CONTENTdm Collection of Collections

- Pennsylvania Geology
- This collection contains materials relating to the geology and water resources of Pennsylvania as published by the Pennsylvania Geological Survey, U.S. Geological Survey, and others. Included are materials from the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Pennsylvania...
- Geology; Maps; Water; Hydrology; Pennsylvania
- O'Connor-Yeager Collection
- A collection of printed Pennsylvania town views, portraits, maps, and historical scenes from the O'Connor-Yeager Collection at the Palmer Museum of Art. Items include lithographs, engravings, aquatints, photogravures, and woodcuts created by...
- Pennsylvania; Town views; Lafayette College; Schools; Pennsylvania State College; Bucknell University; Colleges; Universities; State Normal School; Gettysburg; Portraits;
- Mira Dock Forestry Lantern Slides
- This collection includes 468 glass lantern slides dating from 1897 to about 1902, used by Mira Lloyd Dock in her lectures at the Mont Alto Forestry School. Many of these photos were taken at Wetzel's Swamp near Harrisburg but other states and...
- Ecology; Botany; Nature; Urban restoration; Forestry Practices
- Pennsylvania German Broadsides and Frakturs
- This collection includes over 250 images from the holdings of Rare Books and Manuscripts in the Special Collections Library. The term "Fraktur" originally described a type of German printing similar to old English Gothic. The term today refers to...
- German immigrants; Acculturation; German settlers; Religion; Politics; Genealogy; Hymns; Penmenship;
- Geology of Lehigh and Northampton Counties, Pennsylvania: Historical Works
- This collection features two volumes from the Pennsylvania Geological Survey fourth series. They provide a wealth of detail about Lehigh and Northampton Counties, including their geography, geology, meteorology, place names, culture, and history....
- Lehigh County history; Northampton County history; Geography; Geology; Meteorology; Culture
- University Park Campus History Collection
- This collection of primary source materials focuses on the design and planning of the Penn State University Park campus. The development of the campus from the 1870s to the 1970s is documented by a selection of maps, photographs, construction...
- Architecture; Design; Penn State University Park campus; Historic buildings; University history; Architectural styles; Italian Renaissance; Romanesque Style; Classic Revival; Acoustical Design; Modified Georgian; Georgian Precedent; Queen Anne;...
- Thomas Pim Cope Diaries
- Thomas P. Cope was a successful Philadelphia merchant and Quaker who involved himself in a wide range of civic projects during the first half of the nineteenth century. He kept a regular diary between 1800 and 1851, with a gap between 1820 and...
- Banks and banking, American--History--19th century; Pennsylvania--History; Philadelphia (Pa.)--History--1775-1865; Philadelphia (Pa.)--History--19th century; Quakers--Business; Quakers--Diaries--19th century; Quakers--United States--Biography;...
- Lawton Digital Archive
- The Lawton Digital Archive consists of a selection of presentations made by M. Powell Lawton, Ph.D. throughout his career at conferences for researchers on aging. The principles Dr. Lawton developed in his studies in environmental psychology...
- Aged; Aging; Behavioral psychology; Clinical health psychology; Clinical psychology; Community services; Congregate housing; Congregate housing design and construction; Environment; Environmental docility hypothesis; Environmental proactivity;...
- The Books of Isaac Norris
- This collection presents a visual catalog of more than 1900 sixteenth and seventeenth century books donated in 1784 to Dickinson College by its namesake, John Dickinson, and his wife Mary (Norris) Dickinson. This site reproduces the short-title...
- Isaac Norris; Literature
- The Jack Rabin Collection on Alabama Civil Rights and Southern Activists
- The Jack Rabin Collection on Alabama Civil Rights and Southern Activists is a compact but highly complex, multi-layered compilation of documents, sound recordings, and visual images. Some of its components, including copies of records of the...
- Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990; Beecher, John, 1904- ; Bevel, James L. (James Luther), 1936- ; Braden, Anne, 1924-2006; Braden, Carl, 1914-1975; Bunche, Ralph J. (Ralph Johnson), 1904-1971; Carmichael, Stokely; Carr, Johnnie Rebecca, 1911-...
- Lycoming County Photographs and Images
- With the Lycoming County Photographs & Images collection, the James V. Brown Library has made hundreds of historical photographs and drawings available for public use. These rare images explore the early years of Lycoming County and surrounding...
- Lycoming County history; Pennsylvania history
- The University of Scranton Digital Yearbook Collection
- The Weinberg Memorial Library presents a digital collection of University of Scranton Yearbooks, published between 1916 and 2007. This 74-volume collection contains almost 20,000 pages and depicts the changing student body of the University of...
- Student, faculty, staff, campus, & environs of St. Thomas College & the University of Scranton, Pennsylvania
- The University of Scranton Football Collection
- From 1892 through 1960, the University of Scranton (and its predecessor, St. Thomas College) proudly housed a varsity football team, called alternately the "Tommies" or the "Royals." This digital collection features over 1,000 photographs from the...
- University of Scranton football players, coaches, teams, marching bands, and cheerleaders; Advertisements from Scranton, Pennsylvania businesses
- Sykes Editorial Cartoon Collection
- Charles Henry 'Bill' Sykes (1882-1942) was a well respected editorial cartoonist whose work appeared in a number of periodicals including newspapers in Philadelphia. The Sykes Editorial Cartoon Collection consists of 297 original editorial...
- World War, 1939-1945; Europe -- History -- 1918-1945; Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945; Stalin, Joseph, 1879-1953; Mussolini, Benito, 1883-1945; Elections -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia; Political parties -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
- The College Presidents Collections
- Images from the Archives & Special Collections Library at Washington & Jefferson College. Each portrait image is accompanied by an extensive biography recounting the life of the president depicted. This site was created to recount the history of...
- Washington & Jefferson College; College presidents; Washington College; Jefferson College
- Map Collection at Gettysburg College
- The Map Collection at Gettysburg College consists of over 500 maps donated by John Henry Wilbrandt Stuckenberg (1835-1903) and his wife Mary Gingrich Stuckenberg (1834-1934). Dr. Stuckenberg had a life long interest in maps, and while living in...
- Maps; Cartography; World history
- Bi-College News Photograph Collection
- The Bi-College News Photograph Collection serves as the digital repository for photographs published in Haverford & Bryn Mawr Colleges' "Bi-College News," the weekly student newspaper. Subjects covered among these photographs include student life,...
- Bryn Mawr College; Bryn Mawr College campus; Bryn Mawr College students; Haverford College; Haverford College campus; Haverford College students; College sports; Concerts; Dance; Dormitories; Initiations; Rites of passage; Student government;
- Castle Collection of Natural History Illustrations
- The collection consists of representative images from more than 150 botanical and ornithological books, printed between 1499 and 1920, and including many of the landmark works in each field. The books are from the Ethelinda Schaefer Castle...
- Botany; Ornithology
- Early Advertising Collection
- The Early Advertising Collection, part of Bryn Mawr College Special Collections, contains European and American printed advertisements dating from 1790 to 1910. The majority of the collection are trade cards of the late nineteenth century. The...
- Advertising; Products and services; Printers; Lithographers
- Theater Photography from the Theresa Helburn Collection
- The Theresa Helburn Collection includes photographs, playscripts and theatrical ephemera donated to Bryn Mawr College by alumna and Broadway producer Theresa Helburn (B.A. 1908). This image database contains records of over 1100 photographs related...
- Theater; Drama; Musical theater; Eugene O'Neill; Strange Interlude (1928); Green Grow the Lilacs (1931; Lynn Riggs; Rodgers and Hammerstein; Oklahoma! (1943); S. N. Behrman; Jane (1952); Helen Jerome; Jane Eyre (1936); Shakespeare; As You Like It...