- Catena-Historic Gardens & Landscapes
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Catena, the Digital Archive of Historic Gardens and Landscapes, is a collection of historic and contemporary images, including plans,
engravings, and photographs, intended to support research and teaching in the fields of garden history and landscape studies. Created
through the collaborative efforts of landscape historians and institutions, the initial offering of images is focused on the Villas
as a Landscape Type. This project is sponsored by the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture and
has been made possible by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, with additional support from the Gladys Krieble
Delmas Foundation and the Samuel H Kress Foundation. The images in this collection are for educational use only. Any other use is
unauthorized.
- National Palace English
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The curators of the National Palace Museum in Taipei have carefully selected thousands of works from their permanent collection to
be included in a new digitized collection. The scope of these works spans seven millennia of Chinese history and pre-history. Works
include rare books, ceramics, paintings, bronzes, jewelry, studio accessories, costumes, and more.
- A.D. White Architectural Photographs
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The Andrew Dickson White Architectural Photographs Collection is comprised of approximately 13,000 nineteenth- and early twentieth-century
photographs of architecture, decorative arts, and sculpture. White (1832-1918), the first president of Cornell University, established
the collection by donating several thousand images from his personal architectural library.
- Cornell Political Americana Collection
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The Cornell University Collection of Political Americana is comprised of approximately 5,500 Presidential promotional and commemorative
items dating from 1789 to 1980. The collection contains political materials in a variety of formats, including cartoons, prints, and
posters; lapel buttons, ribbons, textiles, hats, and other costume items; ballots, broadsides, leaflets, and other ephemera; pamphlets
and other formal publications; sheet music and songbooks; and a variety of three-dimensional items. The majority of the collection was
donated to Cornell by private collector Susan H. Douglas between 1957 and 1961. Elections from 1832 to 1960 are particularly well represented.
- Estate Collection
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The Estate Collection is a database of high quality images representing the works of artists with HIV/AIDS. With the ability to find and see these
works of art in detail, the Estate Project will ensure continued access, presentation, and study of the cultural legacy created by the artistic
community during the AIDS crisis. The images are drawn from the collections of Visual AIDS, Visual AIDS/Boston, Visual Aid/San Francisco, and
the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Community Center.
- Farber Gravestone Collection
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The Farber Gravestone Collection is an unusual resource documenting the sculpture on over 9,000 gravestones most of which were made prior to 1800.
The late Daniel Farber of Worcester, Massachusetts, and his wife, Jessie Lie Farber, were responsible for the largest portion of the collection.
Others whose work is incorporated into the collection include Harriette Merrifield Forbes, who worked in the 1920s mainly in Massachusetts, and
Dr. Ernest Caulfield, who documented Connecticut grave markers. These early stones are both a significant form of artistic creation and precious
records of biographical information, now subject to vandalism and to deterioration from the environment. The data accompanying the photographs include
the name and death date of the deceased, the location of the stone, and information concerning the stone material, the iconography, the inscription,
and (when known) the carver. Some carvers whose work is known but who have not been identified by name are entered by stylistic groupings, rather than
by name. Carver attribution is a young and healthy area of research in a constant state of flux. The American Antiquarian Society would like to acknowledge
the assistance of Daniel and Jessie Lie Farber, Henry Lie, Dr. Ernest Caulfield, Laurel Gabel, and David Rumsey, all of whom worked to make this project a reality.
- Hoover Institution Poster Collection
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These Russian posters were selected from the 33,000 cataloged political posters at the Hoover Institution Archives. Embracing posters from around the world, the largest numbers are from the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, the Russian empire and the Soviet Union, and France. (The posters are available for educational purposes only; the archives does not own the copyrights on its Poster Collection.)
- JCB Archive of Early American Images
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A database of graphic representations of the colonial Americas, from Hudson Bay to Tierra del Fuego, drawn entirely from primary sources printed or created between 1492 and ca. 1825.
- Deneia Archive
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The Deneia area was a major focus of habitation for over 2000 years, throughout the Bronze Age into the Iron Age. Thousands of chamber tombs make up the Kafkalla and Mali cemeteries. Few have been scientifically excavated or reported, but generations of tomb-looters have had a major impact on these heritage sites. Nevertheless, thousands of pottery fragments remain in the tomb chambers, providing an important resource for the archaeology of Bronze Age Cyprus. In 2003 and 2004 the Australian Cyprus Expedition based at La Trobe University, together with the University of Cyprus Archaeological Research Unit, undertook extensive surveys of the cemeteries and sampled a number of the looted tombs. Over 1000 pottery fragments are presented here, showing the great richness of the site and illustrating the range and quality of Bronze Age pottery from Cyprus. Further details are published in D. Frankel and J.M. Webb, 2007. The Bronze Age Cemeteries at Deneia in Cyprus. SIMA CXXXV, Sävedalen.
- Museum and Online Archive of California
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Selected works from the permanent collections of eight California museums: Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive; Japanese American National Museum; Oakland Museum of California; Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley; Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley; Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, University of California, Los Angeles; Fowler Museum of Cultural History, University of California, Los Angeles; California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside. The background image is Working on a Farm by Henry Sugimoto, ca. 1970, from the Henry Sugimoto Collection at the Japanese American National Museum.
- Pratt Institute Fashion Plate Collection
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The Fashion Plate Collection consists of hand-colored fashion plates from the French periodical La Gazette du Bon Ton (considered the most influential fashion magazine during its existence from 1912 to 1925) and its American edition, La Gazette du Bon Genre, distributed by Condé Nast. The plates in Pratt?s collection date from 1922, were created by such prominent French artists as George Barbier, Pierre Brissaud, and Georges Lepape, and anticipate the Art Deco movement of the mid-1920s.
- Pratt Institute Archives Photograph Collection
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The Photograph Collection consists of photographs of Pratt Institute in all its many facets. Dating mainly from the late nineteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries, the collection documents the history of Pratt and the surrounding area through its images of the campus, the buildings, official events and activities, and student life.
- Pratt Institute Ex Libris Collection
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The Ex Libris Collection consists of nineteenth- and twentieth-century bookplates from private and institutional libraries. The plates feature finely detailed engraving or etching and serve as outstanding examples of period book art and typography. Represented in the collection are prominent American bookplate artists such as William Fowler Hopson and Joseph Winfred Spenceley, as well as important Dutch, English, German, Hungarian, Swedish, and Spanish artists.
- Pratt Institute Archives Negative Collection
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The Negative Collection depicts the history of Pratt and the changes that it underwent from the late 1950s through the mid-1970s. The collection is particularly notable for its examples of student work in art, architecture, fashion, and industrial design.
- David Rumsey Collection
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The David Rumsey Collection focuses on 18th and 19th century North and South American cartographic materials. The collection includes atlases, globes, school geographies, maritime charts, and a variety of separate maps including pocket, wall, children's and manuscript maps. The online selection is an expanding cross section of images designed to highlight the depth and breadth of the collection. The digital images and associated descriptive data are © Cartography Associates.
- Japanese Historical Maps
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The Japanese Historical Maps Collection of the East Asian Library contains about 2,300 early maps of Japan and the World. Represented in this online collection are a selection of maps and books from the collection. The maps were selected by Yuki Ishimatsu, Head of Japanese Collections at the East Asian Library, and scanned and put online by David Rumsey and Cartography Associates. The project was initiated by Peter Zhou, Director of the East Asian Library. Funding and project management was provided by the East Asian Library and David Rumsey. When the University of California at Berkeley purchased the Mitsui Library from the Mitsui family in 1949, included among the 100,000 items was a collection of 2,298 maps which had been assembled by Mitsui Takakata (penname: Soken) (1882-1950), the 9th head of the Shinmachi branch of the family. The most unusual part of the collection is the 697 woodblock-print maps (and a few dozen manuscript maps) dating from the Tokugawa period (1600-1867). Especially rare is a selection of 252 maps of the city of Edo (modern Tokyo), 79 of Kyoto, and 40 of Osaka, and 30 of other cities such as Kanazawa, Nagoya, Nagasaki, and Yokohama. Among the earliest maps are Osaka (1656), Kyoto (1654-68), and Edo of 1676. In collecting Meiji period (1868-1912) maps as well, Mitsui Soken displayed his antiquarian interest by concentrating on the earlier decades: most of the maps date from the period before 1890 and many are printed on handmade paper, a considerable number from woodblocks. Among the Meiji maps are 240 of Tokyo, 112 of Kyoto, 89 of Osaka, and 312 of other cities.
- Maps of Africa
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Antiquarian maps of Africa from the collections of the late Dr. Oscar I. Norwich and the Stanford University Libraries, dating from the late 15th to early 20th century.
