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      1. AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS OF COLORADO
      2. ALICE MACKIE DIARIES
      3. ANN ROY COLLECTION
      4. ARCHIVISION BASE TO MODULE 9
      5. BEN GRAY LUMPKIN DIGITAL FOLK MUSIC CO…
      6. BENT-HYDE PAPERS
      7. CHARLES F. SNOW PHOTOGRAPHS
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      9. COLORADO COAL PROJECT
      10. COLORADO DAILY COLLECTION
      11. COLORADO DIRECTORIES
      12. COLORADO HISTORICAL MAPS
      13. COLORADO SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL COLLECTION
      14. CONFERENCE ON WORLD AFFAIRS AUDIO ARCHIVE
      15. CU CHICANX/LATINX HISTORY COLLECTION
      16. CU JAPANESE AND JAPANESE AMERICAN COMM…
      17. CU MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: EARL MOR…
      18. CU MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: VERTEBRA…
      19. D. K. BAILEY COLLECTION: EXPEDITION JOURNAL
      20. DIE PW WOCHE: STIMMEN AUS LAGER U. HEIMAT
      21. DIGITAL SHEET MUSIC COLLECTION
      22. DON CAMPBELL PAPERS
      23. DWIGHT GARRIGUES LAVENDER COLLECTION
      24. EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY IN ASIA
      25. GRAUMAN'S THEATRES SCORES, 1882-1937
      26. HAL SAYRE PAPERS COLLECTION
      27. HISTORIC HATS AND HEADDRESSES
      28. HISTORICAL AND ILLUSTRATED FAIRY TALES
      29. HOLLAND COLLECTION OF LITERARY LETTERS…
      30. IRA CURRENT COLLECTION
      31. IRA WOLFF PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY COLLECTION
      32. J. RAYMOND BRACKETT PHOTOGRAPH COLLECTION
      33. JAMES F. WILLARD COLLECTION
      34. JOSEPH STURTEVANT COLLECTION
      35. KEN AND FLO JACOBS COLLECTION
      36. LACHLAN MCLEAN PHOTOGRAPH COLLECTION
      37. LEAH NOVICK COLLECTION
      38. LEONARD TINNÉ BERTHON COLLECTION
      39. LEROY H. MILLER COLLECTION
      40. MACLAREN ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS COLLECTION
      41. MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS AND INCUNABULA CO…
      42. MINING MAPS OF COLORADO
      43. NOVELA MUNDIAL SERIES
      44. PUBLISHERS BINDINGS
      45. RARE AND DISTINCTIVE COLLECTIONS MOVIN…
      46. RARE AND DISTINCTIVE COLLECTIONS TEACH…
      47. RICARDO VIÑES PIANO MUSIC COLLECTION
      48. ROCKY FLATS COLLECTION
      49. ROGER G. BARRY GLACIER PHOTOGRAPHS COL…
      50. ROGER G. BARRY GLACIOLOGY COLLECTION E…
      51. SANBORN FIRE INSURANCE MAPS OF COLORADO
      52. SOUNDSCAPES OF THE PEOPLE: A MUSICAL E…
      53. STAN BRAKHAGE COLLECTION
      54. T.D.A. COCKERELL COLLECTION
      55. THE 3D NATURAL HISTORY DIGITAL COLLECTION
      56. U.S. MILITARY IN WAR AND PEACE
      57. VINCENT COMPARETTO COLLECTION
      58. WALTER ORR ROBERTS PAPERS
      59. WESTERN AMERICANA COLLECTION
      60. WINNIPEG JEWISH RENEWAL ORAL HISTORY C…
      61. WOMEN POETS OF THE ROMANTIC PERIOD
      62. WORLD WAR I COLLECTION
      63. ZALMAN M. SCHACHTER-SHALOMI COLLECTION
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The Ira Wolff Photographic History Collection consists of approximately 7,000 original photographs and 7,000 publications, largely from the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. As a whole, the collection traces the invention of photography, the scientific and technical components of its development, the history of photomechanical printing, vernacular photographic practices, and the medium's role in social and cultural documentation. The digitized portion of the collection focuses exclusively on private photographic albums ranging from cartes-de-visite albums to travel albums.

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