This seven minute, black and white silent film clip of the 1915 Washington State College football team includes informal portraits of the team in Pasadena and game scenes from the 1916 Rose Bowl. WSU (then WSC), in its first appearance at a Rose...
Washington State College; Rose Bowl; 1916; Pasadena;
The 19th Century Actors and Theater Photographs database consists of over 600 photographs including cartes-de-visite and cabinet card studio portraits of entertainers, actors, and actresses who performed on the American stage in the mid- to late...
Actors; Actresses; Singers; Magicians; Stage props; Theater--United States--History--19th century
Broward County Library's Bienes Museum of the Modern Book used CONTENTdm software to create a virtual exhibit catalog for the 2006 Florida Artists' Book Prize Exhibition. This enabled us to show brief movies of the books in motion.
Florida Artists’ Book Prize exhibition; Artists' Books; Prizes; Florida;
A Digital Collection Celebrating the Founding of the Historically Black College and University is a collection of primary resources from HBCU libraries and archives. It includes several thousand scanned pages and represents HBCU libraries' first...
African American colleges and universities -- History.
The Missouri State Fruit Experiment Station was established by the Missouri legislature in 1899 to serve the fruit production and processing industries of Missouri. In the course of their advisement and research, the Station directors and staff...
In the late 1980s, nursing alumni, faculty, and students began planning for the one hundredth anniversary observance of the founding of the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Nursing. The school traces its rich heritage back to the...
Nursing -- Study and teaching -- Virginia -- Richmond -- History; Nursing schools -- Virginia -- Richmond -- History; Virginia Commonwealth University. School of Nursing -- History
A. B. Nichols Panama Canal Materials were gathered and organized during Nichols' tenure as Office Engineer. A.B. Nichols was first employed by the Isthmian Canal Commission in 1899 to survey the Nicaraguan route. In 1904, he was assigned to the...
Panama Canal (Panama); Hydraulic engineering; Canals, Interoceanic
Abe L. Plotkin (1913-2007) was a 1935 graduate of St. Thomas College (now the University of Scranton). This digital collection contains material from Plotkin's United States Army experience in Germany during the last weeks of World War II and the...
The University of the Pacific’s main campus in Stockton was established in 1924. The first campus was in Santa Clara (1852-1871), and later moved to San Jose (1871-1924). The original buildings on the Stockton campus were designed in the English...
University of the Pacific; Stockton, California; San Jose; Santa Clara; English Tudor Gothic style; Aerial photography;
This digital collection of photographs, news clippings, pamphlets, scrapbooks, directories, and newsletters documents the experience of African American women in Iowa during the twentieth century. The collection, ca. 1924-1970, is an outgrowth of...
Fox News and Fox Movietone News camera crews covered the people and events of the country and, indeed, the world. From 1919 to 1963 these journalists aimed their viewfinders at the mundane and the spectacular. The resulting images—most of which...
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...
Alabama History; Alabama Culture; Alabama Places; Alabama People
The Alaska Western Canada and United States collection is a digital collection of historic photographs documenting the geographic area of Alaska, Western United States and the Canadian provinces of Yukon Territory and British Columbia. The...
Building sites--Yukon; Chilkoot Pass; Dawson (Yukon); Dyea (Alaska); Eskimo architecture--Alaska; Gold mines and mining--Alaska; Yukon River (Alaska and Yukon)
The more than 1200 photographs from the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition document the fair held on the campus of the University of Washington during the summer of 1909. Images include depictions of the buildings, grounds, entertainment, and exotic...
Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (1909); Building construction--Washington (State)--Seattle; Exhibition buildings; Indians of North America--Washington (State)--Seattle; Women--Employment--Alaska; Spectators
Alaska's Digital Archive presents a wealth of historical photographs, oral histories, moving images, documents, and other materials from libraries, museums, and institutions throughout our...
Alaska; Native American history; Native American culture; Fishing; Industry; Natural disasters
Both a photographer and a painter, Albert Henry Barnes (1876-1920) photographed the people, the cities and the landscapes of the Pacific Northwest. This collection of 302 images gives a representative sample of his work.
Automobiles; Barns; Boats; Bridges; Canyons; Churches; Fishing; Railroad cars; Railroad tracks; Women--clothing and dress; Indians of North America--Arts & crafts
Drawings made by the French illustrator Albert Tissandier as he traveled across the United States in 1885, 1886, 1890, and 1893. The drawings reside in the permanent collection of the Utah Museum of Fine Arts.
Western art; North American landscapes; Albert Tissandier;
Photos, documents, maps, and other resources from Special Collections documenting the history, culture, and people of Idaho and the American West.
Boise State University; Boise, Idaho; West (U.S.) in literature; Authors, American--19th century--Biography; Authors, American--20th century--Biography; Jordan, Len B. (Len Beck), 1899-1983; Political campaigns; Legislators; Legislators' spouses;...
The album contains portraits of 42 actresses and 24 actors from the Edwardian era of British theatre. It belonged to Elsie Taylor, a London schoolgirl and was compiled during 1906-1910. At the turn of the 20th century postcards were a relatively...
Actors-Great Britain; Actresses-Great Britain; Real photo postcards; Theatre; Drams; Plays