Digital Projects

American Shores: Maps of the Middle Atlantic Region to 1850

Digitized maps and atlases included in American Shores are drawn from the extensive holdings of the Map Division
Surveyors of the American West

Features diaries of photographer William Henry Jackson (1843-1942) and mining engineer Robert Brewster Stanton (1846-1922), and the photographs they took during their explorations of the American West in the 1870s-1880s.
Studies Dedicated to Fernando Ortiz (1880-1969)

Extensive, selected bibliography of the works of Fernando Ortiz (1881-1969), eminent Cuban sociologist, and relevant secondary literature.
African American Women Writers of the 19th Century

Fifty-two published works by 19th-century black women writers provide access to their thought, perspectives, and creative abilities. Includes poetry, short stories, histories, narratives, novels, autobiographies, social criticism, and theology, as well as economic and philosophical treatises.
Images of African Americans in the 19th Century

Five hundred prints, photographs and illustrations present sixteen topical chapters such as "Cultural Expression," "Family," "Organizations & Institutions," "Portraits" and "Religion."
"America's National Game:" The Albert G. Spalding Collection of Early Baseball Photographs

Photographs, prints, drawings, caricatures, and printed illustrations from the personal collection of materials related to baseball and other sports gathered by the early baseball player and sporting-goods tycoon A. G. Spalding.
"Classic 6:" New York City Apartment Building Living, 1880s-1910s

More than 1,300 digital images depict elevation views and floor plans for middle and upper class apartment buildings from New York City's pre-World War I residential building boom.
"Drugstore Photographs, Or, A Trip Along the Yangtze River, 1999;" Lower Manhattan Block-by-Block by Dylan Stone

26,000 color snapshot photographs taken in 1999, recording the streetscape, block by block, of Manhattan south of Canal Street, and arranged in an archive by neighborhood and block.
"Penny Plains" and "Two-pence Coloured:" English Theatrical Portraits 1799-1847 in the William Appleton Collection

306 toy theatre prints portraying plays and actors in character, from the early- to mid-19th century; these prints comprise the visual materials in the William Appleton collection.
"Queen of Off-Broadway:" Lucille Lortel Collection Photographs 1902-1998

An appreciative selected collection of eighteen memorabilia photographs from the papers of Lucille Lortel (1900-1999), the woman regarded as the founder of Off-Broadway, the second wave of little theatre in America.