Digital Collections

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Collections at Mid-York libraries:

• Death Notice & Obituary Index for Canastota Newspapers 1876-1999 This index began at the library and is now maintained by the Canastota Village Historian - http://170.215.208.66/canastota/Directory.htm
• Gerrit Smith Collection at the Morrisville Public Library - http://www.midyork.org/dc/gerritsmith/
• Horatio Nelson White Architectural Drawings of the Remington Mansion at the Ilion Free Public Library - http://www.midyork.org/dc/hnw/index.html
• John Bloomfield Jervis Papers at the Jervis Public Library in Rome - http://clrc.org/digital/jervis/jervisindex.htm

Collections at other libraries and institutions in the central New York region:

• Digital Collections of Hamilton College Library 117th N.Y. Volunteer Infantry Regiment Collection
  Enlistment forms, letters, and more (996 items) and The Civil War Letters Collection
  Letters written between 1862 and 1865 (124 letters) - http://library.hamilton.edu/collections/
• CLRC Region Digital Collections Central New York Library Resources Council in Syracuse NY - http://clrc.org/digital/digindex.shtml
• Syracuse University Department of Special Collections See links under Digital Collections and Online Exhibitions http://libwww.syr.edu/information/spcollections/

An eclectic list of collections: - Please feel free to suggest a collection to add to the list.

• American Memory Project Library of Congress historical collections for the National Digital Library - http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ammemhome.html
• Art Archive Fine art scans, over 200 artists, organized by name and in categories - http://www.artchive.com/ftp_site.htm
• Asa Ribelin Papers Seven historical documents held by the Rowan Public Library, well presented - http://www.lib.co.rowan.nc.us/HistoryRoom/digitalarchives/asa/
• The Blake Archive Electronic reproductions of images and texts of the work of William Blake.
  work. - http://www.blakearchive.org/
• Cornell Institute for Digital Collections (CDIC) Dedicated to the development and management of distinctive digital collections - http://cidc.library.cornell.edu/
• David Rumsey Collection Maps of 18th and 19th century North and South America, historic maps of the World, Europe, Asia and Africa - http://www.davidrumsey.com/
• Digital Librarian History Includes links to many collections - http://www.digital-librarian.com/history.html
• Dionne Quintuplets Digitization Site Digitized historical information about the Dionne Quintuplets, including a timeline, digital collections, and information about the museums and libraries owning the original artifacts - http://www.city.north-bay.on.ca/QUINTS/DIGITIZE/dqdpe.htm
• Forest History Society Project Searchable catalog of scanned photographs - http://www.lib.duke.edu/forest/digitization.html
• Found Magazine Images of photos, letters, notices and other found materials that give a glimpse into someone life; submissions accepted - http://www.foundmagazine.com/
• Internet History Sourcebook Collections of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive layout) for educational use - http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/
• Internet Public Library Exhibits - http://www.ipl.org/exhibit/ and Online Texts - http://www.ipl.org/reading/books/
• Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web A project of the Smithsonian Libraries - http://www.sil.si.edu/SILPublications/Online-Exhibitions/
• NASA Digital Image Collection Over 250,000 mission photographs - http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/
• New York Public Library Digital Collection Text, photographs, historical materials, browse collection or search the catalog - http://digital.nypl.org/
• New York Public Library, Mid-Manhatten Library, Picture Collection Online Images from an extensive circulating collection and reference archive covering over 12,000 subjects - http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/
• The Perseus Project Primary and secondary sources in early modern English literature - http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/
• The Royal Journal Images of found materials; submissions accepted - http://www.royaljournal.com/
• September 11 Archive Collection of Web materials - http://september11.archive.org/
• Web Gallery of Art European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods (1150-1800) - http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/

How to find more: use relevant terms in subject directories and search engines. For example, try digital libraries in Yahoo - http://www.yahoo.com.

Last updated May 28, 2004