Our Digital Collections site offers free
worldwide access to the unique primary historical and cultural resources
held by the Temple University Libraries and to selected scholarly works
and other publications produced at Temple. We are actively digitizing
additional materials; to suggest materials you believe should be
digitized, please contact us at: libweb@temple.edu
City Parks Association Photographs
The City Parks Association was chartered on May 24, 1888 for "the establishment and maintenance of public parks and open spaces throughout the City of Philadelphia." This collections features photographs from 1890-1930 and includes mostly Philadelphia and surrounding-area views related to parks and general living conditions.
Civil Rights in a Northern City: Philadelphia
Civil Rights in a Northern City: Philadelphia is a collection of digitized archival resources detailing the history of the modern civil rights movement in Philadelphia. Through a compelling range of photographs, newspapers, manuscripts, film footage, and oral histories, the website seeks to highlight the key people, places, and events that made Philadelphia an important part of the national struggle for racial equality and social change.
Housing Association of the Delaware Valley Photographs
Images produced for the Housing Association of the Delaware Valley (previously the Philadelphia Housing Association) and the Octavia Hill Association, ca. 1897-1972. Includes housing interiors and exteriors, streets, courts, alleys, public housing projects, privy vaults, and sanitation conditions. Most images are exteriors and the emphasis of the collections is on poor living conditions.
Impulse Dance Annuals
Impulse established the first link between discourses in dance and the humanities while publishing a panorama of articles on dance, culture, life and art between 1949 and 1970. A seminal collection and synthesis of scholarship, journalism and documentation for dance in twentieth century American culture, edited by renowned choreographer and educator Marian Van Tuyl (1907-1987).
John W. Mosley Photographs
Images from the Blockson Collection's John Mosley Photograph Collection which provide a visual history of notable black entertainers, Negro Baseball League players, Penn Relays, social and political personalities and the general social life of Pennsylvania.
KIDSNET Study Guides
KIDSNET (1984-2010) was a major clearinghouse of information on children’s radio and television programming and produced influential educators’ study guides as well as other materials.
N.A.A.C.P., Philadelphia Branch Photographs
Photographs from the Philadelphia Branch of the N.A.A.C.P., 1943 - 1989. The images date largely from the 1940s and the 1980s, and highlight the 1944 Philadelphia Transportation Company strike; 1943 and 1944 membership drives; the 1984 Exemplar awards; the branch’s 80th anniversary celebration in 1989; and other events and meetings
Philadelphia Evening Bulletin Clippings
Search here for sample clippings from the George D. McDowell Philadelphia Evening Bulletin Collection digitized in 2010 - 2011.
Philadelphia Evening Bulletin Photographs
Search here for George D. McDowell Philadelphia Evening Bulletin Collection photographs cataloged after 2008. Check the headings page for a list of cataloged boxes and folders. To access the 31,000 George D. McDowell Philadelphia Evening Bulletin Collection photographs cataloged before 2008 use Digital Diamond. To access images not yet cataloged or make suggestions for future digitization subjects, contact Urban Archives.
Philadelphia Jewish Archives Photographs
The Philadelphia Jewish Archives preserves the history of the Greater Philadelphia Jewish community for that community, scholars, students, researchers, and the general public. This digital collection includes photographs from many of the individual and family papers and organization records in its holdings.
Philadelphia Magazine Subject Index 1946-1978
Published monthly since 1909, Philadelphia magazine has been indexed by commercial databases such as EBSCO and Gale only since 1980. Long ago, the Temple University Libraries indexed years 1949 - 1978. These indexes are now freely searchable online as a service to the community. Consult your library catalog to then obtain the month/year for any Philadelphia articles of interest.
Temple History in Photographs
Drawn from the University's archival collections, these images illustrate aspects of Temple's history from Russell Conwell (1843-1925) and the University's founding in 1884 to the present. Eventually images will cover campus life, sports, cultural events, student life, and individual and group portraits.
Temple Sheet Music Collections
Music published from the early 19th to early 20th centuries, containing lithographed and engraved cover art. These covers show remarkable designs and document developing printing techniques throughout more than 100 years. The collections include popular dances and songs, music commemorating great exhibitions, honoring heroes and stars, and comic tunes that reveal the ironies and anxieties of the time.
Temple Undergraduate Research Prize Winners
The Library Prize for Undergraduate Research was established in 2004 to encourage the use of Library resources, to enhance the development of library research techniques, and to honor the best research projects produced each year by Temple University undergraduate students. Up to three projects are selected each year to win $1000.
Temple University Electronic Theses & Dissertations
This collection includes all Temple University doctoral dissertations submitted after September 2008 and selected masters theses beginning December 2009. All are full-text searchable.
Temple University Yearbooks
Our newest collection includes numerous volumes of the Templar, Temple University’s general yearbook, as well as a number of yearbooks issued by our professional schools, all featuring searchable full-text.
Digital Diamond
Search our legacy catalog of digital objects to access the following collections scanned 2000-2007: McDowell Philadelphia Evening Bulletin Collection -- Over 31,000 news photographs ca. 1860- 1982, Tyler War Poster Collection -- 1,450 posters from World War I, Betancourt Slide Collection -- 1,008 color images of Philadelphia architecture, C. William Fox Architectural Slide Collection -- 3,709 architecture slides of important local and international buildings, Worcester Art History Photograph Collection -- 4,511 images of worldwide architectural and art history photographs ca. 1890-1920.