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.
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections Dept., University of Iowa Libraries
More than 250 items, including photographs, news clippings, correspondence, and scrapbooks, reflecting the experience of African American women in Iowa during the 20th century.
Contributing Institution:
Iowa Women's Archives
University of Iowa Archives
State Historical Society of Iowa
A subcollection focusing on the UI's African American alumnae and featuring more than 150 artifacts, including yearbooks, dance cards, photographs and more.
Contributing Institution:
Iowa Women's Archives
University of Iowa Archives
State Historical Society of Iowa
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.
Contributing Institution:
Dept. of Geoscience, University of Iowa
Hundreds of images of buildings and floor plans documenting the history of Iowa's Carnegie libraries. Included are archival photographs and postcards as well as early 21st century digital photographs.
Contributing Institution:
School of Library and Information Science, University of Iowa
Collages, sculptures, artists' books, and textiles from a public art project using cards from The University of Iowa Libraries' retired card catalog.
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections Dept., University of Iowa Libraries
Preservation Dept., University of Iowa Libraries
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.
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections Dept., University of Iowa Libraries
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.
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections Dept., University of Iowa Libraries
Nearly 1000 issues of The University of Iowa's student newspaper, The Daily Iowan, and its predecessors. The collection, comprising editions from 1861 to 1892, is full-text searchable.
Contributing Institution:
University of Iowa Archives
Photographs, illustrations and fields notes from an anthropological research trip to Japan in the early 1960s to study utopian communes.
Contributing Institution:
University of Iowa Archives
Dept. of Anthropology, University of Iowa
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.
Contributing Institution:
University of Iowa Archives
College of Dentistry, University of Iowa
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.
Contributing Institution:
Geoscience Library, University of Iowa Libraries
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.
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections Dept., University of Iowa Libraries
Paintings, drawings, and personal papers documenting the life and career of the artist, an Iowa native and UI alumna.
Contributing Institution:
Iowa Women's Archives
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.
Contributing Institution:
Iowa Women's Archives
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.
Contributing Institution:
Dept. of Geoscience, University of Iowa
Hundreds of digitized slides representing paleontology research, including fieldwork in Iowa and other U.S. locations, as well as China and Australia.
Contributing Institution:
Dept. of Geoscience, University of Iowa
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.
Contributing Institution:
State Historical Society of Iowa
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.
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections Dept., University of Iowa Libraries
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.
Contributing Institution:
Iowa Women's Archives
State Historical Society of Iowa
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."
Contributing Institution:
Rita Benton Music Library, University of Iowa Libraries
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.
Contributing Institution:
Map Collection, University of Iowa Libraries
More than 130 photographic slides depicting historic and touristic sites in New England, Canada, Europe and Asia, as well as Iowa.
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections Dept., University of Iowa Libraries
200 early printed and manuscript scores representing the work of French composer and music publisher Ignaz Pleyel (1757-1831).
Contributing Institution:
Rita Benton Music Library, University of Iowa Libraries
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.
Contributing Institution:
Map Collection, 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.
Contributing Institution:
Office of University Relations, University of Iowa
Dept. of Anthropology, University of Iowa
Video recordings of presentations on U.S. foreign policy and world affairs. Speakers include presidential candidates, visiting academics, and University of Iowa faculty.
Contributing Institution:
Iowa City Foreign Relations Council
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.
Contributing Institution:
University of Iowa Archives
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.
Contributing Institution:
Map Collection, University of Iowa Libraries
State Historical Society of Iowa
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.
Contributing Institution:
University of Iowa Museum of Art
School of Art and Art History, University of Iowa
Several dozen video interviews with pioneering journalists from Iowa newspapers; topics discussed include labor issues, women reporters, and politics in the newsroom.
Contributing Institution:
School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Iowa
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.
Contributing Institution:
Map Collection, University of Iowa Libraries
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.
Contributing Institution:
University of Iowa
Audio recordings documenting the musical and cultural heritage of The University of Iowa, featuring performances and compositions by Iowa faculty, student, and alumni.
Contributing Institution:
Rita Benton Music Library, University of Iowa Libraries
Integrated access to more than 16,000 digital objects from the Iowa Women's Archives, with browsing access by subject, format, and time period.
Contributing Institution:
Iowa Women's Archives
Several hundred artifacts, including photographs, scrapbooks, and correspondence, documenting the lives of activists and IWA founders Louise Noun and Mary Louise Smith.
Contributing Institution:
Iowa Women's Archives
Full-text searchable collection of more than 400 reprinted articles on Iowa City local history, originally published in the Iowa City Press-Citizen newspaper.
Contributing Institution:
University of Iowa Libraries
Nearly 1,000 artifacts, including correspondence by and about Abraham Lincoln, plus memorabilia such as pamphlets, playbills and portraits.
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections Dept., University of Iowa Libraries
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.
Contributing Institution:
John Martin Rare Book Room, University of Iowa Libraries
2,600+ photographs documenting railroad depots captured in the late 1800s into the 1980s; includes depictions of trains, tracks, signs, stations and travelers.
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections Dept., University of Iowa Libraries
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.
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections Dept., University of Iowa Libraries
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.
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections Dept., University of Iowa Libraries
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.
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections Dept., University of Iowa Libraries
Nearly 2,000 images by Lemberger, spanning his five decades of as a photojournalist; featuring politicians such as Kennedy, Nixon, Carter, and Obama, plus rural scenes from the Midwest of barns, farms, and covered bridges.
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections Dept., University of Iowa Libraries
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.
Contributing Institution:
Iowa Women's Archives
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.
Contributing Institution:
Iowa Women's Archives
Features hundreds of historic images of and by Iowa women, documenting early 20th-century rural life. Subjects include farms, parades, schools, automobiles and houses; artifacts include panoramic photographs, postcards, and cabinet cards.
Contributing Institution:
Iowa Women's Archives
Providing long-term access to nearly 2000 online videos posted by eight of the 2008 presidential candidates’ campaigns, highlighting the flurry of regional political activity leading up to the Iowa caucuses.
Contributing Institution:
Dept. of Political Science, University of Iowa
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.
Contributing Institution:
University of Iowa Libraries
State Historical Society of Iowa
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.
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections Dept., University of Iowa Libraries
Thousands of artworks, including paintings, prints, photographs, and sculptures, by artists attending the UI's graduate studio programs.
Contributing Institution:
School of Art and Art History, University of Iowa
Hundreds of calendars, invitations, pamphlets, and other ephemeral materials created by John Springer (1850-1937), an Iowa City printer.
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections Dept., University of Iowa Libraries
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.
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections Dept., University of Iowa Libraries
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.
Contributing Institution:
School of Art and Art History, University of Iowa
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.
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections Dept., University of Iowa Libraries
Rita Benton Music Library, University of Iowa Libraries
Hundreds of government-issued posters (ca. 1966-2007) promoting services, programs, and initiatives to benefit the public.
Contributing Institution:
Government Publications, University of Iowa Libraries
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.
Contributing Institution:
Art Library, University of Iowa Libraries
Campus maps from course catalogs and other archival sources, documenting the growth of The University of Iowa throughout the 20th century.
Contributing Institution:
University of Iowa Archives
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.
Contributing Institution:
Preservation Dept., University of Iowa Libraries
Thousands of digitized artifacts from the permanent collections of the UIMA, including masterworks of European and American Art of the last century and a world renowned collection of traditional African Art.
Contributing Institution:
University of Iowa Museum of Art
Nearly 1,000 images, ca. 1906-2004, documenting a pioneering program in the development of graduate study and professional training as well as athletic opportunities for women.
Contributing Institution:
Iowa Women's Archives
Digital versions of 50+ books -- including biographies, reference works, and Iowa Short Fiction Award winners -- originally published by the Press.
Contributing Institution:
University of Iowa Press
Advertising pamphlets, ca. 1920s-1930s, from the Iowa-based Victor Animatograph Corporation, manufacturers of the world's first 16mm motion picture projector, or "animatograph."
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections Dept., University of Iowa Libraries
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.
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections Dept., University of Iowa Libraries
Hundreds of audio and video recordings of readings, interviews, and conference panels held in Iowa City and featuring best-selling and award-winning writers and poets from around the world.
Contributing Institution:
The Writing University
Photographs, correspondence, and news clippings documenting the UI's experiments in television broadcasting during the 1930s.
Contributing Institution:
University of Iowa Archives
Thousands of newspaper clippings documenting WWII in Iowa, covering topics such as prisoners of war, women's military involvement, and public health.
Contributing Institution:
State Historical Society of Iowa
