CONTENTdm Collection of Collections

- Art Festival Programs Digital Collection
- Prior to there being a University of Iowa Museum of Art, annual summer art festivals were a way to promote art and culture in eastern Iowa. This digital collection contains the digitized programs from these festivals. Many of the works described in...
- Art exhibitions; Art festivals
- English's Opera House
- Formally opening on September 27, 1880, English’s Opera House quickly became Indianapolis’ leading theater presenting not only opera but drama, musical comedy, ballet, concerts, minstrel shows, lectures, vaudeville and film. Anyone interested...
- Theater programs--Indiana--Indianapolis; English's Opera House (Indianapolis, Ind.); Theater--Indiana--Indianapolis
- Silicon Valley History Online
- Silicon Valley History Online is a collection of images illustrating California's Santa Clara Valley and providing the first gateway to the major historical resources of this region. You will find photographs, maps, letters, postcards, manuscripts,...
- Silicon Valley; Santa Clara Valley; Agriculture; Education; Portraits; Technology; Transportation; Urban life; Manufacturing; Bunnysuits; Intel microprocessors; Semiconductor wafers; Canned fruit industry; Intel Pentium Processors;
- Hudson River Valley Heritage
- The Hudson River Valley Heritage collection provides online access to historical materials from New York State's Hudson River Valley. Collections are contributed from organizations in eight counties: Columbia, Greene, Ulster, Dutchess, Orange,...
- Henry Hudson; Early settlements; Relations with Native American Indian Tribes; Agricultural development; Industrialization; Revolutionary War; WWI; Huguenot history; Hudson River School; Hudson River; Tourism; Business development;...
- A Digital Collection Celebrating the Founding of the Historically Black College and University
- A Digital Collection Celebrating the Founding of the Historically Black College and University is a collection of primary resources from HBCU libraries and archives. It includes several thousand scanned pages and represents HBCU libraries' first...
- African American colleges and universities -- History.
- School of Art & Art History Graduate Archive Digital Collection
- For the past seventy-five years, the School of Art and Art History has collected thousands of artworks by artists attending the School's graduate studio programs. Each graduate student was asked to leave behind a work they completed during their...
- Iowa; University of Iowa School of Art & Art History; graduate students; Ellen Lanyon; Elizabeth Catlett; Miriam Shapiro; Thomas Lawton; Roy Sieber
- Transforming the Tar Heel State: The Legacy of Public Libraries in North Carolina
- "Transforming the Tar Heel State: The Legacy of Public Libraries in North Carolina" provides a fascinating glimpse of the development and influence of North Carolina public libraries from the late 1800s through the 1950s. Major themes in the...
- Public Libraries; North Carolina History; Works Progress Administration (WPA); African-Americans; Bookmobiles; Literacy; Carnegie Libraries
- Lawrence University Department of Theatre Arts Productions
- This growing collection of programs and images taken during Department of Theatre Arts productions was started with the 2008-2009 season. Each year, programs and images will be added from the current season. Past performances will be added over...
- Plays, Operas, Actors, Theater, Set Design, Theatre Productions
- Teaching with Digital Content
- This collection brings together a group of libraries and museums and their digital content with K-12 teachers to provide primary source materials for teaching. The project seeks to develop a successful model program to integrate digital primary...
- Westward expansion; English colonies; Cities; Communities; Farming; Transportation; French in Illinois; World War II; Celebrations; Festivals; North American Indians; French Colonial Period; Kewpie dolls; American pop culture; Civilian Conservation...
- 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;
- Singin' Sam, the Barbasol Man
- Harry Frankel (1888-1948), better known as Singin' Sam the Barbasol Man, lived much of his life in Richmond. In 1951, his widow, Helene "Smiles" Frankel, donated all of his sheet music to Morrisson-Reeves Library, and after her death in 1981, her...
- Singin' Sam; Frankel, Harry; Frankel, Helene; Barbasol; Advertisements; Vaudeville; Minstrel shows; Sound recordings; Radio broadcasting
- CCC: CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORPS (1933-1943): THE NEW DEAL'S DEPRESSION-ERA ECOLOGICAL MOVEMENT
- Broward County Library's Bienes Museum of the Modern Book, The Dianne and Michael Bienes Special Collections and Rare Book Library, houses a large collection of New Deal literature and artifacts. The "New Deal" commonly refers to the programs of...
- CCC; Civilian Conservation Corps; New Deal
- Lawton Digital Archive
- The Lawton Digital Archive consists of a selection of presentations made by M. Powell Lawton, Ph.D. throughout his career at conferences for researchers on aging. The principles Dr. Lawton developed in his studies in environmental psychology...
- Aged; Aging; Behavioral psychology; Clinical health psychology; Clinical psychology; Community services; Congregate housing; Congregate housing design and construction; Environment; Environmental docility hypothesis; Environmental proactivity;...
- Bulletin of the Institute for Antiquity and Christianity
- The Institute for Antiquity and Christianity is a center for basic research on the origins and meaning of the cultural heritage of Western civilization. The Bulletin of the Institute for Antiquity and Christianity is published periodically under...
- Institute for Antiquity and Christianity; Civilization, Western; Human beings--Origin; Biblical scholars
- Athletics & the Academy
- The purpose of this project is to use the historical archives of the University – documents, photographs, physical objects, and audiovisual materials – to tell the story of athletics at the University of Oregon. More than just statistics of...
- intercollegiate athletics; track and field; football; baseball; tennis; wrestling; cross-country; gymnastics; golf; soccer
- Jazz Diplomacy: Dave Brubeck's 1958 Tour of Europe and Asia
- 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 Light Work Permanent Collection
- This collection of more than 2,100 works of art consists primarily of photographs made by artists who have participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program or received Light Work Grants. The photographs in this collection include both color...
- Photography; Art; Social history of the Central and Upstate New York regions
- Washington Rural Heritage
- Washington Rural Heritage is a repository of special collections from libraries and other institutions in small and rural communities across the state. These collections contain a variety of photographs, maps, letters, postcards, manuscripts,...
- Washington state history; rural culture; agriculture & natural resources; immigration & American expansion; genealogy
- A Proud Heritage: 100 Years of Nursing Education
- In the late 1980s, nursing alumni, faculty, and students began planning for the one hundredth anniversary observance of the founding of the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Nursing. The school traces its rich heritage back to the...
- Nursing -- Study and teaching -- Virginia -- Richmond -- History; Nursing schools -- Virginia -- Richmond -- History; Virginia Commonwealth University. School of Nursing -- History
- UMBC Digital Collections
- 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.