Primary Sources Online
Archaeology
Inscriptions from the Land of Israel (Institute for Advanced Technologies in the Humanities)
Inscriptions dating from
the Hellenistic period through the Persian conquest. They include epitaphs,
commemorations and acknowledgements of gifts.
Pôle International de la Préhistoire (Pôle International de la Préhistoire)
The collection contains books and articles published since the 19th century, by the pioneers
of anthropology and prehistorical archeology. Pictures can also be discovered
through an image database.
Persepolis
and Ancient Iran (The Oriental Institute, The University
of Chicago)
999 photographs divided into
four sections, the architecture, reliefs, and finds of the Palaces at Persepolis;
the prehistoric mound of Tall-i-Bakun; Istakhr, the Islamic city mound; and
the aerial survey flights conducted between 1935 and 1937. In addition, the
expedition's aerial survey explorations are detailed.
The Gertrude Bell Archives (The Robinson Library, University of Newcastle)
A collection of about 1600 letters, 16 diaries and a large number
of miscellaneous items, relating to the travels and life of Gertrude Bell. There
are also images of 7000 photographs taken by her while travelling between 1900-1918.
Art & Architecture
Art & Architecture (William Walton, Illinois Instute of Technology)
Book by William Walton, Philadelphia, G. Barrie, 1893
The Drawn Evidence (University of Dundee)
Scottish Architectural History including digital images representing
a selection of architectural drawings, photographs and other related material.
Cultural and Historical Heritage in the County "Primorsko-Goranska"
Area planning and human environment protection
department of Cultural and Historical Heritage of County "Primorsko-goranska".
Continuous hypermedial database project of Cultural and Historical Heritage
of County "Primorsko-goranska". Photographs, Manuscripts, Essays,
Maps.
World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago 1893 (Illinois Instute of Technology)
Three books: 1)The Dream City:A portfolio of photographic
views of the World's Columbian Exposition, with an introduction by Halsey C.
Ives.; 2) The Book of the Fair, by Hubert Howe Bancroft; 3) The Vanishing Fair, by
H. H. Van Meter. Also images from construction and the destruction of the Fair.
Life of a city: Early films of New York 1898 - 1906 (Library of Congress)
Forty five films charting the development of New York City
between 1898 and 1906.
Somerset House Pictures (Somerset House)
Digitised photographic and non-photographic images and artwork
from the collection of pictures relating to Somerset House over the centuries
of its existance.
PICMAN -index to
pictures and manuscripts (State Library of New
South Wales)
PICMAN includes personal papers and private
archives, paintings, drawings, photographs, objects, posters and architectural
plans.
Virtual Library of Architecture, Interior design, and Furniture Design (University of Art and Design Helsinki UIAH)
Areas of architecture from the history of architecture
to urban design and landscape architecture, and from interior design to furniture
and lighting design.
ArtServe (Australian National University )
Contains images relating to the history of art and architecture.
Built
in America (Library of Congress)
Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record, 1933-Present
Architecture
and Interior Design for 20th Century America (Library
of Congress)
Photographs, 1935-1955
The Papers of African American Artists (Smithsonian Institution)
Collections from ten artists
Oral Histories of Artists (Smithsonian Institution )
Transcriptions available online, as well as index to others
National Portrait Gallery (National Portrait Gallery in London)
28,539 portraits of famous British men and women
Designs for Democracy (National Archives)
125 design drawings organized chronologically to demonstrate
changing styles and technological advances
Botany, Ecology & Conservation
Ecological Images from the Len Webb Collection (Griffith University Library)
35mm transparencies
taken by Dr. Webb and a few others of a wide variety of native vegetation, fauna
and landscapes, mainly in tropical and subtropical Northeastern Australia.
The Evolution of the Conservation Movement 1850-1920 (Library of Congress)
A documentation of the historical and cultural foundations
of the movement to conserve and reserve America's natural heritage.
American Environmental Photographs 1891-1936 (Library of Congress )
Approximately 4,500 photographs documenting natural environments,
ecologies and plant communities in the United States at the end of the nineteenth
century and the beginning of the twentieth century.
Forest flora of New South Wales (University of
Sydney)
Eight volumes published between 1902 and 1924 by Joseph Henry Maiden, with accompanying plates
and photographs.
Forest Service Historical Photograph Collection (National Agricultural Library )
60,000 black and white images of foresters
at work, recreation, scenery, logging, erosion, wildlife, homesteads, fire, and
insects.
Business & Economics
World Development Sources (The World Bank)
Text search and retrieval system which contains a collection
of World Bank reports . These reports include Project appraisal reports, Economic
and Sector Works, Evaluation reports and Studies, and working papers.
The Emergence
of Advertising in America: 1850-1920 (Library of Congress, Duke University)
9,000 images relating to the early history of advertising in the United States.
Ad*Access (Duke University)
7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and
Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. Radio, Television,
Transportation, Beauty and Hygiene, and World War II.
Education
19th Century Schoolbooks (University of Pittsburgh Institution)
The Nietz Old Textbook Collection, 30 texts
Education
by Design (Broward
County Library)
Educational visual aids produced by the Museum Extension Project (MEP), a division
of the New Deal jobs creation program, the Works Progress Administration (WPA)
History
LOUISVILLE HISTORY
LOJIC interactive maps
aerial photography, sewer & drainage, watershed, zoning, etc
Southern Exposition advertisement
Bowman Field
Jefferson County Courthouse
Riverside
- The Farnsley Moremen Landing
Locust Grove
Thomas Edison House, Butchertown
Kaden Tower
University of Louisville
Male High School
L&N Railroad Historical Society
Louisville Bicycle Club history
Belle of Louisville
Howard Steamboat Museum, Jeffersonville
Louisville transportation
Louisville Neighborhoods
Old Louisville
Portland Museum
Louisville preservation districts
National Register Districts & Landmarks in the City of Louisville
Demolished historical buildings
Urban neighborhoods
Actor's Theater of Louisville
Palace Theater
American Memory (Library of Congress)
- Search for photos and records of historic Louisville buildings including: Bank of Louisville (Actor's Theater), Atherton Building, Big Four Bridge, Loew's
Theater, Vienna Restaurant, City Hall, Conrad House (Old Louisville), Cave Hill Cemetary, Churchill
Downs, Courthouse, Farmington, Kentucky Theater, Oxmoor Farm, Cathedral of the Assumption, Water
Tower, Seelbach Hotel,as well as neighborhoods such as Phoenix Hill and Russell
- Panoramic photos of Louisville including: Churchill
Downs, State Fair, Downtown, Camp Taylor
- Turn
of the century photos including City Hall, Portland Canal, Central
Park, Fourth Street, Seelbach Hotel
- Landscape design including
Iroquois Park, Original plan for Central Park
- FSA pictures from the 1930's and early 1940's including Street scenes, Yacht basin, River and boats
UNITED STATES HISTORY
Witchcraft in Salem Village (University of Virginia)
Resources relevant to the study of the Salem witch trials of 1692
in Massachusetts. The site contains digital facsimiles of several early English
books on witchcraft.
Charters
of Freedom (National Archives)
The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, & the Bill of Rights
American Originals (National Archives)
Voting Record of the Constitutional Convention, 1787; Louisiana
Purchase Treaty, 1803; The Emancipation Proclamation, 1863; Thomas A. Edison's
Patent Application for an Incandescent Light Bulb, 1879; D-day, 1944; John F.
Kennedy's Inaugural Address, 1961
The Adams Family Papers: An Electronic Archive (The Massachusetts Historical Society)
Correspondence
between John and Abigail Adams, the diary of John Adams, and the autobiography of John Adams
Presidential Papers (Yale)
Transcriptions of presidential papers, Washington through Bush
George Washington
Papers (Library of Congress)
The George Washington Papers consists of approximately 152,000 images covering 1741
through 1799.
Thomas
Jefferson Papers (Library of Congress)
27,000 documents from 1606 to 1827.
Treasures of Congress (National Archives)
Bills, resolutions, petitions, and letters created by, or delivered
to, Congress.
American Journeys, Eyewitness Accounts of Early American Exploration
and Settlement (Wisconsin Historical Society)
18,000 pages of Indians, missionaries, traders
and settlers, more than 150 rare books, originalmanuscripts, and classic travel
narratives
Civil War links
Various Civil War documents
Crisis of the Union (University of Pennsylvania)
Documents relating to the Civil War
Suffering Under a Great Injustice (Library of Congress)
Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment
at Manzanar during WWII
Japanese American Relocation Archives (University of California)
Over 10,000 digital images complemented by 20,000
pages of electronic transcriptions of documents and oral histories.
African American Perspectives (Library of Congress)
Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907
From Slavery to Freedom (Library of Congress)
African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1824-1909
Slave Voices (Duke University)
Slavery documents and first person narratives
Truman Presidential Library (Harry S. Truman Library)
A New Deal for the Arts (National Archives)
Between 1933 and 1943, federal tax dollars employed artists,
musicians, actors, writers, photographers, and dancers.
FDR Library Digital
Archives
The Vietnam Project (Texas Tech University)
1.5 million pages of materials online, ranging from photographs,
slides, audio and video recordings, and a number of oral histories.
American Radicalism (Michigan State University)
17,000 items, including books, pamphlets, periodicals,
posters, and ephemeral material on political, social, and economic issues in
America. Timothy Leary, the Black Panther Party, Neo-Nazi Organizations, the
Christian Right, and American Labor History, the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920's
and 1930's
NORTH AMERICAN HISTORY
Perry Castaneda Library map collection (http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/Map_collection.html)
University of Texas Includes historical maps of the world as well as recent
maps of general or special interest.
Frank M. Hohenberger Photograph Collection (Indiana University)
The Hohenberger collection, dating from 1917-1960 consists primarily of photographs
by Frank Michael Hohenberger, 1876-1963, Brown County photographer and newspaperman.
Florida Heritage Collection (State University System)
Florida Heritage Collection provides World Wide Web access to digitized materials
representing Florida's history, culture, arts, literatures, sciences and social
sciences.
Digital Past in Illinois (North Suburban
Library System)
Digital Past is a collection of thousands of items from several
northeastern Illinois libraries' local history collections.
Works of B.F. French (Louisiana State University )
Historical Collections of Louisiana and Historical Collections of Florida and
Louisiana. Both series of volumes contain the diaries, journals, and memoirs
of the earliest explorers to come to the North American continent.
North Carolina History (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)
Books and pamphlets of interest in the study of Charlotte and Mecklenburg
County, NC history.
Historic Pittsburgh (University of Pittsburgh)
Full-text book collection, land ownership maps, guides
to archival manuscript collections, and the library catalog of the Historical
Society of Western Pennsylvania.
Doukhobor Collection, 1898-1930 (Simon Fraser University Library)
Over 120 primary source items dating from 1898
to 1930. A variety of scanned manuscripts, photographs, books and book chapters,
magazine articles, and financial documents. The items in the collection largely
deal with the settlement of the Doukhobors in late 19th - early 20th century
Canada.
Connecticut History Online (Connecticut
Historical Society, Dodd Research Center at the University of Connecticut)
Database of 19th and 20th century photographs, drawings and prints from three institutions
depicting social, business, political, educational, cultural and civic life
with curriculum materials for grades 7-12.
Trust
Territory Photo Archives (University of Hawaii at
Manoa Library)
The Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands
included the Micronesian archipelagoes of the Marshalls, Carolines and Marianas
during the U.S. administrative period from 1947 to 1994. The photographs visually
document nearly 50 years of the U.S. administration's programs in education,
health, political and economic development.
Documenting the American South (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Southern perspectives on American
history and culture. Slave narratives, first-person narratives, Southern literature,
Confederate imprints, and materials related to the church in the black community
Digital Library of Appalachia (Appalachian College Association Central Library)
Religion, art and culture, work, minorities, education, domestic life, music, politics and government.
The African-American
Experience in Ohio (Library of Congress, Ohio Historical Society)
Selections from the Ohio Historical Society
"California as I Saw It" (Library of Congress)
First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900
First-Person Narratives of the American South (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Diaries, autobiographies, memoirs,
travel accounts, and ex-slave narratives of relatively inaccessible populations:
women, African Americans, enlisted men, laborers, and Native Americans.
Colorado Digitization Project
Central point for Colorado
sources.
WORLD HISTORY
EuroDocs (Brigham Young University)
Primary Historical Documents From Western Europe. Selected Transcriptions,
Facsimiles and Translations.
Richard III (Richard III Society)
Links to numerous primary and secondary sources on Richard III.
Internet Medieval Sourcebook (Fordham)
Links to medieval sources in law, religion, and history.
Photographs of the conflict in Northern Ireland (University of Ulster)
350 photographs taken during the early period of 'the Troubles' in
Northern Ireland. The photographs include: street scenes; the British Army;
Republican paramilitaries; civil rights protests; parades; riot scenes; 'Bloody
Sunday'; and children and the conflict.
Moving Here
British migration experiences of the last 200 years. includes 8,000 newspaper
images.
Mexico : From Empire to Revolution (Getty Research Institute)
This bilingual digital resource explores Mexican history
and culture through photographs taken by foreign photographers between 1857
and 1923.
Digital South Asia Library (Center for Research Libraries)
The Digital South Asia Library is a global collaborative
effort to make important and rare resources available to the international community.
Hawaii War Records Depository Photographs (University of Hawaii at Manoa Library)
War-time photographs from the Hawai'i
War Records Depository (HWRD), which was created in 1943 to document the impact
of the war upon Hawai'i and its populace. HWRD has about 1,325 photographs clearly
identified from Hawaii's two major English newspapers.
Posters of the Spanish Civil War (University of California, San Diego)
An exhibition of posters from the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
Images Online (Auckland City Libraries)
Photograph database that currently contains 11,000 records (8,000
with images available through website). Three collections are currently on the
site, a selection of advertising and portrait shots from 1930's-1970's, documentation
of Auckland 1900-1930, and WW1 soldier portrait series.
Marxists Internet Archive
Printed documents,
Newspapers, Photographs, Letters.
Brazilian Government Document Digitization Project (Center for Research Libraries)
Executive branch serial documents issued by Brazil's national government during
the period between 1821 and 1993, and by its provincial governments from the
earliest available for each province to the end of the Empire to 1889.
Pre 18th Century Documents (Yale)
Transcriptions
of early historical and legal documents, including colonial America.
18th Century Documents (Yale)
Transcriptions of
18th Century legal and pollitical documents, primarily Revolutionary War period.
19th Century Documents (Yale)
Transcriptions of 19th Century legal and political documents, including treaties.
20th Century Documents (Yale)
Transcriptions of documents, including treaties and WWII
WWI Sources (University of Oxford)
Multimedia archive related to the First World War focusing on poetry of the Western Front.
South Africa's Struggle for Democracy (University of Natal)
Anti-Apartheid Periodicals, 1960-1990 Approximately forty
periodical titles with a diversity of subjects such as trade unions, religion,
health, culture, and gender. Publications reflecting both black and white viewpoints
are included, and an attempt has been made to represent distinctive regional
variations.
NLA pictorial collection (National Library of Australia (NLA))
Over 20,000 historical and contemporary
images relating to Australia and its place in the world. Images have been selected
from paintings, drawings and prints held in the NLA pictorial collection.
Journals
Internet Library of Early Journals
The core collection for the project are runs of at least 20 consecutive years
of:
- Three 18th-century journals: Gentleman's Magazine, The Annual Register, Philosophical
Transactions of the Royal Society
- Three 19th-century journals: Notes and Queries, The Builder, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
Exilpresse digital: Deutsche Exilzeitschriften 1933-1945 (Die Deutsche Bibliothek)
Thirty selected German language journals and newspapers produced in exile between
1933 and 1945. Plus a selection of works produced by all German newspaper and
journal publishers operating in exile at that time.
Making of America (Cornell University Library)
Primary sources in American social history from the
antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong
in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology,
religion, and science and technology. This site provides access to 267 monographs
and over 100,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints.
Languages
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Adelung (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek)
The collection comprises the most important dictionary of the German language in the 18th century.
Digital Dictionaries of Triangle South Asia Consortium (University of Chicago, Columbia University, Triangle South Asia Consortium)
Established dictionaries for each of the twenty-six modern literary languages of South Asia.
Zedler Encyclopedia (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek)
The most important German encyclopedia of the 18th century.
Archives Aequatoria (Centre Aequatoria)
Historical and liguistical documents related to the Equator Region of the Rep.Dém. of the
Congo and located at Bamanya (Mbandaka).
Digital Library from the Meiji Era
Books published in the Meiji Era (1868-1912). About
470,000 volumes of 32,000 titles are available.
The first Kazak newspapers in Arabic alphabet (National Library of Kazakstan)
The first kazak
newspapers, "Kazak"(1913-1918)and "Enbekshi Kazak"(Labor
Kazak,1918-1932) in Arabic alphabet.
Régi Könyvek Internetes Katalógusa (Németh László Public Library)
Old hungarian books: Hungarian Literature, science,history,Bible, law, printing.
Project Runeberg (Lars Aronsson)
Complete two first editions of the biggest Swedish encyclopedia "Nordisk
familjebok" and literature in Danish.
Austrian Literature Online (Karl-Franzens-University Library -Graz)
Electronic Facsimilia of Austrian authors, periodicals,
serials, monographs.
CAMENA (Mannheim University Library)
The Latin poetry of 40 major German writers of the early modern period.
Travel accounts and early Americana (University of Goettingen)
Travel literature and North Americana from the 18th and 19th
centuries, with an emphasis on works from European
travellers in America written in their mother tongue and/or translated into
German.
Treasures of the Joszef Attila University Library (University of Szegad University Library)
A selection of digitised items from the 15th to 18th
centuries, held by the Attila Jozsef University Library. In Hungarian.
Les classiques des sciences sociales (Universite du Quebec de Chicoutimi)
A collection of over 600 titles considered as classics in the
Social Sciences.
Law
Archives of Maryland Online (Maryland State Archives)
Documents that form the constitutional, legal,legislative, judicial,
and administrative basis of Maryland's government from 1634 to the present day.
It includes court records, House and Senate Journals, Session Laws, and Provincial
records.
Avalon Project (Yale Law School)
Archive of primary source documents in the fields of law, history and
diplomacy.
Literature
20TH CENTURY
DreiserWebSource (University of Pennsylvania)
Correspondence & Texts, Scholarly Essays, Reference Sources, and Still and Moving images
Willa Cather Electronic Archive (University of Nebraska)
Texts and criticism.
19TH CENTURY
Early American Fiction (University of Virginia)
A publicly-available
collection of 68 works by 16 authors, including Hawthorne and Irving.
Gallica (Bibliotheque Nationale de France)
Covers a broad theme of 19th century France. Contains a wide variety of original documents including monographs, serials and dictionaries.
The Victorian Women Writers Project (Indiana University)
The Victorian Women Writers Project is devoted to creating
electronic editions of works by 19th century British women writers. These works
include novels, poetry, religious tracts, political pamphlets, and children's
books.
EARLY AND CLASSICAL
Sagnanet / Saganet (The National
and University Library of Iceland, Cornell University)
Images of the full texts
of 13 - 15 Century Icelandic literature. The material consists of the entire
range of Icelandic family sagas and it also includes a very large portion of
Germanic/Nordic mythology (the Eddas), the history of Norwegian kings, contemporary
sagas and tales from the European age of chivalry. A great number of manuscripts
contain Icelandic ballads, poetry or epigrams. Relevant critical studies published
before 1900 are included.
18th and 19th Century Shakespearean Illustrations (University of Tennessee)
Over a hundred Shakespearean etchings and gravures housed in the Special Collections
of Lupton Library.
British Women Romantic Poets, 1789-1832 (University of Calilfornia)
Poetry
by British and Irish women written (not necessarily published) between 1789
and 1832), a period traditionally known in English literary history as the Romantic
period.
REGIONAL
Library of Southern Literature (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
The "Library of Southern Literature"
documents one hundred of its most important literary works. Printed documents,
letters, and photographs.
Media Studies
Virtual Library of Film, Stage Design, and Photography (University of Art and Design Helsinki UIAH)
Areas of film, stage design, and photography from history and theory to techniques and products.
Motion pictures
and sound recordings of the Edison com (Library of Congress)
The collections contain a range of surviving products of Edison's entertainment inventions and industries.
Origins of American Animation (Library of Congress)
The development
of early American animation is represented by this collection of 21 animated
films and 2 fragments, which span the years 1900 to 1921.
Medicine
Medic@ : Bibliothèque interuniversitaire de médecine de Paris (Bibliotheque interuniversitaire de Medecine)
History of medicine. The corpus
of ancient physicians (Hippocrates, Galen, Oribase...) Sources of medical specialties
: ophthalmology, ORL, dermatology, paleopathology, psychology and so on. Varia
: Bichat's works, Online dictionary of eponymic diseases, Daremberg's works.
Public Health Posters (University of Amsterdam, University Library & University Museum)
The poster collection
Public Health contains educational posters from the period 1914-1960. The posters
deal with subjects such as venerial diseases, tuberculosis, cancer, tropical
diseases, and work & traffic safety.
Dioscorides (Universidad Complutense Madrid)
Texts and images of works on medicine from the
15th-18th Centuries.
Collection de Rééditions de Textes Anciens (Bibliothèque Interuniversitaire de Médecine)
Selections from printed books and
manuscripts relating to the history of medicine, with an emphasis on dentistry. In French.
Medicine and Madison Avenue (Duke University)
600 health-related advertisements printed
in newspapers and magazines from the 1910s through the 1950s.
Music
Marian Anderson Photographs (University of Pennsylvania)
4,000 photographs
Freedman Jewish Music Archive (University of Pennsylvania)
28,000 Jewish and Yiddish songs, detailed catalog plus some audio
Omaha Indian Music (Library of Congress)
Traditional Omaha music from 1890's to 1980's. Contains
wax cylinder recordings of songs and speeches including interviews.
Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads (Bodleian Library)
Access to the Bodleian's Allegro Catalogue of over 30,000 ballads dating from
the 16th to 20th centuries. Entries contain links to images.
The Glenn Gould
Archive (National Library of Canada)
The official repository of the archives of the late concert pianist, Glenn Gould,
a gifted artist and Canada's most renowned classical musician of the 20th century.
African-American Sheet Music, 1850-1920 (Brown University, Library of Congress)
Selected from the Collections of Brown University
Now What a Time (Library of Congress)
Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals, 1938-1943
Birth of the Recording Industry (Library of Congress)
Emile Berliner and early recording, 1870-1956
Leonard Bernstein (Library of Congress)
Leonard Bernstein Collection, ca. 1920-1989
The Hoagy Carmichael Collection (Indiana University)
The Hoagy Carmichael Collection contains sound recordings
of Hoagy's music, letters, photographs of him and his family, print and handwritten
musical compositions.
Historic American Sheet Music. 1850-1920 (Duke University)
A collection of 3,042 pieces of sheet music.
Lester S. Levy
Collection of Sheet Music (Johns Hopkins University)
Containing more than 29,000 pieces of American popular sheet music,including
such famous songs as "The Star-Spangled Banner" and "Yankee Doodle"
Charles H. Templeton Sheet Music
Collection (Mississippi State University Libraries)
For forty years, Starkville, Mississippi, businessman Charles
Templeton collected a wide range of music memorabilia. Included among his treasures
is a collection of some 22,000 pieces of sheet music from late nineteenth and
early twentieth century America.
The Virtual Gramaphone: Canadian Historical Sound Recordings (National Library of Canada)
This is a multimedia website devoted to the first 50 years of recorded
sound in Canada.The collection looks at 78rpm discs and cylinders.
Native Americans
Camping with the Sioux: Fieldwork ( National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution)
Diary of Alice Cunningham Fletcher.
Tecumseh (Early Canadiana Online)
Life of Tecumseh, and of His Brother the Prophet: with a
Historical Sketch of the Shawanoe Indians by Benjamin Drake, 1794-1841.
Photography
Hill and Adamson Collection (Glasgow University Library)
Glasgow University Library An electronic illustrated catalogue of this important
collection of early photographs produced by the partnership of David Octavius
Hill and Robert Adamson between 1843 and 1847 in Edinburgh. The collection contains
468 salted paper prints and 490 original calotype negatives.
Picturing the Century (National Archives)
One Hundred Years of Photography in chronological "galleries"
as well as seven "portfolios" of talented photographers
Photography (Smithsonian)
Online exhibits of early through modern photographers.
Panoramic Photography (National Archives)
Photographs date from approximately 1864 until 1937.
Rare Books
French Rare Books (Association Textes Rares)
French books and engravings arranged by subject, with themes such as the
history of the book, cookery, women, and popular literature. In French.
Smithsonian Institution Digital Facsimiles (Smithsonian Institution)
Books and journals range from the 16th to 20th centuries
and relate to anthropology, ethnology, and the history of science.
Seville University Library (Universidad de Sevilla)
Over fifty digitized
books from the 'fondo antiguo' from the 15th to 18th centuries. In Spanish.
Schoenberg Center (University of Pennsylvania)
Facsimiles of books, manuscripts, photographs and other ephemera. Strengths
include books relating to Shakespeare and the English Renaissance, and to the
history of early modern science.
Posner Family Collection (Carnegie Mellon University)
Over 600 facsimiles of printed books, mostly rare or fine press items, 1475-1973.
English Emblem Book Project (Penn State University)
English emblem books from the 16th to the 19th centuries.
Digitalisierte Drucke (Universität Bielefeld )
Old and rare imprints dating from the 15th to early 20th centuries.
Click the British Flag icon to translate the page to English.
e-Tryk (Royal Library, Copenhagen)
Digitisation projects from the Danish Royal Library,
including facsimiles of important Danish printed books, including Tycho Brahe:
Astronomiæ instauratæ mecanica, (Wandsbek 1598). In Danish, translation available.
Menasseh Ben Israel collection (University of Amsterdam)
Menasseh Ben Israel (1604-1657), Portuguese Jewish scholar,
writer, diplomat and printer, founded the first Hebrew printing press in Amsterdam
in 1626.
Magna Carta (British Library)
One of four surviving exemplifications issued over the Great Seal of King John on
23 June 1215 at Runnymede, England.
Mandragore (Bibliotheque Nationale de France)
Miniature illuminations of the Middle Ages from the oriental
and occidental manuscript divisions at the French national library.
Lindisfarne Gospels (British Library)
The manuscript was executed in the monastery of Lindisfarne on Holy Island off the
coast of Northumberland, England. It was written and illuminated in 698.
Gutenberg Digital (Niedersächsischen Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen)
Around 180 copies (150 paper and 30 vellum copies) were printed. This
is one of the few vellum copies.
Gutenberg Bibles (British Library)
Images of vellum and paper copies, which may be viewed side-by-side.
Gutenberg Bible (Keio University)
Digital facsimile of the partial copy of a Gutenberg Bible at Keio University in Tokyo.
Gutenberg Bible (University of Texas)
Digital facsimile of the Gutenberg Bible at the Ramson Center.
Gutenberg Bible (Göttingen State
and University Library)
Digital facsimile of the Gutenberg Bible, In German, with translation.
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (Venice, 1499) (MIT Press and Delft University)
Digital facsimile created to accompany a work
by Liane Lefaivre which challenges the traditional attribution of the Hypnerotomachia
to Francesco Colonna.
Canterbury Tales (British Library)
Complete digital copies of the first two editions of Geoffrey
Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, as printed by William Caxton in 1476 and 1483.
Incunabula (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek)
Collection of 6.370 woodcuts from 76 incunabula belonging to the holdings of
the Bavarian State Library.
First Scottish Books (National Library of Scotland)
The only known copies of the nine earliest books
printed in Scotland.
The Age of King Charles V (Bibliotheque Nationale de France)
1000 illuminations from a range of French manuscripts
produced between 1338-1380, including the "Grandes Chroniques de France"
of Charles V.
Jack London Collection (University of California, Berkeley)
Materials pertaining to the life and work of Jack London
Bookbinding collections (British Library)
Database with images of early bindings
Victorian Books (British Library)
Genres and illustrations
Archivalia: Deutsche Drucke des 16. Jahrhunderts im WWW (Klaus Graf)
Links to selected digital facsimiles of German books printed in the 16th century. In German.
Biblioteca Valenciana Digital (BIVALDI) (Biblioteca Valenciana)
Manuscripts and early printed books relate to the history
and culture of the Valencian region. In Spanish.
Biblioteca Digital Dioscórides (Universidad Complutense)
Over 1,500 early manuscripts and printed books, in Spanish.
Bizkaia Provincial Library (Biblioteca Foral de Vizcaya)
Over 2,000 digitized books from the 15th to 18th
centuries. In Spanish
Religious Studies
Decretum Gratiani (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek)
Decretum Gratiani
forms the first part of the roman-catholic canon law which was later combined
in the Corpus Iuris Canonici. In German.
Ketubbot Collection (Jewish National and University Library)
Marriage contract or ketubbah, guaranteeing
the wife's financial rights in case of the husband's death or divorce. Over
1200 items from dozens of different countries, covering a time period of hundreds
of years, and is a major resource for research in Jewish history, law and art.
The Church in the Southern Black Community (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
"The Church in the Southern
Black Community" traces how Southern African Americans experienced and
transformed Protestant Christianity into the central institution of community
life.
Hanover Historical Texts (Hanover College)
Letters and books from the Greeks to modern.
Quakers (Haverford College)
Collections of family, personal and institutional papers primarly
relating to the history and activities of the Society of Friends (QUAKERS).
Among the topics covered are social reform, social justice, spirituality, education,
the progress of Native Americans and peace activism.
Bethlehem Digital History Project (Moravian College and Theological Seminary)
Moravian records and documents.
Sciences
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (CNRS)
Works and documents. In French.
Albert Einstein: Image and Impact (American Institute of Physics)
Pictures from an exhibition of the life and works of Albert Einstein.
Epact : Scientific Instruments of Medieval and Renaissance Europe (Museum of the History of Science, Oxford / Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Florence / British Museum, London / Museum Boerhaave, Leiden)
Medieval and renaissance scientific instruments
from four European museums. They include astrolabes, armillary spheres, sundials,
quadrants, nocturnals, compendia, surveying instruments, and so on.
The Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers (The Library of Congress)
A collection of 4700 items constituting notebooks, journals,
blueprints, articles and photographs documenting Bell's invention of the telephone
and his involvement in the first telephone company.
Antoine Lavoisier : Books and documents (CRHST)
Complete works of Antoine Lavoisier in text and images. In French
The Parallax Project (University of Pittsburgh)
Over five decades historic star data and calculations compiled and published by the Allegheny Observatory
Women's Studies
The Hannah Arendt Papers (Library of Congress)
Correspondence, articles, lectures, speeches, book manuscripts,
transcripts of Adolf Eichmann's trial proceedings, 1898-1977.
Emma Goldman Papers (University of California)
A wide range of controversial movements and principles, including anarchism, equality
and independence for women, freedom of thought and expression, radical education,
sexual freedom and birth control, and union organization.
Emma Goldman (Jewish Women's Archive)
Exhibit from the Goldman Papers.
Votes for Women (Library of Congress)
Selections from the National American Women Sufferage Association collection 1848-1921.
Votes for Women (Library of Congress)
Suffrage pictures, 1850-1920.
Suffragists Oral History Project (University of California, Berkeley)
Seven major figures in twentieth-century suffragist
history are represented here with full-length oral histories.
Marriage, Women,
and the Law, 1815-1914 (Research Libraries Group)
Case reports, statutes, novels, newspapers, diaries, and letters, is
designed to support scholarship in disciplines including law, history, sociology,
political science, women's studies, and criminology.
Civil War Women (Duke University)
Rose O'Neal Greenhow Papers, Alice Williamson Diary, Sarah
E. Thompson Papers.
Civil War Women (Duke University)
More diaries, letters, documents, and photographs.
African-American
Women in the Civil War (Duke University)
Elizabeth Johnson Harris: Life Story, Vilet Lester Letter, Hannah Valentine and Lethe Jackson: Slave Letters
Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement (Duke University)
Various aspects
of the Women's Liberation Movement in the United States, and focus specifically
on the radical origins of this movement during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Items range from radical theoretical writings to humourous plays to the minutes
of an actual grassroots group.
