November 2, 2009 – 1:16 pm
nbsp;http://digital.info.soas.ac.uk/cgi/c
Rare images showing rituals, festivals and everyday life for isolated tribes in the Himalayas are to be preserved online from today by JISC and the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) for the benefit of researchers, teachers and students.
Highlights among the 10,000 images include rich textiles and jewellery of the Nagas and [...]
October 9, 2009 – 12:08 pm
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During World War I, the impact of the poster as a means of communication was greater than at any other time during history. The ability of posters to inspire, inform, and persuade combined with vibrant design trends in many of the participating countries to produce thousands of interesting visual works. The Library of Congress [...]
October 6, 2009 – 9:37 am
nbsp;http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/index.cfm
Over 12,000 images from various collections of rare books, manuscripts, papyri, photographs and sheet music are available for your viewing. Each collection has its own web site that is unrestricted in the interests of knowledge and learning.
October 5, 2009 – 2:26 pm
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Four thousand images from the Design Council Slide Collection have been launched online today, providing a unique insight into the history of British design and its promotion by the UK government from the 1940s to the early 1990s.
September 11, 2009 – 10:33 am
nbsp;http://www.nzetc.org/
Welcome to the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre’s free online archive of New Zealand and Pacific Islands texts and heritage materials, offering an ever expanding, fully searchable, set of images and full-text books, manuscripts and journals.
September 10, 2009 – 7:26 am
Collection news
Now available: Images from Gazette du Bon Ton (Minneapolis College of Art and Design)
The Minneapolis College of Art and Design has contributed images of early 20th-century French fashion plates from La Gazette du Bon Ton to the ARTstor Digital Library.
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Wilfried Wang: Modern Architecture (University of Texas at Austin) collection now [...]
August 28, 2009 – 8:55 am
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he History of Medicine Division of the National Library of Medicine® announces the launch of a new image platform for its premier database, Images from the History of Medicine. Using award winning software developed by Luna Imaging, Inc., NLM offers greatly enhanced searching and viewing capabilities to image researchers. Patrons can view search results in [...]
nbsp;http://www.preraphaelites.org/
Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery received funding from JISC to digitise the Pre-Raphaelite collection and make it accessible online for the education community. The resulting Pre-Raphaelite Online Resource provides full record information and allows users to examine images in great detail. You can choose to browse the online collection, make simple searches or to interrogate [...]
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The First World War Poetry Digital Archive project has digitised and made freely accessible over 4500 items relating to some of the major British poets of the First World War as well as a wealth of contextual material from the Imperial War Museum and National Archives (audio, video and photographs). In addition the project has [...]
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The East London Theatre Archive project (ELTA) has created an invaluable online database with over 14,900 images and related metadata sourced from 3,368 archive items, as well as 17 contextual essays. It preserves unique endangered theatre archive collections through digitisation and allows academic audiences to explore East London’s unique contribution to the development of theatre.
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