Curated datasets

The datasets here represent over a million of the best, directly accessible objects - newspapers, books, photos, art, artifacts, audio clips and more.

Data Updated: 6 November 2023
Historical books of the Austrian National Library from the 16th to the second half of the 19th century
Collections Academic Research Austria
Holdings of historical books from the 16th to the second half of the 19th century.
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The Picture Archives and Graphics Collection of the Austrian National Library
Collections Academic Research Architecture Austria Landscapes Portrait Local-history
The holdings of the Archives combine the graphics collection and three important historical collections: the Portraits Collection, the Picture Archives, and the former private library of the Habsburg family.
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Travel Collection of the Picture Archives of the Austrian National Library
Collections Academic Research Austria Japan ethnology
The Travel Collection of the Picture Archives of the Austrian National Library holds unique photographic series on travel, expeditions and ethnography, which date from the second half of the 19th and the 20th centuries.
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Historical pictures of Vienna
Collections Academic Research Vienna Austria Landscapes Local-history
The collection of old Viennese photographs covers several themes: people, Viennese history, everyday life, Viennese surroundings, places and streets of all 23 districts within Vienna.
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Historical Images of Europe from the Austrian National Library
Collections Academic Research Architecture Austria Landscapes
This collection comprises 55 portfolios of around 3,900 prints. Items include topographical recordings, images of cities, villages, buildings, architecture, landscapes and pictures of natural events from the areas of the former Austrian crown-lands, but also from modern day Germany, Italy, France, England, Spain, Switzerland and The Netherlands.
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Historical Photographs of Austria
Collections Academic Research Austria Landscapes local-history
This collection of approximately 4488 objects offers topographic and architectural photography of Austria taken by several photographers including Gernat, Rudolf Wien, Otto Gleim, Friedrich Büngener, as well as by several national and foreign institutions such as the Österreichische Lichtbildstelle, the Niederösterreichischer Landesfremdenverkehrsverband, the British ISB and the United States Information Service (USIS).
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Historical photographs from the Austrian National Library
Collections Academic Research Austria second-world-war political-history
This contemporary history collection comprising 10,500 digitized images is focused on events and people from Austria from 1918 onward.
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Masterpieces of the non-Western book
Collections Academic Research China Art Medicine Poetry Rare-books India Religious-literature Geography Illuminations United-kingdom Iran Japan Korea book-bindings Modern (RC) Art Buddhism Hinduism Icons Images Islam Judaism mechanics
Circa 1,800 images of some of the Bodleian Libraries most valuable and most fragile manuscripts from many cultures of the Near East and Asia.
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Early Printing in Europe: examples in Bodleian collections
Collections Academic Research Germany Netherlands Incunables France Rare-books Italy Handicraft Uk Religious-literature Cartography fifteenth-century sixteenth-century seventeenth-century
Early Printing in Europe: examples in Bodleian collections.
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World War One photo collection from the propaganda department of the Austro-Hungarian army
Collections Academic Research First-world-war Military-history Propaganda
More than 37.000 photographs mostly from the photo collection of the Imperial and Royal War Press Bureau. The Press Bureau was the propaganda department of the Austro-Hungarian Army.
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