All Collections

African American Literature

214 volumes

The books and pamphlets in this collection, generally published in the latter half of the 19th century, chronicle the lives and issues of African Americans during that time.

Alabama Folklife Association

15 volumes

The Alabama Folklife Association collection contains all issues of their journal, Tributaries. 

Apollo 15 Flight Data File

32 volumes

Humans have not been beyond Low Earth Orbit since the last Apollo mission in 1972. The Apollo missions involved tremendously complex technology. Most of that technology (scientific and operational/technical) was not in electronic format, but rather in hard copy format. NASA referred to these documents as the Flight Data File (FDF) assembly. This collection is comprised of the Apollo 15 Flight Data File carried aboard the Apollo 15 lunar mission …

Baedeckers

138 volumes

A collection of Baedeker European travel guides from the late 19th century. Baedekers were the first popular travel guide and are known for their detailed descriptions of cities and detailed maps. Many of the cities described changed dramatically during the 20th century so these books are important records and are used by scholars in many disciplines.

Early Black Print Culture

13 volumes

A collection of early Black print culture documents from the Rose Library.

ECDS

9 volumes

This collection is intended to show samples of volumes ECDS may ingest for upcoming projects.

Falda's Rome

17 volumes

This collection highlights works related to the life and work of Giovanni Battista Falda from the Readux Views of Rome collection, which includes books that chronicle the Eternal City in text and image. This collection highlights works from the Emory University Rose Library collections, as well as a few held by other institutions.

Gemini 8

2 volumes

Gemini 8 was the sixth crewed spaceflight in NASA's Gemini program. It was launched on March 16, 1966. The documents in this collection were used by crew members David R. Scott and Neil A. Armstrong. If you are on Emory Campus, you can also visit Rose Library to access the Scott Family Papers, 1962-2019 [bulk: 1962-1972].You can also explore the Apollo 15 Flight Data File on Readux, including the documents …

Kerner Commission in Atlanta

221 volumes

This is a collection of documents related to the Kerner Commission's work in Atlanta, Georgia.

La Piana Archaeology

58 volumes

This collection is archaeological drawings from the excavation of the late Etruscan settlement site of La Piana from 1982 to 2001, which was excavated by Prof. Jane Whitehead and supported by the Etruscan Foundation.Learn more about this excavation: Whitehead, Jane K. "The Structure and Function of the Cistern at La Piana." Etruscan Studies, vol. 7, no. 1, 2000, pp. 117-124. https://doi.org/10.1515/etst.2000.7.1.117 Whitehead, Jane K. "Excavations at La Piana, July 27 …

Northern European Emblem Books, 1550–1700

50 volumes

The term emblema was coined by the jurist Andrea Alciato in 1522: he used it to designate a novel literary device—the witty and erudite pairing of a motto with an epigrammatic commentary. In commenting on the motto, the epigram often makes use of verbal images, and perhaps as a result, one of the earliest (unauthorized) printings of Alciati’s manuscript Emblemata (Augsburg: Heinrich Steyner, 1531) translates verba (words) into picturae (pictures), …

Representing the Argonautica

8 volumes

The Argonautica is a myth of travel, love, seamonsters and ships, told for many centuries and by many authors in the ancient Greek and Roman Mediterranean. Among the authors who told versions of the story are Apollonius of Rhodes, who wrote for the Ptolemaic Greeks who ruled Egypt some 2300 years ago; Valerius Flaccus, who dedicated his version to the Roman emperor Vespasian in the 1st century AD: and the …

Rose Library

13 volumes

This collection of items from the Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library contains yellowback novels, Civil War memoirs, and Italian literature.

Teaching and Research

15 volumes

These eclectic works were digitized at the request of various Emory faculty and researchers from Emory's Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, & Rare Book Library and Pitts Theology Library for use in teaching and research. The collection includes works on medical history, theological reference, and Classical studies, among others.

Views of Rome

88 volumes

A collection proposed by Dr. Sarah McPhee and Dr. Eric Varner, Views of Rome includes books that chronicle the Eternal City in text and image over four centuries (16th-19th). These printed volumes document Rome's monuments through illustrations and maps combined with explanatory texts and constitute the primary way in which evolving assessments of the city were shared and disseminated prior to the advent of modern technologies.

Works from the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives

70 volumes

This collection shares rare manuscripts digitized through a partnership with the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives in Dharmsala, India. The Mellon Foundation gave a grant to support the preservation, digitization, and online publication of manuscripts from the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives. The Emory Center for Digital Scholarship is just beginning to share these rare volumes for teaching and research through Readux, and the whole collection of 2349 …