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AMICA, Cartography Associates
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Over 108,000 images
Category: Fine Arts

The AMICA Library contains works of art from the collections of prominent museums worldwide. Cultures and time periods range from contemporary art, Native American and Inuit art, to ancient Greek, Roman, and Egyptian works, along with Japanese and Chinese works. Types of works include paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, and photographs, as well as textiles, costumes, jewelry, decorative art, books and manuscripts. This is a subscription based collection.
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Museums & the Online Archive of California
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Over 77,000 images
Category: Fine Arts

The MOAC collection is comprised of selected works from the permanent collections of eight California museums: Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive; Japanese American National Museum; Oakland Museum of California; Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology, UC Berkeley; Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley; Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, UCLA; Fowler Museum of Cultural History, UCLA; California Museum of Photography, UC Riverside.
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Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell Library
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Over 20,000 images
Category: Fine Arts

The Herbert F. Johnson Museum has one of the finest collections of art in New York State and is recognized as one of the most important university museums in the country. Spanning the history of art, the Museum's collections are especially strong in Asian Art, nineteenth and twentieth-century American art, and the graphic arts. Images are available in thumbnail and zoom level 2 only.
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American Antiquarian Society, Cartography Associates
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13,527 images
Category: Other

The Farber Gravestone Collection is an unusual resource documenting gravestone sculpture, mostly prior to 1800. The late Daniel Farber of Worcester, Massachusetts, and his wife, Jessie Lie Farber, were responsible for the largest portion of the collection. These early stones are both a significant form of artistic creation and precious records of biographical information, such as name, death date of the deceased, stone location, and information concerning the stone material, iconography, the inscription, and (when known) the carver.
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Cartography Associates
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Over 13,600 images
Category: Cartography

The David Rumsey Collection focuses on 18th and 19th century North and South American cartographic materials. The collection includes atlases, globes, school geographies, maritime charts, and a variety of separate maps including pocket, wall, children's and manuscript maps. The online selection is an expanding cross section of images designed to highlight the depth and breadth of the collection. The digital images and associated descriptive data are © Cartography Associates.
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University of Illinois, Chicago
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9,321 images
Category: Photography

The Comer Archive of Chicago in the Year 2000 (CITY2000) includes photographs created in the year 2000 with the support of the not-for-profit Comer Foundation. They document every feature of a vibrant metropolis through its millennial year. More than 200 photographers recorded the people of Chicago in every feature of their public and social lives as well as the buildings and landscape they occupied.
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Stanford University
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7,648 images
Category: Other

During his lifetime, the Jesuit polymath Athanasius Kircher (1602­1680) was widely regarded as the physical embodiment of all the learning of his age. Kircher had over 760 correspondents, including scientists, physicians, Jesuit missionaries, two Holy Roman Emperors, popes, and potentates throughout the globe. His correspondence is of particular interest for the history of early modern science and technique. Kircher also harnessed the network of Jesuit missionaries to carry out natural observations and experiments on a global scale.
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University of South Florida, Tampa
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5,078 images
Category: Photography

Centro Asturiano, a mutual aid society formed in 1902 in Ybor City, provided its Spanish, Cuban, and Italian members with medical care, continuing education, and emergency assistance. The club and its members played a vital role in the social, economic, and cultural development of the Tampa Bay area. The collection includes photographs, organizational and financial ledgers, membership records, official minutes, and documents of the cemetery, hospital, and theater.
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The John Rylands University Library, University of Manchester
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3,623 images
Category: Other

The Rylands Collection holds outstanding collections of rare books, manuscripts and archives. Spanning five millennia, the manuscript collections include literary, historical, antiquarian, genealogical, biblical, devotional, ritualistic, medical, scientific, legal and administrative texts. The printed book collections encompass almost all the landmarks of printing through five centuries, including magnificent illustrated books, examples of fine printing, landmark works in typography, key historical texts and exquisite bookbindings.
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University of Edinburgh
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3,558 images
Category: Cartography

The Charting the Nation image collection includes a wide variety of single maps and maps in atlases and other bound books, together with important manuscript and printed texts relating to the geography and mapping of Scotland from 1550 to 1740 and beyond. The site contains invaluable source materials for the study of the history of cartography, architectural history, genealogy, military history, environmental history and archaeology, amongst many other disciplines.
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Alliance For The Arts
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Over 3,000 images
Category: Fine Arts

The Estate Collection is a database of high quality images representing the works of artists with HIV/AIDS. With the ability to find and see these works of art in detail, the Estate Project will ensure continued access, presentation, and study of the cultural legacy created by the artistic community during the AIDS crisis. The images are drawn from the collections of Visual AIDS, Visual AIDS/Boston, Visual Aid/San Francisco, and the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Community Center.
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University of South Florida, Tampa
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2,882 images
Category: Photography

The photographs of commercial photographers Robertson and Fresh cover the Tampa area from the 1930’s to the 1960’s.
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University of South Florida, Tampa
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2,701 images
Category: Other

The Hampton Dunn Postcard collection contains scenes from early twentieth century Florida conveying a sense of what earlier times looked like, or may have looked like, displaying color images of street scenes, natural vistas, and Floridians at work and play.
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Cornell University
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2,200 images
Category: Other

The Cornell University Collection of Political Americana is comprised of Presidential promotional and commemorative items dating from 1789 to 1980. The collection contains political materials in a variety of formats, including cartoons, prints, and posters; lapel buttons, ribbons, textiles; hats, and other costume items; ballets, broadsides, leaflets, and other ephemera; pamphlets and other formal publications; sheet music and songbooks; and three-dimensional items. Elections from 1832 to 1960 are particularly well represented.
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Rutgers University
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Over 2,000 images
Category: Fine Arts

A collection of images provided by the Art History department at Rutgers University for educational use. Includes views illustrating aspects of city planning from the Edward Wilkens Collection, especially views of New Brunswick and Rutgers University.
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Cornell University
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1,780 images
Category: Fine Arts

The Claire Holt Papers contains slides which were created for the Cornell Indonesian Arts Project to document Indonesian art, architecture, ceremonies, landscapes, painting, people, sculpture, textiles, and theater. Claire Holt traveled to Indonesia in 1930 where she studied dance, worked with anthropologist Willem Stutterheim, and then assisted Swedish dance archivist and patron Rolf de Mare with his photo and film record of Indonesian dance. She came to Cornell University where, in 1962, she helped found the Modern Indonesia Project.
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Cornell University
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1,264 images
Category: Other

Images from the Cornell University Library’s Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections is a growing collection of digital reproductions of visual material in rare books, manuscripts and archival collections, including the Cornell University Archives.
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Cornell University
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1,230 images
Category: Architecture

Andrew Dickson White (1832-1918), the first president of Cornell University, established the Architectural Photographs Collection by donating images of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century architecture, decorative arts and sculpture from his personal architectural library.
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The Bard Graduate Center
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1,111 images
Category: Architecture

Catena, the Digital Archive of Historic Gardens and Landscapes, is a collection of historic and contemporary images, including plans, engravings, and photographs, intended to support research and teaching in the fields of garden history and landscape studies. Created through the collaborative efforts of landscape historians and institutions, the initial offering of images is focused on the Villas as a Landscape Type.
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University of South Florida, Tampa
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942 images
Category: Photography

The Earl R. Jacobs III collection documents the growth of St Petersburg from the 1920’s to the 1960’s. Photographer Francis G. Wagner (1891­1975), came to St. Petersburg in the winter of 1914, where he opened St. Petersburg’s first camera store, the Strand Camera Shop two years later. The Wagners sold the shop to employee Charlie E. Jones in 1963. Jones closed the shop around 1980 and the space was rented to various businesses. Hired in April 1984 to clean out the storage loft, Earl R. Jacobs, III found and preserved more than one thousand negatives.
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UC Berkeley East Asian Library, Cartography Associates
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1,102 images
Category: Cartography

The Japanese Historical Maps Collection of the East Asian Library contains early maps of Japan and the World. Represented in this online collection are a selection of maps and books from the collection. The maps were selected by Yuki Ishimatsu, Head of Japanese Collections at the East Asian Library at U.C. Berkeley, and scanned and put online by David Rumsey and Cartography Associates. Most noteworthy in the collection are a range of Japanese city maps dating back 300 years.
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University of South Florida, Tampa
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743 images
Category: Other

The pioneer commercial photography studio of Tampa, Burgert Brothers, was established by Al and Jean Burgert around 1917. They worked primarily in the Tampa Bay area, including Ybor City, Port Tampa, Temple Terrace, and Ballast Point, but also photographed in Orlando, Sarasota, and Key West. The photographs in this collection record Tampa’s development from a small town to a major city, with pictures of people, churches, residences, streets, factories, and businesses.
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Bucknell University
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664 images
Category: Fine Arts

Selected images from the permanent collection of Bucknell University's Samek Art Gallery. The collection includes works of art from Europe, North and South America, Africa, China, Japan, and the Pacific Islands.
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Stanford University
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578 images
Category: Cartography

Antiquarian maps of Africa from the collections of the late Dr. Oscar I. Norwich and the Stanford University Libraries, dating from the late 15th to early 20th century.
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Stanford University
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488 images
Category: Cartography

The Stanford Geological Survey (SGS) existed for 100 years, from 1895 until 1995. During this time, students and faculty went into the field to survey and map parts of California, Nevada and Utah. This is a unique collection of their hand-drawn and colored maps.
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University of Edinburgh
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446 images
Category: Other

Edinburgh University Library’s Corson Collection of Sir Walter Scott material includes portraits of Scott, people or places associated with Scott, art inspired by or illustrations to editions of his works. It covers a variety of formats: oil and watercolor paintings, drawings, engravings, etchings, lithographs, and photographs. This collection is a valuable resource for anyone interested in the diffusion of Scott’s work in Scotland, Great Britain, and abroad, in Scott’s role in the creation of Scottish national identity, and in his influence on British and foreign depictions of Scotland.
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Cornell University
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416 images
Category: Photography

The Icelandic Collection contains landscapes, farmsteads, towns and people in a remarkable series of photographs depicting Iceland and the Faeroe Islands on the edge of modernity. The collection includes photographs captured by British artist, Frederick W. W. Howell, as well as by Henry A. Perkins and Magnús Ólafsson. Daniel Willard Fiske, who bequeathed the collection to Cornell University, purchased over 400 prints from Howell. Halldór Hermannsson, the collection's first curator, mounted and captioned the prints around 1923 in six albums.
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Allentown Art Museum
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284 images
Category: Finearts

The Allentown Art Museum’s online collection focuses on European art (1300–1700), American fine and decorative arts (1780–Present), and sculpture from India. Textiles from Asia and the Mediterranean crescent, American needlework, printed dress fabrics of the 1930s and 40s and contemporary American fiber art are also well represented.
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Bucknell University
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268 images
Category: Photography

Digital images of Pennsylvania covered bridges reproduced from slides, negatives, and original photographs taken by Dr. Nelson F. Davis, Professor of Biology at Bucknell University from 1898-1939. These photographic compositions include 268 black and white images that were mostly taken during 1936-1937. The images are organized by county, town/city, and by date.
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Cornell University
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226 images
Category: Other

This collection contains a sampling of 20 Reuleaux kinematic mechanisms. Kinematics flourished in the 19th century as machine inventors learned to transmit information and forces (power) from one element in the machine to another. Franz Reuleaux, Professor of Mechanical Engineering in Zurich and Berlin, set out to analyze, codify, and synthesize kinematic mechanisms so that engineers could approach machine design in a rational way. These Reuleaux models are owned by Cornell's Sibley School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering.
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The John Rylands University Library, University of Manchester
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222 images
Category: Other

The John Rylands University Library, The University of Manchester, holds one of the richest and most wide-ranging papyrus collections in Britain. It includes religious, devotional, literary and administrative texts. There are 7 Hieroglyphic and 19 Hieratic papyri; all are funerary documents dating between the 14th century BC and the 2nd century AD. There are a further 166 Demotic fragments, mainly from the Ptolemaic period, and approximately 500 Coptic papyri. The 800 Arabic papyri consist of private letters, tradesmen's and household accounts. The Greek papyri, numbering approximately 2,000 items, include the famous fragments of St John’s Gospel and Deuteronomy, the earliest surviving pieces of the New Testament and the Greek Old Testament respectively. Several of the collections contain fragments on paper and parchment, as well as papyrus. The Rylands Genizah collection, which contains 11,000 fragments, mostly in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic, is a separate collection within Insight.
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The John Rylands University Library, University of Manchester
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218 images
Category: Other

The John Rylands University Library, holds one of the richest and most wide-ranging papyrus collections in Britain. There are 7 Hieroglyphic and 19 Hieratic papyri; all are funerary documents dating between the 14th century BC and the 2nd century AD. There are a further 166 Demotic fragments, mainly from the Ptolemaic period, and approximately 500 Coptic papyri. The 800 Arabic papyri consist of private letters, tradesmen's and household accounts. The Greek papyri, numbering approximately 2,000 items, include the famous fragments of St John’s Gospel and Deuteronomy, the earliest surviving pieces of the New Testament and the Greek Old Testament respectively.
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University of South Florida, Tampa
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216 images
Category: Architecture

Dr. Sape Zylstra has constructed within this collection a glimpse of the first century of Tampa’s rich architectural history. From the earliest schoolhouse built by General Jesse Carter for his daughter to a Post-Modern home constructed by notable Tampa architect Eduardo Garcia, we get a peek at the fertile divergence of cultures drawn to Tampa.
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University of South Florida, Tampa
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212 images
Category: Photography

The images from the Manatee County Public Library Historic Photograph Collection portray Manatee’s people, activities, and buildings from the late nineteenth century to the early 1980’s. In addition to depicting schools, churches, hospitals, and means of transportation, the photographs feature the Currys, a family who played a long and important role in building (and documenting) Manatee County. By taking photographs, the Currys recorded both their own history and the county’s.
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Kansas University
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201 images
Category: Other

This collection currently contains the Kansas Biological Survey Kansas Wildflowers database and a small sample of fossil images, with links to 3D images, from the Division of Invertebrate Paleontology of KU’s Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Research Center (NHM/BRC).
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Pratt Institute Libraries
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178 images
Category: Photography

The Photograph Collection consists of photographs of Pratt Institute in all its many facets. Dating mainly from the late nineteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries, the collection documents the history of Pratt and the surrounding area through its images of the campus, the buildings, official events and activities, and student life.
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University of South Florida, Tampa
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169 images
Category: Cartography

The USF Florida Map Collection currently contains maps in the USF Tampa Library Special Collections department's Rare Map Collection.
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University of South Florida, Tampa
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153 images
Category: Other

Charles Ringling Family Papers collection contains three main components: the Ringling mansion, archives from the Ringling Brothers Circus, and biographical materials centered on Charles Ringling family. The digitized images are a sampling of the larger collection available at the Jane Bancroft Cook Library in Sarasota.
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Pratt Institute Libraries
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129 images
Category: Other

The Fashion Plate Collection consists of hand-colored fashion plates from the French periodical La Gazette du Bon Ton (considered the most influential fashion magazine during its existence from 1912 to 1925) and its American edition, La Gazette du Bon Genre, distributed by Condé Nast. The plates in Pratt's collection date from 1922, were created by such prominent French artists as George Barbier, Pierre Brissaud, and Georges Lepape, and anticipate the Art Deco movement of the mid-1920s.
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Pratt Institute Libraries
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125 images
Category: Fine Arts

The Ex Libris Collection consists of nineteenth- and twentieth-century bookplates from private and institutional libraries. The plates feature finely detailed engraving or etching and serve as outstanding examples of period book art and typography. Represented in the collection are prominent American bookplate artists such as William Fowler Hopson and Joseph Winfred Spenceley, as well as important Dutch, English, German, Hungarian, Swedish, and Spanish artists.
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Pratt Institute Libraries
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119 images
Category: Photography

The Negative Collection depicts the history of Pratt and the changes that it underwent from the late 1950s through the mid-1970s. The collection is particularly notable for its examples of student work in art, architecture, fashion, and industrial design.
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University of South Florida, Tampa
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90 images
Category: Photography

Concentrating on the Pinellas Pasco region, professional photographer C. H. Stokes found his subjects along the route of the old Orange Belt Railway. Incorporated in 1893, the Sanford & St Petersburg Railroad took over the older railway’s properties, and then became part of the Plant System in 1895 accounting for the photographs being captioned “Views along” either the Sanford & St Petersburg or Plant System of Railways. Both railways used the photographs to promote tourism and development, projecting a rustic vision of Florida in the late 1890’s.
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University of Edinburgh
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71 images
Category: Other

Object Lessons collection is a virtual record of “Object Lessons”, an exhibition held at the Talbot Rice Gallery in June and July 2003. For the first time ever, the University of Edinburgh brought together its collections to demonstrate their role, and the role of collecting, in research, and to explore the threads of intellectual development that link objects over time. Exhibits were drawn from the rich and diverse collections that the University now holds, including its books and manuscripts, great portrait collection and internationally renowned collection of historic musical instruments, among a host of others.
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Rutgers University
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67 images
Category: Cartography

A collection of maps from the New Jersey Environmental Digital Library project. The maps illustrate the geology, water resources, watersheds, wetlands, and land use within the state from the 19th and 20th century. The NJEDL is an online library of environmental literature and multimedia related to New Jersey.
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Stanford University
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53 images
Category: Other

The Hoover Institution Archives Poster Collection includes political posters from around the world. Many thousands of posters date from World War I and World War II, though the posters cover the entire twentieth century. Posters from the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, the Russian empire and the Soviet Union, and France are well represented, but also included are posters from more than eighty countries. The online collection consists of selected Russian posters. Additional images from other countries will be added.
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University of South Florida, Tampa
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47 images
Category: Photography


The Archibald Slaymaker Glass Negative Collection contains photographs belonging to Archibald Clarke Slaymaker (1867-1939), son of Amos Barr Slaymaker. Archibald Slaymaker operated Slaymaker-Whittier Dry Goods Store in Clarke's Gap, Albermarle County, Virginia.
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University of South Florida, Tampa
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37 images
Category: Photography


The Ensminger Brothers Collection is a collection of Spanish-American War era photographs taken by the Ensminger Brothers, who were commercial photographers in the late 1800’s. They had been commissioned to take the photographs by two British women, Sarah Criggal and her sister. They were from the Isle of White, England and were visiting Florida.
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University of South Florida, Tampa
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27 images
Category: Photography

The Wehman Collection is a collection of Spanish American War photographs taken mostly in Tampa collected by the Wehman family.
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University of South Florida, Tampa
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23 images
Category: Cartography

The USF Rare Map Collection is a collection of rare maps from the USF Tampa Library Special Collections Department Rare Map Collection.
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