contains useful Internet resources such as databases, electronic journals, electronic books, bulletin boards, mailing lists, online library card ...
Although Whitman is a foundational figure in American culture, his manuscripts as a whole are poorly understood and, curiously, the most important group of them, the poetry manuscripts, have never been collected and edited. The Whitman Archive has undertaken, therefore, to build ...
This collection consists of 166 photographs and copy negatives of photographs taken at Manazanar and Tule Lake concentration camps between 1942 and 1945. Subjects include scenes of daily life, group portraits, and landscapes.
Jackson Davis, an educational reformer and amateur photographer, took nearly 6,000 photographs of African American schools, teachers and students throughout the Southeastern United States. His photographs -- most intended to demonstrate the wretched conditions of African American ...
The Grunwald Center's collection of 40,000 works on paper includes 950 prints by Japanese Edo and Meiji period artists. The Center acquired many of these prints in 1965 from the Estate of Frank Lloyd Wright (American architect, 1867-1959). Artists represented in this impressive ...
John B. Jervis (1795-1885) was America's leading consulting engineer of the antebellum era (1820 - 1860). Jervis was a pioneer in the development of canals and railroads for the expanding United States. He designed and supervised the construction of five of America's earliest ...
To commemorate the 140th anniversary of the hanging of John Brown in Charles Town, West Virginia, the West Virginia State Archives placed online a new electronic database of materials pertaining to Brown from the Boyd B. Stutler Collection. A recognized authority on the man, Boyd ...
UCR-California Museum of Photography faces the challenge of providing ready, useful and intellectual access to a valuable body of cultural and educational resources of interest to the general public and scholars alike. Consisting of 250,000 stereoscopic glass-plate and film ...
Cornell Library will partner with Cornell's College of Engineering and the Museum of Science in Boston to research and develop the use of stereolithographic ("3D printing") technology to create working physical replicas of mechanical artifacts that can be exchanged electronically ...
King County Snapshots presents King County, Washington, through 12,000 historical images carefully chosen from twelve organizations' collections. These cataloged 19th and 20th century images portray people, places, and events in the county's urban, suburban, and rural communities ...
Since its founding in 1956 the Grunwald Center has acquired a formidable number of landscape prints and drawings dating from the Renaissance to the present. A 1988 bequest of more than 850 landscape prints and drawings from the collection of Los Angeles architect Rudolf L. ...
"League of Nations Statistical and Disarmament Documents" contains the full text of 260 League of Nations documents. The League existed from 1919 to 1946. Although Russia and the United States refused to join, its members included countries from Africa, Asia, Europe and North and ...
The Linking Florida's Natural Heritage (LFNH) website is a metasearch application providing a single query interface to museum specimen databases, library catalogs, citation databases, and digital collections of taxonomic and topical information. Some collections include the ...
This database contains about 500 scanned images from the Schuelke and Wolcott collections ...
The Living Museum has for decades been a rich source of information on Illinois art, natural history, anthropology, and history. This online project does not replace the print version of The Living Museum but makes this popular educational resource also accessible electronically ...
Through the collaborative efforts of Long Island archives, historical societies, libraries, museums, and organizations, the people of Long Island will have access to the visual and oral record of Long Island history, culture, government and industry through a variety of textual, ...
Louisiana Gumbo: A Recipe for Empowerment will give educators ...
The Louisiana Purchase in 1803 stands as the most significant event in the westward expansion of the United States and as an experiment to incorporate a substantially different culture. This LSU Libraries' Special Collections digital project emphasizes the diverse history of that ...
The Louisiana State Museum Digital Library Jazz collection is composed of photographs, audio recordings and musical instruments from the collections of the Louisiana State Museum. Primarily dealing with traditional New Orleans jazz, the collections focus on photographs (including ...
The Maine Memory Network is a statewide database of electronic versions of Maine's Historical Documents, contributed by cultural institutions from around the state, from their own locations.
Five collections of music manuscript scores and sheet music, about 22,641 titles, were selected for digitization and inclusion in the pilot project. Four collections are from the Bagaduce Music Library and one from the Bangor Public Library. These collections are either unique or ...
The Making of Modern Michigan is a collaborative project involving more than 50 Michigan libraries and other organizations. It includes local history materials from communities around the state. Michigan's unique heritage is represented through photographs, family papers, oral ...
Welcome to the next generation of Making Sense of Modern Art (MSoMA). This program, recently brought to the Web in high bandwidth format, offers an extensive and engaging guide to modern and contemporary works in the Museum's permanent collection. Its rich-media format enables ...
A remarkable visual source - not yet explored - these mostly unpublished and little known architectural drawings and sketches by Marcel Breuer (1902-1981), architect, designer and Bauhaus legend who was named one of the "Form Givers" of Modernism have now been made available ...
The Connell Collection of Historic Maricopa Pottery consists of pots that were collected by Eliza Ann Connell and her daughter, Caroline, between 1895 and 1907, in Phoenix. According to documents on file at both Pueblo Grande Museum and the Arizona State Museum, Burridge D. ...
This web site will provide a fully searchable and indexed digital library of Samuel Clemens'Mississippi novels and reminiscences (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi). These works will serve as lenses through which the public ...
Founded in 1917, the Allen Memorial Art Museum (AMAM) is now ranked among the finest college or university collections in the nation, and is one of the greatest cultural assets of Oberlin College. The comprehensive collection contains over 11,000 works that span the entire ...
Meadow Brook Hall's clothing and accessories collection, consisting of over 500 items, is that of the home's owner, Matilda Dodge Wilson. Born in 1883 and passing away in 1967, Matilda Dodge Wilson experienced her share of fashion trends from Edwardian sheaths and oversized hats ...
The Medallion Papers is a series of 39 publications issued between 1928-1950 by the Gila Pueblo Archaeological Foundation. Gila Pueblo, as it later became known, was one of the earliest Arizona institutions doing archaeological surveying and research in the Southwest. It was ...
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These photos represent a small portion of the collection from Herbert V. Young who was engaged as secretary to the general manager of the United Verde Copper Company mine from 1912-1955 ...
For a half century, Carnegie Mellon University has been a leader in the research and design of artificial intelligence (AI) - the creation of "thinking machines". Many of Carnegie Mellon's achievements came from pioneering work by professors Herbert A. Simon and Allen Newell. ...
This collection, from the Mount Olive Public Library, includes photographs of mines and mine workers from Mount Olive as well as some Mother Jones memorabilia - including the letter she wrote to the miners of Mount Olive. She died on November 30, 1930 and is buried in the Union ...
A group of interactive online resources which examine Minnesota's past and paint an overview of Minnesota history.
Beginning in the late 1980s, Minnesota’s population has been augmented by successive waves of immigration – especially from Asia and East Africa. The Minnesota Immigrant Oral Histories Online collection will make available online oral histories from collaborative projects with ...
Scientific Literature Indexing on Networked Computers.
MOAC is a group of California museums working with libraries and archives to increase and enhance access to cultural collections. MOAC includes a broad range of museum and library collections.
This collection of photographs, 1890's through the 1940's, provide a snapshot of the role transportation systems and vehicles played in the development of Mohave County. Subjects presented are: horses, mules, burros, railroads, stagecoaches, freight wagons, trucks, buses, hotels ...
The "Montana Memory Project" is a collection of digital collections and items relating to Montana's cultural heritage. In part, these collections and items will document the Montana experience. Access is free and open through the Internet. Many of these items are digitized copies ...
The Montezuma Castle Historic Photo Archive collection represents the history of Montezuma Castle National Monument, from its time before National Park Service control in the late nineteenth century, through the 1960’s. These images chronicle not only early interest and ...
Moriyuki Shimada was twenty-two years old when he and his family were forcibly removed from their home in Santa Clara, California to the Heart Mountain Concentration Camp in Wyoming. Shimada created a scrapbook after the war with the photographs he had taken and collected during ...
Collection contains photographs, posters, letters, and other documents related to the 1932 "The Trunk Murders" case trial and the life of Winnie Ruth Judd. Judd allegedly shot to death her two girlfriends and former room mates -- Agnes Anne LeRoi and Hedvig “Sammy” Samuelson ...
The Center's National Collection of Endangered Plants contains plant material for more than 600 of the country's most imperiled native plants. An important conservation resource, the Collection is a back up in case a species becomes extinct or no longer reproduces in the wild. ...
The McLean County Museum of History offers access to a wide range of Native American objects. The collection includes pre-historic lithics and pottery fragments found in Central Illinois used in farming, hunting, and food processing. The collection also contains objects obtained ...
Explore the Nature Museum's exhibits in a fun, new way! Nature Museum Online guides you through a series of interactive discoveries.
This collection showcases the art and artifacts that document the history of Navajo County. This items are currently on display at the Navajo County Historical Society, Holbook, Arizona branch.
Nebraska Memories, a cooperative project to digitize Nebraska-related historical and cultural heritage materials and make them freely available to researchers of all ages via the Internet, is brought to you by the Nebraska Library Commission. Nebraska Memories uses CONTENTdm ...
Find a wide range of artifacts, books, documents, maps, postcards, original paintings, and photographs on a variety of topics relating to trails in Nebraska. Collected into a searchable database from the holdings of museums and libraries across Nebraska, these images illustrate ...
The New Jersey Digital Highway (NJDH) is a new way to explore our history and culture. The Highway will bring together digitized versions of historical and cultural treasures from our libraries, museums, and historical collections. The result will be a digital archive of ...
The Picture Collection Online is an image resource site for those who seek knowledge and inspiration from visual materials. It is a collection of 30,000+ digitized images from books, magazines and newspapers as well as original photographs, prints and postcards, mostly created ...
NJVid provides New Jersey K-20 educational institutions, museums and libraries state-of-the-art access to three different types of video collections: locally owned content, commercial, and lectures-on-demand. Through open source programs that provide authentication and ...
"The North Carolina Experience, Beginnings to 1940" is a collection that tells the story of the Tar Heel State as seen through representative histories, descriptive accounts, institutional reports, fiction, and other writing. It comprises digitized and encoded printed works, ...
"North Carolinians and the Great War" examines how World War I shaped the lives of different North Carolinians on the battlefield and on the home front as well how the state and federal government responded to war-time demands. The collection focuses on the years of American ...
Established in 1856, Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfield, Illinois, is the largest cemetery in Illinois in land area (365 acres). More than seventy thousand people are interred in this historic cemetery. With more than 2.5 million visitors each year, it is the second most-visited ...
The Object of History is a cooperative project between the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History and George Mason University's Center for History and New Media. The project was conceived of in an effort to find a low cost way for students and teacher of U.S. History ...
The Oklahoma Author collection highlights the literary heritage of our state through a compilation of contemporary and historical author profiles. It is an ongoing collaborative effort of the Oklahoma Center for the Book and the Oklahoma Collection of the Oklahoma Department of ...
"Oklahoma Crossroads: Documents and Images" of the Oklahoma Department of Libraries consists of major digital collections such as online exhibits and collaborative projects. Collections include documents, photographs, newspapers, reports, pamphlets, posters, maps, and an author ...
The Oklahoma Image Project was sponsored by the Oklahoma Department of Libraries and the Oklahoma Library Association and funded by a $400,000 grant from National Endowment for the Humanities. The grant period ran from October 1978-October 1980. This collection houses materials ...
Reference and primary source material important to the study of Oklahoma's history and culture.
The electronic collection of the Oklahoma Publications Clearinghouse is a permanent location for publications available through state agency websites, beginning in 2006.
The collection of digitized newspaper articles consists of commentaries written by Olasee Davis, alocal ecologist and environmental activist. Mr. Davis authorized the electronic reproduction of his articles that appeared in the Virgin Islands Daily News and the St. Croix Avis ...
In 15th-century Europe, the invention of the printed image coincided with both the wide availability of paper and the invention of moveable type in the West. A new print publishing industry developed in order to produce exactly repeatable images in woodcut or engraving and make ...
Collections on display bear testament to the diverse history of this area. Winslow is one of 41 recognized sites on the Colorado Plateau with fossilized remains of the Columbian Mammoth from the Pleistocene Age, a small collection of which is housed here. Continuing on a ...
The Oliver Collection consists of approximately 2700 glass plate negatives and photographic prints taken mainly by amateur photographer William Letts Oliver and his son Roland L. Oliver. The photographs date from the late 1800s to the early 1900s. Subjects include maritime and ...
Northwestern Olympic Peninsula communities and The University of Washington are working together to create a Web-based museum to showcase aspects of the rich history and culture of the region. This project is made possible by a 2003 National Leadership Grant for Library and ...
For more than sixty years the Library has been assembling data on social-religious movements of New York State during the nineteenth century as part of its collecting policy to include "local history"-with chief emphasis on the geographical region of Central New York within a ...
Oral Histories of Gila County is a compilation of interviews commemorating Arizona's first 100 years of Statehood. It was made possible by partial funding by an Arizona State Library LSTA Grant. The oral historian, Joyce McBride, began interviewing in September 2007, choosing ...
"Oral Histories of the American South" is a three-year project to select, digitize and make available 500 oral history interviews gathered by the Southern Oral History Program (SOHP). These 500 are being selected from a collection of over 4,000 interviews, housed at the Southern ...
This audio collection consists of snippets from interviews with residents who lived in and around the White Mountains area. The 1977 interviews were part of a Northland Pioneer College project to document the history of the Northeastern Arizona region. Complete interviews can be ...
The Oral History Collection at UIS consists of material collected by the Sangamon State University Oral History Office from 1971 to 1991. Some oral history memoirs have been added in recent years by volunteers and UIS graduate history students. The collection includes the memoirs ...
Our Americas Archive Partnership (OAAP) is an innovative digital humanities project with a view to supporting scholarly inquiry into the Americas from a hemispheric perspective. Scholars, librarians and technologists are collaborating to develop an integrated approach to ...
Park Forest began in 1946 as a dream held by Carroll F. Sweet, Sr., to build a "G.I. Town" for returning veterans. Due to the lack of building during the Depression and World War II, the returning veterans and their young families faced a severe housing shortage. Carroll F. Sweet ...
This collection of photographs provides a feel for what Phoenix College was like during its first several decades. Images were selected to represent college life, as well as the architecture of the various campus locations. The photographs come from the Library and the Alumni ...
The Jewish News Photographic Collection consists of over 10,000 photographs and other documentation donated by the Jewish News of Greater Phoenix to the Arizona Jewish Historic Society in May 2007. The Jewish News of Greater Phoenix is a privately owned weekly newspaper reporting ...
The George Eastman House will develop an online Wiki for Expertise in the Evaluation of Photographs. A wiki is a Web site or similar online resource that allows users to add and edit content. The George Eastman House is an authority on the care and evaluation of photographic ...
This site is a repository of historic images. The collections of several Central Ohio Libraries and Historical Societies have been digitized and are available in a keyword searchable database. From this site you can search through collections of newspaper photo archives, ...
The Photomuse collection provides a sample of the photographic archives of the International Center of Photography and the George Eastman House.
The online collection consists of forty turn-of-the-twentieth century Augusta-related picture postcards selected from the collection Augusta and Environs: Picture Post Cards in Color held at the East Central Georgia Regional Library in Augusta, Georgia. The postcards in this ...
Plant images (drawings, photographs of living plants,images of herbarium specimens)
The Chicago Botanic Garden, in collaboration with APGA, the University of Kansas, Florida State University, BG-BASE, Inc. and 17 public gardens around the world, have developed PlantCollections, an application for web-based querying that will allow information from multiple ...
The Powwow Photographs by Ann Leonard collection consists of 69 color digital photographs by Arizona State University's Labriola National American Indian Data Center's Library Aid, Ann Leonard. Leonard documented the Tohono O'odham's Wa:K Pow Wow, held at Tucson's San Xavier del ...
Project Introspection produced a variety of materials on various aspects of the history and culture of the U.S. Virgin Islands. The goal "to coordinate units of work on the Virgin Islands and Caribbean from all available sources had a two-fold objective: 1) to discover and ...
Public Art in the Bronx, a project of Lehman College Art Gallery/City University of New York, examines the rich collection of public art found in our borough. This site provides an overview of works in public places from the earliest created in the 19th century, those produced ...
In September 2003, The University of Alabama, University Libraries, in partnership with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries, received an IMLS National Leadership grant to create the digital resource, Publishers' Bindings Online, 1815-1930: The Art of Books (PBO ...
Linen drawings and paper blueprints of sleeping and other railroad cars built and operated by the Pullman Company and dating mainly from the era of heavyweight and lightweight cars. Includes floor plans, duct layouts, heating pipe diagrams, side elevations, and underneath ...
The Quilt Index is a growing research and reference tool designed to provide unprecedented access to information and images about quilts held in private and public hands.
The Raid on Deerfield: Many Stories of 1704 recounts this event in eight scenes with a prologue and an epilogue. Each scene is described from the perspectives of the cultures that were present.
Remembering the Houses of Western Springs is a collection of photographs of 19th century houses, with dates and some background information on each house. The Western Springs Historical Society took the photographs in 1977, and Thomas Ford Memorial Library in Western Springs ...
Colonial Williamsburg is partnering with the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia to develop 3D models of five unique historical sites within Colonial Williamsburg, and provide scanned, digitized facades of twenty-three buildings to ...
George Cruikshank (1792-1878) was a popular nineteenth-century British artist, widely recognized for his work as a caricaturist and book illustrator. George and his elder brother Robert Cruikshank (1789-1856) learned the craft of design, collaboration, and printmaking from their ...
The Robert B. Honeyman Jr. Collection of Early Californian and Western American Pictorial Material is comprised of over 2300 items, with formats and media ranging from original oil paintings, watercolors, drawings, lithographs, engravings, etchings, lettersheets, clipper cards, ...
The Rochester Images database will include 22,000 historical and contemporary images from Rochester and Monroe County. Photographs and postcards form the foundation of the database which will be expanded to include other collections and materials such as maps, manuscripts, and ...
This collection presents a brief introduction to the rock art of Cochise County, Arizona. A wide diversity of prehistoric and historic rock art is found in the county including petroglyphs and pictographs. Petroglyphs are carved rock designs and pictographs are painted rock ...
The records of the Rome-Turney Radiator Company include correspondence, copies of outgoing letters and incoming, telegrams; financial records, invoices, both incoming and outgoing, financial ledgers, purchasing department letters, purchase orders and requisitions, quotations ...
Eisenmann was born in Germany in 1850 and emigrated to the United States some time before 1870, settling in New York City. At an early age, Eisenmann established a photography studio in the Bowery. A lower class area that was the hub of popular entertainment, the Bowery was known ...
Sahuaro Ranch was one of the first farms in the Glendale area and a reminder of Glendale's agricultural beginnings. Started by wealthy Illinois businessman William H. Bartlett in 1886, the ranch was a commercial operation and became known as the "Showplace of the Valley." ...
The Samuel Hugh Hawkins Diary, January - July 1877, donated by Georgia State Senator George Hooks to the Lake Blackshear Regional Library System, chronicles Americus, Georgia entrepreneur, lawyer, and banker Samuel Hawkins' financial, agricultural, civic, and religious activities ...
The online collection consists of 4,445 maps by the Sanborn Map Company depicting commercial, industrial, and residential areas for 133 municipalities. Originally designed for fire insurance assessment, the color-coded maps relate the location and use of buildings, as well as the ...
Today Scottsdale is a beautiful bustling city with many attractions enjoyed by residents and tourists alike. But did you know, that the town began as a little farming settlement? Many active community organizations worked to create the Scottsdale of today and as the town grew, ...
The Scottsdale Room, located at Scottsdale's Civic Center Library, contains items of local interest with a focus on Scottsdale. The Room has evolved over the years through the cooperative efforts of Scottsdale's City Council, Library Advisory Board, Scottsdale Cultural Council, ...
These images (some rare and rarely seen) were selected from over 5,000 photographs found in the Personal and Political Papers of Senator Barry M. Goldwater (1909-1998). They document his interests in aviation, Arizona history, photography and travel as well as his military, ...
This collection of still images is related to the American Indians of Arizona and the Southwest (1865-1970). Tribes include Navajo, Apache, Yavapai, Hualapai, Papago, Hopi, Mohave, Paiute, Yaqui, Havasupai, Pima and Maricopa.Also included in the collection are images of ...
The Sharlot Hall Museum Oral History collection represents a cross-section of our larger collection of interviews, presentations, speeches and radio programs conducted mainly in Prescott, Arizona from 1939-present. Collections include the Westerner’s Collection, a collection of ...
This collection of still images is related to structures in Prescott Yavapai County, and Northern Arizona. Included are stage stations, businesses, residences, banks, schools, churches, hotels, interiors, ranches, and government buildings (1864-present). The majority of the ...
The Sharlot Hall Museum Map Collection consists of approximately 5,000 maps relating to Prescott, Arizona, Yavapai County, and Arizona and the west in general, 1850-present. Mining, railroad, and survey maps make up the bulk of the collection and are supplemented by aeronautical ...
This collection of still images represent military activity in Arizona, specifically Yavapai County and Northern Arizona, 1864-Present. Subjects included in the collection are Ft. Whipple, Camp Verde, Ft. Apache, Ft. Grant, San Carlos, Ft. McDowell, Camp Huachuca, Ft. Bowie, Camp ...
This collection of still images is related to mining activities in Yavapai County and Northern Arizona(1864-1975). Gold, copper, iron, onyx, and silver mining are represented, as well as placer, hydraulic, underground, and open pit mining.
This collection of still images is related to transportation in Northern Arizona (1864-1965). Subjects represented in this collection are railroads, stagecoaches, train depots, bridges, freighting, and general transportation.
Sharlot M. Hall was a forward-thinking woman, a woman of vision and daring living during an era when most women didn't dare have any vision at all. Born in 1870 in Kansas, she traveled on the Santa Fe Trail at the age of eleven to the Arizona Territory with her family in 1882, ...
The beautiful photos in this collection show you people, places, business, buildings, and events of the Intermountain West ...
Ships for Victory: J.A. Jones Construction Company and Liberty Ships in Brunswick, Georgia consists of eighty-four black-and-white photographs from the J.A. Jones Construction Company collection at the Brunswick-Glynn County Library that depict the companys World War II cargo ...
This collection includes photographs, documents, maps and other objects related to both old and recent history of Show Low, Arizona: quilts, t-shirts, dentist tools, cannons, hides, and more. The 2002 Rodeo Fire is especially well documented.
The Maryland Historical Society is proud to host the definitive collection of jazz-pioneer Eubie Blake. Blake, born in Baltimore in the 1880s, went on to become one of the most popular ragtime composers of his era and one of the more influential musicians of the 20th century.
The program will provide an adaptable model to demonstrate a shared statewide infrastructure available to cultural heritage organizations with audio resources by digitizing at least 2000 audio objects to be accessible through catalogs, exhibits, and special indexing ...
This collection contains digitized early Western travel narratives from Cornell's John M. Echols Collection on Southeast Asia.
Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842, contains approximately 2,000 documents and images relating to the Native American population of the Southeastern United States from the collections of the University of Georgia Libraries, the University of Tennessee at Knoxville ...
"The Southern Homefront, 1861-1865," documents Southern life during the Civil War, especially the unsuccessful attempt to create a viable nation state as evidenced in both private and public life. "Homefront" includes over four hundred digitized and encoded contemporary printed ...
The Southern Oregon History Collection brings together books, maps, government documents, oral histories, correspondence and miscellaneous materials that document the unique historical experience of Southern Oregon. Most materials focus on historic era settlement or economic ...
The Springfield Aviation Company Collection, 1927-1955, was donated to the Sangamon Valley Collection at Lincoln Library in May 1995 by Craig Isbell, former co-manager of the company. Isbell formed a partnership with Gelder Lockwood in the late 1920s and operated this company at ...
Springfield College was initially incorporated as the International YMCA Training School at Springfield in 1885. The images reflect the activities of local, national, and international YMCAs from approximately 1885 to 1920, with special reference to the growth of YMCA training ...
In 1855, when Francis Scott Street and Francis Shubael Smith bought The New York Weekly Dispatch, Street & Smith embarked on a publishing mission that remained remarkably prolific and profitable for over one hundred years. Street & Smith rapidly became a "fiction factory," ...
This collection contains posters from government, commercial, and charitable organizations and are multi-national in scope and cover veterans' benefits, war bonds and loans, military recruitment and morale, civil defense, industrial production, freedom and loyalty campaigns, ...
A diverse set of materials from up to 10 museums and libraries digitized to correspond to lesson plans from 15 K-12 school teachers. Lesson plans are mapped to the Illinois State Board of Education Learning Standards.
The WGBH Media Archives and Preservation Center has preserved and described 523 tapes from The Ten O'Clock News, WGBH's in-depth nightly news program. Dating from 1974 to 1991, this collection focuses on news stories relating to Boston's African American community. Browse our ...
The "Tennessee Documentary History, 1796-1850," contains 2,000 documents and images relating to the history of antebellum Tennessee.
Terence Vincent Powderly (1849-1924), who led the Knights of Labor at the peak of its power as Grand Master Workman (1879-1893), and who later held important posts with the Bureau of Immigration (1897-1921), was also an avid and talented amateur photographer. Several thousand of ...
Explore the turbulent times of "Bleeding Kansas." Hundreds of personal letters, diaries, photos, and maps bring to life the settling of Kansas during the fierce debate over slavery.
The Texas ETD Repository is a statewide system for managing the entire life cycle of electronic theses and dissertations from initial submission to final publication.
Texas Heritage Online provides unified online access to Texas' historical documents and images for use by teachers, students, historians, genealogists, and other researchers.
"Thar's Gold in Them Thar Hills": Gold and Gold Mining in Georgia, 1830s-1940s consists of selected legal, financial, and promotional documents as well as photographs and picture postcards that represent episodes of renewed interest in gold mining in Lumpkin County during ...
Although she lived only 33 years, Theresa Cha left a substantial and diverse body of work. The primary mediums in which she worked were: ceramic, performance, artist's books, concrete poetry, film, video, sculpture, mail art, audio, and slide projections. In many cases her work ...
This collection depicts the story of Thunderbird Field I, a vital World War II air training base at which more than 10,000 pilots learned to fly. The collection then shows the early years of the school, known as American Institute for Foreign Trade. Thanks to the vision of ...
TIDES offers a digital gateway to rich historical, cultural and scientific resources held in Texas and Mexican libraries, museums, archives, historical societies, private collections, state parks and wildlife preserves. These resources (photographs, scanned documents and ...
Between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, many Europeans and Americans traveled to the Middle East for a number of reasons. Some came to conduct archaeological expeditions or tour religious sites, while others hoped to investigate ancient cultures or pursue geopolitical ...
TimePieces is a collection of events and primary sources--the momentous and the trivial--from billions of years ago to the present day. Rather than providing comprehensive information, the collection introduces a sampling of what has happened in the place known as Minnesota, ...
Timothy Vedder was a Union soldier from New York, stationed at Camp Douglas in Washington, D.C. and at Arlington Heights, Va. The collection contains holograph letters signed to family members in New York and Connecticut. Describes Washington, including brief mention of Columbian ...
This exhibit is composed of 109 photographs of the Tohono O'odham Indians taken by the Arizona State Museum's photographer Helga Teiwes during the years 1970 -- 1980. The exhibit is arranged into eleven themes and covers their arts and crafts, traditional practices and customs, ...
The University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI), in collaboration with the School of Information and Library Science (SILS) at UNC Chapel Hill, will preserve, analyze, and make publicly accessible online documents relating to the practice of redlining ...
Trading posts were not just a western phonenoma, as Congress established Federal Trading Houses at the urging of George Washington in 1796. By the time posts were dotting the landscape in northern Arizona, laws had changed several times, but traders were still required to ...
The final results will include: a selection of online resources, with a web-based GIS tool to make them useful; products that demonstrate the variety of stories geographic information can help tell; an online curriculum package that shows teachers how to apply the resources and ...
The Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands included the Micronesian archipelagoes of the Marshalls, Carolines and Marianas during the U.S. administrative period from 1947 to 1994. The archive contains over 52,000 photographs and visually document nearly 50 years of the U.S. ...
This collection of over 100 images of early Tucson and Southern Arizona pioneers is the result of a collaborative effort by the Arizona Historical Society, the Arizona State Genealogical Society (ASGS) and the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society (AAHAS) Tucson ...
This collection features documents and images from various state government agencies regarding the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921.
The collections represented here from the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History explores art and material culture primarily from Africa and Asia. This collection offers a superb representation of the arts of many African nations, including objects from Senegal, Nigeria, Ghana, ...
The materials in this collection, dating from 1917-1919, document the participation of the students, alumni, faculty and staff of Illinois State Normal University in World War I. During the war, Illinois State Normal University Librarian Ange Milner corresponded with women in ...
UVI's Research and Public Service component produces a variety of documents detailing research findings on varieties of plants and animals, as well as general home economics practices applicable to the Virgin Islands and the Caribbean region. In addition, various agencies of the ...
The Upper Mississippi Valley Digital Image Archive eventually will consist of a searchable database of thousands of digital images from local history collections covering the 1860s through the 1950s ...
The USS Arizona became infamous on December 7th, 1941 as the first U.S. battleship sunk during World War II. It continues to be in the forefront of American consciousness as a memorial to the servicemen who died during the war. The Arizona Capitol Museum is home to the silver ...
Digitized state (Utah) historical newspapers. Full text/keyword searchable.
The digital images in this collection, made available by the Sangamon Valley Collection at the Lincoln Library in Springfield, Illinois are drawn from the larger physical collection and show Vachel Lindsay, his family, Elizabeth Graham, the Lindsay Verse Speaking Choir (1940) and ...
Vanishing Georgia comprises nearly 18,000 photographs documenting more than 100 years of Georgia history and life. These images cover family and business life, street scenes and architecture, agriculture, school and civic activities, landscapes, and important individuals and ...
Old Morenci and Metcalf mining townsites were located on the eastern border of Arizona from 1870 - 1984. Morenci was known as "Joy Camp", (named after Captain Miles Joy). In 1882, "Joy Camp" was renamed "Morenci' by William Church, head of the Detroit Copper Company. Metcalf was ...
The Enid M. Baa Library of the Division of Libraries, Archives and Museums (DLAM) has acquired an extensive collection of memorial booklets since the early 1970's for U. S. Virgin Islands residents. Booklets are usually more than 10 pages long and give details of the life and ...
The digitization of the Libraries' photograph collections is an attempt to display records of important events and personalities in the Virgin Islands' social life and history. Photographs donated by the late Geraldo Guirty represent a significant portion of the collection.
Virtual Motor City is the name of an IMLS sponsored digitization project, carried out by the Wayne State University Library System and the Walter P. Reuther Library ...
VIVA History: Visual Index to the Virtual Archives, is an innovative visually-based interface that uses a 3-D computer model of Manhattan as a click-on map, allowing Web visitors to view the city, present and past, and to access the Museum's collections through an on-line, ...
An online multimedia museum collection featuring oral history recordings and historic photographs that document life on the Colorado Plateau. The collection is divided into three sections: People, Places, and Topics. The site is designed to increase viewer's understanding and ...
Three major botanical institutions, The Morton Arboretum, The Field Museum of Natural History, and the Chicago Botanic Garden are developing an on-line searchable herbarium (vPlants™, or "virtual plants") that will provide herbarium specimen data and digital images of specimens ...
The Walt Whitman Archive is a dynamic site devoted to Whitman's poetry, published works, manuscripts, and life.
Walter Wataru Muramoto (1915-1984) was an amateur photographer from Redondo Beach, California. Muramoto, a nisei, learned about taking pictures from his father, a photographer who specialized in school photos in Japan. While incarcerated at Rohwer concentration camp with his ...
WebERA is designed to overcome the obstacles that most often prevent museums and libraries from managing storage environments effectively and efficiently. The premise of this project is that environmental risks to collections and structures can be managed and mitigated if they ...
This site contains information on the women’s suffrage movement in the greater Rochester region on Western New York. The site is built around biographies of 35 suffragists from the region and contains digitized images of photographs, books, calendars, letters, and other ...
The Western Soundscape Archive (WSA) recognizes the vital connection between places and their soundscapes and features audio recordings of animals and environments throughout the western United States. The project's geographic focus includes 11 contiguous western states — ...
A collection of digitized primary source material on Western Trails - broadly defined - including native trails, roads, highways, and westward migration.
The Western Waters Digital Library will be a distributed collection of materials from research institutions in the Western United States of America. Water pervades all issues in the West, from agriculture, energy, native peoples and settlers, to recreation and water rights.
The Western Ways Features Company Photographs were selected from over 22,000 photographic prints and negatives contained within the Western Ways Feature Manuscript and Photograph Collection, ca. 1930-1970. The images include localities and landscapes throughout Arizona and ...
Open Vault provides online access to unique and historically important content produced by public television station WGBH for individual and classroom learning. The ever-expanding site contains video excerpts, searchable transcripts, a select number of complete interviews for ...
From the mid 1950s through the early 1980s, William Gedney (1932-1989) photographed throughout the United States, in India, and in Europe. From the commerce of the street outside his Brooklyn apartment to the daily chores of unemployed coal miners, from the indolent lifestyle of ...
The William Hayes Papers are primarily family letters written from 1830-1857, years in which Hayes and his wife Anna moved from Galway, New York to Cleveland, Ohio, then to Fort Clark, Illinois (present-day Peoria) and finally to Randolph County, Illinois. However, they also ...
Worklore: Brooklyn Workers Speak, a joint research/exhibition project of The Brooklyn Historical Society and the Brooklyn Public Library, explores the work lives of Brooklynites as they made, and continue to make, their living in the borough. Using photographs and personal quotes ...
"The World's Columbian Exposition of 1893" website was created to provide world-wide access to thousands of illustrations and full-text images of the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 for purposes of teaching and research. The site highlights four works focusing on various aspects of ...
As the planned outcome of Chicago’s 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition, The Field Museum may well be called "the Fair that never ended ...
The WPA/TVA Archaeological Photograph Archive is an on-line database of information describing photographs taken by Works Progress Administration (WPA) workers of archaeological projects conducted in preparation for Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) dam construction in the 1930s. ...
Between 1875 and 1925, American frontier fiction found a new landscape -- the Southwest—and it’s most popular genre -- the western. The mythical world created by the popular writers of the period such as Bret Harte, Owen Wister, and Zane Grey, was situated in the fabled Southwest ...
Springfield College was initially incorporated as the International YMCA Training School at Springfield in 1885. The images reflect the activities of local, national, and international YMCAs from approximately 1885 to 1920.
Springfield College was initially incorporated as the International YMCA Training School at Springfield in 1885. The images reflect the activities of local, national, and international YMCAs from approximately 1885 to 1920.
Springfield College was initially incorporated as the International YMCA Training School at Springfield in 1885. The images reflect the activities of local, national, and international YMCAs from approximately 1885 to 1920.
Springfield College was initially incorporated as the International YMCA Training School at Springfield in 1885. The images reflect the activities of local, national, and international YMCAs from approximately 1885 to 1920.
Springfield College was initially incorporated as the International YMCA Training School at Springfield in 1885. The images reflect the activities of local, national, and international YMCAs from approximately 1885 to 1920.
Springfield College was initially incorporated as the International YMCA Training School at Springfield in 1885. The images reflect the activities of local, national, and international YMCAs from approximately 1885 to 1920.
