CONTENTdm Featured Collections: December 2008

Historic Sheet Music Digital Collection

University of Iowa

This collection creates a snapshot of the music Eastern Iowans played and sang in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Much of the music was originally housed at the Cedar Rapids Public Library and then dispersed to area colleges and universities upon its withdrawal from that library. Included in this digital collection are a number of songs about Iowa, such as "Way Down in Iowa," "Iowa Corn Song," and "I'm From Iowa (That Beautiful Iowa Song)."

Bear River Watershed Historical Collection

Utah State University

The Bear River Watershed’s geography, history and development are the primary focus of this collection of images, maps, papers, diaries, plat books and reports. Includes photos of the Bear River taken from 1860s to the 1990s, records of local irrigation companies, diaries that record weather conditions, research on the societal impact of reclamation development in the Bear River Basin, and more.

Charles Pitcher Spooner California Stereograph Collection

University of the Pacific

This collection consists of stereographs taken by John Pitcher Spooner in California between approximately 1875 and 1905. Most of the photos are of Stockton and include downtown businesses and buildings, private homes, local farms, the Stockton Rural Cemetery and the California State Hospital and Insane Asylum.

Veterans History Project

Grand Valley State University

The Library of Congress established the Veterans History Project in 2001 to collect memories, accounts, and documents of U.S. war veterans and related civilians. This digital collection contains interviews conducted by the Grand Valley State University (GVSU) History Department that document the experiences of local veterans.