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Featured collections
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Jazz Diplomacy: Dave Brubeck's 1958 Tour of Europe and Asia
University of the Pacific
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 American musicians abroad to promote American arts and culture during the Cold War. This digital collection consists of materials from the 1958 tour that are housed in the Brubeck Collection. It includes photographs, clippings, concert programs, and audio recordings of Brubeck's wife Lola reading the travel journal written by their ten-year-old son Darius during the tour. |
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Arnold Clayton Watkins Collection, 1942-1945
Pittsburg State University
This digital collection contains photographs collected by Arnold Clayton Watkins of Pittsburg, Kansas, during his service in the United States Tenth Army Air Force Photo Intelligence Detachment in World War II. Watkins was attached to the Ninth Army Air Force for most of his service. The photographs were taken in Europe and North Africa. They include images of Army Air Force personnel and activities; aerial and ground images of bombers and bombing missions of the United States Eighth and Ninth Army Air Forces; German military commanders and leaders of the National Socialist Party, including Adolf Hitler and Hermann Goering; and Benito Mussolini. |
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Carnations and the Floriculture Industry
Colorado State University Libraries
Carnations and the Floriculture Industry contains 225 items comprised of 519 images and pages (dated 1950s-1970s) selected from the archival collection of the Records of the Colorado Flower Growers Association. Current selections focus on scrapbooks and clippings, photographic material, and newsletters and press releases encompassing an array of topics such as advertising and publicity of Colorado carnations, the creation of a trademark, carnation cultivation, carnation care, carnation tinting and arrangement, activities pertaining to the Colorado Flower Growers Association, and relationships of the association with other organizations, companies, and individuals. |
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Dissociation and Trauma Archives
University of Oregon
The University of Oregon Department of Psychology and the University of Oregon Libraries have teamed up to create an important new digital collection of ground-breaking medical and scientific literature in the field of dissociation and trauma. Dissociation and Trauma Archives contains the full text of many articles appearing in key journals published between 1862 and 1922. |
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