Digital Public Library of America (DPLA): Content

ARTstor's collaboration with DPLA includes images from six major American museums: the Dallas Museum of Art, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art (paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection), the Walters Art Museum, the Yale Center for British Art, and the Yale University Art Gallery.

Based at the University of Georgia, this DPLA hub collaborates with Georgia’s Libraries, archives, museums, and other institutions of education and culture to provide access to digitized books, manuscripts, photographs, government documents, newspapers, maps, audio, video, and other resources about the history and culture of the state.

This newly formed Network will provide the means for hundreds of libraries, archives, museums, and cultural organizations across the state to contribute digital resources to the Digital Public Library of America. The first phase will include New York Heritage, Hudson River Valley Heritage, digitalMETRO, Long Island Memories, and select pilot collections from our respective memberships.

Of HathiTrust’s nearly 11 million volumes, the metadata records associated with the almost 3.5 million that are freely available will be accessible through DPLA, and through the DPLA application programming interface (API).

A regional digital collaboration in Utah, Nevada, southern Idaho, and Arizona, the Mountain West Digital Library includes: research libraries, public libraries, school libraries, museums, historical societies, municipalities, counties, state agencies, and other memory institutions throughout the Mountain West region.

As a Content Hub within the DPLA network, the Smithsonian will provide links to the Smithsonian’s digital collection of books, journals, museum objects, manuscripts and videos.

The Primary Source Sets offer ways to help students develop critical thinking skills while promoting content knowledge. Each set includes a topic overview, 10 to 15 primary sources, links to related resources, and a teaching guide. By design, the sets apply to and readily adapt for diverse classrooms. Everything in the sets was created and peer reviewed by experienced teachers.

"The Black Power Movement of the 1960s and 1970s was a political and social movement whose advocates believed in racial pride, self-sufficiency, and equality for all people of Black and African descent."

"The following set of resources provides photos, documents, and oral histories that help tell the story of this early period of Chinese immigration to the United States."

"This set uses primary sources to explore the events preceding and surrounding the Stonewall Inn riots as well as the aftermath of the riots in the gay liberation movement of the 1970s and 1980s. These sources demonstrate the continuing influence of Stonewall on America’s LGBTQ community, the civil rights movement, and American politics in general."

"Yellow fever broke out in Boston in 1693, Philadelphia in 1793 and Norfolk, Virginia in 1855, but the worst American outbreak of yellow fever occurred in the Mississippi River Valley in 1878."

Contributed by Dr. Melissa Strong (CCP)

Contributed by Dr. Melissa Strong (CCP)

"Designed to tell stories of national significance using source materials from libraries, archives, and museums across the United States, including letters, photographs, posters, oral histories, video clips, sheet music, and more."