The University of Iowa Libraries

Integrated access to more than 1000 artifacts documenting President Lincoln's life, the American Civil War and railroad expansion westward. The collection includes correspondence, diaries, photographs, memorabilia and more.

More than 250 items, including photographs, news clippings, correspondence, and scrapbooks, reflecting the experience of African American women in Iowa during the 20th century.

A subcollection focusing on the UI's African American alumnae and featuring more than 150 artifacts, including yearbooks, dance cards, photographs and more.

Hundreds of photographs of geological formations in Iowa taken in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The collection also features mines, quarries, buildings, and more.

Collages, sculptures, artists' books, and textiles from a public art project using cards from The University of Iowa Libraries' retired card catalog.

Diaries, correspondence, and photographs from Iowa soldiers and their families during the American Civil War. The collection offers valuable insight on soldiers' daily activities, experiences in battles, and views on the war.

More than 200 hand-colored copper-plate engravings, ca. 1795-1801, of ornamental plants from Curtis's Botanical Magazine. Item descriptions include the plants' biological classifications.

More than half a million pages of the University of Iowa's student newspaper, The Daily Iowan, and its predecessors. The collection, comprising editions spanning 140 years, is full-text searchable.

Hundreds of entries from The Daily Palette, a UI web project showcasing Iowa artists working in the fine arts, literature, video, and the performing arts.

Photographs, illustrations and fields notes from an anthropological research trip to Japan in the early 1960s to study utopian communes.

Fieldwork slides from UI anthropology professor Dennis Michael Warren, specialist in the study of art, culture, the rural economy and traditional healing in Ghana and Nigeria.

Commemorating the 125th anniversary of College of Dentistry at The University of Iowa, this collection features thousands of portraits, ca. 1883-1967, of the department's students, faculty, and staff.

Annual reports and technical papers (ca. 1893-1930) published by the Iowa Geological Survey. The documents, which are full-text searchable, describe the Iowa landscape and its composition.

More than 11,000 cartoons (ca. 1900-1962) by the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist and conservationist. The collection also includes several audio clips from Darling's dictation recordings.

Paintings, drawings, and personal papers documenting the life and career of the artist, an Iowa native and UI alumna.

Photographs, scrapbooks, and audio recordings from the Iowa native, radio homemaker, and author. Included are thousands of full-text searchable clippings of Birkby's homemaking newspaper column, ca. 1949-2005.

Multidimensional portraits, featuring paintings along with audio and video recordings of the artist in conversation with his subject.

Database indexing journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages.

Scrapbooks on Grant Wood's career, containing photographs, clippings, correspondence and other ephemera; compiled by his sister and occasional model, Nan Wood Graham.

Over 2800 images of U.S. National Parks taken by faculty from The University of Iowa's Geosciences Department. Depicted are geological phenomena that highlight the importance of protecting these areas through the national park designation.

Hundreds of digitized slides representing paleontology research, including fieldwork in Iowa and other U.S. locations, as well as China and Australia.

Featuring General Land Office survey maps, ca. 1832-1859, providing a detailed record of the Iowa landscape in its earliest stages of transformation by Euro-American settlement.

Digitized artifacts from the Iowa native and former U.S. Vice President. The collection will eventually include 67,000 items, including photographs, correspondence, and other documents.

Excerpts from diaries, ca. 1860s-1900s, written by young Iowans. The collection, which includes some full-text transcriptions, documents rural and small-town life in the Midwest during the 19th century.

Popular sheet music from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Includes songs about Iowa, such as "Way Down in Iowa," "Iowa Corn Song," and "I'm From Iowa (That Beautiful Iowa Song."

95 plat books, published by W.W. Hixson & Co. in 1930, showing land ownership maps for townships in Iowa counties. The maps include some topographic information.

More than 130 photographic slides depicting historic and touristic sites in New England, Canada, Europe and Asia, as well as Iowa.

200 early printed and manuscript scores representing the work of French composer and music publisher Ignaz Pleyel (1757-1831).

Over 2,000 aerial photomosaic index sheets of Iowa. The index images correspond to detailed aerial photographs held in the Maps Collection of The University of Iowa Libraries.

Two dozen oral history interviews and several thousand photographs documenting the impact of the historic 2008 Midwest floods on The University of Iowa campus and the Iowa City/Coralville area.

Video recordings of presentations on U.S. foreign policy and world affairs. Speakers include presidential candidates, visiting academics, and University of Iowa faculty.

Several thousand images from the 1830s through the 1980s depicting people, architecture, and natural features on The University of Iowa campus and in the Iowa City area.

Over 4,000 pages from nearly 100 county atlases from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, featuring maps as well as advertisements, photographs, and local histories.

Integrated access to 17,000 art images from The University of Iowa Museum of Art, the School of Art and Art History Graduate Archive, and the Daily Palette digital collections.

Several dozen video interviews with pioneering journalists from Iowa newspapers; topics discussed include labor issues, women reporters, and politics in the newsroom.

Integrated access to more than 9,000 map digital objects, with browsing access by publisher, time period and format, as well as place data at the city, township, county, and state levels.

Scholarly and creative work at The University of Iowa, featuring faculty journal articles, student theses and dissertations, peer-reviewed journals, and UI Press e-books.

Audio recordings documenting the musical and cultural heritage of The University of Iowa, featuring performances and compositions by Iowa faculty, student, and alumni.

Integrated access to more than 16,000 digital objects from the Iowa Women's Archives, with browsing access by subject, format, and time period.

Several hundred artifacts, including photographs, scrapbooks, and correspondence, documenting the lives of activists and IWA founders Louise Noun and Mary Louise Smith.

Full-text searchable collection of more than 400 reprinted articles on Iowa City local history, originally published in the Iowa City Press-Citizen newspaper.

Nearly 1,000 artifacts, including correspondence by and about Abraham Lincoln, plus memorabilia such as pamphlets, playbills and portraits.

Selections from the rare book collection on medicine and the health sciences dating from as early as the 15th century. The images include depictions of human anatomy, disease processes, and surgical techniques.

2,600+ photographs documenting railroad depots captured in the late 1800s into the 1980s; includes depictions of trains, tracks, signs, stations and travelers.

Nearly 1,600 letters written to, by, or about Hunt, a British Romantic writer; correspondents include Charles Dickens, Mary Shelley, Elizabeth and Robert Browning, and many others.

Featuring more than 3,500 digital images of historic photographs, correspondence, and other artifacts documenting the Union Pacific and the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific railroad companies.

Several dozen examples of manuscript leaves and books from the 12th through the 16th centuries, with textual features such as decorated initials, illustrations, and musical notation.

Nearly 2,000 images by Lemberger, spanning his five decades as a photojournalist; featuring politicians such as Kennedy, Nixon, Carter, and Obama, plus rural scenes from the Midwest of barns, farms, and covered bridges.

Several hundred digitized artifacts by or about University of Iowa alumna Mildred Wirt Benson: journalist, pilot, amateur archaeologist, ghostwriter, and the original author of the best-selling Nancy Drew mystery series.

Documenting the lives and contributions of Latinas and their families to Iowa history, this collection includes several hundred digitized artifacts, such as oral histories, clippings, postcards, and photographs.