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;
The Wisconsin Historical Society's Archives collections include approximately three million photographs, negatives, films, cartoons, lithographs, posters, and ephemeral materials from private, business, and governmental sources. Although we...
Original documents; Lesson plans; Classroom activities; Background essays on key historical events; Early Native Peoples; Early explorers; Traders & settlers; Territory to statehood; Immigration; Civil War era; Native Peoples; Effigy mounds; First...
Clay Herrick, author of "Cleveland Landmarks", donated in May 1991 a collection consisting of some 100 pamphlets, brochures, books, and photographs. The most important element of this collection is some 6,000 slides of one-of-a-kind shots of...
This digital collection includes photographs from the holdings of the Special Collections Department, University of Nevada, Reno Library, which document life in Nevada, the Great Basin and the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada, including Lake...
Nevada; Nevada--History; Railroads--Nevada; Ranching--Nevada; Agriculture--Nevada; Reno (Nev.); Carson City (Nev.)
The American Geographical Society (AGS) Library Digital Map Collection presents over 200 maps from the holdings of the AGS Library. The current selection ranges from early maps of Asia and Australia to historical maps of American cities, states,...
Milwaukee (Wis.)--Maps; Real property--Wisconsin--Milwaukee--Maps; Hawaii Island (Hawaii)--Maps; Southwest, New--Maps; California--Maps; Nevada--Maps; Utah--Maps
Arizona--Maps; Wisconsin--Maps
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...
Dard Hunter (1883-1966) dedicated his life to researching, collecting, and writing books on papermaking throughout the world. He also published his own exquisite handmade books on the subject. This digital presentation is drawn from the holdings of...
The JFABC Digital Library allows worldwide access to a growing catalog, provided for educational and research purposes. Currently, the catalog contains descriptions and discovery images for approximately a third of the items in the Joan Flasch...
Art; Artists' Books; Contemporary Art; Experimental Art; Cultural materials
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-...
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...
The Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College is devoted to the history of the Society of Friends (Quakers) and its concerns. The Library includes printed works dating from the mid-seventeenth century to the present, as well as archives,...
Quaker history; Education; Schools; War relief; World War I; Vietnam War; Quaker colleges; Friends' centers; Quaker church buildings; Philadelphia; Society of Friends;
This digital collection presents historical maps and images of Tibet from the holdings of the American Geographical Society Library. The collection includes a set of early photographs of central Tibet and Lhasa as well as over 800 images from...
Tibet (China)--Civilization;
Temples, Buddhist--Tibet;
Monasteries, Buddhist--Tibet;
Buddhist monks--Tibet;
Tibetan drama;
Religious dance--Tibet
Papers and paintings of West Michigan painter, Mathias J. Alten (1871-1938) represent one of the most important collections in the holdings of both the University's Special Collections and the University Art Gallery. Alten, who came to Grand Rapids...
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...
The nineteenth-century pamphlets shown in this online exhibition were drawn from the holdings of the Research Library of the New York State Historical Association (NYSHA) in Cooperstown, New York. NYSHA's collection of murder pamphlets contains 400...
Participatory, democratic, personal, and expressive as a form of artwork, Mail Art is sent, given, or exchanged via the postal service. A work of artwork becomes Mail Art once it is dispatched, disappearing forever from the artist's hands. Mail...
This site features selected materials from the Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). Currently, the majority of the digital collections draw upon the rich and unique holdings of the Special...
Photography, Child Labor, Civil War, African American History, University Archives, UMBC publications,Theatre, Electronic Theses & Dissertations, The Retriever Weekly.
The USMA Library's Special Collections and Archives include vast photographic holdings focused on the history of West Point, the U.S. Military Academy, and Academy alumni. The Archives Collection includes the work of staff and contract...
United States Military Academy; Cadets; Staff; Military; West Point; Rings; Maps; Aerial views; Army; Football; Monuments; Artillery; Infantry; Soldiers; Drills and tactics; Uniforms; Military education; Douglas MacArthur; George Washington;