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Auburn University Digital Collections

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.



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ACES Photographs
ACES Photographs

ACES Photographs

The Alabama Cooperative Extension Service (ACES) collection contains photographs depicting the organization’s people and programs during the first half of the twentieth century.

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ACES Newsletters
ACES Newsletters

ACES Newsletters

This collection contains newsletters published monthly by the Extension Service of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute (now Auburn University).

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ACES Photographs
ACES Photographs

Agriculture and Rural Life Newspapers

This collection contains Southern U.S. newspapers – many of Alabama origin – published in the last quarter of the nineteenth century.

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ACES Newsletters
ACES Newsletters

Air Service Information Circulars

The Air Service Information Circulars are research reports produced during the 1920s by the U.S. Army Air Service (later Air Corps).

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ACES Photographs
ACES Photographs

Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station (AAES) Reports

The 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.

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ACES Newsletters
ACES Newsletters

Alabama Community Plans

The 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.

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ACES Photographs
ACES Photographs

AlabamaMosaic

AlabamaMosaic makes unique historical treasures from Alabama's archives, libraries, museums, and other repositories electronically accessible to Alabama residents and scholars throughout the world.

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ACES Newsletters
ACES Newsletters

Alabama Postcard Collection

This digital collection of postcards depicts historical scenes from different eras and locations across Alabama.

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API Student Publications Collection
API Student Publications Collection

API Student Publications Collection

This 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.

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Architecture Watercolors Collection
Architecture Watercolors Collection

Architecture Watercolors Collection

This collection contains architectural renderings in watercolor created by students of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute (now Auburn University).

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Auburn: The Loveliest Village Photograph Collection
Auburn: The Loveliest Village Photograph Collection

Auburn: The Loveliest Village Photograph Collection

This digital collection contains select images and captions from Mickey Logue and Jack Simms’s book, Auburn: A Pictorial History of The Loveliest Village.

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Auburn University Board of Trustees Minutes
Auburn University Board of Trustees Minutes

Auburn University Board of Trustees Minutes

These 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.

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Auburn University Discover Auburn Lecture Series
Auburn University Discover Auburn Lecture Series

Auburn University Discover Auburn Lecture Series

This 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.

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Auburn University Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Auburn University Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Auburn University Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This collection contains a PDF version of every thesis and dissertation successfully defended at Auburn since the Fall 2005 semester.

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Auburn University Football Programs
Auburn University Football Programs

Auburn University Football Programs

This collection features the colorful covers of Auburn football programs from the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, many by famous commercial illustrators.

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Auburn University Glomeratas Online
Auburn University Glomeratas Online

Auburn University Glomeratas Online

This collection contains viewable pages of Auburn University's yearbooks dating back to 1897.

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Auburn University Historic Catalogs Collection
Auburn University Historic Catalogs Collection

Auburn University Historic Catalogs Collection

This collection contains catalogs from the university's predecessor institutions – East Alabama Male College, Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama, and Alabama Polytechnic Institute.

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Auburn University Photographs Collection
Auburn University Photographs Collection

Auburn University Photographs Collection

This digital collection contains photographs of notable people, places, and events in the history of Auburn University, from the late nineteenth century onwards.

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Sesquicentennial Lecture Series
Sesquicentennial Lecture Series

Sesquicentennial Lecture Series

Originally presented in celebration of Auburn University’s 150th anniversary, these lectures focus on people, places, and events important to the university’s history.

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Auburn University Theatre Collection
Auburn University Theatre Collection

Auburn University Theatre Collection

This collection contains scrapbooks, photographs, programs, art, and posters highlighting the long history of Auburn University’s theatrical traditions.

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Auburn University Urban Studio Digital Collection
Auburn University Urban Studio Digital Collection

Auburn University Urban Studio Digital Collection

The 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.

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AUrora
AUrora

AUrora

AUrora is an open-access repository of research and scholarly works by Auburn University faculty members.

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Caroline Dean Wildflower Collection
Caroline Dean Wildflower Collection

Caroline Dean Wildflower Collection

This 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.

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C. Harry Knowles Digital Collection
C. Harry Knowles Digital Collection

C. Harry Knowles Digital Collection

This collection consists of materials from the life and career of C. Harry Knowles, a notable inventor, entrepreneur, and philanthropist.

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Civil War Diaries and Letters Collections
Civil War Diaries and Letters Collections

Civil War Diaries and Letters Collections

This 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.

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Confederados
Confederados

Confederados

This 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.

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Design Alabama
Design Alabama

Design Alabama

This collection of newsletters highlights the architecture, landscape architecture, interior design, graphic design, industrial design, urban design, and community planning in the State of Alabama.

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Eugene B. Sledge Collection
Eugene B. Sledge Collection

Eugene B. Sledge Collection

This 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.

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Everett Leavins Photographs Collection
Everett Leavins Photographs Collection

Everett Leavins Photographs Collection

This collection showcases the photographs of Everett Leavins, an amateur photographer who enjoyed taking and collecting photos of military life in the 1920s and 1930s.

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Eugene B. Sledge Collection
Eugene B. Sledge Collection

Eugene B. Sledge Collection

This 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.

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History of Auburn University (1856-1983)
History of Auburn University (1856-1983)

History of Auburn University (1856-1983)

This 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.

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Intellectual Underpinnings of the Civil War
Intellectual Underpinnings of the Civil War

Intellectual Underpinnings of the Civil War

This collection is part of Auburn University Libraries contribution to the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries "Intellectual Underpinnings of the Civil War" digitization project.

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Maps from the Treasure Room Collection
Maps from the Treasure Room Collection

Maps from the Treasure Room Collection

This collection contains digitized versions of maps housed in the Auburn University Special Collections and Archives Department.

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Mrs. Russell Sage Digital Collection
Mrs. Russell Sage Digital Collection

Mrs. Russell Sage Digital Collection

This 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.

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Orange and Blue
Orange and Blue

Orange and Blue

This 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.

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P.H. Gosse Digital Collection
P.H. Gosse Digital Collection

P.H. Gosse Digital Collection

The 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.

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Plainsman
Plainsman

Plainsman

This collection contains digitized copies of Auburn University’s campus newspaper.

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Piano Bench Collection
Piano Bench Collection

Piano Bench Collection

This collection contains sheet music published before 1923, most of which come from the collection of Fred Edmiston, a former Auburn University librarian.

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Praxis Alternative Newspaper Collection
Praxis Alternative Newspaper Collection

Praxis Alternative Newspaper Collection

This collection contains digital copies of an Auburn underground newspaper published in 1971.

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Rickenbacker Collection
Rickenbacker Collection

Rickenbacker Collection

This collection contains select items from the Eddie Rickenbacker Collection which documents the lives of the Rickenbacker family, particularly Eddie Vernon Rickenbacker.

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Wade Hall 20th Century Paperback Collection
Wade Hall 20th Century Paperback Collection

Wade Hall 20th Century Paperback Collection

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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