Databases by type: Images, Music and Video

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Focuses predominantly on Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis, New York, and towns and cities in North Carolina.

1840-2010
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Alexander Street Press is a publisher of online collections and videos for scholarly research, teaching, and learning.

1860-present
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Market Research and American Business provides a unique insight into the American consumer boom of the mid-20th century through access to market research reports and supporting docum

1935-1965
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More than 7,000 videos including commercial and governmental news, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries. 

1500s-present
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Sourced from the Gilder Lehrman Collection, this collection of documents brings to life American history from the times of the earliest settlers until the end of World War II.

1493-1945
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Allows people to hear and feel the music from America's past.

1800s-1960
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Derived from real human data, this range of software provides thousands of 3D anatomical structures, clinical slides, dissections, animations and much more.

Current
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These collections consist of rare and historic material and are made available through the efforts of University Libraries and the departments of Special Collections, Web Services, and University

1889-present
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The collection currently contains over two million images, including the following collections (see "More info"):

Prehistory to the present
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The Berg Fashion Library offers fully cross-searchable access to a range of Berg content collections – including the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion onlin

1600-present
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Collections range from digitized manuscripts (Beowulf and Leonardo da Vinci’s Notebook) and illuminated manuscripts, to an extensive collection of maps from around the world.

1000-present
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A rich collection of influential performances and documentaries spanning eras and demonstrating classical music’s dynamic evolution.

Medieval period-present
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A comprehensive database of distinguished classical recordings (approximately 100,000 albums) that users can listen to online.

Medieval period-present
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Contemporary World Music contains over 3.5 million tracks that deliver the sounds of all regions of the world.

1900-present
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Provides access to actual therapy sessions, re-enacted therapy sessions, and scripted sessions designed by counseling professionals to illustrate common issues and scenarios.

Current
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Dance in Video contains five hundred hours of dance productions and documentaries by the most influential performers and companies of the 20th century.

20th Century-present
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The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world.

1100-present
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Digital Theatre+ gives access to over 600 award-winning productions and a wealth of related study materials.

1970s-present
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DigitalNC is the online home for materials presented by the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center.

1800s-present
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Docuseek2 provides exclusive educational streaming access to documentary and social issues films.

2002-present
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Empire Online contains primary source documents that span five centuries, charting the story of the rise and fall of empires.

1492-2007
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Films On Demand provides over 21,000 high quality streaming video on a wide-variety of topics.

1900-present
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This resource brings together manuscript, printed and visual primary source materials for the study of global commodities in world history.

10200 BCE-present
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The current release (2013) includes 10,752 albums and 133,660 tracks.

1920s-present
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Core scholarly journals, ebooks, and images from a range of disciplines, with full-text searching and DRM-free downloads.

1800s-present (2-5 yr embargo)
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A kid-safe, advertisement-free media platform with over 9,000 titles and 12,000 segments from producers like PBS and Reading Rainbow.

Current
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Kanopy provides educational streaming access to over 27,000 documentaries and critically acclaimed films. Some films include public performance rights (ask your librarian).

1894-present
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 Metropolitan Opera On Demand includes more than 800 full-length Met performances.

1936-present
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Music & Performing Arts combines music audio and video that spans all time periods, and includes hundreds of thousands of seminal artists.

Medieval-present
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Nine collections of music recordings (over 14 million tracks) and performance videos (over 3,600) from Alexander Street Press, including classical, jazz, folk, world, and popular music and dance.

Medieval period-present
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An international index to choral scores for documentary research and pedagogy.

1100s-present
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Featuring the complete archive of the magazine to the mid-1990s, National Geographic Magazine Archive, includes every page and every photograph, available for fulltext searching, reading,

1888-1994
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Naxos Music Library is a comprehensive collection of classical music available online.

1150-present
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Limited to 15 simultaneous users

Naxos Music Library Jazz offers close to 60,000 tracks of jazz from over 5,200 albums, with over 7,000 jazz artists represented.

1900s-present
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Limited to 5 simultaneous users

Naxos Video Library brings you an extensive streaming video library of classical music performances, opera, ballet, live concerts and documentaries.

1990-present
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The purpose of the Open Video Project is to collect and make available a repository of digitized video content for the digital video, multimedia retrieval, digital library, and other communities.

1897-present
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Opera in Video contains five hundred hours of the most important opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries.

Renaissance-present
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Organ Cinema is an ever-expanding filmed encyclopedia of the organ and its history and repertoire, created by Fugue State Films and the Royal College of Organists.

2008 - present
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Popular Music Library contains a wide range of popular music from around the world, including hundreds of thousands of tracks from major genres in pop music.

1905-present
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The USC Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive allows users to search through and view more than 54,000 video testimonies of survivors and witnesses of genocide.

1915-present
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The latest release of Smithsonian Global Sound (2022) includes 3,112 albums, equalling 45,176 tracks.

1900s-present
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Swank Digital Campus provides a streaming library of feature films, documentaries and foreign films from the largest movie studios.

 

1900-present
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