CONTENTdm Collection of Collections

- Leslie Irene Coger Collection
- A sampling of items related to Missouri State University student performances for the United Service Organizations (USO) during the 1960s and 1970s. These items are from the personal papers of MSU Theatre and Dance Professor Irene Coger. Dr. Coger...
- United Service Organizations; Theater; Missouri State University
- The Pacific Northwest Olympic Peninsula Community Museum
- A web-based museum showcasing aspects of the rich history and culture of Washington State's Olympic Peninsula communities. Features cultural exhibits, curriculum packets and a searchable archive of over 12,000 items that includes historical...
- Olympic Peninsula; Community Museum; Makah; Quileute; Quileutte; Quillayute; Quilayute; Hoh; Ho; Forks; Forkes; Olympic Peninsula; Olympic National Park; Olympic Park; Pacific Northwest; Olympic Peninsula communities; Olympic Peninsula community;...
- 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
- Everett Massacre Collection
- Almost 100 items documenting labor's perspective of the 1916 Everett Massacre in Washington State are contained in this collection. The materials include articles from the Seattle Union Record, pamphlets, fliers, hand- and typewritten works, and...
- Everett Massacre; Labor disputes; Industrial Workers of the World; Washington State; Labor unions; Strikes; Seattle Union Record; Shingle Weavers' Union; Everett Prisoners' Defense Committee; Anna Louise Strong; 1916;
- Birdle Mannon Collection
- Birdle Mannon was born on April 15, 1909. At the age of seven, Birdle moved from North Platte, Nebraska, to the Ozark Mountains near Brownbranch, Taney County, Missouri, along with her mother, father, two brothers, and a sister. Miss Mannon resided...
- Art; Folk art; Ozark Mountains Region
- Otto Bowles Collection
- Born in 1904, Otto Bowles was active in several labor organizations. Bowles moved to Springfield, Missouri, in the early 1930s where he started working in construction as a laborer. He later served as business manager of the Building and...
- Labor unions; Missouri; Kansas; Strikes
- California Explores the Ocean
- California Explores the Ocean provides access to a diverse array of resources about the ocean and ocean exploration from the unique collections of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Archives and Library and to a selection of ocean related...
- Fish; Fishing; Fisheries; Diving; Oceanic research; San Diego; Oceanography; Scuba diving; Boats; Sailing; Fish canning; Oceanographic instruments; Gulf of California Expedition; Scientific expeditions; Mexico; Argo; Tonga Trench; Scripps...
- Central Florida Memory
- Central Florida Memory is a unique digital collection of material contributed by partner institutions to create a virtual place where visitors can discover what Central Florida was like before theme parks and the space program. Diaries and letters...
- Florida; Orlando; Telephone directories; Saint Augustine; Real estate; Property values; Oranges; Citrus fruit; Daytona bech; Genealogy; Orange County; High school; Tourism; Railroads; Weather; Sanford; Jacksonville; Elections; Public records;...
- Katherine Lederer Ozarks African American History Collection
- Dr. Katherine Lederer, MSU Professor of English, spent much of her career working to preserve the region's African American heritage. Through archival research and by building close bonds with the area's African American community, Dr. Lederer...
- African Americans; Ozark Mountains Region
- Education by Design
- Education by Design is an online exhibit and image database of over 700 historic educational visual aids owned by the Bienes Center for the Literary Arts: The Dianne and Michael Bienes Special Collections and Rare Book Library located at Broward...
- History of education; History of Broward County; Cultural and historical artifacts; Visual aids
- Ohio Memory
- Established in 2000, the mission of the Ohio Memory Project is to provide access to historical treasures of Ohio, bringing together primary sources from all parts of the state in an digital library that celebrates state and local history,...
- Ohio Memory focuses on documenting the history of the State of Ohio and its local communities. Broad topics such as Ohio Citizenship, Culture, Economy, Presidents and Politics, People, and Environment are represented.
- Fort Wayne Area History Collection
- Explore publications pertaining to Fort Wayne area history from earliest encounters between European settlers and the Miami Indians to industrialization during the first part of the twentieth century. The documents in this collection cover a broad...
- Allen County (Ind.)--History; Allen County (Ind.)--Maps; Fort Wayne (Ind.)--History; Fort Wayne (Ind.)--Maps; Indiana--History; Indiana--Maps
- Esther Hennicke Collection
- For over 45 years, Esther M. Hennicke supervised the second grade at Greenwood Training School on the campus of what was then Southwest Missouri State Teachers College in Springfield, Missouri. When she retired in 1965, the college was named...
- Schools; Missouri State University; Alternative education; Teachers; Students; Springfield (Mo.);
- Greene County Aerial Photography
- For this Missouri State Library digital imaging grant project, 535 aerial photographs were scanned at 1200 dpi. The collection includes georeferenced county index maps to provide access to individual photographs. The 1936 and 1938 photography is...
- Greene County (Mo.)--Aerial photographs
- Barrington Review Online
- Fourteen years of The Barrington Review, 1914-1921 and 1925-1930, are included in this digital newspaper collection. A valuable source of information for genealogists, historians, and other local history fans, this digitization project allows...
- Barrington Review; Births; Deaths;
- New Berlin Historical Society
- From the land grant days of 1839, New Berlin has developed from an agricultural community to a mostly urban setting. The New Berlin Historical Society was founded in 1964 to preserve New Berlin's history. Artifact collections are displayed in six...
- Cornfalfa Farms; Agricultural machinery & implements; Agriculture; Alfalfa; Apple orchards; Automobiles; Barns; Churches; Farmhouses; Farming; Farms; Harvesting; Harvesting machinery; Hay; Haystacks; Horse teams; Livestock; Men; Mowing; Plowing;...
- Columbia River Basin Ethnic History Project
- Funded by a grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Services, this collaborative project sought to create a database with thematic coherence that would engage online researchers in thinking more deeply about the significance of the rich...
- Columbia River Basin; Idaho; Oregon; Washington; African Americans; Basque Americans; Chinese Americans; German Americans; Japanese Americans; Mexican Americans; Russian Americans; Jewish Americans; Native Americans;
- 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
- Mary Louise Womer Correspondence Collection
- In 1939, Mary Louise Womer contacted various individuals for her University of Southern California thesis on folk art. This collection consists of nine responses, handwritten and typed, from eight authors, artists and performers in the Missouri...
- Folk art; Ozark Mountains Region
- 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 &...