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Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project
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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 ...

Africa Focus: Sights and Sounds of a Continent
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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
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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
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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 ...

American Missionary Association and the Promise of a Multicultural America: 1839 - 1954
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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 ...

American Natural Science in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century
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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 ...

Arizona Electronic Atlas
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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: ...

Arizona-Sonora Documents Online
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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 ...

Arthur, Once Upon a Time - Local History Images of Arthur, Illinois
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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 ...

ArtsConnectEd II
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The combined records for works of art in the permanent collections of the Walker Art Center and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.

Atlanta History Center Photojournalism Collection
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Banana: A Chinese American Experience
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Claudia Chow's Banana is an interactive look at the Lees, a Chinese-American family attempting to balance Chinese traditions and Western culture.

Beyond the Shelf: Serving Historic Kentuckiana Through Virtual Access
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"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 ...

Boston Streets: Mapping Directory Data
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Digitized Boston city directories between 1865-1955 as the foundation for contextual information about the city including images.

Brooklyn Daily Eagle Online
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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 ...

Building A Globally Distributed Historical Sheet Map Set
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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 ...

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California Design Collection, 1955-1984
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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.

California Ethnographic Field Photographs, 1900-1960
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Ethnographic photographs by various photographers in the collection of the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology are works made for hire.

Centennial Exhibition Digital Collection
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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
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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 W. Cushman Photograph Collection
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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 ...

Charles Overstreet Collection
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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 ...

Chicago Botanic Garden Plant Evaluation Website
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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.

Chinese Paintings 12th century - 20th century
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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 ...

Civil Rights Digital Library
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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 ...

Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive
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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 ...

Civil War Newspapers Project
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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 ...

Clifford K. Berryman Collection
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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 ...

CLIOH: Cultural Digital Library
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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 ...

Coal Mining in Illinois, Machine vs. Man
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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 ...

Code City
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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.

Collection of Photographs by Carleton E. Watkins
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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 ...

Colorado's Historic Newspaper Collection
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Regional Colorado newspapers from 1859-1924.

Columbia River Basin Ethnic History Archive
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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 ...

Connecticut History Online
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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 ...

Cornell University Collection of Political Americana
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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 ...

Cuban Heritage Digital Collections
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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 ...

Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project
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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, ...

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Detroit Historical Museums and Society Historic Costume Collection
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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, ...

Digital Archive of 1936-1941 Historical Aerial Photography of the State of Illinois
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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 ...

Digital Dress: Historic Costume Collection
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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 ...

Digital Humphrey Winterton Collection of East African Photographs
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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
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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 ...

Digital Video Library Toolkit for Museums and Libraries with Limited Resources
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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 ...

Discover Babylon
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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 ...

Dorothea June Grossbart Historic Costume Collection
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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 ...

Dorothea Lange Collection 1919-1965
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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 ...

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Eastern Illinois University Yearbook - Warbler
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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: Educational Visual Aids from the Bienes Center's WPA Museum Extension Project Collection
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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 ...

Edward S. Curtis' The North American Indian
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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 ...

Edwin C. Bolles Collection on the History and Topography of London
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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 ...

Enduring Communities: The Japanese American Experience in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, and Utah
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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 ...

Enoch Pratt Free Library's E-Stories: A Multimedia Celebration of our Multicultural Heritage
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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 ...

Ethnographic Photographs of California Indian and Sonora Indian Subjects by Alfred L. Kroeber, 1901-1930
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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 Digital Archive
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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 ...

Exploratorium Digital Asset Management Collection (EDAM)
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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.

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Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Palm Collection
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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 ...

Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project
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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 ...

Fenian Brotherhood Collection
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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
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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, ...

Find-It! Illinois
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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 ...

Flora and Fauna of the Great Lakes Region: A Multimedia Digital Collection
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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 ...

Florida Folklife Collection
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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
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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 ...

Framed Items from the Collection of the Bancroft Library
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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 ...

From Pi Beta Phi to Arrowmont: Bringing Education and Economic Development to the Great Smoky Mountains, 1910-2004
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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 ...

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GATT Digital Library: 1947-1994
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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 Oiye Album, 1943-1946
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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.

Georgia Legislative Documents
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The Georgia Legislative Documents provide access to legislative resources. The database currently contains the Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Georgia for the years 1799-1999, with a few gaps. The Acts are the actual text of the laws and resolutions as they were ...

Getting the Message Out: National Political Campaign Materials: 1840-1860
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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 ...

Global Performing Arts Database (GloPAD)
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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 ...

Goodspeed Manuscript Collection
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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. ...

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Hans Hofmann Collection
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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 ...

Hard Place
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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.

Hawaii War Records Depository
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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 ...

Hawaiian Language Newspapers
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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 (Home Economics Archive: Research, Tradition, and History)
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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 ...

Helen Nestor Free Speech Movement Photographs
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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 Historic Costume Collection
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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 ...

Henry Sugimoto Collection 1928-1990
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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 West
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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, ...

Hisako Hibi Collection
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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.

Historic Pittsburgh Image Collections
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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 ...

History at our Hands: The Ponce's Historical Archive & Historical Museum Digitalized (Colección Historia de Puerto Rico)
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The project provides of the available resources in the Ponce’s Autonomous Historical Archive and Museum of History. These materials responds to the History Course syllabus the offered at Inter American University of Puerto Rico, and the history courses in the secondary schools of ...

HistoryMakers
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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 ...

Hoagy Carmichael Collection
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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).

Honore Daumier Lithographs
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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 ...

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Illinois Alive! The Heritage and Texture of a Pivotal State During the First Century of Statehood (1818-1918)
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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 ...

Illinois Digital Archives
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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 ...

Illinois Government Information
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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
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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 ...

Images and Ideas: The Collection in Focus at the Berkeley Art Museum, University of California
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A selection of items from the collection of the Berkeley Art Museum.

Indian Miniature Paintings, 1410-1976
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A collection of miniature Indian paintings from the collection of the Berkeley Art Museum.

Indian Peoples of the Northern Great Plains
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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 ...

INFOMINE Scholarly Internet Resource Collection
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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 ...

Integrated Finding Aid to Walt Whitman Manuscripts
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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 ...

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Jack Iwata Collection, 1942-1945
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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 Collection of African American Educational Photographs
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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 ...

Japanese Prints
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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 Brown / Boyd B. Stutler Collection Database
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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 ...

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Keystone-Mast Collection, 1870-1963
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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 ...

Kinetic Models for Design Digital Library
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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: A photographic heritage of Seattle and surrounding communities
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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 ...

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Landscape Prints and Drawing Collection
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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
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"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 ...

Linking Florida's Natural Heritage
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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 ...

Living Museum Online: Preserving and Digitizing the Story of Illinois
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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 ...

Louisiana Gumbo: A Recipe for Empowerment
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Louisiana Gumbo: A Recipe for Empowerment will give educators ...

Louisiana Purchase: A Heritage Explored
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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 ...

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Maine Memory Network
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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.

Maine Music Box
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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 ...

Making of Modern Michigan: Digitizing Michigan's Hidden Past
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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 ...

Making Sense of Modern Art
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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 ...

Mark Twain's Mississippi
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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 ...

Masterworks Online
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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 Historic Costume Collection
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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 ...

Medieval manuscripts in the Digital Age: New Paths to Old Books in the Free Library of Philadelphia
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Mind Models: Artificial Intelligence Discovery at Carnegie Mellon
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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. ...

Mining and Mother Jones in Mount Olive
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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 ...

Minnesota Historical Society Online Resources
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A group of interactive online resources which examine Minnesota's past and paint an overview of Minnesota history.

Missouri Botanical Garden Library Heritage Materials
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Scientific Literature Indexing on Networked Computers.

MOAC: California museums working with libraries and archives to increase and enhance access to cultural collections
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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.

Moriyuki Shimada Scrapbook, 1942-1945
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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 ...

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National Collection of Endangered Plants
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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. ...

Native American Collection - McLean County Museum of History and ISU
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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 ...

Nature Museum Online
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Explore the Nature Museum's exhibits in a fun, new way! Nature Museum Online guides you through a series of interactive discoveries.

New Jersey Digital Highway
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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 ...

New York Public Library's Picture Collection Online
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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 ...

North Carolina Experience, Beginnings to 1940
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"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
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"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 ...

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Oak Ridge Cemetery, Illinois Interment Records
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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 ...

Object of History
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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 ...

Oklahoma Image
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Olasee Davis Newspaper Articles
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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 ...

Old Master Prints
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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 ...

Oliver Family Photograph Collection
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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 ...

Olympic Peninsula Virtual Community Museum
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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 ...

Oral Histories of the American South
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"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 ...

Oral History Collection of the University of Illinois at Springfield
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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 ...

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Park Forest - An Illinois Planned Community
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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 ...

Photomuse
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The Photomuse collection provides a sample of the photographic archives of the International Center of Photography and the George Eastman House.

Plant Images at Missouri Botanical Garden
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Plant images (drawings, photographs of living plants,images of herbarium specimens)

PlantCollections(TM)
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The Chicago Botanic Garden, in collaboration with APGA, the University of Kansas, and 15 public gardens nationwide, is developing PlantCollections, a distributed database system for web-based querying that will allow information from multiple institutions currently in a variety ...

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