International Collections Database

University of Washington Libraries

The International Collections database showcases some of the visual materials held by the Special Collections Division that focus on collections beyond the scope of the Pacific Northwest region. In this digital collection we feature selected photographs and postcards from Asia and South America including scenes from China, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Japan, 1870s-1930s. Represented are historical events, typical street scenes and native people in traditional dress.

Sykes Editorial Cartoon Collection

Virginia Commonwealth University

Charles Henry 'Bill' Sykes (1882-1942) was a well respected editorial cartoonist whose work appeared in a number of periodicals including newspapers in Philadelphia. The Sykes Editorial Cartoon Collection consists of 297 original editorial cartoons, four unfinished sketches, a U.S. War Bond poster, and a U.S. Victory poster by Sykes. The cartoons appeared in the Evening Public Ledger (Philadelphia) and illustrate the events of the late 1930s and early 1940s with a focus on American reaction to the aggressions of the Axis powers before the U.S. entry into World War II.

Science Fiction Fanzine Index

University of Iowa

Fanzines are magazines created by the fans rather than being produced professionally. The subject of 'zines, as they are sometimes called, varies widely; they may be about books, music, comic books, movies or sports. In 2004, The University of Iowa Libraries received an enormous collection of science fiction fanzines accumulated by Martin M. (Mike) Horvat, who was offering the set in an online auction. A sampling of covers and tables of contents from the fanzines has been digitized in order to give scholars and fans a sense of this unique collection.

English's Opera House

Indianapolis Marion County Public Library

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 in the history of Indianapolis will find much to enjoy in this collection. These are not only programs but also ads for city businesses, previews and reviews of productions, even some jokes and commentary.

Galveston 1915 Hurricane Photographs

University of Houston, M.D. Anderson Library

While many people are familiar with the Great Storm that devastated Galveston in 1900, fewer are aware of the hurricane that made landfall on August 17, 1915. Although the 1915 storm caused $50 million worth of property damage, it only resulted in 275 deaths because of the protective seawall that had been constructed following the 1900 hurricane. The black and white photographs in this collection were taken by Rex Dunbar Frazier, a representative of Stone & Webster Engineering who went to the region to collect data and document damage.

The Baton Rouge Digital Archive from the East Baton Rouge Parish Library

East Baton Rouge Parish Library

The Baton Rouge Digital Archive is a collection of items that represent significant historical actions of local governments, businesses, residents and institutions of the City of Baton Rouge and East Baton Rouge Parish. These items include but are not limited to photographs, manuscripts, documents, periodical publications, audio and video recordings and memorabilia held in the Baton Rouge Room at the River Center Library. The library has partnered with local collectors and historical societies to enhance this online collection.

World and Regional Maps Collection, 16th-19thc.

University of Washington Libraries

Combining large-scale scanning techniques, CONTENTdm software, and scholarly research on each map’s creation and context, this database allows researchers to access over 170 color digital images of examples from the University of Washington Libraries Special Collections Division’s Rare Map Collection. Maps included date from the sixteenth to early twentieth centuries with coverage spanning:  the world, Western and Eastern Hemispheres, continents, countries and cities.

Oregon Shakespeare Festival

Southern Oregon University

In 2009 Hannon Library was awarded an LSTA (Library Services and Technology Act) Grant, through the Oregon State Library, that funded collaboration between Southern Oregon University, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and the Southern Oregon Historical Society to digitize images documenting the history, culture, and growth of Southern Oregon. This picture collection, from the archives of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, includes production stills, sets of Shakespearean and other plays, backstage teams, and theaters from OSF's beginnings in 1935 through 2009.

Morris Swett Digital Collections

Morris Swett Library

The Morris Swett Library has serviced the United States Field Artillery School for over 100 years. Throughout the years, our library as accumulated rare and valuable artillery related documents. With the Morris Swett Digital Collections, we are proud to make available these documents full of U.S. Army, artillery, and Fort Sill history.

H. Ambrose Kiehl Photograph Collection

University of Washington Libraries

Presented here is a selection of photographs from the H. Ambrose Kiehl Photograph Collection taken between 1890 and 1917. The photographs are typical of those found in many family albums of that period and illustrate everyday family life at the turn of the century. The collection traces the Kiehl family history as the family moves from Port Townsend to Seattle and reflect Mr. Kiehl's activities as a civil engineer working in various capacities in Washington State and Alaska.

Kenneth S. Goldstein Broadsides

University of Mississippi

18th through 20th-century British, Irish and Scottish broadside ballads documenting social and political life. These broadsides represent a large cross-section of contemporaneous printers. Ballad subjects include drinking, love, Irish home rule, identity, religion, the Napoleonic Wars, and much more.

New Berlin Historical Society

New Berlin Historical Society

The New Berlin Historical Society was founded in 1964 to preserve New Berlin's history. Artifact collections are displayed in six historic buildings located in Historical Park, 19765 National Ave. The archives contain a collection of images and documents donated by the Swartz family, whose large progressive farm was located in the NE corner of New Berlin. Many pictures were taken at the Cornfalfa farm by the Swartz family to document their best practices as the farm grew and rose to prominence in Wisconsin beyond.

Railroads in the Midwest: Early Documents and Images

Knox College

This collection containing photographs, documents, texts and ephemera--annual reports, published books, stock certificates, and more--covers the early history of railroads in the Midwest, and in Illinois in particular, documents the role that railroads played in westward expansion. Many of the photographs of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy trains were taken by Allen A. Green, Knox College class of 1903. Green photographed work trains, travelers and crews aboard passenger trains, and the engines, cars and interiors of the fast mail trains, and he pioneered the photography of trains in motion by developing a trigger device that allowed a train to take its own picture. This digital collection of images and documents celebrates railroad history up to the introduction of the Pioneer Zephyr of the Burlington Route in 1933.

Rarely Seen Richmond

Virginia Commonwealth University

Early twentieth century Richmond, Virginia as seen through vintage postcards is a digital collection of over 600 postcard images of Richmond, most dating from 1900-1930, from the Special Collections and Archives of the VCU Libraries. The intent of the collection is to help document early twentieth century Richmond by displaying a unique collection of images of the city. Many of these images include buildings and structures that either no longer exist or have since been altered. The subject matter of these postcards also lends insight into the social and cultural attitudes of those times.

African American Women in Iowa Digital Collection

University of Iowa

This digital collection of photographs, news clippings, pamphlets, scrapbooks, directories, and newsletters documents the experience of African American women in Iowa during the twentieth century. The collection, ca. 1924-1970, is an outgrowth of The African-American Women in Iowa Project, a collaboration between the Iowa Women's Archives and the African American Historical Museum and Cultural Center of Iowa.

Ken Gonzales-Day Collection

Claremont University Consortium

Ken Gonzales-Day lives and works in Los Angeles. He received his MFA from UC Irvine, and his MA in Art History from Hunter College (C.U.N.Y). Fellowships include: Whitney Museum of American Art, ISP; Rockefeller Foundation Study and Conference Center in Bellagio (Italy); (Latino Studies) American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution; and the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles (2008). Gonzales-Day is a Professor at Scripps College in California. Included in the collection are Gonzales-Day's Curriculum Vitae, images that Gonzales-Day used to compile his art and publications, notebooks documenting his research, and photographs and documentation of art installations.

Westchester County Archives Digital Collections

Westchester County Archives

The Westchester County Archives (WCA) Digital Collections were launched in April 2011 to provide widespread digital access to the unique public records stored in its archival vaults. Includes photographic collections, maps, and some document-based collections.

Napoleonic Period Collection

University of Washington Libraries

Satirical prints, or caricatures, from the Napoleonic Period, all giving political commentary on events of the period. Fifty of the prints were created by French artists, and thirty-three by English artists. Nearly all of the French prints date from the last two years of Napoleon's reign, but the English prints represent a broader time period ranging from 1793 to 1815.

Alwin C. Carus Coin Collection

Hillsdale College

The collection of coin and currency was donated to Hillsdale College by Mr. Alwin C. Carus of La Salle, Illinois. The Carus Coin Collection is a large collection that contains a broad range of coins and currency, including coins from ancient Greece, Macedon, and Rome, Medieval English coins, Byzantine coins, Islamic coins, Chinese coins and currency, United States coins, and coins from all over the world, including Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain, India, Mexico, Russia, and many others.

Fyke Collection of Afghan War Rugs

University of Calgary

This collection contains images and details of 48 Afghan war rugs that were donated to The Nickle Arts Museum at the University of Calgary by Robert Fyke. The rugs date from 2000 onwards. Two brochures on weaving and dying techniques and carpet weaving history and a catalog from a 2006 exhibit of war rugs at The Nickle Arts Museum, University of Calgary called "Made in Afghanistan: Rugs and Resistance, 1979-2005" are also available. A website has been developed around this collection to support scholarly communication and research.

Mail Art

University at Buffalo, SUNY

Participatory, democratic, personal and expressive as a form of artwork, Mail Art is sent, given, or exchanged via the postal service. Mail Artists form networks and faithfully participate in them by pouring a steady stream of unique art objects into the quotidian postal system. Rubber stamps, stickers, paint and other material are frequently combined in Mail Art collage. After artistic treatment, items ranging from common postcards to plastic bottles enter into the Mail Art network. The Poetry Collection's Mail Art Archive includes collections donated by The Sticker Dude, Baron and Luc Fierens. It also draws from The Poetry Collection's John M Bennett Collection, The Hallwalls Collection and the general holdings of The Poetry Collection.

The Long Trip

Bank Street College of Education

The Long Trip is a Bank Street tradition designed to expose teachers to new physical, social and political environments. Beginning in 1935, founder Lucy Sprague Mitchell led student teachers on field trips to sites where they encountered issues of the day such as the labor movement, poverty, conservation, and race relations and their effect on the lives of children and their families. The Long Trip Collection contains photographs from scrapbooks and albums documenting these early Long Trips.

Art Festival Programs Digital Collection

The University of Iowa

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 the programs were purchased for the Museum when it was opened in 1969. Several programs are missing from The Library’s collection, and it is hoped that this digital collection will help us locate the remaining programs on campus and in private collections.

Mexico: Photographs, Manuscripts and Imprints

Southern Methodist University

Mexico: Photographs, Manuscripts and Imprints provides a sample of the photographs, images, albums, books, pamphlets, manuscripts and more, relating to Mexico held by SMU's DeGolyer Library. Each item includes any information and details about Mexico and Mexican history that are available. This digital collection contains many items related to the Mexican Revolution.

Wisconsin Decorative Arts Database

Wisconsin Historical Society

The Wisconsin Decorative Arts Database documents furniture, ceramics, textiles, metalwork, and other material culture artifacts made by early Wisconsin craftspeople and held in the collections of museums and historical societies throughout the state. The database is an ongoing collaborative project of the Wisconsin Historical Society, the Chipstone Foundation, and the Material Culture Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

MSU Sports Photographs

Missouri State University

This digital collection includes images of a variety of photographs and artifacts related to Missouri State University's athletic programs. Most of these images were selected from the Ozarko photograph files which date primarily from the 1970s and 1980s. The Ozarko was the student yearbook and was published almost continuously from 1909 to 1992. Additional materials were found in other university collections.

Plants of SIUE

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

This digital collection features digital photographs of plant species found on the campus of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE). The images are accompanied by descriptions and scientific information. The collection is designed both as a teaching tool for botany students and a resource for lay-people with an interest in plants.

State Historical Society of North Dakota Collection

State Historical Society of North Dakota

As part of the Digital Horizons consortium, the State Historical Society of North Dakota has included items from its photograph, film, publications, and map collections that document the history of the entire state of North Dakota, as well as the Northern Great Plains region.