Amigos Libraries in February’s Featured CONTENTdm Collections

This month, four collections from the CONTENTdm Collection of Collections are featured on the OCLC Web site. The featured collections for February are Cities Around the World, Basque Posters, Blues Photographs, and Selected Photographs from the DeGolyer Library.

The organization names below are linked to each organization’s record, if available, in the OCLC WorldCat Registry. OCLC’s WorldCat Registry allows libraries worldwide to manage and organize their data for vendors and third parties by creating and maintaining a comprehensive institutional profile in a single, Web-accessible location.

Cities Around the World
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Cities Around the World presents over 6,100 photographic images from the slide collections of the American Geographical Society Library. The images selected for this project focus on architecture, city life, people, transportation and other aspects of urban development, such as neighborhoods, commercial streets, and business districts.

Basque Posters
University of Nevada, Reno
Over the years, Basques and their friends have given posters and brochures to the Basque Library and Center for Basque Studies. Upon examining the posters, library staff found a wealth of colorful and interesting images among them. Some posters represent festivals in the Basque Country and the United States. Others were produced in conjunction with art exhibits or conferences. Of special interest are posters showing Basque clothing and customs. All display the creativity and vigorous spirit of Euskaldunak, the Basque people.

Blues Photographs
University of Mississippi
Taken by a variety of photographers, these images help document the blues from the beginning of its popularity in the 1920's through today. The photographs highlight performers, festivals, and locations important to the blues.

Selected Photographs from the DeGolyer Library
Southern Methodist University
Selected Photographs from the DeGolyer Library provides a sample of the extensive photographic collections at the DeGolyer Library, which houses over 500,000 photographs. While collecting at the DeGolyer in general emphasizes the American West, the borderlands, and transportation, particularly the railroads, there are many unexpected images in the collection. Included in the collection are views by many such well-known Western landscape photographers as: Andrew Russell, Alexander Gardner, William Henry Jackson, Charles Roscoe Savage, John Hillers, and Edward Curtis. In addition, there are images by Civil War photographers, including Timothy O'Sullivan, Barnard & Gibson and Russell.