New World - New France - Images and Visual Resource Collections - Research guides at University of Toronto

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1579 Hispaniae novae sivae magnae …South America, Abraham Ortelius.	Attributed to Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues. "Laudonnierus et rex athore ante columnam a praefecto prima navigatione..." c. 1564. Watercolour and bodycolour with gold over chalk outline on vellum (175 mm x 257 mm) Digital ID: 54650. New York Public Library.	Montt, Luis, 1848-1909. fmo …Praecepta grammatices ex var …1594 Peru	Puri Indians in Brazil, early print, Title Puris nelle loro foreste. From Il costume antico e moderno, o, storia del governo, della milizia, della religione, delle arti, scienze ed usanze di tutti i popoli antichi e moderni. Firenze : Batelli, 1823-1838. Ferrario, Giulio (1767-1847), author. from N.Y. Public Libra

NEW FRANCE - NEW WORLD

KEY SOURCES FOR PRIMARY MATERIAL

***FADIS -Licensed for access by U. of T. users.
FADIS is the University of Toronto's learning management and courseware system developed for image based teaching. The goal of FADIS is to offer a freely available common repository and delivery system for education and research available to contributing institutions.
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Students can access complete course information where faculty make it available. Image lectures can be viewed online and downloaded as PDFs containing thumbnail images, image data and any lecture notes added by their instructor. In addition, students can view handouts and download any files posted to their course, view syllabi and access any external resources which are automatically generated as hyperlinks. Course syllabi are also available as PDF format.
***Picturing America, 1497-1899, Digital Gallery, New York Public Library.
Over 1,000 original prints, drawings, and maps, selected primarily from The Phelps Stokes Collection, as well as from several other Library collections, featuring views of American towns and cities and representations of historical events, scenes, places, and battles relating to the United States, from 1497 to 1899.
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Materials downloaded from the NYPL Websites may only be used for personal, educational, or research purposes. They may not be used for commercial purposes.
American Journeys
American Journeys contains images and texts of accounts of North American exploration, from the sagas of Vikings in Canada in AD1000 to the diaries of mountain men in the Rockies 800 years later.

Funded by the U.S. Institute of Museum & Library Services and by private donors, American Journeys is a collaborative project of the Wisconsin Historical Society and National History Day.
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The Wisconsin Historical Society publishes these documents on the Web for free as a contribution to education and scholarship.

Educational Use: U.S. law generally permits the reproduction of small amounts of copyrighted material for non-profit educational use. Specifically, students may legally print any page from American Journeys for their own research and teachers may duplicate materials for distribution to their own class. Further details on fair use for educational purposes are available at http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#107. Beyond such explicitly fair uses, however, it is your responsibility to determine and satisfy copyright requirements if you wish to reproduce any of the materials found here.

Educational Use: U.S. law generally permits the reproduction of small amounts of copyrighted material for non-profit educational use. Specifically, students may legally print any page from American Journeys for their own research and teachers may duplicate materials for distribution to their own class. Further details on fair use for educational purposes are available at http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#107. Beyond such explicitly fair uses, however, it is your responsibility to determine and satisfy copyright requirements if you wish to reproduce any of the materials found here.
Picturing the New World
The hand-coloured De Bry engravings of 1590.
Biblioteca Nacional de Espana. Biblioteca Digital Hispanica.
Several collections are digitized, including one entitled, Historia de América, "Supone una recopilación clave de la colonización española en América desde el manuscrito de los Diarios de Cristóbal Colón, las relaciones de Hernán Cortés, las obras de Bartolomé de las Casas y el manuscrito de Diego Durán, hasta las historias regionales y las Crónicas de Bernal Díaz del Castillo, Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Alexander von Humboldt."
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Image Database

Canadiana Online - Periodicals This link opens in a new window

Early Encounters in North America ( EENA )
University of Toronto Library e-resource offering access to images and their text collection of early reports, letters, diaries, etc. Includes many of early texts (A briefe and true relation of the discoverie of the north part of Virginia, and more). contains 1,482 authors and over 100,000 pages of letters, diaries, memoirs and accounts of early encounters between the French and Hurons.
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You can search for images by text, year, medium and other filters. An excellent source.
Emblem Portal - Links to Emblem Projects
The OpenEmblem Portal: the development of the portal as an open access research site incorporating book-level metadata from emblem digitization projects worldwide and emblem-level metadata from Illinois and the Herzog August Bibliothek (HAB). The OpenEmblem Portal hosted at Illinois will have a mirror portal at the HAB. The OpenEmblem Portal offers the ability to search and browse across significant levels of granularity, creating functional access to the entire collections of emblem books.
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Primarily 17th century emblems.

Empire Online This link opens in a new window
The images are sourced from libraries and archives around the world, including a strong core of document images from the British Library. Other major libraries and archives featured include: The National Archives, Kew; The Bodleian Library, Oxford, The Victoria and Albert Museum, Church Mission Society Archive, University of Birmingham; The National Archives of Canada, The Glenbow Museum, Canada, The National Library of Australia; The Bank of England Library; and many other institutions. Empire Online features a wide variety of material including: Exploration journals and logs; Letter books and correspondence; Periodicals; Diaries; Official Government Papers; Missionary papers; Travel writing; Slave papers; Memoirs; Fiction; Children's Adventure Stories; Traditional; folk tales; Exhibition Catalogues and guides; Maps; Marketing Posters; Photographs; and Illustrations, with many in colour.

Europeana
Search all the digitized collections at European museums and libraries. Excellent source.

European Views of the Americas: 1493 to 1750 This link opens in a new window
University of Toronto Library e-resource offering access to text collections.

Gallica. National Library of France
Digitized manuscripts from the Bibliotheque nationale de France, Paris.
Iconographie canadienne, 1760-1875
Library and Archives of Quebec notes 7300 images available in their archives.
You can find them through the Archives search engine Pistard (http://pistard.banq.qc.ca/unite_chercheurs/recherche_simple).

Follow theses steps :
Go to Recherche Avancée,
Check the box “Documents Numérisés”
In the Cote field : Classe P, Fonds 600
In the Genre de Documents, select “dessins, gravures, peintures et autres” and specify « gravures »
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Library and Archives of Quebec notes 7300 images available in their archives.
Indiana University Library. Voyages and Exploration. The Lily Library
The Lilly Library has extensive holdings of manuscripts, printed books, and pamphlets describing travelers' impressions of exotic lands, reporting on expeditions, and documenting the contacts between Europeans and the inhabitants of the Western Hemisphere and the Far East.
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Resources are particularly good for the study of the Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch colonial empires. The Bernardo Mendel Collection, with 40,000 printed pieces and 26,000 manuscripts, covers the Spanish overseas empire in Latin America and the Philippines from discovery through independence, with special emphasis on the Andean countries and on Mexico.
Internet Archives
Digitized books and manuscripts in the public domain.
Jesuit Relations and New France
Offers digital access to collection at the Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa.
John Carter Brown Archive,
A database of graphic representations of the colonial Americas, from Hudson Bay to Tierra del Fuego, drawn entirely from primary sources printed or created between 1492 and ca. 1825.
Library and Archives Canada.
View a digital copy of the Louis Nicolas, CODEX CANADENSIS with images, c. 1700.
Sabin Americana, 1500-1926
University of Toronto Library subscription. Sabin Americana, 1500-1926 consists of works about the Americas published not only in the United States but from across the globe. Sabin Americana, 1500-1926 contains information about North, Central and South America, the Arctic and Antarctica and the West Indies. This resource offers original accounts of exploration, pioneering, settlement, the western movement, military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition.
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You can search specifically for images.
The Royal LIbrary, The Hague, Netherlands
Special collection of digitized books up to 1801, pre and post incunabula.
Austrian National Library. Picture Archives and Graphics Department
Select online database to search. Use German forms for America, Indian, to retrieve materials and images: Amerikanisch, Amerikaner,Indian, LatinAmerika

Scientific Collections

Credit: Wellcome Library, London
Engraved title page.
From: Mikrokosmographia, a description of the body of man
By: Helkiah Crooke
Published: W. Jaggard, London, 1615

Scientific Illustrations

Illustrations about the New World, its inhabitants, landscape and vegetation in the 16th and 17th centuries, were claimed to be scientific representations. The following resources offer access to historical collections about scientific illustrations.

Wellcome Trust. Wellcome Images.
Large collection of historical and contemporary images pertaining to the sciences and medicine.

Incunabula & Illustrations

University of Heidelberg Digitized Incunabula
The library's incunabula collection, most of it coming from monasteries, comprises approximately 1,800 printed books and fragments dated from between 1454 to 1500.