Digital Collections

These are all interesting examples of digital libraries and archives. Poke around and see what is out there. Most libraries and archives today have at least a small presence online and the amount of information available continually increases as digitization projects from to fruition.

• Albumen Photographs: History, Science & Preservation
• American Museum of Natural History: Digital Collections
• American Memory, Historical Collections for the National Digital Library
• Bancroft Library Guide to Cased Photographs & Related Images
• Hand Bookbindings: Plain and Simple to Grand and Glorious (Special Collections in Princeton University Libraries)
• Smithsonian Institution Libraries: Library & Archival Exhibitions on the Web
• Smithsonian Institution Libraries Collection Search Center
• Most of Special Collections!
• NARA Online Exhibits
• Thomas A. Edison Papers (Rutgers University)
• U B U W E B (A massive online collection)
• Unseen Hands: Women Printers, Binders and Book Designers
• Global Museum Webzine
• Aletta: Institute for Women’s History Archives
• OAC: Online Archive of California
• The Aberdeen Bestiary
• Europeana
• NYPL Digital Gallery
• Artists’ Books: Bound in Art – Library and Archives Canada
• Virtual books in the British Library
• Rare Books from the Missouri Botanical Gardens Library
• September 11 Digital Archive
• American Indians of the Pacific Northwest Collection
• The Popol Wuj and the Mayan Cultures Archive
• Jane Austen Fiction Manuscripts
• African American History Collections
• Association for Cultural Equity
• Old Time Radio Archives 
• National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center
• Medici Archive Project