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44 Databases Found for:Digital Images

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Alternate Name(s):Art & Architecture ePortal

The A&AePortal is an authoritative eBook resource that features important works of scholarship in the history of art, architecture, decorative arts, material culture, photography, and design.

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Also provides access to images that accompany scholarly texts.

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Alternate Name(s):Access Medicine

Provides students, residents, clinicians, researchers, and health professionals with access to more than 65 medical titles, updated content, thousands of images and illustrations, interactive self-assessment, case files, and time-saving diagnostic and point-of-care tools.

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Provides students, residents, clinicians, researchers, and health professionals with access to more than 65 medical titles, updated content, thousands of images and illustrations, interactive self-assessment, case files, and time-saving diagnostic and point-of-care tools.

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Full-text book coverage to the latest editions - Updated daily
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Unlimited simultaneous users
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Alternate Name(s):American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series I, 1760-1900

Full-color digital facsimiles of 18th- and 19th-century American ephemeral publications (broadsides, ballads, programs, sermons, libretti, etc).

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Based on the American Antiquarian Society's landmark collection, American Broadsides and Ephemera offers fully searchable facsimile images of approximately 15,000 broadsides printed between 1820 and 1900 and 15,000 pieces of ephemera printed between 1760 and 1900. The diverse subjects of these broadsides range from contemporary accounts of the Civil War, unusual occurrences and natural disasters to official government proclamations, tax bills and town meeting reports. Featuring many rare items, the pieces of ephemera include clipper ship sailing cards, early trade cards, bill heads, theater and music programs, stock certificates, menus and invitations documenting civic, political and private celebrations.

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1760-1900 - Updates vary
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4 simultaneous users
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Alternate Name(s):AP Images

Collection of images, graphics, and audio provided by The Associated Press. International in scope with images dating back as early as 1826.  Please note: to access, select the “AP Newsroom” link on the EBSCO page.

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Founded in 1848, the AP is one of the oldest and largest news organization in the world.

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1826 to present
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unlimited simultaneous users
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Alternate Name(s):ARTstor Images

Digital image library of over 2.5 million digital images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences.  To save or download images, users must register for an individual account.

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Users who create an account also gain access to a set of tools for sharing images, curating groups of images, downloading them directly into PowerPoint presentations, and comparing and contrasting images.

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The Associated Press Collections Online makes content of the Associated Press Corporate Archives, AP Images, and AP Archive available to libraries worldwide.

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Collections include:
European Bureaus Collection: From Vienna, its chief listening post, and also from Prague and Warsaw, the Associated Press (AP) covered Eastern Europe during World War II and the Cold War. This collection is composed almost entirely of rare wire copy, recording the declining influence of the Soviet Union, the last days of the Iron Curtain, and the political and economic restructuring of the former Soviet satellites.

Middle Eastern Bureaus Collection: offers access to records from some of the Associated Press’s (AP) most active international bureaus – Jerusalem, Ankara, and Beirut, as well as their surrounding areas – delivering the exclusive stories behind the headlines from 1967 to 2005.

News Features & Internal Communications: This collection provides access to internal Associated Press publications dating from the turn of the twentieth century, offering insight into the AP, its staff, and the history of news coverage.

U.S. City Bureaus Collection: The U.S. City Bureaus Collection offers access to records from the AP's domestic bureaus, dating from 1931 to 2004.

Washington Bureau Collection, Part I: This collection provides access to Associated Press (AP) records documenting the administrations of eleven US presidents (1938-2009), including an extensive assortment of wire copy covering press conferences, travel, speeches, campaigns, and messages to Congress.

Washington Bureau Collection, Part II: This collection covers significant news reporting on the key issues, individuals, and events in the history of World War I and the post-war period in America and abroad.

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Alternate Name(s):AP Images, AP Photo Archive

An electronic library containing the AP's current photos and a selection of pictures from their 50 million image print and negative library. International in scope with images dating back as early as 1826.

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1826 to present - Updated daily
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Unlimited simultaneous users

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Collection of scholarly, multidisciplinary information on all aspects of dress and fashion worldwide, from prehistory to present day.

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Content includes: articles from the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion and other reference works, a museum directory, 100+ academic e-books, museum exhibitions, 14,000+ color images from partner institutions, and research and learning tools.

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Alternate Name(s):Black Drama: Third Edition, African, African American, and Diaspora 1850-Present

Full text access to more than 1,700 plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 200 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. Includes detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. The database also includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays.

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More than 40 percent of the collection consists of previously unpublished plays by writers such as Langston Hughes, Ed Bullins, Willis Richardson, Amiri Baraka, Randolph Edmonds, Zora Neale Hurston, and many others.

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1850 to present - Updates vary
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Unlimited simultaneous users
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Online digital library of images sourced from over 8,000 locations covering the world’s major museums, art collections, and historical sites. Includes access to over 3 million images, all copyright-cleared for educational use.

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Alternate Name(s):Birkhäuser

Resource for the study and practice of architectural design, based on Birkhäuser's professional architecture books. Includes a large international collection of contemporary buildings, from housing and offices to museums, schools and other building types.

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There is a focus on floor plans and other architectural drawings. A large part of the drawings are vector-based.

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unlimited simultaneous users

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Alternate Name(s):Cushman Photograph Collection

Over 14,000 Kodachrome slides by amateur photographer Charles W. Cushman (1896-1972) about his travels in the United States and abroad.

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Taken by amateur photographer Charles Weever Cushman between 1938 and 1969, the images document an amazing cross-section of American and international subjects, from inner-city storefronts and industrial landscapes to candid portraits and botanical studies. The collection is part of the Indiana University Archives. The richly saturated Kodachrome slides add color to an era primarily recorded in black and white, "a world that we had long since resigned ourselves to viewing only in shades of gray," writes Eric Sandweiss, IU Carmony Chair and Professor of History, in an essay included on the collection's Web site. "In Cushman's work," he observes, "the past becomes, for an instant, impossibly present."

Coverage:
1938 to 1969
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Unlimited simultaneous users
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This collection provides original source material detailing China's interaction with the West from 1793 to the Nixon visits to China in 1972-74.

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This full-text digital collection is based primarily on manuscript materials held at the library of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), the British Library in London, and supplemented by additional sources from seven institutes, such as the Cambridge University Library. Covers multiple perspectives from politicians, diplomats, missionaries, business people, and tourists. In addition, there are over 400 color paintings, maps and drawings by English and Chinese artists, as well as many photographs, sketches and ephemeral items depicting Chinese people, customs, and events.

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1793 to 1980
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The Adam Mickiewicz Institute’s web portal covering the whole spectrum of Polish culture with original contents.

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Culture.pl is the flagship brand of the Adam Mickiewicz Institute – a national cultural institution promoting Poland and Polish culture worldwide. It features over 40,000 articles in Polish, English and Russian on a wide variety of cultural topics pertaining to Polish architecture, cuisine, design, film, heritage, literature, music, performing arts, travel, visual arts.

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Alternate Name(s):DPLA

Brings together materials from libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural institutions across the USA.

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Alternate Name(s):DS

An image database of medieval and renaissance manuscripts that unites scattered resources from many institutions into an international tool for teaching and scholarly research.

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The Digital Scriptorium (DS) is a non-commercial online image database of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, or manuscripts made in the tradition of books before printing. DS unites scattered resources from a consortium of many libraries into a union catalog for teaching and scholarly research in medieval and Renaissance studies. It provides unprecedented access to illuminated and textual manuscripts through digital cataloging records, supported by high resolution images and retrievable by various topic searches. DS enables users from the most casual to the most specialized to study the rare and valuable materials of academic, research, and public libraries. It makes available collections that are often restricted from public access and includes not only recognized masterpieces but also understudied manuscripts that have been previously overlooked for exhibition or publication. DS fosters the public viewing of non-circulating materials otherwise available only within restricted access libraries. As a visual catalog, DS allows scholars and beginners to verify with their own eyes cataloguing information about places and dates of origin, scripts, artists, and quality. Special emphasis is placed on the touchstone materials, i.e., manuscripts signed and dated by their scribes, thus beginning the American contribution to the goal established in 1953 by the Comité international de paléographie latine (International Committee of Latin Paleography): to document photographically the proportionately small number of codices of certain origin that will serve stylistically to localize and date the vast quantities of unsigned manuscripts. DS publishes not only manuscripts of firm attribution but also ones that need the attention of further scholarship and traditionally would have been unlikely candidates for reproduction. Because it is web-based, it also allows for updates and corrections, and as a matter of form individual records in DS can and do acknowledge contributions from outside scholars. DS encourages interaction between the academic and the library world to build a growing and reciprocally beneficial body of knowledge. DS looks to the needs of a very diverse community of specialists: medievalists, classicists, musicologists, paleographers, diplomatists, literary scholars and art historians. At the same time DS recognizes a broader user community in the public that values rare and unique works of historical, literary and artistic significance.

Coverage:
Medieval and early modern eras - Updates vary
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Unlimited simultaneous users

E

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Alternate Name(s):Evans Digital Edition

Based on Charles Evans' American Bibliography, this database covers American life and comprises 36,000 works and 2,400,000 images, from 1639 to 1800.

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Includes a wide variety of material types, including maps, textbooks, songs and novels. The texts are searchable and browsable by type.

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1639 to 1800 - Updates vary
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The digital version of the weekly magazine, covering international news andd events. A leader in global market and geo-political analysis.

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Includes: news, analysis, commentary, editorials, statistics, demographics, letters to the editor, obituaries, and historical photographs, special surveys and supplements on Countries and Industries, sections including Science and Technology, classified and display advertising profiling major companies, and job opportunities.

Coverage:
1843 to 2015 - Updates vary
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Unlimited simultaneous users
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Alternate Name(s):19th Century Masterfile, Nineteenth Century Masterfile

Database covering source material dating from 1106 until 1960, aggregating indexes, catalogs, collections, and other finding aids.

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Eight Centuries (formerly 19th Century Masterfile) is a database covering source material dating from 1106 until 1960 (varies by source). 8C aggregates indexes, catalogs, collections, and other finding aids, and includes citations to 9,000 periodicals in 30+ languages. 8C provides access to articles, newspapers, books, U.S. patents, government documents, and images. Links to open access and subscription full-text sources are included where available.

Coverage:
1106-1960 - Updates vary
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This collection of Stephanie C. Kane’s ethnographic photographs documents everyday life and holidays among the Emberá people living along the rivers of the Darién tropical forest between 1983 and 1985. The photographs also include images of the Wounaan and Catio (along with the Emberá, the three indigenous groups known collectively as the Chocó) and people of African descent.

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Alternate Name(s):Bloomsbury Fashion Photography Archive

Resource containing more than 775,000 high-quality runway, backstage, and street style images. Curated by Editor-in-Chief Valerie Steele, Director of the Museum at FIT in New York.

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The archive includes: international runway shows from the 1970s until the early 2000s, from over 400 designers, collections from McQueen, Gaultier, Westwood, Chalayan, Galliano, and more. Also includes backstage and front row shots from fashion shows of the past forty years and street-style images from global fashion cities.

Coverage:
1970s-Present
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The archives of the Franchthi Project include color images, an extensive collection of black and white negatives and contact prints, copies of the excavation notebooks, the original inventory books for all finds and correspondence related to the Franchthi Cave located near the southwestern tip of the Argolid peninsula across the bay from the fishing village of Kiladha, Greece.

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In 1967, Tom Jacobsen began directing excavations inside the cave, under the sponsorship of Indiana University, Bloomington, on a permit issued through the American School of Classical Studies in Athens. The Franchthi Project collection also includes proceedings from a symposia held in Bloomington, a few soil samples, copies of the volumes in the Franchthi publication series, copies of many articles by Franchthi staff, and other related documents.

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The collection, dating from 1917-1960 and housed in the Lilly Library, consists primarily of photographs by Frank Michael Hohenberger, 1876-1963, Brown County photographer and newspaperman.

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The Hohenberger collection documents the life, customs, and scenes of the hills of Brown County, in addition to other areas of Indiana, Kentucky, South Carolina, and Mexico.

Coverage:
1917-1960 - Updates vary
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Unlimited simultaneous users

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The most popular women's periodical of its day, with stories, poems, fashion, illustrations and music.

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Godey's Lady's Book was intended to entertain, inform and educate the women of America. In addition to fashion descriptions and plates, the early issues included biographical sketches, articles about mineralogy, handcrafts, female costume, the dance, equestrienne procedures, health and hygiene, recipes and remedies and the like. Each issue also contained two pages of sheet music, written essentially for the piano forte. Gradually the periodical matured into an important literary magazine containing extensive book reviews and works by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Edgar Allen Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and many other celebrated 19th century authors who regularly furnished the magazine with essays, poetry and short stories. Also includes hand-colored fashion plates, mezzotints, engravings, woodcuts and, chromolithographs.

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1830-1898 - No Longer Updated
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Collection of primary and secondary resources, including writings, artworks, photographs, and maps for the study of travel, c. 1550-1850.

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The Grand Tour was a rite-of-passage for many aristocratic and wealthy young men of the eighteenth century: a phenomenon which shaped the creative and intellectual sensibilities of some of the eighteenth century’s greatest artists, writers and thinkers. These accounts of the English abroad, c.1550-1850, highlight the influence of continental travel on British art, architecture, urban planning, literature and philosophy.

The Grand Tour includes the travel writings and works of some of Britain’s artists, writers and thinkers, revealing how interaction with European culture shaped their creative and intellectual sensibilities. It also includes many writings by forgotten or anonymous travelers, including many women, whose daily experiences offer an insight into the experience and practicalities of travel over the centuries.

Coverage:
1550-1850
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Unlimited simultaneous users

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Human Rights Studies Online is a research and learning database providing comparative documentation, analysis, and interpretation of major human rights violations and atrocity crimes worldwide from 1900 to 2010.

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The collection includes primary and secondary materials across multiple media formats and content types for each selected event, including Armenia, the Holocaust, Cambodia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Rwanda, Darfur, and more than thirty additional subjects.

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Varies by title
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Unlimited simultaneous users

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Alternate Name(s):EBSCO Images

A searchable collection of images ranging from photographs and maps to illustrations and etchings.

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The Image Collection contains over 100,000 images and consists of a wide range of photos and maps, with an emphasis on world news and events. Other areas include contemporary and historical photos of people, places and the natural kingdom.

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Varies - Updated daily
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Unlimited simultaneous users
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Image Collections Online showcases image collections curated by libraries, archives, and other cultural-heritage institutions of Indiana University.

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Image Collections Online (ICO) includes a variety of historical photographs and images of cultural objects from the Lilly Library, the IU Archives, the Archives of African American Music and Culture, the Liberian Collections, the IU Map Collections, and others. Collection managers interested in submitting their collections for inclusion in ICO should contact the IU Libraries' Digital Collections Services department.

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Varies
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Alternate Name(s):Index of Christian Art, ICA

Index to over 45,000 works of Medieval art from early Christian period to A.D. 1400.

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Based on The index of Christian art, a thematic and iconographic index of early Christian and medieval art objects begun at Princeton University in 1917, the index catalogs primarily Christian art from early apostolic times to approximately 1400 A.D. While coverage is predominantly of Christian iconography, Jewish, Islamic, and non-ecclesiastical subjects are also covered. The database contains a portion of the index's backfiles as well as all works cataloged since 1991. Entries include descriptive information, provenance, location and ownership information, bibliographical references, and, when available, a photographic reproduction of the work of art.

Coverage:
Early Christian times to A.D. 1400 - Updated Regularly
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Covers the full spectrum of dance: theatrical, ritual, dance-drama, folk, traditional, ethnic, and social dance.

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Includes historical and cultural overviews of many nations, along with articles on specific dance forms, music and costumes, performances, biographies of dancers and choreographers. The set features nearly 2,000 alphabetically arranged articles, an index, full cross-references, and more than 2,300 illustrations.

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Based on the 2003 edition of the Print Version
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Unlimited simultaneous users

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Alternate Name(s):Slocum Puzzles

A collection of mechanical puzzles.

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The Indiana University Lilly Library and the Digital Collections Services present the online Jerry Slocum Mechanical Puzzle Collection, which embodies a lifetime pursuit for the intriguing, the perplexing, and the compelling. Unlike word or jigsaw puzzles, mechanical puzzles are hand-held objects that must be manipulated to achieve a specific goal. The Rubik's cube and tangrams are popular examples. Confounding and delightful, precise and whimsical, the puzzles in the Slocum collection represent centuries of mathematical, social, and recreational history from across five continents.

When complete, the Slocum collection database will allow researchers and puzzle enthusiasts to search and browse the largest assemblage of its kind in the world, with over 30,000 puzzles. The puzzle classification system used in this database was developed by Jerry Slocum on the basis of a scheme set out by Professor Angelo Louis Hoffmann in the now-classic 1893 book, Puzzles Old and New, and has been adopted by puzzle collectors and enthusiasts in several countries.

Puzzles types include:

1. Put-Together Puzzles - Object: Putting puzzle together (e.g., Tangrams)
2. Take-Apart Puzzles - Object: Taking puzzle apart (e.g. Puzzle Boxes)
3. Interlocking Solid Puzzles - Object: Puzzle disassembly and assembly (e.g., Cube)
4. Disentanglement Puzzles - Object: Puzzle disentanglement and entanglement (e.g., Chinese Rings)
5. Sequential Movement Puzzles - Object: Moving puzzle parts to attain goal (e.g. Rubik's Cube)
6. Dexterity puzzles - Object: Manual dexterity to solve puzzle (e.g., Cup and Ball)
7. Puzzle Vessels - Object: Filling vessel or drinking without spilling (e.g. Puzzle Jugs)
8. Vanish Puzzles - Object: Explain vanished or changed image (e.g. Loyd's Get Off the Earth)
9. Folding Puzzles - Object: Fold object to specified pattern (e.g., Fifth Pig Puzzle)
10. Impossible Puzzles - Object: Explain how object was made or why it behaves in seemingly impossible ways (e.g., Arrow thru Bottle)

Coverage:
500 of the 30,000 puzzles have been cataloged and digitized
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Alternate Name(s):Aluka Digital Library

Access to multidisciplinary and discipline-specific primary source collections. Includes select monographs, pamphlets, manuscripts, letters, oral histories, government documents, images, 3D models, spatial data, type specimens, drawings, paintings, and more.

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Varies - Updates vary
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Unlimited simultaneous users

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Full page and article images with searchable full text from the Le Monde, considered one of the newspapers of record for France.

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This French-language newspaper was created at the request of General Charles de Gaulle as the German army was vacating Paris during World War II. At a time when other Parisian newspapers were accused of Nazi sympathies or other political alliances, Le Monde was established for its independence, and has been known for such ever since.

Coverage:
1944-2000
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Unlimited simultaneous users

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British and American legal treatises 1800-1926.

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Originally derived from two essential reference collections for historical legal studies, the Nineteenth Century and Twentieth Century Legal Treatises microfilm collections. Provides digital images on every page of 22,000 legal treatises on US and British law published from 1800 through 1926. Full-text searching on more than 10 million pages provides researchers access to critical legal history, including casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and more.

Coverage:
1820-1926 - Updates vary
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European travel writing from the later medieval period.

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Provides an extensive collection of manuscript materials for the study of medieval travel writing. The core is a collection of medieval manuscripts dating from the 13th to the 16th centuries. The main focus is accounts of journeys to the Holy Land, India and China. The manuscripts are from the British Library; Bodleian Library; Bibliothèque nationale de France; Cambridge University Library; Trinity College, Cambridge; Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg; Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek; Stiftsbibliothek St. Gallen; the Beinecke Library at Yale University and about 15 other Libraries and Archives.

Coverage:
13th to 16th Centuries - Updates vary
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Unlimited simultaneous users

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Complete archive of the popular British photojournalism magazine, from its first issue in 1938 to its last in 1957. Includes full text and full color.

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1938-1957 - Updates vary
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Access to original archival materials related to popular culture in the U.S. and U.K. from 1950-1975. Includes color images of manuscript and rare printed material as well as photographs, ephemera and memorabilia.

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1950-1975 - Updates vary
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Provides access to highly illustrated primary source documents covering commercial taste, consumer trends, domestic life, leisure, and the material culture of nineteenth and twentieth century America.

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Trade catalogs have been a prominent feature in commerce and manufacturing from the eighteenth century to the present day. They are a visual record of a variety of products and facilitate research into popular culture, material culture, social norms and attitudes, as well as the history of marketing, business, and technology.

Coverage:
19th - 20th Century
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Unlimited simultaneous users

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Collection of photographs of the Gary Works steel mill and the corporate town of Gary, Indiana.

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The U.S. Steel Gary Works Photograph Collection is a series of over 2,200 photographs from the Calumet Regional Archives, Indiana University Northwest, in Gary that document the construction and growth of a town conceived and built by United States Steel Corporation. The website also features learning activities for students in grades 4-12.

Coverage:
1906-1971
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Unlimited simultaneous users
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Alternate Name(s):Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels

Provides fulltext access to a hard-to-find comics, from the pre-Comics Code era to the present. Also includes materials about comics--interviews, commentary, theory, and criticism--from The Comics Journal and other secondary sources. Includes access to Volumes 1 through 3.

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Covers pre-Comics Code era horror, crime, romance, and war comics that fueled the backlash leading to one of the largest censorship campaigns in US history. Selections include works by visionaries such as Alex Toth, Boody Rogers, Fletcher Hanks, Steve Ditko, Joe Kubert, Bill Everett, Joe Simon, and Jack Kirby, along with essential series such as Crime Does Not Pay and Mister Mystery, and many others both famous and infamous. Also includes modern material from artists such as Basil Wolverton and Harvey Kurtzman, R. Crumb, Gilbert Shelton, Harvey Pekar, Spain Rodriguez, and Vaughn Bode, and modern masters including Peter Bagge, Kim Deitch, Dave Sim, Dan Clowes, and Los Bros. Examines trends and developments particular to the current state of comics in North America — digital creation tools, innovative shifts in art and narratives, and the rise of independent publishing houses and diverse voices. It also provides in-depth coverage of the history and creators of some of the most popular comics and graphic novels ever created.

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1960-present - Updates vary
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An online collection of more than 140,000 images of rare and unique library, museum, and archives collections across the United Kingdom.

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The Visual Arts Data Service (VADS) is a Research Centre within the Library and Learning Services Department at the University for the Creative Arts, and specializes in the management, storage, presentation, and archiving of digital images and other arts-based assets. VADS was founded to provide services to the academic community 14 years ago, and since that time it has built an online collection of more than 140,000 images of rare and unique collections from libraries, museums, and archives in universities and colleges across the UK, which are made available online for the purposes of learning, teaching, and research.

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Varies - Updated monthly
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Alternate Name(s):World Global Style Network

Online trend library for the apparel, style, design and retail industries. Includes a 12-year archive with 5 million images and 600,000 pages of information.

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To access some features of the site, users need to register for an individual account. You must be on campus to register. Use your iu.edu email to create an account. Accounts expire every 90 days a require reactivation while on campus.

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Varies - Updated Regularly
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A comprehensive archive of Women’s Wear Daily, from the first issue in 1910 to material from within the last twelve months, reproduced in high-resolution images.

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1910-6 months ago
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Alternate Name(s):Digital Zambia Topographic Maps

IUB Libraries map collection includes several sheets of topographic maps for Zambia as well as these digitized sheets.

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