D-Scribe Collections

A full-text collection of over one hundred textbooks published in the 1800s. Held by ULS Special Collections.

Primarily contains hand-rendered and mimeographed broadsides, newsletters, and flyers that present a local snapshot of Pittsburgh's radical politics during the 1930s and 1940s. Held by the ULS Archives Service Center.

Visual images from the 1920s-1930s document aerial views of Downtown Pittsburgh, Mount Washington, the North Side, the Point, Oakland, and Homestead. Held by the ULS Archives Service Center.

Visual images from the 1870s-1980s show the construction and destruction of many Pittsburgh structures and buildings during the post-World War II Renaissance period. Held by the Heinz History Center.

Visual images from the 1890s-1930s depict the construction and equipment, experiments, inventors and directors of the Observatory located in Pittsburgh’s Northside neighborhood. Held by the ULS Archives Service Center.

A wide-range of primary source textual and visual material documents left-wing organizations in the U.S. during the 20th century. Held by the ULS Archives Service Center.

An archive of papers presented at the annual Conference on Clinical Aphasiology, an annual forum for clinicians and researchers engaged in the study and clinical management of persons with acquired neurologic language disorders.

An archive for publications on European integration and unification, including key official European Union documents.

Complete double elephant folio set of John James Audubon's Birds of America (1827-1838). Held by ULS Special Collections.

Woodblock prints from 1760-1956 by over 40 artists depict Japanese culture through detailed depictions of portraits, landscapes and theatrical performances, taking into account some of Japan's rich history. Held by ULS Special Collections.

The Bolivian Studies Journal is a peer-reviewed publication that responds to the growing interest in understanding the past and present of historical and cultural processes in Bolivia.

Visual images from 1915-1917 depict the construction of the American Steel & Wire Company building, equipment, and worker housing construction in Donora (Pa.). Held by the ULS Archives Service Center.

The University of Pittsburgh's Cap and Gown Club, an all male organization that annually wrote and produced a varsity musical comedy show, produced 36 shows between 1908 and 1947. Records consist primarily of programs, supplemented with clippings, photographs, miscellaneous correspondence, and club minutes. Held by ULS Special Collections.

Visual images from the 1870s-1950s show scenes from mills and factories, street activity, portraits, and aerial shots of Downtown Pittsburgh by noted photographers Esther Bubley, Clyde Hare, Luke Swank, Harold Corsini and Hugh Torrance. Held by the Carnegie Museum of Art.

Visual images featured in Stotz's 1936 book, The Early Architecture of Western Pennsylvania. Held by the Heinz History Center.

"Comprehensive collection of images visually documenting the architecture

Visual images from the 1870s-2000s chronicle the students, faculty, and college community as academic pursuits, college events, student life and social activities have grown and changed throughout the Shadyside college’s history. Held by Chatham College.

Prepared by the City of Pittsburgh Department of Planning, relief maps depict streets, buildings, churches, institutions, cemeteries, mills, parks, schools, railroads, bridges, tunnels, reservoirs, lakes, ponds, rivers, streams, development plans, and various landmarks.

Retrospective access to issues of The Cleft Palate Journal published between 1964 and 1989 as a service to the American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association (ACPA).

Visual images from the 1930s-1940s depict the Consolidation Coal Company (the forerunner of CONSOL Energy Inc.) and its operations, including miners at work, mine construction, interiors of shafts, mine cars, barges carrying coal, and railroad cars filled with coal. Held by the ULS Archives Service Center.

Contemporaneity: Historical Presence in Visual Culture aims to explore how the complexities of being in time find visual form. Crucial to this undertaking is accounting for how, from prehistory to the present, cultures around the world conceive of and construct their present and the concept of presentness visually. Through scholarly writings from a number of academic disciplines in the humanities, together with contributions from artists and filmmakers, Contemporaneity maps the diverse ways in which cultures use visual means to record, define, and interrogate their historical context and presence in time.

An institutional repository for the research output of the University of Pittsburgh, D-Scholarship@Pitt provides stable, long-term storage and ongoing maintenance for content contained within the repository. Based on Open Access principles, all materials in the repository are freely accessible to the global research community.

Comprises first major collection of books, broadsides, lithographs, manuscripts, atlases, and maps donated to the University of Pittsburgh in the 1920s by the William M. Darlington family that documents colonial American history, the exploration of the Ohio Valley, the Far West, and world history. Includes albums containing family photographs from 1885-1888. Held by ULS Special Collections.

Visual images from 1885-1888 document family, friends, leisure activities, and the artistic approach to photography that both Edith Dennison Darlington Ammon and her brother, O'Hara Darlington, shared as the photographers. Held by the ULS Archives Service Center.

Includes textual, photographic, audio and video material that documents the life and career of Pennsylvania's 44th Governor (1979-1987) and Attorney General of the United States (1988-1991). Held by the ULS Archives Service Center.

A set of photographs and textual materials in the University Archives that reflect portions of the University’s documented history in the 19th and 20th centuries. Held by the ULS Archives Service Center.

The Dr. Thomas E. Starzl Website is the gateway to information about the historic medical career of Thomas E. Starzl, whose innovations in surgery and immunology changed the face of modern medicine. The core of Dr. Starzl’s work is contained in the Thomas E. Starzl Papers, currently being processed at the University of Pittsburgh’s Archives Service Center. This material reflects over 50 years of groundbreaking work, including immense volumes of correspondence with fellow surgeons and grateful patients, presentations and publications from a hugely prolific career, information on his bestselling autobiography The Puzzle People, and much more. Once completed, the Thomas E. Starzl Papers will contain over 350 boxes of material documenting both his professional and personal life.

Showcases cartoons drawn by UE cartoonist Fred Wright from his "Labor History" series published from 1956-1961 and again in the 1970s from the United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America (UE) collection. Held by the ULS Archives Service Center.

Visual images from the 1910s-1920s that show life in Pittsburgh and the photographer’s vacations. Held by the ULS Archives Service Center.

All University of Pittsburgh students completing a theses or dissertation to meet graduation requirements must submit an electronic version of their work.

ETHNOLOGY welcomes articles by scholars of any country on any aspect of cultural anthropology.

The Études Ricoeuriennes Ricoeur Studies (ERRS) is an electronic, open access, peer reviewd academic journal devoted to the study of the work of Paul Ricoeur. ERSS is an interdisciplinary journal in scope that encourages critical and constructive interpretations, applications and extension of Ricoeur's vast oeuvre.

Visual images from the 1900s-1930s of Wagner's family, friends, neighbors, and surroundings in Pittsburgh’s Hill District neighborhood prior to the mass influx of immigrants from Eastern Europe and the great migration of African Americans from the South. Held by the Heinz History Center.

Maps produced as part of the Report of the Flood Commission in 1912 that include flood level data, river depths, land contour, streets, building footprints, railroads, bridges, and various landmarks.

Visual images from the 1940s-1980s which visually document train engines and stations in the western Pennsylvania area. Held by the Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation.

Collection of autograph manuscripts documenting the philosophical work of Frank Ramsey, one of the most important British analytic philosophers of the twentieth century, who worked in the areas of philosophy of mathematics, symbolic logic, epistemology, economics, and probability theory. Contains drafts of Ramsey's papers, including drafts of The Foundations of Mathematics and On a Problem of Formal Logic. Held by ULS Special Collections.

Visual images from the 1880s-1900s show the Jones & Laughlin steel mill on Pittsburgh’s South Side, including a wide variety of images of blast furnaces. Held by the Heinz History Center.

Site based upon an exhibit of original records, publications and artifacts at the Heinz History Center that traces the origins of slavery in Africa and focuses on its presence in Pittsburgh.

Real estate plat maps and atlases for Pittsburgh and Allegheny County that show lot and block numbers, dimensions, street widths, names of property owners, churches, cemeteries, mills, schools, roads, railroads, lakes, ponds, rivers, and streams.

Site includes selected manuscripts and other material that document Washington's long career and association with the Western Pennsylvania region from 1754-1799. Held by ULS Special Collections.

Visual images from the 1870s-1970s that document the history of the food processing company founded in Pittsburgh, including product images and factory floor views, plant interiors, and a portrait of founder H.J. Heinz. Held by the Heinz History Center.

Visual images from the 1940s-1970s show images taken by freelance photographer Corsini for local and national businesses, including US Steel, as well as images from WWII and Southeast Asia and East Africa. Held by the Archives Service Center.

Visual images from 1915-1984 document school classes, the laying of the cornerstone, and the Hebrew Institute's first school bus. Held by the Heinz History Center.

Comprehensive collection of textual, photographic and cartographic resources that supports personal and scholarly research of the Western Pennsylvania area in the 19th and 20th centuries contributed by local cultural heritage institutions; includes census schedules and chronology of Pittsburgh.

The Industry Studies Working Paper Series brings together research from a wide range of academic disciplines. Papers published to the series reflect the knowledge of scholars who have made significant personal investments of time in learning about the market and firm institutions concerning the industries that they study.

The International Journal of Telerehabilitation (IJT) is a biannual journal dedicated to advancing telerehabilitation by disseminating information about current research and practices.

Visual images from the 1910s-1940s that depict programs and activities of Pittsburgh’s Irene Kaufmann Settlement in the Hill District and the Emma Farm Camp. Held by the ULS Archives Service Center.

Broadsheets from 1902 illustrated by Jack Yeats (younger brother of William Butler Yeats), who became one of Ireland's major artists in the early 20th century. Held by ULS Special Collections.

Visual images from 1888-1889 show homes, churches, buildings, and street 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. Held by the Heinz History Center.

Visual images from 1930 of the Great Depression, Jobless party activities, and Father Cox, a Pittsburgh Catholic priest and political and social activist. Held by the ULS Archives Service Center.

100 team photographs from the Irene Kaufmann Settlement, Young Men and Women’s Hebrew Association, Pittsburgh Jewish Community Center, and various organized clubs. The team photographs are primarily basketball teams, but also include baseball, track, swimming, tennis, softball, and fencing. This collection contains photographs ranging from 1911 to 1989, but is heavily weighted on the first half of the twentieth century.

Visual images from the 1900s-1910s of Downtown Pittsburgh and Highland Park, including landscape, industrial, and family scenes. Held by the ULS Archives Service Center.

Visual images from the 1850s-1950s of facilities, products, and transportation, including interior and exterior photos of the many Jones & Laughlin mills, coal mines, and warehouses located in Pittsburgh. Held by the Heinz History Center.

Formerly, Bulletin de la Societe Americaine de Philosophie de Langue Francaise (Bulletin of the American Society for Philosophy in the French Language), the Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy is a forum for discussion of the diverse philosophical strains of French and Francophone thought, with and emphasis on contemporary figures and issues and a commitment to interdisciplinary perspectives.

Color woodblock prints by the Japanese artist Tsukioka Kōgyo (1869-1927) depict the Art of Noh through detailed portraits, landscapes and theatrical performances, taking into account some of Japan's rich history. Held by ULS Special Collections.

Visual images from the 1980s-1990s that depict the railroad and steel industry between Pittsburgh and Chicago with CONRAIL and the LTV Steel Company as the primary focus; includes images of the Pennsylvania Railroad, Union Pacific Railroad, Amtrak, and Union Switch & Signal companies. Held by the ULS Archives Service Center.

Visual images from the 1900s-1950s that showcase programs and activities of the Pittsburgh association, including views of the Hill District, East Liberty, Lillian Home, and Kingsley House. Held by the ULS Archives Service Center.

Postcards from the 1930s-1940s document the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair and World War II, including propaganda postcards generated by the British Royal Air Force and French Resistance. Held by the ULS Archives Service Center.

Cartes de viste, mass-produced portraits on cardboard backings‚ from 1860-1867 show company iron workers photographed at a portrait studio. Held by the Heinz History Center.

Visual images from the 1900s-1920s show the manufacturing of steel mill equipment and machinery in the Pittsburgh area, and the construction of several of Mesta's West Homestead production facilities. Held by the Heinz History Center.

Repository for documents pertaining to minority health issues.

Text collection from the 1930s-1970s that provide insight into the political, economic, and educational conditions of China, including during the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). Held by the ULS East Asian Library.

A collection of photographs and images that depict Oakmont and its surrounding areas including the country club and golf course and the local Carnegie Library.

86 images of Otto's Dairy dating from 1928 until 1968, containing images of buildings, employees, machinery, products, and vehicles. Many of the photographs document machines and vehicles that the company was replacing with new models and technology.

Ten-volume set of the Publications of the Allegheny Observatory of the University of Pittsburgh that contain tables of data, reports on methodology of astronomical observations, presentations of new modes of calculation of star positions, and descriptions of observational instrumentation between 1910-1969.

A series of 523 images taken by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette photographer Paul Slantis between 1946 and 1956, depicting a variety of Pittsburgh and regional scenes, including industry, streets, portraits, aerial shots, notable personalities, people and activities, and architecture.

A state-wide metadata repository for digital resources created by Pennsylvania libraries, museums, and cultural heritage institutions.

Electronic archive for preprints in the philosophy of science.

The Pitt Players were a University of Pittsburgh student theatre group that operated between 1914-1960. Contains programs, photographs and other materials related to their performances. Held by ULS Special Collections.

Visual images from the 1880s-1970s show various branch lines controlled by the New York Central and then by Penn Central as well as many non-railroad activities and scenes in urban and rural areas of Western Pennsylvania's Allegheny, Beaver, Fayette, Lawrence, and Washington counties and some of the bordering counties of West Virginia and Ohio. Held by the ULS Archives Service Center.

Oral history interviews of Jewish immigrants conducted between 1968-2001 by the Pittsburgh Section of the National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW). Held by the ULS Archives Service Center.

Documents aspects of the labor movement in Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Held by the ULS Archives Service Center.

Visual images from the 1900s-1970s commissioned by the Pittsburgh Department of Public Works show parks, recreation facilities, and athletic events as well as hospital exteriors and interiors, mayoral events, traffic situations, and general street scenes of Pittsburgh. Held by the ULS Archives Service Center.

Lithographs, etchings, watercolors, and engravings from the 1840s-1890s 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 19th century. Held by the ULS Archives Service Center.

Visual images from the 1910s-1970s show events and activities of students, teachers, parents, and board members of the Pittsburgh School District. Held by the Heinz History Center.

Visual images from the 1870s-1970s depict many styles and views of street railway cars owned by this company; many Pittsburgh neighborhoods, such as the South Hills, Oakland, Downtown, Homewood, and Mt. Washington, are included. Held by the ULS Archives Service Center.

Focuses on disseminating research and educational materials relevant to the Pittsburgh dialect and includes conversational interviews that capture examples of such dialect.

Visual images from 1903-1924 depict railroad construction projects, bridges, and stations. Held by the Heinz History Center.

Visual images from the 1970s-1980s visually document Point Park University and surroundings in Downtown Pittsburgh. Held by Point Park University Archives.

Visual images from 1914-1916 show the construction of the William Penn Hotel in Downtown Pittsburgh every two weeks, starting with the groundbreaking ceremony Held on July 7, 1914. Held by the ULS Archives Service Center.

La Revista Iberoamericana publica artículos, reseñas y notas bibliográficas sobre literatura, teoría y crítica literaria latinoamericanas en español y portugués. Se publican cuatro números de la RI por año.

Philosopher who made substantial contributions in the areas of constructional theories, physicalism, the epistemological foundations of physics and mathematics, the syntactical structure of language, semantics, modal logic, and probability theory. Carnap stressed the importance of formal analysis as the key to solving philosophical problems. Collection includes extensive correspondence, lecture outlines, and manuscript drafts and typescripts for his published and unpublished writings. Held by ULS Special Collections.

Visual images from the 1900s-1960s depict views of the construction of equipment and facilities for heavy industry, including furnaces, boiler settings, industrial chimneys, and entire manufacturing and processing plants in Pittsburgh and Holt, Alabama. Held by the ULS Archives Service Center.

Visual images from the 1930s-1940s visually document the city of Pittsburgh before and after smoke control ordinances were passed regulating the burning of coal; a few images include smoke control efforts in St. Louis, Missouri. Held by the ULS Archives Service Center.

Visual images from the 1880s-1910s show the Charles Spencer family working and playing in and around their Pittsburgh home in Shadyside on Amberson Avenue. Held by the ULS Archives Service Center.

Visual materials and artifacts, such as photographs, posters, paintings, banners, sculptures, chinaware, and pins, created throughout the 20th century of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin organized by faculty in History and Slavic Languages and Literature departments.

Drafts of 64 songs, including "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair" and "My Old Kentucky Home," penned by Pittsburgh-born composer Stephen Foster (1826-1864). Held by the ULS Center for American Music.

Visual images from the 1920s-1970s taken by Pittsburgh photographer Charles “Teenie” Harris document life in the black communities of Pittsburgh, including weddings, funerals, family portraits, church events, street scenes, businessmen, and mill workers. Held by the Carnegie Museum of Art.

The vision behind this archival project is to provide materials in digitized form that will be usable by scholars and others, representing a selection from a large and unique corpus of holdings of long-term research results from a number of field areas around the world: in particular, the Pacific (with special reference to Papua New Guinea), Asia (with particular reference to Taiwan, including its indigenous peoples), and Europe (with highlighted reference to Scotland and Ireland).

Visual images from the 1920s-1950s show various building construction projects the Pittsburgh-based company undertook, including the Bell Telephone building, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad building, and various department store warehouses. Held by the Heinz History Center.

Visual images from the 1930s-1950s represent the activities, officers, and members of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) union in Pittsburgh and vicinity. Held by the ULS Archives Service Center.

Visual images taken between June 16, 1915 and October 26, 1916 show the construction of the Henry Clay Frick’s Union Arcade Building in Downtown, Pittsburgh. Held by the ULS Archives Service Center.

Visual images from June 1914 portray strikers from US&S, and several other Westinghouse plants, marching in the streets of Pittsburgh’s Swissvale neighborhood. Held by the ULS Archives Service Center.

Visual images from the 1880s-1990s visually document the history of the University of Pittsburgh, its buildings, student organizations, faculty, and athletic activities. Held by the ULS Archives Service Center.

Out-of-print monographs published by the University of Pittsburgh Press between 1938 and 2004.

Visual images from the 1920s to the present of the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg campus.

Visual images from the 1920s-1950s show 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. Held by the ULS Archives Service Center.

Visual images of the early 12th century Benedictine abbey church of Sainte-Marie-Madeleine in Burgundy organized by Dr. Alison Stones, Professor of History of Art & Architecture.

Visual illustrations drawn in 2004 designed to support foreign language instructional tasks, such as describing objects and people or describing events and situations.

Depict original land grants that settlers of present-day Allegheny County received from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania after William Penn and his descendants vested the land to the legislature.

An American philosopher who made significant contributions to philosophy of science and epistemology, Sellars was particularly noted for his contributions to metaphysics and to philosophy of mind. Consists of manuscripts of nearly all of Sellars’ work, reading notes, preliminary notes for further development, drafts of articles, working papers, correspondence, teaching materials and lecture notes. Held by ULS Special Collections.

Visual images from the 1880s-1970s show the Homestead Steel Works plant and community activities, machinery, workers, strikes, safety and accident concerns, and social activities; also include images of World War II production, morale campaigns in the mill, and female employees during the war. Held by the ULS Archives Service Center.

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