UIUC Digital Gateway to Cultural Heritage Materials

Descriptions of Collections (See also Collections by Type of Material)


The UIUC Digital Gateway to Cultural Heritage Materials currently contains approximately 538,485 metadata records from 32 collections.

Ackerman Archives 151 records

The Ackerman Archives are a collection of photographs, letters, and papers describing the experiences of Harvey Ladew Williams, a young ambulance driver in World War I.

AIM25 (Archives in London and the M25 Area) 5739 records

AIM25 provides electronic access to collection-level descriptions of the archives of over 50 higher education institutions and learned societies in the London area.

Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts 676 records

The Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts is a collection of public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy.

American Numismatic Society 3127 records

Includes images of coins and other artifacts from this institution, which advances the appreciation of coins, medals, and related objects of all cultures.

Auburn University Digital Library 14 records

The Transforming America project brings together content from many Alabama archives, museums, and libraries that pertain to the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama and the United States.

A Celebration of Women Writers 426 records

Access to a comprehensive list of links to biographical and bibliographical information about women writers and complete published works by women. Based at the University of Pennsylvania.

David Rumsey Map Collection 2820 records

Scanned maps representing rare 18th and 19th century North and South American cartographic history.

Documenting the American South 3184 records

A collection of sources on Southern history, literature, and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century. It covers slave narratives, the Southern Homefront (1861-65), the church in the black community, and North Carolina history.

Duke University Historic American Sheet Music Collection 17698 records

The Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University holds an important, representative, and comprehensive collection of 19th and early 20th century American sheet music. The Historic American Sheet Music Project provides access to digital images from the collection, published in America between 1850 and 1920. Part of the Sheet Music Consortium: http://digital.library.ucla.edu/sheetmusic/.

Florida Center for Library Automation 388 records

Included are the Literature for Children collection, the Psychological Study of the Arts collection, a Florida map collection, and the Florida Heritage Collection which broadly represents Florida’s history, culture, arts, literature, sciences and social sciences

Heritage Colorado

21364 records

Resources held by Colorado cultural heritage institutions, including archives, historical societies, libraries, and museums.

ibiblio 445 records

An index to freely available information on the web, covering language, religion, music, art, history, politics, and more.

Indiana University Digital Library Program 3786 records

Access to several digital collections, including the Sam DeVincent Collection of American Sheet Music, the Frank M. Hohenberger Photograph Collection, and the U.S. Steel Gary Works Photograph Collection, held at Indiana University.

Indiana Historical Society 1187 records

Access to several image collections including Photography of O. James Fox: 1945-1960, the Art of Mary Lyon Taylor, and Native American Portraits from the Aboriginal Port folio.

Library of Congress American Memory Project 119,272 records

Access to photographs, maps, prints, and advertisements from this rich American history and cultural heritage resource.

LOUISiana Digital Library 63694 records

Digital Collections from LSU include the Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial: A Heritage Explored, the American Missionary Association Collection, and the Norman Collection of Steamboat Photographs among many others.

Maine Music Box 1596 records

Five collections of music manuscript scores and sheet music were selected for digitization and inclusion in this project. Four collections are from the Bagaduce Music Library and one from the Bangor Public Library. These collections are either unique or rare, of historical importance, and in their fragile print condition only available to a limited number of researchers. By digitizing these collections the libraries are making access for the music teaching community to these rich collections easier and instantaneous.

Michigan State University Digital and Multimedia Center 1409 records

Includes the collection, "Shaping the Values of Youth: Sunday School Books in 19th Century America," consists of 170 books for children, scanned page by page and made available as digital images. Also included are links to the Vincent Voice Library Finding Aids.

Mundus: Gateway to Missionary Collections in the UK 454 records

Mundus is a guide to more than four hundred collections of overseas missionary materials held in the United Kingdom. These materials, comprising the archives of British missionary societies, collections of personal papers, printed matter, photographs, other visual materials and artifacts, are held in a large number of libraries, record offices and other institutions in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.Mundus is a guide to more than four hundred collections of overseas missionary materials held in the United Kingdom. These materials, comprising the archives of British missionary societies, collections of personal papers, printed matter, photographs, other visual materials and artefacts, are held in a large number of libraries, record offices and other institutions in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

National Library of Australia Digital Collections 78332 records

The digital collections available include pictures (focusing on people, places and events located on the Australian continent and its territories, and on the activities of Australians overseas, especially in Antarctica and Papua New Guinea), music (Australian sheet music), maps, and manuscripts.

Open Video Project

1968 records

Includes downloadable video from the Internet Moving Images Archive, the Informedia Project at Carnegie Mellon University, and the Open House Video Reports from the University of Maryland. Based at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.

Perseus Digital Library 1530 records

Based at Tufts University, the Perseus Digital Library contains primary Greek and Roman texts, Renaissance texts (including Shakespeare and Marlowe), Library of Congress American Memory collections, the Duke Database of Papyri, and records from the university's archives.

Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image (SCETI) 54 records

Access to digital facsimiles of original documents held at the University of Pennsylvania, including a Shakespeare collection, photographs of Marian Anderson, and sheet music.

UCLA Digital Archive of Popular American Music 2173 records

The UCLA Music Library's Archive of Popular American Music is a research collection covering the history of popular music in the United States from 1790 to the present. Particular strengths within UCLA Music Library's twentieth-century holdings include music for the theater, motion pictures, radio and television, as well as general popular music, country, rhythm and blues, and rock songs. Part of the Sheet Music Consortium: http://digital.library.ucla.edu/sheetmusic/.

University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign 4703 records

Finding aids from the university's archives, as well as cultural heritage records from the Teaching with Digital Content project.

University of Michigan Digital Library Text Collections 146164 records

Includes an electronic archive of American poetry prior to 1920 and the Making of America Project, a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. This collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology.

University of Minnesota Libraries 13530 records

Includes access to the IMAGES database of visual resources, such as posters, photographs, and drawings, as well as access to inding aids for the Children's Literature Research Collections, which cover dime novels, series books, the Paul Bunyan Collection, illustrated editions of Treasure Island , and Oziana and Frank L. Baum-related materials.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Manuscripts 4791 records

Access to 560 finding aids for the Southern Historical Collection and the Southern Folklife Collection.

University of Tennessee Special Collections 2568 records

Includes archives of the Southeastern Native American Documents Collection, the Emancipator (an antislavery periodical from the 1820’s), the Roth Photograph Collection (photographs of the Great Smoky Mountains including residents), and finding aids for University of Tennessee-related collections.

University of Wisconsin-Madison Library 4151 records

Covers the Africa Focus Database, Southeast Asia Images and Text, and finding aids for the archives of the Wisconsin Historical Society.

Washington State University Libraries 31091 records

Includes maps, newspaper clippings, photographs, oral history interviews, and texts from the Washington State University Libraries.

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Note: The records in the Gateway are created from metadata provided by these institutions. Please contact the institution directly with inquiries about access or items. The numbers of records harvested are updated once every three months (last updated Nov. 2003).


University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Last updated February 17, 2004