physical object
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Sub-types: Physical artifacts (93), Ephemera (10), Physical specimens (plants / animals / etc) (10), Currency (2), Scrapbook (2), Dioramas (1), Scrapbooks (1), Toys (1)Physical artifactsBack to Top
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 ...
Philo T. Farnsworth, the inventor of television, was born in Beaver, Utah, in 1906. While a young teenager, he developed a theory for the electronic transmission of images. He graduated from Brigham ...
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 ...
Louisiana's antebellum history is reveled through a variety of artifacts that document a variety of critical topics in American History. Maps from the Louisiana State Museum, The Historic New Orleans ...
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 ...
Beadwork Masterpieces is a Nebraska State Historical Society exhibit of images of historical Native American Bandolier Bags of the Prairies and Lakes, originally exhibited at the Nebraska History ...
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 America at War Collection chronicles the military history of the United States from the 1760s through the Vietnam War. This collection provides an insight into how Louisiana impacted and was ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The mission of HRVH is to provide universal access to a collaborative digital record of Hudson River Valley history and creativity. HRVH provides access to historical materials from digital ...
A museum collection of the Nebraska State Historical Society, a virtual exhibit of Thomas Berger Johnson's work not currently on exhibit. A Swedish American artist, Thomas B. Johnson was born in Omaha ...
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 ...
The Nebraska Prairie Museum has an extensive collection of artifacts and images from the Atlanta POW Camp, a selection of which have been included in this digital collection. These include uniforms, ...
The International Quilt Study Center & Museum at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is the home of the largest publicly-held quilt collection in the world. The quilts range from outstanding early ...
The Autry National Center explores the experiences and perceptions of the diverse peoples of the American West, connecting the past with the present to inform our shared future. The Autry National ...
The Paipai Indians continue in present day to live in Baja California, Mexico in an area south-east of Ensenada. Materials in the Paipai collection were field collected from 1955 to 1959 and consist ...
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 ...
This collection is a result of a collaborative research project involving the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, the University of Nebraska State Museum, the Nebraska Historical Society, and ...
Ethnographic photographs by various photographers in the collection of the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology are works made for hire.
The UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History's collection includes baskets made by California American Indians in the 19th and early 20th century. The baskets represent works from the Panamint Shoshone ...
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 ...
The James Prigoff slide collection is an important visual resource that helps document the Chicano visual arts movement in California, and in particular, the San Diego and Tijuana area. The collection ...
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 ...
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.
Collected by The University of California, Los Angeles, Fowler Museum of Cultural History, Archaeology Collections Facility.
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 ...
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 ...
As the planned outcome of Chicago’s 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition, The Field Museum may well be called "the Fair that never ended ...
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 ...
Battlefield archeology studies material reflections of past conflict with the goal of understanding of specific battles and, more generally, war and human conflict. It is a new field, having emerged ...
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 ...
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 ...
Digging In: The Historic Trails of Nebraska is a web site for archaeological and historical research on Nebraska's immigrant trails ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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) ...
The First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820 consists of 15,000 pages of original historical material documenting the land, peoples, exploration, and transformation of the trans- ...
The Greene & Greene Digital Archive contains images of drawings, architectural plans, rooms, furnishings, books, sketches, photographs, correspondence, and other historical documents related to the ...
The Museum contains collections in frontier life, the development of an emerging agricultural economy, one-room prairie schoolhouses, the impact of both World Wars on rural Illinois, and the westward ...
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 ...
Encompassing nearly two centuries of impressive achievement, Joslyn's American collection includes excellent examples of Colonial art, both Spanish and British, in particular two early American ...
The Museum's collection of American Indian art features historic and contemporary examples of painting, sculpture, drawings, prints, and decorated objects by the native peoples of North America.
Joslyn Art Museum is noted especially for its collection of art of the American West and is world-renowned for its collection of works by the Swiss artist Karl Bodmer, whose watercolors and prints ...
From 1803-1806, in an exciting journey to the Pacific Ocean and back, Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery mapped the lands, described the natural wonders, and encountered the people of western North ...
The records of the YMCA of the USA, founded in 1851, and its various committees, programs, and constituent bodies, form the core of the Kautz Family YMCA Archives. In addition to personal papers of ...
Louisiana Gumbo: A Recipe for Empowerment will give educators ...
The Louisiana State Museum is home to one of the most extensive collections of historic clothing and textiles in the Southeast. Illustrated here are examples of textiles, including flags, souvenir ...
The Louisiana State Museum paper currency collection is comprised of some 300 specimens. Included in this collection are French Colonial, Republic of Texas, Confederate States of America, City of New ...
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.
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 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, ...
Dr. Joe Nickell, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Inquiry, owns many snake-oil items, quack medical devices, and patent-medicine artifacts. Of high interest to the Western New York region is ...
"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, ...
"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 ...
The North Country Digital History projects represents the opportunity for researchers to gain immediate digital access to important collections housed in libraries, archives, historical document ...
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 ...
The the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City was a very big event ...
The Oral History of Illinois Agriculture project is developing a new interactive Web module - the Audio-Video Barn - featuring digital oral-history interviews with people involved in various aspects ...
The Reconstruction through Progressivism, 1865-1920 primary source collection includes artifacts contributed by members of the Teaching American History in Louisiana (TAHIL) partnership. Current ...
There are currently 1287 markers located across the state that recognize Ohio's rich cultural history. Made of cast aluminum, these signposts provide a tangible record of Ohio's history ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Southern Oregon History Collection brings together books, maps, government documents, oral histories, correspondence and miscellaneous materials that document the unique historical experience of ...
In an effort to keep young people from leaving the farm at the end of the nineteenth century, progressive educators around the country began providing out-of-school-programs designed to convey new ...
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 ...
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.
Texas Heritage Online provides unified online access to Texas' historical documents and images for use by teachers, students, historians, genealogists, and other researchers.
Texas 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The digital collection Traveling Culture: Circuit Chautauqua in the Twentieth Century comprises 7,949 publicity brochures, promotional advertisements and flyers for 4,545 lecturers, teachers, ...
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 ...
The Works Progress Administration Los Angeles Household Census Cards collection dates from 1939. The physical cards which number nearly half a million items are owned by USC's Information Services, ...
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 ...
Capital District Library Council Digital Collections provides online access to digitized materials from libraries, archives, historical societies, museums and cultural organizations in the Capital ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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The Galeria de la Raza Collection (GDLR) consists of seven series distributed among 68 archival boxes that occupy about 37.5 linear feet of space. Also, there are 304 silkscreen prints, housed in flat ...
The Printed Ephemera collection at the Library of Congress is a rich repository of Americana. In total, the collection comprises 28,000 primary-source items dating from the seventeenth century to the ...
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 ...
The mission of HRVH is to provide universal access to a collaborative digital record of Hudson River Valley history and creativity. HRVH provides access to historical materials from digital ...
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 ...
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 ...
These papers cover K. W. Lee's professional life from 1977 to 1983. They are limited to his two main activities during those years: the Chol Soo Lee case and the founding of the Koreatown newspaper. ...
Ochoa [Victor] Collection. Art files, exhibition files, ephemera, posters and prints and other printed matter, photographs and slides, correspondence files, and recordings of the Chicano painter/ ...
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, ...
On April 18, 1906, San Francisco was wrecked by a powerful earthquake and for the next few days was consumed by fires that destroyed a large portion of the city. The earthquake's epicenter was located ...
Physical specimens (plants / animals / etc)Back to Top
The Bentley Snow Crystal Collection of the Buffalo Museum of Science is a digital library providing access to a high-quality collection of stunning, un-retouched images of Wilson A. Bentley’s original ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
From 1803-1806, in an exciting journey to the Pacific Ocean and back, Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery mapped the lands, described the natural wonders, and encountered the people of western North ...
Louisiana Gumbo: A Recipe for Empowerment will give educators ...
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.
The Oral History of Illinois Agriculture project is developing a new interactive Web module - the Audio-Video Barn - featuring digital oral-history interviews with people involved in various aspects ...
Texas 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 ...
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"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. " ...
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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 ...
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 ...
DioramasBack to Top
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 ...
ScrapbooksBack to Top
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 ...
ToysBack to Top
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 ...