Science
(Collections may be listed under more than one subject.)
Agriculture Back to Top
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, ...
The Core Historical Literature of Agriculture (CHLA) is a core electronic collection of agricultural texts published between the early nineteenth century and the middle to late twentieth century. Full ...
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 ...
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 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 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 ...
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 ...
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 "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 ...
Nevada has a long history of agricultural activity, from range livestock production to alfalfa and food crop production. See the Nevada Department of Agriculture for information about the diversity of ...
The Cornell University Library New York State Historical Literature is a collection of selected monographs, pamphlets and other materials with expired copyrights chosen from from the Cornell Library's ...
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 ...
Rural life, farming and agriculture, with an Illinois emphasis are the main emphasis of this collection. The collection is a subset of the University of Illinois Digitized Books Collection.
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 ...
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 ...
Engineering Back to Top
Capital District Library Council Digital Collections provides online access to digitized materials from libraries, archives, historical societies, museums and cultural organizations in the Capital ...
The Salt Lake City Engineers Photograph Collection provides an excellent look at how Salt Lake City developed between 1902 and 1932. The collection documents the construction of the infrastructure in ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
In September 1912 Carl Graham Fisher began promoting the idea of a transcontinental graveled highway, the Coast-to-Coast Rock Highway. By 1928 the Lincoln Highway, as it came to be called, and the ...
Integrated land use-transportation scenario planning employs a range of possible future scenarios to facilitate public decision-making on land use policies and transportation investments. The ...
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 ...
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 ...
Books related to the history of railroading in the United States, with some international coverage as well. Numerous publications pertaining to the Illinois Central Railroad, its history and employees ...
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, ...
The Utah Construction-Utah International Collection consists of the company's annual reports spanning from 1947 to 1976, a collection of photographs highlighting the company's founders and laborers, a ...
Among the materials the Wright Brothers estate gave the Library of Congress in 1948 were 300 glass plate negatives and two nitrate negatives, most taken by the Wright brothers themselves between 1897 ...
Geology Back to Top
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, ...
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 ...
Dr. H. Jesse Walker, a geographer at Louisiana State University, devoted more than four decades to the study of the Colville River Delta region of Alaska. In an ongoing effort, thousands of objects ...
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) ...
When the Forest Service and Soil Conservation Service photographers hung their cameras out of planes in consecutive summers in 1938 and 1939, they may not have known the historical or geographical ...
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 ...
Famous explorer of the Colorado River, John Wesley Powell left the American southwest with a rich legacy. During his expeditions he compiled data and a number of sketches describing the landscape. ...
The digital material contained in the Louisiana Coastal Ecology Collection consists of maps, aerial photographs, audio files, geographic surveys, and interpretative materials on Louisiana's coastal ...
While employed by the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, Percy Viosca, a pre-eminent herpetologist, documented the coastal Louisiana landscape between 1921 and 1932. He traveled the state ...
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.
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 ...
"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 ...
William Thomas Bell (1886-1963) was born in Lancaster County, South Carolina, in 1886. As a young man, he moved to Corsicana, Texas, where he worked in the oil fields. He met and married Annie Daniel ...
Biological and life sciences Back to Top
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) ...
These images represent just a portion of our collection of over 7,000 photographs that relate to the University of Nevada School of Medicine; the Nevada State Medical Association and member societies ...
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 ...
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 ...
The John James Audubon in Louisiana collection contains water colored lithographs and engravings of birds Audubon did during a 4-month stay at the Oakley Plantation in St. Francisville, Louisiana in ...
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 digital collection Practicing Medicine: A Historical Glimpse at Utah and Beyond explores three centuries of medical practice and instruction, with particular focus on Utah. These historical ...
This collection is comprised of 100 photographic prints documenting 6 field seasons during the years 1935-1941 when James T. Tanner and associates studied the ivory-billed woodpecker and its ...
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 ...
History of science Back to Top
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 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 ...
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. ...
These images represent just a portion of our collection of over 7,000 photographs that relate to the University of Nevada School of Medicine; the Nevada State Medical Association and member societies ...
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 ...
The digital collection Practicing Medicine: A Historical Glimpse at Utah and Beyond explores three centuries of medical practice and instruction, with particular focus on Utah. These historical ...
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 ...
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 ...
Earth science Back to Top
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, ...
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 ...
The digital material contained in the Louisiana Coastal Ecology Collection consists of maps, aerial photographs, audio files, geographic surveys, and interpretative materials on Louisiana's coastal ...
The LSU Cartographic Information Center currently holds 107,000 aerial photographs of Louisiana taken between 1939 and 1987. These photographs show the historical and geographical changes in the state ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Ecology Back to Top
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 ...
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 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 ...
The digital material contained in the Louisiana Coastal Ecology Collection consists of maps, aerial photographs, audio files, geographic surveys, and interpretative materials on Louisiana's coastal ...
While employed by the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, Percy Viosca, a pre-eminent herpetologist, documented the coastal Louisiana landscape between 1921 and 1932. He traveled the state ...
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 ...
This collection is comprised of 100 photographic prints documenting 6 field seasons during the years 1935-1941 when James T. Tanner and associates studied the ivory-billed woodpecker and its ...
Natural history Back to Top
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 ...
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 ...
The collection consists of digitized books about natural history and resources, primarily though not exclusively, with a focus on Illinois. This collection is a subset of the University of Illinois ...
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 ...
Physical sciences Back to Top
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 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 ...
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 ...
General science Back to Top
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 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 ...
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 ...
Meteorology Back to Top
This collection consists of resources dealing with hurricanes and tropical storms in South Louisiana. Resources include government documents, historical reports, and photographs from 1957 to the ...
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 ...
Biology Back to Top
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 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 ...
Botany Back to Top
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, ...
Careers in science Back to Top
Capital District Library Council Digital Collections provides online access to digitized materials from libraries, archives, historical societies, museums and cultural organizations in the Capital ...
Astronomy Back to Top
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 ...
Informal education in science Back to Top
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 ...
Metallurgy Back to Top
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, ...
Histology Back to Top
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 ...
Entomology Back to Top
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 ...
Physics Back to Top
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 ...
Technology in science Back to Top
Books related to the history of railroading in the United States, with some international coverage as well. Numerous publications pertaining to the Illinois Central Railroad, its history and employees ...
Paleontology Back to Top
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 ...