CONTENTdm Featured Collections: April 2009

Medical Artifacts Collection

Virginia Commonwealth University

This digital collection provides access to a representative group of 167 objects from the Medical Artifacts Collection housed in Special Collections and Archives at VCU's Tompkins-McCaw Library for the Health Sciences. Numbering over 6,000 items, the Medical Artifacts Collection includes surgical, dental and diagnostic instruments, therapeutic devices, uniforms of healthcare professions, and medical furniture related to the history of health care in Virginia since 1838.

History Center Digital Collections

Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne; IPFW; Allen County-Fort Wayne Historical Society

The History Center Digital Collections offers unparalleled access to many of the thousands of photos, documents, maps, manuscripts and other valuable historical materials owned by the History Center in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The digital collections, selected to augment and reinforce History Center educational programs, are being developed through a partnership between the Helmke Library at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne and the History Center.

Dard Hunter Book Collection

University of Utah

Dard Hunter (1883-1966) dedicated his life to researching, collecting, and writing books on papermaking throughout the world. He also published his own exquisite handmade books on the subject. This digital presentation is drawn from the holdings of the Rare Books Division of the J. Willard Marriott Library, which has one of the largest Dard Hunter collections in the world.

Editorial Cartoons of J.N. "Ding" Darling

University of Iowa

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 century. Darling covered political, social and cultural affairs like many editorial cartoonists, but environmental conservation was also featured heavily in his work. He is believed to have drawn up to 15,000 cartoons over the course of his lifetime; this digital collection currently holds just over 11,000 of those. Subjects covered in the cartoons include United States presidents, conservation issues and economics.