Arts & Humanities Subject Guide
Digitized Texts, Documents and Images
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There are many digitized texts, historical documents, and images available in the arts and humanities. Check the subject guides of Art, English, History, and Medieval Studies.
Multimedia collections from the Library of Congress of digitized documents, photographs, sound recordings, motion pictures, and texts. Over 100 collections, including, for example, African-American pamphlets, Chautauqua flyers, Depression photographs, Coca-Cola advertising, and the papers of Alexander Graham Bell, to name just a few.
Includes three major resources: a directory of manuscript repositories; records from the National Union Catalogue of Manuscript Collections from the 1950s to the present covering 93,000 collections; and detailed subject indexing for over 58,000 collections in the microfiche series, the National Inventory of Documentary Sources in the United States (NIDS).
A database produced by the American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language (University of Chicago) of nearly 2000 texts ranging from classic French literature to nonfiction and technical writing. Includes medieval and Renaissance as well as 18th, 19th, and 20th century works in many genres, such as fiction, poetry, theater, journalism, essays, correspondence and treatises. Subjects include literary criticism, biology, history, economics, and philosophy.
CAMIO - OCLC's Catalog of Art Museum Images
CAMIO contains over 23,000 images of works of art representing a broad range of fine and decorative arts from well-known collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Lost Angeles County Museum of Art, the Asia Society, and the Victorian and Albert Museum. All works are represented by a high-resolution image and description. Some images also have additional views plus sound, video, and curatorial notes. Images are available for use classroom use, research, educational web sites, and other forms of educational projects. This tool is designed for use in studio art, art history, anthropology, religion, and other courses in the humanities. CAMIO replaces the AMICO Library.