This collection contains leaflets and newspapers that were distributed on the University of Washington campus during the decades of the 1960s and 1970s. They reflect the social environment and political activities of the youth movement in Seattle...
Black Panther Party; Civil Rights; Counterculture; Demonstrations; Environmentalism; Freedom Socialist Party; Gay Liberation Front; Kent State; Labor unions, Minorities; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; National...
This is a collection of images of murals from Northern Ireland, principally West Belfast, Republican and Loyalist, painted during the recent period of Troubles. The images are records which include historical representation, political standpoints,...
Adams, Gerry, 1948-; Battle of the Somme; National Emblems; Home rule; Ireland; Politics and governmen; Irish Hunger Strike; Northern Ireland; Irish language; Mother Ireland (Symbolic character); Mural painting; Northern Republicanism, Ireland;...
From March to May in 1958, the Dave Brubeck Quartet embarked on an ambitious tour of Europe and Asia that was sponsored by the U.S. State Department. This tour was part of a "cultural ambassador" program in which the U.S. government sent prominent...
Jazz, Dave Brubeck, Dave Brubeck Quartet, cultural ambassador program, U.S. government, Cold War
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...
During World War II, staff at the State Historical Society of Iowa collected, sorted, and filed more than 800,000 Iowa newspaper clippings documenting Iowa's war efforts both at home and on foreign soil. Though the original clippings are closed to...
The Yvar Mikhashoff Photograph Collection contains 423 indexed images that chiefly document the professional life of pianist and composer Yvar Mikhashoff. The collection includes photographs by professional photographers such as Sarah Ainslie,...
Photograph that document the professional life of pianist and composer Yvar Mikhashoff. Photographs by Sarah Ainslie, Irene Haupt, Joann Miles, Annette Faltin, Lelli & Masotti, Wim Riemens, Gerda van der Veen, and Keith Gemerek. Musicians include...
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;...
Between 1893 and 1906 Wilhelm Hester documented both the maritime activities of the Puget Sound Region and of his time spent in Alaska during the gold rush of 1898. This digital collection includes examples of Hester's documentation of ships' crews...
Klondike Gold Rush, 1898; Ships and shipping, Washington state; Ports, Puget Sound; Nome, Alaska; Logging, Washington state; Chinatown, San Francisco, 1890s; Restaurants and hotels, Seattle, Washington
W. D. Smith Commercial Photography was Fort Worth's leading commercial photographer during the mid- to late-20th century. This digital collection contains over 150 photographic negatives taken by the company during the 1940s-1950s as well as...
Henry M. Jackson began his Congressional career at the age of 28, first as a representative and then as a senator during a period that spanned 43 years and nine presidents. During that time, he chaired the Democratic National Committee in 1960,...
House of Representatives 1941-1952; Atomic energy and Hanford; Senate 1952-1983; Presidential campaigns; Columbia River Basin Project; Vietnam, 1960s; Presidents, United States
The American Almanacs digital collection includes representative samples for almanacs published in the United States primarily during the 18th century. The almanacs feature calendars, tide charts, lunar and solar observations, accounts of weather...
The John T. Wilder Collection contains letters and documents to or from John T. Wilder during the Civil War. Wilder (1830-1917) was a foundry owner from Greensburg, Indiana, who served as Colonel of the 17th Indiana Infantry Regiment during the...
Poised for the sesquicentennial remembrance of the Civil War, South Carolina and the Civil War brings together eyewitness views and accounts of this period of American history, selected from the rich holdings of University of South Carolina...
Books, maps, sheet music, diaries, letters, photographs, images, and cartoons about the American Civil War
Low Art Tile Works, founded in 1877, was one of a handful of companies to advance the development of decorative tiles in the United States during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. During its twenty-five years of business, Low Art...
Tiles -- Massachusetts -- Chelsea -- Catalogs; Advertising -- United States -- Specimens; Type and type-founding -- United States -- Specimens; Printers' ornaments -- United States -- Specimens
This collection consists of 800 images selected from 894 5x7 inch glass negatives taken by Frank Fuller Avery during the period 1901 to 1916 when Avery was assigned to the Colville Indian Agency in Washington State.
Frank Fuller Avery; Indian School Service; Washington State; Colville Indian Agency; Indian reservations; Native Americans; Fort Spokane; John McAdam Webster; Eastern Washington;
This photograph collection documents the activities of Oregon's Bracero workers, Mexican citizens that were allowed to work as farm laborers throughout the U.S. during World War II. Under the Braceros Program more than 15,000 Mexican men worked on...
The Port Townsend Leader began publication as a daily in 1889, when the area was experiencing rapid growth in business ventures and real estate sales. From 1895 to 1904 it was known as the Morning Leader, and was issued every day but Monday. This...
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...
This online archive contains photographs, works of art, and other documents associated with Topaz camp, one of ten remote internment camps used by the government and US Army to inter Americans of Japanese ancestry during World War II. More than...
Internment camps; World War II; Japanese Americans; Topaz; Concentration camps; Relocation centers; Evacuation; Civil rights; Prison camps