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

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ABU: La Bibliotéque Universelle
(abu.cnam.fr/)
Free access to the complete text of works of the French-speaking public domain. On the Internet since 1993. Website is in French

Academic Info Digital Library
(www.academicinfo.net/digital.html)
A directory of digital collections, electronic and virtual libraries; online publications, exhibits, documents and journals; traditional libraries and catalogs.

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.

American Memory: Historical Collections of the National Digital Library
(memory.loc.gov/ammem)
"American Memory is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The Website offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections."

American Verse Project
(www.hti.umich.edu/a/amverse/)
An electronic archive of volumes of American poetry (pre-1920) created by the University of Michigan's Humanities Text Initiative. Most of the archive is made up of 19th century poetry, although a few 18th century and early 20th century texts are included.

Anatomy of the Human Body
(www.bartleby.com/107)
An online version of the 1918 version of Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body.

Antologia (frammentaria) della Letteratura Italiana
(www.crs4.it/HTML/Literature.html)
A collection of poems, dramatic works, narrative works and political papers and documents from Italian authors and sources. Website in Italian

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

ATHENA Authors and Texts
(un2sg4.unige.ch/athena/html/authors.html)
Includes nearly 10,000 multilingual links to books on philosophy, science, classics, literature, history, economics, etc. The collection is searchable by author, title, language, and keywords.

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The Bancroft Library Collections
(bancroft.berkeley.edu/collections/)

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.

Bartleby (www.bartleby.com/)
An archive of reference resources (dictionaries, encyclopedias, fact books, and more) and collections of literature, verse, fiction and non-fiction. Features a full-text searchable database containing over 200,000 Web pages, including over 22,000 quotations and 4,765 poems.

Biblioteca Virtual - Miguel de Cervantes
(www.cervantesvirtual.com/index.jsp)
An extensive collection of full-text materials from classic and contemporary Spanish authors, poets, and dramatists. Website is in Spanish.

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.

BioMed Central
(www.biomedcentral.com/)
BioMed Central is an independent publishing house committed to providing immediate free access to peer-reviewed biomedical research while committed to ensuring efficient and effective quality control through full and stringent peer review.

Bridgeport [Connecticut] Working: Voices from the 20th Century
(www.bridgeporthistory.org/)

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Cambridge History of English and American Literature
(www.bartleby.com/cambridge/)
Compiled over fourteen years, from 1907 to 1921, the Cambridge History contains over 303 chapters and 11,000 pages, with essay topics ranging from poetry, fiction, drama and essays to history, theology and political writing. (Made available by Project Bartleby - www.bartleby.com/)

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.

Classic Bookshelf
(www.classicbookshelf.com)
Classic books by Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Jane Austen, Oscar Wilde, and many others are presented in an easy to read online format.You may customize the text size, font, colors (background and text color), and spacing (vertical and horizontal).

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
(shakespeare.mit.edu/)
This is the Web's first edition of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare, offering Shakespeare's plays and poetry to the Internet community since 1993.

Connecticut History Online
(www.cthistoryonline.org/sitemap.html)
Connecticut History Online includes (19th and 20th century) business in Connecticut and American life. Some of the sections are: Women at Work, The Textile Industry in CT, maritime trades, rural life and farming in CT, and transportation. There are 5000 graphic images in entire collection.

Cornell University Collection of Political Americana
(cidc.library.cornell.edu/political/)
The Susan H. Douglas Collection of Political Americana was acquired from an individual collector in 1957 for Cornell University Library (CUL). The range and variety of content includes: buttons, badges, posters and prints, songbooks and sheet music, cartoons, parade equipment, and souvenirs such as plates, cups, and games. There are approximately 5,500 objects of political memorabilia dating from 1789 to 1960.

Cornell University Library Historical Math Monographs (historical.library.cornell.edu/math/)
This collection consists of 571 late nineteenth and early twentieth century mathematics books from the Cornell University library. Any of these books may be purchased on acid-free paper if desired.

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DACHS - Digital Archive for Chinese Studies
(www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/dachs/)
The University of Heidelberg has archived and made accessible Internet resources relevant for Chinese Studies, with special emphasis given on social and political discourse as reflected by articulations on the Chinese Internet.

Dental Cosmos Online
(quod.lib.umich.edu/d/dencos/)
Dental Cosmos "was the first enduring national journal for the American dental profession, and one of the most significant in the early history of American dentistry. From 1859 through 1936, when it merged with the Journal of the American Dental Association, the foundation of dental practice was documented and debated in its pages. Many of these original source articles are still cited and considered classics in the field.""--Website. The journal was digitized by the University of Michigan for the years 1859 to 1891.

Digital Collections in New England
(www.nelinet.net/digital/necol/dlc_ne.htm)
The New England Collections Online (NECOL) is a collaborative effort of libraries, archives, museums, historical societies and other organizations to build a web-based virtual union catalog of historical, social, cultural, economic, and scientific resources specifically related to New England. Sponsored by NELINET.

Digital Library Federation Public Access Collections
(www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/b/bib/bib-idx?c=dlfcoll)
A web-searchable database of nearly 300 public domain online digital collections. The Digital Library Federation (DLF) is a consortium of libraries and related agencies that are pioneering in the use of electronic-information technologies to extend their collections and services.

Directory of Electronic Text Centers
(harvest.rutgers.edu/ceth/etext_directory/)
Directory of academic institutions' publication projects to develop digital libraries and collections of works for scholars in the humanities and social sciences. From Rutgers Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities.

Documenting the American South
(docsouth.unc.edu/)
A collection of sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill that contains the full-text of over 900 books and manuscripts. DAS projects include First-Person Narratives of the American South, Library of Southern Literature, North American Slave Narratives, The Southern Home front, 1861-1865, The Church in the Southern Black Community.

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eScholarship Editions
(http://content.cdlib.org/ucpress/)
The University of California Press is making electronic editions of UC Press titles. Almost 400 of the nearly 2000 titles are publicly accessible. Books are from multiple subject areas and each book is searchable.

E-text and E-journal Directory
(www.library.mcgill.ca/human/etext.htm)
Extensive, lightly annotated directory to free and restricted-access "key Internet sites which are dedicated to the dissemination of works of literature and scholarly texts in digital format. Included, as well, are links to several centres [that] serve as points of reference for students and scholars interested in theory and practice of the use and creation of electronic texts." Maintained by the Humanities and Social Sciences Library, McGill University.

Electronic Text Center - French Language Resources
(etext.lib.virginia.edu/collections/languages/french/)
These sites from the University of Virginia provide free access to any texts that are legally made publicly available. All of these texts are not necessarily public domain. Some texts are restricted to University of Virginia users or Virtual Library of Virginia. The English collection includes 9,575 titles including 203,725 manuscript, book, and newspaper illustrations (including covers, spines, book illustrations, and page images), many of which are publicly accessible. The French language collection includes the complete works of Voltaire and works by many other French writers.

Electronic Text Collections in Western European Literature
(www.lib.virginia.edu/wess/etexts.html)
This collection includes Internet sources for literary texts in the western European languages other than English. Translations are mentioned only when they are included in collections of original language texts, or when they are themselves of interest.

The Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850 - 1920 (EAA)
(scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/eaa/)
This site presents over 9,000 images, with database information, relating to the early history of advertising in the United States. The materials, drawn from the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University, provide a significant and informative perspective on the early evolution of this most ubiquitous feature of modern American business and culture.

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.

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Google Digital Resources
(http://directory.google.com/Top/Reference/Libraries/Digital/)

Göttingen Digitalisierungs-Zentrum
(gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/en/index.html)
German e-texts from Göttingen State and University Library Website in German

Gutenberg Digital
(www.gutenbergdigital.de/gudi/start.htm)
Included in this collection are a digitized Gutenberg Bible, one of four complete, illuminated copies on vellum. This Website also includes the Göttingen Model Book, a biography of Johann Gutenburg and the Helmasperger Notarial Instrument, a document which records the legal dispute between Gutenberg and his backer Johannes Fust. Translation is available.

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

Historic Government Publications from World War II: A Digital Library
(worldwar2.smu.edu)
This website contains many WWII documents including ads, articles and the full text of pocket guides, given to US soldiers, detailing the different countries where they were stationed. Photographs of North Africa, Italy, Southern France, and Germany in the 1940's from the Melvin B. Shaffer collection are also included.

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IFLA/UNESCO Directory of Digitized Collections
(www.unesco.org/webworld/digicol/)
A part of UNESCO's Memory of the World Programme: Safeguarding Documentary Heritage that hopes to list all major digitized heritage collections and on-going digitization programs worldwide in order to provide a single source of information about digital collections.

Indiana University Digital Library Program
(www.dlib.indiana.edu/collections/)

The Internet Classics Archive
(classics.mit.edu/)
A searchable database from MIT of over 400 works of classical literature by more than 50 different authors, including user-driven commentary and "reader's choice" Web sites. Mainly Greco-Roman works (some Chinese and Persian), all in English translation.

The Internet Library of Early Journals (ILEJ)
(www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej/)
A joint project by the Universities of Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Oxford that aims to digitize substantial runs (minimum, 20 years) of 18th and 19th century British journals, and make these images available on the Internet, together with their associated bibliographic data.

The Internet Sacred Text Archive
(www.sacred-texts.com/index.htm)
This site is a freely available archive of significant primary texts relating to religion, mythology, (and to a lesser extent) legends and folklore. Texts are presented in English translation and, in some cases, in the original language.

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

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Kurze Abhandlung von den Krankheiten der Zähne und deren Kur
(quod.lib.umich.edu/c/conraditc/)
The University of Michigan Dentistry Library is one of two libraries known to own a copy of this book which was published in 1755. Translated, the title is, "The King's Doctor of the Mouth and Teeth, Johann Conradi, Brief Synopsis of the Diseases of Teeth and Their Treatment." The book was written as a managerial summary of the dental art at that time for the King of Denmark by the court dentist, Johann Conradi. Conradi was a contemporary and acquaintance of Pierre Fauchard, considered by many to be "the father of dentistry." Word searches in both German and English are possible. [Source: Website]

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Labyrinth Library - Middle English Bookcase
(www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/library/me/me.html)
Provides access to other online collections and anthologies of Middle English literature, as well as links to the full text of works by such authors as Chaucer, Dunbar, Henryson, Langland and more.

Labyrinth Library - Old English Literature
(www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/library/oe/oe.html)
Provides access to poetry, prose, and reference works in Old English.

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

LIBRO - Library of Iberian Resources Online
(libro.uca.edu/)
The Library of Iberian Resources Online (LIBRO) is a joint project of the American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain and the University of Central Arkansas. Its task is to make available to users the best scholarship about the peoples and nations of the Iberian Peninsula. Consequently, the book list is principally drawn from recent, but out-of-print university press monographs. In addition, the collection includes a number of basic texts and sources in translation. These are presented in full-text format and reproduce all the matter included in the original print version. The collection focuses upon peninsular history from the fifth to the seventeenth centuries.

Literature Post
(www.literaturepost.com)
A collection of many classic books, plays, stories and poems for online reading.

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Making of America
(library5.library.cornell.edu/moa/)
Materials accessible here are Cornell University Library's contributions to Making of America (MOA), a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. This site provides access to 267 monograph volumes and over 100,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints.

MedWeb @ Emory University
(www.medweb.emory.edu/MedWeb/)
MedWeb is a catalog of biomedical and health related Websites maintained by the staff of the Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library at Emory University. MedWeb's primary audience is the academic and research community at Emory.

MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resources for Learning and Online Teaching)
(www.merlot.org/Home.po)
A free and open resource designed primarily for faculty and students of higher education. Links to online learning materials are collected here along with annotations such as peer reviews and assignments. Divided into broad subject groups.

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The National Academies Press (NAP)
(www.nap.edu/browse.html)
The NAP provides full text access to over 2,500 books in science, engineering and health. This Website provides the ability to view the entire contents online and also purchasing options. Browse by subject or search by title or words in the full text.

National Library of Medicine History of Medicine Division
(wwwihm.nlm.nih.gov/)
ThisWebsite provides access to the nearly 60,000 images in the prints and photograph collection of the History of Medicine Division (HMD) of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). The collection includes portraits, pictures of institutions, caricatures, genre scenes, and graphic art in a variety of media, illustrating the social and historical aspects of medicine.

Navy Personnel Command: Office of Women's Policy (N13W) (www.npc.navy.mil/AboutUs/BUPERS/WomensPolicy/)
"The Web site for this U.S. Navy office features current facts and statistics on women in the Navy (including distribution of enlisted women and female officers), historical data on women in the Navy (1776 to the present), Navy policy related to women (assignment, pregnancy, and family care), and research and studies on women in the Navy. Includes links to related sites." [Source: Librarians' Index to the Internet Website, March 10, 2005]

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.

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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."

The Online Books Page
(digital.library.upenn.edu/books)
A searchable index to over 10,000 books and serials freely available from different sources on the web. Titles are chosen on the basis that they are free, mainly in English are significant (inclusion in the Library of Congress' catalog counts) and are presented in a standard format.

An Online Library of Literature
(www.literature.org)
This collection includes out of copyright the works that are in the public domain. Access is provided through an index of authors.

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.

The Oxford Text Archive
(ota.ahds.ac.uk/)
The Oxford Text Archive holds several thousand electronic texts and linguistic corpora, in a variety of languages. Its holdings include electronic editions of works by individual authors, standard reference works such as the Bible and mono-/bilingual dictionaries, and a range of language corpora.

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Perseus Digital Library
(www.perseus.tufts.edu)
Ancient Greek and Roman texts, English Renaissance, American Historical texts are included. This Website includes both primary and secondary sources in multiple languages. While this collection also includes works by and about Robert Boyle, this Website is geared mainly towards the humanities.

Proceedings of the Old Bailey website
(www.oldbaileyonline.org)
The Old Bailey Proceedings Online project is pleased to announce the release of an additional 23,000 trials, covering the period 1760-1799. The site now includes 45,000 trials, giving full coverage from December 1714 to December 1799. The new trials, which include some of the longest trials in the entire 1674-1834 period, include several famous cases, among which are those of the Gordon rioters, the "London Monster", and the Perreaus and Mrs Rudd, as well as many lesser known but equally fascinating cases. They include the trials of some of the first convicts transported to Australia, and provide evidence of the increasing presence of defence counsel. The second release of trials has been accompanied by the addition of new search features and updates to many of the Web pages.

Profiles in Science - National Library of Medicine
(profiles.nlm.nih.gov/)
This site documents twentieth-century leaders in biomedical research and public health. It makes the archival collections of prominent scientists, physicians, and others who have advanced the scientific enterprise available to the public through modern digital technology. Linus Pauling, among others, is represented here.

Progetto Duecento
(www.silab.it/frox/200/pwhomita.htm)
A complete archive of Italian Literature, mostly poetry, from before Dante's time. Website is in Italian.

Project Euclid
(projecteuclid.org/DPubS?Service=UI&version=1.0&verb=Display&handle=euclid)
Project Euclid aims to help independent journals of mathematics and statistics by setting up an infrastructure that empowers the participating journals to publish on the Web and to increase their visibility through a combined online presence and reference linking. The Euclid site represents a new model of scholarly communication as it supports the distribution of published journals as well as provides journal editors with a toolkit with which they can publish their issues in a timely and cost-effective manner. For more information, see Project Euclid Mission and Goals (projecteuclid.org/Dienst/UI/1.0/About?type=about)

Project Gutenberg
(www.promo.net/pg/)
Project Gutenberg is a non-profit organization whose goal is to make electronic books freely available to the world at large. Titles included are public domain works including those by Shakespeare, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and Jane Austen.

Projekt Gutenberg
(www.gutenberg2000.de/)
German language counterpart to Project Gutenberg.

PubMed Central - An Archive of Life Science Journals
(www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/)
PubMed Central (PMC) is the U.S. National Library of Medicine's digital archive of life sciences journal literature. Access to PMC is free and unrestricted.

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Railroad Maps [contained] in the American Memory Project
(memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/rrhtml/rrhome.html)

Remember the Women Institute
(www.rememberwomen.org/)
"This nonprofit group 'conducts and encourages research and cultural activities that contribute to including women in history. Special emphasis is on women in the context of the Holocaust and its aftermath, including post-World War II immigration.' The library section of the site features several bibliographies on women and Holocaust, and some book and film reviews, art, and Web links." [Source: Librarians' Index to the Internet Website, March 10, 2005]

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Sparks Classic Books
(eserver.org/sparks/classics.html)
A collection of classic books online. The titles are few, but the text is full.

Steam and Electric Locomotives of the New Haven Railroad
(railroads.uconn.edu/locomotives/)
(www.lib.uconn.edu/teams/digicoll/collections.htm)
Project Manager: Laura Katz Smith, Curator for Business, Railroad, Labor and Ethnic Heritage and Immigration Collections, Archives & Special Collections, Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut Libraries
Project Summary: This digital collection provides online access to over 460 black-and-white photographs that document steam and electric locomotives owned and operated by the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad from the 1870s to the mid-1900s.

Steelmaker-Steeltown: U.S. Steel Gary Works Photograph Collection, 1906-1971
(www.dlib.indiana.edu/collections/steel)

SunSite Digital Collections
(sunsite.berkeley.edu/Collections/)
Describes and provides access to collections covering many different subjects/topics through catalogs, indexes, collections (text & image), and numerous search tools. Updated daily.

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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)

Textos Lemir
(parnaseo.uv.es/Lemir/Textos/index.htm)
Medieval Spanish Texts. Website in Spanish.

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UCLA Cuneiform Digital Library
(cdli.ucla.edu/)
The University of California- LosAngeles digital library of Middle Eastern tablets dating from the 3rd millenium BC includes images and additional information for more than 3,500 cuneiform tablets from museums in Berlin and Paris and from the University of California at Berkeley's Hearst Museum of Anthropology. Each image of a tablet is accompanied by a transliteration of its cuneiform text to the Roman alphabet.

University of Missouri Digital Library
(digital.library.umsystem.edu)
An ongoing project by the University of Missouri this collection includes Savitars (University of Missouri-Columbia Yearbooks); books on Missouri's history, geology, and culture; the Missouri Historical Newspapers Project; and University of Missouri Kansas City, Columbia, and St. Louis digital collections.

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Victorian Women Writer's Project
(www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/)
Indiana University publishes this site that provides access to anthologies, novels, political pamphlets, religious tracts, children's books, and volumes of poetry and verse drama by British women writers of the 19th Century.

Vindolanda Tablets Online
(vindolanda.csad.ox.ac.uk:8080/)
This online edition of the Vindolanda writing tablets, excavated from the Roman fort at Vindolanda in northern England, includes the following elements:
Tablets: a searchable online edition of the tablets (volumes 1 and 2)
Exhibition: an introduction to the tablets and their context
Reference: a guide to aspects of the tablets' content
The Vindolanda writing tablets, written in ink on post-card sized sheets of wood, have been excavated at the fort of Vindolanda, immediately south of Hadrian's Wall in northern England. Dating to the late first and early second centuries AD, the formative period of Roman Britain's northern frontier, they were written by and for soldiers, merchants, women and slaves. Through their contents, life in one community on the edge of the Roman world can be reconstructed in detail.

Virtually Missouri Digitized Collections
(www.virtuallymissouri.org/vmdigcoll.html)
Provides links to digital collections in Missouri institutions. Collections include postcards, botanical specimens and rare books, folk music, historical maps, ordinances, and materials from the Dred Scott case. Materials in this collection include the Missouri Historical Newspaper Project, Kansas City Public Library's Special Collections exhibits, the Missouri Botanical Garden exhibits, and others.

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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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.

Women and the Holocaust: A Holocaust Education Resource for Teachers
(www.njch.org/holocaust/)
"This collection of curriculum resources covers topics related to women and the Holocaust, such as women's survival in concentration camps, women artists in the Warsaw Ghetto, and resistance activities of women in camps. Resources are for middle and high school classrooms, covering history, social studies, literature, and art history subjects. Many of the topic areas include bibliographies. From the New Jersey Council for the Humanities." [Source: Librarians' Index to the Internet Website, March 10, 2005]

Women & the U.S. Coast Guard
(www.uscg.mil/hq/g-cp/history/Women%20Index.html)
"Photos, essays, and other material on women in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard. Features historical data on women lighthouse keepers, the U.S. Coast Guard Women's Reserve (also known as the SPARs), photos of women's Coast Guard uniforms (1942-1974), a chronology, and a bibliography. From the U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office." [Source: Librarians' Index to the Internet Website, March 10, 2005]

Women in the Korean War
(korea50.army.mil/history/factsheets/women.shtml)
"This fact sheet provides an overview of the roles of women in military service during the Korean War. Discusses the Women's Army Corps (WAC), the Army Nurse Corps, the Air Force Nurse Corps, the Navy Nurse Corps, women Marines, Coast Guard SPARs, and civilian women. From the U.S. Department of Defense Korean War commemoration site." [Source: Librarians' Index to the Internet Website, March 10, 2005]

Women in the U.S. Army
(www.army.mil/cmh-pg/topics/women/Women-USA.htm)
"Collection of exhibits and documents related to women in the United States Army. Highlights include detailed documents on the Women's Army Corps in World War II and history of the Army Nurse Corps. Includes historical images and related links. From the Center of Military History (CMH), United States Army." [Source: Librarians' Index to the Internet Website, March 10, 2005]

Women of Ravensbrück: Portraits of Courage (www.chgs.umn.edu/Visual___Artistic_Resources/Women_of_Ravensbruck/women_of_ravensbruck.html)
"This exhibit looks at the history and background of the Ravensbrück camp, a World War II concentration camp for women. It features stories from several inmates, images of the camp and of prisoner art, and essays on topics such as children, medical experiments, spiritual resistance, and concentration camp cookbooks. Based on an exhibit at the Florida Holocaust Museum, this is part of virtual museum of the University of Minnesota Center of Holocaust and Genocide Studies."
[Source: Librarians' Index to the Internet Website, March 10, 2005]

Women's History Month
(www.gale.com/free_resources/whm/)
"Gale Research observes Women's History Month with a timeline from 4000 B.C. to the present and biographies of several dozen women, including Joan of Arc, Sally Hemings, Mother Teresa, Indira Gandhi, Flossie Wong-Staal, and Queen Elizabeth I. Also find information on 12 significant trials, including the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire and the Tailhook Scandal. Includes suggestions for activities and annotated links to other resources." [Source: Librarians' Index to the Internet Website, March 10, 2005]

Working Women, 1870-1930
(ocp.hul.harvard.edu/ww/)
"Women Working, 1870 - 1930 provides access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard's library and museum collections. This collection explores women's roles in the US economy between the Civil War and the Great Depression. Working conditions, conditions in the home, costs of living, recreation, health and hygiene, conduct of life, policies and regulations governing the workplace, and social issues are all well documented. The collection currently contains 2,396 books and pamphlets, 1,075 photographs, and 5,000 pages from manuscript collections." [Source: Website]

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

Wright American Fiction 1851-1875
(www.letrs.indiana.edu/web/w/wright2)
A digitized collection of nineteenth century American fiction covering all works of fiction listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography American Fiction, 1851-1875. Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville are among the authors included in this collection.

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Yahoo! Reference > Libraries > Digital Libraries > Projects and Collections
(dir.yahoo.com/Reference/Libraries/Digital_Libraries/Projects_and_Collections/)
Free and open access to thousands of digitized images, resources, and projects and in collections primarily in the U.S., but also includes some worldwide links.

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