Over 7,000 U.S. and Canadian advertisements covering five product categories - Beauty and Hygiene, Radio, Television, Transportation, and World War II propaganda - dated between 1911 and 1955.

Adelphi University Archives and Special Collections (UASC) collects, preserves, and provides access to unique and rare materials of enduring value; and serves as the institutional memory of Adelphi by collecting, preserving, and providing access to materials which document its history.

The Afghanistan Digital Library will retrieve and restore works published in Afghanistan between 1870 and 1930; the long-term objective is to collect, catalogue, digitize and provide access to as many of this period’s publications as possible.

The Alexandria Digital Research Library (ADRL) is UC Santa Barbara Library’s home for collections of digital research materials, including images, text, streamed media, and numeric and spatial data.

Links to various collections at AU. Some links take you off-site, for example, to the Internet Archive.

Digital Collections holds hundreds of digitized objects selected from the print holdings of the department. All Archives & Special Collections material in ACDC is in the public domain, or else the rights are held by Amherst College, which chooses to make the material freely available to the public.

is the collection of ancient and valuable works by AlmaDL, the digital library of Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna.

 AU's purpose is to develop accessible digital collections of materials that support the teaching and research of Auburn faculty and students, and that, in turn, further the mission of Auburn University.

Avery Access: Avery is open on a limited basis to CU affiliates. Patrons are required to reserve a seat or to have a confirmed appointment with one of our special collection departments in order to enter.

(CC0 1.0) This site features Archives and Special Collections, including digitized photographs, yearbooks, and newspapers, with more added to the site every day. Barnard Digital Collections metadata records are released under a Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication and can be freely reproduced

With items spanning seven centuries, four continents and topics local to international, the Baylor University Digital Collections are among the most unique in the world. Professional historians, scholars, researchers, genealogists and passionate amateurs alike will find our collections enlightening,…

Collects, preserves, and facilitates the discovery of the Bethel community’s scholarship, history, and culture.

Welcome to the Digital Collections of Binghamton University Libraries. To enhance access to our rich and varied collections, we have digitized a wide range of materials including photographs, postcards, and manuscripts. We have also begun collecting born digital materials produced at Binghamton Univ…

Provides access to rare and unique collections in digitized form

The general collections include items in a variety of formats (books, audio/video, maps, databases, journals, etc.) and languages. Items can be found on the shelves, online, or in compact storage.

Alcohol, Temperance & Prohibition

The Friesner Herbarium Digital Collection currently contains more than 43,000 images of plant specimens, collected primarily throughout Indiana from the Butler University Friesner Herbarium. At this point, more than 2500 species are covered in this collection.

The California Digital Library supports the assembly and creative use of the world’s scholarship and knowledge for the University of California libraries and the communities they serve. In addition, the CDL provides tools that support the construction of online information services for research,...

The internationally recognized WorldImages database provides access to the California State University IMAGE Project. It has just been selected by the Library of Congress for inclusion in its historic collection of Internet materials. It contains approximately 100,000 images, is global in coverag…

Carroll University Archives' mission is to serve the campus community by preserving records of and relating to Carroll University and Carroll College, recording and documenting its history, and providing access to this information

​​​​​​​​​​CMU’s Digital Collections offer free access to Michigan newspapers, CMU scholarly works and history, historical publications, and more.​​

Includes the online digital collections from the five Central University Libraries

provides leadership in the creation, preservation, and promotion of digital content. 10,483 images in 8,755 objects and counting

NAU’s Cline Library is an essential part of NAU life on the Flagstaff Mountain Campus. Students, faculty, and staff all use the library to achieve their career goals. Explore what Cline Library can do for you!

Features a broad array of important primary resources and relating to all aspects of water and agriculture in Colorado and contributions made by Coloradoans in these areas. Archives & Special Collections also serves as the official archives of Colorado State University.

Digital Collections - a gateway to digital reproductions and descriptions of photographs, posters, drawings, objects, ephemera, and manuscripts as well as other archival material from Columbia's rare and special collections. As of December 2016 the DLC repository platform publishes ca. 233,000 unique images and documents.

Collections digitized and curated by Cornell University Library. Contact dcaps@cornell.edu for more information.

The Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections actively collects digital materials in all subject areas. These range from text and image files to video, audio, databases, email, and websites.

Links to various Denison-related digital collections

Digitized books, manuscripts, images, maps and other materials held by the University Library. The contents of the Digital Library are freely available for all to use for instruction, research, individual study, and scholarship.

Free, digital access to nearly three hundred thousand items from the Dartmouth Library collections — from classical texts to medieval manuscripts to scientific accounts to Dartmouth College history to historical comics to Chinese history to audiovisual materials.

A digital archive of multimedia ethnographic information from the Himalayan region (Nepal,Tibet,India) (University of Cambridge)

Digitized historic photographs, advertisements, texts & more. Note: Some material may not be in the public domain. Copyright of certain materials may be owned by Duke University, by another institution, or by an individual. Each collection may have specific copyright information and usage rules.

Discover digitized images, texts, audio, and video from ECU Libraries diverse collections and it’s partners

A service of the Digital Collections Center at Florida International University Libraries in Miami, Florida. The scope of their collections includes scientific and technical reports, natural history writings, educational and interpretive materials, data sets, maps, photos, and a directory of other Internet sites relating to the greater Everglades.

The FIU DCC's mission is to build online collections of enduring value for the university and broader user community by identifying, digitizing, and preserving information resources of scholarly, educational, and civic interest. Collections focus on local and regional materials of historical, scientific, cultural, and educational importance.

The Special Collections & Archives division collections comprise more than half a million items spanning thousands of years and locations.

Contains photographs, documents, maps, newspapers, oral histories, art objects, and video collections.

The Archives parlementaires is a chronologically-ordered edited collection of sources on the French Revolution. It was conceived in the mid 19th century as a project to produce a definitive record of parliamentary deliberations and also includes letters, reports, speeches, and other first-hand accou…

Southwestern United States Photograph Collection Photographs dated 1893 taken by an unidentified photographer, and which appear to document a train trip beginning in New Orleans, Louisiana and ending in Grand Jun…

Some of the material in our digital collections includes a Creative Commons license. For Creative Commons licensed materials, you have permission to use the item in whatever way the license terms permit. For uses other than those granted in the license, you must obtain permission.

Collections hold digitized special collections materials from the Donohue Rare Book Room, electronic publications and other academic works by USF faculty and students, and digitized archival materials related to university and local history. New collections and items are regularly added to the site and will be featured here.

Collections include botanical magazines, Frankfurt and rare prints, manuscripts, Judaica, music & theater, to name a few. Policies  

Carleton College Digital, Archival, and Special Collections Copyright Information

The Digital Collections include highlights from the Special Collections & University Archives holdings, as well as resources collected or created by other University entities in partnership with the University Libraries. Collections are selected and included based on anticipated research use. | Copyright

Select a collection from the “Collections” menu for contextual information and targeted searches.

Harvard Library's dedicated image catalog. It includes content from archives, museums, libraries, and other collections throughout Harvard University. Access to the catalog is open to the general public. What's In HOLLIS+ 

An array of images, documents, video, music, and data, collected and organized by Walter E. Helmke Library, (IPFW). Reproduction and Use Information

The Iowa Digital Library features more than a million digital objects created from the holdings of the University of Iowa Libraries and its campus partners. Included are illuminated manuscripts, historic maps, fine art, historic newspapers, scholarly works, and more. Digital collections are coordina…

Access and search various collections, including University yearbooks, historical photographs, old newspapers, oral histories, and much more.

Digital collections of resources ranging from books and newspapers to photographs and historical documents.  Public Domain 

A point of connection for digital projects and collections including digital research, online journals, scholarly publishing, and image collections that are freely available; a few are only available to current KU employees and students.

provides access to historical collections that encompass rare books, manuscripts, and the Lehigh University archives. Digital Library Conditions of Use

Lincoln University’s digital collection, History Resources Online, was born in 2003, when a grant from the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC) funded the preservation microfilming and digitization of the student newspapers, dating back to 1925. The microfilms went to the Pennsylvani…

The University of Utah Collections hub. Copyright Overview and Resources .

This site features nearly 100 case studies – short essays written by Canadian scholars – on topics relating to Canadian publishing. The case studies are augmented with letters, photographs, multimedia, and other materials from publishers’ and authors’ archives at McMaster University Library, Queen’s…

From the site, "The Digital and Multimedia Center makes special items from the library available online. We believe that all of the works in this digital collection are in the public domain, and not restricted by copyright"Copyright Permissions

Research | Digital Archives - Appropriate Use of Electronic Resources 

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The gateway to knowledge for the NCSU community and partners. The Libraries' collections reflect the historic strengths of the University as well as its vision for the future. Copyright & Disclaimer 

NMSU Library Digital Collections

More than 2,300 images of people, places and events documenting Roxbury Massachusetts, 1950-1975.

Provides free public access to detailed descriptions of primary resource collections maintained by more than 200 contributing institutions including libraries, special collections, archives, historical societies, and museums throughout California and collections maintained by the 10 University of California (UC) campuses.Terms of Use

At least 80 digital collections at this site including World War I Glass Plate Stereographs, US Government pamphlets, Palmer museum art collection and so much more.

Digital Collections at Plymouth State University are educational resources that support research and learning. The collections contain a variety of resources from departments across the PSU campus with a focus on Plymouth State and regional history as well as data and scholarship.

(PUDL) is a collection of high-resolution digital images of selected materials from Princeton University Library. The materials have been chosen to serve the research and teaching needs of the Princeton University community and to showcase the distinctive collections of the Princeton University Library.

The Digital Archive of Latin American and Caribbean Ephemera is a steadily growing repository containing a previously unavailable subset of Princeton’s Latin American Ephemera Collection as well as newly acquired materials being digitized and added on an ongoing basis.

Images that support the teaching and research of visual culture at Reed College. The collection is open to current Reed students, faculty, and staff.

Thousands of photographs including archival documents, yearbooks and SLU course catalogs - Electronic Reserves Policies and Procedures 

Browse material digitized from among the holdings of Archives & Special Collections at Santa Clara University. Openly Accessible Materials - Copyright Compliance Guidelines for E-Reserves and Online Course Materials

Some of the collections in DSpace are also available on the Internet Archive website. This site is not organized into collections the way DSpace is, but it has some different and/or additional searching capabilities.

SRU Digital Collections include photographs, postcards and nearly 100 years of Slippery Rock University's history in the form of campus newspapers. Selected campus radio broadcasts, yearbooks, and publications are also available.

Smith Digital Collections is a gateway to digital collections and online exhibitions unique to Smith College featuring images, audio, video, and text from multiple repositories and platforms.

Explore our collections below: Physical Collections lists our print collections. Digital Collections lists collections that contain selected digitized items, as well as digital-only collections. Topics lists areas of focus for our collections.

DeGolyer Library continues to expand our digitization efforts, adding new content weekly. We have thousands of items digitized and searchable in our digital collections.

The Springfield College Digital Collections document the history of Springfield College as well as the YMCA and physical education movements in the United States and abroad. The collection contains digitized photographic prints, lantern slides, printed published and unpublished documents, hand-writt…

Stanford Libraries’ official online search tool for books, media, journals, databases, government documents and more.

The Archive of Mesopotamian Archaeological Reports (AMAR) collection is under development as part of the Iraq Cultural Heritage Program Grant. The Iraq Cultural Heritage Project (ICHP) was established in 2008 through a grant from the US Embassy Baghdad. The Cultural Affairs Office at the Embassy ove…

Discover digitized college publications, faculty and student work, archival material and images.

Collections include photographs, arts image collection, Belfer Cylinders digital collection, Boar's Head Dramatic Society Collection, Carnegie Library 1907-2007, Marcel Breuer Digital Archive, and many more.

With over five million volumes and a growing collection of online resources the Libraries has a variety of collections available to support the research, teaching, and learning needs of the Texas A&M University community.

The Digital Collections repository is a service that provides free and open access to the scholarship and creative works produced and owned by the Texas State University community. The Digital Collections centralizes, preserves, and makes accessible the knowledge gene…

Rare Books & Special Collections Overview of public domain and creative commons materials

Extension list of collection with the University of Michigan.

The University at Buffalo Libraries digital collections encompass a wide variety of formats, including photographs, print materials, audio recordings, artworks, artifacts and other resources. Our digital collections are created to support the teaching and learning activities of UB faculty and studen…

Collections include The Corolla Yearbook, Rammer Jammer, World War I posters, various photograph collections and much more.

Collections include Library digital collections, UoC Photo archive, campus publications, special collections exhibition catalogs, finding aids, library web exhibits, and special collections exhibitions.

Digital research, online journals, scholarly publishing, and image collections are all represented. Most of these collections are freely available; a few are only available to current KU employees and students.

provides access to historical and visual resources created both by and for The University of La Verne community.

The University of Louisville Digital Collections include rare and unique images, documents, and oral histories from our archives, special collections, and other campus units. Learn more.

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Includes Bass Business History Collection, history of science collections, Nichols Collection, Sooner Scholar, Western History Collections.

The University of Scranton Archives and Helen Gallagher McHugh Special Collections at the Weinberg Memorial Library collects, preserves and provides access to documents, publications, photographs, books and other material of historical value.

Established in November 1999 to create research quality digital collections of texts, images, and audio materials and make these collections available to scholars throughout the world.

We create and curate digital artefacts by transforming the physical into digital.

Digital Collections

(CC BY-NC 4.0) - This site features materials drawn from the wealth and diversity of items held by the Libraries, exhibits of collaborations with UTA faculty and students, and representative images from several collections located at the University of Texas Libraries Special Collections.

We provide public access to the unique historical and cultural resources held by UTSA Special Collections. These materials represent a selection of our growing collection of photographs, archival documents, oral histories, rare books, and University Archives.

access to the electronic full-text offer of the Heidelberg University Library.

You can still access the UC Berkeley Library’s services and resources during the closure. Here’s how. See also Calphotos and Digital Scriptorum - Digital Scriptorium is a growing consortium of American libraries and museums committed to free online access to their collections of pre-modern manuscripts.

Digital Collections

UMass Amherst Credo - Featured collections include W.E.B Du Bois Papers, University photographs, ephemera, memoirs, book collections, and much more.

These unique materials from Wilson Special Collections Library were digitized for research, teaching, and discovery. Some collections are the result of collaborations with UNC faculty members, partner libraries, museums, and cultural heritage institutions. This is a partial list of all materials dig…

Gateway is a collaborative platform that showcases digitized historical materials contributed by institutions, community groups, and individuals in the North Carolina Piedmont Triad Region. While the focus is on materials related to local and regional history, there are also materials related to the…

At the University of Arizona Libraries, we make a variety of unique and special collections publicly available online. We’re dedicated to sharing research and scholarship from the University and region, cultural heritage materials, and the historical record of the University. Explore our digital con…

University of Arkansas Libraries Digital Collections facilitate the discovery of and access to a variety of digital materials related to the University and to Arkansas and its history, culture, environment, and people.

The University at Buffalo Libraries digital collections encompass a wide variety of formats, including photographs, print materials, audio recordings, artworks, artifacts and other resources. Our digital collections are created to support the teaching and learning activities of UB faculty and studen…

Digital Collections and Exhibits

Collections include images, audio, and video files. Many of these resources are available to the general public.

Provides access to the unique manuscript and archival collections held by the University Libraries, as well as the electronic records of many other departments on the University of Denver campus.

The University of Florida Digital Collections (UFDC) hosts more than 300 outstanding digital collections, containing over 14 million pages, covering over 78 thousand subjects in rare books, manuscripts, antique maps, children’s literature, newspapers, theses and dissertations, data sets, photographs…

Include historical and cultural material that has been scanned and made available online

A comprehensive digital library, which provides for our students, faculty, and the greater community a rich and exciting environment for the discovery of digital resources and knowledge.

American Library Association Digital Library Collections The ALA Collections in the University Library Digital Library contains a wide variety of ALA and library related images, postcards, and text…

(CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 UK) and (CC BY-NC 2.0 UK) - Free access to digital resources from the David Wilson Library, including My Leicestershire History, Manufacturing Pasts, Historical Directories and other material from our collections of rare books and archives.

Includes rare and unique images, documents, and oral histories from our archives, special collections, and other campus units.

Official site for University of Idaho Library’s Digital Collections

Archives & Special Collections

Many of our objects are not a part of the collections listed below and can only be discovered when searching by keyword or browsing this group of material.

Photographs, manuscripts, letters, memorabilia and other materials from over 50 collections.

DRUM is a publicly available collection of digital research data generated by U of M researchers, students, and staff. Anyone can search and download the data housed in the repository, instantly or by request.

eGrove is the institutional repository of the University of Mississippi. It provides free online access to the intellectual output of researchers at the University of Mississippi and promotes its dissemination in an archive. This may include, but is not limited to open educational resources, open…

Online platforms provide access to materials digitized from works held by UNO Libraries' Archives & Special Collections.

University Libraries’ Digital Collections

contains digital versions of books, letters, photographs, and other items from the collections of the University of New Hampshire Library.

Digital Commons is a new digital service offered by the Library. This institutional repository offers a central location to collect, present, archive and disseminate digital information for the entire UNF community. Research and scholarly material has been selected and deposited by individual fac…

The UNT Digital Library is a centralized repository for the rich collections held by the libraries, colleges, schools, and departments at the University of North Texas.

The St. Thomas Libraries are proud to make available digitized content from our collections. Please browse or search them using the links below, and watch this space and within these individual collections for new content. Note: the links will open a new window to the location where each digital col…

Digital USD publishes, preserves, and provides open online access to the scholarship, creative work, original data sets, and archival material produced by or affiliated with the University of San Diego community.

University of San Diego’s institutional repository provides access to USD faculty research and publications, digitized archival and special collections material, and publications of centers and institutes on campus.

There are nearly 300 digital collections available

Photography Collections Database. This links to the  alphabetical list of collections. 

Digital archives collections include John Muir collection, Japanese-American Internment collections, Western Americana Collection, Brubeck Collection, The George Moscone Collection, and University Archives.

This site features materials such as photographs, maps, newspapers, posters, reports and other media from the University of Washington Libraries, University of Washington Faculty and Departments, and organizations that have participated in partner projects with the UW Libraries. The collections emph…

The Digital Collections at the UWM Libraries include over 180,000 photographic images, maps, and books drawn from the collections of the American Geographical Society Library, the Archives, Special Collections, and the Curriculum Collection.

Our Digital Collections portal showcases unique digital content from the University of Wollongong and surrounding Illawarra region. It unlocks a wealth of social and corporate material, connects to UOWs research outputs and captures all the stories, photos and experiences from exhibitions, past and …

American Heritage Center Digital Collections

Digital Collections

Over 60 digital collections from University of Oregon Libraries and Oregon State Libraries & Press including; Oregon Digital - comprises unique digitized and born-digital materials including photographs, articles, sheet music, manuscripts, ephemera, and more.

The Digital Collections at the UWM Libraries include over 180,000 photographic images, maps, and books drawn from the collections of the American Geographical Society Library, the Archives, Special Collections, and the Curriculum Collection.

We work with faculty, staff and regional partners to select and develop tools that enhance access to a wide range of resources for specific disciplines and audiences. Ranging from digitization of Villanova Dissertations and Theses, to digital preservation of faculty fulltext publications, the Digita…

These materials, primarily from VCU Libraries Special Collections and Archives, range in subject matter from African-American history in Virginia to Richmond’s past and present, from the comic and cartooning arts to the history of VCU, from medical artifacts to oral histories. Collections are presen…

Scholarly Communication is located on the fourth floor of Newman Library.

Over 58,000 Unique Items ZSR Library’s Digital Collections provides 24/7 access to over 58,000 unique digitized items within more than 70 online collections. More about › Search Browse Explore Featured Collections Interested in other popular collections? See our Frequently Used Collections › Search …

Digital Collections highlight those portions of the Julian Edison Department of Special Collections that have been made or born-digital.

The Walter Scott Digital Archive is an Edinburgh University Library online resource created in the Centre for Research Collections. It is designed around our extensive Corson Collection of Walter Scott material. We hope that in time this website will become the main source of information on the life and work of Sir Walter Scott on the web.

Collections bring unique, important, or institutionally relevant content to Wayne State University’s academic community and to the larger world. Over 50,000 images and texts celebrate Detroit's contributions to the arts, fashion, history, architecture, interior design, medicine, and more.

Includes the Wellesley College Digital Scholarship & Archive, Image Gallery, Selection on the Internet Archive, and The Browning Courtship Correspondence.

Collections available at Wesleyan include WesScholar - the intellectual output of the university Digital Collections, digitized collections of the library, and Artstor, visual resource materials.

digitized (scanned, photographed, or filmed) files of original pieces with information about the material

Hunter Library is committed to building regionally oriented, historically significant collections of broad cultural and research interest. A number of these collections are online. These digital collections provide a foundation for research, educ…

Oxford Scholarship Online provides access to more than 16,000 books from the scholarly list of Oxford University Press, covering subjects across th...

The collections included were selected to cover a wide range of research interest as well as those collections with the greatest possibility of providing historical information to the WSSU and general community.

collects, preserves, and makes available primary sources on the history of aviation, local and regional history, and the history of Wright State University.

Access to a number of digital collections published at Xavier University. These collections typically contain the scholarly, historical, and pedagogical works of faculty, staff, and students at Xavier University.

All Web Collections including Arabic and Middle Eastern Electronic Library Digital Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Digital Collection, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library Digital Colletions, Ross Archive of African Images and many more digital collections to explore.

Collections are presented in the Digital Library, with the goals of enhancing research and teaching at the University and of benefiting scholars worldwide. Yeshiva University