Image Collections at the Digital Research Library
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The Digital Research Library within the ULS collaborates with library departments, university faculty, and local organizations to create and host image collections.

  • A.E. Forbes Communist Collection presents a local snapshot of Pittsburgh's radical politics within the context of the Communist Party.
  • American Left Ephemera Collection consists of a wide-range of primary source material that documents left-wing organizations in the twentieth century in the U.S.
  • Chartres: Cathedral of Notre-Dame contains a comprehensive collection of images visually documenting the architecture, sculpture, and stained glass of this "High Gothic" cathedral in France.
  • George Washington Manuscripts comprise documents in Washington's hand or signed by him as well as additional items.
  • Historic Pittsburgh Image Collections document the history of the Pittsburgh and western Pennsylvania region.
  • Jack B. Yeats Broadsheets Collection consists of a dozen broadsheets (one for each month of 1902) illustrated by the younger brother of William Butler Yeats.
  • Lillian Friedberg Postcard Collection illustrates the 1933 Chicago's World Fair and W.W.II propaganda by the British Royal Air Force, French Resistance, and Nazi regime.
  • Stalinka contains hundreds of visuals of images of Joseph Stalin useful for the study and research of the Soviet leader.
  • Stephen Foster's Sketchbook contains the drafts of sixty-four songs, including "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair" and "My Old Kentucky Home," penned by Pittsburgh-born composer Stephen Foster.
  • UPG Visual History documents the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg campus from the 1920s up to the present.
  • Vézelay features images of the Benedictine abbey church of Sainte-Marie-Madeleine in Burgundy from the collection of Dr. Alison Stones, Professor of History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh.
  • Visuals for Foreign Language Instruction contain visual aids (illustrations) designed to support instructional tasks, such as describing objects and people or describing events and situations.

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