Digitized originals, online

A growing selection of originals from across our libraries, archives, and partners. Find photographs, manuscripts, books, maps, posters, and more.

Collections

We organize items into collections by topic, person, place, or era. Here's a sample. Zoom in on one to explore, or see all collections A to Z.

  1. Fisher Fine Arts Library Web Archive

  2. University of Pennsylvania catalogues

  3. Harrisburg Car Manufacturing Co. Photographs (University of Pennsylvania)

  4. World War I Pamphlet Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

  5. Philip Syng Physick lecture notes and addresses, approximately 1785-1819

  6. Keffer Collection of Sheet Music (University of Pennsylvania)

  7. Helen Kate Furness Free Library

  8. Thompson Westcott scrapbooks of Charles Durang's history of Philadelphia theater between the years 1749 and 1855

What you'll find

Our items take many forms, like books, letters, and photographs. Pick from the sample here to start a search, or pick from all forms.

  1. trade cards

  2. scores (documents for music)

  3. sound recordings

  4. posters

  5. letters (correspondence)

  6. codices (bound manuscripts)

  7. manuscripts (documents)

  8. objects

Digital Collections

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