#digital collection

[tayne-dot-exe]

ha ha... yes....

[wondrousrainbow]

links of random archive sites (old photos, illustrations, old movies, books, art etc)

I'll probably add more with time, please feel free to comment/reblog with more

some of these are open access, some of them have different restriction rules, so if you use any of the images or materials please do some research on the legislation before

any irregularities, if one of these happen to be deleted or something and it's still on the list, please feel free to point out

share so more people can find it!!!!!! there's so many good resources here to use as art references, to use on posts, informational stuff, academic studies and general knowledge on many areas, essays and many other things; so do share around and, I can't stress this enough, add more!

Library Of Congress

Public Domain Review

British Library Flickr page

New York Public Library digital collection

Paris Museums collection

Public Domain collection (more under the cut↓)

Raw Pixel’s Public Domain Images

Heritage Library - Free Vintage Illustrations

Smithsonian Open Access

Europeana Collections

Museo

Calisphere Collections

V&A Collections

British Museum Collection

Rijksmuseum Collection

Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History

The Met Collection

Biodiversity Heritage Library Flickr Page

Yale University Art Gallery

Getty Search Gateway

David Rumsey Map Collection

Yale Center for British Art

Art Institute of Chicago

National Gallery of Art Images

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Project Apollo Archive (Flickr Page)

Flickr The Commons

The Walters Collection

The Morgan Library & Museum

Wikipedia Featured Pictures

Wikimedia Commons

Biodiversity Heritage Library

[uwmarchives]

Today is the first day of Kwanzaa

Kwanzaa takes place over seven days, from December 26th through January 1st, with each day dedicated to one of the Seven Principles, the Nguzo Saba. Today, the first day, is dedicated to the principle of Umoja, which focuses on unity.  More information about the origins of Kwanzaa and about the Nguzo Saba can be found in the article below, which was published in December 1980 in Invictus, UWM’s longest running Black student newspaper.

The full December 1980 issue of Invictus can be viewed online in our Invictus Digital Collection or in person at the UWM Archives.

[loynosca]

Student Life at Loyola University New Orleans from The Wolf 1986

[uwmspeccoll]

Milwaukee Handicraft Monday: 

Stripe Extravaganza 

These block printed textiles, printed with delightfully dizzying details caught my eye today! 

The originals are courtesy of volumes 3 and 7 of Applied Design; Blockprinted Textiles. An educational service prepared by the Milwaukee WPA Handicraft Project. The images shown here, however,  we’ve sourced from the our digital collection The Wisconsin Arts Projects of the WPA. This digital collection was made possible with generous financial support provided by The Chipstone Foundation.

The MHP was founded in 1935 by Harriet Clinton, head of the Women’s Division of Wisconsin’s WPA to help unskilled women laborers provide income for their families. Clinton hired Elsa Ulbricht, an art professor at the Milwaukee State Teacher’s College (one of UWM’s predecessor institutions), to direct the project. The MHP hired around 5,000 people in total throughout its highly successful seven-year existence. Read More about the Project. Or, explore more of our Milwaukee Handicraft Monday posts. 

-Katie, Special Collections Graduate Intern

[nykeeshat]

[mediaartsdesignlibrarian]

Enter “The Magazine Rack,” the Internet Archive’s Collection of 34,000 Digitized Magazines

Before we kept up with culture through the internet, we kept up with culture through magazines.

In keeping with their apparent mission to become the predominant archive of pre-internet media, they've set up the Magazine Rack, a downloadable collection of over 34,000 digitized magazines and other monthly publications.