The Iowa Heritage Digital Collections

Billy Robinson flying biplane (1913). Billy Robinson Collection. Filename: aeroplane18.

The Iowa Heritage Digital Collections (IHDC) is envisioned as an online collection of Iowa history and culture created by bringing together documents, images, maps, finding aids, interpretive and educational materials, and other media from collections held by a wide range of organizations throughout Iowa. These organizations will include colleges and universities, public libraries, schools, historical societies, museums, archives and other appropriate groups. Access to IHDC will enable searching across these multiple collections while at the same time maintaining the identity of each individual organization.

University of Maryland -- World's Fair Overview

This print, from a set of 25 photogravures of drawings, depicts the Electricity Building at the World's Columbian Exposition held in Chicago in 1893.

This exhibit is a sampling of the Ephemeral and Graphic Materials in the World's Fair Collection owned by the Architecture Library at the University of Maryland, College Park. The site contains a virtual exhibition gallery for each fair in the collection.
The collection contains books as well as ephemeral and graphic materials for over 30 fairs and international expositions.

Aerial Photographs of Colorado

Location: Boulder County, Colorado. Identifier: BOW1-18 Date: 5/8/1938.

Aerial photographs dramatically portray the changing landscape of Colorado: a mountain valley can be seen where there is now a reservoir; changes in the vegetation and ground cover can be traced over the years, and the growth of towns and cities documented. This website provides access to over 1,700 digitized aerial photographs of Colorado taken by the U.S. Forest Service in the years from 1938 to 1947.

Memory of the Netherlands

Peaceful polderland of water and windmills (1950/75). Collection: ReclameArsenaal RA0.

Memory of the Netherlands is a gigantic digital treasury, full of information about the Dutch past. Visitors to the Memory website have access to hundreds of thousands of superb images, recordings, film footage and texts that have been classified under some fifty digital collections. Materials include illustrations, photographs, texts, film and audio fragments, all of Dutch making. Together, they offer a unique and varied picture of the history and culture of the Netherlands.