Robert D. Farber University Archives &
Special Collections Department

Selections from our Digital Collections

	Honoré Daumier Lithograph Collection The Benjamin A. and Julia M. Trustman Collection of Honoré Daumier Lithographs at Brandeis University comprises nearly the entire oeuvre of Daumier in the lithographic medium. A searchable, browsable database of the collection is available here. An online exhibit is available here.
	Shakespeare First Folio Online See a digitized version of the First Folio held at Brandeis. Brandeis holds a large collection of rare Shakespeare texts, including a second and a fourth folio.
	Book of Hours Image Collection These images are taken from a fifteenth-century Flemish book of hours, one of more than thirty works in the Pre -1850 Western Manuscripts collection.
	Carl Van Vechten Portraits Carl Van Vechten (1880-1964) was a writer, arts critic, and photographer known especially for his portraits; there are 1689 black and white photographs in the Brandeis collection. Van Vechten took many photographs of notable African Americans in the first half of the twentieth century, documenting an important part of American history neglected by others. Portraits by last name of subject: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z
	Spanish Civil War Posters The collection includes more than 250 anti-Fascist posters, sent or brought home by American volunteers in the Spanish Civil War. See a checklist of the posters held by Brandeis here. See a Special Collections Spotlight on the poster collection here.
	World War I and World War II Propaganda Posters The Brandeis University World War I and World War II Propaganda Posters collection includes nearly a hundred different images promoting the two war efforts. A number of the posters were created by artists whose work was already widely known through books, magazines, and advertising. A full finding aid to the World War I and World War II Propaganda Posters collection is available here.
	The Bernice and Henry Tumen collection The Tumen collection consists of Jewish ceremonial objects, including kiddush cups, spice boxes, candlesticks, menorahs, torah bindings, breastplates, and more. The collection principally showcases nineteenth- and twentieth-century artifacts. See a finding aid to the collection here.
	Jack J. and Therese G. Katz Chinese snuff bottles, circa 1700-1900 This collection of 47 Chinese snuff bottles was a gift to Brandeis University from Jack J. Katz and Therese G. Katz in 1964. The bottles range in date from the eighteenth to nineteenth centuries and illustrate the wide range of materials used in Chinese snuff bottles. See a finding aid to the collection here.
	Native American watercolors The collection contains 38 Native American watercolor paintings completed during the twentieth century, including paintings by Julian Martinez, Trinidad Archuleta, Romando Vigil, and several other well-known artists. See a finding aid to the collection here.
	Léon Lipschutz collection of Dreyfusiana and French Judaica, 1796-1934 This collection consists primarily of materials related to the Dreyfus Affair, including letters, newsclippings, and photos; there is also a small but notable group of documents that focus more generally on Jewish life and intellectualism in France from the late 1700s to the mid-twentieth century. See a finding aid to the collection here.
	Books on the Internet Archive Brandeis has contributed more than 1600 publications to the Internet Archive, a freely available online library of digitized works. Brandeis contributions include rare books, institutional publications, and more, from the 1500s to the present.
	Victor Young collection Victor Young (1900-1956) wrote and directed music for many Hollywood motion pictures in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, including Gulliver's Travels, Shane, Golden Earrings, The Quiet Man, and For Whom the Bell Tolls. Brandeis has digitized many of the conductor's scores in the collection, which are available on the Internet Archive. See a finding aid to the collection here.
	Howe Library book collection A selection of Brandeis's collection of historical books by experts in the fields of science, medicine, and disabilities from the Walter E. Fernald Developmental Center’s Samuel Gridley Howe Library in Waltham is available on the Internet Archive. This are one of several collections of materials on the Fernald School and disability rights at Brandeis.
	Dissertations & Theses @ Brandeis University This database indexes and abstracts Brandeis University dissertations from 1996 to the present, with 24-page previews and downloadable full text.
	Brandeis Institutional Repository Masters Theses Collection This collection contains Brandeis University masters theses (2008- ), with downloadable full text. (Electronic thesis submission was voluntary beginning in the spring of 2008, and was required as of fall 2008 matriculation into graduate programs requiring Master's theses.)