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Digital collections and exhibitions

Collected by: McGill University

Archived since: Mar, 2024

Description:

Beginning in the late 1990s, McGill Libraries have hosted many digital collection and exhibition websites. This collection preserves those websites for future use even as they are retired or have their content migrated to new systems. This collection also contains exhibitions and research websites from McGill Libraries' research partners and partner organizations.

Subject:   Universities & Libraries Arts & Humanities

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Title: The John Bland Canadian Architecture Collection (CAC)

URL: https://cac.mcgill.ca/

Description: The Canadian Architecture Collection (CAC) was established by Professor Emeritus John Bland, Director of the McGill School of Architecture for 31 years. This site hosted archival finding aids for Canadian architects whose archival papers were collected by the CAC. The site's contents were later migrated to McGill's archival description catalogue.

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Title: The John Bland Archive

URL: https://cac.mcgill.ca/bland/

Description: This site was created to display the finding aid for the John Bland archival fonds held by McGill Libraries. The site also included a section called "Building Canada" that provided information about Canadian architectural history as well as a collection of digitized architectural slides from Bland's personal collection.

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Title: Virtual McGill

URL: https://cac.mcgill.ca/campus/

Description: This site, created in 1996, provides images of McGill University’s campus buildings and describes the programs they house or once housed.

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Title: Arthur Erickson: The Middle East Projects

URL: https://cac.mcgill.ca/erickson/

Description: This site, created in 1999, was created to host the finding aid for the Arthur Erickson fonds. The archival material documenting the Middle East projects of Arthur Erickson was first deposited in the Canadian Architecture Collection (CAC) of McGill University in 1988.

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Title: The G.E. Wilson Archive

URL: https://cac.mcgill.ca/gewilson/

Description: This site served as an online finding aid for the G.E. Wilson archival fonds, held by McGill Libraries Canadian Architecture Collection. The site's contents were later moved to McGill's archival description catalogue.

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Title: Habitat '67

URL: https://cac.mcgill.ca/moshesafdie/habitat/

Description: The Habitat 67 website was created in 1999 to show sketches, plans, elevations, sections, working drawings, structural details, and photographs of models relating to the housing complex.

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Title: History Writ Large: The Architecture of Percy Erskine Nobbs

URL: https://cac.mcgill.ca/nobbs/

Description: This site, created in 2002, contained the finding aid for the Percy Erskine Nobbs fonds, held by McGill Libraries, as well as listed selected publications by and about the architect.

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Title: Le fonds France Gagnon Pratte Collection

URL: https://cac.mcgill.ca/pratte/

Description: This site was a searchable index for the France Gagnon-Pratte archival fonds, held by McGill Libraries' Canadian Architecture Collection. The site's contents were later migrated to McGill's archival description catalogue.

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Title: John Schreiber: A Guide to the Archive

URL: https://cac.mcgill.ca/schreiber/

Description: The site, created in 2003, was a searchable index of the John Schreiber archival fonds, held by McGill's Rare Books and Special Collections. The site's contents were later migrated to McGill Libraries' archival description catalogue.

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Title: Ramsay Traquair: The Architectural Heritage of Quebec

URL: https://cac.mcgill.ca/traquair/

Description: This site was created to house the finding aid for the Ramsay Traquair archival fonds, held by McGill Libraries. The site also contained a biography of Traquair and a bibliography that covers primary and secondary source publications, lectures by Traquair, and also his unpublished material.

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Title: Art Deco and the Decorative Arts in the 1920s and 1930s

URL: https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/artdeco/

Description: A digital exhibition created for the 10th World Congress being held in Montreal, Quebec, May 24 – 30, 2009. It included examples of Art Deco design in various formats and styles including ephemera, popular magazines, book-bindings, typography, and advertisements, from the holdings of the Rare Books and Special Collections.

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Title: Tower of Babel or Universal Understanding? The Art of Translation in the Eighteenth Century

URL: https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/babel/

Description: This site was a digital exhibition about the practice of translation in the eighteenth century, created in conjunction with the conference "The Eighteenth Century: Influence of the Past, Presence of the Future" of the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, held 15-18 October 2008.

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Title: The Birdman of McGill: Casey Wood

URL: https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/caseywood/

Description: This site was a digital exhibition of 119 drawings, manuscripts, photographs, and publications by and about Dr. Casey Wood whose research into diseases of the eye led him to ophthalmology, the study of the eyesight of birds and fueled his interest in birds themselves as well as his passion for building one of North America's greatest rare book collections dedicated to ornithology and zoology.

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Title: Champlain Revisited: Celebrating the Foundation of Quebec in 1608

URL: https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/champlain/

Description: This site was a digital exhibition of materials held by Rare Books and Special Collections related to Samuel de Champlain as well as the tercentenary celebrations of 1908. The physical exhibition was createde for the 400th anniversary, and the digital exhibition was launched in 2009 as a companion.

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Title: McGill Library's Chapbook Collection

URL: https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/chapbooks/

Description: This site contains digitizations and TEI-annotated text files for hundreds of chapbooks from McGill's Rare Books and Special Collections.

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Title: In Search of Your Canadian Past: The Canadian County Atlas Project

URL: https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/countyatlas/

Description: The County Atlas site, launched in 1999, includes digitized county maps and searchable information on ca. 140,000 people living in Ontario counties during the 1880s.

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Title: Expo 67 Slide Collection

URL: https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/expo-67/

Description: This site displayed the Meredith Dixon slide collection of photographs taken at the 1967 World Exhibition in Montreal.

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Title: A Garment Worker's Legacy: The Joe Fishstein Collection of Yiddish Poetry

URL: https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/fishstein/

Description: This site, created in 2001, was both a searchable index of books in the Joe Fishstein Collection of Yiddish Poetry as well as a digital exhibition of selected items from the collection.

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Title: Women, Work, and Song in Nineteenth-Century France / Femmes, travail et chanson dans la France du XIXe siècle

URL: https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/fsm/

Description: Women, Work, and Song in Nineteenth-Century France is a bilingual digital exhibition created by the Marvin Duchow Music Librar. The exhibit explores both women’s work and the cultural work about women in the popular song industry, drawing on a selection of pieces from the 19th-Century French Sheet Music Collection at the library.

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Title: The Marjorie Howard Futcher Photo Collection

URL: https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/futcher/

Description: This site was created to display the digitized photo albums of Gwendolen Marjorie Howard Futcher (1882-1969), who was born into a social milieu of prominent Canadian business, political, and academic figures of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The two photo albums cover the 1890s and first decade of the twentieth century.

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Title: La Modernité et ses Platitudes: James Gillray and his Contemporaries

URL: https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/gillray

Description: This site is a digitial exhibition featuring works by the London engraver James Gillray, who, with his colleagues Thomas Rowlandson and Isaac Cruikshank, were among the first to stake their professional livelihood on visual satire.

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Title: Canadian Corporate Reports: McGill Digital Archive

URL: https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/hrcorpreports/

Description: This site was created as an index of McGill's digitized corporate annual report collection. The McGill Library holds a robust print collection of Canadian corporate annual reports. The collection, which traces many companies back to the 19th Century, consists of annual reports from approximately 2,000 Canadian corporations in all business sectors.

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Title: Industrial Architecture of Montreal

URL: https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/industrial/

Description: The site, created in 1999, was an index of approximately 130 industrial buildings in the city of Montreal.

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Title: Cultural Practices of Intermediality

URL: https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/intermediality/

Description: This digital exhibition, first published in 2012, addresses the question, "How did print interact with the media ecology between 1700 and 1900?" The exhibition takes as case studies the stage and the visual arts, as they were figured and refigured through print, using items from Rare Books and Special Collections.

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Title: Interpersonal Botany: Intersections Between People, Print and Botany, 1700-1900

URL: https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/interpersonal/

Description: This site was a digital exhibition of materials from Rare Books and Special Collections that investigated how people used print to structure and mediate their social relationships.

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Title: Islamic calligraphy: From the Islamic Rare Books Collection

URL: https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/islamic_calligraphy/

Description: This site was a digital exhibition of items from McGill's collection of Arabic/Islamic calligraphy, from dry black and white calligraphy of the 10th century to colorful illuminated pieces of the 19th century. Exhibition included albums, panels and isolated leaves representing various styles of Arabic calligraphy.

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Title: Interactions of Script and Print in the Nineteenth Century

URL: https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/isp/

Description: This site was a digital exhibition created in 2009 exploring the nineteenth-century media ecology in which script and print fed off each other in unexpected ways, generating new cultural possibilities through their mutual interactions. The digital exhibition was created as a companion to a physical exhibition mounted in conjunction with a one-day graduate seminar, "British Romanticism and the Survival of Manuscript Culture" in April 2009.

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Title: The Moravian Beginnings of Canadian Inuit Literature

URL: https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/moravian/

Description: This digital exhibition explores the Moravian influence on Inuit Peoples in Nunatsiavut and Nunavik and the beginnings of Inuit written literature in Canada.

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Title: The McGill University Napoleon Collection

URL: https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/napoleon/

Description: This site provided a searchable index of over 2,500 Napoleon related monographs and visual material (over 11,000 prints and 1,500 maps) held by Rare Books and Special Collections.

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Title: The William Osler Photo Collection

URL: https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/osler/

Description: This site houses digitized photos from the William Osler photo collection held by the Osler Library at McGill.

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Title: Osler Library Prints Collection

URL: https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/oslerprints/

Description: This site was created to display the Osler Library Prints Collection: this collection brings together a variety of visual documents related to the history of medicine, spanning the 17th to the 20th century. The collection of 2,500 items consists predominantly of prints, though it also includes photographs, drawings, posters, and cartoons.

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Title: Wilder Penfield Digital Collection

URL: https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/penfieldfonds/

Description: This site was created to display digitized items from the Wilder Penfield Fonds, P142, held at McGill University's Osler Library of the History of Medicine. The Penfield fonds consists of over eighty metres of Penfield's personal and professional records dating from his childhood up until his death in 1976.

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Title: The Persianate Literary Heritage: Hidden Treasures from McGill’s Collections

URL: https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/persianate/

Description: This site was a digital exhibition of McGill’s rich collection of manuscripts, miniatures and lithographs in Persian (Farsi).

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Title: Pulling the Strings: The Rosalynde Stearn Puppet Collection

URL: https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/puppets/

Description: This site was a digital exhibition highlighting the Rosalynde Stearn Puppet Collection, collected by the Canadian puppeteer Rosalynde Osborne Stearn to be a comprehensive collection on puppet theatre with representative examples of many different periods and countries.

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Title: People in the World of Print

URL: https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/pwp/

Description: People in the World of Print was a digital exhibition from 2011 examining how people interacted with print between 1700 and 1900.

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Title: Children's Books of the Early Soviet Era

URL: https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/russian/

Description: This site was a digital exhibition of select items from Rare Books and Special Collections' collection Soviet children's books published in the 1920s and 30s. Items were chosen for their original aesthetic quality, linguistic variety, and thematic diversity.

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Title: Harold Nathan Segall Fonds

URL: https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/segall/

Description: This site was a created the house the finding aid for the Harold Nathan Segall Fonds (P109), held by the Osler Library of the History of Medicine. The finding aid content was later migrated to the AtoM archival catalogue.

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Title: Shahnameh by Ferdowsi

URL: https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/shahnameh/

Description: This digital exhition featured 16 Persian illustrations representing different episodes in the Persian epic poem Shahnameh. The paintings range in dates from the 14th to the 18th century.

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Title: Max Stern Book Collection + Virtual Exhibition

URL: https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/stern/

Description: Canadian philanthropist Dr. Max Stern’s book collection approximates 2,000 items and was bequeathed to Concordia, McGill, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. This website included a virtual exhibition, contextual information, and an index of the items catalogued from the collection.

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Title: Telling Stories: Nursery Rhymes, Fables and Fairy Tales from the Sheila R. Bourke Collection

URL: https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/stories/

Description: Telling Stories was a digital exhibition highlighting materials from the Sheila R. Bourke Collection in McGill Libraries' Rare Books and Special Collections.

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Title: Strokes and Hairlines: Elegant Writing and its Place in Muslim Book Culture

URL: https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/strokes_hairlines/

Description: This digital exhibition was a companion to a physical exhibition created to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Institute of Islamic Studies. It featured 30 handwritten specimens in Arabic script and other artefacts stretching from Maghreb to India now housed in the rich manuscript collections of the McGill Library.

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Title: Our Friend, the Sun: Images of Light Therapeutics from the Osler Library Collection, c.1901-1944

URL: https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/sun/

Description: This site was created as a digital exhibition about the visual culture of heliotherapy, an ancient practice of total bodily exposure to sunlight, and phototherapy, an electric light therapy pioneered in the 1890s. It featured 43 illustrated texts, photographs and objects.

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Title: The Sunday School Library Collection

URL: https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/sunday/

Description: This website, created in 2005, provided an index for McGill Libraries Rare Books and Special Collections' Sunday School Library Collection, along with a socio-historical examination of Sunday schools, their libraries, and their books.

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Title: Theatrical Space as a Model for Architecture: A Bibliography

URL: https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/tspace/home.htm

Description: This site was created in 2002 as an online bibliography of books relating to the relationship between architecture and theatre from the 16th to the 20th century.

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Title: Tuberculosis: The Enduring Enemy

URL: https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/tuberculosis/

Description: This site was created in 2000 to make widely available in electronic format the full texts and images of the Osler Library's collection of historic works on the study of Tuberculosis, in order to document and illustrate how physicians and researchers have responded to the disease during the past two centuries.

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Title: Urban Plan Collection

URL: https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/urbanplanning/

Description: This site, launched in 2001, served as a database and finding aid for a collection accumulated by the McGill University School of Urban Planning from the 1950s-1990s. The collection was donated to McGill Libraries in 2001. The site's contents have been migrated to McGill's archival description catalogue.

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Title: The Western Encounter with China, 1600-1900

URL: https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/westchina/

Description: This site, created in 2005, was a digital exhibition of library materials documenting Western perspectives on China.

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Title: Celebrating the Winter Olympics 1924-2006

URL: https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/winter-olympics/

Description: To commemorate the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Games, this exhibition presented a short history of Canadians’ participation at the Winter Olympics from 1924 to 2006.

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Title: Writing in Company: Forms of Collaboration in Artistic Works and Scientific Knowledge 1700-1914

URL: https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/writing_company/index.php

Description: This site, created in 2014, was a digital exhibition created by Rare Books and Special Collections, highlighting examples of collaboration among writers associated with the rise of popular literature, writers and illustrators or composers, creators and interpreters as well as written collaborations between members of salons, artistic movements, religious orders, academic institutions or scientific expeditions.

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Title: McGilliana: 200 Years of Student Life

URL: https://mcgilliana.library.mcgill.ca/

Description: This site was created as a digital exhibition of items from the McGill University Archives relating to the history of student life at McGill, divided into several thematic categories.

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Title: The Gwillim Project

URL: https://thegwillimproject.com/

Description: The Gwillim Project centres around the unpublished correspondence and artwork of two sisters who lived in Madras (now Chennai), India, at the beginning of the nineteenth century. The original materials are widely dispersed in institutions in Canada and the UK. McGill Libraries was a partner in the development of the project.

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Title: Football at McGill, 1874-2000

URL: https://www.archives.mcgill.ca/public/exhibits/football/index.htm

Description: This site, created in 2003, is a digital exhibition of of Redman football team photographs collected and donated to the Archives by Charlie Baillie.

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Title: John Peters Humphrey: Citizen of the World

URL: https://www.archives.mcgill.ca/public/exhibits/humphrey/index.html

Description: The site, created in 2004, was a digital exhibition about the life of John Peters Humphrey, a graduate of McGill University and a principal author of United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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Title: The History and Tradition of Installation, 1829-2003

URL: https://www.archives.mcgill.ca/public/exhibits/installation/

Description: The site, created in 2003, documents the practice of the installation ceremony at McGill, or the welcoming of the new univerity Principal, highlighting numerous documents held by McGill University Archives relating to the ceremony.

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Title: History and Archives Committee of the JCCCM Collection

URL: https://www.archives.mcgill.ca/public/exhibits/jcccm/jcccmmain.htm

Description: This site, created in 2006, shows digitized items from the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre of Montréal (JCCCM) at the McGill Archives as well as information about the collection.

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Title: Student Life at McGill: 1829 - 1997

URL: https://www.archives.mcgill.ca/public/exhibits/life/index.htm

Description: This site was a digitial exhibit, created in 1998, documenting McGill student life in the areas of studies, sports, social life, and social issues.

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Title: The Journal of Sir William E. Logan, 1845-1846

URL: https://www.archives.mcgill.ca/public/exhibits/logan/

Description: This site, created in 2005, shows the digitized journal of Sir William E. Logan. The original journal is held by the McGill Archives.

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Title: McGill Remembers

URL: https://www.archives.mcgill.ca/public/exhibits/mcgillremembers/

Description: This site provides access to thousands of digitized archival records pertaining to the students, alumni, faculty and staff of McGill University who contributed to the Second World War effort.

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