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American Indian Histories and Cultures
Explore manuscripts, artwork and rare printed books dating from the earliest contact with European settlers right up to photographs and newspapers from the mid-twentieth century. Browse through a wide range of rare and original documents from treaties, speeches and diaries, to historic maps and travel journals. artwork images primary sources primary sources documents manuscripts primary sources historical newspapers periodicals
American West
Comprised of original manuscripts, rare printed books, maps and ephemeral material from the Everett D.Graff Collection of Western Americana at the Newberry Library, Chicago, American West covers topics including tales of frontier life, Indigenous Peoples, vigilantes and outlaws. artwork images primary sources primary sources documents manuscripts primary sources historical newspapers periodicals
Artstor
The Artstor Digital Library provides images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences, with an accessible suite of software tools for teaching and research. Comprises contributions from outstanding international museums, photographers, libraries, photo archives, and artists and artists' estates. Images form ARTstor are for noncommercial educational or scholarly use only. Images may be used in educational or scholarly presentations, including printed handouts, but may not be otherwise distributed or publicly displayed. artwork images primary sources video multimedia

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Berg Fashion Library
Berg Fashion Library’s content comes from eBooks, reference works, seminal essays, and museum partnerships artwork images encyclopedias reference

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Eighteenth Century Drama
Explore the Larpent Collection from the Huntington Library – a unique archive of almost every play submitted for licence between 1737 and 1824. Larpent preserved the original submissions, over 2,500 of which are presented here. artwork images primary sources primary sources documents manuscripts

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Frontier Life
This multi-archive collection captures the lives, experiences and colonial encounters of people living at the edges of the Anglophone world from 1650-1920. Coverage: 1650-1920. artwork images primary sources primary sources documents manuscripts

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Getty Open Content
Hosted by the Getty Research Institute. Search across several of the Getty repositories, including collections databases, library catalogs, collection inventories, and archival finding aids. This link initially limits your search to images available for free download under the Getty's Open Content Program. Coverage: Details not available. artwork images primary sources video multimedia

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JSTOR Global Plants
The Global Plants database is a growing collection of nearly three million high-resolution type specimens and related materials from community contributors around the world. This resource also features partner-contributed reference works and primary sources, such as collectors’ correspondence and diaries, illustrations, and photographs. Selected sub-collections include reference works and books such as The Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa, illustrations from Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, and Kew’s Directors’ Correspondence. artwork images primary sources primary sources documents manuscripts

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Oxford Art Online
Covers art and culture from prehistory to the 1990s. Its multicultural approach offers detailed analyses of civilizations from Asia, Africa, the Americas, Europe, and the Pacific. Provides a guide to the visual arts: painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, drawing, and printmaking, as well as the decorative arts. Coverage: Details not available. artwork images encyclopedias reference

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Popular Culture in Britain and America
From the collections of original archival material from key libraries in Britain and America, discover the 1950’s to the 1970’s through a wealth of printed and manuscript sources, visual material, ephemera and video clips. Coverage: 1950-1975. artwork images primary sources primary sources historical newspapers periodicals

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Victorian Popular Culture
The Victorian Popular Culture portal is a resource for the study of popular entertainment in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It contains a wide range of source material relating to popular entertainment in America, Britain and Europe in the period from 1779 to 1930, and shows how interconnected these worlds were. Coverage: 1779-1930. artwork images primary sources primary sources historical newspapers periodicals

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World’s Fairs
This resource digitizes primary source material from hundreds of international fairs and expositions spanning 1829-2015. Coverage: 1851-2015. artwork images primary sources primary sources documents manuscripts primary sources historical newspapers periodicals

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