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Duke Papyrus Archive
"The Duke Papyrus Archive provides electronic access to texts about and images of 1,373 papyri from ancient Egypt. The target audience includes: papyrologists, ancient historians, archaeologists, biblical scholars, classicists, Coptologists, Egyptologists, students of literature and religion and all others interested in ancient Egypt." This excellent site is one of the leading examples of how artifacts from the ancient world can be brought onto the "information superhighway."
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/papyrus/
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Pitts Theology Library Digital Image Archive
"Pitts Theology Library The Digital Image Archive presents more than 28,000 images of biblical illustrations, portraits of religious leaders, printers' devices, engravings of church buildings, and other theological topics. They are available for teaching, research, and other non-commercial purposes. For a modest fee, the library will grant permission for them to be used in commercial publications and will supply the publisher with high resolution TIFF files for download."
http://www.pitts.emory.edu/dia/woodcuts.htm
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Ram's Horn: An Interdenominational Social Gospel Magazine
This site provides images and cartoons from this magazine, which was published around 1900.
http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/mmh/Rams_Horn/default.cfm
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Shaping the Values of Youth: Sunday School Books in 19th Century America
"Shaping the Values of Youth is a digitization project completed by Central Michigan University and Michigan State University. Sunday School Book Titles from the Russel B. Nye Popular Culture Collection, Michigan State University Libraries, and the Clarke Historical Library, Central Michigan University have been selected for digitization, making them available to the public through this site."
http://digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/ssb/
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American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library
A major site provided by the Library of Congress. Includes: Photos & Prints; Documents; Motion Pictures; Maps; Sound Recordings. Searchable and browseable.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
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California Missions
"This site features historic photographs of all 21 California Missions, from as early as 1895." Maintained at the University of California Riverside.
http://138.23.124.165/collections/permanent/projects/survey/missions/default.html
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Africa Focus: The Sights and Sounds of a Continent
"This online collection is maintained on the website of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries. It contains digitized visual images and sounds of Africa contributed over the years to the African Studies Program of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. These digital files are stored in an accessible database and provided for personal use or educational presentations."
http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/AfricaFocus/
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Special Treasures from the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary
This site makes available images from these works: Prato Haggadah; Esslingen Mahzor; Rothschild Mahzor; Siddur, Italian Rite; Maimonides Fragments; Fragments from the Cairo Genizah. The online presentation is very sophisticated, allowing virtual page turning.
http://www.jtslibrarytreasures.org/
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Great Assemblage: An Exhibit of Judaica
"This exhibit is a joint effort of the many divisions of the Yale University Library that contain Judaica. The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library contributed manuscripts and prints from 18th-century Italy and early 20th-century Palestine. Of particular interest are the ketubahs (illuminated marriage contracts) from the Sholem Asch Collection. Many important works in Hebrew and Yiddish on display come from the Judaica Collection of the Sterling Memorial Library. The Babylonian Collection, Map Collection, Manuscripts and Archives, and the Art and Architecture Library also contributed material."
http://www.library.yale.edu/exhibition/judaica/
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Holocaust History Project
"The Holocaust History Project is a free archive of documents, photographs, recordings, and essays regarding the Holocaust, including direct refutation of Holocaust-denial."
http://www.holocaust-history.org/
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Learning About the Holocaust Through Art
"The primary goal of this project is to create a significant, high-quality resource about the art of the Holocaust for researchers, educators, students and the wider public. Beit Lohamei Haghetaot is responsible for most of the content of this website. The Museum has selected, photographed, researched and documented the art works and provided the accompanying biographies, articles and educational materials. Beit Lohamei Haghetaot has one of the foremost collections of art relating to the Holocaust and Jewish resistance, including 3000 drawings, paintings and sculptures."
http://art.holocaust-education.net/
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Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit
"The 140,000 fragments of Hebrew and Jewish literature and documents rescued from the The Ben Ezra Synagogue (112k) in Cairo cover every aspect of life in the Mediterranean area a thousand years ago. The active programme of conservation and research being conducted at Cambridge University Library, where they are housed, is leading to all manner of exciting discoveries about Jewish religious, communal and personal life, Hebrew culture, settlement in the land of Israel and relations with Muslims and Christians from as early as the ninth and tenth centuries."
http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/Taylor-Schechter/
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You Shall Tell Your Children: The Passover Haggadah in the Yale University Library Collections
This online exhibit displays the history of the Haggadah, which is a compilation of biblical texts, prayers, hymns, and rabbinic commentaries associated with the feast of Passover.
http://www.library.yale.edu/judaica/site/exhibits/children/index.html
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W. Willker's Bible Pages
This page offers resources relating to New Testament textual criticism, papyrology, Hellenistic Greek and NT apocryphal writings.
http://www-user.uni-bremen.de/~wie/ww_tc.html
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Biblewalks.com
This site offers photographs from the Holy Land, and related information about sites referred to in the Bible as they look today.
http://www.biblewalks.com/
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EIKON Image Database for Biblical Studies
"The EIKON Image Database for Biblical Studies is a faculty-library initiative at Yale Divinity School that provides digital resources for teaching and research in the field of Biblical studies."
http://research.yale.edu:8084/divdl/eikon/index.jsp
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Journey to the Holy Land
This site offers many photographs of the Holy Land.
http://lluker.faculty.ltss.edu/
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West Semitic Research Project
"The West Semitic Research Project is an academic project affiliated with the University of Southern California School of Religion and directed by Dr. Bruce Zuckerman. For the past 15 years WSRP has used advanced photographic and computer imaging techniques to document objects and texts from the ancient world. In doing this we have built a vast collection of images that we are now making available to scholars, students, educators and the general public through a variety of ways."
http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/wsrp/
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Gallery: Byzantine Images
An extensive list of links. Maintained by Paul Halsall.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/byzantium/images.html
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Manuscripts from the Soren Kierkegaard Archive at The Royal Library
This site offers graphic images of SK's handwriting and also portraits of him.
http://www.kb.dk/kultur/expo/sk-mss/index-en.htm
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St. Laurentius Digital Manuscript Library
"The Manuscript Department of the University Library, Lund, in collaboration with Lund University Libraries, Head Office, is digitizing and making accessible on line its collection of Medieval manuscripts."
http://laurentius.ub.lu.se/
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Meeting God: Elements of Hindu Devotion
This site offers photographs of Hindu religious practices.
http://kaladarshan.arts.ohio-state.edu/exhib/meetgod/hp.htm
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Iris Ministries
This site describes and illustrates with photos the missionary efforts of Rolland and Heidi Baker in Africa.
http://www.irismin.org/
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Children of Abraham
"Children of Abraham seeks to build an international community of Muslim and Jewish youth that celebrates their religious identities. Through an engaging project involving a photographic exploration of Jewish and Muslim communities."
http://www.children-of-abraham.org/
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Sacred Contexts
A major exhibition of sacred texts from Judaism, Christianity, and Islam was presented to the public by the British Library in 2007. This site offers the visitor the ability to see some of the texts online and watch video clips about them.
http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/features/sacred/homepage.html
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Art Images for College Teaching
"Art Images for College Teaching (AICT) is a personal, non-profit project of its author, art historian and visual resources curator Allan T. Kohl . AICT is intended primarily to disseminate images of art and architectural works in the public domain on a free-access,
free-use basis to all levels of the educational community, as well as to the public at large. The images displayed on this site have been photographed on location by the author, who consents to their use in any application that is both educational and non-commercial in nature."
http://www.arthist.umn.edu/aict/html/
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Digital Archive of Architecture
A large collection of images, maintained by Jeffery Howe.
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/arch/contents_europe.html
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Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story Comic Book
An online version of a comic book published in 1956, which told the story of MLK's life and his civil rights activism.
http://www.ep.tc/mlk/
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Daoist Iconography Project
"The Daoist Iconography Project, is a joint venture of the Department of Religion in the University of Hawaii at Manoa and the Honolulu Academy of Arts. A unique enterprise involving the collaboration of scholars in both the West and Asia, the project will provide a remarkable new tool for understanding the workings of Daoist thought and practice through the rich iconography of the deities of the tradition."
http://manoa.hawaii.edu/daoist-iconography/index.htm
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NextSunday Gallery
This site provides free "fair use" access to hundreds of photographs of the Holy Land and other parts of the Mediterranean world.
http://www.nextsundaygallery.com/
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Middle East Photograph Archive
This site offers a treasure trove of photographs of the Middle East, taken in the 19th century. Maintained at the University of Chicago.
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/mideast/PhotoArchive.html
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