CONTENTdm Collection of Collections

- David Plath Digital Collection
- During his tenure as an anthropology professor at The University of Iowa, David Plath traveled to Japan in 1965 to conduct fieldwork on four utopian communities: Ittoen, Atarashiki Mura, Shinkyo, and Yamagishi Kai. Included in this digital...
- Anthropologists; Japan
- Calvin Photographs Digital Collection
- During the mid-1800s, photography became a popular hobby and natural tool for scientists. Samuel Calvin (1840-1911), a professor in natural sciences at the University of Iowa (1873-1911) and a state geologist, took more than 5,000 photographs,...
- Universities & colleges
- 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
- Dentistry College Class Photographs Digital Collection
- In celebration of the 125th anniversary of the University of Iowa College of Dentistry, class photo boards (1883-1967) were converted to digital format as part of the preservation process. This digital collection includes photo boards that display...
- Dentistry; Students
- Iowa Aerial Photo Indices Digital Collection
- This is a digital collection of over 2,000 aerial photomosaic index sheets, digitized by Historical Information Gatherers in 2006/2007. Each “tile” in the mosaic corresponds to an individual photo, usually 10” x10”, that reveals much more...
- Aerial photos; Iowa
- Iowa City Flood Digital Collection
- In June 2008, the Midwest experienced one of its most severe floods on record, causing the closure of highways and the evacuation of homes and businesses. Compiled in this collection are over 3,400 photographs taken by the University News Services...
- Iowa River; Flooding; University of Iowa
- cARTalog Digital Collection
- The cARTalog grows from the drawers of the University of Iowa Libraries' main card catalog, which was retired in 2004. The cARTalog project organizers were able to salvage approximately only one quarter of the UI's card catalog for the project; the...
- Library card catalog
- University of Iowa Campus Maps Digital Collection
- This digital collection of maps from course catalogs and other archival sources documents the growth of the University of Iowa throughout the 20th century. Early items include an 1893 pacing survey of what is now the Pentacrest and Sanborn fire...
- Universities & colleges
- University of Iowa Physical Education for Women
- The Department of Physical Education for Women at the University of Iowa was a pioneer in the development of graduate study and professional training as well as athletic opportunities for women. The records of the department held by the Iowa...
- Sports; Women
- University of Iowa Press Digital Collection
- Praised by The New York Times Book Review as "among the most prestigious literary prizes America offers," the national Iowa Short Fiction Awards are given annually to first collections of fiction and are juried through the famed Iowa Writers'...
- Literature
- The James W. Bollinger Digital Collection
- James W. Bollinger was a lawyer and judge from Davenport, Iowa. As a child, Bollinger received a book from his mother about Lincoln's mother, Nancy Hanks. This book sparked his interest in Lincoln and resulted in a lifetime of collecting books,...
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Presidents
- 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
- African American Women in Iowa Digital Collection
- This digital collection of photographs, news clippings, pamphlets, scrapbooks, directories, and newsletters documents the experience of African American women in Iowa during the twentieth century. The collection, ca. 1924-1970, is an outgrowth of...
- African American Women
- Traveling Culture Digital Collection
- This digital collection presents 7,949 publicity brochures, promotional advertisements, and talent circulars for some 4,546 performers who were part of the Chautauqua circuit. These talent brochures are drawn from the Records of the Redpath Lyceum...
- Chautauquas; Lectures
- University of Iowa Libraries Bookbinding Models Digital Collection
- Bookbinding models are used to exemplify and demonstrate the various mechanisms of books. They range from practical to experimental and may reproduce traditional bookbinding techniques of various cultures. Bill Anthony, past Conservator of the...
- Bookbinding
- University of Iowa Museum of Art Digital Collection
- The permanent collections of the UIMA contain over 12,000 objects from masterworks of European and American Art of the last century to a world renowned collection of traditional African Art. The UIMA opened in 1969, although the art collections of...
- Art, Max Beckmann, Joan Miro, Jackson Pollock
- Leigh Hunt Digital Collection
- Leigh Hunt (1784-1859) was a British Romantic writer and a contemporary of Byron, Shelley, and Keats; his activities and influence also extended well into the Victorian period. In addition to being one of the most outspoken and influential...
- Correspondence; England -- London; British Romanticism; Journalism
- Historic Iowa Children's Diaries Digital Collection
- This collection seeks to connect Iowa's youth with state history by showing them how young settlers recorded their lives 150 years ago through diary writing. This digital collection, led by the staff of the Old Capitol Museum on the University of...
- Iowa; Children; Diaries
- Szathmary Recipe Pamphlet Digital Collection
- Louis Szathmary (1919–1996) was a Hungarian-born chef, restaurateur, and food writer best known as proprietor of The Bakery restaurant in Chicago. Szathmary amassed one of the largest culinary archives in the United States, a portion of which is...
- Cookery; Baking
- John Martin Rare Book Room Digital Collection
- The John Martin Rare Book Room holds classic works on medicine and the health sciences dating from as early as the 15th century. Derived from lithographs, etchings, engravings, and mezzotints, the images include depictions of human anatomy, disease...
- Medicine; Health Sciences; Human anatomy; Disease; Surgical techniques