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Our research libraries are more than books. WMU libraries digitization goal is to bring you unique items through our online digital collections. These include diaries, photographs, maps, manuscripts, artwork, presidential letters, blueprints and more. All collections are searchable, and most are browse-able.
African American
History Book
'Michigan Manual of Freedmen's Progress' book, 1915 edition, fully digitized
including photographs, charts, and searchable text in pdf format.
Caroline Bartlett
Crane Everyman's House Collection
Items include a mix of blueprints, letters, and photos and a book from the
nationally recognized home design built in Kalamazoo Michigan by Caroline
Bartlett Crane. All images have comprehensive metadata, and the capability to
zoom in on details.
Cistercian
Liturgical Research Resources from the Cistercian Studies Collection at WMU
Contains the full run of the journal edited by Father Chrysogonus Waddell of
Gethsemani Abbey, Trappist, KY, Cistercian Liturgy Series, and selections from
the Chrysogonous Waddell Archive.
(External)
CONTENTdm Collections
at WMU
Access to WMU collections on the CONTENTdm image database platform.
For CONTENTdm hosted collections from other organizations see the: (External)
CONTENTdm
Collection of Collections
Costume History
Collection
This collection is currently comprised of four books housed in the Special
Collections and Rare Books Room of Waldo Library. Each of these books
illustrates aspects of dress from the mid-18th century to the mid-19th century.
Instructional
Image Catalog
Digital images gathered from the Visual Resources Library collection of slides
and digital images for instruction and research.
This
collection is restricted to WMU students, faculty, and staff.
Index
Map Collection
Index maps for map series and sets, such as AMS (Army Map Service), visually
annotated to show local WMU Libraries holdings.
LUNA Insight
Collections at WMU
Access to all the WMU collections on the LUNA image database platform.
For collections hosted on the LUNA platform from other organizations see: (External)
LUNA commons.org
Medieval
Document Collection
A selection of Cistercian and other materials: antiphonary, glossed Bible
pages, legal scroll, etc.
For information about digitization possibilities, see:
medieval document
digitization services
.
QuickTime
Virtual Reality (QTVR) Demo
Example of an African beaded necklace produced as a QTVR movie from 72
separate photographs of the item.
(External)
Relaçión
general Commentarios de Álvar Nv'ñez Cabeça de Vaca
(Early Americas, Medieval Spanish Documents) A Spanish Department collaborative
grant project which includes two Cabeza de Vaca transcriptions of 16th century
manuscripts at the Early Americas Digital Archive.
ScholarWorks at WMU
A digital showcase of the research,
scholarly and creative output of members of the Western Michigan University
community. The repository is administered by WMU Libraries and serves as a
permanent digital archive for these materials.
Selected
Examples of Print Images
Depicting a history of print methods with analysis and technical information.
South
Asia Map Collection
This collection is made up of intermediate scale maps published by the Army Map
Service primarily in the 1940's and 1950's. Currently only maps of Afghanistan
are available.
United
States Civil War Collection
Diaries and more from the mid 1860s, with full transcriptions, extensive
metadata, and categories for browsing.
WMU
Libraries Portfolio Collection
Images of diverse items demonstrating Digitization Center services. The
collection contains copyrighted materials.
World War II
Propaganda Collections
The Howard Mowen Collection and the Edwin W. Polk Collection are two
significant donations that now form a unified collection of Nazi German and
Allies publications, photographs, and ephemera known as the N.S.D.A.P.
Collection.
(External)
Ward
Morgan Photography Collection
A collection of commercial photographs showing mid-20th century culture
in the Kalamazoo, Michigan area. View in (External)
CONTENTdm
, the (External)
Making of Modern Michigan
web interface or
LUNA
image databases.
Yearbooks of
Western Michigan University
Yearbooks from 1906 through 1975 available in digital form as searchable pdf
files (some pdf files are very large).