McMillan Library’s unique newspaper collection contains some of the only remaining copies of newspapers from 28 different publishers. The collection includes newspaper coverage of pressing issues such as decolonization, place and identity, colonial legacies, policies and land issues, as well as public memory and consciousness.
This digital collection includes popular songs, oral traditions and record broadcasts in vernacular languages from the station's creation in 1988 through the 2000s. The collection is augmented by robust metadata created by a team of Cultural Mediators who conducted field work across Mali to engage communities. The memories of performers, singers and musicians enrich the digitized recordings now available.
This digital collection focuses on photographs from multiple collections held at the Archivo Histórico de Tijuana, including materials from the Colección Guadalupe Kirarte Domínguez. Images in the collection document people, buildings, political activism and public events as well as the City’s administrative office.
Collection consists of posters on topics covering politics, religion, popular music, general health education, HIV/AIDS, tourism, commercial advertisement, film and television, sports and culture. The posters are mostly in full color with texts featuring Amharic, English, French, Italian, Arabic, Oromo, and Swahili languages in 3 scripts: mainly in Ethiopic and roman, with some also in Arabic.
Throughout the twentieth century, thousands of original written manuscripts were authored by one of Frevo's most notable contributors - Captain Zuzinha and his band. This collection of manuscripts represents the first formal record of Frevo’s creation and documents of the birth of frevo as a vibrant cultural expression.
The collection includes books and periodicals associated with Bengali Muslim intellectuals including M. Abdur Rahman, Abdul Jabbar, Abdul Bari and Abdul Aziz Al Amman as well as back-issues of Neda-e-Islam, a monthly religious magazine affiliated with the Furfura Sharif Sufi reform movement, manuscripts and print materials belonging to Acharya Mahananda Haldar, the preeminent Matua theologian and historian, and all available back-issues of the Bangla local news-weekly, Birbhum-Barta (circa 1905-1984).
Will Connell (1898-1961) was a self-taught photographer. He opened a studio in downtown Los Angeles in 1925 and became a member of the Camera Pictorialists. He taught at Art Center College in Pasadena from 1931 until his death. His work includes movie publicity shots, magazine assignments and other commercial photography. Connell photographed every industry in California at the time. He completed a number of literary projects and artistic endeavors as well. Connell is known for his use of photomontage and there are examples of this aspect of his work among the nitrate images in the form of the photomontage itself and individual images that were used in creating the montage.
The material encompasses three periods of Brazilian history: the onset of the military dictatorship (1964), democratization (the 1980s) and the deepening of Brazilian democracy (from the 1990s onwards). Digital access to this collection will enrich the understanding of the deterioration of democracy in present-day Brazil.
