CONTENTdm Collection of Collections

- Irving Weber's Iowa City Digital Collection
- In January 1973, at the age of 72, Irving Weber (1900-1997) began writing articles on local history for the Iowa City Press-Citizen. Over the next 25 years, the paper published 850 of his weekly columns. Half of the columns were reprinted in eight...
- Iowa City
- Kansas City Public Library, Missouri Valley Special Collections Digital Gallery
- The Missouri Valley Special Collections (MVSC), which came into existence in 1960, consist of the non-circulating local history and genealogy resources of the Kansas City Public Library as well as the Library’s archives. Over 11,000 images of...
- Kansas City, Missouri; Kansas City, Kansas; Missouri; Kansas; African Americans; Border Warfare and the Civil War; Cowboys and Indians; Explorers and Western Expansion; the Mormons; Outlaws and Lawmen; Overland Trails; and Railroads.
- Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps
- The Sanborn Map Collection consists of a uniform series of large-scale detailed maps, dating from 1867 through 1969. They depict the commercial, industrial, and residential sections of cities in Utah. The D.A. Sanborn Co. was the first company to...
- Insurance; Maps; Sanborn Fire Insurance; Cities in Utah; Buildings; Churches; Schools; Opera houses; Hotels; City hall; Roads; Railways; Eureka; Green River; Coalville; American Fork; Beaver; Bingham Canyon; Brigham City; Corinne; Duchesne;...
- Gemeentearchief Veenendaal - The Netherlands
- This digital archive contains photographs and postcards of the city of Veenendaal in the Netherlands. Over 3,300 images depict the city from the early 1900s through the current age. The Veenendaal City Archives also includes a collection of 3,700...
- City life; Buildings; Netherlands; Dutch; Industry;
- Mountain West Digital Library
- The Mountain West Digital Library is an aggregation of digital collections from universities, colleges, public libraries, museums, and historical societies in Utah, Nevada, and Idaho. Hosting institutions run CONTENTdm servers supporting their own...
- Activities; Boating; Business; Camping; Cooking; Dancing; Engineering; Farming; Fishing; Hunting; Music; Opera; Reading; Skiing; Swimming; Weaving; Education; Health; Colleges; High Schools; Doctors; Hospitals; James Moore Cook; Elizabeth Kane;...
- Iowa City Foreign Relations Council
- Founded in 1982, The Iowa City Foreign Relations Council (ICFRC) is a non-profit association interested in learning more about U.S. foreign policy, world affairs, and current global issues impacting society. The Council provides opportunities to...
- World politics
- CITY 2000
- On a quest to create a lasting record of life in Chicago In the Year 2000 more than 200 photographers spent 366 days canvassing the city and chronicling its people, places and personality. The project's eclectic mix of styles and approaches blended...
- African American men; African American women; African Americans; African Americans boys; Apartments; Automobiles; Baseball for children; Beaches; Birthday parties; Blackboards; Boys; Bridges; Buildings; Catholics; Chairs; Chicago Housing Authority;...
- Iron Mining District of Cedar City, Utah
- Iron Mining has been the principal industry in the Cedar City area for 150 years. The photographs in this collection document mining industry activities from the 1920s to the 1980s.
- Iron mines; Mining; Industry; Cedar City; Mining machinery; Utah International, Inc.; Iron County
- City Engineers Photographic Collection
- The Salt Lake City Engineers Photograph Collection documents the construction of the infrastructure of Salt Lake City and surrounding areas, including roads, sewers, irrigation systems, curb and gutters, street lighting, street repairs, comfort...
- Canal construction; Canal construction workers; Canyons; Mountains; Aqueducts; Canals; Vegetation and climate; Roads, Earth; Dredging; Dams; Men; Antique and classic cars; Automobiles; Dynamite; Explosions; Street-railroads; Utility poles; Steam...
- Texas City Disaster Photographs, 1947
- These small black-and-white photographs document the aftermath of the 'Texas City Disaster,' an industrial disaster set off by an explosion of ammonium nitrate being carried by a ship docked at Texas City. According to the ship's anchor monument in...
- Disasters-Texas-Texas City-Hisotry-20th century; Fires-Texas-Texas City-History-20th century;
- Panorama Photographs Collection
- Features images of Front St. Dawson around the time of the Klondike Gold Rush, sweeping city views of Seattle after the turn of the century and the memorable Mississippi flood of 1927. Other photographs feature group portraits, city scenes, and...
- Front St., Dawson City, Yukon Territory; Klondike Gold Rush; Seattle, 20th century; Mississippi flood, 1927; group portraits; city scenes; landscapes; Pacific Northwest labor and political history; University of Washington campus scenes; Japanese...
- Richmond Comprehensive Planning Slide Collection
- This slide collection contains over 8,000 photographs primarily depicting the city of Richmond, Virginia. Taken and compiled by City of Richmond staff, the collection functioned as an archive of planning imagery used for city planning presentations.
- City planning -- Virginia -- Richmond -- Pictorial works
- Iowa City Town and Campus Scenes Digital Collection
- This collection features work by two photographers who, combined, documented the University of Iowa and the surrounding community for over a century. The work of Samuel Calvin (1840-1911), a professor in natural sciences, and Frederick Wallace Kent...
- Universities & colleges; University of Iowa campus
- School of Art & Art History Graduate Archive Digital Collection
- For the past seventy-five years, the School of Art and Art History has collected thousands of artworks by artists attending the School's graduate studio programs. Each graduate student was asked to leave behind a work they completed during their...
- Iowa; University of Iowa School of Art & Art History; graduate students; Ellen Lanyon; Elizabeth Catlett; Miriam Shapiro; Thomas Lawton; Roy Sieber
- Richmond Commission of Architectural Review Slide Collection
- The RCAR Slide Collection contains more than 7,000 color photographs of the city of Richmond. Taken over a period from 1965 to 2000, these images document many of the changes within the city. In some cases, the images serve as a record for...
- Richmond (Va.) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- Pictorial works; Richmond (Va.) -- History -- Pictorial works; Architecture -- Virginia --Richmond -- Pictorial works; Architecture, Domestic -- Virginia -- Richmond -- Pictorial works
- Store-Front Churches in Buffalo
- Milton Rogovin, born December 30, 1909 in New York City, was trained as an optometrist at Columbia University, where he received his degree in 1931. He moved to Buffalo, New York, in 1939, where he established his own optometric practice on...
- Milton Rogovin's photographs of storefront churches in Buffalo
- Greensboro City Directories, 1884-1923
- These city directories provide a valuable look at the development and history of Greensboro, North Carolina and are useful for genealogists, building researchers, and historians. Original volumes of these earliest directories were generously...
- Greensboro (N.C.) -- Directories
- Oak Ridge Public Library Digital Collections
- Oak Ridge Public Library, in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, houses the Center for Oak Ridge Oral History as well as the Oak Ridge Room, a unique collection established to gather and preserve the records and history of the "Secret City." Oak Ridge Public...
- Oak Ridge; Manhattan Project; Photography; Oral Histories
- City of Pullman and the Palouse
- This collection contains photographs and postcards of Pullman, Washington. First settled in 1874, the city endured fires and floods and eventually became the home of Washington State University. The effects of the natural disasters, as well as the...
- Pullman; Palouse; Washington; Washington State University; College athletics; Buildings; Architecture; Baseball; Tennis; Sports; College; Campus; Flood;
- Ontario History Quest Digital Collections
- This Digital Collections site brings together a variety of primary and secondary source materials from the collections of the Archives of Ontario, the City of Toronto Archives, and Toronto Public Library. About 3000 images have been digitally...
- Ontario history; Toronto history;