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A Centennial of Independence, Henri Rousseau, 1892
September 18, 2013
In August, the Getty released approximately 4,600 high-resolution images for public use. It is the first release in their Open Content Program and follows a trend in the museum world towards opening up access to digital reproductions of works in the public domain. Patrons can download any of the...
Painting of Master Betty as Hamlet, before a bust of Shakespeare by James Northcote
September 5, 2013
As of spring 2013, the Yale community has access to a new resource called Drama Online. This database is produced by Bloomsbury Publishing and includes content from publishers like Faber & Faber, Arden Shakespeare, and Methuen Drama, with images from the V&A Museum’s Theatre and Performance...
Image for Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon
August 28, 2013
Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon Online / Artists of the World Online is the world's most contemporary, reliable and extensive reference work on artists. Content includes Thieme-Becker/Vollmer1 encyclopedia, the Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon and the Lexikon der Künstlerinnen into the database. You will...
The Divinity Library is engaged in four grant-funded projects to digitize portions of its Day Missions Collection. The Day Missions Collection, founded by Yale professor George Edward Day in 1891, consists of books, periodicals, pamphlets, reports, photographs, and archival collections that...
The May issue of the Digital Initiatives & Technology Newsletter focuses on this year's third and final digitization project using Arcadia funding – that is the digitization of Hán Nôm Handwritten and Woodblock Manuscripts held in the Maurice Durand Collection. Within this fascinating...
Exhibit on view until October 4 at the Lewis Walpole Library, 154 Main Street, Farmington, CT Curated by James Caudle, The Associate Editor, Yale Edition of the Private Papers of James Boswell In autumn 1762, the ambitious, clever, jovial, and bumptious twenty-two-year-old Scotsman James Boswell...

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