CONTENTdm Collection of Collections

- Universal Design Product Collection
- Universal design is an approach to the development of products and environments that can be used effectively by all people, to the greatest extent possible, without the need for adaptation or specialized design. It seeks to support usability for...
- examples of universally designed products and environments.
- The Free Soil Banner
- The Free Soil Banner was published in Indianapolis from 1848 to 1854. Other cities had newspapers by the same name, but the Indiana version was edited by Lew Wallace and William B. Greer. The newspaper was an instrument of the Free Soil Party,...
- Free Soil Party; Martin Van Buren; Charles Francis Adams; Slavery; Antislavery movements; Presidential elections
- Digital Museum at the Portage
- About the “Tales of Old Portage” Collection Peggy Amend, a member of the Board of Directors of the Portage Historical Society and Judy Eulberg began reading Dorothy McCarthy’s “Tales of Old Portage” in September of 2008 with the...
- Portage; Columbia County; Wisconsin; History
- 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;...
- Southern Nevada and Las Vegas: History in Maps
- The maps selected for this digital project document the cartographic history and context of Nevada and the Southwest region, telescoping in scale from the Western Hemisphere to the streets of Las Vegas. Maps were selected to highlight the...
- Las Vegas; Geologic maps; Topograhpy; Nevada; Clark County; Southwestern United States; Hoover Dam;
- Performance Practice Review
- Performance Practice Review is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to the study of Western musical performance practices. It is not confined to any historical period. It originally was published bi-annually from 1988 to 1997, with Roland Jackson...
- Performance practice (Music);
- Arabic Papyrus, Parchment, and Paper Collection
- This digital collection represents a selection from the Arabic Papyrus, Parchment & Paper Collection at the J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah. It is the largest of its kind in the United States, containing 770 Arabic documents on...
- Arabic documents; Papyrus; Parchment; Egypt
- The Everett Massacre
- November 5, 1916 marked one of the bloodiest days in the labor history of the Pacific Northwest. Two hundred fifty members of the International Worker's of the World (IWW) or Wobblies came by boat from Seattle to Everett. Before they could...
- Labor history; Industrial history; Everett Massacre; Union history; Wobblies; Lumber industry; Labor disputes; Industrial Workers of the World; Sawmills;
- Art Festival Programs Digital Collection
- Prior to there being a University of Iowa Museum of Art, annual summer art festivals were a way to promote art and culture in eastern Iowa. This digital collection contains the digitized programs from these festivals. Many of the works described in...
- Art exhibitions; Art festivals
- North Carolina Family Records Online
- This joint digital collection from the State Library of North Carolina and the North Carolina State Archives currently contains over 220 family Bible records (lists of birth, marriage, and death information typically written inside of family...
- Genealogy; Family history; North Carolina
- Past and Present: A Digital History of Wisconsin Independent Colleges and Universities
- The images in this collection have been selected from the archives of Wisconsin independent colleges and universities, and their affiliates. Representing only a small portion of the available resources, the selection details the history of these...
- Colleges; College campuses and their environs
- Music Images from the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, 1901
- Music was an integral component of the activities provided at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo in 1901. The Temple of Music was the principal venue for music performance. It was designed by architect August C. Esenwein and featured an organ...
- 1901 Pan-American Exposition; Buffalo, NY; August C. Esenwein; Emmons Howard
- Log of the Good Yacht Althea on the Summer Cruise of 1914
- 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
- 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
- Mail Art
- Participatory, democratic, personal, and expressive as a form of artwork, Mail Art is sent, given, or exchanged via the postal service. A work of artwork becomes Mail Art once it is dispatched, disappearing forever from the artist's hands. Mail...
- Mail Art
- Kooskia Internment Camp Scrapbook
- The Kooskia (pronounced KOOS-key) Internment Camp is an obscure and virtually forgotten World War II detention facility that was located in a remote area of north central Idaho, 30 miles from the town of Kooskia, and 6 miles east of the hamlet of...
- Japanese Americans; World War II; Internment Camps; Idaho;
- Frank Lloyd Wright - Wasmuth Portfolio
- This collection contains 131 images of the prints and overlays with accompanying text in English and German from the Wasmuth Portfolio of Frank Lloyd Wright. Originally published in Berlin in 1910 by Ernst Wasmuth, the German title "Ausgeführte...
- Frank Lloyd Wright; Architects; Architecture; Houses; Design
- Alumnus Magazine
- The Alumnus, the official alumni magazine of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE), began publication in 1973. It was published four times a year and featured articles by and about SIUE faculty, graduates, administrators, staff, and...
- Southern Illinois University Edwardsville--Alumni and alumnae; Southern Illinois University Edwardsville; Universities and colleges--Alumni and alumnae--Illinois--Edwardsville
- Milwaukee Neighborhoods: Photos and Maps 1885 - 1992
- This digital collection provides a visual documentation of the development of the city of Milwaukee from the mid-1880s to the early 1990s. It includes 650 images of residential and industrial facilities, local businesses, historic buildings,...
- Aerial views; Airports; Apartments; Automobiles; Bars; Businesses; Churches; Clock towers; Commercial facillities; Industrial facilities; Neighborhoods; Office buildings; Real estate; Religious facilities; Stores and shops;
- 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;