This collection contains a selection of World War I and II posters from the University of Washington Libraries Special Collections Division collections. Included are propaganda on purchasing war bonds and the importance of national security as well...
War posters; World War I; World War II; United War Work Campaign, Inc.; War bonds; Food supply; Defense industry; Marine Corp; Enlisting; Nursing;
The button, pin and ribbon collection currently contains over 1,400 items and continues to expand. These items have been donated over many years to the Peace Collection (SCPC) by individual peace activists and peace organizations.
Items date from...
Abortion; Labor; Africa; Middle East; African-Americans; Military Budget; Agriculture; Nuclear Energy; American Flag; Persian Gulf War, 1991; Anti-Nuclear Movement; Political Campaigns; Arbitration, International; Pro-Choice; Arms Race; Protest...
The World War I Pamphlet Collection includes a selection of pamphlets and United States government publications. While the assembled collection spans the entire war, the publications date from 1912 - 1931 with the bulk of the materials concentrated...
The Wisconsin Historical Society's Archives collections include approximately three million photographs, negatives, films, cartoons, lithographs, posters, and ephemeral materials from private, business, and governmental sources. Although we...
Original documents; Lesson plans; Classroom activities; Background essays on key historical events; Early Native Peoples; Early explorers; Traders & settlers; Territory to statehood; Immigration; Civil War era; Native Peoples; Effigy mounds; First...
Just Passin' Through commemorates two highways passing through Nevada, eastern California and western Utah. The Lincoln Highway, promoted as the Coast-to-Coast Rock Highway, and the parallel Victory Highway, a memorial to those who served in World...
Lincoln Highway; Victory Highway; Restaurants; Service stations; Resorts; Natural wonders; Car dealerships; Gift shops; Casions; Idlewild Park; Motels; Hotels;
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.
The Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College is devoted to the history of the Society of Friends (Quakers) and its concerns. The Library includes printed works dating from the mid-seventeenth century to the present, as well as archives,...
Quaker history; Education; Schools; War relief; World War I; Vietnam War; Quaker colleges; Friends' centers; Quaker church buildings; Philadelphia; Society of Friends;
Among the first 1,000 books purchased for Grand Valley State University's library were a dozen volumes printed in the 1500s. More recent examples of incunabula (i.e., books printed before 1501) have been added, including a leaf from a 1487 Peter...
This collection creates a snapshot of the music Eastern Iowans played and sang in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Much of the music was originally housed at the Cedar Rapids Public Library and then dispersed to area colleges and...
"They Never Came Home - The Lethbridge Cenotaph Project" is a collection of biographies relating to the 262 soldiers from World War I who are remembered on the cenotaph in Lethbridge, Alberta. Compiled by Brett Clifton, the biographies document...
Lethbridge (Alta.) - History, Military - 20th Century; Soldiers - Alberta - Lethbridge--Biography;
This typescript sailing log was written by Louis Wright Simpson of Buffalo. It consists of 46 typescript leaves with thirty 2" x 3" photographs attached. It describes the sailing cruise taken by Simpson, Frederick Slee, and George T. Moseley from...
Sailing cruise taken by Louis Wright Simpson, Frederick Slee, and George T. Moseley from Buffalo in Lake Erie, through the Welland Canal into Lake Ontario, up the Western shore of Lake Ontario, and back again to Buffalo
Frederick Caldecott Slee (1870-1954) and his wife, Alice (1875-1956), were outstanding members of the Buffalo community and generous benefactors to the University at Buffalo. Frederick Slee was an amateur musician who composed music and also played...
photographs of Slee family and friends, log of the Good Yacht Althea
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
Kenneth Rogers was a photographer for the Atlanta Constitution from 1923-1972. Rogers covered important news events in Atlanta and Georgia, and captured scenes from the Georgia countryside. The Kenneth Rogers photograph collection is comprised of...
World War, 1939-1945--Georgia; Sports; Football--Georgia; African Americans; Cities & towns--Georgia; Farm life--Georgia; Politics & government--Georgia--Atlanta; Baseball--Georgia--Atlanta; New Deal, 1933-1939--Georgia--Atlanta;...
The Missouri State University War Memorial Album was completed and formally dedicated in 1955. The album itself contains photographs and biographies of 93 students and alumni who lost their lives in World Wars I and II and the Korean Conflict. This...
World War, 1914-1918; World War, 1939-1945; Korean War, 1950-1953; Missouri State University
About 1906, Clark Kinsey returned to Seattle to operate a contracting business throughout the Northwest until shortly before World War I. He spent the rest of his career documenting the logging and milling camps and other forest related activities...
Employees, Washington (state); Cable cars; Blacksmithing; Locomotive engineers--Washington (State); Logging, Washington (state); Machine shops; Railroads; Sawmill workers; Shingle industry
The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), sometimes known as the Wobblies, is a radical labor organization that was most active from 1900 to the 1930's. This collection of pamphlets, leaflets and letters, originally held by the now defunct I.W.W....
Currently contains early publications including issues of 69 Bank Street, an early Bureau of Educational Experiments publication, beginning with Volume I, Number 1, October 1934, and Children...Here and Now, published by Bank Street in the 1950s....
Education; New York. Bureau of Educational Experiments; Bank Street College of Education; Periodicals; Teachers; Play; Social science - study and teaching
From the beginning, Shortridge High School was an innovative educational force in the city of Indianapolis. It is the oldest free public high school in Indiana, opening as Indianapolis High School in 1864. The list of school achievements includes...
Shortridge High School--Students--Yearbooks; Shortridge High School--History; High schools--Indiana--Indianapolis; School yearbooks--Indiana--Indianapolis
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