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  • Abraham Lincoln Association Serials

    Between 1940 and 1952, the Abraham Lincoln Association published fifty-two issues of The Abraham Lincoln Quarterly, a journal with original articles regarding all facets of Abraham Lincoln's life and the world in which he lived. According to ALA President G. W. Bunn Jr.: "Some were factual and contained new material; some were a working over of old material from a new approach or with a conclusion that differed somewhat from the traditional point of view; some were interpretative and valuable for saying better what had been said before." This database contains all of the issues of The Abraham Lincoln Quarterly.

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    Abraham Lincoln Association Publications

  • Activism, Organizing, and Leadership within U-M Asian American + Pacific Islander Communities and Spaces

    Activism, Organizing, and Leadership within U-M Asian American + Pacific Islander Communities and Spaces is an ongoing project in collaboration between the United Asian American Organizations (UAAO) and the Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Program. By focusing on the longstanding political history of Asian American and Pacific Islander students on the U-M Ann Arbor campus, this collection aims to acknowledge and document the lasting impact of AA+PI student activists, leaders, and organizers. This project was initiated and headed by student activists who have been involved at every stage of the collection, digitization, and archiving process.

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    Communities of Southeast Michigan
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    University of Michigan History

  • Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM)

    APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) at the University of Michigan is a "virtual library" that provides online access to our papyrological collection. Users are able to view digital images and detailed catalog records containing information on papyrus characteristics, corrections to published papyri, and republications. APIS, funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities, grew from the digitization of papyrus collections from a consortium of universities, including Columbia, Duke, Yale, and Michigan in the early ‘90s, overseen by the American Society of Papyrologists.

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    Archaeology
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  • African American and African Diaspora Collection, 1729-1966 (bulk 1781-1865)

    The African American and African Diaspora Collection is comprised of individual letters, documents, and other manuscript items from the William L. Clements Library relating to slavery, abolition movements, and various aspects of African American life, largely dating between 1781 and 1865.

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  • A Glossarial DataBase of Middle English

    All of the material included here was prepared by Prof. Larry Benson as part of a larger Glossarial DataBase of Middle English. It was subsequently marked up according to the TEI (P3) Guidelines using the analytical markup section.

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  • Alco Locomotive Lantern Slides

    The lantern slides held by the Special Collections Research Center were produced by the American Locomotive Company, commonly referred to as Alco. In 1925 Alco built what is regarded as the nation’s first commercially successful diesel locomotive. Locomotive manufacturers sent field instructors to provide training to the railroad’s workforce that would service and maintain new locomotives ordered by the railroad. This kit, formerly used by an Alco field representative, includes six wooden storage cases full of 362 glass mounted oversized slides.

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    University of Michigan - Special Collections Research Center

  • Alfred Hussey Collection: Japan's Constitution Photo Album

    This collection contains an album commemorating the enactment of Japan's constitution and is in English rather than Japanese. The album is housed in the Asia Library at the University of Michigan. It was produced by The Society for the Popularization for the Constitution (Kenpō Fukyū Kai), founded as a result of pressure from occupation officials to "thoroughly popularize the spirit of the new Constitution through activities to raise awareness of it so as to touch every aspect of the lives of the citizens." The album was a gift from Alfred Hussey, an attorney and American officer during World War II.

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    Asia
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  • Alfred Hussey Collection: Japan's Constitution Slides

    The "Proclamation of Human Rights" (Jinken Sengen, 人権宣言) is a set of lantern slides (gentō, 幻灯) produced by the Constitution Popularization Society (Kenpō Fukyūkai, 憲法普及会) to promote the new Constitution of Japan promulgated on November 3, 1946 and enacted May 3, 1947. They are housed in the Asia Library at the University of Michigan. The slides are in Japanese and include drawings, colored cartoons, and images of the scales of justice with citizens. They were part of the effort to popularize the constitution. The slides were a gift from Alfred Hussey, an attorney and American officer during World War II.

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    Asia
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  • American Jewess

    A digital reproduction of the 8 volumes of The American Jewess (1895-1899) that described itself as "the only magazine in the world devoted to the interests of Jewish women." It was the first English-language periodical targeted to American Jewish women, covering an evocative range of topics that ranged from women's place in the synagogue to whether women should ride bicycles. Founded and edited by Rosa Sonneschein (1847-1932), it offered the first sustained critique, by Jewish women, of gender inequities in Jewish worship and communal life.

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    Nineteenth Century American Titles
    Humanities Text Initiative
    Serial Collections

  • American Verse Project

    This collection contains full-text electronic archive of selected volumes of American poetry prior to 1920. Most of the archive is made up of 19th century poetry, although a few 18th century and early 20th century texts are included.

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    Poetry

  • Ann Arbor Postcards

    The Making of Ann Arbor is a public collection of resources on the history and development of the Ann Arbor community, created in collaboration with the Ann Arbor District Library, the Bentley Historical Library, and the University of Michigan's Digital Content & Collections. The Making of Ann Arbor Postcard collection is comprised of 260 online images.

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    Architecture
    University of Michigan - Bentley Historical Library
    Communities of Southeast Michigan
    Making of Ann Arbor
    Photographs
    Artifact Collections Held by University of Michigan

  • Archives of Michigan Online Finding Aids

    The Archives of Michigan EAD (Encoded Archival Description) Finding Aids provide access to finding aids or descriptive inventories for archival records and manuscript collections at the state Archives.

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  • Archivision Architecture Images

    The Archivision Architectural Image Collection, a collection of over 100,000 high resolution images with approximately 6,000 additional images each year, encompasses a variety of examples of the built environment including images of architecture, gardens and parks, public spaces, and cities from North America, Europe, and Asia. The collection is created and curated by Scott Gilchrist, photographer and architect. The University Library licenses the images for academic use from Archivision Inc.

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  • Archivision Art Images

    The Archivision Art Image Collection focuses on a wide range of art from Italy, including ancient Roman frescoes, mosaics, and sculpture, as well as paintings and sculpture from the medieval to baroque periods. The collection, created and curated by Scott Gilchrist, photographer and architect, is expected to grow by approximately 3,000 images per year. The University Library licenses the images for academic use from Archivision Inc.

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  • Art, Architecture and Engineering Library

    Images from this collection are part of the Art, Architecture & Engineering Library Collections. This collection of art and architecture images has grown from image collections used by the College of Architecture & Urban Planning and the School of Art & Design. Unique highlights of the collection include recent gifts of images of architecture from Japan, India, and the Middle East.

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    University of Michigan - Art
    Architecture and Engineering Library (AAEL)
    Photographs
    Visual Resources Collections

  • Art, Architecture and Engineering Library, Lantern Slide Collection

    This collection contains digital images created from lantern slides showing architecture, cities, and landscapes from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The original lantern slides that form this collection are part of the Art, Architecture and Engineering Library Special Collections housed in the lower level of the library.

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    University of Michigan - Art
    Architecture and Engineering Library (AAEL)
    Architecture
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    Visual Resources Collections

  • Art Images for College Teaching

    Art Images for College Teaching (AICT) began as a personal project dedicated to the principle of free exchange of image resources for and among members of the educational community. Allan T. Kohl, the creator of this collection, has dedicated any copyright he might hold in the collection to the public domain, via the CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication.

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  • Artists' Books

    Artists' Books are books in the form of art objects or art objects in the form of books. They may look more like codices (bound books) that employ elements from the visual arts, or they may appear more like visual works of art that borrow the vocabulary of books, such as text or pages. The Art, Architecture & Engineering Library (AAEL) Special Collections has a growing collection of artists' books in its holdings. Although some of the AAEL's artists' books circulate, the ones featured in this database require more careful handling and are only available for viewing on-site in Special Collections.

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    University of Michigan - Art
    Architecture and Engineering Library (AAEL)
    Art History / Works of Art
    Artifact Collections Held by University of Michigan
    University of Michigan - Special Collections Research Center

  • Atharvaveda

    This ancient birch-bark manuscript from Kashmir was probably made in the beginning of the 16th century AD, but preserves a text which is thousands of years older, probably from around 900 BC. The Atharvaveda came to be known as one of the four Indian Vedas and was and is one of the most significant and influential ancient Indian texts and thus ranks among the most significant world heritage documents.

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    Archaeology

  • Bentley Historical Library: Bentley Image Bank

    The Bentley Image Bank includes over 25,000 digital images scanned from the Bentley Historical Library’s diverse collections of original photographs, maps, paintings, and other documents illustrating the history of the University of Michigan, the city of Ann Arbor, and the State of Michigan. While not a complete repository for every image, it showcases a digitized sampling of the materials available within the Library's holdings.

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    Architecture
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    Communities of Southeast Michigan
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    University of Michigan History
    Visual Resources Collections

  • Bentley Historical Library Civil War Collections Online

    The Bentley Historical Library has more than 400 collections pertaining to the participation of Michigan men and military units in the Civil War as well as the experiences of family and friends on the home front. In 2010-2011, the Bentley digitized 157 collections to increase access to these important materials and commemorate the conflict's sesquicentennial anniversary. Materials range in size from a single letter or diary fragment up to multiple folders of letters as well as volumes of diaries, notebooks, or reminiscences. They offer an authentic view of the Civil War as it was experienced by those in Michigan.

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  • Bentley Historical Library: Delta Delta Delta, Iota Chapter Scrapbook

    Scrapbook from the Delta Delta Delta sorority at the University of Michigan. The scrapbook was originally created in 1914 by residents of Hilary House (a Women’s League house, a precursor to modern dormitories) as a petition to the national Delta Delta Delta sorority for the formation of a local chapter (Iota) at the university, which was installed in 1915. The volume includes photographs of prospective sorority members and campus facilities as well as supporting documentation.

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    University of Michigan - Bentley Historical Library
    Photographs
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    University of Michigan History

  • Bentley Historical Library Finding Aids

    The University of Michigan Bentley Historical Library EAD (Encoded Archival Description) Finding Aids provide access to finding aids or descriptive inventories for archival records and manuscript collections at the Bentley Historical Library.

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  • Bentley Historical Library: Grand Hotel Photograph Series

    The Grand Hotel Photograph Series (circa 1855-2004) comprises over 2,200 images organized generally into Hotel Amenities, Scenery, Unidentified Events, People, Construction and Remodeling, and Miscellaneous. The series comprises images of the hotel and its surroundings, events that were held at the hotel, numerous photographs of celebrities and political leaders, images of construction projects, photographic reproductions of several artistic and historical items related to the hotel, and images of the recovery work after a room fire at the hotel in 1983.

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    Architecture
    University of Michigan - Bentley Historical Library
    Communities of Southeast Michigan
    Photographs
    Artifact Collections Held by University of Michigan
    Visual Resources Collections

  • Bentley Historical Library: Ivory Photo Photograph Collection

    Melvin Allison Ivory came to Ann Arbor in the mid-1920s from Lansing, where he had done amateur photo finishing for his father's two drugstores. While an undergraduate at the University of Michigan, Ivory became a photographer for the Alumni Association. He continued to handle photo finishing "both amateur and professional" for Calkins-Fletcher Drug Company after graduating from the university in 1931. In addition, Ivory Photographic Services became the official photographer for the Michigan Alumnus, Michiganensian, and the Bureau of Alumni Relations.

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    University of Michigan History

  • Bentley Historical Library: Jeffrey R. Parsons Archaeological Sites Images

    The Jeffrey R. Parsons digital images are part of the Jeffrey R. Parsons collection housed at the University of Michigan's Bentley Historical Library. Mr. Parsons generously donated the photographs to the University of Michigan Regents, also assigning the copyright to the Regents. The images document the archaeologist's field work in the Basin of Mexico and in Peru and are part of the collections' visual materials series. These depict terrain survey work, a variety of ceramic work, and multiple archaeological sites. Among the locations documented here are Ixtapalapa, Zumpango, Texcoco, Chalco, Xochimilco, Jauja, Huasahuasi, Junin, and Tarma.

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    Archaeology
    University of Michigan - Bentley Historical Library
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  • Bentley Historical Library: Muriel Webb Treman Photograph Album

    Muriel Webb Treman (1899-1991) was an American missionary and educator who worked in Nanjing and Canton, China, with the Methodist Mission Board and YMCA from 1919 through 1950. This digitized photo album documents her voyage to China with her parents, Lew and Ella Webb; missionary work with her husband Robert in Nanjing; and travels through China and Japan with her family in the early 1920s.

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    University of Michigan - Bentley Historical Library
    Chinese Studies
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  • Bentley Historical Library: Muschenheim Digital Archive

    The William Muschenheim Digital Archive is a searchable database of 3500 scans of architectural drawings and photographs from the Muschenheim collections at the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library at Columbia University and the Bentley Historical Library at the University of Michigan. Muschenheim was a modernist architect who studied at MIT and the Behrens School in Vienna. He worked in New York from 1929-1950. He taught at the University of Michigan College of Architecture and carried on a practice in Ann Arbor from 1951-1989.

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  • Bentley Historical Library: Orville Z. Frazier Photograph Album

    Orville Zackariah Frazier (1896-1971) was an African American engineer and inventor who lived in Elkhart, Indiana as well as Grand Rapids and River Rouge, Michigan. This digitized album contains photographs and cartes de visite from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries of the Frazier and Burden (his mother's) families, their homes, and acquaintances in Indiana.

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  • Bentley Historical Library: Robert C. Metcalf Architectural Drawings and Visual Materials

    Robert Metcalf was a noted Michigan-based modern architect and former Professor and later Dean of the University of Michigan College of Architecture and Urban Planning. Metcalf's work includes over 150 buildings in Michigan and Ohio. The material in this collection spans the years 1942 to 2017 and represents many of Metcalf’s most prominent works (including his personal residence).

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    University of Michigan - Bentley Historical Library
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  • Bibel, Martin Luther Translation

    This version of the Luther translation of the Bible is derived from the edition published by the Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft (1984), and is provided with their kind permission. It was initially prepared by Jeffery Triggs of the OED's North American Reading Program and was subsequently converted to conform to the TEI DTD by the University of Michigan's Humanities Text Initiative.

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  • Bible in English

    This collection contains twenty-one different versions of the English Bible. In addition to thirteen complete Bibles, there are five texts that comprise New Testaments only, two that contain just the Gospels, and William Tyndale's translation of the Pentateuch, Jonah, and New Testament.

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    University of Michigan Licensed Text Collections

  • Bible: King James Version

    This database provides simple, boolean and proximity searches of the King James Bible. The original electronic text for this version of the Bible was provided by the Oxford Text Archive. Original tagging was performed by the New Centre for the Oxford English Dictionary (Waterloo); subsequent conversion to SGML was performed by the University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative.

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  • Bible: Revised Standard Version

    The Revised Standard Version of the Bible is copyrighted by the National Council of Churches of Christ in America and distributed to registered users with their kind permission. We are grateful to the National Council of Churches of Christ in America and the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Computer Analysis of Texts (CCAT) for their permission to host.

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  • Bibliography of Middle English

    The Middle English Bibliography includes, by intention at least, all the Middle English materials and texts which are cited in the Middle English Dictionary. Although this bibliography is not exhaustive, it offers what we believe to be the most comprehensive single list of these materials available. Bibliography results include only the manuscripts and editions used in the compilation of the Middle English Dictionary.

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  • Black Community Newspapers of Flint

    The Black Community Newspapers collection offers a long-forgotten glimpse into the Black community of Flint. This first set, provided by the Flint Public Library, covers the end of World War II and the beginning of the Civil Rights Era. By providing access to these newspapers, the University of Michigan—Flint hopes to encourage authentic Black representation in local history. The second run of the Flint Spokesman in the 1970s will be added in the near future, covering Flint's urban renewal and the destruction of the historically Black St. John's and Southside neighborhoods.

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  • Book of Mormon

    This database provides simple, boolean and proximity searches of the Book of Mormon. This electronic text was provided by Project Gutenberg and subsequently marked up at the University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative in SGML.

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  • British Manuscripts Project

    This database contains a checklist of the microfilms prepared in England and Wales for the American Council of Learned Societies, 1941-1945. It lists the contents of 2,652 reels of microfilm containing reproductions of manuscripts and some rare printed materials found in the libraries in England and Wales, covering from medieval times to the 18th century. Complete sets of the films are held by the University of Michigan Library and by the Library of Congress. University of Michigan reel numbers are included in this online version.

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  • British Women Romantic Poets

    The British Women Romantic Poets Project is a collection of electronic text editions of poetry by British and Irish women written (not necessarily published) between 1789 (the onset of the French Revolution) and 1832 (the passage of the Reform Act), a period traditionally known in English literary history as the Romantic period.

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    Humanities Text Initiative
    Poetry
    University of Michigan Licensed Text Collections

  • Broadway Park

    The Broadway Park Redesign Project is a partnership of the University of Michigan Arts of Citizenship Program and the City of Ann Arbor Department of Parks and Recreation. The goal of the partnership is to encourage public discussion and proposals concerning the improvement of Broadway Park and the public riverfront of central Ann Arbor. This collection represents the digital media available on the project website.

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    Communities of Southeast Michigan
    Maps
    Photographs

  • Brower Fund Collection: Playing Cards

    The Brower Fund Collection: Playing Cards collection contains Japanese playing cards that date to the mid-19th century. They are housed in the Asia Library at the University of Michigan.

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    Artifact Collections Held by University of Michigan

  • Brut Chronicle

    The celebrated Chronicles of England, or "Brut Chronicle," is the earliest prose chronicle in English and was the most popular history of England in the Middle Ages. The Chronicle traces the history of Britain from its earliest (mythical) time (Albinia), including stories of legendary kings such as Brutus of Troy (hence its name), Lear and Arthur, and is quite detailed for the period starting with the reign of Edward I.

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    University of Michigan - Special Collections Research Center

  • Charles I. Walker Collection, 1817-1887

    Charles Irish Walker was an amateur historian, practicing attorney, and a professor of law at the University of Michigan (1859-1887). This digitized collection contains materials relating to the founding of the University, including the original draft of the act to establish the "Catholepistemiad"; a table explaining meaning of names of professorships; and correspondence, reports, and minutes documenting the early years of the University (with papers drafted or signed by Augustus B. Woodward, John Monteith, and William Woodbridge).

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  • Chez Baldwin Writer's House Digital Collection

    James Arthur Baldwin (1924-87) was a Civil Rights Movement activist, a prominent African American intellectual, and one of the most important twentieth-century U.S. writers. Absent a brick-and-mortar writer's museum for James Baldwin in the U.S., this collection is based on the scholarship and archival findings of Professor Magdalena J. Zaborowska that were gathered between 2000 and 2018. It recreates Baldwin's house through digital imaging that documents the layout of the home, its contents (e.g., library, artwork, vinyl records, magazines, phone logs, news clippings, and ephemera like jewelry and clothing), and setting (e.g., architectural detail, gardens, furniture).

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    Architecture
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  • Chinese Papercuts

    The Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan possesses a stunning collection of rare propaganda papercuts from the Cultural Revolution--a period of massive political upheaval in China that began in 1966 and lasted about a decade. The papercuts were scanned and made available as high-resolution digital images in this collection by Digital Content and Collections.

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  • Civil War Collection

    The Western Michigan University Libraries United States Civil War Collection was launched in 2007 with 8 diaries of men with connections to Michigan or the Midwest. It has since expanded and the current collection represents diverse military experiences, ranging from a musician to a prisoner of war. The handwritten originals have full transcriptions that are searchable with subjects.

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    Humanities Text Initiative
    University of Michigan History

  • Clarke Historical Library Online Finding Aids

    The Clarke Historical Library at Central Michigan University EAD (Encoded Archival Description) Finding Aids provide access to finding aids for archival records and manuscript collections housed in the Clarke Historical Library's archives.

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  • Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln

    In 1953, the Abraham Lincoln Association published The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, a multi-volume set of Lincoln's correspondence, speeches, and other writings. Roy P. Basler and his editorial staff, with the continued support of the association, spent five years transcribing and annotating Lincoln's papers. The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln represented the first major scholarly effort to collect and publish the complete writings of Abraham Lincoln, and the edition has remained an invaluable resource to Lincoln scholars. This resource presents the 9-volume set of Lincoln's correspondence, speeches, and other writings in a searchable database.

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    Abraham Lincoln Association Publications
    Nineteenth Century American Titles
    Humanities Text Initiative

  • College of Arts, Sciences, and Letters (UM-Dearborn)

    The College of Arts, Sciences, and Letters (formerly Literature, Philosophy and the Arts VRC) online image collection serves the departments and disciplines within the college, especially Literature, Philosophy and The Arts. The core physical collection numbers approximately 90,000 slides and 300 videocassettes.

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  • Conradi: Kurze Abhandlung von den Krankheiten der Zaehne und deren Kur

    The book, "Sr. koenigliche majest. zu Daennemark, Norwegen [et]c. Hof-Mund und Zahn-Arztes Johann Gottfried Conradi, Kurze Abhandlung von den Krankheiten der Zaehne und deren Kur ...", was written for the Danish King in 1755 as a managerial summary of the state of the art of dentistry at that time. Funding was provided by the University Library for the transcription, translation, and digitization of this work. The rarity of this work has made it largely unavailable to researchers in dental history, which we hope will be rectified by the provision of this free full-text online resource.

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    Dentistry Collections
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  • Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse

    This collection of Middle English primary texts was assembled in order to provide a publicly accessible, cross-searchable sampling of Middle English from a widely diverse range of genres, times, and places. The collection already includes some notable works, including the Chaucer Society single-manuscript transcripts, Higden's Polychronicon, Langland's Piers Plowman, Malory's Morte Darthur, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and the entire Wycliffite Bible.

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  • Cross Currents

    Cross Currents, a yearbook of Central European civilization, history, literature, and politics was published from 1982 to 1993: numbers 1-9 by the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan, and numbers 10-12 by Yale University Press. During the twelve years of Cross Currents, the publication brought together information on literature, visual arts, theater, music, cinema, and photography as well as philosophical essays documenting the mix and clash of cultures in the center of Europe.

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  • David V. Tinder Collection of Michigan Photography

    The David V. Tinder collection of Michigan Photography at the William L. Clements Library consists of over 100,000 images in a variety of formats including daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes, cartes de visite, cabinet photographs, real photo postcards, stereographs, and mounted and unmounted paper prints. The collection is primarily made up of vernacular photographs of everyday life in Michigan taken by both professional and amateur photographers from the 1840s into the mid-twentieth century. The collection provides a rich resource for local histories of Michigan, as well as subjects pertinent to American history more broadly.

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    University of Michigan - William L. Clements Library
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  • Dental Cosmos

    Dental Cosmos, a "Monthly Record of Dental Science," was the first enduring national journal for the American dental profession, and one of the most significant in the early history of American dentistry. The foundation of dental practice was documented and debated in its pages from 1859 through 1936, when it merged with the Journal of the American Dental Association, serving as a cornerstone for JADA and the model of what a successful dental journal could be. Many of these original source articles are still cited and considered classics in the field.

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    Dentistry Collections

  • Dental Historic Collection

    This collection of important and unusual dental publications is comprised of both books and journals. Titles included have been selected for reasons of historical interest, value to the profession, rarity, or a need for preservation of the physical items. Highlights of the collection include such titles as "A Practical Treatise on Operative Dentistry" by Jonathan Taft, the thesis of Sigurd Ramfjord, and the "Transactions of the American Dental Association."

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  • Digital General Collection

    This digital collection contains books from the University of Michigan collection that were scanned for preservation purposes. Only those volumes not included in other online collections are now available in this Digital General Collection.

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  • Digitized Selections from Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (University of Michigan) Records Collection, 1966-2010

    This record group pertains to the University of Michigan Department of Afroamerican and African Studies - formally recognized as a department of the College of Literature, Science and the Arts in 2011 - and to campus, regional, and national organizations devoted to political and civil rights causes from the 1960s to the 1990s. The collection includes material that documents racial harassment incidents, political protests, scholarly conferences and symposia, MLK Day celebrations and black student life on the U-M campus. It also includes materials about the civil rights movement of the 1960s and the anti-apartheid and divestment movements of the 1980s.

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  • Digitized Selections from James B. Angell Papers, 1845-1916

    James Burrill Angell was the third (and longest serving) President of the University of Michigan, holding the office from 1871-1909. Angell was also U.S. Minister to China (1880-1881) and Turkey (1897-1898). This digital collection contains his correspondence, lectures and lecture notes, addresses and articles, subject files and personal materials, and photographs.

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  • Digitized Selections from the George W. Pray Papers, 1844-1890

    Bentley Historical Library provides digitized selections from the George W. Pray Papers, 1844-1890. George W. Pray was a physician and member of the first graduating class of the University of Michigan in 1845. Papers include journals, correspondence, and physician's records.

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  • Digitized Selections from the William B. Mershon Papers, 1848-1943

    With generous support from Thomas Buhr, these selected materials from the William B. Mershon papers provide unique documentation of outdoor recreation and conservation efforts in Michigan during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Correspondence, photographs, and writings in addition to meticulously kept journals offer an unparalleled view into Mershon's enduring passion for hunting, fishing, and camping as well as his efforts to protect Michigan's forests and waterways. The complete collection of Mershon's personal papers and business records remains available to the public for research at the Bentley Historical Library.

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  • Diversity in the Desert, Special Collections Research Center, University of Michigan

    This is a collection of over 20 digitized papyri from Egypt and Greece. These are supporting materials for the University of Michigan's Papyrology Collection "Diversity in the Desert: Daily Life in Green & Roman Egypt" exhibit.

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  • Duderstadt Photograph Archive

    The Duderstadt Photograph Archive contains nearly 4,000 images dated between 1959-2004 from James and Anne Duderstadt’s years at the University in their roles as faculty, dean, provost, president, and community leaders.

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  • Early English Books Online

    The EEBO-TCP corpus consists of the works represented in the Early English Books Online collections known as Short Title Catalogues I and II (based on the Pollard & Redgrave and Wing short title catalogs respectively), as well as the Thomason Tracts and the Early English Books Tract Supplement collections. Together these trace the history of English thought from the first book printed in English in 1475 through to 1700. EEBO-TCP is a partnership with ProQuest and with more than 150 libraries to generate highly accurate, fully-searchable, SGML/XML-encoded texts corresponding to books from the Early English Books Online (EEBO) Database.

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  • Eighteen Nation Committee on Disarmament

    Sponsored by the United Nations in 1962, the Conference of the Eighteen-Nation Committee on Disarmament attempted to establish a dialogue between the United States and the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War. In addition to disarmament, the ENDC considered confidence-building measures and control of nuclear tests. This collection includes the verbatim transcripts of its meetings.

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  • Eighteenth Century Collections Online

    Eighteenth Century Collections Online includes significant English-language and foreign-language titles printed in the United Kingdom during the 18th century, along with thousands of important works from the Americas. ECCO-TCP resulted from a partnership with Gale, part of Cengage Learning, created to produce highly accurate, fully-searchable, SGML/XML-encoded texts from among the 150,000 titles available in Gale’s Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) database.

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  • Elizabeth Camp Journals, 1819-1825

    Elizabeth Camp's two journals detail her time spent with the Stockbridge Indians as a schoolteacher and unofficial Congregationalist missionary in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. The collection contains digitized content from physical content held at the William L. Clements Library.

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  • Ethel Smyth Collection, 1910-1962

    Composer and writer Ethel Smyth (1858-1944) is recognized as the first English woman to compose music in the large forms of opera, oratorio and concerto. She studied in the 1870s at the Leipzig Conservatorium, first with Reinecke and then with Heinrich von Herzogenberg, and was accepted as a serious young composer by such musicians as Johannes Brahms and Edward Grieg. Smyth became deeply involved in the Women's Suffrage Movement, devoting two years of her life to the cause and writing what became the theme for the movement, March of the Women, in 1911. Smyth authored ten books, most autobiographical.

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  • Evans Early American Imprint Collection

    Evans Early American Imprints Online contains books, pamphlets, broadsides and periodicals published in America from 1639-1800, based on Charles Evans' comprehensive American Bibliography and enhanced by Roger Bristol's Supplement to Evans' American Bibliography. Evans-TCP, a partnership among the TCP, the Readex division of NewsBank, and the American Antiquarian Society (AAS), created 5,000 accurately keyed and fully searchable SGML/XML text editions from among the 40,000 titles available in the online Evans Early American Imprints collection (series I).

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  • Everyday Life in Thailand

    This collection is designed to supplement the teaching and learning of the Thai language by providing a rich variety of images through which learners may acquire a better understanding of life in Thailand. These images are primarily intended for learners and instructors of the Thai language, but those who are interested in other Southeast Asian languages and related disciplines may find them useful as well.

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  • Faber Poetry Library

    This collection contains the full-text of more than four thousand poems by over 40 British, Irish, and post-colonial poets of the twentieth century, including T.S. Eliot, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, James Joyce, and Sylvia Plath.

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  • Fisheries Division Library

    The Institute for Fisheries Research (IFR), a cooperative unit of the Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Fisheries Division and the University of Michigan (UM), was established February 7, 1930 and is located on the campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. This database provides access to Fisheries Division Research Reports, Fisheries Division Technical Reports, and Fisheries Division Special/Management Reports.

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  • Ford Collection, UM Museum of Anthropological Archaeology

    The Ford Collection of human crania has been used to teach anatomy, anthropology, and pathology for over 130 years, and yet we do not know what consent these individuals gave for the use of their remains for teaching. We recognize that these images and their data continue to be used by educators around the world to teach medical pathologies to their students. While we are mindful of the potential impact to students, we cannot use this as justification to ignore ethical concerns. If you have questions or concerns about access to the images, please contact the UMMAA collections managers.

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  • Fort Wayne Indian Agency Collection, 1802-1815

    The Fort Wayne Indian Agency collection consists of a letterbook kept by Indian agents John Johnston and Benjamin Franklin Stickney; an English-to-Ottawa dictionary, likely written by Stickney; and a memorandum book kept by Johnston during his time at Fort Wayne, Indiana Territory. The collection contains digitized content from physical content held at the William L. Clements Library.

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  • Garden and Forest

    The Journal of Horticulture, Landscape Art, and Forestry (1888-1897) was the first American journal devoted to horticulture, botany, landscape design and preservation, national and urban park development, scientific forestry, and the conservation of forest resources. The journal was established by Charles Sprague Sargent (1841-1927), the founding director of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University. The Library of Congress Preservation Reformatting Division used LC preservation specifications to produce this digital reproduction of all ten volumes, comprising 8,400 pages and over 1,000 photographs and other illustrations.

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  • Gardner Family Papers, 1776-1789

    The Gardner family papers document the management of Joseph Gardner's sugar plantation, Estate Mount Tirzah at Savanalamar, Jamaica, particularly after his death in 1780. Most of the letters concern Joseph's brother Theophilus Gardner, a Philadelphia merchant, who inherited the estate and attempted to manage and sell the property over the course of the following decade. The collection contains digitized content from physical content held at the William L. Clements Library.

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  • George and Marion Blydenburgh Papers, 1920-1934, 1998

    The George and Marion Blydenburgh Papers includes correspondence, photographs, and lantern slides from the Blydenburghs' missionary work in China as well as topical writings (by the Blydenburghs and others), news clippings, reports from the Nanchang Hospital, and publications from the Nanking Language School. The George and Marion Blydenburgh Papers document the work of American missionaries and doctors in China during the 1920s and early 1930s. The collection provides a first-hand account of life in pre-revolutionary China and its increasingly turbulent relationship with Japan in the run up to World War II.

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  • German Auxiliaries Muster Rolls, 1776-1786

    This collection is comprised of seventy muster rolls and 15 additional letters and documents of the German regiments employed by the British to fight in the American Revolutionary War. The collection contains digitized content from physical content held at the William L. Clements Library.

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  • Gilbreath Dixie Highway Scrapbooks

    This collection contains scrapbooks and albums of photographs, clippings, brochures, and correspondence related to the development of the Dixie Highway and W.S. Gilbreath's role in its building and promotion. Businessman William Sydnor Gilbreath Sr. (1867-1937) was instrumental in the development and promotion of the north-south Dixie Highway. The Highway, begun in 1915, had two routes, a Western Division that carried travelers from Chicago, Illinois into the south via Indianapolis, Indiana, Nashville, Tennessee, and Atlanta, Georgia; and an Eastern Division that had its northernmost terminus in Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan, and its southern terminus in Miami Beach, Florida.

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  • Goethe Werke

    This database consists primarily of the Weimar Edition of Goethe's works, originally published between 1887-1919 by Hermann Böhlau (and Nachfolger) under the patronage of Grosshezogin Sophie von Sachsen and hence often referred to as the Sophien-Ausgabe. It is supplemented by material not found in the Weimar Edition, namely Goethes Gespräche, edited by Woldemar Freiherr von Biedermann (Leipzig, 1889-1896) and all the letters discovered since the completion of the Weimar Edition: Goethes Werke, Nachträge zur Weimarer Ausgabe, edited by Paul Raabe (dtv, München, 1990).

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  • Great Britain Indian Department Collection, 1753-1795

    The Great Britain Indian Department Collection, 1753-1795, documents British interactions with Native Americans in New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, with some material relating to South Carolina, Michigan, and Virginia. Materials relay information on boundary disputes, prisoner exchanges, crimes committed against both American settlers and Native Americans, and Native American distress over land infringements. Of particular note are the Albany Commissioners of Indian Affairs' reports. These include meeting reports with Native American groups, remarks on fort construction, rivalries with the French, religious evangelization, and diplomacy. This digital collection contains digitized content from physical items held at the William L. Clements Library.

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  • Great Lakes Digital Library

    Bordering as it does on four of the five Great Lakes, the State of Michigan and its universities understand the importance of the Lakes for the future vitality of our state. Accordingly, the University of Michigan has pursued an active research program in this area, and seeks to share some of its findings through this site. The research papers represented on this site were published by the Great Lakes Research Division, a unit of the University of Michigan Institute for Science and Technology, and later reorganized under the Department of Biology.

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  • Hamparzoum Arzoumanian Papers, 1896-1910

    The close to 500 documents in the Hamparzoum Arzoumanian Archives in the Special Collections of the University of Michigan span the years between 1896 and 1910. These documents vary from 1 to 14 pages in length, and are very diverse in character. They include family documents such as travel documents, birth, marriage, naturalization and death certificates; in memoriam notices, photographs, postcards, personal correspondence and correspondence with members of the Hunchakian Party; circulars and communiques of the party, newspapers and newspaper clippings, and other printed matter.

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  • Harper's Weekly

    This collection contains the original page images of the 1865 volume of American magazine Harper's Weekly.

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  • Harriet DeGarmo Fuller Papers, 1852-1857

    The Harriet DeGarmo Fuller papers consist of four bound volumes of records and eight miscellaneous receipts of the Michigan Anti-Slavery Society, kept between 1852 and 1857, when Harriet DeGarmo Fuller was a member of the executive committee of the Society. These papers form an important picture of the formation and early activity of the Michigan Anti-Slavery Society, with a record of their official resolutions, activities and expenditures. They provide insight into the inner workings of one of the most important state-level Garrisonian antislavery societies. The digital collection contains digitized content from physical content held at the William L. Clements Library.

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  • Harry Alverson Franck Photographs

    The Harry Alverson Franck Photographs document the travels of Franck and his wife, Rachel Latta Franck, mostly in China and South America. Harry A. Franck (1881-1962) was a University of Michigan graduate (1903), avid traveler, and veteran of both world wars. The black and white images in this collection were digitally photographed from original negatives on nitrate or acetate film and reversed into positives, while the color images are from hand-colored lantern slides (on glass) that Franck had prepared to illustrate his lectures. Most of the color images therefore have a black and white counterpart in the negative series.

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  • Hazen Schumacher's Jazz Revisited Radio Show

    The "Jazz Revisited" collection consists of digitized recordings of this half-hour radio program hosted by Hazen Schumacher and broadcast on WUOM from 1967 to 1997. The show was picked up by NPR and at its peak was aired by 220 stations throughout the country. Schumacher was an early jazz enthusiast and featured on the show jazz recordings dating from 1917 to 1947. Each episode included six or seven recordings along with brief commentary from Schumacher. The recordings played were largely 78s but later broadcasts also included reissues from LPs and CDs.

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  • Helsinki Corpus

    This collection consists of a selection of texts covering the Old, Middle, and Early Modern English periods.

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  • Henry James Family Correspondence, 1855-1865 (bulk 1859-1865)

    This collection is made up primarily of correspondence to husband and wife Gilbert and Adeline James of Cherry Creek, New York. Their most prolific correspondent was Gilbert's brother Henry James, who sent letters written while serving in Company C of the 7th Michigan Cavalry during the Civil War. Henry James wrote to his family about life at Maple Grove, near Saginaw, Michigan; camp life during training at Camp Kellogg, Grand Rapids; experiences fighting at Gettysburg; and his posting at Camp Stoneman, Washington, D.C. The digital collection contains digitized content from physical content held at the William L. Clements Library.

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  • Historic Buildings of Ann Arbor

    The Making of Ann Arbor is a public collection of resources on the history and development of the Ann Arbor community, created in collaboration with the Ann Arbor District Library, the Bentley Historical Library, and the University of Michigan's Digital Content & Collections. The Historic Buildings of Ann Arbor collection includes over 200 images and historical information on houses, churches, commercial, and other local buildings in Ann Arbor.

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  • Historic Illustrations of Art and Architecture

    The historic illustrations included in this project were originally published during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Many originally appeared in publications that predated the widespread use of photography for art documentation. These engravings, line drawings, and plans reflect both the technological and aesthetic standards of their time. These records include full bibliographic information on the sources, which were published between 1879 and 1921. Allan T. Kohl, the creator of this collection, has dedicated any copyright he might hold in the collection to the public domain, via the CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication.

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  • History of Art Department, Visual Resources Collections - Simpson Islamic Manuscript Record Archive

    The Visual Resources Collections at the University of Michigan houses the Islamic manuscript record archive of Dr. Marianna Shreve Simpson (PhD, Harvard University, 1978 and Visiting Professor, University of Michigan, 2005). The Simpson collection encompasses the history of Islamic book arts, with a particular focus on illustrated manuscripts produced between 1300 and 1600 CE. The Islamic Art Archives is comprised of four series, and the Simpson material thus comprises the fifth series, which now spans a century of scholarship on Islamic art, painting, architecture, and archaeology.

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  • History of Art, VRC Image Bank

    The Department of the History of Art's digital collection consists of images representing art and architecture from all eras and geographic regions of cultural history. These images have many different sources: field photography donated by current and emeriti faculty, archival negatives and prints, illustrations digitized from books, 35mm slides and lantern slides, as well as digital images licensed from vendors. In addition to digital images, this digital collection includes data records of the Eleanor S. Collins VRC Teaching Collections, namely the 35mm slide collection.

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  • Holstein Family Account and Commonplace Book, 1753-1831

    This volume contains financial records, copied poetry and prayers, and colored illustrations/illuminations compiled by members of the Pennsylvania Dutch Holstein family in the mid- to late 18th century. The text is in German and English. This digital collection contains digitized content from physical items held at the William L. Clements Library.

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  • Homeopathy Collection

    The homeopathy collection at the Taubman Health Sciences Library of the University of Michigan originated in the holdings of the Homeopathic Medical College, first established as part of the University in Ann Arbor in 1875 and conducted concurrently with the allopathic Medical School until 1922. The collection itself contains items dating from the mid-1800’s to the present day, constituting one of the world's most complete collections on the subject.

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  • Humphry and Moses Marshall Papers, 1721-1863

    The Humphry and Moses Marshall papers primarily document the careers of botanist Humphry Marshall (1722-1801) and his nephew and business associate, Moses Marshall (1758-1813). The collection contains digitized content from physical content held at the William L. Clements Library.

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  • Images from Indonesia

    The University of Michigan database of images from Indonesia, brought to you by the Language Resource Center, contains over five hundred digital images of everyday Indonesian life. These images are primarily intended for learners and instructors of Bahasa Indonesia, Indonesia's national language, but those who are interested in other Southeast Asian languages and related disciplines may find them useful as well.

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  • Jacob Aemilius Irving Letterbooks, 1809-1816

    The Irving collection consists of three volumes of outgoing correspondence written from Liverpool, England, and Jamaica, 1809-1816. These volumes are a resource for understanding the mentality of a Jamaican sugar planter during the years following the cessation of the British slave trade. In addition to important regular commentary on his business network and debts, these volumes contain discussion of the trade of enslaved persons, their value to the estates, and their status as currency in the Jamaican economy. This digital collection contains digitized content from physical items held at the William L. Clements Library.

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  • James Sterling Letter Book (1761-1765)

    The James Sterling letter book contains 175 letters written by Sterling, a fur trader, while at Fort Detroit. His letters provide a picture of the fur trade and the consumer needs of Native Americans, French civilians, and the British military, accounts of events during Pontiac's War, as well as the day-to-day concerns of a prominent trader at Fort Detroit. This digital collection contains digitized content from physical items held at the William L. Clements Library.

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  • James Stothert Papers, 1784-1807

    The James Stothert Papers consist primarily of reports from plantation overseers in Saint James Parish, Jamaica, to their absentee landlord, James Stothert of Edinburgh. Routine, at some basic level, these reports include valuable information on the condition of slaves, the profitability of crops and rents, discussions of expenses incurred in the operation of the plantations, and the routine mechanics of sugar production, including some commentary on efforts at improving the process. The collection contains digitized content from physical content held at the William L. Clements Library.

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  • Japanese Manuscript Collection, 1832-1861

    This collection from the 19th century provides insight into cultural encounters between Japan and the West. The manuscripts include an illustrated book of world costumes, an account of the famous Nakahama Manjirō's travels to America, reports of Matthew C. Perry's diplomatic and military expedition to Japan, a painting of the largely blackface "Ethiopian Minstrel Show" that accompanied Commodore Perry, instructions for receiving the first American envoy to Japan, and a diary kept by a member of the first Japanese embassy to the U.S. This digital collection contains digitized content from physical items held at the William L. Clements Library.

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  • Jewish Heritage Collection

    This digital collection contains digitized objects from the Jewish Heritage Collection in the Special Collections Research Center at the University of Michigan. The University Library and the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies were the joint beneficiaries of a generous gift from Constance and Theodore Harris of Beverly Hills, California, who in 2003-2004 gave an extraordinary collection of 2,000 items to the University of Michigan. The Jewish Heritage Collection was formed to reflect Jewish life, and it does so in an unusual assemblage of artwork, books, printed ephemera such as pamphlets and postcards, and objects of everyday and religious significance.

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  • John James Audubon's Birds of America and Viviparous Quadrupeds

    John Audubon published many scientific works in his lifetime, but two are world-renowned for their artistic as well as scientific merit: The Birds of America from Original Drawings (often referred as the "double-elephant folio"; published between 1827 and 1838 in London; first work purchased for the University of Michigan Library in 1839) and The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America (often referred to as the "imperial folio"; published between 1845 and 1848 in Philadelphia; purchased jointly by the Special Collections Research Center and the William L. Clements Library in 2014). These Plate volumes are respectively intaglio and lithographic prints, both handcolored.

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  • Jonathan Chase Papers, 1775-1797

    The Jonathan Chase papers contain letters and documents relating to the services of Colonel Jonathan Chase, of the 13th and 15th New Hampshire Militia regiments, during the Revolutionary War. These record Chase's involvement with recruiting soldiers and providing supplies for the army during the war. The Jonathan Chase Papers are part of the James S. Schoff Revolutionary War Collection. The collection contains digitized content from physical content held at the William L. Clements Library.

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  • Jon Cohen AIDS Research Collection

    Noted Science writer Jon Cohen donated to the University of Michigan this collection of AIDS-related material he amassed while writing the book, Shots in the Dark: The Wayward Search for an AIDS Vaccine. Largely focused on AIDS vaccine research, the collection spans 20 years and contains conference materials, meeting agendas and minutes, promotional materials, scientific reports and numerous government materials among other forms of documentation not found elsewhere in digital form.

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  • Joseph L. Hudson Papers, 1967-1983

    Joseph L. Hudson, Jr., a noted businessman and civic leader, chaired the New Detroit Committee in the aftermath of the city's 1967 uprising. After one year, the Committee had achieved some success in advancing the establishment of job recruitment and training programs, but challenges remained in gaining the confidence of the city's residents. New Detroit thus decided to incorporate in August 1968, at which time Hudson resigned as chairman and was succeeded by Max Fisher. Materials in the digital collection include correspondence, reports, speeches, articles, photographs, and printed material relating to the uprising and to his work with New Detroit.

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  • Kelsey Coins

    The Kelsey Museum of Archaeology is host to about 100,000 ancient objects, of which 42,000 are coins. This coin collection is quite rare, since most of the coins come from secure archaeological contexts excavated in scientific projects undertaken by University of Michigan in the early 20th century. Particular highlights of the collection are Alexandrian coins coming from the site of Karanis, located in the Fayyum Oasis of Egypt, as well as coins from the site of Seleucia-on-the-Tigris, located in the region of Baghdad, Iraq. The collection also holds important issues of Hellenistic Royal coinages and early Roman bronzes.

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  • Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection

    The Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection represents the art and archaeological artifacts of the ancient Mediterranean world and its supporting archival collection, held at the Kelsey Museum at the University of Michigan.

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  • King Family Papers, 1844-1901

    The King Family Papers documents the Russell & King Co. trade with China in the late 1840s, with much content on purchasing instructions and figures. An important aspect of the collection is correspondence pertinent to William King's mental health struggles and eventual institutionalization, 1860-1895. This digital collection contains digitized content from physical items held at the William L. Clements Library.

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  • Koran

    This is an electronic version of The Holy Qur'an, translated by M.H. Shakir and published by Tahrike Tarsile Qur'an, Inc., in 1983. Though attributed to M.H. Shakir, the translation has been shown to rely heavily on the translation of Maulana Muhammad Ali first published in 1917. The text was provided by the Online Book Initiative and subsequently marked up at the Humanities Text Initiative at the University of Michigan in SGML.

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  • Labadie Photograph Collection, University of Michigan

    The images in this database comprise the general photograph holdings of the Labadie Collection. Not included are photographs that make up part of the archival collections. The Joseph A. Labadie Collection is the oldest research collection of radical history in the United States, documenting a wide variety of international social protest movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It is named for anarchist and labor organizer Joseph Antoine Labadie (1850-1933).

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  • Latin Texts

    This collection was assembled from texts provided by the Oxford Text Archive, the InteLex Past Masters Series, Internet Wiretap, and the Cambridge Text Archive. It contains classic texts from Virgil, Ovid, Bacon and De Lille.

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  • Lewis David von Schweinitz, Icones Fungorum, University of Michigan Herbarium

    The Icones Fungorum are a collection of unpublished water color paintings of fungi by Lewis David von Schweinitz (1780–1834). A dedicated botanist and mycologist, Schweinitz is today regarded as the “father” of North American mycology, and a prolific and skilled illustrator. Between 1818 and 1823, Schweinitz and a colleague named Samuel Reinke made hand-painted illustrations to be given to the American botanist John Eatton Leconte (1784–1860) to further knowledge of American fungal species. These paintings were bound into a volume and named Icones Fungorum. The illustrations depict 716 fungi that occur in Europe and America.

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  • Lincoln Highway Digital Image Collection

    The Transportation History Collection of the Special Collections Research Center counts amongst its holdings the archive of the original Lincoln Highway Association (1910-1927). The Lincoln Highway Association was made up of representatives from the automobile, tire, and cement industries, with the goal of planning, funding, constructing, and promoting the first transcontinental highway in North America. The route, consisting of both existing and newly-built roads following the most direct route possible, ran from New York to San Francisco, covering approximately 3,400 miles. This digital collection contains photographs of the Lincoln Highway (construction, views, bridges, etc.).

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  • Lincoln Monographs

    This growing collection of monographs, many published by the Abraham Lincoln Association, contains over a century of scholarship on Lincoln's life and times.

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  • Loftus Cliffe Papers, 1769-1784

    The Loftus Cliffe papers include items dating from Cliffe's service in William Howe's 46th Regiment of Foot between 1776 and 1778. The letters detail his participation in campaigns in the mid-Atlantic theater of the American Revolutionary War, and include descriptions of the Battles of Long Island, Trenton, Brandywine, and Germantown. The remaining letters and documents relate to his family in New Ross, Ireland, efforts to secure an apprenticeship for his son, and his departure from England to serve in India in 1784. The collection contains digitized content from physical content held at the William L. Clements Library.

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  • Louise Gilman Papers, 1866-1869

    The Louise Gilman papers consist of letters written by Louise Gilman while serving as a teacher at the Hampton Institute in Hampton, Virginia, a school established to educate freed slaves. The letters describe Gilman's activities as a teacher and her thoughts about the African American students. The collection contains digitized content from physical content held at the William L. Clements Library.

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  • Lydia Maria Child Papers, 1835-1894

    The Lydia Maria Child Papers consist of mostly personal and at times provocative letters dating largely from 1831 to 1894. The bulk is letters from Child to her wealthy Boston abolitionist and philanthropic friends, the Lorings, between 1839 and 1859. They concentrate on the period of Child's distress with the institutional politics of antislavery, her editorship of the National Anti-Slavery Standard, her growing attachment to New York Bohemia, and the publication of "Letters From New York." The correspondence documents her day-to-day finances, friends, and family. The collection contains digitized content from physical content held at the William L. Clements Library.

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  • Making of America and Other Maps

    This is a collection of over one thousand images from various University of Michigan Library projects, including Making of America.

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  • Making of America Books

    Making of America (MOA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history primarily from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The book collection currently contains approximately 10,000 books with 19th century imprints.

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  • Making of America Journal Articles

    Making of America (MOA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history primarily from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The journal collection currently contains 13 titles with 19th century imprints.

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  • Making of Ann Arbor Text Collection

    The Making of Ann Arbor is a public collection of resources on the history and development of the Ann Arbor community, created in collaboration with the Ann Arbor District Library, the Bentley Historical Library, and the University of Michigan's Digital Content & Collections. This digital collection comprises the text portion of the collection and will include digitized versions of local histories, newspapers, and atlases.

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  • Medicinal Chemical Structures

    This collection contains the chemical structures of a variety of useful drugs, including virtually all clinically available agents in the United States. The drugs are classified according to their mechanism of action and the records include the generic name and the general classification of each drug.

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  • Medieval Realms

    Medieval Realms is a comprehensive collection of original source material for the Middle Ages in Britain. It contains images of manuscripts, artefacts and buildings together with transcripts and translations into modern English of key written sources. In addition there are sound clips of medieval music and spoken Middle English.

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  • Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English (MICASE)

    The Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English (MICASE) is a collection of nearly 1.8 million words of transcribed speech (almost 200 hours of recordings) from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, created by researchers and students at the English Language Institute (ELI). MICASE contains data from a wide range of speech events (including lectures, classroom discussions, lab sections, seminars, and advising sessions) and locations across the university.

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  • Michigan County Histories and Atlases

    The Michigan County Histories and Atlases Digitization Project is comprised of digitized titles (many composed of multiple volumes) published before 1923. The collection offers all members of the community free keyword searching and page-by-page access to digitized reproductions of Michigan county histories and atlases as a resource for historical and genealogical research. The collection is made possible, in part, through a generous Library of Michigan Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant.

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  • Michigan Daily Alumni Photographers

    The Michigan Daily Alumni Photographers Project is a collaborative effort of the University of Michigan Board of Student Publications, The Michigan Daily and Bentley Historical Library to preserve and promote the rich photographic heritage of The Michigan Daily. That heritage provides documentation of the campus, the community, and the wider world and demonstrates the technical skills and aesthetic vision the photographers brought to their assignments. The Bentley and the Board of Student Publications have reached out to former Daily photographers, asking if they would consider contributing a selection of their best images for inclusion in the project.

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  • Michigan Early Modern English Materials

    The Michigan Early Modern English Materials (MEMEM) were compiled by Richard W. Bailey, Jay. L. Robinson, and James W. Downer, with Patricia V. Lehman. The Materials consist of citations collected for the modal verbs and certain other English words for the Early Modern English Dictionary. Many of the slips used in the work were the original Oxford English Dictionary slips, provided to the University of Michigan by the editors of the OED. The work included here was prepared electronically over a period of several years ending in 1975.

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  • Michigan Law School History Collection

    The Michigan Law School History Collection is comprised of resources relating to the history of the University of Michigan Law School. Included in the collection are the following materials held by the University of Michigan Law Library and/or the Bentley Historical Library: Alumni Directories (published in 1908, 1914, 1974, and 1976), Class Directories and Reunion pamphlets (various classes 1873-1933), some Law School Yearbooks.

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  • Michigan Photography

    The Michigan Photography image collection contains photographs of people, places, and events at the University of Michigan dating back to 2000. Michigan Photography is an official unit of the University of Michigan dedicated to documenting the institution’s history through "thoughtful, creative, and consistently excellent photographic images." This online collection represents a curated and well-described selection of the unit’s overall work that have been used in internal and external university publications and were previously available on the Michigan Photography website. Moving forward, the collection will be updated on a regular basis as the unit transfers images to the Bentley Historical Library.

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  • Middle English Dictionary

    Newly revised and expanded (2018-) from its original 15,000 pages, the Middle English Dictionary offers a comprehensive analysis of lexicon and usage for the period 1100-1500, based on the analysis of a collection of over three million citation slips, the largest collection of this kind available. This electronic version of the MED preserves all the details of the print MED, but goes far beyond this, by converting its contents into an enormous database, searchable in ways impossible within any print dictionary.

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  • Mikhail Bulgakov Digital Collection

    Mikhail Afanas'evich Bulgakov (1985-1940) is considered one of the leading prose, theater, and satire writers of the twentieth century. Bulgakov is most famous for his satirical critiques of the Soviet Union, his perseverance as a writer through state censorship, and his fantastical and memorable characters, particularly from his magnum opus, The Master and Margarita. This digital collection is presented by the Mikhail Bulgakov Literary-Memorial Museum. Of note are unique materials that depict life at the author's family dacha in Bucha; the author's extended family, particularly his mother's family, the Prokrovskiis; and the author’s first wife, Tatiana Lappa, and her family.

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  • MLibrary Finding Aids

    The University of Michigan Library's EAD (Encoded Archival Description) Finding Aids provide access to finding aids for archival records and manuscript collections housed in the U-M Library.

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  • Mushi no Utaawase Emaki 虫歌合絵巻

    The Mushi no Utaawase Emaki 虫歌合絵巻 is a 1722 cm (56 ft) long scroll consisting of 15 panels of text and color paintings. "Mushi" means insects in Japanese, and "Utaawase" is literally "poem match," a competition in which pairs of poems composed by two teams on assigned themes are judged on the basis of their literary merit. The creator of the scroll and the author of the text is unknown, but the work probably dates to the Edo period (1600-1868), and the accompanying text is thought to have been composed in the first half of the 17th century.

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  • Nathan M. Thomas Papers, 1818-1889

    Bentley Historical Library provides digitized selections from the Nathan M. Thomas Papers, 1818-1889. Nathan M. Thomas was a Quaker abolitionist and physician in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, and Schoolcraft, Michigan. Materials include correspondence of Thomas, his wife Pamela S. Brown Thomas, and their children, as well as addresses, autobiography, financial ledgers, and files relating to business activities, medical practice, and anti-slavery activities.

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  • National Conference on Social Welfare Proceedings

    This resource is a fully searchable collection of the Proceedings of the National Conference on Social Welfare. These proceedings were originally issued under earlier names including Conference of Boards of Public Charities; Conference of Charities; Conference of Charities and Correction; and National Conference of Social Work.

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  • Nietzsches Werke: Historisch-kritische Ausgabe

    This German-language collection of philosophical texts was published by Intelex Corp and contains Friedrich Nietzsche's works found in the Kritische Studienausgabe, drawn from the Kritische Gesamtausgabe, and includes both Kritische Gesamtausgabe and Kritische Studienausgabe pagination.

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  • Ocha Potter Papers, 1898-2008

    Ocha Potter was a copper mining engineer and adventurer who also played an important role in the promotion of Keewanaw County, Michigan as a vacation destination. Potter made important contributions to the field of copper mining, including the development of a safer, more efficient method of stoping and advocacy for the use of the lighter "one-man" alternative to the ubiquitous two-man drill. This collection contains three photo albums, documenting Potter's travels to Alaska, Africa and Europe, and national parks in the American West. It also contains a manuscript of his autobiography, family correspondence, and ephemera.

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  • Organs and Churches of Hungary, Austria and the Czech Republic

    This collection contains photographs of historical pipe organs in Hungary, Austria and the Czech Republic. Most of these images have appeared in the book "Sacred Spaces of the Austro-Hungarian Empire," written by Bela and Jan Feher. The book reflects a conscious effort to represent both the church/venue and the organ. The collection is sponsored by the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance.

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  • Oxford English Dictionary

    This is the 2nd edition of the most complete and authoritative dictionary of the English language. It cites quotations demonstrating the use of each word defined to illustrate development of its usage and meaning.

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  • Palmer's Index to the Times (1790-1905)

    The Palmer's Index to the Times (1790-1905) is a collection of electronic records keyed from the 461 printed volumes of Palmer's Index to the London Times newspaper which cover the years 1790-1905 inclusive.

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  • Past Masters Philosophical Texts

    This collection consists of over 100 political and philosophical texts ranging from the works of ancient Greece to the early twentieth century. The collection is particularly strong in eighteenth and nineteenth century English philosophy. This collection of philosophical texts was assembled from works published by Intelex Corp.

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  • Patrologia Latina

    The Patrologia Latina Database is the full-text electronic version of the Patrologia Latina by Jacques-Paul Migne (1844-1855 and 1862-1865), including all prefatory material, original texts, critical apparatus, indexes and illustrations. It contains 221 volumes of early Christian (patristic) writings in their original Latin.

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  • Philippine Photographs Digital Archive, Special Collections Research Center, University of Michigan

    This digital collection contains photographs from the following Special Collections Research Center collections: Dean C. Worcester Photographs of the Philippine Islands (PHLA); Parker Hitt Photograph Collection (PHLB); Manila, Philippines, Collection (PHLC); Manila, Philippines, and Environs (PHLD); Scenes of Philippine History (also PHLD); General John J. Pershing Photograph Collection (PHLE); Everett E. Thompson Photograph Collection (PHLF); Tiffany Williams Photograph Collection (PHLG); and Memory Book: U.S.S. Chaumont (PHLJ). The images depict Filipinos, buildings, dwellings, and monuments in and around Manila, Filipino political and military leaders, members of American commissions and military units based in the Philippines, and numerous landscape scenes.

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  • Pictorial History of Ann Arbor

    The Making of Ann Arbor is a public collection of resources on the history and development of the Ann Arbor community, created in collaboration with the Ann Arbor District Library, the Bentley Historical Library, and the University of Michigan's Digital Content and Collections.. The collection includes over 400 historical images of Ann Arbor from 1824 to 1974, plus searching and browsing access to the text of "The Pictorial History of Ann Arbor, 1824-1974," edited by J. Fraser Cocks, III, c.1974, Michigan Historical Collections, The University of Michigan.

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  • Pinback Buttons, Labadie Collection, University of Michigan

    The Pinback Buttons (formerly Political Buttons) image database from the Labadie Collection at the University of Michigan consists of nearly 1000 pinback buttons covering the topics of Anarchism, Atheism, Civil Liberties, Colonialism, Communism, Cooperatives, Ecology, Labor, Narcotics, Pacifism, Political Parties, Radical Right, Sexual Freedom, Socialism, Spain, Women, and Youth/Student Protest. The earliest is dated 1907, but the majority are from the 1930s and later. Many are undated. All originals are held in the Joseph A. Labadie Collection.

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  • Pioneers of Chinese Dance

    The Pioneers of Chinese Dance is a digital photograph collection designed to make the history of twentieth-century Chinese dance accessible to international researchers. The project was started at the University of Michigan Asia Library in 2014, with support from the Center for World Performance Studies, the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, and the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies. The collection is focused on private donations from individual dancers who started their careers in the 1940s and 1950s and had a major impact on the history of Chinese dance.

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  • Poetry Here and Then

    A sampling of the papers of Michigan poets from various collections housed at the Bentley Historical Library, featuring handwritten and typed manuscripts, letters and essays as well as photographs, sketches, certificates and other personal items.

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  • Polar Bear Expedition Digital Materials

    The American military intervention at Archangel, Russia, at the end of World War I, nicknamed the "Polar Bear Expedition," is a strange episode in American history. Ostensibly sent to Russia to prevent a German advance and to help reopen the Eastern Front, American soldiers found themselves fighting Bolshevik revolutionaries for months after the Armistice ended fighting in France. This collection contains digitized manuscripts and photographs as well as maps and primary printed source materials relating to the Polar Bear Expedition.

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  • Political Posters, Labadie Collection, University of Michigan

    The Joseph A. Labadie Collection contains posters which have been acquired over the past 100 years. This database consists of images of those posters covering social protest movements such as Anarchism, Civil Liberties, Colonialism, Communism, Ecology, Labor, Pacifism, Sexual Freedom, Socialism, Women, and Youth/Student Protest. Some are from the first half of the 20th century, but the majority are from the 1960s and later. Many are undated. All originals are held in the Joseph A. Labadie Collection.

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  • Portraits, Individuals and Groups of People in Algeria and Tunisia

    Portraits, Individuals and Groups of People in Algeria and Tunisia is a collection of 69 photographs featuring portraits of people and landscapes of Algeria and Tunisia. The photographs, believed to have been taken around 1910, provide insight into ethnic costumes, clothing and dress codes of North African indigenous people during the first decade of the 20th century.

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  • Rheims Bible: The New Testament

    This version of the Douay-Rheims version of the Bible was prepared by Jeffery Triggs of the OED's North American Reading Program. It was subsequently converted to conform to the TEI DTD at the University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative. We were informed in 2007 that this was in fact the Douay-Rheims Bible, Challoner revision (ca. 1750) and not the Rheims Bible of 1582.

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  • Richard Pohrt, Jr. Collection of Native American Photography

    The Richard Pohrt Jr. Collection of Native American Photographs is comprised of rare images, made directly from the original negatives on the original mounts, and contains both studio and outdoor photographs and reflects the disruptions to Native American life and culture that occurred as a result of the expansion of European settler colonialism in North America. The compiler/collector is a national authority on Native American material culture, and he originally assembled this collection to support investigation of Indigenous clothing, dress, artifacts, and weapons related to various tribes, historic events, and sacred rituals. The collection contains digitized content from physical content held at the William L. Clements Library.

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  • Riverside Shakespeare

    This collection contains the full text of the complete works of Shakespeare as presented in the standard scholarly edition edited by G. Blakemore Evans. It does not include the introductory essays, footnotes and critical apparatus of the print edition.

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  • Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society Papers, 1848-1868

    The Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society papers consist of materials collected by the society, including correspondence to and from various members about slavery; fugitive slaves; the conditions of freemen, and other progressive issues; printed annual reports; and other items. This digital collection contains digitized content from physical items held at the William L. Clements Library.

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  • Roper Center Codebooks

    This collection contains some of the codebooks for datasets acquired from the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research. These codebooks were scanned and indexed at the University of Michigan. Because the codebooks are not always entirely legible, it sometimes works best to look at the entire codebook.

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  • Rosenberg Letters

    The 105 letters in this collection document the experience of a German Jewish family in the years immediately before, during, and shortly after World War II. Nathan and Johannna Rosenberg of Breisach, Germany, had three sons: Julius (1900-1942), Eugen (1901-1964), and Alfred (1911-2005). The letters were written to Alfred by his brothers, his parents, and other relatives between 1938 and 1946. Most of the letters are from Julius and many of these he wrote from the labor camp in Gurs, France, to which all of the Jews in Breisach were deported in October 1940.

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  • Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy

    The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy is a comprehensive reference resource covering the philosophical canon and philosophy from all continents and all periods. It contains 2,053 entries (from 500 to 19,000 words in length) contributed by 1,264 leading experts in 36 countries.

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  • Saline Area Historical Photos

    This is a searchable collection of photographs of Saline, Michigan. This collection covers a time span of more than 100 years, from the 1860s to the late 1900s, and includes images of historic homes, buildings, people, and other subjects. The Saline Area Historical Photos project was produced cooperatively by Saline District Library, Saline Area Historical Society, and The University of Michigan, with funding from the Schrandt Endowment Fund.

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  • Saline Historic Homes

    Saline Historic Homes is a collection of photographs from a Historical and Architectural Survey within the city limits of Saline, Michigan. Conducted in 1994 by Kosky and Glynn Associates, this survey is the result of the City's intent to comply with the Certified Local Government requirements. The objective of the survey was to research, photograph and map all structures built within the City of Saline between 1829 and 1944. The completed project includes a survey card and black and white photograph for each structure, a map of all surveyed structures, and historical and architectural text encompassing the study period.

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  • Saline Valley Farms Photographs

    This is a searchable collection of Saline Valley Farms photographs. Saline Valley Farms was an economic experiment in cooperative living and farming that was developed by Harold Gray in 1932. Detailed in the 150 photographs, the farm was a thriving cooperative that lasted until 1953. The Saline Valley Farms digital project was produced by the Saline District Library, Jim Cameron and David Vaughn. Funding was provided by the Carl F. Schrandt Endowment Fund.

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  • Samson Adams Papers, 1767-1794

    The Samson Adams papers are the estate and business documents of Adams, a free African American man living and working in Trenton, New Jersey, in the late 18th century. Adams worked as a carpenter and laborer, and produced and traded in a variety of items, including soap, milk, corn, and construction materials. The Samson Adams papers are part of the William L. Clements Library's Ewing Family Papers.

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  • Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language

    This resource includes the full text of both the 1755 and the 1773 (1st and 4th) editions of A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson. The electronic version was first published by Cambridge University Press on CD-ROM in 1996.

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  • Samuel Latham Mitchill Papers, 1801-1829

    The Samuel Latham Mitchill Papers consist of 522 letters or fragments dating between 1801 and 1829. Most of the letters are from U.S Congressman Samuel Latham Mitchill to his wife, Catharine Akerly Cock Mitchill. These letters touch on a wide variety of topics, including domestic politics and foreign affairs; relations with European powers; the Barbary Wars and other naval matters; the Aaron Burr conspiracy; Washington, D. C., society; Mitchill's scientific endeavors and sample collection; and his family life and travel plans. The collection contains digitized content from physical content held at the William L. Clements Library.

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  • Seoul 1969: Photographs by a Peace Corps Volunteer

    Seoul 1969: Photographs by a Peace Corps Volunteer is a collection of over 200 images digitized from slide photographs taken by Dr. Margaret Condon Taylor. Dr. Taylor, who received her PhD from the University of Michigan, captured everyday life in a city on the cusp of modernization. These photographs were "discovered" by U-M faculty in 2017 and initially seen in an exhibition at the Institute for the Humanities, for which twenty of the photographs were printed and framed.

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  • Shakespeare: Editions and Adaptations

    This database contains eleven major editions from the First Folio of 1623 to the Cambridge edition of 1863-1866, twenty-eight separate contemporary printings of individual plays and poems, selected apocrypha and related works. In addition, it contains more than 100 adaptations, sequels and burlesques from the seventeenth, eighteenth, and ninteenth centuries, including the whole of Bell's Acting Edition of Shakespeare's Plays (1774).

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  • Shakespeare First Folio and Several Quartos

    Shakespeare's first folio contains thirty-six plays and was published originally in 1623. It is the only reliable text for about twenty of the plays, and a valuable source text even for many of those previously published. This resource provides access to his first folio and several quartos via keyword and phrase searching.

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  • Shenute, a White Monastery Codex

    This archive of photos is part of Rediscovering Shenoute of Atripe (ca. 348-465), a Digital Project from the Special Collections Research Center at the University of Michigan Library. It contains 20 parchment leaves written by Shenute of Atripe (also known as Shenoute).

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  • Southeast Asia Art Foundation Archive

    The SAAF (Southeast Asia Art Foundation) Archive is one of five component sections of the Asian Art Archives, a photograph collection located in and administered by the University of Michigan History of Art Department in Tappan Hall. The SAAF Archive features collections of visual materials by photographers and leading scholars of South and Southeast Asian art, and also includes photographs from private collections, museums, and dealers worldwide.

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  • Special Collections Research Center Finding Aids

    The University of Michigan Special Collections Research Center's EAD (Encoded Archival Description) Finding Aids provides access to finding aids or descriptive inventories for archival records and manuscript collections at the Special Collections Research Center.

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  • Special Collections Research Center Image Bank

    The Special Collections Research Center Image Bank is a repository intended to capture the digitized images of Special Collections materials in the public domain created for incidental requests — such as those from patrons or from curatorial staff for outreach initiatives. The Image Bank is a phased project that will allow the Special Collections Research Center to quickly locate previously scanned images and keep typically fragile materials from being handled more than necessary, to make public-domain images freely available to increase discoverability, and to potentially leverage accumulated images into new Digital Collections, Exhibits, or other Outreach opportunities.

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  • Students on Site

    Students On Site (SOS) was the first project of the University of Michigan Arts of Citizenship Program. Students on Site was designed to use local history and geography as a site of innovative teaching and learning for students and teachers at all three education levels. This archive is a collection of historical and contemporary materials such as maps, photographs, personal letters, and government records. Most of the documents are available at the Bentley Historical Library.

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  • Teatro Español del Siglo de Oro

    This is a full text database of over 800 plays comprising 68 volumes written by the sixteen most prolific dramatists of the Spanish Golden Age (XVI and XVII centuries), including Lope de Vega, Calderón de la Barca and Tirso de Molina.

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  • TEI Guidelines

    This is the full-text edition of the TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) Guidelines written with contributions by C.M. Sperberg-McQueen and Lou Burnard. These guidelines provide means of representing those features of a text which need to be identified explicitly in order to facilitate processing of the text by computer programs. In particular, they specify a set of markers (or tags) which may be inserted in the electronic representation of the text, in order to mark the text structure and other textual features of interest.

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  • The Campbell Bonner Collection of Magical Amulets

    This collection describes sixty-one magical amulets formerly owned by Campbell Bonner, professor of Greek at the University of Michigan from 1907 to 1945. Bonner published Studies in Magical Amulets, Chiefly Graeco-Egyptian, a monograph containing a catalog of 398 magical amulets, including those amulets from Bonner’s collection. Mostly from Egypt and Syria, and produced from the 1st century B.C.E. to the 4th century C.E., these amulets can be defined as ancient precious stones engraved with symbolic iconography and wording, designed to protect their owners against the uncertainties of life, particularly in the spheres of health, love, and prosperity.

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    University of Michigan - Special Collections Research Center

  • The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

    This is a digital edition of the "Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson," Centenary Edition, edited and with notes by Edward Waldo Emerson.

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  • The Detroit Jewish News Archive

    Established in 1942 by noted journalist Philip Slomovitz, the independent Detroit Jewish News is one of America’s leading Anglo-Jewish media outlets and the primary information source for the Detroit metropolitan area’s Jewish community. It strives to reflect the diverse views within the community while advocating positions of Jewish unity and continuity.

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    Communities of Southeast Michigan
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  • The First 100: Chicanas Changing History

    The First 100: Chicanas Changing History archival project seeks to document how, over the last 50 years, Chicana have transformed the way we analyze and write history as well as who is included in U.S. history. Through oral histories, data collection, and public programs, this project honors these women’s contributions in creating a fuller depiction of U.S. history. The project also interrogates the academy’s organizational culture that systematically disregards the contributions of Chicana academic research and work.

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  • The Harry Watkins Diary: Digital Edition

    Hardworking actor, playwright, and stage manager Harry Watkins (1825–94) was a prolific diarist. For fifteen years, Watkins recorded the plays he saw, the roles he performed, the books he read, and his impressions of current events. Watkins collaborated with preeminent performers and producers, recording successes and failures as well as his encounters with celebrities such as P. T. Barnum, Junius Brutus Booth, Edwin Forrest, Anna Cora Mowatt, and Lucy Stone. His is the only known diary of substantial length and scope written by a U.S. actor before the Civil War - making Watkins, essentially, the antebellum equivalent of Samuel Pepys.

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  • The Michigan Citizen Digital Archives

    The Michigan Citizen newspaper was founded in Benton Harbor, Michigan in 1978 by Charles and Teresa Maxwell-Kelly. The paper maintained a strong pro-community, progressive editorial stance, and was directed toward Michigan's African American and progressive-minded community. Founded on the belief that people made good decisions if armed with good information, the paper attempted to provide a voice to the views of ordinary citizens in a city where African Americans were the majority. The paper was often considered by some to be controversial, insisting on holding elected officials accountable for their actions and providing sole coverage of grassroots groups and movements.

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  • The Michigan Daily Digital Archives

    The Michigan Daily was founded in 1890 as a student-run organization, both financially and editorially independent from the University of Michigan. Three characteristics - editorial independence, daily publication, and broad ambition - combined to make The Michigan Daily one of the most important university-based newspapers in American history. This archive contains not only the record of day-to-day life and opinions of students, faculty, staff, and alumni for 125 years, but also an unparalleled window into the social and political history of 20th-century America. The archive contains every extant issue of The Daily, from its founding to present, and will be updated annually.

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  • The United States and its Territories, 1870 - 1925: The Age of Imperialism

    The United States and its Territories, drawn from the University of Michigan Library's Southeast Asia collection, comprises the full text of monographs and government documents published in the United States, Spain, and the Philippines between 1870 and 1925. The primary focus of the material is the Spanish-American war and subsequent American governance (approximately 1898-1910). This project was funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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  • The University of Michigan, An Encyclopedic Survey

    The University of Michigan, An Encyclopedic Survey is a rich and particularly detailed source for the history of the university from its origins in Detroit in 1817, through the first century of its operation in Ann Arbor with updates extending the history through 1975. The Encyclopedic Survey is made up of more than 400 individual histories about the administration, schools and colleges, departments, programs, units, organizations, and physical facilities that comprise the university.

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  • Thomas Gage Papers, 1738-1807

    The Thomas Gage papers consist of the military and governmental correspondence and headquarter papers of General Thomas Gage, officer in the British Army in America (1754-1763) and commander-in-chief of the British forces in North America between 1763 and 1775. William L. Clements acquired the Thomas Gage Papers from Henry Rainald Gage, 6th Viscount Gage, in 1930. The collection is particularly strong in documenting British administration of North America after the French and Indian War, interactions with Native Americans, and the years preceding the American Revolution. The collection contains digitized content from physical content held at the William L. Clements Library.

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  • Thomas Leyland Company Account Books, 1789-1793

    The Thomas Leyland Company account books are two volumes of records for the slave ships Hannah (1789-90) and Jenny (1792-1793), traveling from Liverpool to Africa, then across the Atlantic to Jamaica and other West Indian Islands. The books record the sales in each port, including enslaved Africans, fabric, and sugar, and contain details on seamen's wages and instructions to the captain for the treatment of enslaved persons. The collection contains digitized content from physical content held at the William L. Clements Library.

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  • Transportation History Collection: Railroads

    This collection in the Special Collections Research Center of the University of Michigan contains a unique body of printed and visual materials on transportation technology and travel. International in scope, subjects include ballooning & dirigibles, early roads, automobiles, canals, bridges, carriages & coaches, and most notably, railroads. The collection of railroad material consists of items relating to American, Canadian, Mexican, British, French, German, and Russian railroad companies and their rolling stock.

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  • Travels in Southeastern Europe

    This collection contains four accounts of travel in southeastern Europe, each of which contains a significant portion devoted to Bosnia and Hercegovina. Based on information gathered from scanning and reviewing these four original texts, 100 additional U-M Library titles were scanned which completed the project. Many of the titles are rare, and few have been given the attention they deserve. In light of the large-scale destruction that occurred in Bosnia and Hercegovina during the attempted "ethnic cleansing" between 1992 and 1995, an electronic corpus of Bosnian travel accounts preserves and widely disseminate the contents of those titles.

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  • Turkish Life in Pictures

    The University of Michigan Turkish Life in Pictures (TULIP) image database is designed to supplement the teaching and learning of the Turkish language by providing a variety of images through which learners may acquire a better understanding of life in Turkey. These images are primarily intended for learners and instructors of the Turkish language. Therefore certain linguistic aspects have been deliberately emphasized in the selection of images and the captions.

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  • UM Clark Library Maps

    This collection contains images of maps from the Stephen S. Clark Library for Maps, Government Information and Data Services' map collection at the University of Michigan Library. The print map collection from which these maps originate contains over 370,000 maps and is the principal collection for cartographic materials at the University of Michigan. We house the largest collection of printed maps in the state of Michigan, and one of the largest at an academic institution.

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  • UM-Dearborn Newsletter Photos

    These photographs are from the collection of the Office of Communications & Marketing, formerly the Office of University Relations, in the University of Michigan-Dearborn Archives. They were taken for The Reporter, the staff and faculty newsletter. The images date from the mid-1960s to the early 1990s. The Reporter is a continuing publication, which has been online-only since late 2010.

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  • UM Museum of Anthropological Archaeology

    The Image Database includes photographs from original excavations, personal collecting, reference books and magazines, as well as images of artifacts within the Museum's collections. We have made every effort to include up to date source information for all photographs. The Image Database was made possible through support provided by the University of Michigan's College of Literature, Science and the Art Information Technology Committee and the National Endowment of the Humanities.

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  • United Sons of Salem Benevolent Society Minute Book, 1839-1867

    The minute book of the United Sons of Salem Benevolent Society describes the business proceedings of a mid-19th century African American organization. A hybrid of an insurance agency and charitable operation, the United Sons bound together members of the African American community of Salem, New Jersey, providing a social network, a financial safety net, and support in the event of illness or death. This digital collection contains digitized content from physical content held at the William L. Clements Library.

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  • University of Michigan Alumnae Council Survey Responses, 1924

    In 1924, the Alumnae Council of the Alumni Association of the University of Michigan mailed a survey to the more than 3,000 women currently in attendance and to over 7,000 who had attended the University going back to the year 1870, when women were first admitted. The survey questionnaires asked for biographical, occupational and leadership position information. In their deeply personal reflections and memories, the responses are a vital record of the lived experiences of women at one of the premier institutions of the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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  • University of Michigan Ann Arbor Campus Paintings and Portraits

    This collection of images of paintings and portraits from the Ann Arbor University of Michigan campus was created by Rafal Farjo and fellow students in the UM History 265 course, spring term 2001. The course was taught by Professors N.H. Steneck and M.L. Steneck. This digital collection seeks to provide information on and increase access to the paintings from various locations around the University of Michigan Ann Arbor campus.

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  • University of Michigan-Dearborn Environmental Study Area Herbarium

    This herbarium was created by University of Michigan-Dearborn students for the purpose of recording and preserving the species located in the Environmental Study Area located behind the campus’s main grounds, and was digitized to allow easy access to the herbarium’s records. The Environmental Study Area is a 120-acre patch of natural land that is used by the school to study ecosystems, encounter nature, and conduct biological research.

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  • University of Michigan Herbarium Catalog Collection

    The University of Michigan Herbarium (MICH) includes approximately 1.75 million specimens of vascular plants [ferns, gymnosperms, and flowering plants (~1.1 million)], algae (96,000), bryophytes (163,000), fungi (~280,000), and lichens (57,000). Herbarium MICH is known worldwide for the teaching and research conducted here in systematic botany and biodiversity studies and serves as a resource for the wider botanical community. The depth and breadth of our collection often enables us to provide assistance available nowhere else. Support for digitizing and databasing specimens at MICH was provided by U-M funding, as well as other funds and foundations.

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  • University of Michigan Herbarium Fungus Monograph Images

    This collection contains higher-quality versions of the photographs and illustrative plates from the University of Michigan Herbarium Fungus Monographs. These images are searchable in this digital collection, and are also available in the monographs as well. They include photographs of fungi specimens, electron microscope spore photographs, and accompanying data records.

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  • University of Michigan Herbarium Fungus Monographs

    This collection contains page images and uncorrected OCR text of eleven 20th century monographs describing species of fungi. The texts are searchable, and return bitonal page images in response to matching search results. Links are provided to the high-resolution images in the University of Michigan Herbarium Fungus Monograph Images.

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  • University of Michigan Herbarium, Krieger's Watercolors of Fungi

    This collection contains images from the Herbarium's Krieger watercolor collection, along with records that describe them. Louis C. C. Krieger was a mycological artist who spent the years from 1918 to 1928 helping Baltimore physician and amateur mycologist Dr. Howard A. Kelly create a private mycological library. The watercolors shown here are from Dr. Kelly's library, which was donated to the University of Michigan in 1928.

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  • University of Michigan Historical Math Collection

    The University of Michigan Historical Mathematics Collection contains selected books from the University of Michigan mathematics collection that have been digitized to improve access and to preserve the content of these books. All of the books in this collection were published in the 19th or early 20th century.

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  • University of Michigan Museum of Art

    This collection contains over 19,000 high quality digital images of works in the collections of the University of Michigan Museum of Art.

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  • University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, Distribution Maps of Michigan Fishes

    This collection contains map images showing the locations in which fish have been recorded in Michigan. The atlas contains separate maps for 153 species. Records are keyed to indicate whether a voucher specimen is available in the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology.

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  • University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, Division of Fishes

    This collection contains catalog records of the Fish division's specimen collection. The database currently contains nearly 190,000 records, with collection dates ranging from the 1850s to the present. The records include such information as scientific name, common name, collector and collection date, locality, and preparation type. Nearly 700 digital specimen images are also present.

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  • University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, Fish Field Notes

    This collection contains page images of the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology's Fish Division's field notebooks, with accompanying data records. The records include such information as collection date, collection location, species collected, and related information.

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  • University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, Fish Species Descriptions

    This collection contains descriptions of fish species from the Great Lakes region. These descriptions are modified from Hubbs' and Lagler's "Fishes of the Great Lakes Region," 2003, by G. R. Smith. The records include such information as family, scientific name, common name, general and specific descriptions, distribution, and ecology.

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  • University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, Insect Division Collection

    This collection contains over 390,000 catalog records from the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology’s Insect Division's specimen collection. More than 95,000 specimens that have an image associated with the record are included here. Some records contain complete collection, preparation, and taxonomic detail, while others only have a specimen data image and limited taxonomic detail. Records include specimen information from the early 1800s through the present and are of global distribution. Most of our databased or digitized records currently are of Orthoptera (grasshoppers, katydids, and crickets), Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies), and Hymenoptera (bees, wasps, and ants).

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  • University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, Insect Field Notebooks

    The Museum of Zoology has maintained collections for over 100 years, and the earliest of our collections in the Insect Division that are documented with field notes is the 1908 expedition to Huron County, Michigan. At minimum, the field notes represent a listing of places visited where specimens were obtained. Those records often have additional information that is not contained on a specimen label, and a well-documented expedition often has information on vegetation, land features, weather, associated species, and may also contain photographs and maps of the collecting events.

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  • University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, Mammal Division Field Notes

    This collection contains page images of the University of Michigan, Museum of Zoology, Mammal Division's field notebooks, with accompanying data records. The records include such information as collection date, collection location, species collected, and related information.

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  • University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, Mammal Division Maps

    This collection includes page images and brief data records of a scrapbook housed in the University of Michigan, Museum of Zoology, Mammal Division comprised of maps of the state of Michigan, keyed to anecdotal reports of species in the state over time (primarily from the 19th and early 20th centuries). It is believed to have been created by N. A. Wood.

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  • University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, Mammal Division Specimen Images

    This collection contains catalog records exported from the University of Michigan, Museum of Zoology, Mammal Division's specimen collection, and selected specimen images. The database currently contains more than 27,000 records, with collection dates ranging from the 1830s to the present. The records include such information as scientific name, common name, collector and collection date, locality, and preparation type. Over 5,500 digital specimen images are also present.

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  • University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, Mollusks Division Collection

    The University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (UMMZ) Mollusk Division incorporates approximately 5 million specimens and has long ranked amongst the most important freshwater and land snail collections in North America. Approximately 251,000 cataloged lots including over 406 holotype specimens and more than 1638 paratype lots are preserved as dry shells, ethanol preserved specimens, frozen tissues, lyophilized tissues, fossil material and radular microscope slide mounts. Mollusks from all regions of the planet are represented, most from North America, particularly from southeastern and upper mid‐western USA drainages. With the exception of Monoplacophora and Aplacophora, all extant molluscan classes are represented.

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  • University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, Reptiles and Amphibians Audio Files

    The Division of Reptiles and Amphibians maintains a collection that is worldwide in scope and is the second largest of its kind in the world. Presently, the research collections contain over 200,000 catalogued lots representing nearly a half million individual specimens. These represent 1,067 genera and 5,323 species of which 13,818 specimens are skeletons. The average growth over the last ten years has been nearly 1500 specimens per year. A collection of 37 audio tapes containing hundreds of recordings of anuran vocalizations has been digitized and can now be accessed.

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  • University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, Reptiles and Amphibians Catalogue

    The Division of Reptiles and Amphibians maintains a collection that is worldwide in scope and is the second largest of its kind in the world. Presently, the research collections contain over 200,000 catalogued lots representing nearly a half million individual specimens. These represent 1,067 genera and 5,323 species of which 13,818 specimens are skeletons. The average growth over the last ten years has been nearly 1500 specimens per year.

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  • University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, Reptiles and Amphibians Field Notebooks

    The Herpetology Field Notebooks Collection consists of approximately 286 field notebooks. These notebooks contain information related to the collection of Herpetology specimens held at the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (UMMZ). While some of the notebooks are merely logbooks of collections with species identifications for each field number with places and dates, others have much more detailed information including field conditions, habitat notes, specimen descriptions including colors and measurements, as well as detailed maps. As a supplement, images of Guatemalan people and places from University of Michigan Professor, Laurence Cooper Stuart’s travels are now also discoverable.

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  • University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, Reptiles and Amphibians Predator and Prey Collection

    The University of Michigan, Museum of Zoology’s Division of Reptiles and Amphibians maintains the second largest collection of preserved reptile and amphibian specimens in the world. Of the nearly half million specimens, nearly 40,000 specimens are snakes. Documenting dissected snake predator and prey items with high resolution photography is part of PhD student Mike Grundler’s ongoing research characterizing ecological patterns in the evolution of neotropical snake diets. At present, there are 459 images of snake predators (over 100 species) and their prey. The museum vouchers for these images are curated in our research collections.

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  • University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, Reptiles and Amphibians Radiographs

    The University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, Division of Reptiles and Amphibians, presently maintains a collection of radiograph film plates (some with images of caecilians). In order to make these more accessible for research, they are digitizing the film plates and associating them with diagrams of the individual specimens. Approximately 40% of the caecilian specimens are catalogued at UMMZ, while the rest exist in museum collections worldwide. By sharing this collection of digital images associated with the diagrams of the individual specimens, this should be of great value to other museum collections in their efforts.

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  • University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, Reptiles and Amphibians Type Specimens

    The Division of Reptiles and Amphibians maintains a collection that is worldwide in scope and is the second largest of its kind in the world. Presently, the research collections contain over 200,000 catalogued lots representing nearly a half million individual specimens. These represent 1,067 genera and 5,323 species of which 13,818 specimens are skeletons. The average growth over the last ten years has been nearly 1500 specimens per year. Over 1,300 digital type specimen images are present in this digital collection.

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  • University of Michigan, Proceedings of the Board of Regents

    The Proceedings of the Board of Regents are the permanent historical record of actions taken by the University of Michigan Board of Regents from 1837 to the present. Proceedings volumes are organized on a fiscal year basis, so that volumes begin with the July meeting of one year and end with the June meeting of the next year. In addition to the text search capabilities of the Regents Proceedings found on this website, it is also possible to search the index to the Proceedings.

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  • Vehicle City Voices

    The Vehicle City Voices project was developed with the goal of creating a corpus of the varieties of English spoken in Flint, Michigan while also serving as a repository of resident reflections on life in Flint throughout the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. This project contains oral history interviews that were collected between 2012 and 2020. The interviewees were asked to recall their memories of important community events and festivals, important buildings, community centers, and neighborhoods, and also describe their relationship to the automotive industry and provide their reflections on the economic, demographic, and physical transformations of the city.

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  • Vine Utley Manuscript, "Observations…", 1809-1827

    Dr. Vine Utley compiled most of his "Observations on Old People 80 Years of Age" (87 pages) while interviewing octogenarians and older individuals in New London County, Connecticut, from September 9, 1809-June 17, 1818. Utley wrote about physical health and mental acuity, and noted some trends amongst his subjects. This digital collection contains digitized content from physical items held at the William L. Clements Library.

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  • Visual Resources Collection Finding Aids

    The History of Art Department's Visual Resources Collection (VRC) maintains nearly two million images of art. The collection's roots are more than 90 years old and developed as a teaching collection to support faculty and students. As the University of Michigan's History of Art Department evolved and became a center for scholarship, so did the VRC collection become an international resource. The VRC, until very recently, has never made their archival holdings public. With the aid of Encoded Archival Description (EAD) files, it is not possible to provide access to finding aids and inventories of our primary resources online. Through the provision of these online finding aids, patrons can connect with the VRC's vast resources of images of art, architecture, and artifacts.

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  • Voltaire électronique

    The Voltaire électronique database is a collection of electronic documents each containing an individual work by Voltaire. The documents are grouped together in volumes. The database includes all the material within these works with the exception of the editorial material in non-Oxford editions and in those Oxford editions which are in the process of being re-edited. Authorial notes, prefaces, dedications, commendations and other secondary matter are featured. All texts are in the original French only.

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  • War of the Worlds Fan Mail

    The Richard Wilson - Orson Welles Papers at the U-M Library Special Collections Research Center preserves 1,349 letters sent to the New York City office of Orson Welles’s Mercury Theatre on the Air after the original CBS Radio Network broadcast of War of the Worlds on Sunday, October 30, 1938. Long forgotten for many years, the letters were included in the collection of materials Richard Wilson, Welles’s longtime friend and producing partner, safeguarded. These letters offer a unique window into early American radio broadcasting by documenting how audiences reacted to one of the most discussed programs in the medium’s history.

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  • Warren Petoskey Papers, 1873-2016

    Noted Native American writer, artisan, musician, and dancer Warren Petoskey is an Odawa and Lakotah elder. He is a writer, musician, dancer, and lectures on the history of American Indian boarding schools. Petoskey founded Dawnland Native Ministries in 1998 and based near Petoskey, Michigan, this outreach program endeavors "to build bridges of understanding with all peoples regarding the damage done by America's boarding school policies and their effects on the current generations." The collection includes materials related to his professional and personal activities and interests, biographical and historical information, copies of genealogical records, and personal photographs and audio recordings.

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  • Weld-Grimké Family Papers, 1740-1930

    The Weld-Grimké family papers consist of items dating largely between 1825 and 1899. These letters, diaries, notebooks, documents, and more pertain to the lives and activities of members of the Grimké and Weld families. The focus of the collection is on abolitionists, women's rights advocates, and social reformers Sarah Moore Grimké, Angelina Emily Grimké Weld, and Theodore Dwight Weld - as well as Angelina and Theodore Weld's children Charles Stuart Faucheraud Weld, Theodore Grimké Weld, and Sarah Grimké Weld Hamilton. The collection contains digitized content from physical content held at the William L. Clements Library.

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  • William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience

    This is a transcription of Songs of innocence and of experience: shewing the two contrary states of the human soul, London: W. Blake, 1794, with links to digital images of the manuscript held by Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

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    Poetry

  • William Howe Orderly Book, 1776-1778

    The William Howe orderly book contains copies of orders for a brigade under British Commander-in-Chief Sir William Howe, from March 9, 1776, to May 1, 1778. The volume reflects the progress of the British Army under Howe from their embarkation at Portsmouth, England, through New York and New Jersey, to the end of their occupation of Philadelphia. Included are general orders from a moving headquarters, standing orders, brigade orders, regimental orders, morning orders, after orders, and memoranda. The collection contains digitized content from physical content held at the William L. Clements Library.

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  • William L. Clements Library Finding Aids

    The William L. Clements Library EAD (Encoded Archival Description) Finding Aids provide access to finding aids or descriptive inventories for manuscript and graphics collections at the Clements Library. Use this collection to explore collection guides and inventories of manuscripts and graphics collections, which include letters, diaries, photographs, ephemera, and more.

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  • William L. Clements Library Image Bank

    The William L. Clements Library Image Bank contains a selection of materials from the library's rich collection of early Americana. Items include a variety of graphic materials, maps, and manuscripts from various periods in early American history. These images are simply a few of the many treasures that the Clements has to offer and are not intended to be comprehensive or representative of the whole of the Clements’ diverse collection.

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  • William Monroe Trotter Multicultural Center

    This collection provides a history of the events and protest demonstrations that led to the creation of the William Monroe Trotter Multicultural Center at the University of Michigan, along with an ongoing history of the Center.

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  • William Petty, 1st Marquis of Lansdowne, 2nd Earl of Shelburne Papers, 1665-1885

    The William Petty, 1st Marquis of Lansdowne, 2nd Earl of Shelburne Papers are comprised of the working papers of British Prime Minister Lord Shelburne. Shelburne served in the Seven Years War, became King George's aide-de-camp, and took over his family's seat in Parliament, representing Chipping Wycombe, in 1760. As an official dealing with American affairs, a stockholder in the East India Company, and a landowner in Ireland, Shelburne was involved in many of the major issues affecting the British Empire in the mid-late eighteenth century. The collection contains digitized content from physical content held at the William L. Clements Library.

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  • Ypsilanti Historical Society Photo Archives

    This searchable collection of photographs from the Archives of the Ypsilanti Historical Society contains nearly 20,000 images. Images include people, buildings, homes, events, celebrations and other subjects. The Ypsilanti Historical Society Photos project was cooperatively developed and is being continually expanded by the Ypsilanti Historical Society and University of Michigan Digital Content & Collections.

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