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150 years of advertising in the Netherlands
19th-century American trade card
19th-Century Photography of Ancient Greece
"Illustrates approximately 200 nineteenth- and early twentieth-century photographs of ancient Greek and Roman architecture. Focusing on Greece, Asia Minor, the Aegean islands, Cyprus, South Italy, and Sicily, these images belong to the Getty Research Institute's Gary Edwards Collection."
Ad*Access
The Ad*Access Project provides access to digital images of over 7000 print advertisements published primarily in the United States and Canada between 1911 and 1957
age of King Charles V (1338-1380) 1,000 illuminations from the Department of Manuscripts
Collection of 1000 images from 7 manuscripts housed in the Bibliotheque nationale de France. The images are from manuscripts that were created during the reign of Charles V (1338-1380), and include such topics as religion, science and technology, etc, the Catalan Atlas, Cresques Abraham, and the Hundred Years' War. Includes 17 short essays about the period to explain and accompany the images
Alaska, Western Canada and United States Collection
America from the Great Depression to World War II photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945 /
"The images in the Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information Collection are among the most famous documentary photographs ever produced. Created by a group of U.S. government photographers, the images show Americans in every part of the nation. In the early years, the project emphasized rural life and the negative impact of the Great Depression, farm mechanization, and the Dust Bowl. In later years, the photographers turned their attention to the mobilization effort for World War II. The core of the collection consists of about 164,000 black-and-white photographs. This release provides access to nearly 45,000 of these images; future additions will expand the black-and-white offering. The FSA-OWI photographers also produced about 1600 color photographs during the latter days of the project."
American Indians of the Pacific Northwest digital collection
"This site provides an extensive digital collection of original photographs and documents about the Northwest Coast and Plateau Indian cultures, complemented by essays written by anthropologists, historians, and teachers about both particular tribes and cross-cultural topics ... The digital database includes over 2,300 original photographs as well as over 3,800 pages from the Annual Reports of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of the Interior from 1851 to 1908 and six Indian treaties negotiated in 1855. Secondary sources include 89 articles from the Pacific Northwest quarterly and 23 University of Washington publications in anthropology."
American variety stage vaudeville and popular entertainment, 1870-1920 /
Multimedia collection containing digitized versions of selected Library of Congress holdings. Represents diverse forms of popular entertainment, especially vaudeville, that thrived from 1870-1920. Includes 334 English and Yiddish language playscripts, 146 theater playbills and programs, sixty-one motion pictures, and 143 photographs and twenty-nine memorabilia items documenting the life and career of Harry Houdini Part of the American Memory Project at the Library of Congress
Ancient Near East photograph collection
Contains over 350 images of archaeological sites, artifacts and structures from the Middle East, specifically Egypt and Israel, dating from 3000 BCE to 200 CE
Armchair travel in India c1900 the stereoscopic experience
This Web site contains 103 stereoscopic views from a set which is in the Ames Library of South Asia
Arthur Churchill Warner photographs
Asian historical architecture a photographic survey
"A photographic survey of Asia's architectural heritage. Here you can view over 6500 photos of 461 sites in seventeen countries, with background information and virtual tours."
Beazley Archive
The Beazley Archive is a research unit of the University of Oxford's Faculty of Literae Humaniores. This web site provides access to photographs, notes, drawings and books relating to ancient Greek and Roman art. The photographs of Athenian vases are the largest archive of this class in the world and were the basis of John Beazley's life's work
Boston African Americana Project
A searchable database of over five hundred digitized documents relating to African Americans, falling broadly within the categories of slavery, the abolition movement, free blacks, the Civil War, Emancipation, Reconstruction, rural life, urban life, social life, advertising, and depictions of men, women, and children. The collection consists of broadsides, caricatures, illustrations, manuscripts, pamphlets, political cartoons, portraits, and views. Materials span the years 1770 to 1950, with the bulk of the collection falling around 1865
Bridging World history. Episodes 1-26
A multimedia site that looks at global patterns through time seeing history as an integrated whole. Topics are studied in a general chronological order, but each is examined through a thematic lens, showing how people and societies experience both integration and differences. The course videos feature interviews with leading world history textbook authors and nationally known historians. The Web site includes an archive of over 1000 primary source documents and artifacts, journal articles from the Journal of World History and other publications, and a thematic interactive activity on interrelationships across time and place
British Pathe
Built in America historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) and the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER)
"The collections document achievements in architecture, engineering, and design in the United States and its territories." Part of American Memory
By the people, for the people posters from the WPA, 1936-1943 /
The Library of Congress WPA Poster collection, produced from 1936 to 1943 as part of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal, was designed to publicize health and safety programs, cultural programs, travel and tourism, educational programs, and community activities in seventeen states and the District of Columbia
Calvin F. Todd photographs
Centralia massacre collection
Digitized collection of pamphlets, leaflets and letters, originally held by the now defunct I.W.W. Seattle Office, focuses on the Centralia Massacre of 1919 in Centralia, Washington
Chinese cultural studies images /
Images selected to accompany the Brooklyn College course Core 9 Chinese Culture include images of maps, art, historical sites, archaeology, divinities, stereotypes, and technology
Chinese in California 1850-1925 /
"The Chinese in California, 1850-1925 illustrates nineteenth and early twentieth century Chinese immigration to California from 1850 to 1925 through about 8,000 images and pages of primary source materials. Included are photographs, original art, cartoons and other illustrations; letters, excerpts from diaries, business records, and legal documents; as well as pamphlets, broadsides, speeches, sheet music, and other printed matter. These documents describe the experiences of Chinese immigrants in California, including the nature of inter-ethnic tensions. They also document the specific contributions of Chinese immigrants to commerce and business, architecture and art, agriculture and other industries, and cultural and social life in California."
Chininjin yoksa munhwa sirij
Provides access to multimedia series about Korean, Western, and ancient history and art
Civil War treasures from the New-York Historical Society
Drawn from the New-York Historical Society's archival collections documenting the Civil War, the collection features recruiting posters for New York City regiments of volunteers; stereographic views documenting the mustering of soldiers and of popular support for the Union in New York City; photography showing the war's impact, both in the north and south; and drawings and writings by ordinary soldiers on both sides
Civil Works Administration collection
Coastal Bio-Energy Forum April 4, 2006, Olympic Natural Resources Center, Forks, WA : [proceedings]
The objective of the conference was to assemble regional parties interested in exploring bio-energy issues for the purpose of understanding what the status of bio-energy in the region is now, achieving a common knowledge base and creating a network for future action
Creating French culture : treasures from the Bibliotheque nationale de France /
Department of the Environment and Heritage's online image database
This image database contains images the Australian Dept. of the Environment and Heritage owns and that are copyright cleared and available free of charge for use by the media, students, and industry organizations (but not for use in advertising or other commercial purposes). Includes links to other Dept. of the Environment and Heritage image databases
Don Bain's virtual guidebooks
"This site features nearly 3000 virtual reality panoramas. These amazing photographs show you exactly what it is like to be in a particular spot - you can look in any direction, as well as up and down, and zoom in and out. It's the next best thing to being there."
Dr. Seuss went to war a catalog of political cartoons /
Online exhibit of 388 political cartoons published by Dr. Seuss in the New York newspaper PM during the years 1941-1943. The exhibition is organized chronologically. Richard H. Minear has written the introduction to the exhibition
Early advertising of the West, 1867-1918
The early advertising of the West collection consists of digital images of over 450 print advertisements published in magazines, city directories, and theater pamphlets from the Pacific Northwest held by the Special Collections Division, University of Washington Libraries. This digital collection spans the time period 1867 to 1918, and documents aspects of the history and social conditions of the Pacific Northwest. Among those products and companies represented are Rainier Beer and the Bon Marche department store
Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian photographic images
Includes the complete digitized set of historical photographs taken by E.S. Curtis in the early decades of the twentieth century and published in the 20-volume set The North American Indian, 1907-1930. The collection is searchable by keyword and browsable by geographic location, tribal affiliation, or subject term (for artifacts, activities, social status, etc.). Also included are a chronology of the life of Curtis, as well as maps and essays placing Curtis' work in context by Mick Gidley, David R.M. Beck, and Gerald Vizenor
Emergence of advertising in America 1850-1920 /
Site contains more than 9,000 images from the Rare Book, Manuscript and Special Collections Library at Duke University which trace the early history of U.S. advertising. Images are available from 11 collections held by Duke. Site includes a timeline
Everett massacre collection
"This collection, documenting labor's perspective of the 1916 Everett Massacre and its aftermath, currently holds 39 articles from the Seattle Union Record as well as 49 other items including pamphlets, fliers, hand- and typewritten works, postcards and a photograph."
Fashion plate collection
Digital images drawn from the Fashion plate collection and Journal des dames et des modes, both in the Manuscripts, Special Collections, University Archives division of the University of Washington Libraries. Also included is an excerpt from the book Dame fashion by Julius M. Price, 1913
Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) photographs
Federal theatre project poster slides
"The Federal Theatre Project Poster Slides Collection contains 595 different 35-mm slides taken from original posters. These images are of the original designs used on posters to advertise FTP plays in many different American cities from 1935 to 1939."
Frank H. Nowell photographs, ca. 1901-1908
Primarily consists of photographic prints taken by Alaska photographer Frank H. Nowell of towns, mining camps and operations, businesses, modes of transportation, and native people in and around Nome, Alaska, following the gold rush of 1900. Included are images of Eskimos; steamships; reindeer; streets; dog teams; freighting operations; and various establishments such as schools, hotels, shops, telegraph stations, government buildings, churches, and hospitals. Locations photographed include Nome, Teller, Cape Prince of Wales, Juneau, Sitka, and Dawson
G.I. Jones photographic archive of southeastern Nigerian art and culture
Archive of more than 300 photographs taken during the 1930s by G.I. Jones of the University of Cambridge
Galloway-Stone River Expedition, 1909
George Grantham Bain collection
"The George Grantham Bain Collection represents the photographic files of one of America's earliest news picture agencies. The collection richly documents sports events, theater, celebrities, crime, strikes, disasters, political activities including the woman suffrage campaign, conventions and public celebrations. The photographs Bain produced and gathered for distribution through his news service were worldwide in their coverage, but there was a special emphasis on life in New York City. The bulk of the collection dates from the 1900s to the mid-1920s, but scattered images can be found as early as the 1860s and as late as the 1930s."
Gold rush centennial photographs, 1893-1916 a catalog of selected gold rush views at the Alaska State Library /
Photos of life in the Klondike during the gold rush, from the collection at the Alaska State Library
Governors of Washington State
This database contains information on governors of the Washington Territory and State. Information includes the governor's political affiliation, when he or she assumed office, terms served, the governor's date of birth and death if known, and photographs or other images
Grand Army of the Republic Civil War portraits
Images from an album of photographic portraits held by Seattle Public Library and scanned by the University of Washington Libraries. The site contains images of some unidentified portraits that you can help identify
Grand Coulee Dam collection
The collection contains over 220 digital images of photographs and text documenting the creation of the Grand Coulee Dam, which was built during the first half of the twentieth century. Included are images of the Work Projects Administration work camps, land clearing activities, the moving of towns, and the dam construction itself. Also presented are documents outlining arguments both for and against this enormous undertaking
Harappa glimpses of South Asia before 1947
Photographs, lithographs, slides, movies, and sounds are presented, focusing on primarily two historical periods of Indian history, the last century or so of the Raj and the Indus Valley civilization
Henry M. Sarvant photographs
History of the American West, 1860-1920 photographs fdrom the collection of the Denver Public Library /
"Over 30,000 photographs, drawn from the holdings of the Western History and Genealogy Department at Denver Public Library, illuminate many aspects of the history of the American West. Most of the photographs were taken between 1860 and 1920. They illustrate Colorado towns and landscape, document the place of mining in the history of Colorado and the West, and show the lives of Native Americans from more than forty tribes living west of the Mississippi River. Also included are World War II photographs of the 10th Mountain Division, ski troops based in Colorado who saw action in Italy."--Home page
History of the Indian tribes of North America : with biographical sketches and anecdotes of the principal chiefs /
History of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge
Hudson's Bay Company digital collection Collection numerisee de la Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson
Exhibit of images of artifacts of Canadian history, particularly aboriginal cultures and exploration
IDP International Dunhuang Project
An international collaboration to present more than 100,000 pre-11th century manuscripts, paintings, and artifacts from Dunhuang and other Silk Road sites. Items are include bibliographies, maps, photographs, etc., each searchable in a variety of ways
Images from the Philippine-United States War
Photographs, illustrations, and maps from the turn-of-the-century war
Images of empire
Images of Kansas City
International collections database
Selected photographs and postcards in the University of Washington Special Collections Division 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
Internet mission photography archive
Historical images from Protestant and Catholic missionary collections during the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. The photographs record missionary endeavors and reflect the missionaries' experience of communities and environments abroad. Consists of parts of the photo archives of the Moravian Church, the Leipzig Mission, the Catholic Foreign Missionary Society of America, Inc., the Norweigian Missionary Society, the School of Oriental and African Studies, and Yale University Divinity School Day Mission Library
Jackson Davis Photographic Database Collection
The Jackson Davis Collection consists of approximately 4,000 photographs of African-American educational scenes in the southern United States, as well as several hundred scenes taken in Liberia,the southern United States, Congo, and other African countries. The U.S. photographs were taken by Jackson Davis during the period ca. 1915-1930 when he was affiliated with the General Education Board in New York, New York. Davis served as a field agent, as the board's general field agent, as associate director in 1933 and as vice-president and director in 1946
Japanese historical maps
The Japanese Historical Map Collection contains about 2,300 early maps of Japan and the World. The collection was acquired by the University of California from the Mitsui family in 1949, and is housed on the Berkeley campus in the East Asian Library. Represented in this online collection are about 100 maps and books from this Collection. The maps were selected by Yuki Ishimatsu, Head of Japanese Collections at the East Asian Library, and scanned and put online by David Rumsey and Cartography Associates. The project was initiated by Peter Zhou, Director of the East Asian Library. Funding and project management is provided by Cartography Associates and the East Asian Library
King County snapshots a photographic heritage of Seattle and surrounding communities
"King County Snapshots presents King County, Washington, through 12,000 historical images carefully chosen from twelve organizations' collections. These cataloged 19th and 20th century images portray people, places, and events in the county's urban, suburban, and rural communities."
Lawrence Denny Lindsley photographs
Lee Pickett photographs, ca. 1911-1940s
The Lee Pickett collection documents scenes and people from Snohomish, King, and Chelan Counties in Washington State from the early 1900s to the 1940s. Local industries, such as the Heybrook Lumber Co. and Index Granite Works, are also depicted, and a large number of the photographs reflect the program undertaken by the Great Northern Railway Company in the 1920s to improve the line over the Cascade Mountains
Lewis and Clark in Washington
Traces the path of the Lewis and Clark Expedition through Washington State
Magnificent views & vistas Mountaineers climbs 1912-1916
Metis
Quick Time Virtual reality tours of many Greek archeaological sites
Minnesota Historical Society visual resources database photographs, art, posters, fine art photographs
Information about photographs, artwork, posters, and fine art photographs from the collections of the Minnesota Historical Society are included in this database. These historical collections visually represent Minnesotans, their lives, landscapes, leisure and occupations from the pre-territorial period to the present
Mountaineers collection
Moving Here 200 years of migration to England
"Moving Here provides free online access to resources which record and illustrate the migration of the Caribbean, Irish, Jewish and South Asian Communities to England over the past two centuries."
Napoleonic satires a Brown University library digital collection
A collection of fully searchable, digitized Napoleonic satiric prints housed in the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection of the John Hay Library of Brown University. As with other types of military memorabilia, these printed images were effective weapons at the time, usually depicting Napoleon in a negative light. While the bulk of the collection is comprised of British satires, prints from other countries such as France, Germany, and Russia are also included. The satires are in JPG and MrSid formats for distribution via the Web. Each scanned image also includes a descriptive cataloging record created using VRA
New Deal stage selections from the Federal Theatre Project, 1935-1939 /
Playscripts, production materials, photographs and administrative records selected from the output of a New Deal WPA arts project. Part of the American Memory Project at the Library of Congress
NYPL Digital Gallery
Provides access to over 415,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more
Oliver S. Van Olinda photographs and ephemera, 1884-1946 (bulk 1890-1919)
The collection consists primarily of images of Vashon Island and Whidbey Island, along with a few images of Seattle and other Puget Sound communities, such as Port Townsend, Bremerton, and Puyallup. The photographs provide a glimpse of early pioneer activities, industries and occupations, recreation, street scenes, ferries, and boat traffic in the Puget Sound region at the turn of the 20th century. Also included are photographs of Native American activities such as a potlatch and a reburial ceremony, both on Whidbey Island. Most of the photographs were taken by Oliver S. Van Olinda
Olympic Peninsula Community Museum a web-based museum showcasing aspects of the rich history and culture of Washington State's Olympic Peninsula communities
Panoramic photographs taking the long view, 1851-1991
The Panoramic Photograph Collection contains approximately four thousand images featuring American cityscapes, landscapes, and group portraits. These panoramas offer an overview of the nation, its enterprises and its interests, with a focus on the start of the twentieth century when the panoramic photo format was at the height of its popularity. Subject strengths include: agricultural life; beauty contests; disasters; engineering work such as bridges, canals, and dams; fairs and expositions; military and naval activities, especially during World War I; the oil industry; schools and college campuses, sports, and transportation. The images date from 1851 to 1991 and depict scenes in all fifty states and the District of Columbia. More than twenty foreign countries and a few U.S. territories are also represented. These panoramas average between twenty-eight inches and six feet in length, with an average width of ten inches
Photographs and graphics collection
Web page describing the holdings of the photographs and graphics collection in the UW Libraries Special Collections Division, which houses over 600,000 documentary images of (primarily) the history, geography, arts, and industries of the Pacific Northwest in a variety of materials, including photographs, architectural plans, artwork and ephemera. Such topics as Native Americans, fishing and logging industries, the Klondike gold rush, and mountaineering are well represented. Included are the works of early notable Washington Territory and regional photographers such as Edward S. Curtis, Asahel Curtis, Eric. A. Hegg and Clark Kinsey
Photographs from the Chicago daily news, 1902-1933
Presents images of urban life in or near Chicago, Illinois, captured on glass plate negatives between 1902 and 1933 by photographers employed by the Chicago Daily News, then one of Chicago's leading newspapers. The photographs feature a variety of topics and events covered in the newspaper as well as politicians, actors, and other prominent people who stopped in Chicago during their travels and individual athletes and sports teams who came to Chicago
Picture Collection Online
Picture Collection Online (PCO) is a select group of images from The New York Public Library, Mid-Manhattan Library Picture Collection. Covering over 12,000 subjects, the Picture Collection is an extensive circulating collection and reference archive. It is a collection of 30,000 digitized, public domain images from books, magazines and newspapers as well as original photographs, prints and postcards, mostly created before 1923. It consists of images of New York City, Costume, Design, American History and other s
Plants of Hawaii
A collection of images, maps, and reports on plants of Hawaii. Includes over 8,000 high resolution, copyright-free images for more than 1,000 species of native and non-native plants from Hawaii; Maui distribution maps for over 100 non-native plants; and reports for about 100 non-native plants on Maui
restoration of books, Florence, 1968 a film based on the work in the National Library of Florence resulting from the floods on 4 November 1966 /
"Book conservators begin to restore the many books damaged by the devastating flood in Florence, Italy in 1966. Peter Waters covers a book in leather. Christopher Clarkson makes a velum binding."--Website
Revised relief globe slide set 35-mm slides or images on CD-ROM /
Using the "On-line slide preview" feature, one can see fourteen color views of the earth in shaded relief, showing land and undersea topography. The planet is seen from vantage points over the poles and each major ocean and land mass. Also included are a rectangular Mercator projection view of the whole Earth, as well as displays of crustal plates and their relation to world seismic activity
Ron's WPM homepage
This page provides information on banknotes from all over the world. There are currently over 20,000 scans (over 10,000 notes - with individual front and back scans). Author believes he has succeeded in providing at least one banknote example for all current banknote producing countries
Seattle Power and Water Supply Collection
A selection images of hydroelectric power and water supply facilities built in Washington State from the late 1890s to the 1950s drawn from the collections of the University of Washington Special Collections Division
Selected Civil War photographs
Includes 1,118 b&w photographs of Civil War encampments, battlefields and portraits as captured by Mathew Brady and other photographers. Part of the American Memory Project at the Library of Congress
Shoreline aerial photos (Washington State Dept. of Ecology)
siege and commune of Paris, 1870-1871
A searchable database of over 1200 digitized photographs and images recorded during the Siege and Commune of Paris circa 1871. The originals are located in the Deering Library at Northwestern University
Social issues photograph collection, ca. 1870s-
An ongoing collection of historical images from the western United States and the Pacific Northwest, with particular emphasis on Washington State, that focuses on political and social topics such as women's issues; labor and government; prohibition; legislative assemblies; socialist colonies in Washington State; leisure activities such as camping, hiking and mountaineering; and ethnic groups, especially Japanese and Chinese Americans, and the World War II Japanese internment centers of Camp Harmony (Puyallup, Washington) and Minidoka (Hunt, Idaho)
Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures
Summary: Motion pictures of the Spanish-American War and the subsequent Philippine Revolution produced between 1898 and 1901 are featured in this presentation, released to coincide with the centennial of the sinking of the battleship U.S.S. Maine. The complete collection will include 68 motion pictures and a selection of sound recordings related to the war; 53 motion pictures are included in this first release.
Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures
Motion pictures of the Spanish-American War and the subsequent Philippine Revolution produced between 1898 and 1901 are featured in this presentation. Actualities and reenactments in Cuba, the Philippines and the United States include scenes of troops, ships, notable figures, parades and other war-time events. Sound recordings of popular songs related to the war will be added in the future. Part of the American Memory Project at the Library of Congress
Suffering under a great injustice Ansel Adams's photographs of Japanese-American internment at Manzanar
Collection of more than 200 Ansel Adams's photographs of Manzanar. Part of American Memory
Tacoma Narrows Bridge collection
More than 152 images and text documenting the infamous collapse in 1940 of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. Also covers "Galloping Gertie's" creation, subsequent studies involving its aerodynamics, and finally the construction of a second, replacement bridge spanning the Narrows. Images and text are drawn from collections of the University of Washington Special Collections and the Museum of History and Industry
Tacoma Public Library Photography Database
Searchable collection of more than 40,000 photographs depicting Tacoma and PNW history
Theodore E. Peiser photographs
Thomas Prosch Seattle photograph album, ca. 1851-1906
Photographic albums containing 169 images collected and annotated by Seattle pioneer Thomas Prosch ca. 1910. The albums trace the early history of Seattle and vicinity; images include the Seattle Fire of 1889, early businesses, Seattle street scenes, and pioneer families and their homes. The photographs were taken by local photographers, among them Asahel Curtis, Webster and Stevens, George Moore, John P. Soule, Theodore E. Peiser, and the Peterson Bros
Thomas Prosch Washington State photograph album, ca. 1858-1903
Photographic album containing 101 images collected and annotated by Thomas Prosch. Images document scenes in Eastern Washington, especially the Wenatchee and Chelan regions, and Seattle's early history, including Seattle street scenes and architecture and the Great Seattle Fire of 1889. Photographers include Boyd and Braas, Theodore E. Peiser, Carleton Watkins, and the Peterson Bros
times of Harvey Milk
A portrait of the life and career of Harvey Milk, a charismatic grass-roots activist, and one of the first avowed homosexuals elected to political office. Through television news footage and interviews, follows him from his early days as a Castro Street businessman to his murder, along with San Francisco Mayor George Moscone, in 1978. Relates these events to the ongoing movement for gay rights in the United States
Transportation photographs
Depicts various modes of transportation in the Pacific Northwest region and Western United States during the first half of the 20th century
Traveling Culture: Circuit Chautauqua in the Twentieth Century
"This digital collection presents 7,949 publicity brochures, promotional advertisements and talent circulars for some 4,546 performers who were part of the Chautauqua circuit." Part of American Memory
University of Washington campus collection
Urban archives database
"The Urban Archives project contributes to the body of knowledge on communication in public space. Since 2004, University of Washington students have been documenting Seattle's streets and conducting original research using a variety of approaches and perspectives. The project includes urban texts such as graffiti, public art, advertising, signage, and architectural design"--Home pg
Urban experience in Chicago Hull-House and its neighborhoods, 1889-1963; primary source documents, documentary photographs, and scholarly essays /
Documents the history of the Hull-House settlement and its neighborhood. This site provides documents and images from archival collections that are arranged to engage students and scholars in new approaches to the study of urbanization in American history
Utah collections multimedia encyclopedia
Explore video, audio, pictures, maps, text, charts and graphs about Utah. Collections include: Utah postcard collection; Geography of Utah; A people's history of Utah; A desert sea; Utah : the struggle for statehood; KUER-FM Friday edition; Foothill native plants; Utah history encyclopedia; Utah place names; Hecho en Utah = Made in Utah; Hispanic culture in Utah; Utah Museum of Fine Arts Lesson plans and Val A. Browning Memorial Collection
Vietnam War era ephemera collection, bulk 1965-1980
Collection of printed ephemera including pamphlets, posters, manifestos, newsletters, booklets, and open letters created by the various Seattle-area and University of Washington manifestations of American civil rights and protest movements of the late 1960's and 1970's. The material centers mainly around the Vietnam War, but includes much about feminism, racism, socialism, labor unions and the rights of farm workers, gay rights, environmental and economic boycotts of large corporations and agro-industry, prisoners' rights, and the Iranian revolution of 1979. Documents include the publications of groups such as the Seattle Liberation Front, the UW chapter of Students for a Democratic Society, the Student Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, WashPIRG, Young Socialist Alliance, UW Staff Rights Organizing Committee, Seattle Gay Liberation Front, Students Against Violent Expression, United Workers Union, and the Northwest Nihilist League
War poster collection
"A selection of World War I and II posters from the University of Washington Libraries Manuscripts, Special Collections, University Archives collections."
War posters 1940-1945
Williams Afghan media project still image collections
Without sanctuary : lynching photography in America /
World War II poster database
A searchable database of over 300 World War II posters issued by U.S. Federal agencies in 1941-1945. From the collections of Northwestern University Library
WTO Seattle collection
"The protests depicted in this collection took place between November 29, 1999 and December 3, 1999, when the World Trade Organization (WTO) held its ministerial meeting in Seattle. This collection of images was chosen to illustrate both the diversity of the protests and the mobilization efforts that brought so many activists to Seattle."
Yukon photographers gold rush era (1897-1900) = La ruee vers l'or vue par les photographes du Yukon (1897-1900)
Photographers have been visiting the Yukon since U.S. Army Lieutenant Schwatka travelled down the Yukon River in 1883. After the discovery of gold on Bonanza Creek in 1896, many commercial photographers travelled to Dawson City, photographing the journey and establishing studios along the way. Many of the stampeders also had small roll-film cameras as part of their outfits. The photographers featured here were in the Yukon just before or during the gold rush and are only some of those that photographed the Klondike gold rush


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