CONTENTdm Collection of Collections

- Fashion Plate Collection
- This collection includes 417 fashion plates from 1806-1914 from some of the leading fashion journals of the times: La Belle assemblee, Le Bon ton, Le Follet, courrier des salons, Journal des dames et des modes, Godey's lady's book and magazine and...
- Fashion; Fashion plates; Fashion journals; Empire; Georgian; Regency; Romantic; Victorian; Late Victorian; Edwardian; Costumes; Clothes; Clothing; Fabrics; Hats; Blanche Payne; Dresses; Bathing suits; Skirts; Coats; Gowns; Lingerie; Accessories;...
- Stereocard Collection
- Stereographs became a popular photographic medium in Europe in the mid-1800s, and through mass production methods became widely distributed in the United States by the 1880s. This digital collection, a selection of 171 stereographic views from the...
- Stereocards; Stereographs; Photography; Seattle; Landscapes
- Black Oral History Collection
- This collection contains interviews of African American pioneers and their descendents throughout Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana, conducted from 1972-1974. Topics discussed in the interviews include early settlers, job opportunities, church...
- African Americans; Pioneers; African American history; Farmers; Washington; Oregon; Idaho; Montana; Employment; Discrimination; Racism; Social conditions;
- American Journeys: Eyewitness Accounts of Early American Exploration and Settlement
- This digital library contains more than 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration, from the sagas of Vikings in Canada in AD1000 to the diaries of mountain men in the Rockies 800 years later. Read the words of explorers,...
- North American exploration; Vikings in Canada, explorers, Indians; Missionaries; Traders; Settlers; American history
- O'Connor-Yeager Collection
- A collection of printed Pennsylvania town views, portraits, maps, and historical scenes from the O'Connor-Yeager Collection at the Palmer Museum of Art. Items include lithographs, engravings, aquatints, photogravures, and woodcuts created by...
- Pennsylvania; Town views; Lafayette College; Schools; Pennsylvania State College; Bucknell University; Colleges; Universities; State Normal School; Gettysburg; Portraits;
- League Park: Cleveland's Original Ballpark
- Built in the late 1800s, Cleveland's League Park was the site of numerous historic sports moments. This collection contains images of the park, spectators, and some of the famous players that played there.
- Cleveland; Sports; Stadiums; Baseball;
- Billy E. Barnes Collection
- From 1964 through 1969, Billy E. Barnes was the Public Relations Director of the North Carolina Fund, a state-chartered, non-profit corporation established by Governor Terry Sanford in late 1963 to seek new ways to address the problem of poverty in...
- Durham County; North Carolina; African Americans; Slums; North Carolina Fund; Governor Terry Sanford; Volunteers; Community service; Poor People’s Campaign; Civil rights demonstrations; Poverty;
- Chikanobu and Yoshitoshi Woodblock Prints
- Examples of late 17th century to early 20th century Japanese woodblock prints from the Scripps College Collection of Japanese Prints by the artists Chikanobu (1838-1912) and Yoshitoshi (1839-1892).
- Japanese art; Edo period, 1600-1868; Ukiyo-e; Woodcuts
- Architecture of the Pacific Northwest
- This digital collection showcases selected architectural drawings of residential, commercial, and public buildings in the Puget Sound region by significant architects and designers from the 1880s into the 1980s. You can search by keyword or explore...
- Architecture; Houses; Architectural styles; Domestic architecture; Public buildings; Space Needle; Academic Eclectic; Art Deco; Beaux-Arts; Chicago School; Classical Revival; Collegiate Gothic; Colonial Revival; Commercial Style; Craftsman;...
- La Baskonia
- La Baskonia or La Vasconia, published from 1893 until 1943, represents the vitality and creativity of the Basque community in Argentina during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Available are issues published from 1893 - 1932, under the...
- Basques--Argentina; Argentina--History; Grandmontagne, Francisco (1866-1936); Campioìn, Arturo (1854-1936); Basaldua, Fernando de
- 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;...
- Early Advertising Collection
- The Early Advertising Collection, part of Bryn Mawr College Special Collections, contains European and American printed advertisements dating from 1790 to 1910. The majority of the collection are trade cards of the late nineteenth century. The...
- Advertising; Products and services; Printers; Lithographers
- The Books of Isaac Norris
- This collection presents a visual catalog of more than 1900 sixteenth and seventeenth century books donated in 1784 to Dickinson College by its namesake, John Dickinson, and his wife Mary (Norris) Dickinson. This site reproduces the short-title...
- Isaac Norris; Literature
- Land Use- Transportation Scenario Planning
- Integrated land use-transportation scenario planning is a planning process that employs a range of possible future scenarios to facilitate public decision-making on land use policies and transportation investments. The technique has been used with...
- Land use; Transportation; Environment; Cities; Regional planning
- May Wright Sewall Papers
- May Wright Sewall (1844-1920), a resident of Indianapolis, was a well known educator, suffragist, and peace advocate. The correspondents represented in this collection include not only people important to the history of Indiana but also those...
- Women's rights; Peace movements; Suffragists; Indianapolis (Ind.); United States--History--19th century; United State--History--20th century; World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
- PS Magazine, the Preventive Maintenance Monthly
- PS Magazine is a collection featuring rare examples of the incomparable work of the late comic artist, Will Eisner. Also known as Preventive Maintenance Monthly, the magazine is a digest-sized publication focusing on preventive maintenance...
- United States. Army -- Equipment -- Maintenance and repair; Military supplies -- Maintenance and repair; Eisner, Will
- Friends Historical Library at Swarthmore College
- 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;
- Art of the Poster 1880-1918
- In the late nineteenth century, lithographers began to use mass-produced zinc plates rather than stones in their printing process. This innovation allowed them to prepare multiple plates, each with a different color ink, and to print these with...
- Posters; Art Nouveau; Advertisements; Graphic Design
- Milwaukee Historic Photos
- The photos from Milwaukee Historic Photos digital collection are pulled from the Milwaukee Public Library's historic photograph collection. The entire collection includes over 50,000 photographs of Milwaukee dating from the late 19th century to...
- Historic photographs of Milwaukee
- Milwaukee Waterways
- Milwaukee Waterways illustrates the role Lake Michigan and Milwaukee's rivers have played in the history of Milwaukee. Pictures of the harbor and ships from around the world loading and unloading materials show the variety of materials that have...
- Milwaukee Rivers; Milwaukee Harbor; Lake Michigan; Great Lakes vessels