Scope and Content
Over the years, the Library has undertaken numerous efforts to digitize research information, for the purpose of preservation and to enhance access. This web site chronicles these projects and provides a way to search the Library's Digital Collections. The scope of what you can search within these collections will expand over time.
Recent Projects
Lorenzo Homar collection
The Lorenzo Homar Collection consists of drawings, prints, and posters, reflecting the wide range of work by this Puerto Rican
graphic artist and calligrapher.
Gillray collection
The James Gillray collection features caricatures that chronicled and ridiculed British politicians and the ruling class between
1770 and 1820.
Calixtus Bull
Printed in 1456 by Johann Gutenberg, Pope Calixtus III's "Bulla Turcorum (The Calixtus Bull)" announces the conquest of Constantinople
to the
people
Vasi Collection
Vasi Collection
Panoramic view of Rome inscribed with an "Indice delle cose notabili diviso in otto giornate" listing 390 monuments and sites. The numbering corresponds to that in a guidebook which Vasi also published in 1765: Indice istorico del gran prospetto di Roma.