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Data Updated: 6 November 2023
Newsreels from Sound and Vision on the Netherlands in the 20th century
History
Nearly 3,000 videos from the Open Images (Open Beelden) dataset of the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. The collection contains newsreels from the Polygoon collection and several other films on the Netherlands in the twentieth century. It contains historical news events, with topics such as art, culture, transportation, health and healthcare, nature, politics, sports, pets and fashion.
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Photographs of soldiers during WWI
History
A collection of 50 photographs of soldiers in caves and trenches during WWI.
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Incunabula from Edinburgh
History
A collection of 27 incunabula from Edinburgh. These books, printed before the year 1501, are among the most precious items in any library and Edinburgh University is privileged to have a significant collection of nearly 300 such books.
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Content collected during the Europeana 1914-1918 roadshows
History
An ever-growing collection of over 185,000 medals, letters, postcards, pictures, diaries and other memorabilia brought together during the Europeana 1914-1918 roadshows.
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Calotypes and portraits from Edinburgh
History
This collection of 701 items includes photographs of local characters and famous figures of the era, as well as landscape and urban scenes.
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Popes on artwork, drawings and documents from the Rijksmuseum in the Netherlands
History
A collection of around 1,000 drawings, prints and artworks of popes through the centuries and related documents. This is a subset of the Rijksmuseum dataset in Europeana.
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