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American Institute of Indian Studies The AIIS collection from the Center for Art and Archaeology in Gurgaon, Haryana, India, has over 125,000 photographs in the collection. The images fall into the broad categories of architecture, sculpture, terracotta, painting and numismatics. |
Formats Digital Images Photographs |
Subjects South Asia Southern Asia Art Architecture |
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Chopin Early Editions Digitized version of the Library's collection of early printed editions of Chopin's musical compositions. The collection can be searched by a variety of data points including uniform title, genre, plate number, dedicatee, publisher. place of publication, etc., allowing scholars to study the differences between scores as they were published concurrently in different countries with variant texts. |
Formats Digital Music Scores |
Subjects Music |
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Goodrich, Adelaide Eunice. Collection, ca. 1837-1916 Adelaide Eunice Goodrich (1861-19??). Actress and author. Collection contains prompt books of plays, scrapbooks, photographs, and a small group of patents and other legal documents of her father H. C. Goodrich. |
Formats Digital Archives & Manuscripts |
Subjects Theater |
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Government College of Arts and Crafts (Chennai) The Museum of Contemporary Art, housed within the Government College of Arts and Crafts, has a photograph collection dated from the mid 1800s. The subjects of these photographs range from the hill tribes of Niligiris to pagodas and monuments of the Madras Presidency to guns and antiques from Fort St. George. |
Formats Digital Images Photographs |
Subjects South Asia Southern Asia Architecture Anthropology |
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Gregorian Chant Manuscript Collection The Gregorian Chant Manuscript Collection is a set of microforms that came to the University of Chicago Library in the 1990s. Reproductions were obtained from various Western European institutions, libraries, and religious houses mainly in France and England. The collection of 174 liturgical codex manuscripts dates from the 9th through 17th centuries with a concentration in the 12th and 13th centuries and include antiphonaries, missals, graduals, breviaries, sacramentaries, kyriales, tropers, sequentiaries, and others. The first twelve titles in this collection have been digitized and can be accessed from the Library's online catalog. |
Formats Digital Microform |
Subjects Music |
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Middle East Photograph Archive A digital archive of early photographs of the Middle East. Most of the photographs date to the second half of the nineteenth century. The archive is particularly strong in photographs of nineteenth century Cairo. |
Formats Digital Photographs |
Subjects Middle East Ancient Near East Photography |
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Paper Dolls. Collection This collection consists of paper dolls and accompanying paper clothing and accessories. The dolls were found in an 1839 volume of the New York Mirror, a weekly gazette of literature and the fine arts. Made by hand from scraps of magazines and wallpaper, the dolls are each unique, well-preserved examples of a typically fragile and ephemeral folk art. |
Formats Digital Images |
Subjects University of Chicago Art |
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Prass, Marjorie Whitney. Papers, 1927-2008 This collection contains papers, photographs, costumes and ephemera belonging to Marjorie Whitney Prass, an alumna of the University of Chicago and an avid dancer. The bulk of the collection is comprised of over 200 pieces of costume clothing, accessories and props. The majority were made for Prass by her mother, Mathilde Muller Whitney, for performances at the University of Chicago. |
Formats Digital Archives & Manuscripts Photographs |
Subjects University of Chicago Theater |
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Salloch, William and Marianne, Collection of Prints and Drawings: People with Books. 1500-1814 The eight prints and drawings in the collection depict people reading or holding books in various settings. The works date from the 16th through 19th centuries. Two etchings by Rembrandt are included. |
Formats Digital Images |
Subjects Art History of Print |
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The Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae A digital version of the Library's extensive collection of Antonio Lafreri's Renaissance-era Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae prints and maps which depicted major monuments and antiquities in Rome. The site also contains a set of virtual itineraries through Rome, guided by scholars from around the country. |
Formats Digital Images Maps |
Subjects Classics European History Art Architecture |
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The University of Chicago Photographic Archive Ongoing project to digitize the Archival Photographic Files which contain more than 60,000 images and are the principal archive of historic photographs of individuals, buildings, and events associated with the University of Chicago. |
Formats Digital Images Photographs |
Subjects University of Chicago Architecture |