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Exhibits

Digital showcases for research and teaching.
  1. A Stanford Atlas

    Architectural drawings, maps, prints, and aerial photographs of the Stanford University campus and associated land holdings

  2. The Edward A. Feigenbaum Papers

    Work in artificial intelligence and computer science at Stanford University

  3. Arizona Garden

    A historic garden at Stanford University

  4. Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies @ Stanford

    A History of Local Feminist & Queer Scholarship and Community

  5. Numismatics at Stanford Libraries

    A Digital Coin Cabinet

  6. Antarctic Radar Film Digitization Project

    A collaborative effort by Stanford and Cambridge to convert analog ice sheet observations for digital analysis

  7. Maps of Africa: An Online Exhibit

    A digital collection of African Maps at the Stanford University Libraries

  8. !Women Art Revolution

    Voices of a Movement

  9. Herbert Matter: Modernist Photography and Graphic Design

    A Stanford University Special Collections Exhibition

  10. Arthur Tress Photograph Collection

    A Stanford Libraries Special Collections Exhibition

  11. Automobility Archive

    Connecting the past, present and future of the automobile through the Road & Track collection

  12. African American Histories in Silicon Valley

    From the Silicon Valley Archives at Stanford Libraries

  13. Medicine and Innovation

    Oral Histories and Archive of Medical Technology

  14. California as an Island in Maps

    Maps from the Glen McLaughlin Collection of California as an Island

  15. The Baltic Video Archive

    Baltic video testimonies at Stanford Libraries

  16. The 1947 Partition Archive

    Survivors and their Memories

  17. Recording Civic Action in China

    Chinese NGO web archiving project

  18. Views: Portraying Place and Space

    2nd Exhibit from the David Rumsey Map Center, January 22 - August 31, 2017

  19. Amos Gitai

    Film Archive

  20. Medieval Collections at Stanford

    Resources for Research and Teaching

  21. Rise Up for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders

    Together, we rise up to overcome anti-AAPI hate

  22. Andy Warhol Photography Archive

    Contact Sheets: 1976 - 1987

  23. The Urban Legacy of Ancient Rome

    Photographs from the Ernest Nash Fototeca Unione Collection

  24. SITE Conference Archive

    Hosted by the Stanford Department of Economics

  25. The American Enlightenment

    Treasures from the Stanford University Libraries

  26. Hope, Resilience, and Change

    Stanford in Moments of Crisis

  27. Collecting in Life and Death

    The Curatorial Legacy of Leland Stanford Jr.

  28. Edward F. Ricketts

    A Pioneering Marine Ecologist

  29. VABAMU

    The Aim is Freedom: A History of Occupations and Independence in Estonia

  30. Hopkins Seaside Laboratory (1892 -1917)

    A Summer School of Science

  31. Leonardo's Library

    The World of a Renaissance Reader

  32. National History Day | Maps Edition

    A Guide for Finding, Analyzing, and Using Maps in Projects

  33. Rare Books

    A digital library of reference works

  34. Sunset Magazine

    A recreation of Stanford Libraries' 1998 website

  35. Exhibits Documentation

    A guide to building Spotlight at Stanford exhibits

  36. Beautiful Books

    A collection of some of Stanford’s rare and antiquarian books

  37. Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection

    A growing collection of digital scans from the late 1400s to the 1950s.

  38. The Super-Enlightenment

    A Digital Archive

  39. Jarndyce 19th Century Novel Collection

    A demonstration exhibit for full text search

  40. Parker Library On the Web

    Manuscripts in the Parker Library at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

  41. Public Syncopations

    Public Domain Jazz, Ragtime, Blues, and Dance Music at the Archive of Recorded Sound

  42. Cartographic Symbologies

    The Art and Design of Expression in Historic Maps

  43. Research from Stanford University

    Data and More from Stanford's Cutting Edge Researchers

  44. The Baltic Way

    History and Culture in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania 1918–2018

  45. (in brackets) by Gavin Younge

    Know Their Names - Youth Uprising in Cape Town, South Africa, 1976

  46. John W. Gardner

    Statesman, Social Reformer, Public Advocate

  47. Stanford Historical Society Collections

    Publications, Oral Histories, and Program Recordings

  48. Tokyo Over Time

    Maps of Tokyo spanning the early nineteenth and twentieth centuries

  49. William Gardiner Transportation Collection

    Oakland and San Francisco transit history in photographs

  50. Jay T. Last Papers

    The Silicon Valley Archives

  51. Images of Rome

    The Rodolfo Lanciani Digital Archive

  52. Hohbach Featured Collections

    An Archive of Images Displayed in Hohbach Hall

  53. Maps 101

    An Introduction to Finding, Analyzing, and Using Historic Maps

  54. Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky Papers

    SLAC Director and Professor Emeritus

  55. Becoming Stanford

    The History and Meaning of Stanford's Insignia

  56. Bassi-Veratti Collection

    The digital Bassi-Veratti archive

  57. Douglas Menuez Photography Collection

    At the Stanford Libraries

  58. Barry Lawrence Ruderman Conference on Cartography

    Gender, Sexuality and Cartography

  59. Stanford Prison Experiment

    August 15-21, 1971

  60. "The First Hebrew City"

    Early Tel Aviv through the Eyes of the Eliasaf Robinson Collection

  61. R. Buckminster Fuller Collection

    Architect, Systems Theorist, Designer, and Inventor

  62. Renaissance Exploration Map Collection

    Maps and Atlases from the Renaissance Period

  63. The Monterey Jazz Festival Collection

    Archive of the world's longest running jazz festival

  64. GATT Digital Library 1947 - 1994

    General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade

  65. Black @ Stanford

    An Anthology of Black Activism and Community at Stanford

  66. Diego Rivera's San Francisco Masterpiece

    Virtual Preservation of "Pan American Unity"

  67. Lighting the Way

    illuminating the future of discovery and delivery for archives

Geospatial content, including GIS datasets, digitized maps, and census data.
  1. China county boundary with 2000 population Census data from 100% Short Form data (Part A: Tables A1-1 to A1-5)

    Beijing Hua tong ren shi chang xin xi you xian ze ren gong si and University of Michigan. China Data Center
    2000

    This polygon datalayer includes China county boundary with 2000 population Census data from 100% Short Form data. This layer is one (Part A) of fiv...

  2. Boston, Massachusetts, 1797 (Image 1 of 4) (Raster Image)

    Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library, Carleton, Osgood, 1742-1816., Norman, John, 1748?-1817., and Norman, William, d. 1807.
    1797

    This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: An accurate plan of the town of Boston and its vicinity : exhibiting...

  3. China county boundary with 2000 population Census data from 9.5% Long Form data (Part A: Tables L1-1 to L1-9)

    Beijing Hua tong ren shi chang xin xi you xian ze ren gong si and University of Michigan. China Data Center
    2000

    This polygon datalayer includes China county boundary with 2000 population Census data from 9.5% Long Form data. This layer is one (Part A) of seve...

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