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A rich collection of objects and pages of documents and images from Southern Africa and the dismantling of the Apartheid regime, documenting colonial rule, dispersion of exiles, international intervention, and the worldwide networks that supported successive generations of resistance within the region.
American Antiquarian Society holdings of broadsides, lithographs, maps, books, pamphlets, photographs, cartoons, stereographs, and more, Civil War/postwar: 1860-1922
More than 100 years of books, pamphlets, graphic materials and ephemera from the American Antiquarian Society's holdings of slavery and abolition materials: 1820-1922.
Repository of 1.5 million digital images and related data supporting interdisciplinary studies with special emphasis on collections of art, architecture and archeology.
Searchable image collection of 380,000 images from museums, galleries, private collections and contemporary artists all copyright cleared for educational use.
Access to foundational content vital to plant science on plant type specimens, taxonomic structures, scientific literature, and related materials.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO) is a multi-year global digitization and publishing program focusing on primary source collections of the long nineteenth century.
Grove Art Online, the Benezit Dictionary of Artists, the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, as well as specially commissioned articles and bibliographies.