We have wonderful archival materials the OSU Archives, but we don’t have it all … This list contains some interesting primary source collections outside the walls of the Valley Library.
The Digital Scriptorium is an image database of medieval and renaissance manuscripts that unites scattered resources from many institutions into an international tool for teaching and scholarly research. It bridges the gap between a diverse user community and the limited resources of libraries by means of sample imaging and extensive rather than intensive cataloging.
The Nike Archives: Public museums were founded in part to help societies hold onto their cultural and historical memories, but businesses collect, too. The documents, products, and records a company keeps in its archive help create institutional memories; sometimes those memories are of products that worked, sometimes not. The Nike Archives has over 23,000 pieces of sports memorabilia, nearly every shoe produced. Their goal is to collect at least one of every item Nike has produced. If you’d like to see what is missing, there are still about 50 models missing.
The Women and Gender Project: The Archives for Research on Women and Gender (ARWG) project specializes in acquiring, preserving, arranging, describing, and providing access to primary source materials that document the lives of women, constructions of gender, and expressions of sexual identity in South Texas.
The Carnegie Melon: History of Medicine Library site.
The Web of Healing: This exploration of healing in eighteenth-century Philadelphia was developed and brought to life by a group of graduate students at the University of Pennsylvania’s department of History and Sociology of Science. Initially developed to be used as a teaching tool for undergraduates, this site is designed to serve as a pedagogical and public history resource.
Erosion of a Sea Stack Over 100 Years: The photographs on this site show the demise of Jump-off Joe, a sea stack at Nye Beach, Newport, Oregon.
Coastal Engineering: research, consulting, and teaching, 1946-1997: Full-text book on the Internet Archive.