Digital Projects
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French 19th-Century Bindings in the Collection of William A. Spencer
Fine French book bindings of dozens of titles, some in multiple volumes, principally from the last third of the 19th century into the first decade of the 20th, offer a window into the original bequest by collector William Augustus Spencer (1855-1912) of more than 200 volumes.
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Gertrude Stein: Part of a Life in Pictures by Carl Van Vechten
More than 200 photographs by Carl Van Vechten: includes Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas at home in France; plus portraits of Stein in America and of performers associated with Stein's 1934 opera Four Saints in Three Acts.
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Henry George Collection: Illustrations and Photographs
109 page images presenting the contents of a scrapbook titled "The Single Tax," containing photographs and caricatures of Henry George (1839-1897), the founder of the 19th-century reform 'single tax' movement.
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Historical and Public Figures: A General Portrait File to the 1920s
Over 40,00 portraits of a wide-range of public figures, including political, religious, cultural, literary and artistic personalities, with an emphasis on the 16th through the 19th centuries. Includes some original prints, but consists principally of printed pictures.
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Icons and Images of Cultures: Plate Books from the Russian Empire, Early Soviet Russia, and Eastern Europe, 1730-1935
Thousands of images, reproducing, often in their entirety, important illustrated books published in Russia and adjacent areas. Most notably, includes the several series issued by 19th-century collector and scholar, Dimitrii Aleksandrovich Rovinskii.
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Illuminated Hebrew Manuscripts
Over 100 illuminations selected from the 1,156 extant pages of the Padua Ashkenazi Mahzor, a medieval Jewish festival prayer book; Hamburg Haggadah (1731); Ketubbot (1638); and Xanten Bible.
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Illustrated Classics of Engineering from the William Barclay Parsons Collection and Others
Several hundred images, from the 16th to the 20th century, draw upon a wide range of published engineering rarities and related original holdings. The selection highlights a diverse range of illustration primarily in civil and mechanical engineering.
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Joseph Muller Collection of Music and Other Portraits
Thousands of images dating from the 16th to the early 20th-centuries, mostly engravings and lithographs, with some drawings, predominantly of composers and musicians but also including portraits of actors, heads of state, music patrons, nobility, philosophers, poets, printers, theorists, and writers, among others, amassed by Joseph Muller, a private collector.
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Lewis Wickes Hine: Documentary Photographs, 1905-1938
More than 500 silver gelatin photographic prints depicting American social conditions and labor, including immigrants at Ellis Island and construction of the Empire State Building, Hine's principal subjects.
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Libri Amicorum: Friendship and Autographs
A single gem of a "friendship book" from the circle of Percy Byssche Shelley, created by Anne Wagner in the early 19th century, this collection will grow as additional similar items are identified in the Library's manuscript collections.
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