CONTENTdm Collection of Collections

- 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
- 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;
- Wanda Harold Architectural Photographs
- The Wanda Harold Architectural Photographs of 200 historical buildings in Chicago's Lincoln Park Community include landmark domestic residences, commercial sites, and churches constructed in a variety of historical styles. All photographs of the...
- Apartments; Architects; Architecture; Building details; Buildings; Chicago history; Chicago neighborhoods; Churches; Commercial Buildings; Dwellings; Facade; Factory; Fences; Figure Sculpture; Gymnasium Housing; Masonry; Row houses; Towers; Urns;...
- Postcards of Oshkosh
- Remember the Hotel Athearn? The fountain in Riverside Cemetery? Relive memories of Oshkosh through these postcards. This collection consists of views of businesses, churches, parks, city streets, country roads, and other structures throughout...
- Postcards; Oshkosh history; Parks; Buildings; Churches; Schools; Monuments; Waterways;
- Shannon County Film Collection
- This digital collection consists of links to over 100 digitized camera rolls. Each roll varies between seven to ten minutes and consists of the original outtakes from the PBS documentaries Shannon County: Home and Shannon County: Hearts of the...
- Shannon County (Mo.); Horses; Logging; Pentecostal churches; Revivals; Lumber trade; Sawmills; English language--Dialects--Ozark Mountains Region; Railroads--Ties; Women--Missouri; Small churches; Fishing; Blacksmiths; Spear fishing
- Iowa County Historical Society Digital History
- The first project in this collection is the Herb Harris Postcard Collection, http://content.mpl.org/cdm4/results.php?CISOOP1=exact&CISOFIELD1=CISOSEARCHALL&CISOROOT=/ichs&CISOBOX1=Herb+Harris+Postcard+Collection. Herb Harris (1910-2002) was...
- Aerial views; Automobiles; Bakeries; Banks; Business enterprises; Churches; Cities & towns; Courthouses; Drugstores; Hospitals; Hotels; Lakes & ponds; Mining; Parks; Railroads; Restaurants; Schools; Stores & shops; Theaters; Water towers; Windmills
- Strand Studio Photograph Collection
- The Strand Studio Photograph Collection highlights the important role community photographers have always played in documenting the people and life of a community. Curtis and Maxine Strand of Rugby, North Dakota for forty years, from 1948 to 1988,...
- Rugby (N.D.); Photographers; Weddings; Commercial photography; Strand, Curtis; Strand, Maxine; North Dakota; Businesses; Portrait photography; Pierce County (N.D.); Lutheran churches; Catholic churches;
- Pieces of the Past: Des Moines History Online
- This collection, funded by a grant from Friends of the Des Moines Library and King County Library System Foundation, consists of historical photographs from the Des Moines Historical Society. The Pieces of the Past site also includes links to a...
- Lumber industry; Washington State; Shipping industry; African Americans; Restaurants; Motels; Mosquito Fleet; Steamboats; Local history; Churches; Buses; Des Moines; Marina; Des Moines Historical Society; Parades; Zenith Beach; Zenith; Buildings;
- Yakima Memory
- In July of 2001, the Yakima Valley Regional Library and Yakima Valley Museum began a project entitled "Yakima Memory." This project involves the digitization of approximately 9,000 photographs in two collections, and provides access to the new...
- Houses; Cemeteries; Agricultural Machinery & Equipment; Agriculture; Archaeological Sites; Arts & Crafts; Transportation; Churches; Clothing & Dress; Commercial Facilities; Dams; Disaster; Events; Government; Irrigation; Military; Monuments &...
- Irish Americans of Cleveland
- This is one of a series of collections developed or planned by Cleveland State University Library to explore the ethnic influence that helped shape the history and development of Cleveland. Irish Americans of Cleveland contains over 200 images...
- Irish Americans; Cleveland history; Ethnic influence; Cleveland Browns; Roman Catholic Churches; Bagpipes; Bishops; St. Patrick's Day; Labor unions; Boxers; Sports; Boxing; Suffragists; Suffrage; League of Women Voters; Ancient Order of Hibernians...
- Kentucky Historical Society Digital Collections
- Kentucky Historical Society Digital Collections provides access to digital images, sound, video, and text from the KHS collections. For over one hundred years the Kentucky Historical Society has been collecting, preserving, and sharing...
- Advertisements; African Americans; Agriculture; Art; Automobiles; Campaigns & battles; Carriages & coaches; Carts & wagons; Children; Churches; Cities & towns; Civil rights; Civil War, 1861-1865; Clothing & dress; Coal mining; Commerce;...
- Postcards of Cleveland
- A comprehensive collection of Cleveland postcards, numbering nearly 8,000 with the earliest dating from 1898. The collection belongs to Walter Leedy, a Professor of Medieval Art, Architecture and Urbanism at Cleveland State University. Highlights...
- Cleveland history; Postcards; Amusement parks; Euclid Beach Park; Luna Park; Schools; Churches; Buildings; Cleveland Museum Of Art; Euclid Heights; Case Western Reserve University; Airports; Great Lakes Exposition; Banks; Department stores;...
- Historic Des Moines, Images of Des Moines 1904 - 1914
- Take a glimpse of Des Moines, Iowa as it entered the 20th century. A collection of photographs of homes, parks and public places taken between 1904 and 1914. Features the article: From the Real to the Ideal, Images of Des Moines in the Progressive...
- Bridges; Buildings; Churches; Houses; Parks; Rivers; Streets;
- Edward Vischer Drawings, Photographs and Other Material
- A German born artist who immigrated first to Mexico and then to California, Edward Vischer (1809-1878), sketched and photographed California missions, trees, mountains, rural scenes, and mining operations in the second half of the 19th century....
- California--Pictorial works; Churches; Correspondence; Indians of North America -- California; Gold mines and mining; Landscape drawings; Mission buildings; Photography, Stereoscopic; Portrait photography; Ranch life
- North Carolina Postcards
- Drawing from the rich holdings of the North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives, North Carolina Postcards contains more than 1,000 postcards, including at least one from each of North Carolina’s one hundred counties. Many of the postcards...
- Postcards; North Carolina
- Cuban Postcard Collection
- A selection of over 500 postcards of Cuba and the Cuban experience outside the island produced from the turn of the 20th century to the present. It includes real photo, printed photo, and artist drawn postcards and provides views of the many parts...
- Havana; Santiago de Cuba; Matanzas; Guantánamo; Dwellings; Fortifications; Harbors; Hotels; Monuments; Parks; Street Scenes; Theaters; Sugar Industry; and Churches.
- South Florida Postcards
- A selection of 290 postcards covering South Florida locations including scenes from Miami, Miami Beach, Coconut Grove, and Coral Gables from the 1900s through the 1960s.
- Hotels; Miami; Miami Beach; Coconut Grove; Coral Gables; Venetian Islands; Biscayne Bay; Causeways; Churches; Streets; Beaches; Flora; Tourist attractions; Parks; Homes; Buildings; Canals; Architecture.
- Manuel R. Bustamante Photograph Collection
- Consists primarily of over 600 black and white photographs of Cuba from the early 1900s to the 1930s taken in locations across the island. Many of these images were published by the New York based Munson Steamship Line in its Cuba Review magazine.
- Camagüey; Santiago de Cuba;, Havana; Santiago de las Vegas; Banks; Agriculture; Monuments; Carnivals; Cemeteries; Churches; Dwellings; Country Life; Forts and Fortifications; Harbors; Neighborhoods; Piers and Wharves; Ships; Landscape photographs.
- 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-...
- Ira Clemens Photograph Album, 1923
- A collection of photographs, postcards, and notes compiled in 1923 by Ira Clemens. The materials concern mining communities and towns in Crawford and Cherokee Counties in Kansas, and Mindenmines, Missouri. The photographs consist primarily of...
- Coal miners--Kansas--Crawford County--Social conditions; Coal miners--Kansas--Cherokee County--Social conditions; Coal miners--Missouri--Mindenmines--Social conditions; Crawford County (Kan.)--History; Cherokee County (Kan.)--History; Mindenmines...