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	Search results for Slides Negatives    Refine your search Country United States (60) Usa (3) Canada (1) Format of Digital Files Jpg (55) Tif (13) Jp2 (13) Pdf (10) Mp3 (4) Show more... Type of Organization Academic Library (37) Public Library (9) Historical Society (8) Museum (7) Academic Consortium (5) Archive (5) Consortium (4) Liberal Arts College (3) Professional Organizat... (2) Research Library (2) Organization University of Oregon (5) North Dakota State Uni... (4) Claremont University C... (4) University of Washingt... (3) Oregon State Universit... (2) Show more... City Claremont (4) Eugene (4) Fargo (4) Salt Lake City (3) Seattle (3) Show more... results 1-20 of 64 item(s)  page 1 of 4 : ( <<  1  2  3  4  >> ) :: previous : next select all : clear all : add to favorites   Image: Collection Name: Description: Topics Included: 1. A. B. Nichols Panama Canal Collection A. B. Nichols Panama Canal Materials were gathered and organized during Nichols' tenure as Office Engineer. A.B. Nichols was first employed by the Isthmian Canal Commission in 1899 to survey the Nicaraguan route. In 1904, he was assigned to the Panama Canal, where he served as Assistant Engineer at the Gatun site. He was later promoted to Resident Engineer at Culebra Cut site. In 1906, he was appointed Office Engineer at Culebra Cut. He retired in 1914. Nichols was from Philadelphia. The materials in these notebooks and albums were collected/created by A.B. Nichols from 1906 to 1917, though some material was added as late as 1923. Panama Canal (Panama); Hydraulic engineering; Canals, Interoceanic 2. Alliance Memory The Alliance Memory project, funded in part through an Institute of Museum and Library Services LSTA grant, is a joint venture of Rodman Public Library, the Alliance Historical Society, Alliance City Schools, Negro History Club, Haines House, and Copeland Oaks. The collection includes historic photographs of Alliance from the Alliance Historical Society, photographs of Taylorcraft Airplanes and Morgan Engineering from collections at Rodman Public Library, oral history recordings and transcriptions from the 1960s and 1970s held by Rodman Public Library, and video interviews of World War II veterans who live at Copeland Oaks, a retirement community in nearby Sebring, Ohio. Ohio history; World War II; Airplanes 3. Arizona Memory Project The Arizona Memory Project is a collaborative online effort designed to provide access to the wealth of primary sources in Arizona libraries, archives, museums and other cultural institutions. This initiative provides the opportunity to view some of the best examples of government documents, photographs, maps and objects that chronicle Arizona's past and present. Arizona; Agriculture; Arts & Architecture; Business & Industry; Education; Family & Community; Government & Politics; History; Land & Resources; Leisure & Travel; Military & War; Native Americans; Race... 4. Barns of Winnebago County Once upon a time, these proud structures dotted the bucolic landscape. Michael Cooney has captured the essence of these vanishing structures in a series of striking photos. This archive documents local barns that have disappeared or may disappear in the future. Barns; Farms; Silos 5. Bear River Watershed Historical Collection The Bear River Watershed’s geography, history, and development are the primary focus of this collection of images, maps, papers, diaries, plat books, and reports. Includes photos of the Bear River taken from 1860s to the 1990s, records of local irrigation companies, diaries that record weather conditions, research on the societal impact of reclamation development in the Bear River Basin, etc. Bear Lake; Bear River; Bridges; Dams; Reservoirs; Drainage; Irrigation; Lake Bonneville; Logan River; Water quality; Water rights; Water supply; Water resource development 6. Ben Maxwell Collection The Ben Maxwell Collection consists of over 5,000 photographs donated to the Salem Public Library by the photgrapher's estate. Most of the photographs were taken by Mr. Maxwell, a noted Salem photographer and historian who died in 1967. Mr. Maxwell was born in Salem in 1898. He attended college at Oregon State University, where he studied history and journalism. He started working with the Capitol Journal newspaper in 1939. Because he packed his camera on every quest for historical stories, he was able to illustrate his articles for readers of the Capitol Journal, the Oregon Journal, the Oregonian, and several magazines. He recorded on film at least 13 governors, old-timers now gone, covered bridges now missing, and buildings and homes no longer standing. The collection includes copies of rare early Oregon photographs taken by others that have in turn been copied over and over by later researchers and feature-story writers. Many more photographs remain to be scanned and added to this work in progress. Agriculture; Natural disasters; Salem; Homes; Houses; Architecture; Aerial views; Automobiles; Covered bridges; 7. Billy E. Barnes Collection From 1964 through 1969, Billy E. Barnes was the Public Relations Director of the North Carolina Fund, a state-chartered, non-profit corporation established by Governor Terry Sanford in late 1963 to seek new ways to address the problem of poverty in North Carolina. Among his many responsibilities, Barnes photographed various aspects of the North Carolina Fund's programs and activities. His negatives comprise part of the Billy E. Barnes Collection in the North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives. The images in this online collection are a representative sample from thousands of negatives, more of which will be added periodically. Durham County; North Carolina; African Americans; Slums; North Carolina Fund; Governor Terry Sanford; Volunteers; Community service; Poor People’s Campaign; Civil rights demonstrations; Poverty; 8. Boynton Collection of Early Claremont Morrill G. Boynton, Pomona College 1904, was an amateur photographer. His collection of glass plate negatives, housed in Honnold/Mudd Special Collections, candidly and personally capture aspects of life in Southern California, especially Los Angeles, Claremont, and Pomona College. Most of these images in the Boynton Collection were shot between about 1900 and 1905. Academic rites and ceremonies; Church buildings; Claremont (Calif.); College buildings; College students; Nature photography; Photographers; Pomona College (Claremont, Calif.); Portrait photography 9. Braceros in Oregon This photograph collection documents the activities of Oregon's Bracero workers, Mexican citizens that were allowed to work as farm laborers throughout the U.S. during World War II. Under the Braceros Program more than 15,000 Mexican men worked on farms in all parts of Oregon state from 1942 through 1947. Migrant farm work; U.S. Labor history; Agriculture; Farm labor; Mexican immigrants; Braceros; 10. Building Oregon: Architecture of Oregon and the Pacific Northwest Building Oregon: Architecture of Oregon and the Pacific Northwest provides over 14,000 images and documentation about the architectural heritage of the Pacific Northwest, with special emphasis on Oregon’s built environment. In collaboration with the Oregon State Historic Preservation Office, many images in the collection represent works listed on the National Register of Historic Places. A significant number of images come from collections donated to the University of Oregon Libraries over the years, including the collection of architectural historian Marion Dean Ross. Architecture; Historic places; Pacific Northwest; Oregon; 11. California Explores the Ocean California Explores the Ocean provides access to a diverse array of resources about the ocean and ocean exploration from the unique collections of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Archives and Library and to a selection of ocean related photographs and oral histories from the collections of the San Diego Historical Society. Fish; Fishing; Fisheries; Diving; Oceanic research; San Diego; Oceanography; Scuba diving; Boats; Sailing; Fish canning; Oceanographic instruments; Gulf of California Expedition; Scientific expeditions;... 12. Child of the Sun: Florida Southern College Digital Photograph Collection This collection was created from a selection of black-and-white and color photographs, negatives, and slides that were pulled from various Florida Southern College archival collections. The first selections were made in 2006 and are ongoing. The image selection criteria is any images that may give insight to the creation, form and history of the Child of the Sun structures which were designed by Frank Lloyd Wright including images of the buildings, blueprints, and people associated with the buildings deemed important enough for digitization and online viewing. Date span of images: 1937-present. Frank Lloyd Wright; Florida Southern College; Architecture 13. Cities and Buildings Database The Cities and Buildings Database is a collection of digitized images of buildings and cities drawn from across time and throughout the world, available to students, researchers and educators on the web. Begun in 1995, the collection was conceived as a multi-disciplinary resource for students, faculty, and others in the academic community. It has grown steadily since then, with contributions from a wide range of scholars, and now contains nearly 10,000 images ranging from New York to Central Asia, from African villages, to the Parc de la Villette, and conceptual sketches and models of Frank Gehry's Experience Music Project. These have all been scanned from original slides or drawn from documents in the public domain. Cities; Buildings; Architecture; Architects; Frank Gehry; Ghana; China; Italy; Austria; Bhutan; Canada; Cambodia; Azerbaijan; Bahrain; Burma; Ivory Coast; Tibet; Crete; Cuba; Croatia; Czech Republic; England;... 14. Cities Around the World Cities Around the World presents over 6,100 photographic images from the slide collections of the American Geographical Society Library. The images selected for this project focus on architecture, city life, people, transportation and other aspects of urban development, such as neighborhoods, commercial streets, and business districts. Urban development; Neighborhoods; City life; transportation; Architecture; Business districts; Cities; 15. City Engineers Photographic Collection The Salt Lake City Engineers Photograph Collection documents the construction of the infrastructure of Salt Lake City and surrounding areas, including roads, sewers, irrigation systems, curb and gutters, street lighting, street repairs, comfort stations, mills, dams, reservoirs, bridges, etc. The photographs were shot during the years from 1902 to approximately 1932. Canal construction; Canal construction workers; Canyons; Mountains; Aqueducts; Canals; Vegetation and climate; Roads, Earth; Dredging; Dams; Men; Antique and classic cars; Automobiles; Dynamite; Explosions;... 16. CSUDH Digital Collections As of May, 2007, CSU Dominguez Hills has approx. 5000 images relating to the history of the university, the 1910 Los Angeles International Air Meet at Dominguez Field, the historic Rancho San Pedro, South Bay Los Angles history, the Del Amo, Watson, Carson, and Dominguez families. CSU Dominguez Hills; Rancho San Pedro; South Bay Los Angeles history; Early aviation; Early planes; Aviation cartoons; Compton; Houses; Agriculture and farming; Education; Transportation; Religious life;... 17. Digital Horizons Digital Horizons is an online treasure of thousands of images, documents, video, and oral histories depicting life on the Northern Plains from the late 1800s to today. Here you'll find a fascinating snapshot of the lives, culture, and history of the people who shaped life on the prairies. Digital Horizons is a consortium of partners Concordia College Archives, NDSU Institute for Regional Studies & University Archives, Prairie Public Broadcasting, and the State Historical Society of North Dakota. Other members include Fargo Public Library and Williston State College Foundation. North Dakota; Minnesota; Northern Great Plains; Concordia College (Moorhead, Minn.); North Dakota State University; North Dakota - Politics and government; Bismarck (N.D.); Fargo (N.D.); Williston (N.D.);... 18. Doris Ulmann Photograph Collection The Doris Ulmann Collection includes some 6,000 glass plate negatives, 8,000 proof prints in albums, and 300 vintage prints. Doris Ulmann, (1882-1934), was a photographer in the Pictorialist movement who documented rural life in Appalachia as well as the intelligentsia of New York City during the 1920's and 1930's. Art Photography; Women Photographers; Appalachia; Artisans; Craftspeople; Portraits; 19. Education by Design Education by Design is an online exhibit and image database of over 700 historic educational visual aids owned by the Bienes Center for the Literary Arts: The Dianne and Michael Bienes Special Collections and Rare Book Library located at Broward County Main Library in downtown Fort Lauderdale, Florida. These educational visual aids are significant, not only for their aesthetic beauty, but also as cultural and historical artifacts. All these items were produced under President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal jobs creation program, the Works Progress Administration (WPA), founded in 1935. The agency was renamed the Work Projects Administration in 1939 and operated until June, 1943. Dublin Core records describe the original, physical piece rather than the digital image representing the artifact. There are extensive notes on cataloging, including a data dictionary, DC / MARC Crosswalk and file-naming conventions. History of education; History of Broward County; Cultural and historical artifacts; Visual aids 20. Edward H. Peeples Prince Edward County (Va.) Public Schools Collection From 1959 to 1964, Prince Edward County, Virginia, chose to close its public schools rather than integrate them. Through photographs, documents, and maps, this collection explores the history of Prince Edward County segregation in the 1950s and 1960s. Dr. Edward H. Peeples, Emeritus professor at VCU, photographed over 100 images of schools in the county and environs in 1962 and 1963, documenting the disparity between African American and white facilities. Also included are contemporary images of the schools and events surrounding the anniversary of the 1951 student strike and other occasions, as well as additional published and unpublished materials on the topic. 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