CONTENTdm Collection of Collections

- A Digital Collection Celebrating the Founding of the Historically Black College and University
- 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.
- King County Snapshots
- 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,...
- Urban culture; Suburban culture; Rural culture; Washington history; King County history; African Americans; Asian Americans; Japanese Americans; Minidoka Relocation Center; Aerial views; Aurora Avenue; Sea-Tac Airport; International District; Pike...
- The Californa Underground Railroad
- This digital archive documents the story of California's Underground Railroad, an important but too little known struggle in the quest for freedom and equality. Letters, journals, photographs, and newspapers tell the experiences of African-American...
- Black history; Slavery; US history; California history; Fugitive law; Politics; Legislation
- Ben Maxwell Collection
- The Ben Maxwell Collection consists of over 5,000 photographs donated to the Salem Public Library by the photgrapher's estate. Most of the photographs were taken by Mr. Maxwell, a noted Salem photographer and historian who died in 1967. Mr....
- Agriculture; Natural disasters; Salem; Homes; Houses; Architecture; Aerial views; Automobiles; Covered bridges;
- Oregon Historic Photograph Collection
- The Salem Public Library's historic photograph collections include thousands of photographs of Oregon - with a special focus on the City of Salem and other Western Oregon communities. The photos date from the mid-1800's to the present. All...
- Salem history; Marion County history; Oregon; Schools; Zena; Fairfield; Newport; Oregon cities; Portland; Independence; Antique cars; Houses; Polk County; Baker County;
- Notable Blacks of Cleveland
- Notable Blacks of Cleveland contains approximately 2000 images of 500 individuals selected from the photographs in the Cleveland Press Collection. This collection was donated to the Cleveland State University Library when that newspaper ceased...
- Cleveland; Black history; African Americans; People;
- Everett Herald Photos
- The photographs found in this collection were taken for the most part by Jim Leo, Ray Waters, and Ken Knudson, three photojournalists who worked for the Everett Herald. These 131 digital images come from several film formats but mostly black and...
- Lumber industry; Labor unions; Weyerhaeuser; Miss Everett Pageant; Seattle World's Fair; Seattle Super Sonics; Recreation; Ice skating; Paine Field; Alaska Airlines; Everett; Washington State; Fires; Parades;
- Manuel R. Bustamante Photograph Collection
- Consists primarily of over 600 black and white photographs of Cuba from the early 1900s to the 1930s taken in locations across the island. Many of these images were published by the New York based Munson Steamship Line in its Cuba Review magazine.
- Camagüey; Santiago de Cuba;, Havana; Santiago de las Vegas; Banks; Agriculture; Monuments; Carnivals; Cemeteries; Churches; Dwellings; Country Life; Forts and Fortifications; Harbors; Neighborhoods; Piers and Wharves; Ships; Landscape photographs.
- O. James Fox Collection
- With his poems and photographs, O. James Fox poignantly depicted what he saw as he served as an eyewitness to one neighborhood in Indianapolis during the post-World War II period. Although urban renewal and an interstate belt have altered and...
- Black history; Urban culture; Indianapolis history
- The Light Work Permanent Collection
- This collection of more than 2,100 works of art consists primarily of photographs made by artists who have participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program or received Light Work Grants. The photographs in this collection include both color...
- Photography; Art; Social history of the Central and Upstate New York regions
- Black Student Union Newspapers
- The Black Student Union (BSU) at UB was founded in 1967. Twelve periodical publications have been issued by the BSU and are the primary record of the activities and history of the organization. Most of the material was issued on newsprint, and the...
- Michael L. Carlebach Photography Collection
- The Michael L. Carlebach Photography Collection consists primarily of black and white photographic prints taken and personally hand developed by Professor Michael L. Carlebach. In general, the images are thematically grouped around journalistic...
- Miami-Dade County (Florida)
- Pieces of the Past: Des Moines History Online
- This collection, funded by a grant from Friends of the Des Moines Library and King County Library System Foundation, consists of historical photographs from the Des Moines Historical Society. The Pieces of the Past site also includes links to a...
- Lumber industry; Washington State; Shipping industry; African Americans; Restaurants; Motels; Mosquito Fleet; Steamboats; Local history; Churches; Buses; Des Moines; Marina; Des Moines Historical Society; Parades; Zenith Beach; Zenith; Buildings;
- Cleveland Disasters
- Part of the constantly growing Cleveland Memory Project, this collection features images of the fires, explosions, floods, and other calamities that have left their mark on the city over the years. Included are the infamous Cuyahoga River fires,...
- Urban life; Fires; Natural disaster; Industrial history; Ohio
- Vietnam War Era Ephemera Collection
- This collection contains leaflets and newspapers that were distributed on the University of Washington campus during the decades of the 1960s and 1970s. They reflect the social environment and political activities of the youth movement in Seattle...
- Black Panther Party; Civil Rights; Counterculture; Demonstrations; Environmentalism; Freedom Socialist Party; Gay Liberation Front; Kent State; Labor unions, Minorities; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; National...
- Transportation Around the World: 1911-1993
- The photographs in Transportation Around the World: 1911-1993 present a wide variety of transportation methods used in 79 countries across the globe. The 650 images in this digital collection were selected from three separate photographic...
- Aerial tramways; Air Transportation; Aircraft; Airports; Animals; Bays; Beaches; Bicycles and tricycles; Bays; Biplanes; Boats; Bridges; Bus stops; Bus terminals; Buses; Cabooses ; Camels; Canal boats; Canals; Canoes; Caravans; Cargo ships;...
- 1916 Rose Bowl Game (Requires RealPlayer)
- 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;
- Black Oral History Collection
- This collection contains interviews of African American pioneers and their descendents throughout Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana, conducted from 1972-1974. Topics discussed in the interviews include early settlers, job opportunities, church...
- African Americans; Pioneers; African American history; Farmers; Washington; Oregon; Idaho; Montana; Employment; Discrimination; Racism; Social conditions;
- Washington State University Buildings Collection
- The historical photographs which comprise the WSU Buildings Image Database were selected from various collections including (but not limited to): William Delbert Barkhuff Photographs, 1892-1921; Myron Samuel Huckle Photographs of Washington State...
- Campus buildings; Building construction; Washington State; Architecture; Fraternities; Sororities
- Columbia River Basin Ethnic History Project
- Funded by a grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Services, this collaborative project sought to create a database with thematic coherence that would engage online researchers in thinking more deeply about the significance of the rich...
- Columbia River Basin; Idaho; Oregon; Washington; African Americans; Basque Americans; Chinese Americans; German Americans; Japanese Americans; Mexican Americans; Russian Americans; Jewish Americans; Native Americans;