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Collections on Miami and Oxford Local History
African-Americans at Miami
Documents and photographs by and about African-Americans at Miami University.
A History of Feminist Activism at Miami University, Oxford Campus,1969-1993
By Stephanie Abrams, American Studies, May 1993, Miami University
History of the Penrose Tiling - Bachelor Hall
The tiling was installed in 1979 and is believed to be the first Penrose tiling incorporated in the design of a public building.
History of Women at Miami University
Transcription of a speech given by Dr. Phillip Shriver on 3/5/96
Miami Mysteries and Ghost Stories
Mysterious happenings-- deaths, disappearances, and ghosts-- associated with Miami University.
The Recensio
Selected pictures from The Recensio, Miami Universities' Yearbook
Selected Buildings of Miami
Photographs and information about 10 Oxford Campus Buildings.
The Frank Snyder Photograph Collection
Frank R. Snyder was probably the leading Oxford, Ohio, photographer during the early twentieth century. He also worked for Miami University during this period, taking many of the photographs that were used in University publications. After his death in 1958, his son Frank King Snyder and daughter-in-law Lois gave the surviving collection of over 4000 Frank R. Snyder negatives to Miami University. In addition to providing a pictorial record of the community and citizens of Oxford, Ohio, the Snyder Collection chronicles buildings, organizations, students, and events at Miami University; Oxford College, which merged with Miami in 1928; and Western College, which merged with Miami in 1973. The Collection spans the years from 1897 to 1955, with the bulk dating from between 1900 and 1930.
William Holmes McGuffey at Miami
Compilation of resources concerning William Holmes McGuffey.
Digital Collections at Miami University
Electronic Data Center
The Electronic Data Center provides access to a growing body of statistical data sets.
Geographic Information Center
The Geographic Information Service is designed to meet the information needs of Miami faculty, staff, and students by acquiring and providing access to geographic data and software, providing instruction and assistance in its use, and creating facilities that allow for the innovative use of GIS technology to solve real problems.
Miami Stories Oral History Project
Coordinated by the University Archives, Miami Stories invites groups of people with experiences commoncurrent and former students, faculty, and staff, as well as friends of University theto offer recollections of their Miami years and to hear reminiscences of those who shared them. A University Bicentennial legacy project that began in 2005, Miami Stories are recorded and stored in digital video formats so that future generations may enjoy and study them, and scholars may have ready access to a variety of perspectives on the past.
Online Exhibits
Rodolfo Usigli Centennial Celebration
Miami University Libraries continues celebrating of the centennial of the birth of playwright Rodolfo Usigli, considered by some the father of modern theatre in Mexico, with the "Rodolfo Usigli Centennial: An Interdisciplinary Commemoration." Included are an international symposium on modern Mexican theatre, a staged reading of one of Usigli's ground-breaking plays in French,
Spanish and English reflecting a new trilingual translation of his
only French play, and a library exhibit.
Other Digital Collections
American Memory Project(Library of Congress)
The American Memory Historical Collections, a major component of the Library's National Digital Library Program, are multimedia collections of digitized documents, photographs, recorded sound, moving pictures, and text from the Library's Americana collections. There are currently over 60 collections in the American Memory Historical Collections.
AP Photo Archives
This collection consists of the Associated Press' Photo Archive database, comprised of approximately 500,000 photos from the U.S. and the entire world, updated daily, with a selection of historical images. Photos from a European/Asian photo source, are also included.
ARTstor
ARTstor is a digital library of art imags, associated information,and software tools designed to enhance teaching and learning. ARTstore contains approximately 300,000+ images of art, architecture, and archeaology from a wide range of cultures and time periods.
Digital Media Center (OhioLINK)
Includes approximately tens of thousands of art and architecture images in collections provided by commercial providers, art museums, and OhioLINK institutions.
Greater Cincinnati Memory Project
Provides access to 6,000 digitized images from local libraries (Greater Cincinnati (including Butler County) and Northern Kentucky.
Smithsonian Global Sound
Provides online audio files for materials from the Smithsonian Folkways catalog and other archival collections representing regions of the world in various genres including folk, blues, jazz, country, children's and spoken word.