Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery

Selected Digitization Projects

• The African-American Mosaic Exhibition

  (Library of Congress) - A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History & Culture. This exhibit marked the publication of The African-American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture. Provides a sample of four Colonization, Abolition, Migrations, and the WPA) of the many areas covered in the text.

Related Guide

• The African American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture.
  Library of Congress. Washington, USA: G.P.O., 1993.
  Location: UMBC Federal Documents - LC1.6/4:AF 8


• American Memory Collection

  (Library of Congress) - Selected digitized full text and image files from the Library of Congress collections. Includes selections from Presidential papers, Congressional documents, maps, pamphlets, music, and photographs from significant social, cultural and political movements.

• American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology

  (University of Virginia) - Included narratives are transcribed verbatim from the interview transcripts collected by writers of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the late 1930s.

• Digital Schomburg: Images of African Americans in the 19th Century

  The first of a series of pictorial databases that will be a part of the Digital Schomburg.

• UMBC Special Collections - IMCAT

  Database of photographs held in Special Collections. Approximately 18,000 records of the more than 1.8 million photographs held there. Use African Americans as a SUBJECT to locate information about photographs (Descriptive records only, some with linked image files.)

Selected Meta Sites

• Floyd Ingram's Resources Center

  Maintained by College Web Administrator, Benedict College. Updated regularly.