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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

Correspondence, diaries, scrapbooks, and photographs documenting the life of the University of Iowa football star, Heisman trophy winner, and World War II hero.

Hundreds of issues, ca. 1887-1905, of the Railroad Telegraphers of North America's journal, based in Iowa. Along with railway news, the issues feature fiction, poetry, and humor.

Catalogs and price lists for the Rand & Leopold Desk Company, an office furniture manufacturing firm which operated out of Burlington, Iowa for 102 years before closing in 1990.

Hundreds of calendars, invitations, pamphlets, and other ephemeral materials created by John Springer (1850-1937), an Iowa City printer.

Over 100 recipe pamphlets, published by food and appliance manufacturers; dating from the late 19th century to the present, this advertising ephemera reflects the evolution of the modern American diet.

Thousands of publicity brochures, promotional advertisements, talent circulars, and musical recordings for performers and lecturers who were part of the Chautauqua circuit, bringing culture to small-town America.

Hundreds of government-issued posters (ca. 1966-2007) promoting services, programs, and initiatives to benefit the public.

Programs, ca. 1939-1969, for annual summer art festivals promoting art and culture in eastern Iowa. Included are images and descriptions of many artworks added to the collection of the University of Iowa Art Museum.

Images of bookbinding models used to exemplify and demonstrate the various mechanisms of books, including a wide range of binding techniques -- historic, modern, wooden board, and monastic binding.

Advertising pamphlets, ca. 1920s-1930s, from the Iowa-based Victor Animatograph Corporation, manufacturers of the world's first 16mm motion picture projector, or "animatograph."

Several hundred Victorian-era advertising cards promoting products such as clocks, jewelry, food, and medicine; the cards' images are often whimsical and bear little relation to the company or product being advertised.

Photographs, clippings, correspondence, scrapbooks and other historic artifacts documenting the women’s suffrage movement in Iowa.