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A to Z List: Duke Digital Collections

The collections listed below that are shown with an icon thumbnail image share a common searchable database.

  • Deena Stryker Photographs, 1963-1964 and undated:
    Approximately 1850 photographs shot in Cuba between 1963 and 1964 and processed by Alberto Korda on the island.
     
  • Diamonstein-Spielvogel Video Archive:
    Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel interviews with prominent artists, circa 1970-1985.
  • Digital Durham:
    Primary sources documenting the economic, social, cultural, and political history of Durham, N.C., from the 1870s through the 1920s.
  • Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement:
    Images and transcripts related to the radical origins of the Women's Liberation Movement in the United States during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
  • Duke Football Programs:
    Images of 584 covers from Duke football game programs.
  • Duke Papyrus:
    Images and explanatory descriptions of Duke's collection of nearly 1400 papyri from ancient Egypt.
  • Emergence of Advertising in America:
    Images of 9,000 advertising items and publications dating from 1850 to 1920, illustrating the rise of consumer culture and the birth of a professionalized advertising industry in the United States.
  • Emma Spaulding Bryant Letters:
    Emma Spaulding Bryant wrote these ten letters to her husband, John Emory Bryant, in the summer of 1873. The letters reveal much about the relationships between husbands and wives in this era, and shed light on women's health issues that were often kept private.
  • Everyday Life and Women in America (Duke campus only):
    Documents the social and cultural forces that shaped the everyday lives of women and men in America from 1800 to 1920. The project comprises images sourced from the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture, Duke University and the New York Public Library.
  • Ration Coupons on the Home Front, 1942-1945:
    Images of ration coupons, stickers, and certificates for tires, bicycles, typewriters, sugar, shoes, fuel oil, gasoline, and food which were issued by the U.S. Office of Price Administration from 1942-1945.
  • Sam Reed and the Trumpet of Conscience:
    Collection documenting the life and work of activist and organizer, Sam Reed, and the organization he founded, the Trumpet of Conscience, 1987-2000.
  • Slavery, Abolition, and Social Justice (Duke campus only):
    Digital collection documents key aspects of the history of slavery worldwide over six centuries. Content from the John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American History and Culture at Duke University, as well as several other North American and European libraries.
  • Sidney D. Gamble Photographs:
    Approximately 5000 photographs, primarily of China, 1917-1932.
     
  • The Urban Landscape Digital Image Access Project:
    1000 images from fourteen collections pertaining to the theme "The Urban Landscape."
     
  • Vica Nazi Propaganda Comics:
    Three issues of the comic book series Vica by Vincent Krassousky produced in France during World War II.
  • Walt Whitman Manuscripts:
    Manuscript drafts and revisions of Whitman's poetry and prose as well as proofs and published versions of his work from his early career in journalism up through the end of his life. Part of the Trent Collection of Whitmaniana in the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University.
  • William Emerson Strong Photograph Album:
    Portraits of 200 military officers and "notorious characters" of the Confederacy.
     
  • William Gedney Photographs and Writings:
    The 50,000 item collection documents Gedney's work from the 1950s to 1989, in the United States, India, England, Ireland, and France.
     

Last published June 16, 2009 12:52:09 PM EDT

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