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Digital Text and Image Collections
Many books, periodicals, images and documents have been digitized and are available online. Here are links to some of the best digital collections.
CRIS Digital Projects:
Blaeu
Atlas | City of Los Angeles Community Plan Profiles, 1995 | Online Campaign Literature Archive
Digital Resources at UCLA:
Collection of electronic texts, journals, and indexes
Accessible from UCLA campus networks and Bruin Online only.
Digital Archives & Collections:
Digitized materials often unique to the organization's collection.
Electronic Texts:
Searchable indexes to 1000's of full-text works.
Digital Archives & Collections
AMDOCS Documents for the Study of US History (University of Kansas)
Full text of selected American political documents. Coverage ranges from the 15th Century to the late 1990's.American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library (Library of Congress)
Primary source materials relating to the history and cultural developments of the United States.
Recent Additions:
- "I Do Solemnly Swear . . .": Presidential Inaugurations
Inaugurations from each of sixty-two inaugurations, from George Washington in 1789 to William Jefferson Clinton in 1997, and will include items relating to the sixty-third inauguration of 2001.AP Photo Archive
Associated Press's current photos and a selection of pictures from their 50 million image print and negative library.Calisphere A World of Primary Sources and More (University of California)
The University of California's free public gateway to a world of primary sources. More than 150,000 digitized items — including photographs, documents, newspaper pages, political cartoons, works of art, diaries, transcribed oral histories, advertising, and other unique cultural artifacts — reveal the diverse history and culture of California and its role in national and world history. Calisphere's content has been selected from the libraries and museums of the UC campuses, and from a variety of cultural heritage organizations.Center for Electronic Text & Image (University of Pennsylvania)
Original source materials from Penn Library's collections. These include printed books, manuscripts, photographs, slides, maps, and sound recordings.Documenting the American South (University of North Carolina)
Primary materials that offer Southern perspectives on American history and culture.Douglass: Archive of American Public Address (Northwestern)
Douglass is an electronic archive of American oratory and related documents.The Electronic Text Center (University of Virginia)
On-line archive of thousands of electronic texts.Humanities Text Initiative (University of Michigan)
Provides access to a variety of image and text humanities resources.Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties (Oklahoma State University Library)
Volume II (Treaties). Covers U.S. Government treaties with Native Americans from 1778-1883.The Making of America (MOA) Project (Cornell University & University of Michigan)
Primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.Mexico: from Empire to Revolution / México: del imperio a la revolución
This bilingual digital resource explores Mexican history and culture through photographs taken by foreign photographers between 1857 and 1923.The New York Public Library Digital Library Collections
A growing body of primary source materials from the collections of the NYPL.Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library (Duke University)
Digitized collections featuring African-American and women's studies primary source material.Recent Additions:
- Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850-1920
A database of over 9,000 advertising items and publications dating from 1850 to 1920, illustrating the rise of consumer culture and the birth of a professionalized advertising industry in the United States.- Ad*Access
Presents images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955.SunSITE Digital Collections (University of California Berkeley)
Digital texts, images, and primary source materials with links to additional collections & services.Victorian Women Writers Project (Indiana University)
Literary works by British women writers of the 19th century.William Blake Archive (University of Virginia)
Resources for the study & teaching of William Blake.
Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts
A collection of digital documents in the subject areas of English literature,American literature, and Western philosophy.The Internet Classics Archive (MIT)
Collection of 441 works of classical literature.The Perseus Project (Tufts University)
The Perseus Project is a collection of materials, textual and visual, on the Archaic and Classical Greek world.Project Bartleby Archive (Columbia University)
Fulltext of selected literary and reference works.