AHU Resource Guides: Images, Archives &amp; Digital Libraries: Digital Collections

Florida Digital Collections

Publication of Archival, Library & Museum Materials (PALMM)
PALMM is a cooperative initiative of the public universities of Florida to provide digital access to important source materials for research and scholarship.
The Florida Memory Project
Featuring over 137,000 digitized photographs from the State Archives of Florida, the Florida Photographic Collection is the most complete online portrait of Florida available
USF Digital Collections
This repository holds photographs, gravestone collections, slave narratives and more, all gathered from a physical collection owned by the University of South Florida Libraries, primarily from the Tampa Library Special Collections Department.

Map Collections

David Rumsey Map Collection
The historical map collection has over 28,000 maps and images online. The collection focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North American and South American maps and other cartographic materials.

Digital Collections

Here is a beginning list of Digital Collections available on the Internet. Some collections were created by various libraries others by different associations, organizations and government agencies.

Digital Collections, National Library of Medicine
Free online archive of biomedical books and videos. All the content in Digital Collections is in the public domain and freely available worldwide.
Library of Congress Digital Collections
World Digital Library
Links to cultural treasures of all types.

Audio Recordings

National Jukebox -- historical sound recordings
The Library of Congress presents the National Jukebox, which makes historical sound recordings available to the public free of charge. Offers an archive of more than 10,000 recordings made by the Victor Talking Machine Company between 1901 and 1925.
National Jukebox -- Victrola Book of Opera
The 1919 edition of the Victrola Book of the Opera describes more than 110 operas, and is reproduced here as an interactive digital facsimile.

History Documents

The Avalon Project
(Yale University)
The Avalon Project, produced by Yale University, provides digital copies of hundreds of original documents from a myriad of topics in US History.