Digital Collections – Master List

Digital Collections: Master List (By Theme)

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  America

  • Aspiration, Acculturation, and Impact: Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930: Harvard University Library Open Collections Program – Over 400,000 pages from more than 2,200 books, pamphlets, and serials, over 9,600 pages from manuscript and archival collections, and more than 7,800 photographs documenting the history of voluntary immigration to the United states from the signing of the Constitution to the Great Depression
  • Caribbean Sea Migration Collection: Digital Collections, Duke University Libraries –Materials relating to Cuban, Dominican, and Haitian maritime migration, 1965-1995
  • Columbus Letters: Princeton University Digital Library – Four Latin editions and one German edition of Christopher Columbus’s description of his first voyage.
  • Digital Collection of Historical AMA Documents: American Medical Association Historical Archives – More than 230 titles including Digests of Official Actions, Transactions of the American Medical Association, House of Delegates Proceedings, and Historical Monographs
  • First Nation Collection: Southern Oregon Digital Archives – Documents, books, and articles relating to the indigenous peoples of Southern Oregon
  • Indigenous Peoples North America – The archive includes extensive monograph, manuscript, newspaper, periodical and photograph collections *Accessible through the McMaster Libraries with a valid MacID
  • Medicine in the Americas, 1610-1920: National Library of Medicine – A collection of monographs, early printed books, and journals, including works from the United States, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Canada, which demonstrate the evolution of medicine in North America from colonial frontier outposts of the 17th century to research hospitals of the 20thcentury
  • Mesoamerican Manuscripts: Princeton University Digital Library – A miscellany of items digitized from Princeton University Library’s three collections of Mesoamerican manuscripts.
  • Panama and the Canal: Digital Library of the Caribbean – Newspapers, government documents, photographs, publications, artifacts, notes, correspondence relating to the construction and operation of the Panama Canal
  • Sephardic Studies Collection: University of Washington Digital Collections – The collection contains more than 500 original Ladino books and thousands of documents composed in Ladino as well as other relevant languages, such as Ottoman Turkish, Hebrew and French dating between the 16th and mid-20th centuries collected from the local Seattle Sephardic community
  • Western Americana Collection: Princeton University Digital Library – Consists of photographs of Indians of the Americas and views of the American West, including landscapes, cityscapes, and mining, railroad, and agricultural operations.
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  Anatomies and Anatomical Illustrations

  • Anatomia 1522-1867:  Anatomical Plates from the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library -This site comprises approximately 4500 full page plates and illustrations of human anatomy.
  • Anatomical Fugitive Sheets: Digital Collections, Duke University Libraries – These printed illustrations are single sheets that depict the body using layers or flaps that can be lifted to reveal internal organs and other body parts, mimicking what one would find upon a dissection
  • Anatomical Texts: The Texas Medical Center Library Digital Commons – A collection of anatomical texts primarily from the 17th and 18th centuries
  • De Humani Corpus Fabrica, Vesalius: British Library – Digitized version of De Humani Corporis Fabrica(On the Fabric of the Human Body), one of the most influential works in the history of Western medicine.
  • Digital Library: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia – An image database of nearly 1,000 images with strengths in the history of anatomy and botanical medicine. Highlights include images from rare incunabula previously unavailable online, unusual selections from more popular early modern anatomists, and over 300 photos from the Philadelphia General Hospital Photograph Collection
  • Historical Anatomies on the Web: National Library of Medicine – Images from important anatomical atlases in the library’s collection
  • Medical Illustrations Collection: University at Buffalo Libraries – 90 illustrations created between 1935 and 1945 for the School of Medicine at the University at Buffalo
  • Museum of Neuroanatomy: University at Buffalo Libraries – 80 illuminated brain specimens
  • Pathology Teaching Collection: Cushing-Whitney Medical Library, Yale University –anatomical illustrations depicting rare and unusual medical conditions
  • The Four Seasons:  David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Duke University – a unique set of seventeenth-century copperplate engravings with moveable flaps illustrating human anatomy along with allusions to alchemy, astronomy and botany
  • Visible Human Project: National Library of Medicine – complete, anatomically detailed, three-dimensional representations of male and female human bodies
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  Ancient Medicine, Greek and Egyptian Papyri

  • Ancient Artifacts: UBC Library Digital Collections – Two Greek papyri, likely from Roman Egypt and dating from the second century AD. Soon to be added are a small collection of cuneiform tablets discovered at Ur in Chaldea, and dating from 2456-2390 BCE
  • Centre for the Study of Papyrology: University of Lecce
  • Cologne Papyrus Collection: University of Cologne
  • Duke Papyrus Archive: Digital Collections, Duke University Libraries – texts about and images of nearly 1400 papyri from ancient Egypt
  • Epigraphic Squeezes: UBC Library Digital Collections – over 1000 epigraphic squeezes of Greek inscriptions from Athens and the surrounding area of Attica from the 5th century BCE
  • Greek Papyri of the Heidelberg Papyrus Collection: University of Heidelberg
  • Medicina Antiqua: University College of London – English translations of some important ancient medical works
  • Papyrological Navigator –An aggregation of ancient papyrological documents and related materials from several institutions
  • Papyrology at Oxford: Oxford University
  • Perseus Digital Library – Interactive database linking texts and translations of major works of ancient Greek literature *Accessible through the McMaster Libraries with a valid MacID
  • Princeton Papyri Collections: Princeton University Digital Library – Among authors represented are Aristophanes, Demosthenes, Euripides, Herodotus, Hippocrates, Homer, Isocrates, Theocritus, and Xenophon. But a much larger number are Greek documentary papyri, including census and tax registers, military lists, land convey¬ances, business records, petitions, private letters, and other sources of historical and paleographic interest from Ptolemaic (332-30 BCE), Roman (30 BCE-300 CE), and Byzantine Egypt (300-650 CE).
  • The Tebtunis Papyri Collection: The Bancroft Library, University of California Berkley– Images of a large collection of papyri found at the site of ancient Tebtunis, Egypt
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  Art

  • Art: Library and Archives Canada – Collection of documentary art, some of which dates back to the 17th century, including paintings, watercolours, prints, drawings, caricatures, posters, medals, and sculptures
  • Art: Wellcome Digital Collections – Nearly 50 paintings, posters, etchings, and photographic prints which hang in the Wellcome Library
  • Lam Qua Paintings Collection: Cushing-Whitney Medical Library, Yale University –Portraits by Western-trained Chinese painter Lam Qua, commissioned by medical missionary and diplomat to China Peter Parker in the 1830s depicting patients at the Canton Hospital with large tumors or other major deformities
  • Library Artwork Collection: Duke Medicine Digital Repository – Images of the roughly 200 works of art from the Duke University Medical Center
  • Marianne North Gallery Online: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew – An online gallery of 19thcentury biologist and botanical artist Marianne North’s 833 paintings depicting more than 900 species of plants.
  • Prints and Drawings: Cushing-Whitney Medical Library, Yale University – shows how artists have portrayed issues and events related to health and medicine over six centuries.
  • The Smithsonian Freer and Sackler Galleries – Hosts the largest research library for  Asian art in the United States.
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  Botany

  • Classic Works in Herbal Medicine: SouthWest School of Botanical Medicine -Describes and makes available the work of John Uri Lloyd, Otto Mausert, Benjamin Colby
  • Digital Collection of Canadian Flora and Botany: University of Toronto Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library – The Agnes Chamberlin Collection consists of original paintings of Canadian flora and mushrooms by Agnes Chamberlin (1833–1913), 1863 to the 1900s.
  • Digital Library: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia – An image database of nearly 1,000 images with strengths in the history of anatomy and botanical medicine. Highlights include images from rare incunabula previously unavailable online, unusual selections from more popular early modern anatomists, and over 300 photos from the Philadelphia General Hospital Photograph Collection
  • Joseph Hooker Collection: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew – The personal and scientific correspondence of Joseph Hooker, 19th century naturalist and explorer who pioneered the discipline of geographical botany
  • Marianne North Gallery Online: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew – An online gallery of 19thcentury biologist and botanical artist Marianne North’s 833 paintings depicting more than 900 species of plants.
  • Nathaniel Wallich Collection: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew – The plant drawings, specimens, and correspondence of 19th century surgeon and botanist Nathaniel Wallich.
  • William Roxburgh’s Flora Indica: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew  – Scottish surgeon and botanist William Roxburgh’s three-volume Flora Indica, published posthumously in 1832, with the illustrations he commissioned.
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  Britain/British Empire

  • Empire Online – images of original documents related to the British Empire, 1492–present *Accessible through the McMaster Libraries with a valid MacID
  • London’s Pulse: Medical Officer of Health Reports, 1848-1972: Wellcome Digital Collections – More than 5,500 Medical Officer of Health Reports from the Greater London area
  • Medical History of British India: National Library of Scotland – 426 reports related to disease, public health, and medical research from 1850 to 1950.
  • News Media: British Library – Millions of searchable pages of newspapers from the 17thcentury to the present day
  • Pre-1800 English, Scottish, Irish, and American Items: National Library of Medicine – A collection of monographs, advertisements, case reports, and other documents from England, Scotland, Ireland, and America produced before 1800
  • Publications by Scottish Clubs: National Library of Scotland – Historical texts from the 12th to 19th centuries, edited by Scottish clubs, including manuscripts, church records, diaries, legends, and literary texts.
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  Canada

  • “Born-digital” archival records from the SARS Commission, the Walkerton Inquiry, and the Inquiry into Pediatric Forensic Pathology: Archives of Ontario
  • Aboriginal Heritage: Library and Archives Canada – Records include photograph collections by province; Indian Affairs Annual Reports; Treaties, Surrenders, and Agreements; and School Files
  • Archives Photographs: Glenbow Museum – over 112,000 historical photographs, illustrations, cartoons and posters documenting the people, landscape and development of the Canadian West from the 1870s to 2000
  • Art: Library and Archives Canada – Collection of documentary art, some of which dates back to the 17th century, including paintings, watercolours, prints, drawings, caricatures, posters, medals, and sculptures
  • Canadian Association for the History of Nursing – Many listed resources available for the overall history of nursing in Canada, including a Guide to Canadian Nursing Archival Resources
  • Canadian Census Analyzer: Faculty of Arts and Science, University of Toronto – short-form and long-form data, 1961–present *Accessible through the McMaster Libraries with a valid MacID
  • Canadian Patents, 1869-1919: Library and Archives Canada – 190,000 digitized Canadian patents, from 1869 to 1919
  • Censuses: Library and Archives Canada – census records, from 1666 to 1916
  • Circumstances of Death Registers, First World War: Library and Archives Canada
  • Commonwealth War Graves Registers, First World War: Library and Archives Canada
  • Directory of Federal Real Property: Treaty Areas Government of Canada: Government of Canada Treasury Board Secretariat – Current real property holdings of the Canadian government including information about Reserves and federal buildings on Reserves. This section of the site shows the geographical area of the numbered treaties and other pre-Confederation treaties, including those on Vancouver Island
  • Emma Crosby Letters: UBC Library Digital Collections – Correspondence of Emma Crosby, wife of a missionary in nineteenth-century British Columbia
  • Ethno-Cultural Groups: Library and Archives Canada – Immigration and naturalization records as well as databases on the various ethno-cultural groups in Canada
  • Exploration and Settlement: Library and Archives Canada – Resources related to exploration, immigration, naturalization and citizenship. Some of the types of resources available include immigrant diaries, Geological Survey of Canada records, fur trade records, Hudson’s Bay Company records, land grants, quarantine records, French and British colonial records, maps and artwork
  • Health and Medicine Collection: Early Canadiana Online – digitzed rare books, periodicals, and government publications from Canada from the 1600s through the 1940s
  • Images Canada – Provides central search access to the thousands of images of Canadian events, people, places and things held on the websites of participating archives, libraries, museums and universities from across Canada
  • Immigration: Library and Archives Canada – Several databases of immigration records including: ship registration, 1787-1966; naturalization records dating back to 1828, passenger lists for arrivals at various ports from 1865 to 1935; and immigrants at Grosse-Île Quarantine Station, 1832-1937
  • Indian Affairs Annual Reports: Library and Archives Canada – Digital versions of theIndian Affairs Annual Reports (1864-1990)produced by the various federal departments responsible for Indian affairs in Canada. The Schedules of Indian Bands, Reserves and Settlements 1902-1992 have also been digitized and are included in the site
  • Maps, Charts, and Architectural Plans Collection: Library and Archives Canada
  • Medicine in the Americas, 1610-1920: National Library of Medicine – A collection of monographs, early printed books, and journals, including works from the United States, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Canada, which demonstrate the evolution of medicine in North America from colonial frontier outposts of the 17th century to research hospitals of the 20thcentury
  • Military Heritage: Library and Archives Canada – Records relating to Loyalists, the War of 1812, the Rebellions, the South African War, the First World War and the Second World War. The records include muster rolls, military service files, unit war diaries, medal registers, photographic collections, documentary art and posters, as well as published sources
  • Museum and Art Collection Database – Glenbow Museum has recently begun to digitize its art and artifact collections. This database is a small selection from the museum’s art, community history, military history, minerals, world culture and native North America collections
  • Music, Films, Videos, and Sound Recordings: Library and Archives Canada – This collection includes motion picture films, feature films, short films, sponsored films, animation, documentaries, newsreels, radio and television programs, home movies, and sound recordings such as music, poetry readings, or oral history interviews
  • Newspapers: Library and Archives Canada – Databases of digitized newspapers including 160 years of the Canada Gazette and French-Canadian newspapers, 1808-1919
  • Our Roots: Canada’s Local Histories Online – primary and educational sources in both English and French *Accessible through the McMaster Libraries with a valid MacID
  • Portrait Portal: Library and Archives Canada – more than 20,000 paintings, drawings and prints, 4 million photographs, several thousand caricatures, and ten thousand medals and philatelic items
  • Postal Heritage and Philately: Library and Archives Canada – The philatelic collections include stamps and other philatelic materials as well as archival documents on all aspects of the design and production of postage stamps and on the Canadian postal service as well as Canadian mail order catalogues
  • Royal Fisk Gold Rush Letters: UBC Library Digital Collections – over 900 original manuscript letters from the Cariboo Gold Rush period, 1862-1868 written by Victoria area merchants to Royal Fisk, a forwarding and shipping agent in San Francisco
  • Scanned Documents: Glenbow Archives – 75,000 pages of digitized archival documents related primariy to Mounted Police, First Nations, immigration and settlement, agriculture and politics in the Canadian West
  • Service files of members of the Canadian Expeditionary Force from the First World War: Library and Archives Canada
  • Service files of the Royal Canadian Navy, 1910-1941: Library and Archives Canada
  • Service Files of the Second World War – War Dead, 1939-1947: Library and Archives Canada
  • Shipwreck Investigations: Library and Archives Canada – photographic, cartographic and documentary evidence on shipwrecks in Canada
  • Statutes and Regulations Relating to Indian and Aboriginal Affairs: Government of Canada Department of Justice – Statutes and regulations relating to Indian and Aboriginal Affairs including the Indian Act, the Nunavut Act, and the Nisga’a Final Agreement Act
  • The Atlas of Canada: Natural Resources Canada – Hundreds of online maps about Canada’s environment, society, economy and history
  • Veterans Death Cards: First World War: Library and Archives Canada
  • Vital Statistics: Archives of Ontario – Births (1896-1910), Marriages (1869-1927), Deaths (1869-1937)
  • Vital Statistics: Births, Marriages, and Deaths: Library and Archives Canada – Several databases of vital statistics including Acts of Divorce, 1841-1968; Births, Marriages, and Deaths Recorded in Canada; and Marriage Bonds, 1779-1858 – Upper and Lower Canada
  • We Remember Database: Great War Centenary Association of Brantford, Brant County, and Six Nations – A database of the war records of the more than 5,000 men and women from Brantford, Brant County, and the Six Nations who served during the First World War
  • Whitehern Museum Archives: An Online History of the McQuesten Family – The website includes 4,000 letters, documents, and photographs about the McQuesten family of Whitehern in Hamilton, Ontario
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  Censuses and Vital Statistics

  • Censuses: Library and Archives Canada – census records, from 1666 to 1916
  • Histpop: The Online Historical Population Reports Website: University of Essex –Complete population reports for Britain and Ireland from 1801 to 1937
  • Scottish Post Office Directories: National Library of Scotland – Over 700 digitized directories covering most of Scotland dating from 1773 to 1911.
  • Vital Statistics: Archives of Ontario – Births (1896-1910), Marriages (1869-1927), Deaths (1869-1937)
  • Vital Statistics: Births, Marriages, and Deaths: Library and Archives Canada – Several databases of vital statistics including Acts of Divorce, 1841-1968; Births, Marriages, and Deaths Recorded in Canada; and Marriage Bonds, 1779-1858 – Upper and Lower Canada
  • World DataBank – includes gender, education, health nutrition and population statistics, 1960s–present
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  Chapbooks

  • Chapbook Collection: McGill Library – Over 900 British and American chapbooks published in the 18th and 19th centuries.
  • Chapbooks: Ball State University Digital Media Repository – 173 chapbooks on subjects ranging from moral instruction to the ABCs to advertisements for patent medicines and soap
  • Scottish Chapbooks – The University of Guelph’s collection of Scottish Chapbooks. Chapbooks were pamphlets of eight to twenty-four pages that were created and sold in the 18th and 19th centuries. They featured popular stories of romance, travel, comedy, politics, fairy tales, religion, social customs, and history.
  • Spanish Chapbooks: Cambridge Digital Library – Usually referred to in English as chap-books, and in Spanish assueltos, orpliegos sueltos(loose leaves or folded loose leaves), these predecessors of the yellow press provide a fascinating bird’s eye view of popular culture from the eighteenth century onwards.
  • Street Literature About Napoleon’s Wars: National Library of Scotland – Chapbooks about events from the 1790s to the Battle of Waterloo, mostly ballads about military conflicts with Napoleon Bonaparte
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  Crime and Criminality

  • The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913 – A fully searchable edition of the 197,745 criminal trials held at London’s central criminal court
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  Dentistry

  • The John McLean Archive: A Living History of Dentistry – Collaboration of British Dental Association Museum and King’s College London Dental Institute, documenting the history of dentistry since the start of the National Health Service. The project gathers witness seminars and oral history interviews, topics from NHS and  rise of private dentistry, dental education, dental contracts.
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  Digital Books

  • Delta Omega Classics – important texts, which have been deemed public health classics by the national council. They are generally out of print, or not widely available in libraries
  • Digital Library Bookshelf: Princeton University Digital Library – A miscellany of items digitized at the Princeton University Library but belonging to no well-defined collection. The items include books, manuscripts, reports, maps, and albums from many eras.
  • First Scottish Books: National Library of Scotland – Nine of the earliest books printed in Scotland.
  • Medica: Bibliothèque interuniversitaire de Santé – Provides open access to electronic versions of the library’s rare and ancient documents, including monographs, theses, articles, periodicals, and manuscripts, a total of 122,000 items. Series include antiquity, medieval times, diseases and epidemics, history of medicine and its institutions, pharmacology, and others
  • Project Gutenberg – Project Gutenberg is a free online digital library with over 49,000 works. The majority of the books are older works whose copyright has expired and are now public domain, such as Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species. The library’s science bookshelf includes works in subjects such as biology, chemistry, microbiology, and physiology. Books are primarily in English.
  • Rare Book Collection: The Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology – digitized copies of rare historic books on anesthesiology
  • Rare Book Room – More than 400 rare books on subjects such as medicine, chemistry, and botany
  • Scheide Library: Fifteenth-Century Printing: Princeton University Library Digital Collection – A collection of early-European printing.
  • Soviet Era Books for Children and Youth (1918-1938): Princeton University Library Digital Collection – 47 imprints produced between 1918 and 1938 presenting examples of the visual and verbal idioms artists and authors used to address the country’s children and youth in the first two decades after the October Revolution.
  • The Mackie Family History of Neuroscience Collection: University of Calgary Libraries and Cultural Resources – Selected works from the collection’s nearly 2500 books and journal articles spanning over 350 years in the development of neuroscience
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  Disability

  • Disability History Museum – Documents, photographs, and ephemera relating to physical and mental disabilities
  • Disability Voices: British Library – Oral history interviews that chart the experiences of disabled people.
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  Epidemics

  • Cholera Online, 1817-1900: National Library of Medicine – More than 500 reports, studies, petitions, and other documents regarding cholera published around the world in the 19th century
  • Contagion: Historical Views of Diseases and Epidemics: Harvard University Library Open Collections Program – Contains digitized copies of books, serials, pamphlets, incunabula, and manuscripts—a total of more than 500,000 pages—many of which contain visual materials, such as plates, engravings, maps, charts, broadsides, and other illustrations which document the history of medicine and epidemiology
  • Database from the Global Project on the History of Leprosy – Archives of documents detailing the history of leprosy
  • In Their Own Words: NIH Researchers Recall the Early Years of AIDS: National Institutes of Health Office of History – Images, documents, and oral history interview transcripts documenting the early years of the HIV/AIDS pandemic
  • Japanese Woodblock Print Collection: UCSF – This collection of Japanese woodblock prints illustrates a wide variety of health-related topics, providing a window into traditional Japanese attitudes toward illness, the human body, women, religion, and the West
  • John Snow Archive and Research Companion – The writings, publications, and presentations of English physician and epidemiologist, John Snow
  • John Snow: UCLA Department of Epidemiology – This website dedicated to the life of English physician and epidemiologist John Snow contains John Snow’s writings as well as epidemiological maps, including Snow’s map of the 1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak
  • London’s Pulse: Medical Officer of Health Reports, 1848-1972: Wellcome Digital Collections – More than 5,500 Medical Officer of Health Reports from the Greater London area
  • Maps in Script and Print: Bodleian Libraries –  362 maps from as far back as the 15thcentury
  • Plague: Bibliothèque interuniversitaire de Santé – 77 documents including essays, treatises, and historical accounts from as early as the 15th century regarding the plague
  • SARS Commission: Archives of Ontario – The public website of the SARS Commission, an inquiry into the 2003 outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
  • Walkerton Inquiry: Archives of Ontario – The public website of the inquiry into the May 2000 outbreak of E. coli in Walkerton, Ontario
  • World Health Organization Historical Collection – Contains rare books on malaria, plague, smallpox, and epidemiology, and documents relating to the history of the WHO and other international health organizations such as the League of Nations Health Organization
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  Films, Videos, and Audio

  • AdViews: Digital Collections, Duke University Libraries – Thousands of television commercials from the 1950s to 1980s
  • Behind the Veil: Digital Collections, Duke University Libraries – 410 recorded oral history interviews chronicling African-American life during the age of legal segregation in the American South
  • Disability Voices: British Library – Oral history interviews that chart the experiences of disabled people.
  • Film and Sound: Wellcome Digital Collections – over 600 digitised films and recordings covering all aspects of 20th century healthcare and medicine, as well as offering fascinating insights into social and cultural history
  • History of the Common Cold Unit: British Library – Interviews recording the memories of those who worked at the Common Cold Unit in Salisbury from 1957 until its closure in 1990. These interviews are only available to Higher and Further Education institutions
  • Industry: Water, Steel, and Energy: British Library – In-depth oral history interviews documenting the lives and careers of those who worked in the electricity, water, steel and oil and gas industries in the UK over the past century
  • Medical Movies on the Web: National Library of Medicine – Nearly 7,000 titles from the Silent Era to the present, covering a broad range of medical and health-related topics
  • Moving Image: National Library of Medicine Digital Collections –  Collection of nearly 200 health-related films
  • Music, Films, Videos, and Sound Recordings: Library and Archives Canada – This collection includes motion picture films, feature films, short films, sponsored films, animation, documentaries, newsreels, radio and television programs, home movies, and sound recordings such as music, poetry readings, or oral history interviews
  • Nuffield Department of Anesthetics Training Videos: Wellcome Library – Films relating to the administration of anaesthesia made by the Nuffield Department of Anaesthetics, Oxford, mid-1940s.
  • NYAM Lectures Broadcast by WNYC: New York Academy of Medicine – 40 lectures on medicine and society that NYAM produced and WNYC-FM broadcast in the 1950s
  • Oral History Online – provides in-depth indexing to more than 2,700 collections of Oral History in English from around the world *Accessible through the McMaster Libraries with a valid MacID
  • Scottish Screen Archive: National Library of Scotland – over 1,600 film clips and full films.
  • Streaming Media: Sophia Smith Collection, Women’s History Archives at Smith College – Oral history interviews and films related to women’s health
  • The John W. Pender Collection of the Living History of Anesthesiology: The Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology – collection of oral history interviews with pioneers and leaders in the field of anesthesiology
  • The Public Health Film Goes to War: National Library of Medicine
  • Video History of Medicine in Canada – interviews with Canada’s foremost physicians, most conducted by historian Michael Bliss
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  First Nations/Aboriginal Peoples

  • Aboriginal Heritage: Library and Archives Canada – Records include photograph collections by province; Indian Affairs Annual Reports; Treaties, Surrenders, and Agreements; and School Files
  • Archives Photographs: Glenbow Museum – over 112,000 historical photographs, illustrations, cartoons and posters documenting the people, landscape and development of the Canadian West from the 1870s to 2000
  • Directory of Federal Real Property – Treaty Areas Government of Canada: Government of Canada Treasury Board Secretariat – Current real property holdings of the Canadian government including information about Reserves and federal buildings on Reserves. This section of the site shows the geographical area of the numbered treaties and other pre-Confederation treaties, including those on Vancouver Island
  • First Nation Collection: Southern Oregon Digital Archives – Documents, books, and articles relating to the indigenous peoples of Southern Oregon
  • Indian Affairs Annual Reports: Library and Archives Canada – Digital versions of the Indian Affairs Annual Reports (1864-1990)produced by the various federal departments responsible for Indian affairs in Canada. The Schedules of Indian Bands, Reserves and Settlements 1902-1992 have also been digitized and are included in the site
  • Indigenous Peoples North America – The archive includes extensive monograph, manuscript, newspaper, periodical and photograph collections *Accessible through theMcMaster Libraries with a valid MacID
  • Museum and Art Collection Database – Glenbow Museum has recently begun to digitize its art and artifact collections. This database is a small selection from the museum’s art, community history, military history, minerals, world culture and native North America collections
  • Scanned Documents: Glenbow Archives – 75,000 pages of digitized archival documents related primariy to Mounted Police, First Nations, immigration and settlement, agriculture and politics in the Canadian West
  • Statutes and Regulations Relating to Indian and Aboriginal Affairs: Government of Canada Department of Justice – Statutes and regulations relating to Indian and Aboriginal Affairs including the Indian Act, the Nunavut Act, and the Nisga’a Final Agreement Act
  • The Children Remembered Residential School Archive Project: The United Church of Canada Archives – Contains a collection of photographs depicting the students, staff, and buildings of their residential schools. Church officials and principals took these photographs for the purpose of promoting the schools and the assimilation of Aboriginal children.
  • We Remember Database: Great War Centenary Association of Brantford, Brant County, and Six Nations – A database of the war records of the more than 5,000 men and women from Brantford, Brant County, and the Six Nations who served during the First World War
  • Western Americana Collection: Princeton University Digital Library – Consists of photographs of Indians of the Americas and views of the American West, including landscapes, cityscapes, and mining, railroad, and agricultural operations.
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  Food/Nutrition

  • Food and Drug Administration Notices of Judgment Collection, 1908-1966: National Library of Medicine – Digital archive of the published notices of judgment for products seized under authority of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act
  • Infant Feeders Collection: UBC Library Digital Collections – Images and descriptions of devices used for feeding infants
  • New York Milk Committee Ephemera: New York Academy of Medicine – materials issued from 1910-1918 by the New York Milk Committee and its Committee for the Reduction of Infant Mortality
  • Recipe Books: Wellcome Digital Collections – Domestic recipe manuscripts spanning the 16th century to the 19th century
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  France

  • Bibliothèque interuniversitaire de Santé (BIU Santé) provides access to the library, archival, and museum collections in the history of medicine from several institutions in Paris.
  • French Revolution Digital Archive – Consists of two collections: the Parliamentary Archives and the Images of the French Revolution. The Parliamentary Archives provide a record of parliamentary deliberations as well as letters, reports, speeches, and other first-hand accounts covering the years 1787-1794 from a great variety of published and archival sources. The Images of the French Revolution are composed of high-resolution digital images of approximately 14,000 individual visual items, primarily prints, but also illustrations, medals, coins, and other objects which display aspects of the Revolution
  • Gallica – The digital library of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, providing online access to more than 3,000,000 documents.
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  Gender, Women Physicians, Women’s Health

  • A guid cause: National Library of Scotland – The history of women’s suffrage in Scotland, with photographs, newspaper reports, diary entries, and other sources.
  • Archives for Women in Medicine: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School – letters, photographs, research records, and other materials documenting the ongoing evolution of women’s contributions in medicine
  • Contemporary Women’s Issues – over 60,000 full-text contributions on a broad range of women’s issues, 1992–present *Accessible through the McMaster Libraries with a valid MacID
  • Defining Gender, 1450-1910 – 50,000 images of original manuscript and printed material, including documents from the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford *Accessible through theMcMaster Libraries with a valid MacID
  • Japanese Woodblock Print Collection: UCSF – This collection of Japanese woodblock prints illustrates a wide variety of health-related topics, providing a window into traditional Japanese attitudes toward illness, the human body, women, religion, and the West
  • Kinesis: UBC Library Digital Collections – published from 1974 to 2001 by the Vancouver Status of Women (VSW), Kinesis served as a vehicle for social change and women’s liberation
  • Sophia Smith Collection: Women’s History Archives at Smith College – Images, oral history transcripts, and audio and video streaming media on topics such as birth control and reproductive rights, women’s rights, suffrage, and the contemporary women’s movement across race, class, and sexual orientation
  • Women Physicians 1850s-1970s: Drexel University College of Medicine -correspondence, scrapbooks, clippings, college records, images, diaries, publications and ephemera documenting the history of women physicians beginning with the first medical school for women, Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania, founded in 1850
  • Women Working: Harvard University Library Open Collections Program – over 650,000 individual pages from more than 3,100 books and trade catalogs, 900 archives and manuscript items, and 1,400 photographs illustrating working conditions, workplace regulations, home life, costs of living, commerce, recreation, health and hygiene, and social issues for working women in the United States from 1800-1930
  • Women’s Liberation Movement Print Culture: Digital Collections, Duke University Libraries – Manifestos, speeches, essays, and other materials documenting the Women’s Liberation Movement in the United States, 1960s-1970s
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  Homeopathy

  • Biographies of Homeopathic Physicians: Drexel University College of Medicine – 36 volumes containing biographical information of homeopathic physicians and institutional history of the Homeopathic Medical College and Hospital of Philadelphia from 1868 to 1918
  • Correspondenzblatt der Homoeopathischen Aerzte: Drexel University College of Medicine – This journal, published from 1835-1836 by the North American Academy of the Homeopathic Healing Art, the first school in the United States to teach the homeopathic medicine contains case notes, observations and questions submitted by homeopathic practitioners
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  Images

  • Wellcome Images – 170 000 historical and contemporary images, covering medical and social history, contemporary healthcare and biomedical science. All of the images are available for free
  • National Library of Medicine: Images from the History of Medicine – 70,000 digitized images of the approximate 100,000 items from the U.S. National Library of Medicine’s prints and photographs collection
  • Digital Library: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia – An image database of nearly 1,000 images with strengths in the history of anatomy and botanical medicine. Highlights include images from rare incunabula previously unavailable online, unusual selections from more popular early modern anatomists, and over 300 photos from the Philadelphia General Hospital Photograph Collection
  • Photographs: Huntington Digital Library – Roughly 500,000 prints and negatives from the years 1850-1950 primarily focused on the history and development of the American West
  • ARTStor – 400,000 digital images of visual material across cultures and disciplines
  • Banque d’images et de portraits: Bibliothèque interuniversitaire de Santé – This provides access to more than 200,000 images of objects and pictures from the collections of the BIU Santé as well as the Bibliothèque de l’Académie natioale de médecine, the Musée de L’Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, the Musée des Moulages de l’Hôpital Saint-Louis, the Ecole nationale vétérinaire d’Alfort, the Musée François Tillequin, and the Bibliothèque médicale Henri Ey du Centre hospitalier Sainte-Anne.
  • Bookplates: Cushing-Whitney Medical Library, Yale University
  • Civil War Photographs: Cushing-Whitney Medical Library, Yale University – Enlarged photographs of individual soldiers who were treated at Harewood Hopsital in Washington D.C. during the Civil War.  Depict soldiers recovering from a variety of wounds. Soldiers’ case histories included on the back of many of the photographs
  • Foundations of Excellence: Duke Medicine Digital Repository – over 600 photographs documenting the history of the Duke Medicine’s academic, clinical, and research activities beginning in 1927
  • Galaxy of Images: Smithsonian Libraries – Over 15,000 images from the Smithsonian’s scanned collections
  • George E. Palade Electron Microscope Slide Collection: Cushing-Whitney Medical Library, Yale University – Collection of slides from cell biologist George E. Palade and his collaborators at Yale University and Rockefeller University
  • Harvey Cushing Photograph Collection: Cushing-Whitney Medical Library, Yale University – The images span Cushing’s life from his boyhood in Cleveland Ohio, his college days at Yale, his surgical work at Johns Hopkins under William Halsted, his leadership of a surgical unit in World War I, his success in establishing neurosurgery as a medical specialty at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, to his final years at the Yale School of Medicine
  • Historical Images in Medicine: Duke Medicine Digital Repository – over 3,000 photographs, illustrations, engravings, and bookplates from the history of the health and life sciences
  • Hospital Architecture in Montreal: McGill University – architectural information and over 1000 images of Montreal’s hospitals from 1642 to the present
  • Iconographie photographique de la Salpêtrière: Cushing-Whitney Medical Library, Yale University – Images from the three volume Iconographie photographique de la Salpêtrière, a landmark in medical photography and neurology
  • Images from the History of Leprosy: Global Project on the History of Leprosy – a variety of images from the history of leprosy
  • Index of Medieval Medical Images: UCLA Library Digital Collections
  • John Martin Rare Book Room Images: The University of Iowa Libraries – hundreds of images of works relating to anatomy, physiology, surgery, obstetrics, and therapeutics
  • Key Collections: The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh Surgeons’ Hall Museums – Images and descriptions of selected items from the museum’s key collections
  • National Cancer Institute Visuals Online – images from the collections of the Office of Communications and Public Liaison, National Cancer Institute
  • National Institutes of Health Office of History – Photographs and images of objects from the collections of the National Institutes of Health Office of History Archival Collections
  • National Institutes of Health Office of History – Selected image collections
  • Postcard Collection: Cushing-Whitney Medical Library, Yale University – Postcards of medical institutions in Connecticut: general hospitals, private hospitals, psychiatric hospitals, sanatoria, and the Yale School of Medicine. Most 1900-1940
  • Prints and Drawings: Cushing-Whitney Medical Library, Yale University
  • Protestant Family: Digital Collections, Duke University Libraries – Articles and advertising images of Protestant children and families in the US from Protestant supported or targeted magazines
  • Sophia Smith Collection: Women’s History Archives at Smith College Images – tens of thousands of original photographs, slides, negatives, postcards, artwork, scrapbooks, and illustrated print sources (periodicals, broadsides, fliers, pamphlets, and posters)
  • The MacKinney Collection of Medieval Medical Illustrations: UNC Chapel Hill  
  • The Marjorie Howard Futcher Photo Collection: Osler Library of the History of Medicine, McGill University
  • The Osler Library Prints Collection: Osler Library of the History of Medicine, McGill University – Ranging from the 17th to the 20th century, prints, photographs, drawings, posters, and cartoons.  Medical professionals throughout history are represented largely through portraiture caricatures.
  • WorldImages – contains approximately 100,000 images, is global in coverage and includes all areas of visual imagery
  • Yale School of Medicine Collection: Cushing-Whitney Medical Library, Yale University– photographs of Yale medical classes, deans, departmental chairs and other faculty, departmental photographs, and buildings and other facilities
  • Yearbooks from Medical Colleges, Nursing Schools, and Allied Health Programs: Drexel University College of Medicine – The Drexel Med Legacy Center has digitized all of the yearbooks it holds from its predecessor institutions
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  Immigration

  • Aspiration, Acculturation, and Impact: Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930: Harvard University Library Open Collections Program – Over 400,000 pages from more than 2,200 books, pamphlets, and serials, over 9,600 pages from manuscript and archival collections, and more than 7,800 photographs documenting the history of voluntary immigration to the United states from the signing of the Constitution to the Great Depression
  • Caribbean Sea Migration Collection: Digital Collections, Duke University Libraries –Materials relating to Cuban, Dominican, and Haitian maritime migration, 1965-1995
  • Chung Collection: UBC Library Digital Collections – collection of archival documents, photographs, books and artifacts related to three broad themes: British Columbia History, Immigration and Settlement and the Canadian Pacific Railway Company
  • Ethno-Cultural Groups: Library and Archives Canada – Immigration and naturalization records as well as databases on the various ethno-cultural groups in Canada
  • Immigration: Library and Archives Canada – Several databases of immigration records including: ship registration, 1787-1966; naturalization records dating back to 1828, passenger lists for arrivals at various ports from 1865 to 1935; and immigrants at Grosse-Île Quarantine Station, 1832-1937
  • Multicultural Canada – Digitized published texts such as books and newspapers, unpublished texts such as manuscript documents, as well as photographs and ephemeral items such as identity cards and audio files from ethnic groups across Canada
  • Sephardic Studies Collection: University of Washington Digital Collections – The collection contains more than 500 original Ladino books and thousands of documents composed in Ladino as well as other relevant languages, such as Ottoman Turkish, Hebrew and French dating between the 16th and mid-20th centuries collected from the local Seattle Sephardic community
  • Yip Sang Collection: UBC Library Digital Collections – Personal papers of Yip Sang, a Chinese immigrant to Canada in the 19th century who was one of the driving forces in the establishment of the Chinese Benevolent Association, the Chinese School and the Chinese Hospital (now Mount St. Joseph’s) in Vancouver. He was a lifetime governor of Vancouver General Hospital, and was also a benefactor of the Public Hospital in Guangdong province in China
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  Important Figures in the History of Medicine

  • Profiles in Science: National Library of Medicine – Contains the archival collections of prominent scientists, physicians, and others who have made significant contributions to science and medicine
  • Alfred Russel Wallace Online – The complete writings of 19th century British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace
  • Archives for Women in Medicine: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School – letters, photographs, research records, and other materials documenting the ongoing evolution of women’s contributions in medicine
  • Codebreakers: The Makers of Modern Genetics: Wellcome Digital Collections – The papers of 22 scientists and organizations relating to genetics research and biochemistry from the years 1863 to 2008.
  • Digital Collections: Cold Springs Harbor Laboratory Library and Archives – original correspondence, laboratory notes, photographs, manuscripts, reprints, lectures, and oral history interviews of numerous notable scientists, including Nobel laureates
  • Harvey Cushing Photograph Collection: Cushing-Whitney Medical Library, Yale University – The images span Cushing’s life from his boyhood in Cleveland Ohio, his college days at Yale, his surgical work at Johns Hopkins under William Halsted, his leadership of a surgical unit in World War I, his success in establishing neurosurgery as a medical specialty at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, to his final years at the Yale School of Medicine
  • Joseph Hooker Collection: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew – The personal and scientific correspondence of Joseph Hooker, 19th century naturalist and explorer who pioneered the discipline of geographical botany
  • Livingstone Online – Correspondence and documents of explorer Dr. David Livingstone
  • Nathaniel Wallich Collection: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew – The plant drawings, specimens, and correspondence of 19th century surgeon and botanist Nathaniel Wallich.
  • Newton Papers: Cambridge Digital Library – The mathematical and scientific manuscripts of Sir Isaac Newton
  • The Newton Project – Includes all of Sir Isaac Newton’s writings (printed or not), with translations, and also includes the listing of books in Newton’s library.
  • Oral Histories: National Institutes of Health Office of History  – Transcripts of interviews with researchers at the National Institutes of Health
  • Panopticon Lavoisier – Virtual museum of the works of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794), including digitized manuscripts, laboratory apparatus, library, bibliography, iconography.
  • Peter Parker Papers: Cushing-Whitney Medical Library, Yale University – The personal papers of medical missionary and diplomat to China, Peter Parker.
  • Rare Book Collection: The Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology – digitized copies of rare historic books on anesthesiology
  • Sciences and Machines: Scientific and Technological Development Since 1800: The European Library – Images, documents, and videos
  • Scottish Science Hall of Fame: National Library of Scotland – Transcripts of letters, papers, and published works about or by 10 great Scottish scientists.
  • Sir Han Sloane’s Correspondence Online – Summaries and transcriptions of the correspondence of 18th century physician, botanist, and collector Sir Hans Sloane.
  • The Discovery and Early Development of Insulin: University of Toronto Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library – Documents the initial period of the discovery and development of insulin, 1920-1925, at the University of Toronto. Over seven thousand page images reproducing original documents, from laboratory notebooks and charts, correspondence, writings, and published papers to photographs, awards, clippings, scrapbooks, printed ephemera and artifacts.
  • The John W. Pender Collection of the Living History of Anesthesiology: The Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology – collection of oral history interviews with pioneers and leaders in the field of anesthesiology
  • The Mackie Family History of Neuroscience Collection: University of Calgary Libraries and Cultural Resources – Selected works from the collection’s nearly 2500 books and journal articles spanning over 350 years in the development of neuroscience.

  Charles Darwin

  • Charles Darwin Letters: UBC Library Digital Collections – Two groups of letters detailing Charles Darwin’s research
  • Darwin Manuscripts Project: American Museum of Natural History – Large collection of full colour, high resolution images of transcribed Darwin manuscripts
  • Darwin Manuscripts: Cambridge Digital Library – Contains nearly the entire extant collection of Darwin’s working scientific papers
  • Darwin Online – Contains at least one exemplar of every known Darwin publication as well as Charles Darwin’s private papers and manuscripts
  • Darwin Correspondence Project – Full texts of more than 7,500 of Charles Darwin’s letters
  • Darwin-Hooker Letters: Cambridge Digital Library – Roughly 1,200 pieces of correspondence between Charles Darwin and Joseph Dalton Hooker between 1843 and 1882

  John Snow

  • John Snow Archive and Research Companion – The writings, publications, and presentations of English physician and epidemiologist, John Snow
  • John Snow: UCLA Department of Epidemiology – This website dedicated to the life of English physician and epidemiologist John Snow contains John Snow’s writings as well as epidemiological maps, including Snow’s map of the 1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak

  Florence Nightingale

  • Florence Nightingale Letters Collection: University of Illinois at Chicago University Library – Collection of 9 letters written by and to Florence Nightingale
  • Florence Nightingale Letters: UBC Library Digital Collections – Collection of 203 letters
  • Florence Nightingale Museum – The online catalogue includes images of documents as well as objects with descriptions from the life of Florence Nightingale.

  William Osler

  • Celebrating the Contributions of William Osler, 1849-1919: The Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives of the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions – an online collection of photographs, full text reproductions of some works and letters, plus some biographical information
  • The William Osler Photo Collection: Osler Library of the History of Medicine, McGill University – chronicles Sir William Osler’s life from his childhood in the Canadian wilderness to his medical education at McGill University, his innovative days as a doctor and teacher in Canada and the United States, and the final years of his life in Oxford, England
  • Works of Sir William Osler: The Texas Medical Center Library Digital Commons – A collection of many of Sir William Osler’s works published in journals or monographs from 1881 – 1919

  Robert Boyle

  • Boyle Papers Online: Birkbeck, University of London  – Images of the core volumes of the papers of Robert Boyle, considered one of the founders of modern science
  • The Workdiaries of Robert Boyle: The Centre for Editing Lives and Letters  – written between 1647 and 1691, they provide a vivid record of observation and experimentation by one of founding fathers of modern science

• Islamic Medicine

  • American Geographical Society Library Digital Map Collection – over 700 maps, ranging from early maps of Asia to historical maps of Wisconsin and Milwaukee, and other American cities, states, and national parks
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  Maps

  • American Geographical Society Library Digital Map Collection – over 700 maps, ranging from early maps of Asia to historical maps of Wisconsin and Milwaukee, and other American cities, states, and national parks
  • Ancient Maps of Jerusalem: The Jewish National University and Library
  • Andrew McCormick Maps and Prints: UBC Library Digital Collections – collection of historical maps and illustrations, dating from 1503 to 1910, that pertain to the exploration and mapping of the world, the evolution of cartography, and the exploration and settlement of North America
  • Atlas of United States Mortality: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – Atlas depicting the leading causes of death by race and sex, 1988-92
  • Blaeu Atlas of Scotland, 1654: National Library of Scotland – The first Atlas of Scotland, containing 49 engraved maps and 154 pages of descriptive text
  • Caribbean Map Collection: Digital Library of the Caribbean – Maps of the Caribbean Basin dating from 1564
  • City of Toronto Archives – The City of Toronto Archives has over 10,000 maps and aerial photographs in its collection including fire insurance plans, historical maps and atlases, and the City of Toronto Planning Board atlas
  • Dakin Fire Insurance Maps: University of Hawai’I at Mānoa Library – Fire insurance maps of Honolulu, 1891, 1899, 1906
  • Digital Maps: Harvard Map Collection – Maps ranging from the 16th century to the present day
  • Digital Sanborn Maps: University at Buffalo – more than 660,000 Sanborn fire insurance maps of more than 12,000 American towns and cities from 1867 to 1970
  • Global Health Observatory Data: World Health Organization – A collection of maps on major health topics
  • Greater Vancouver Regional District Planning Department Land Use Maps: UBC Library Digital Collections – detailed maps produced in 1965, 1971, 1980 and 1983 (1983 covers the City of Vancouver Only) by the Greater Vancouver Regional District to show lot-by-lot land use according to 64 categories, such as residential, industrial, commercial, etc.
  • Japanese Maps of the Tokugawa Period: UBC Library Digital Collections – maps and guidebooks of the Japanese Tokugawa period, ca. 1600-1867
  • Map History/History of Cartography – More than 6,500 links to collections of digitized historical maps from around the world
  • Map Images: National Library of Scotland – High-resolution images of over 120,000 maps of Scotland, England, Wales, and beyond.
  • Maps in Script and Print: Bodleian Libraries –  362 maps from as far back as the 15thcentury
  • Maps: Huntington Digital Library – Approximately 8,000 records.  The collection is strongest in California, the West, and the North of America
  • Military Maps: National Library of Scotland – Maps made specifically for military purposes, showing battles, lines of attack and defence, fortifications, enemy positions and wartime reconnaissance
  • Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection: University of Texas at Austin – More than 60,000 digitized maps
  • Sanborn Maps: Library of Congress – over 700 Sanborn fire insurance maps from across the United States
  • The Atlas of Canada: Natural Resources Canada – Hundreds of online maps about Canada’s environment, society, economy and history
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  Medical Advertising

  • Ad*Access: Duke University Libraries Digital Collections – Over 7,000 U.S. and Canadian advertisements covering five product categories – Beauty and Hygiene, Radio, Television, Transportation, and World War II propaganda – dated between 1911 and 1955
  • AdViews: Digital Collections, Duke University Libraries – Thousands of television commercials from the 1950s to 1980s
  • Emergence of Advertising in America: Digital Collections, Duke University Libraries – over 3,300 advertising items and publications dating from 1850 to 1920
  • Ephemera and 2-D Advertising: The Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology –Advertisements for medical devices
  • Evanion Catalogue of Victorian Ephemera: British Library – contains approximately 5,000 items, advertisements, trade cards and catalogues, novelties, envelopes and even paper bags. Subjects include clothing, food and drink, patent medicines, kitchen equipment and domestic appliances, and a wide range of products and services.
  • Medicine and Madison Avenue: Duke University Libraries Digital Collections – Over 600 advertising items and publications dating from 1850 to 1920
  • Patent Medicine Trade Cards: UCLA Library Digital Collections – 247 patent medicine trade cards from roughly 1870 to 1906
  • Postal Heritage and Philately: Library and Archives Canada – The philatelic collections include stamps and other philatelic materials as well as archival documents on all aspects of the design and production of postage stamps and on the Canadian postal service as well as Canadian mail order catalogues
  • The William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards: New York Academy of Medicine – approximately 300 pharmaceutical trade cards produced in the US and France between 1875 and 1895
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  Medical Objects: Instruments, Artifacts, Technologies, Specimens

  • Artifact Collection: The Bakken Museum – 2,500 artifacts from the 18th century to the present
  • Balm of America: Patent Medicine Collection: The National Museum of American History (Smithsonian Institution) – Each entry includes a photo of the object, the product’s name, marker’s name, place of manufacture, and a date range. Ingredients and therapeutic claims are included when indicated on the product packaging
  • Banque d’images et de portraits: Bibliothèque interuniversitaire de Santé – This provides access to more than 200,000 images of objects and pictures from the collections of the BIU Santé as well as the Bibliothèque de l’Académie natioale de médecine, the Musée de L’Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, the Musée des Moulages de l’Hôpital Saint-Louis, the Ecole nationale vétérinaire d’Alfort, the Musée François Tillequin, and the Bibliothèque médicale Henri Ey du Centre hospitalier Sainte-Anne.
  • Brought to Life: Science Museum – Images of thousands of artifacts and objects from the London-based Science Museum’s medical collections
  • Doctors of British Columbia Medical Museum – Images and descriptions of artifacts ranging from the earliest medical equipment used by pioneer physicians in the settlement of the province to the early adoption of modern medical technology
  • Edgar R. McGuire Historical Medical Instrument Collection: University at Buffalo Libraries – Images and descriptions of more than 150 instruments or sets of instruments illustrating past medical and dental procedures
  • Florence Nightingale Museum – The online catalogue includes images of documents as well as objects with descriptions from the life of Florence Nightingale.
  • History of Medicine Artifacts Collection, 1550-1980s: David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Duke University – historical medical instruments and artifacts, art objects, realia, and other three-dimensional objects, primarily originating from Europe and the United States, but including some artifacts from China and Japan. Ranging from the late 16thto late 20th centuries
  • Infant Feeders Collection: UBC Library Digital Collections – Images and descriptions of devices used for feeding infants
  • Library Artifact Collection: Duke Medicine Digital Repository – More than 100 images of medical artifacts owned by the Duke Medical Center Library & Archives
  • Medical Artifact Collection: Western University – Pictures and descriptions of 1000 artefacts, which represent the practice and teaching of health and medicine in south-western Ontario. It includes cardiology, opthalmology, dentistry, pharmacology, surgery, homeopathy, obstretrics, phlebotomy, veterinary and military medicine, microscopy, anatomy, and alternative medicine from late eighteenth to late twentieth centuries.
  • Medical Instruments and Artifacts: Cushing-Whitney Medical Library, Yale University –Primarily 19th and early 20th century medical instruments and artifacts with some Roman, Chinese, and 17th and 18th century objects
  • Museum of Health Care at Kingston – The research collection contains images and descriptions of the museum’s 35,000+ artifacts, from surgical tools to laboratory instruments, 18th century to the present
  • The Hunterian Museum (Glasgow, Scotland) – The museum’s online catalogue contains pictures and descriptions of its collections of anatomical specimens and models as well as medical and scientific instruments.
  • The Royal College of Surgeons of England – The SurgiCat online catalogue contains pictures and descriptions of the more than 50,000 objects found in the Royal College’s two museums, the Hunterian Museum and the Wellcome Museum. Includes anatomical models and surgical and dental instruments.
  • The Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology – images and descriptions of objects and instruments related to the history of anesthesiology
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  Medieval Manuscripts – European

  • Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana – The Vatican Library is currently in the process of digitizing its collection of 80,000 manuscripts; 15,000 prints, drawings, and plates; and 9,000 incunabula.
  • Digital Library of Illuminated Manuscripts: Lehigh University Digital Library  – A project to present the digitized medieval manuscripts of several institutions in one location.
  • Digital Library: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia – An image database of nearly 1,000 images with strengths in the history of anatomy and botanical medicine. Highlights include images from rare incunabula previously unavailable online, unusual selections from more popular early modern anatomists, and over 300 photos from the Philadelphia General Hospital Photograph Collection
  • Digital Medieval Manuscripts: Houghton Library – This collection includes works in Latin, Greek, and most of the vernacular languages of Europe that are the primary sources for the study of the literature, art, history, music, philosophy, and theology of the periods.
  • Digitized Manuscripts: British Library – Highlights include the St. Cuthbert Gospel, Harley Golden Gospels, Beowulf, the Petit Livre d’Amour, and the Golf Book
  • Digitized Medieval Manuscripts App – Links to more than 300 digital libraries home to more than 20,000 medieval manuscripts
  • Incunabula: Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology – Collection of rare books printed before 1501
  • Manuscripts: Huntington Digital Library – Collection includes some European medieval manuscripts
  • Médecine medieval: Bibliothèque interuniversitaire de Santé – Collection of 25 medieval medical manuscripts
  • Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts: Wellcome Digital Collections – Medieval manuscripts covering topics such as medicine pharmacology, alchemy, and cookery.
  • Peterhouse Manuscripts: Cambridge Digital Library – Selections from the 276 medieval manuscripts which comprise the Peterhouse Manuscript Collection. The first group of manuscripts to be digitised was the independent collection of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century part books of choral music. As funding becomes available, further manuscripts will be added to the online collection.
  • The Auchinleck Manuscript: National Library of Scotland – Produced in London in the 1330s, it provides a unique insight into the English language and literature that Chaucer and his generation grew up with and were influenced by.
  • The Murthly Hours: National Library of Scotland – Illuminated book of prayer produced in the 1280s.
  • Western Manuscripts: Bodleian Libraries – Collection of 48 western medieval manuscripts in various languages.
  • Western Manuscripts: UBC Library Digital Collections – Manuscripts dating from the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries
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  Medieval Manuscripts – Islamic/ Middle Eastern

  • A Literary History of Medicine: The University of Oxford, The University of Warwick –(Forthcoming) Online edition of 13th century physician Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah’s history of medicineThe Best Accounts of the Classes of Physicians in Arabic and translated into English
  • Cairo Genizah: Cambridge Digital Library – The Taylor-Schechter Cairo Genizah Collection at Cambridge University Library is the world’s largest and most important single collection of medieval Jewish manuscripts. It containsnot only the expected religious works, such as Bibles, prayer books and compendia of Jewish law, but also secular works and everyday documents: shopping lists, marriage contracts, divorce deeds, pages from Arabic fables, works of Sufi and Shi’ite philosophy, medical books, magical amulets, business letters and accounts, and hundreds of letters.
  • Digitized Medieval Manuscripts App – Links to more than 300 digital libraries home to more than 20,000 medieval manuscripts
  • Islamic Heritage Project: Harvard University Library Open Collections Program – Over 280 manuscripts, 275 printed texts, and 50 maps, totaling over 156,000 pages, representing regions, including Saudi Arabia, North Africa, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, and South, Southeast, and Central Asia; several languages, primarily Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman Turkish; also Urdu, Chagatai, Malay, Gujarati, Indic languages, and several Western languages; and subjects, including religious texts and commentaries; Sufism; history, geography, law, and the sciences (astronomy, astrology, mathematics, medicine); poetry and literature; rhetoric, logic, and philosophy; calligraphy, dictionaries and grammar, as well as biographies and autobiographical works.
  • Islamic Manuscripts Collection: Princeton University Digital Library – More than 1,200 digitized Islamic manuscripts
  • Islamic Manuscripts: Cambridge Digital Library – The collection includes Cambridge University’s earliest Qur’anic manuscripts copied during the first four centuries of Islam, literature encompassing the Islamic tradition including the only extant copy of Kitāb al-tawhīd, the famous theological work by by al-Maturidi, as well as works on scienceand some richly illustrated examples of Persian literature.
  • Islamic Medical Manuscripts: National Library of Medicine – 300 Persian and Arabic manuscripts dealing with medieval medicine and science and written for learned physicians and scientists.
  • Islamic Scientific Manuscripts Initiative: McGill University Institute of Islamic Studies and Max Planck Institute for the History of Science – The mission of this initiative is to make accessible information on all Islamic manuscripts in the exact sciences (astronomy, mathematics, optics, mathematical geography, music, mechanics, and related disciplines), whether in Arabic, Persian, Turkish, or other languages. The current phase makes available images of 123 scientific and mathematical codices from the Staatsbibliothek in Berlin
  • Médecine arabe: Bibliothèque interuniversitaire de Santé – Collection of 15 Arabic medieval medical manuscripts
  • Michaelides Fragments: Cambridge Digital Library – The Michaelides fragments comprise the largest private collection of Arabic papyri to be found in any institution worldwide. It comprises personal letters, legal texts, accounts, literary texts, recipes and other documents.
  • Oriental Collections: Bodleian Libraries – 38 manuscripts from the Middle East and Asia
  • Oxford Islamic Studies Online – reference entries, primary sources, images, maps, and timelines *Accessible through the McMaster Libraries with a valid MacID
  • Qatar Digital Library – The library contains more than 500,000 images including 500 maps, charts, and plans of the Persian Gulf and the wider region, and Arabic scientific manuscripts on topics such as medicine, mathematics, astronomy, and engineering. The library also contains articles written by experts on selected documents.
  • Wellcome Arabic Manuscripts Online – Nearly 500 volumes of Arabic manuscripts covering not only medicine and pharmacology, but cosmology, alchemy, cookery, and more.
  • Yemeni Manuscript Digitization Initiative: Princeton University Digital Library -Manuscripts from three private libraries in Sanaa, Yemen
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  Military

  • Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission: The Texas Medical Center Library Digital Commons – Contains the personal journal of Dr. William C. Moloney from his two years (1952-54) with the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission in Japan
  • Battle of Waterloo: Cambridge Digital Library – Military drill-books, manuscript letters, hand-coloured engravings, battlefield plans, printed mementos and tourist reminiscences of the Battle of Waterloo
  • Blighty and Sea Pie: National Library of Scotland – Editions of two magazines published for Britain’s fighting forces between 1917 and 1919.
  • British Military Lists: National Library of Scotland – Details of officers who served in the British army, navy, and air force during the First and Second World Wars.
  • Circumstances of Death Registers, First World War: Library and Archives Canada
  • Civil War Photographs: Cushing-Whitney Medical Library, Yale University – The collection is composed of enlarged photographs of individual soldiers who were treated at Harewood Hopsital in Washington D.C. during the Civil War. These images, some quite graphic, depict soldiers recovering from a variety of wounds, including gunshot wounds. The soldiers’ case histories and stories are included on the back of many of the photographs, although some remain anonymous
  • Civil War Women: Digital Collections, Duke University Libraries – personal papers of women involved in the US Civil War
  • Commonwealth War Graves Registers, First World War: Library and Archives Canada
  • Florence Nightingale Museum – Online catalogue includes images of documents as well as objects with descriptions from the life Florence Nightingale.
  • Hogenberg Engravings: Princeton University Digital Library – 155 engravings from the Geschichtsblätter (History Sheets) published between 1570 and 1610 by the Cologne printmakers and publishers Franz Hogenberg and his son Abraham on the subject of the Eighty Years War (1568–1648).
  • Military Heritage: Library and Archives Canada – Records relating to Loyalists, the War of 1812, the Rebellions, the South African War, the First World War and the Second World War. The records include muster rolls, military service files, unit war diaries, medal registers, photographic collections, documentary art and posters, as well as published sources
  • Military Maps: National Library of Scotland – Maps made specifically for military purposes, showing battles, lines of attack and defence, fortifications, enemy positions and wartime reconnaissance
  • Propaganda—A Weapon of War: National Library of Scotland – British propaganda from the Second World War.
  • Rolls of Honour: National Library of Scotland – Scottish listings of casualties and those who died on active service during the First World War.
  • Royal Army Medical Corps: Wellcome Digital Collections – over 130,000 digitised pages of correspondence, reports, personal field diaries, memoirs, photographs and memorabilia from the Royal Army Medical Corps from the late 17th century to the Second World War
  • Rutgers Oral History Archives – Over 32,000 pages of transcripts of oral history interviews with men and women who served in the Second World War, Korea, Vietnam, and the Cold War. Included in these interviews are men and women who served in medical branches of the military or went on to have careers in medicine
  • Service files of members of the Canadian Expeditionary Force from the First World War: Library and Archives Canada
  • Service files of the Royal Canadian Navy, 1910-1941: Library and Archives Canada
  • Service Files of the Second World War – War Dead, 1939-1947: Library and Archives Canada
  • The Florence Nightingale Digitization Project: An International Digital Collaborative (The Florence Nightingale Museum, Boston University, The Royal College of Nursing, Wellcome Library) – Collaborative database consisting of almost 1900 letters handwritten or narrated by Florence Nightingale.  Letters cover topics such as patient care, hospital design, infection control and other subjects.
  • The Public Health Film Goes to War: National Library of Medicine
  • United States Civil War: Huntington Digital Library – Photographs, printed materials, and objects focused on items created 1861-1865, but also including materials dating from the lead up to the war and to postwar reminiscences or compilations
  • Veterans Death Cards: First World War: Library and Archives Canada
  • We Remember Database: Great War Centenary Association of Brantford, Brant County, and Six Nations – A database of the war records of the more than 5,000 men and women from Brantford, Brant County, and the Six Nations who served during the First World War
  • World War I, 1914-1918: National Library of Medicine  – Training manuals, Red Cross lectures, and other documents from the United States during the First World War
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  Newspapers

  • Medical Newspaper Clippings, 1901-1906: University at Buffalo Libraries – 789 pages of articles from Buffalo, Western New York, and other newspapers covering public health issues such as disease outbreaks in the city and elsewhere, sewage, water, food and milk purity, tenements and animal control
  • News Media: British Library – Millions of searchable pages of newspapers from the 17thcentury to the present day
  • Newspapers: Library and Archives Canada – Databases of digitized newspapers including 160 years of the Canada Gazette and French-Canadian newspapers, 1808-1919
  • World Newspaper Archive – collections of newspapers from Latin America, Africa, and Southeast Asia, 1800–1922 *Accessible through the McMaster Libraries with a valid MacID
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  Non-Western Healing Traditions

  Chinese Medicine

  • CHANT: Chinese Ancient Texts Database – database of traditional ancient Chinese texts, 200–581 A.D.  *Accessible through the McMaster Libraries with a valid MacID
  • Chinese Works: Cambridge Digital Library –  The objects in this collection come from a broad temporal range, diversity of media and variety of subject-matter from the 3,000 year old oracle bones to unique manuscripts and printed books, historical documents and epigraphical rubbings
  • East Asian Library Digital Bookshelf: Princeton University Digital Library – A miscellany of items digitized at the Princeton University Library from the East Asian Library holdings but belonging to no well-defined collection. The items include books, manuscripts, reports, maps, and albums from many eras.
  • Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō: Princeton University Digital Library – Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō brings together works from various Princeton University Library collections that have, as their theme, the rest stops along Japan’s legendary Tōkaidō Road.
  • Japanese and Chinese Prints and Drawings: Princeton University Digital Library – This collection represents a small portion of the Far Eastern works on paper held by the graphic arts division. Also included are several sketchbooks, which were collected together with the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century drawings.
  • Japanese Ehon: Princeton University Digital Library – From the 17th through 19th century the ehon or “picture book” was one of Japan’s most important art forms. It was in these heavily illustrated volumes that some of the most famous woodblock print artists of the day began their careers, experimenting with the compositions, color, and printing techniques that we find in their later Ukiyo-e masterpieces.
  • Japanese Prints and Drawings in the Costen Collection: Princeton University Digital Library – Spanning from the Edo Period (1600-1868) to the first half of the twentieth century, this collection contains hand-painted scrolls, game boards (sugoroku), woodblock prints, pictorial maps, classroom wall charts, and playing cards (iroha karuta).
  • Japanese Woodblock Print Collection: UCSF – This collection of Japanese woodblock prints illustrates a wide variety of health-related topics, providing a window into traditional Japanese attitudes toward illness, the human body, women, religion, and the West
  • Japanese Works: Cambridge Digital Library – This collection of early Japanese books presents a wide range of the various aspects of early Japanese learning, as well as excellent samples of Japan’s early printing culture
  • The International Dunhuang Project: The Silk Road Online – An international collaboration to make information and images of all manuscripts, paintings, textiles and artefacts from Dunhuang and archaeological sites of the Eastern Silk Road freely available online
  • UBC Asian Library Chinese Rare Books Collection: UBC Library Digital Collections – thousands of titles of rare Chinese books

  India/Ayurveda

  • Oriental Collections – Bodleian Libraries – 38 manuscripts from the Middle East and Asia
  • Sanskrit Manuscripts: Cambridge Digital Library – The collection consists of works in Sanskrit, Prakrit, Pali, Tamil and other ancient and medieval South Asian languages, produced over a time-span of more than 1,000 years, and written in over a dozen scripts. Along with doctrinal, exegetical and ritual works issued from the many religious traditions of South Asia Library’s holdings also include texts on a variety of “secular” topics, ranging from works of poetry and drama to treatises on philosophy, mathematics, grammar, astronomy, law, eroticism, medicine, archery, and horse breeding.

  Vodou

  • The Vodou Archive: The Digital Library of the Caribbean – Audiovisual and textual content depicting Haitian and Haitian-American spiritual tradition
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  Nursing

  • Canadian Nursing History Collection Online: Canadian Museum of History – Collection of documents and artifacts from the late 19th century to the 1980s
  • Ethel Johns Fonds: UBC Library Digital Collections – correspondence, reports, minutes, notes, photographs, and other records of Ethel Johns, the first director of the School of Nursing at the University of British Columbia
  • Florence Nightingale Letters Collection: University of Illinois at Chicago University Library
  • Florence Nightingale Letters: UBC Library Digital Collections
  • Florence Nightingale Museum – Online catalogue includes images of documents, objects with descriptions from the life of Florence Nightingale
  • History of Nursing in Pacific Canada: UBC Library Digital Collections – Focuses on British Columbia and Yukon, includes reports written by public health nurses in British Columbia, 1924-1939; a Report of the Study Committee on Public Health (1950) also known as the Baillie-Creelman Report that was a classic textbook for nurses; a Report of proceedings of the annual convention of the British Columbia Hospitals’ Association, 1918-1931; and other materials
  • Infant Feeders Collection: UBC Library Digital Collections – Images and descriptions of devices used for feeding infants
  • Yale School of Nursing Collections: Cushing-Whitney Medical Library, Yale University –includes Yale School of Nursing images and Yale School of Nursing Alumni Newsletters and Magazines
  • The Florence Nightingale Digitization Project: An International Digital Collaborative (The Florence Nightingale Museum, Boston University, The Royal College of Nursing, Wellcome Library) – Together, these institutions have compiled their holdings into a collaborative database consisting of almost 1900 letters handwritten or narrated by Florence Nightingale.  The letters cover topics such as patient care, hospital design, infection control and many other subjects
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  Portraits

  • Portraits and Likenesses Collection: Cushing-Whitney Medical Library, Yale University – Thousands of portrait engravings of noted scientists and physicians from the 16th to late 19thcentury
  • Scientific Identity: Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology – collection of portraits of men and women of science and technology
  • The Osler Library Prints Collection: Osler Library of the History of Medicine, McGill University – Ranging from the 17th to the 20th century, prints, photographs, drawings, posters, and cartoons.  Medical professionals throughout history are represented largely through portraiture caricatures.
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  Posters, Pamphlets, and Broadsides

  • AIDS Posters: UCLA Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library – 625 posters from 44 countries.  Issued by a variety of institutions to educate and warn people about AIDS
  • AIDS Posters: Wellcome Digital Collections
  • An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera: Library of Congress – over 28,000 proclamations, advertisements, blank forms, programs, catalogues, clippings, timetables, and menus from the 17th century to the present
  • Berkeley 1968-1973 Poster Collection: UBC Library Digital Collections – 250 posters concerned with the advocacy for peace, equality, and harmony during the Vietnam War era from the University of California’s Berkeley campus and other regions in the San Francisco Bay Area
  • Block Prints of the Chinese Revolution: Princeton University Digital Library – Collection of 30 very rare block prints from the 1911 Revolution.
  • Broadsides and Ephemera: Digital Collections, Duke University Libraries – Thousands of broadsides, pamphlets, and other printed items on a wide range of topics from across the United States
  • Canadian Pamphlets and Broadsides: University of Toronto Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library – Pre-1930 Canadian pamphlet and broadside holdings, supplying both page images in full colour, and full searchability of the contents of each item.  To date the site consists of 597 broadsides (single sheets, printed on one or both sides) and 2062 pamphlet titles.
  • Chinese Pamphlets: Political Communication and Mass Education in the Early Period of the People’s Republic of China: Digital Collections at the Center for Research Libraries – Chinese pamphlets, picture books and other propaganda issued during the early years of the People’s Republic of China between 1947 and 1954
  • Chinese Public Health Posters: National Library of Medicine – Roughly 7,000 items produced from the early 20th century to the year of SARS
  • Conservative Party Election Posters: Bodleian Libraries
  • Gazetteers of Scotland, 1803-1901: National Library of Scotland – 20 volumes of the most popular descriptive gazetteers of 19th-century Scotland.
  • Historical Medical Poster Collection: Cushing-Whitney Medical Library, Yale University – Public health communications, medical product advertising, aid and relief solicitations
  • Italian Cultural and Political Posters, 1930s-1980s: Digital Collections, Duke University Libraries – 108 Italian cultural and political posters mostly from the 1970s and 1980s
  • Japanese Woodblock Print Collection: UCSF – This collection of Japanese woodblock prints illustrates a wide variety of health-related topics, providing a window into traditional Japanese attitudes toward illness, the human body, women, religion, and the West
  • Jay T. Last Collection of Lithographic and Social History: Huntington Digital Library -more than 185,000 commercial prints and ephemera of mostly 19th and early 20th-century American origin, illustrating the evolution of commercial advertising, visual culture, and graphic design
  • John J. Powers Safety Poster Collection: Mountain West Digital Library – More than 200 screen prints of posters produced in the 1960s and 1970s for the Anaconda Copper Mining Company in Butte, Montana
  • Latin American Posters Collection: Princeton University Digital Library – Posters created by a wide variety of social activists, non-governmental organizations, government agencies, political parties, and other types of organizations across Latin America.  Topics include: human rights, elections, gender issues, indigenous issues, labor, ecology and environmental issues, development, public health, and education.
  • Pamphlet Collections: Harvard College Library – The Harvard College Library is in the process of digitizing its collection of tens of thousands of pamphlets published in the 19th and 20th centuries. Areas currently covered in this digital collection include Latin America, World War I, Sociology, the Boer War, and Brittany
  • Political Posters: Labadie Collection, University of Michigan – posters covering social protest movements such as Anarchism, Civil Liberties, Colonialism, Communism, Ecology, Labor, Pacifism, Sexual Freedom, Socialism, Women, and Youth/Student Protest. Some are from the first half of the 20th century, but the majority are from the 1960s and later
  • Posters: National Library of Medicine
  • Prints and Ephemera: Huntington Digital Library – more than 650,000 prints, posters, ephemera, color plate books and extra-illustrated books culture from the 1500s through the 1900s, with special emphasis on eighteenth and nineteenth century society
  • Renaissance Festival Books: British Library – 253 Renaissance festival books thatdescribe the festivals and ceremonies that took place in Europe between 1475 and 1700 including marriages and funerals of royalty and nobility, coronations, stately entries into cities and other events
  • Sophia Smith Collection: Women’s History Archives at Smith College Images – tens of thousands of original photographs, slides, negatives, postcards, artwork, scrapbooks, and illustrated print sources (periodicals, broadsides, fliers, pamphlets, and posters)
  • Soviet Posters: National Library of Scotland – 70 posters from the Soviet Union between 1919 and 1930, relating to the Russian Civil War and economic and social issues.
  • Taller de Gráfica Popular Prints and Posters: Princeton University Digital Library – 20thcentury Mexican political, comic, and artistic prints and posters
  • The Resurrectionists: New York Academy of Medicine – broadsides, ballads, pamphlets, prints, and more concerning the body snatchers and murderers William Burke and William Hare, their accomplices, and their victims
  • The Word on the Street: National Library of Scotland – 1,800 Scottish broadsides from 1650-1910.
  • WWI & WWII Posters: UBC Library Digital Collections – Fifty nine posters, broadsides, and ephemera from World War I and II, published in Canada, Belgium,  England, France, Germany, and the United States
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  Psychiatry and Psychology

  • Mental Healthcare: Wellcome Digital Collections – patient records such as registers and case notes, photographs, artwork, administrative documents, hospital staff data, and publications produced by patients and staff from psychiatric institutions, mental health organizations, and individuals in the UK from the 18th to 20th centuries
  • The History of Madness in Canada – a digital research, education and resource hub with exhibits that explore different experiences, expertise, and viewpoints
  • The History of Phrenology on the Web – includes books, articles, and extracts on phrenology
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  Public Health

  • London’s Pulse: Medical Officer of Health Reports, 1848-1972: Wellcome Digital Collections – More than 5,500 Medical Officer of Health reports from the Greater London area
  • Medical Newspaper Clippings, 1901-1906: University at Buffalo Libraries – 789 pages of articles from Buffalo, Western New York, and other newspapers covering public health issues such as disease outbreaks in the city and elsewhere, sewage, water, food and milk purity, tenements and animal control
  • World Health Organization Historical Collection – Contains rare books on malaria, plague, smallpox, and epidemiology, and documents relating to the history of the WHO and other international health organizations such as the League of Nations Health Organization
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  Religious

  • Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana – An ongoing project to digitize the Vatican library’s entire collection of 80,000 manuscripts. Currently, roughly 500 manuscripts and 600 incunabula are available online
  • Christian Works: Cambridge Digital Library – Christian manuscripts and early printed books, spanning over 1000 years
  • Hebrew Manuscripts: Cambridge Digital Library – Contains Bibles and biblical and talmudic commentaries, along with important halakhic, liturgical, poetic, philosophical, kabbalistic and scientific manuscripts
  • Protestant Family: Digital Collections, Duke University Libraries – Articles and advertising images of Protestant children and families in the US from Protestant supported or targeted magazines
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  Sexology

  • Sexology: Wellcome Digital Collections – A collection of nearly 100 items including art and photographic works, key texts by noted sexologists of the 19th and 20th centuries, reports on sex-related social issues, guides and advice manuals, and anthropological studies
  • Studies in Scarlet: Marriage & Sexuality in the U.S. and U.K., 1815-1914: Harvard University Library Virtual Collection – More than 420 trial narratives of American, British, and Irish cases 1815-1914 involving domestic violence, bigamy, seduction, breach of promise to marry, and the custody of children, as well as trials for murder and rape
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  Veterinary Medicine

  • Turning the Pages Online: National Library of Medicine – digitized images of rare and historic books in the history of medicine including Andrew Snape’s Anatomy of An Horse