The Online Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts is a a searchable database of some of the western illuminated manuscripts in the British Library. The Library holds one of the richest collections of medieval and renaissance manuscripts in the world, and aims ...
For the first time, Martin Luther King’s entire FBI file is now online – all 16,659 pages, posted by The Memory Hole. http://www.thememoryhole.org/2008/09/fbi_mlk_file/ ...
In early 2007, Julia T. Morton, wife of prominent North Carolinian, entrepreneur, tourism booster, conservationist, environmental activist, sports fan, and prolific image-maker Hugh MacRae Morton, donated his extensive photographic archive—estimated at half a million transparencies, photographs, and negatives, and 60,000 ...
UWM Libraries at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee presents TIBET – From the Collections of the American Geographical Society Library. This digital collection presents a selection of historical maps and photographs of Tibet from the holdings of the American Geographical Society ...
Broward County Libraries Division’s Bienes Museum of the Modern Book: The Dianne and Michael Bienes Special Collections and Rare Book Library, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, is pleased to announce the opening of: “So This Is Florida: An Exhibition of Decorative Book ...
To celebrate the reopening of their 1916 galleries this month, the Cleveland Museum of Art archives has mounted a three month “collection in focus” featuring the history of the museum on their website at http://library.clevelandart.org Enjoy learning about the founders ...
In September 2003, The University of Alabama, University Libraries, in partnership with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries, received an IMLS National Leadership grant to create the digital resource, Publishers’ Bindings Online, 1815-1930: The Art of Books (PBO). All academic libraries ...
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, has created an exhibition archive. This was a multi-year effort funded by a large Getty Foundation grant. One can find exhibition descriptions, lists of archived files generated by the curatorial department, and images ...
Black Grooves is a music review site hosted by the Archives of African American Music & Culture (AAAMC) at Indiana University. Their goal is to promote black music by providing readers and subscribers with monthly updates on interesting new releases ...
Dying Speeches and Bloody Murders: Crime Broadsides Collected by the Harvard Law School Library http://broadsides.law.harvard.edu/ Just as programs are sold at sporting events today, broadsides — styled at the time as “Last Dying Speeches” or “Bloody Murders” — were sold ...