Ad*Access Project

Images and information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. Ad*Access concentrates on five main subject areas: Radio, Television, Transportation, Beauty and Hygiene, and World War II, providing a view of a number of major campaigns and companies through images preserved in one particular advertising collection available at Duke University.
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Aerial Photographs of Northern California

A collection of scanned air photos from the collection of the Earth Sciences & Map Library.
Geographic area covered: Northern California
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African American Song

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Includes approximately 50,000 digital music tracks documenting genres such as jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime, folk songs, and other forms of African American musical expression.
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American Memory Motion Pictures Collections (Library of Congress)

A gateway to primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The site offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections. Includes a sampling of early American films, including works by the Edison Company, recordings of vaudeville and other popular entertainments, early animated films; recordings of early 20th Century presidents, and scenes of American work and leisure, 1894-1915.
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American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library

Consists of more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical Library of Congress collections. The primary source and archival materials relating in the project cover topics from art and architecture to performing arts to technology and applied sciences.
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American Museum of Photography

Iincludes over 5,000 images from daguerreotype portraits to Ansel Adams.
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American TV Ad History & Showcase

Site devoted to "classic" advertisements 1940-1970. Includes an archive television advertisements available for viewing online or downloading.
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AP Multimedia Archive

1826 - present

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Includes Associated Press's current-year photo report and a selection from a 50-million image print and negative library dating from 1844-present. Currently contains about 700,000 photos, most of which are contemporary images made since late 1995.
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Archives of American Art

Collection of primary source documentation on American visual arts.
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ARTstor

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A repository of more than 1 million digital images and associated catalog data. The collection is designed to be used by students and faculty for teaching and research in art history, as well as many other disciplines. Includes several collections such as: The Mellon International Dunhuang Archive; Native American Art and Culture from the Smithsonian; the Hartill Archive of Architecture and Allied Arts, etc.
URL to Guide: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ARTH/artstorguide.html
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Asahi Kikuzo II

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Contains over 5.8 million articles in full text from the following Japanese sources: 1) Asahi shinbun newspaper (1945-present); 2) AERA weekly magazine (May 1988-present); 3) Shukan Asahi weekly magazine (news section only. Also includes the Historical Photo Archive, which offers approximately 10,000 historical photographs of the period between the 1930s and 1945 which is accessible within Kikuzo II Visual. The Archive contains photographs taken in Asia (Manchuria, Vietnam, Pacific Ocean Islands, etc.) and Europe (Germany, England, etc.) from the 1930s and throughout the Second World War period.
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BBC Motion Gallery

Over 10,000 movie clips from the archives of the British Broadcasting Corporation and CBS News.
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Biblioteca Virtual Miquel de Cervantes

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Digital library that provides free electronic access to one of the world's largest collections of digitized books, periodicals, documents, manuscripts, dissertations, images and audio-visual resources.
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British Pathe

1896-1970

A digital news archive that allows users to preview items from the entire 3500 hour British Pathe Film Archive which covers news, sport, social history and entertainment from 1896 to 1970.
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California Cultures

Documents California's history of diversity and multicultural contributions. Includes photographs, documents, newspaper clippings, political cartoons, works of art, oral histories, and features more than 20,000 specially digitized primary sources from The Bancroft Library. Part of Calisphere, University of California's free public gateway to primary sources.
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Calisphere

Gateway to digitized images from the libraries and museums of 10 University of California campuses and more than 100 cultural heritage organizations in California. Includes more than 150,000 photographs, diaries, documents, oral histories and other resources. Serves as a single point of access for more than 300 UC-created websites and collections.
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CAMIO: Catalog of Art Museum Images Online

A collection of some 95,000 art images from around the world contributed and described by leading museums. All rights-cleared for educational use.
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Cervantes Project / Proyecto Cervantes

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The Cervantes Project is composed of the Cervantes International Bibliography Online (CIBO), the Cervantes Digital Library which are electronic editions of Cervantes' complete works) and the Cervantes Digital Archive of Images (CDAI).
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Cities and Buildings Database

A collection of over 5000 digitized images of buildings and cities drawn from across time and throughout the world ranging from New York to Central Asia, from African villages to the Parc de la Villette. Users can now search for buildings by country, city, style, title, architect, date of construction, as well as other fields.
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Classical Music Library

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A database of classical music recordings containing more than 50,000 tracks cross-referenced to a database of supplementary reference information. Over 32 labels are represented. Recordings include early written music (e.g. Gregorian Chant) to contemporary composers. All genres are represented including vocal and choral music, chamber, orchestral, solo instrumental and opera. The database provides multiple recordings of major works
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COMPASS

Feature around 5,000 objects that reflect the range of the British Museum's collections.
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Counseling and Therapy in Video

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Online collection of video available for the study of social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling. Upon completion will include 400 hours and more than 330 videos. Currently includes 276 videos totaling roughly 300 hours.
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Database of Recorded American Music (DRAM)

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Contains audio files of over 1200 CDs, featuring 7500 compositions of classical music, folk music, opera, jazz, country music, early rhythm and blues, musical theater, experimental music, electronic music, early rock and Native American music from the United States. This broad spectrum of American music is derived from recordings available on the New World Records label, and works of contemporary classical American music from labels such as CRI, Albany, innova, Cedille, XI, Pogus, Deep Listening, and Mutable. QuickTime 6.5.2 or later required.
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Digital Library for Earth System Education

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Provides access to collections of educational resources, earth data sets and imagery and other support systems for teaching and learning about the Earth system.
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Digital Scriptorium

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An image database of medieval and renaissance manuscripts. Among the participating institutions to this project are the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley, Columbia University and the Union Theological Seminary.
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Earthquake Engineering Online Archive (NISEE)

Searchable repository of significant, publicly-funded, research and development texts, photographs and digital images, strong motion data, and software in earthquake, structural, and geotechnical engineering. Database also includes full text for earthquake research reports published at UC Berkeley, the NISEE software library, and images from EQIIS, including the Steinbrugge, Godden, and Kozak collections. New materials are added daily. Requires membership for access; free for UC Berkeley faculty, staff and students by email request to nisee@berkeley.edu.
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Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850-1920

Over 9,000 images, with database information, relating to the early history of advertising in the United States. The materials is drawn from the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University.
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Europa Film Treasures (EFT)

Discover and watch difficult to find European films from early-20th century short documentaries to an experimental film from Scotland in the 1970s, as well as a little-known western of John Ford from 1917. This collection of films is on-demand and free. Europa Film Treasures is based on a partnerships with film archives in Europe.
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Europeana

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Provides direct access to more than 2 million digital objects, including film material, photos, paintings, sounds, maps, manuscripts, books, newspapers and archival papers. Europeana -- the European digital library, museum and archive -- began in July 2007 and is funded by the European Commission and its member states. This current prototype is one of many parallel projects of The European Library.
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Feedroom

A portal to streamed video clips of news, entertainment, sports, and business information. Includes links to Reuters and NBC News feeds online.
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Gallica

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The Bibliotheque Nationale de France's digital library provides free electronic access to one of the world's largest collections of digitized books, periodicals, documents, manuscripts, images and audio-visual resources. One can browse (Decouverte), search (Recherche), or explore thematic groupings of materials (Dossiers).
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Google Image Search

Billions of images found on web pages. Some may be protected by copyright.
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Great Buildings Online

Gateway to architicture around the world and across history. Documents 1000 buildings and hundreds of leading architects.
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Hartill

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Includes 16,660 images of ancient and contemporary architecture of the Western world, Middle East, Americas. [Note: This collection is part of the UC Image Service and can be viewed in two ways: the Insight Browser allows users to view the collection using a web browser; the Luna Insight software provides greater functionality but must be downloaded.]
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Helios: Photography Online

Online collections ofmore than 1500 images from the Smithsonian American Art Museum Photography Collection.
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History and Politics Out Loud

A multimedia database documenting and delivering audiorecordings relevant to American history and politics. Includes speeches and other addresses by US presidents and other political leaders.
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History Channel Speech Archives

Online audiorecordings of speeches and other addresses by international political leaders; on-site recordings of notable historic events.
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IDEAS: Image Database to Enhance Asian Studies

Includes examples Asian art and material culture. Materials may be used for educational, non-commercial purposes only. Acknowledgement to be given to the ASIANetwork-Luce Asian Art in the Undergraduate Curriculum Project and to the college from whose collection the work comes. The individual college retains copyright to the work.
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Images from the History of Medicine

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). Includes portraits, pictures of institutions, caricatures, genre scenes, and graphic art in a variety of media.
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Images of Historical Earthquakes: The Jan T. Kozak Collection

Contains 875 images of historical earthquakes. Images are accessible chronologically or by countries or region.
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Index of Christian Art

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Indexes early Christian and medieval architecture and art objects to 1400 via thematic and iconographic indexes. Several thousand images are now available as links from individual records about art works.
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Internet Moving Images Archive

An online archive of "ephemeral films," including films produced by and for many hundreds of important US corporations, nonprofit organizations, trade associations, community and interest groups, and educational institutions. Includes advertisement and publicity films, educational films, government propaganda, and other historically important moving image materials.
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Kidder Smith Slide Archives on American Architecture

Selected imagesof from the 3400 slides in the Kidder Smith Slide Archives at MIT. The slide archive systematically covers 805 buildings from the pre-Columbian period to 1978 and includes sequences of 6 to 10 or more slides for some buildings. Approximately 2000 of the slides document mid- and late- 20th century buildings, with special attention to the 1950s and 1960s.
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KRPia

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In Korean. Database of primary sources including Koryosa, Samguk sagi, Samguk yusa, Chungbo munhon pigo, and many other titles in Korean history, literature, civilization, and medicine. Includes image files of original texts in classical Chinese with searchable translated texts in Korean.
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Legacy Tobacco Documents Library (LTDL)

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Contains more than 9.7 million documents (50,918,305 pages) created by major tobacco companies related to their advertising, manufacturing, marketing, sales, and scientific research activities.
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Library of American Broadcasting

The Library of America holds a wide-ranging collection of audio and video recordings, books, pamphlets, periodicals, personal collections, oral histories, photographs, scripts and vertical files devoted exclusively to the history of broadcasting. Site includes an online sampling of vintage radio commercials and an online archive of historic photographs related to radio broadcasting.
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Library of UC Images/Saskia

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Includes more than 26,000 high-quality, digital art historical images with a special emphasis on core images required for teaching the history of Western art. Includes images from the Louvre, Musee D'Orsay, Uffizi Palace, and the Prado as well as many archaeological sites including Ephesus, Pergamum, and Mycenae. [Note: This collection is part of the UC Image Service and can be viewed in two ways: the Insight Browser allows users to view the collection using a web browser; the Luna Insight software provides greater functionality but must be downloaded.]
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Living Room Candidate: Historical Presidential Campaign Commercials

1952 - 2004

An archive of historic and current political advertisements from television and the internet. Most clips include transcripts.
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Lugt's Repertoire Online

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NOTE: To search either Repertoire or Libraries, use scroll bar on left-hand side of page to scroll down to bottom to locate the two search bars. Click on either Search Repertoire or Search Libraries to open up a search window. Online edition of Lugt's Repertoire des Catalogues de Ventes Publiques, fN8650.L8, v.1-4, (Art History/Classics Library), listing over 60,000 art sales catalogues dated 1600-1900 from libraries in Europe and the US. The catalogues provide information on the provenance of art objects, the history of collecting, and historical market trends. Numerous catalogues have been added to the original work and corrections made. Searchable by Lugt number, date, place, provenance, auction house and existing copies. In addition, the Libraries database allows the searching of libraries holding art sales catalogues.
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Metavid

A searchable archive of video from the United States House and Senate Floor Debates captured though C-SPAN, from 2006 to the present. Can be searched by topic/subject keyword or person. Video can also be freely downloaded by anyone.
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MOAC (Museums and Online Archive of California)

Contains a selection of images from 7 California museums and libraries including the Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive, Japanese American National Museum, Oakland Museum of California, Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology, Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, UC Berkeley Bancroft Library, UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts. Covers all time periods. [Note: This collection is part of the UC Image Service and can be viewed in two ways: the Insight Browser allows users to view the collection using a web browser; the Luna Insight software provides greater functionality but must be downloaded.]
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Moving Image Collections (MIC)

A union catalog that brings together in one place records for individual moving images collected and managed by a number of organizations, enabling users to search for moving images across multiple collections. Information for each moving image includes title, date, physical format(s), credits, and subject information, with information about the organization holding the moving image. Some records include links to moving images available for immediate download or streaming.
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Naxos Music Library (NML)

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A collection of Western classical music including the complete Naxos and Marco Polo catalogs of over 170,000 tracks. Includes classical music, jazz, world, folk and Chinese music. Includes notes and biographical information on composers and artists.
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Naxos Music Library Jazz

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Offers close to 20,000 tracks of jazz from 1,900 albums. Over 500 jazz artist are represented.
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Newsfilm Library

A partial online catalog of the Fox Movietonews newsreel collection (Century Fox Film Corporation) at the University of South Carolina. The Newsfilm Library includes all Movietonews reels from 1919-1934, as well as the complete newsreels and all associated outtakes from September 1942 through August 1944.
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NYPL Digital Gallery

Provides access to over 275,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more.
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Online Archive of California (OAC)

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A searchable and browseable resource that brings together historical materials from a variety of California institutions, including museums, historical societies, and archives. Contains over 120,000 images; 50,000 pages of documents, letters, and oral histories; and 8,000 guides to collections. Images are organized into thematic and institutional collections, such as historical topics, nature, places, and technology.
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Oxford Reference Online - Maps and Illustrations

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Access to Visual English Dictionary, World Flags and World Maps published by Oxford University Press on the history. Search sources collectively or search within an individual title.
Geographic area covered: International
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Perseus Digital Library

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A collection of more than 500 primary and secondary texts on the study of ancient Greece and Rome. Also includes images of vases, sculptures, buildings and other art and archaeological works.
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Public Health Image Library (PHIL)

Collection of still images, image sets, and multimedia files related to public health sponsored by the the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) National Center for Health Marketing, and National Center for Infectious Diseases.
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Real Guide

A portal to streamed video clips of news, entertainment, sports, and business information.
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SCIPIO (Sales Catalog Index Project Input Online)

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Indexes art auction and rare book sales catalogs, and provides dates and locations of sales, auction houses, sellers, institutional holdings, and titles of works. Covers private sales and sale catalogs from all major European and North American auction houses in subject areas of world art from all time periods, books and manuscripts, painting, sculpture, drawing, prints and photographs, furniture, decorative and applied arts, musical instruments, and objets d'art. Dates of coverage 1599 to the present.
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Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives

1960 - 1974

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Documents the key events, trends, and movements in 1960s America. Includes 70,000 pages of letters, diaries, and oral histories; more than 30,000 pages of posters, broadsides, pamphlets, advertisements, and rare audio and video materials. Enhanced by dozens of scholarly document projects, featuring annotated primary-source content that is analyzed and contextualized through interpretive essays by historians.
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Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries

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Includes approximately 35,000 tracks of world music and sound recordings from the archives of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, cross-referenced to a database of supplementary reference information. Categories include American folk, blues, bluegrass, and jazz.
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SPIRO database - Architectural Visual Resources Library

The visual online catalog of UC Berkeley's Architecture Visual Resources Library (AVRL). Images in SPIRO are downloadable for faculty and students of UC Berkeley for non-profit educational uses, but not for publication. The AVRL collection numbers over 275,000 35mm slides, 20,000 photographs, and 75,000 digital images. A more limited set of SPIRO images is available through the UC Image Service.
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Tebtunis Papyri Collection

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Contains some 21,000 papyrus document fragments found in 1899/1900 at the site of ancient Tebtunis, Egypt. [Note: This collection is part of the UC Image Service and can be viewed in two ways: the Insight Browser allows users to view the collection using a web browser; the Luna Insight software provides greater functionality but must be downloaded.]
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Theatre in Video

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Contains over 250 of the world's most important 20th century plays together with over 100 video documentaries, including the BBC Shakespeare Series, delivered in streaming video.
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UC Image Service

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Provides 330,000 high resolution, zoom-able digital images in about a dozen image collections including the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection, the Farber Gravestone Collection, Hoover Institution Poster Collection, SPIRO and the Library of UC Images (LUCI). Cross-disciplinary coverage includes the arts, history, architecture, design, literature, city planning, anthropology, landscape architecture, archaeology, geography, cartography, gender, ethnic and area studies. [Note: The collections in the UC Image Service can be viewed in two ways: the Insight Browser allows users to view the collection using a web browser; the Luna Insight software provides greater functionality including cross-search all collections but must be downloaded.]
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Vanderbilt Television Index

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Holding more than 30,000 individual network evening news broadcasts from the major U.S. national broadcast networks: ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN, and more than 9,000 hours of special news-related programming including ABC's Nightline since 1989. These special reports and periodic news broadcasts cover presidential press conferences and political campaign coverage, and national and international events.
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Vincent Voice Library

Index to the Vincent Voice Library, a collection of speeches, performances, lectures, interviews, broadcasts, etc. by over 50,000 people, recorded over the last 100 years.
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Visual Collections: Images of Art, History and Culture

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Includes more than 30,000 images from some 35 image collections from museums, universities and private collections throughout the world in the areas of cartography, fine arts, architecture, and photography. Some of the collections included are free and open to the public; others are restricted to educational use only or on a subscription basis only. Among the collections included are: USF Rare Map Collection, MOAC (Museums and Online Archive of California), Japanese Historical Maps Catena Historic Gardens and Landscapes Archive and many more. [Note: This collection can be viewed in two ways: the Insight Browser allows users to view the collection using a web browser; the Luna Insight software provides greater functionality but must be downloaded.]
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William G. Godden Structural Engineering Slide Library

Contains 1000 images based on Professor William G. Godden's 30 years of teaching structural analysis, structural design, and architectural engineering, during which time he photographed many structures throughout the world for the express purpose of illustrating particular facets of structural theory, response, or design.
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Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000

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Collects and analyzes more than 1,000 documents and almost 400 images on the history of women and social movements in the United States between 1600 and 2000. Also includes links to other websites and a dictionary of social movements and organizations.
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Working Women, 1800 -1930

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Provides access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image collections. Explores women's roles in the US economy between the Civil War and the Great Depression. Documents working conditions, conditions in the home, costs of living, recreation, health and hygeine, conduct of life, policies and regulations governing the workplace, and social issues. When completed, the collections will contain more than 2200 books and pamphlets, 1000 photographs and 10,000 pages from manuscript collections.
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