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Images and information for over 7,000
advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and
magazines between 1911 and 1955. Ad*Access concentrates on five
main subject areas: Radio, Television, Transportation, Beauty
and Hygiene, and World War II, providing a view of a number of
major campaigns and companies through images preserved in one
particular advertising collection available at Duke University.
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American Memory Motion Pictures Collections (Library of
Congress)
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A gateway to primary source materials relating
to the history and culture of the United States. The site offers
more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical
collections. Includes a sampling of early American films,
including works by the Edison Company, recordings of vaudeville
and other popular entertainments, early animated films;
recordings of early 20th Century presidents, and scenes of
American work and leisure, 1894-1915.
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American
Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library
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Consists of more than 7 million digital items
from more than 100 historical Library of Congress collections.
The primary source and archival materials relating in the
project cover topics from art and architecture to performing
arts to technology and applied sciences.
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American TV Ad History & Showcase
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Site devoted to "classic" advertisements
1940-1970. Includes an archive television advertisements
available for viewing online or downloading.
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Cities and Buildings Database
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A collection of over 5000 digitized images of
buildings and cities drawn from across time and throughout the
world ranging from New York to Central Asia, from African
villages to the Parc de la Villette. Users can now search for
buildings by country, city, style, title, architect, date of
construction, as well as other fields.
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COMPASS
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Feature around 5,000 objects that reflect the
range of the British Museum's collections.
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Digital Library for Earth System Education
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Provides access to collections of educational
resources, earth data sets and imagery and other support systems
for teaching and learning about the Earth system.
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Digital
Scriptorium
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An image database of medieval and renaissance
manuscripts. Among the participating institutions to this
project are the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley, Columbia
University and the Union Theological Seminary.
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Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850-1920
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Over 9,000 images, with database information,
relating to the early history of advertising in the United
States. The materials is drawn from the Rare Book, Manuscript,
and Special Collections Library at Duke University.
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EQIIS (Earthquake Image Information Service)
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Includes more than 10,000 images of earthquake
engineering damage from over 250 destructive earthquakes
worldwide. Images from late nineteenth century to the present.
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Feedroom
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A portal to streamed video clips of news,
entertainment, sports, and business information. Includes links
to Reuters and NBC News feeds online.
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Godden Structural Engineering Slide Library
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Contains 1000 images based on Professor William
G. Godden's 30 years of teaching structural analysis, structural
design, and architectural engineering, during which time he
photographed many structures throughout the world for the
express purpose of illustrating particular facets of structural
theory, response, or design.
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Great Buildings Online
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Gateway to architicture around the world and
across history. Documents 1000 buildings and hundreds of leading
architects.
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Helios: Photography Online
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Online collections ofmore than 1500 images from
the Smithsonian American Art Museum Photography Collection.
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History and
Politics Out Loud
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A multimedia database documenting and delivering
audiorecordings relevant to American history and politics.
Includes speeches and other addresses by US presidents and other
political leaders.
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History Channel Speech Archives
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Online audiorecordings of speeches and other
addresses by international political leaders; on-site recordings
of notable historic events.
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Internet
Moving Images Archive
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An online archive of "ephemeral films,"
including films produced by and for many hundreds of important
US corporations, nonprofit organizations, trade associations,
community and interest groups, and educational institutions.
Includes advertisement and publicity films, educational films,
government propaganda, and other historically important moving
image materials.
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Kidder Smith Slide Archives on American Architecture
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Selected imagesof from the 3400 slides in the
Kidder Smith Slide Archives at MIT. The slide archive
systematically covers 805 buildings from the pre-Columbian
period to 1978 and includes sequences of 6 to 10 or more slides
for some buildings. Approximately 2000 of the slides document
mid- and late- 20th century buildings, with special attention to
the 1950s and 1960s.
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Library
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The Library of America holds a wide-ranging
collection of audio and video recordings, books, pamphlets,
periodicals, personal collections, oral histories, photographs,
scripts and vertical files devoted exclusively to the history of
broadcasting. Site includes an online sampling of vintage radio
commercials and an online archive of historic photographs
related to radio broadcasting.
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MOAC
(Museums and Online Archive of California)
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Contains a selection of images from 7 California
museums and libraries including the Berkeley Art Museum Pacific
Film Archive, Japanese American National Museum, Oakland Museum
of California, Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology, Iris & B.
Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, UC
Berkeley Bancroft Library, UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic
Arts. Covers all time periods. [Note: This collection
can be viewed in two ways: the Insight Browser allows
users to view the collection using a web browser; the Luna
Insight software provides greater functionality but must be
downloaded.]
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Newsfilm
Library
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A partial online catalog of the Fox Movietonews
newsreel collection (Century Fox Film Corporation) at the
University of South Carolina. The Newsfilm Library includes all
Movietonews reels from 1919-1934, as well as the complete
newsreels and all associated outtakes from September 1942
through August 1944.
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Online
Archive of California (OAC)
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A searchable and browsable resource that brings
together historical materials from a variety of California
institutions, including museums, historical societies, and
archives. Contains over 120,000 images; 50,000 pages of
documents, letters, and oral histories; and 8,000 guides to
collections. Images are organized into thematic and
institutional collections, such as historical topics, nature,
places, and technology.
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Perseus Digital Library
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A collection of more than 500 primary and
secondary texts on the study of ancient Greece and Rome. Also
includes images of vases, sculptures, buildings and other art
and archaeological works.
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Real Guide
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A portal to streamed video clips of news,
entertainment, sports, and business information.
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Vincent
Voice Library
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Index to the Vincent Voice Library, a collection of
speeches, performances, lectures, interviews, broadcasts, etc. by over
50,000 people, recorded over the last 100 years.
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Working Women, 1870 - 1930
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Provides access to digitized historical,
manuscript, and image collections. Explores women's roles in the
US economy between the Civil War and the Great Depression.
Documents working conditions, conditions in the home, costs of
living, recreation, health and hygeine, conduct of life,
policies and regulations governing the workplace, and social
issues. When completed, the collections will contain more than
2200 books and pamphlets, 1000 photographs and 10,000 pages from
manuscript collections.
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