The purpose of the Auburn University Digital Collections is to showcase digital materials that support the teaching and research of Auburn faculty and students, and that, in turn, advance the mission of Auburn University. Based in the Ralph Brown Draughon Library, the Auburn University Digital Collections draws on a variety of resources - including the rich holdings of Auburn University's Special Collections and Archives Department - and makes them available to educators and students in Alabama and beyond.
The Alabama Cooperative Extension Service (ACES) collection contains photographs depicting the organization’s people and programs during the first half of the twentieth century.
View CollectionThis collection contains newsletters published monthly by the Extension Service of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute (now Auburn University).
View CollectionThis collection contains Southern U.S. newspapers – many of Alabama origin – published in the last quarter of the nineteenth century.
View CollectionThe Air Service Information Circulars are research reports produced during the 1920s by the U.S. Army Air Service (later Air Corps).
View CollectionThe Experiment Station Reports offer a unique and evocative glimpse into Alabama agriculture, education, rural life, and rural pastimes during the opening decades of the twentieth century.
View CollectionThe plans in this collection were created by the KPS Group and represent the best of city planning and urban design, downtown revitalization and preservation, campus planning, and the continued development of communities across Alabama.
View CollectionAlabamaMosaic makes unique historical treasures from Alabama's archives, libraries, museums, and other repositories electronically accessible to Alabama residents and scholars throughout the world.
View CollectionThis digital collection of postcards depicts historical scenes from different eras and locations across Alabama.
View CollectionThis collection of magazines and newsletters was produced by the Agricultural Club, engineering societies, and pharmacy students at Alabama Polytechnic Institute (later Auburn University) from the 1920s to the 1950s.
View CollectionThis collection contains architectural renderings in watercolor created by students of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute (now Auburn University).
View CollectionThis digital collection contains select images and captions from Mickey Logue and Jack Simms’s book, Auburn: A Pictorial History of The Loveliest Village.
View CollectionThese are the minutes of the Board of Trustees of Auburn University. They begin with the university’s incorporation as East Alabama Male College in 1856 and continue into the twentieth century.
View CollectionThis lecture series features experts in various fields of study discussing their latest research. Topics range from the Ivorybill Woodpecker to social movements in eighteenth-century Britain.
View CollectionThis collection contains a PDF version of every thesis and dissertation successfully defended at Auburn since the Fall 2005 semester.
View CollectionThis collection features the colorful covers of Auburn football programs from the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, many by famous commercial illustrators.
View CollectionThis collection contains viewable pages of Auburn University's yearbooks dating back to 1897.
View CollectionThis collection contains catalogs from the university's predecessor institutions – East Alabama Male College, Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama, and Alabama Polytechnic Institute.
View CollectionThis digital collection contains photographs of notable people, places, and events in the history of Auburn University, from the late nineteenth century onwards.
View CollectionOriginally presented in celebration of Auburn University’s 150th anniversary, these lectures focus on people, places, and events important to the university’s history.
View CollectionThis collection contains scrapbooks, photographs, programs, art, and posters highlighting the long history of Auburn University’s theatrical traditions.
View CollectionThe posters in this collection were created by students of the Urban Studio, an outreach program of Auburn University’s College of Architecture, Design and Construction. Each poster is a “snapshot” of an Alabama community’s Small Town Design Initiative.
View CollectionAUrora is an open-access repository of research and scholarly works by Auburn University faculty members.
View CollectionThis digital collection features images of wildflowers native to the Southeastern United States. They are identified by both common and scientific names and are accompanied by a description.
View CollectionThis collection consists of materials from the life and career of C. Harry Knowles, a notable inventor, entrepreneur, and philanthropist.
View CollectionThis collection consists of diaries and letters from the Civil War era. These materials offer a unique look into the lives of common soldiers, civilians, government authorities, officers, spies, and even a bodyguard of Abraham Lincoln.
View CollectionThis collection contains correspondence and memoirs from southerners who fled the South after the American Civil War and immigrated to Brazil. Transcripts are provided for all but the letters written in old Portuguese.
View CollectionThis collection of newsletters highlights the architecture, landscape architecture, interior design, graphic design, industrial design, urban design, and community planning in the State of Alabama.
View CollectionThis collection consists of materials on the life and career of Eugene B. Sledge. His time in the Marine Corps during World War II and his book “With the Old Breed: at Peleliu and Okinawa” are the primary topics.
View CollectionThis collection showcases the photographs of Everett Leavins, an amateur photographer who enjoyed taking and collecting photos of military life in the 1920s and 1930s.
View CollectionThis collection, based on a meeting between Union and Confederate authorities at Hampton Roads, Virginia, contains correspondence between conference participants Edwin Stanton and Thomas T. Eckert.
View CollectionThis is a brief narrative history of Auburn University from its establishment as East Alabama Male College in 1856 through the Hanly Funderburk administration in the 1980s.
View CollectionThis collection is part of Auburn University Libraries contribution to the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries "Intellectual Underpinnings of the Civil War" digitization project.
View CollectionThis collection contains digitized versions of maps housed in the Auburn University Special Collections and Archives Department.
View CollectionThis digital collection illustrates the life and career of Margaret Olivia Slocum Sage, an upper-class woman who created a new identity for herself in Gilded Age and Progressive Era America.
View CollectionThis collection contains digitized versions of the Orange and Blue, the student newspaper for the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama/Alabama Polytechnic Institute (now Auburn University) from 1893 through 1922.
View CollectionThe Gosse Digital Collection contains digital images of forty-nine 4 x 5-inch positive color transparencies of drawings of Alabama butterflies, caterpillars, moths, beetles, dragonflies, and other insects.
View CollectionThis collection contains digitized copies of Auburn University’s campus newspaper.
View CollectionThis collection contains sheet music published before 1923, most of which come from the collection of Fred Edmiston, a former Auburn University librarian.
View CollectionThis collection contains digital copies of an Auburn underground newspaper published in 1971.
View CollectionThis collection contains select items from the Eddie Rickenbacker Collection which documents the lives of the Rickenbacker family, particularly Eddie Vernon Rickenbacker.
This collection contains images of book covers, title pages, and versos from hundreds of twentieth-century paperback novels from the Wade Hall archival collection.
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