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
Maps of the First World War held by the National Library of Denmark
Collections Academic Research 1914-1918 First-world-war
This collection of digital items of maps from the WW1 period is administrated by the National Library of Denmark. These maps illustrate the WW1 battlefields; most of them illustrate the Western Front, the Eastern Front and the Italian Front. This collection of maps reflect the particular role of the country in the war.
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Giedde’s Collection of 18th Century Flute Music (digital)
Collections Academic Research flute-music
This e-collection contains mainly digitised works from the 1700s for flute, both printed sheet music and manuscript.
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Rischel and Birket-Smith’s Collection of Guitar Music
Collections Academic Research guitar-music
This e-collection consists of about 1,600 digitised musical compositions for guitar, including 500 handwritten music sheets, most of which are transcripts.
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Party programmes and party political writings from Denmark
Collections Academic Research Denmark Propaganda Party-programs
Party programmes and party political writings from Denmark (from 1872 onwards).
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The David Simonsen Archives
Collections Academic Research Manuscripts Denmark Letters Correspondence
Chief Rabbi, Professor David Simonsen (1853-1932) whose personal archives were acquired in 1932, was for more than sixty years a central figure in Jewish Copenhagen.
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Music Collections
Collections Creative industries Challenge Music songs
The Europeana Music Collection is a selected sub-set of items which uses multi-lingual, diverse, topic-based API query terms to surface diverse content on the theme of Europe's Music Heritage
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Photos of the Civil War from the Historical Archive of the Communist Party of Spain
Collections Academic Research spanish-civil-war
Photos of the Spanish Civil War from the Historical Archive of the Communist Party of Spain: approximately 3,200 photographs and 2,000 negatives.
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Manuscriptorium: Open Catalogue of Historical Collections and Digital Library of manuscripts and rare old printed books
Collections Academic Research Rare-books Illuminations
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Bulgarian old printed books 1806 – 1878
Collections Academic Research Poetry Rare-books Religious-literature Bulgaria Balkan-peninsula drama
This collection contains about 1700 titles in about 10.000 volumes. It presents the printed production of Bulgarian writers from the National Revival in 18th and 19th centuries. The major part of the collection is liturgical and educational books, translated and original fiction.
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Collection of Documents of the Bulgarian Historical Archive
Collections Academic Research Social-history Modern-history revolution
Collection of Documents of the Bulgarian Historical Archive presenting different types of archival documents covering the 19th and 20th centuries.
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