The Digital Library Program is proud to present the U.S. Steel Gary Works Photograph Collection, a series of more than 2,200 photographs of the Gary Works steel mill and the corporate town of Gary, Indiana held by the Calumet Regional Archives at Indiana University Northwest. In images of compelling diversity, historians and the general public can view all aspects of this planned industrial community: the steel mill, the city, and the citizens who lived and worked there.
Virtual Motor City is the name of an IMLS sponsored digitization project, carried out by the Wayne State University Library System and the Walter P. Reuther Library.
The digitized images in the project represent a small subset of the Detroit News Collection, one of the premier photojournalistic resources freely available from a national-level newspaper and held at the Reuther Library.
Virtual Motor City is a project of Wayne State University and the Walter P. Reuther Library that aims to digitize a large body of photographs from the Detroit News Collection. More than 800,000 negatives of various mediums and sizes are housed in the collection, and so far, more and 13,000 of these are available on the site. The photographs date from the late nineteenth century, but the largest part of the collection is from the twentieth century. The images are searchable, or a researcher can browse the collection by decade or subject.
This site will provide a concise Developmental History of Spectacles as well as explain all the contributions of people from many nations who were important along the way.
Website Goals:
To educate interested visitors and professionals and stimulate further research
To increase public awareness and thereby nurture a deeper appreciation in general
To complement the other websites which have information on this topic
To attract the newest generation of collectors (who may wish to join the only collectors clubs, the OAICC and the OHS)
To create a forum where scholarly people can have a dynamic exchange of information and ideas
To share images of the finest and most interesting historical items in both private and public collections from around the world
Antique Spectacles hosts extensive information about spectacles, eyeglasses, telescopes, and other vision aids through the centuries. A glossary, bibliography, and interpretive essay provides an introduction to the topic while than 900 images are available for viewing, including a virtual museum with nine curated collections.
September 11, 2001, will be remembered as one of the most shocking days in American history. Armed terrorists hijacked four passenger jets and used them as weapons against the United States. The attacks destroyed the World Trade Center, damaged the Pentagon, and killed more than three thousand people.
Soon after September 11, the National Museum of American History began collecting objects to document the attacks and their aftermath.
The Smithsonian National Museum of American History presented the exhibit "September 11: Bearing Witness to History" one year after the attacks of September 11, 2001. The immediacy of the events and exhibit prompted more than 10,000 visitors to share their story on cards in the exhibit hall, which are availble from the September 11 Digital Archive website. Visitors to the online exhibition may share their stories through a partnership with the September 11 Digital Archive, and thousands have already done so.
Before the 1979 accident at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island, few had heard of the nuclear power plant on the Susquehanna River. But the crisis that began 20 years ago in the early morning of March 28 quickly turned the plant and its giant cooling towers into icons in the long national argument over the safety of nuclear energy.
In 1999 the Washington Post produced a special report on the twentieth anniversary of the accident at Three Mile Island. There is a photo gallery and contemporary coverage of the event separated into fourteen chapters, three appendices, and a glossary. There also are links to subsequent articles about the cleanup of the nuclear reactor and the lingering health effects on local residents.
In addition to photos and articles, the website hosts transcrips of online discussions where readers posed questions to the former Pennsylvania governor Richard Thronburgh and to Washington Post energy reporter Martha Hamilton. Individual readers had the opportunity to share their personal story as well, also submitted through the online discussion format.
Using Flickr's unique photo sharing platform, the Institute for the Future of the Book will gather pictures of the Gates from anyone and everyone who wants to contribute. The aim is to harness the creativity and insight of thousands to build a kind of collective memory machine - one that is designed not just for the moment, but as a lasting and definitive document of the Gates and our experience of them. 7,500 gates in Central Park made for infinite views and infinite ways to shoot a picture. As one observer said, there were as many views of the Gates as footsteps in the park. In that spirit, there is no pre-determined shape for this project, other than that it will be online and constantly evolving according to the contributions, suggestions and innovations of participants.
The Gates Memory Project uses the photo sharing website Flickr to create a public and collective memory of the public art exhibit "the Gates" created by Christo and Jeanne-Claude and on view in New York City's Central Park for sixteen days in February, 2005. Anyone and everyone is invited to add their photos to the project by putting them on Flickr and include them in the project by using the tag "gatesmemory." The Institute of the Future also hosts a blog to discuss how the collected images will be used and presented.
Isaac Newton wrote at least one hundred thirty one manuscripts, totaling approximately one million words, on the subject of alchemy, work that would today fall under the general rubric of "chemistry". With the support of the National Science Foundation, this scholarly online edition is one part of an integrated project that combines new research on Newton's chymistry with an online edition of his manuscripts. In the future, this edition will include all of Newton's chymical writings in word-searchable form with annotations indicating their sources and the degree of Newtonian input into them.
NYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 275,000 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.
The New York Public Library Digital Gallery is a site that gives access to thousands of primary source images reproduced from the library's archives. The collection includes images from manuscripts, maps, books, and more. The collection is searchable and organized into seven topical categories: Arts and literature, cities and buildings, culture and society, history and geography, industry and technology, nature and science, and printing and graphics. The site also contains information about gaining rights for reproductions and a helpful user's guide to assist with finding materials quickly.
Early Classics in Biogeography, Distribution, and Diversity Studies: To 1950 is a bibliography and full-text archive designed as a service to advanced students and researchers engaged in work in biogeography, biodiversity, history of science, and related studies. All items in the bibliography are primary sources and were published in 1950 or before. The subjects involved touch on fields ranging from ecology, conservation, systematics and physical geography, to evolutionary biology, cultural biogeography, paleobiology, and bioclimatology--but have in common a relevance to the study of geographical distribution and diversity.
This virtual museum and archive preserves and shares the history and historic records of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and of the securities industry from the 1930s to the present. It includes a wide range of primary materials, including a timeline, papers, photos, oral histories and original programs broadcast from this site, which contribute to the understanding of how the SEC has shaped and continues to shape U.S. and international capital markets.
The Securities and Exchange Comission Historical Society's virtual museum and archive provides a great deal of information and hosts a large amount of primary source material. A timeline presents major events in SEC and US history since the stock market crash through the 1980's. There are a number of papers and publications from individuals and the government available for download in a PDF format, and several hundred photos organized by person. Extensive oral histories with more than 25 individuals and more than 5 roundtables are available as transcripts, audio files, or in some cases video files. The online programs hosted by the historical society are produced frequently and archived on the site as well.
