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Cities and Buildings Database Home »Cities and Buildings Database The Cities and Buildings Database is a collection of digitized images of buildings and cities drawn from across time and throughout the world, available to students, researchers and educators on the web. Begun in 1995, the collection was conceived as a multi-disciplinary resource for students, faculty, and others in the academic community. It has grown steadily since then, with contributions from a wide range of scholars, and contains images ranging from New York to Central Asia, from African villages, to the Parc de la Villette, and conceptual sketches and models of Frank Gehry's Experience Music Project. These have all been scanned from original slides or drawn from documents in the public domain. They are freely available to anyone with access to the Web for use in the classroom, student study, or for individual research purposes. All files on this site are copyright controlled as indicated. For more information contact: Meredith L. Contributor Guide

Google for Students World Digital Library Home Newton Cambridge University Library holds the largest and most important collection of the scientific works of Isaac Newton (1642-1727). Newton was closely associated with Cambridge. He came to the University as a student in 1661, graduating in 1665, and from 1669 to 1701 he held the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics. Under the regulations for this Chair, Newton was required to deposit copies of his lectures in the University Library. These, and some correspondence relating to the University, were assigned the classmarks Dd.4.18, Dd.9.46, Dd.9.67, Dd.9.68, and Mm.6.50. In 1699 Newton was appointed Master of the Mint, and in 1703 he was elected President of the Royal Society, a post he occupied until his death. After his death, the manuscripts in Newton's possession passed to his niece Catherine and her husband John Conduitt. In 1872 the fifth earl passed all the Newton manuscripts he had to the University of Cambridge, where they were assessed and a detailed catalogue made. See also

Library of Congress Digital Collections & Programs Historic Newspapers Enhanced access to America's historic newspapers through the Chronicling America project. Historic Sound Recordings The National Jukebox features over 10,000 78rpm disc sides issued by the Victor Talking Machine Co. between 1900 and 1925. Performing Arts Collections, articles and special presentations on music, theater and dance materials from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia. Prints and Photographs Catalog of about half of the Library's pictorial holdings with over 1 million digital images. Veterans History Project Experience first-person stories of wartime service through personal artifacts, audio and video interviews. Interesting Historical Photos Last public execution in USA, 1936 Boxing Match At Yankee Stadium, 1923 Gym aboard the Titanic, c. 1912 Princess Yvonne and Prince Alexander from Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn in Germany, 1955 An airgunner stands before his 4 bomber wearing what it took to survive at 25,000ft over Germany in 1943-45 Harriet Tubman with rescued slaves- Auburn, NY, circa 1887 A movie theater, 1921 John F Kennedy’s coffin lies in state in the Capitol Building “Dissection room at a medical school in Bordeaux, France.” A man standing atop a mountain of bison skulls that are about to be ground up into fertilizer 1870s Suburbia: move-in day 1950′s American soldier inspects German loot stored in a church at Elligen, Germany, April 24, 1945 This is what Mount Rushmore was supposed to look like if they hadn’t run out of funding in 1941 Inside the old New York City Metropolitan Opera House, 1937 82nd Airborne Division soldiers, Grenada, 1983 USCGC Spencer hits the German submarine U-175, 1943 “Football team.”