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Digital Collections - Fine and Performing Arts

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Architecture

Bibliotheca Augustana
(www.fh-augsburg.de/~harsch/augusta.html)
Full text of selected works in Spanish, Italian, German, Greek, and Latin. A "virtual museum" including photographs of art and architecture from various time periods is available. Website in Spanish.

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Art

Bibliotheca Augustana
(www.fh-augsburg.de/~harsch/augusta.html)
Full text of selected works in Spanish, Italian, German, Greek, and Latin. A "virtual museum" including photographs of art and architecture from various time periods is available. Website in Spanish.

Art - American

WPA Prints in Special Collections
(http://www.case.edu/UL/SpecColl/WPA/WPAPrints.htm)
The Special Collections Department of Case Western Reserve University holds a substantial collection of 257 original graphic works by 41 Cleveland area artists from the Federal Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project. This entire collection has been scanned and made available digitally. A special thanks is extended to Jane Glaubinger, Curator of Prints at the Cleveland Museum of Art, for her time and expertise in identifying the specific graphic process of each print. Includes public administration collections, art collections, women artists, African-American artists, and WPA prints.
WPA Artists and Their Works
(www.case.edu/UL/preserve/WPA/WPAPrintsArtists.htm

Art - Artists

William Blake Archive
(www.blakearchive.org)
This Website is a gathering point for the varied works of William Blake. Many of Blake's prints, paintings and poems made available with permission, and without a fee. Each work includes an extensive bibliographical description. An online hypermedia environment that allows its users to access high-quality electronic reproductions of a growing portion of Blake's work. These reproductions have been prepared according to the highest technical and scholarly standards, with the cooperation of a number of the major museum, library, and private collections.

Art - Emblems

English Emblem Book Project
(emblem.libraries.psu.edu/home.htm)
From Penn State's Emblem book collection, the current nine books form the core of this project represent this particular kind of book. Emblem books provide a picture and moralizing poem on facing pages.

Art - Textiles

Antonio Ratti Textile Center
(www.metmuseum.org/collections/department.asp?dep=20)
The Metropolitan Museum's textile collection

Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection
(sohe.wisc.edu/depts/hlatc/)

Textile Collection - University of Dundee Museum
(www.dundee.ac.uk/museum/textile.htm)

Textiles and Apparel: Cornell Costume Collection
(www.human.cornell.edu/txa/cu_costume.cfm)

Textiles - The Art Institute of Chicago
(www.artic.edu/aic/collections/textiles/index.php)

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Interdisciplinary

Online Archive of California
(www.oac.cdlib.org/about/oacprojects.html)
The Online Archive of California (OAC) is a digital information resource that "facilitates and provides access to materials such as manuscripts, photographs, and works of art held in libraries, museums, archives, and other institutions across California."

Voice of the Shuttle
(vos.ucsb.edu/index.asp)
Voice of the Shuttle provides links to multi-disciplinary collections of free texts on the Internet.

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Music

19th century California sheet music
(www.ischool.berkeley.edu/~mkduggan/neh.html)

Charles R. Templeton Sheet Music Collection
(library.msstate.edu/ragtime/)
Mississippi State University

Chopin Early Editions
(chopin.lib.uchicago.edu/)
University of Chicago, early editions of Chopin collection.

Inventions of Note - Sheet Music Collection
(libraries.mit.edu/music/sheetmusic/index.html)
Massachusetts Institute Technology site.

Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music
(levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/)

NYPL Digital (New York Public Library Digital Library Collection)
(www.nypl.org/digital/)
"NYPL Digital is your gateway to The New York Public Library's rare and unique collections in digitized form. ... Digitized content has been drawn from a broad range of original historical resources. All historical media are presented as specific, original artifacts, without further enhancement to their appearance or quality, as a record of the era in which they were produced." (NYPL Digital Website) This collection includes prints, photographs, text, moving images, and sound recordings.

Over There! and Back Again:  Patriotic American Sheet Music from The First World War
(www.lib.ua.edu/libraries/hoole/digital/overthere/index.htm)
University of Alabama digital exhibit of patriotic sheet music; selections from the Wade Hall sheet music collection.

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Photography and Pictoral Works

Ad*Access
(scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/adaccess/)
Images and information for 7000 advertisements from US and Canadian newspapers and magazines, 1911-1955.  (J. Walter Thompson Co. Competitive Advertisements Collection)

Aerial Photography Online Images
(sunsite.berkeley.edu/EART/AerialPhotos)
Aerial Photography Online:  A collection of aerial photographs of the San Francisco Bay Area and Yosemite National Park. The American Heritage Project.

The Bancroft Library Pictorial Collection
(bancroft.berkeley.edu/collections/pictorial.html)
Contains approximately 2.8 million items in a variety of media formats illustrating the history of California and the American West.

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See also: Research by Subject - Fine and Performing Arts