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Digital Special Collections

Belfer Cylinders Digital Connection

The Belfer Cylinders Digital Connection provides online access to digital audio files of cylinders in the Belfer Audio Archive. Belfer's cylinder collection includes over 22,000 cylinders, 12,000 of which are unique titles. The goal of this digitization project is to provide 6,000 audio files by 2010.

The digital recordings, provided in both MP3 and WAV file format, can be searched or browsed by genre/subject. The project was partially supported by a Delmas Foundation grant.

Erie Railroad Glass Plate Negative Collection

Erie Railroad Glass Plate Negative Collection

A part of the Erie Railroad Company Records, this collection of 709 images depicts the stations and other trackside structures along the railroad's right-of-way, stretching from New Jersey through Pennsylvania, New York, and Ohio in the first decades of the 20th century.

Gerrit Smith Broadside and Pamphlet Collection

Gerrit Smith Broadside and Pamphlet Collection

Publications authored by philanthropist and social reformer Gerrit Smith, including various circulars, speeches, sermons, and tracts which deal with such topics as abolition, suffrage, temperance, transportation, and the postal system.

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Marcel Breuer Digital Archive

The Marcel Breuer Digital Archive represents a collaborative effort headed by Syracuse University Library to digitize over 30,000 drawings, photographs, letters and other materials related to the early career of Marcel Breuer, one of the most influential architects and furniture designers of the twentieth century.

Medieval Manuscripts

Medieval Manuscripts - Syracuse University Library

Descriptive information and selected images from ten western medieval manuscripts ranging from the 13th through the 16th centuries. The collection includes an apocalyptic text by Telesphorus; glossed decretals of popes Innocent IV and Gregory IX; a Dominican gradual of saints; a part of the Old Testament which consists of a fragment of the Books of Tobit and Esther, and a complete Book of Judith; and six Books of Hours.

Oneida Community Collection

Oneida Community Collection

In 1960 Syracuse University Library acquired complete runs of the serial publications of Oneida Community and of its antecedents and branches, covering the span of years from 1837 until 1879. In 1983 the Library received a large collection of the surviving records of the Community. We are happy to be able to provide these additional primary documents for the scholars from Syracuse and elsewhere who have been coming to us for many years.

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Plastics Collection at the Syracuse University Library

The Plastics Collection, founded in 2008, is the largest university-based resource on the history of plastics. The Plastics Collection is an expansive collection of books, periodicals, manuscripts, and plastic objects produced from the late 19th century to the present day. Many digital images of plastic objects are now available in a searchable online database. The Library maintains an active acquisitions program for all areas of the Plastics Collection.


Ronald G. Becker Collection of Charles Eisenmann Photographs

Ronald G. Becker Collection of Charles Eisenmann Photographs

More than 1,000 photographs of 19th century sideshows and circuses by photographer Charles Eisenmann and his successor Frank Wendt. Photographs depict the physical abnormalities of humans and animals featured at these shows. Subjects include P.T. Barnum, the P.T.Barnum Firm (Barnum and Bailey Circus), and Tom Thumb.

Street & Smith Dime Novel Covers

Street & Smith Dime Novel Covers

Selection of dime novel serial covers from the Street & Smith Archive. Street & Smith eventually became "an incubator where the greatest illustrators in the country were professionally born." These included Harvey Dunn, Joseph Leyendecker, Dean Cornwell, Winfield Scott, Tom Lovell, Anton Otto Fisher, Amos Sewell, and N.C. Wyeth.

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