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Listed below are online collections from Northwestern University Library. In some cases the collections may be restricted to the Northwestern Community . Collections are approved for digitization by the Digital Library Committee. Questions about digital library projects may be directed to M. Claire Stewart, Head of Digital Collections at Northwestern University Library. 16th - 20th Century Maps of Africa Africana Poster Collection Archival collections Chemical History in Chicago Chicago Homer DVaction Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian: Photographic Images Digital Text History and Politics Out Loud (HPOL) League of Nations: Statistical and Disarmament Documents The Paris Codex Siege of Paris Vesalius: On the Fabric of the Human Body Video Encyclopedia of the 20th Century World War II Poster Collection

The United States Digital Map Library is a USGenWeb Archives project, developed in April of 1999 under the coordination of Fred Smoot. The current Coordinator is Pat Blankenship. Please don’t hesitate to contact me if you have any questions or comments. The goal of this project is to make available to genealogists, useful, readable, high quality maps.

The Alexandria Digital Library (ADL) is a distributed digital library with collections of georeferenced materials. ADL includes the operational library, with various nodes and collections, and the research program through which digital library architectures, gazetteer applications, educational applications, and software components are modeled, prototyped, and evaluated. ADL provides HTML clients to access its collections and gazetteer, and provides specific information management tools, such as the Feature Type Thesaurus for classing types of geographic features, as well as downloadable software code.

The University of Florida Digital Collections (UFDC) is a research tool that enables a user to find unique and rare digitized materials held at the University of Florida (UF) and partner institutions. With UFDC, remote and local reserarchers can learn about holdings in a physical collection and receive open access to the online full content of the resource. This is a constantly growing collection of resources. The UFDC offers at least thirty collections grouped into several major headings including: Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences; Science and Technology; Maps; Florida; and World. In addition, the UFDC links to external collections through the Publication of Archival Library Museum Materials.

NYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 550,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more.