CONTENTdm Collection of Collections

- 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
- Postcards of Indiana, The Jay Small Collection
- The collection contains real photo and printed postcards collected by Indianapolis resident Jay Small. Most images depict views and street scenes in towns and cities across Indiana, individuals, interurbans and railway stations, bandstands and...
- Indianapolis history; Indiana history; Urban culture; Midwestern life
- Incunabula and 16th Century Printing
- Among the first 1,000 books purchased for Grand Valley State University's library were a dozen volumes printed in the 1500s. More recent examples of incunabula (i.e., books printed before 1501) have been added, including a leaf from a 1487 Peter...
- Incunabula; Printing 1450-1500
- Ralph Metcalfe: The Olympic Years, 1932-1936
- Photographs, newspaper clippings, and other printed materials documenting sprinter Ralph Metcalfe between 1932-1936, when the Marquette undergraduate was known as "The World's Fastest Human."
- African American athletes; Marquette University--Track and field; Marquette-Alumni and alumnae; NCAA Track and Field Championship (1932 : Chicago); NCAA Track and Field Championship (1933 : Chicago); Olympic Games (10th : 1932 : Los Angeles,...
- Decorated and Decorative Paper Collection
- This database showcases a selection of decorated and decorative papers from Europe, primarily Germany, France and Italy, produced between the 17th and 19th centuries. Representative samples include Western marbled paper, paste papers and decorative...
- Western marbled paper; Paste papers; Decorative papers; Dutch gilt; Lithographically or linoleum block printed paper; Suminagashi
- 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;
- Pennsylvania German Broadsides and Frakturs
- 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;
- Gilmer Civil War Maps Collection
- The Gilmer maps are an extensive group of Civil War maps, including both manuscript maps and printed maps with manuscript annotations and engineers' drawings of military construction, housed in the Manuscripts Department of The Wilson Library. This...
- Civil War; Confederate States of America; Maps; Virginia; Texas; Arkansas; North Carolina; Alabama; South Carolina; Louisiana; Mississippi; Tennessee; Georgia
- Castle Collection of Natural History Illustrations
- The collection consists of representative images from more than 150 botanical and ornithological books, printed between 1499 and 1920, and including many of the landmark works in each field. The books are from the Ethelinda Schaefer Castle...
- Botany; Ornithology
- 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
- Middle East Collections
- The Middle East rare collections include manuscripts in Arabic, Coptic, Hebrew, Persian, and Turkish dating from at least as early as 800CE/183AH; and more than three thousand printed books from and about the Middle East. Highlighted in this...
- Poetry; Religion
- John Wesley Powell Expeditions
- Famous explorer of the Colorado River, John Wesley Powell left the American southwest with a rich legacy. During his expeditions he compiled data and a number of sketches describing the landscape. This collection contains various writings and...
- Colorado River; American West; Exploration
- 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.
- Revolutionary Drama
- This collection contains approximately 300 French plays from the period of the French Revolution, 1789-1800. The collection was created by the University of Warwick Library and is taken from the Marandet Collection of 18th and 19th century French...
- French drama - Eighteenth century. French Revolution.
- Empire Period Drama
- This collection contains 65 French plays from the Napoleonic Empire period in French history, 1800-1815. The collection was created by the University of Warwick Library and is taken from the Marandet Collection of 18th and 19th century French...
- French drama - 19th century; French Empire period; Napoleon;
- 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;
- Yale Daily News Historical Archive
- Access to digitized versions of selected printed issues of the Yale Daily News, the student newspaper of Yale University. The full text of these issues is indexed and searchable through the web interface. The Yale Daily News, founded on January 28,...
- Yale University and its environs
- Lethbridge Historical Society Collection
- The Lethbridge Historical Society Newsletter was originally started by noted Lethbridge historian Alex Johnston and continues today under the auspices of the Lethbridge Historical Society. It has been published intermittently since 1960.
- Canada -- History; Alberta -- History -- Societies, etc ; Lethbridge Historical Society -- Periodicals ; History -- Periodicals
- Historic Sheet Music Collection
- The University of Oregon Libraries present a selection of images from the collections of printed sheet music held by the Music Services Department and in the Oregon Collection of Special Collections & University Archives at the University of Oregon...
- Oregon; nostalgic songs
- Editorial Cartoons of J.N. "Ding" Darling
- Jay N. "Ding" Darling (1876–1962) spent the majority of his career working as an editorial cartoonist for the Des Moines Register. His work was printed in more than 100 daily newspapers across the nation over the first half of the twentieth...
- Editorial Cartoons, J.N. "Ding" Darling