http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/tags/D/multimedia.html en Wed, 08 Sep 2010 13:39:14 -0400 webmaster@lib.vt.edu webmaster@lib.vt.edu http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/D/digital-sanborn-maps-1867-1970-from-umi.html <div style=" width: 200px; float: left;"><div class="vt_img_left vt_small_img"> <span class="top"> </span> <span class="bottom"> </span> <img src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/databases/S/S_sanborn.jpg" alt="Sanborn Digital Maps" height="141px" width="185px" /> </div><img alt="This resource is restricted to Virginia Tech users only" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/icons/L_vtonly.gif" title="This resource is restricted to Virginia Tech users only" width="15" /></div><h2><span> <a href="http://sanborn.umi.com/" title="Digital Sanborn Maps - 1867-1970 from UMI" class="vt_link_url" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('http://sanborn.umi.com/')" shape="rect">Digital Sanborn Maps - 1867-1970 from UMI</a> </span></h2><p>Large-scale maps of towns and cities in Virginia and Washington, D.C., useful to urban specialists, social historians, architects, geographers, genealogists, local historians, planners, and environmentalists. Data contained includes the outline of each building; size, shape, and construction materials; functions of structures; locations of windows and doors; street names, street and sidewalk widths, property boundaries, and house and block numbers. Displays images in the browser using a plugin for zooming and scrolling. <span class="majax-erm-advisory" title="e1000274"> </span></p><p><a href="http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/D/digital-sanborn-maps-1867-1970-from-umi.html">Full record</a></p> Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:42:13 -0400 http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/D/digital-sanborn-maps-1867-1970-from-umi.html Multimedia Restricted to Virginia Tech users http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/D/documenting-the-american-south-docsouth.html <div style=" float: left; width: 200px;"><div class="vt_img_left vt_small_img"> <span class="top"> </span> <span class="bottom"> </span> <img src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/databases/D/S_docsouth.jpg" alt="Documenting the American South" height="128px" width="185px" /> </div><img alt="This resource is freely accessible" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_free-database.gif" title="This resource is freely accessible" width="20" /></div><h2><span> <a href="http://docsouth.unc.edu/browse/collections.html" title="Documenting the American South (DocSouth)" class="vt_link_url" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('http://docsouth.unc.edu/browse/collections.html')" shape="rect">Documenting the American South (DocSouth)</a> </span></h2><p>A digital publishing initiative that provides online access to primary sources such as texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture. Currently <i>DocSouth</i> includes fourteen thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, maps, literary works, oral history interviews, and songs. 1500s-present.</p><p><a href="http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/D/documenting-the-american-south-docsouth.html">Full record</a></p> Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:42:13 -0400 http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/D/documenting-the-american-south-docsouth.html Countries and cultures Multimedia Music recordings and scores Narratives, diaries, and letters Freely accessible databases Poetry and short stories