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An image database of over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and
Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. Covering
five categories - Beauty and Hygiene, Radio, Television,
Transportation, and World War II - Ad*Access provides a coherent
view of a number of major campaigns and companies preserved in one
advertising collection at Duke University. The site is browsable
and searchable in a variety of ways, including complex searching
with Boolean operators. Brief histories of the industries and
timelines of world and national events help put the ads in the
context of their times.
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/adaccess/
Emma Spaulding Bryant wrote these ten letters to her husband, John
Emory Bryant, in the summer of 1873. They recount Emma's activities
during that summer when she and her daughter, Alice, were visiting
relatives in Illinois and Ohio while her husband tended to his
political affairs in Georgia. Because these letters are unusually
frank for this time period, they reveal much about the
relationships between husbands and wives in this era, and shed
light on medical practices that were often kept private.
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/bryant/
On-line archival collections featuring scanned pages and texts of
the writings of women during the American Civil War. Includes the
1864 diary of Alice
Williamson, a 16 year old girl from Gallatin, Tennessee, the
papers of Rose
O'Neal Greenhow, a renowned Confederate spy, and the papers of
Sarah E.
Thompson, a spy for the Union.
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/collections/civil-war-women.html
Digitized primary sources relating to the economic, social, cultural, and political history of post-bellum Durham, NC, from the 1870s to the 1920s. Includes a selection of manuscript letters taken from the Southgate-Jones family papers and James Southgate papers, accounts from Atlas M. Rigsbee's general store ledger, photographs, maps, ephemera, census data, and printed matter relating to such topics as African American business enterprise, the emergence of textiles, tobacco production and marketing, child labor, prohibition, evangelical revivalism, nineteenth-century medical practices, women's experience of childbirth, and public and private education. Additionally, the site includes resources for K-12 educators--a reference section with glossary of terms used in the 1880 census and lesson plans that tie to the North Carolina Standard Course of Study.
http://digitaldurham.duke.edu/
A database of over 9,000 advertising items and publications dating
from 1850 to 1920, illustrating the rise of consumer culture,
especially after the American Civil War, and the birth of a
professionalized advertising industry in the United States. The
project organizes the materials into eleven categories, including
advertising cookbooks, early Lux ads, J. Walter Thompson Company
"house ads" and tobacco promotions, and includes transcriptions of
the title pages and tables of contents/indexes for the Early
Advertising Publications and the Nicole DiBona Peterson Advertising
Cookbook categories; descriptive essays for each category; and
Boolean searching within each category as well as general searching
across all categories.
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/eaa/
From the mid 1950s through the early 1980s, William Gedney
(1932-1989) photographed throughout the United States, in India,
and in Europe. From the commerce of the street outside his Brooklyn
apartment to the daily chores of unemployed coal miners, from the
indolent lifestyle of hippies in Haight-Ashbury to the sacred
rituals of Hindu worshippers, Gedney was able to record the lives
of others with remarkable clarity and poignancy. These photographs,
along with his notebooks and writings, illuminate the rare vision
of an intensely private man who, as a writer and photographer, was
able to reveal the lives of others with striking sensitivity.
Included here are selections from Gedney's finished prints, work
prints, contact sheets, notes, notebooks, handmade photographic
books, book dummies, and correspondence.
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/gedney/
A database of over 600 health-related advertisements printed in
newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1958, as well as 35
selected historical documents relating to the creation and
influence of health-related advertisements. Includes Instructor's
and Student's Guides to provide ideas for use of the database in
the classroom.
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/mma/
The Duke Papyrus Archive provides electronic access to texts about
and images of 1,373 papyri from ancient Egypt. You can browse the
papyri by subject or search by keyword, and images of each papyrus
are available in various magnifications. Background material about
papyri and papyrology introduces the archive.
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/papyrus/
This journal of George Percival Scriven, an American Army Signal
Corps Officer in the Philippines at the turn of the century, was
written both as a personal memoir and as a place to keep notes for
a book that he was intending to write about the American invasion
and occupation of the Philippine Islands. The journal has been transcribed
and presented here along with photographs
from the period and links to related journals and historical
documents.
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/scriven/
Digital images of over 16,000 pages of sheet music from 3042 pieces published in the United States between 1850 and 1920. A rich database of information about the music is searchable and browsable in a variety of ways, and the site includes background information about the music itself as well as the social, cultural, and political events that shaped the songs and that are depicted in the pieces. Also included is technical information helpful to those considering or planning digital imaging projects.
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/sheetmusic/
A database of images from various collections held by the Rare
Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library. The database
contains 1000 images from fourteen different collections pertaining
to the theme "The Urban Landscape," and can be searched or browsed.
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/diap/
An on-line collection featuring transcribed texts and scanned
images of over 40 articles, pamphlets, flyers, and booklets
published from 1969 to 1974 which reflect the diversity of theory
and activities characterizing the early years of the U.S. Women's
Liberation Movement. Also included is the original manuscript
minute book of DAR II, a local activist group in Atlanta, Georgia.
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/wlm/
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