D-Scribe Digital Collections: Digital Collections A-Z 
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Mission Statement:
The ULS proactively identifies and evaluates resources for conversion into electronic format to be hosted and served by the ULS. We are engaged in many diverse publishing initiatives as represented by the list to the left.
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A full-text collection of 140 books and a catalog of the Nietz Old Textbook Collection maintained by the ULS Special Collections department. |
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A.E. Forbes Communist Collection Through hand rendered and mimeographed broadsides, newsletters, and flyers, this online collection of documents presents a local snapshot of Pittsburgh's radical politics within the context of the Communist Party. |
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Aerial Photographs of Pittsburgh Twenty-one images from 1923- 1932 give impressive views of Downtown, Mount Washington, the North Side, the Point, Oakland, and Homestead as well as several industrial locations. |
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Allegheny Conference on Community Development Contains 1,123 images from 1875 to 1981 showing the construction and destruction of many Pittsburgh structures and buildings. The selected images exemplify themes of rebirth, modernization, and quality of life improvements for the Pittsburgh region during the post-World War II Renaissance period. |
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Sixty-four images from 1895- 1935 depict the construction of the Observatory and its equipment, experiments, inventors and directors who made the observatory a leader in its field. |
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American Left Ephemera Collection A wide-range of primary source material that documents left-wing organizations in the twentieth century in the U.S. (also includes visual images). |
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An archive of papers presented at the Conference on Clinical Aphasiology |
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Archive of European Integration An electronic archive for publications on European integration, including key official European Union documents. |
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Online access to the complete double elephant folio set of Audubon's Birds of America owned by the University Library System. |
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Carnegie Museum of Art Collection of Photographs The Carnegie Museum of Art (CMA) online collection of photographs contains 752 images from 1874- 1958 showing scenes from mills and factories, street scenes, portraits, and aerial shots of downtown Pittsburgh. Images were selected for their unique ability to illustrate various aspects of Pittsburgh in an artistic light. |
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Contains 116 images that document the buildings featured in Stotz's 1936 book, The Early Architecture of Western Pennsylvania. |
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Chartres: Cathedral of Notre-Dame Comprehensive collection of images visually documenting the architecture, sculpture, and stained glass of this "High Gothic" cathedral in France. |
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Chatham College Archives Image Collection Chronicles the students, faculty, and college community as academic pursuits, college events, student life and social activities have grown and changed throughout the college’s history. Also featured are images of the campus, located in Shadyside. |
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China: Photos from the Collection of Dr. Rush G. Miller A portion of the photographs taken by Dr. Rush G. Miller during his six trips to mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan between 1991 and 2001. They depict many of Dr. Miller's friends and colleagues, cultural sites and landmarks, library and campus-related buildings (interior/exterior), daily street scences, and extracurricular activities. |
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As a service to the American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association (ACPA), the Digital Research Library now provides retrospective access to issues of The Cleft Palate Journal published between 1964 and 1989. |
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These ninety-one photographs depict the Consolidation Coal Company (the forerunner of CONSOL Energy Inc.) and its operations during the 1930s and 1940s. Included are, views of miners at work, mine construction, views of the interiors of shafts, mine cars, barges carrying coal, and railroad cars filled with coal. |
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The Darlington Digital Library was created from the first major collection of books, manuscripts, atlases, and maps donated to the University of Pittsburgh. The Darlington Digital Library contains materials on colonial American history, the exploration of the Trans-Mississippi, the Far West, and world history. Also included are atlases and maps, broadsides, manuscripts, and lithographs. |
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The Darlington Family online collection contains 155 photographs taken by Edith Dennison Darlington Ammon and her brother, O'Hara Darlington, from 1885 through 1888. Photographs contained within the five albums document family, friends, leisure activities, and the artistic approach to photography that both Edith and O'Hara shared. |
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The Dick Thornburgh Papers digital collection includes an extensive online guide to the personal papers documenting the life and career of Pennsylvania's 44th Governor (1979-1987) and Attorney General of the United States (1988-1991). |
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Dick Thornburgh Photograph Collection The Dick Thornburgh archive includes approximately 6,000 photographs, 488 of which are available online. It includes a detailed guide to the archival collection as well as digitized texts and audio/video streams. |
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Documenting PITT: A set of key materials, including yearbooks and athletic media guides, that reflect portions of the university’s documented history. More than 70,000 pages of text, along with hundreds of images, visually depict some of the many people and buildings that comprise Pitt. |
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Edward J. Shourek Collection, 1913-1920 Fifty-one images taken by Edward J. Shourek between 1913 and 1920 that display life in the Pittsburgh area as well as his vacations. Features Posed portraits as well as candid shots of girls in sewing or cooking class, boys in shop class, buildings, and pastoral views. |
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Electronic Theses and Dissertations All University of Pittsburgh students completing a theses or dissertation to meet graduation requirements must submit an electronic version of their work. |
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128 images from 1903- 1931 showing Wagner's family, friends, neighbors, and surroundings. Shows Wagner's Hill District neighborhood prior to the mass influx of immigrants from Eastern Europe and the great migration of African Americans from the South. |
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The Frank B. Fairbanks Rail Transportation Archive This online collection contains 182 slides taken by Frank Fairbanks between 1948 to 1987 documenting train engines and stations in the western Pennsylvania area. |
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In commemorating the 250th anniversary of the conflict, the University Library System brings together selected manuscripts from its collections documenting Washington's long career and association with our region. |
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236 images from 1870 to 1972 documenting the history of the food processing company, including product images and factory floor views, plant interiors from the 1950s, and a portrait of H.J. Heinz II. |
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Historic Pittsburgh is a comprehensive collection of local resources that supports personal and scholarly research of the western Pennsylvania area. This web site incorporates manyof the textual and image collections listed here. |
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Historic Pittsburgh Image Collections Collection of thousands of images that document the history of the Pittsburgh and western Pennsylvania region from dozens of collections from multiple local repositories. |
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Programs and activities of the Irene Kaufmann Settlement in the Hill District and the Emma Farm Camp. |
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Jack B. Yeats Broadsheets Collection Jack Yeats, the younger brother of William Butler Yeats, became one of Ireland's major artists in the early twentieth century. |
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The James Benney III online collection contains fifty-nine images from circa 1888-1989 depicting homes, churches, buildings, and street scenes. Images were selected that show diverse scenes of daily life of ordinary people, including both urban scenes of downtown Pittsburgh and the rural residential areas of the Emsworth community and Pittsburgh's East End neighborhood. |
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Images of Father Cox, the Great Depression, and Jobless party activities. |
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: Downtown and Highland Park, including landscape, industrial, and family scenes. |
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Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation The Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation online collection contains images from 1853 to 1954 showing images of facilities, products, and transportation, including interior and exterior photos of the many Jones and Laughlin mills, coal mines, and warehouses. |
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Programs and activities of the association, including views of the Hill District, East Liberty, Lillian Home, and Kingsley House. |
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Lillian Friedberg Postcard Collection This image collection contains postcard images (1933-1945) from the Friedberg Papers. The earliest postcards, those from the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair, depict a world full of promise and prosperity, despite being set during the nation’s worst depression. The later postcards, all pertaining to World War II, tell a much different story through propaganda generated by the British Royal Air Force, French Resistance. |
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The Lyon, Shorb & Company online collection contains cartes de viste‚ Äî mass-produced portraits on cardboard backings‚ Äîof company iron workers posed in stances from 1860 through 1867. |
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The Mesta Machine Company online collection contains images from 1906 through 1920 that show the manufacturing of steel mill equipment and machinery, and the construction of several of Mesta's West Homestead production facilities. |
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A repository for documents pertaining to minority health issues. |
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The Pennsylvania Digital Library A state-wide metadata repository for digital resources created by Pennsylvania libraries, museums, and cultural heritage institutions. |
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Ten-volume set of the Publications of the Allegheny Observatory of the University of Pittsburgh contains tables of data, reports on methodology of astronomical observations, presentations of new modes of calculation of star positions, and descriptions of observational instrumentation |
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An electronic archive for preprints in the philosophy of science. |
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The Experience of the Jewish Community. A Guide to the NCJW Pittsburgh Section Oral History Collection. |
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Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad Company The Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad Company online collection contains images from 1886 through 1971 showing various branch lines that were controlled by the New York Central from 1883 through 1968, and then by Penn Central. The images also document many non-railroad activities and scenes in urban and rural areas of Western Pennsylvania's Allegheny, Beaver, Fayette, Lawrence, and Washington counties, as well as in some of the bordering counties of West Virginia and Ohio. |
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Features images as commissioned by the Department of Public Works for the years 1901-1960. The images show Pittsburgh parks, recreation facilities, and athletic events as well as hospital exteriors and interiors, mayoral events, traffic situations, and general street scenes. |
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These forty-three prints depict a variety of Pittsburgh landmarks, including bridges, downtown buildings, commercial and industrial establishments, and civic institutions that show the city before and during the period of industrial development in the nineteenth century. |
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Contains images from 1911 through 1978 showing events and activities of students, teachers, parents, and board members of the Pittsburgh School District. |
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Contains images from 1872 through 1970 showing many styles and views of street railway cars owned by this company. Many Pittsburgh neighborhoods including the South Hills, Oakland, Downtown, Homewood, and Mt. Washington are depicted. |
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Rust Engineering Company Collection These seventy images dating from 1905 to 1968 include views of construction projects, completed facilities, and office personnel. |
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Images documenting the city of Pittsburgh in the 1940’s and 1950’s, before and after smoke control ordinances were passed regulating the burning of coal. The collection also includes slides documenting smoke control in St. Louis. |
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Images taken by Charles Spencer from 1889 through 1911 showing the Spencer family working and playing in and around their home in Shadyside on Amberson Avenue. Spencer worked as an agent of Henry Clay Frick. |
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Hundreds of visuals of images of Joseph Stalin useful for the study and research of the Soviet leader. |
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Drafts of sixty-four songs, including "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair" and "My Old Kentucky Home," penned by Pittsburgh-born composer Stephen Foster. |
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Images taken by Pittsburgh photographer Charles “Teenie” Harris that document life in the black communities of Pittsburgh from the 1920s to the 1970s. The images show weddings, funerals, family portraits, church events, street scenes, businessmen, and mill workers. |
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Images from 1924 through 1951 showing various building construction projects the company undertook, including the Bell Telephone building, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad building, and various department store warehouses. |
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Images representing the activities, officers, and members of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) in Pittsburgh and vicinity from about 1936 to 1959. |
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Union Arcade Building Photographs Contains all eighty-five views of the construction of this building in Downtown, Pittsburgh taken between June 16, 1915 and October 26, 1916 by the Photo Products Company. |
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The photographs portray strikers from US&S, and several other Westinghouse plants, marching in the streets of Swissvale in June 1914. There are also photographs of company management, including Superintendent George H. Pfeil, and non-striking workers in the plant as well as a copy of a strike bulletin. |
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University of Pittsburgh Archives Images from 1884 to 1999 showing the history of the University, its buildings, student organizations, faculty, and athletic activities. |
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University of Pittsburgh Press Digital Editions The University of Pittsburgh Press and the University Library System (ULS) have formed a partnership to make past editions of monographs published by the Press available online. By digitizing these monographs and distributing them freely on the Internet, the University of Pittsburgh Press is enabling greater access to the material it has only previously published as hardcopies. |
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Images of the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg campus from the 1920s up to the present. |
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Images from 1923 through 1958 showing group portraits from conventions and youth conferences, individual portraits of Urban League Fellows and Urban League staff, housing and work conditions for black employees, and children at Camp James Weldon. |
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Images of the Benedictine abbey church of Sainte-Marie-Madeleine in Burgundy |
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Visuals for Foreign Language Instruction : Visual aids (illustrations) designed to support instructional tasks, such as describing objects and people or describing events and situations. |
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Images of the Homestead Steel Works from 1886 through 1970 showing plant and community activity, machinery, workers, strikes, safety and accident concerns, and social activities. Employees are depicted on the job and participating in their family and community life. These images also contain images of World War II production, morale campaigns in the mill, and female employees during the war. |