Digital Collections

Digital Library Initiatives (DLI) Bibliographic Databases: Cross-search any number of our digitized collections from a single interface: journals, photographs, finding aids, letters, articles, scrapbooks, electronic theses and dissertations, and more.

Albert "Dutch" Roth Collection: This online archive presents the work of one of the most important photographers of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Some 1200 digital images depict pioneer life in the Greenbrier and Mt. Le Conte Sections, and document the early stages of the park’s creation.

Children's Defense Fund Collection: In partnership with the Children's Defense Fund (CDF), this digital
collection highlights historical publications representing its 35-year
history as children's rights advocates. The pilot project provides
access to Children's Defense Fund publications and reports on federal
and state policies, laws, and pending legislation that directly benefit
or harm children. Each publication offers significant data on numerous
child statistics as well as information on child policy, including
health and mental health, child welfare, early childhood and youth
development, juvenile justice, and family income.

Early Images of Egypt: A web presentation of early 20th century photographs related to ancient and modern Egypt. Researchers in this field can now search and retrieve images from a collection of fragile prints housed in the Frank H. McClung Museum at the University of Tennessee.

Electronic Theses and Dissertations: Find electronic theses and dissertations authored by University of Tennessee students since 1999. Each semester, a new batch of submissions is added to the collection.

From Pi Beta Phi to Arrowmont - Great Smoky Mountains Regional Project: A fully-searchable digital collection of letters, diaries, photographs, and short printed items that document the history of the Pi Beta Phi Settlement School and Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts.

Henry Pippitt Diaries: Three journals kept by Union soldier Henry Pippitt intimately describe life in Company G of the 104th Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the American Civil War.
The collection is unusual in that it covers the regiment's entire term of service, providing a history of the 104th Ohio as well as a glimpse into Henry Pippitt's life as a soldier. Pippitt's journals describe battles, troop movements, and camp conditions.
The diaries are the property of the Mohican Historical Society's Cleo Redd Fisher Museum in Loudonville, Ohio, which graciously allowed the UT Libraries to digitize the journals and make them available.

Journal of Economic Issues: Digitized back issues of a scholarly quarterly published by the Association for Evolutionary Economics. This pilot project seeks to improve access to scholarly information while assisting faculty in disseminating their work.

Southeastern Native American Documents: Some 2,000 letters, diaries, military orders, maps, legal documents, and other items, relating to the Native American population of the Southeastern United States from the period 1730 – 1842.

Southern Manuscript Sermons before 1800: A Bibliographic Database Edited by Michael A. Lofaro: For many years early sermonic literature has proven to the key to the understanding of the New England mind through the study of Puritan texts and, by extension and implication of scholarly emphases, the American mind. The bibliography is the first guide to the study of the manuscript sermon literature of the southern colonies/states of Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. No other tool exists.
This bibliographic database will help scholars to construct a fuller picture of the regional nature of the Southern mind before 1800 as well as its contribution to a national ethos, ultimately leading to a more balanced appraisal of American intellectual history by providing access to a considerable body of southern sermons to place alongside those of the northern and middle states for critical assessment.

Tennessee Documentary History, 1796 - 1850: View the story of Tennessee from statehood to the pre-Civil War period through the letters and documents of such individuals as Andrew Jackson, William Blount, Andrew Johnson, John Sevier, and many more.

Tennessee Newspaper Project: The Tennessee Newspaper Project (TNP) is part of the United States Newspaper Program, a national effort to locate, catalog, preserve on microfilm, and make accessible, newspapers published in the United States from the earliest colonial days to the present.

Thompson Brothers Digital Photograph Collection: The Thompson Brothers Digital Photograph Collection offers a glimpse of the Great Smoky Mountains as seen through the lenses of the Thompson Brothers. Images are taken from collections held at Knox County Public Library's McClung Historical Collection, Harvard University, and Colorado College.

University of Tennessee Catalogs Online: An archive of the current and past undergraduate and graduate print catalogs, dating back to 1994. The Digital Library Initiatives will continue to update this collection on a yearly basis as a service to students and faculty.

University of Tennessee Herbarium: The Online Vascular Plant Herbarium provides a collection of Tennessee native plants that can be searched and browsed by family, genus, common name as well as location. Distribution maps and color photographs provide a greater understanding of the growth patterns of native species.

University of Tennessee Special Collections Online: Descriptions of many of the manuscript and university archives collections housed in Special Collections are online. These finding aids contain information on a collection's content and creator, as well as a list of the materials in the collection. Some individual items from Special Collections' manuscript collections have been digitized and are also online. Links to these items may be found in the finding aids.

Volunteer Voices Statewide Digitization Project: Volunteer Voices is a state-wide digitization project to provide access to primary sources that document Tennessee's rich history and culture. Volunteer Voices combines the collaborative efforts to Tennessee archives, historical societies, libraries, museums, and schools.

Volunteer Yearbooks: The Volunteer Yearbook offers a unique visual and literary history of the University of Tennessee through the eyes of the students. The yearbook was first published in 1897 and has appeared annual ever since, with the exception of the 1918 interruption of school activities by World War

William Cox Cochran Photograph Collection: William Cox Cochran captured these 89 images of East Tennessee during August 12 thru 30, 1886. The photographs are of East Tennessee people and landmarks, mostly located in what is now the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

WPA Photographs of TVA Archaeological Projects: The WPA collection presents an online selection from some 15000 archaeological photographs that document prehistoric sites along the Tennessee River Valley, prior to the flooding of the basin by the TVA dam construction.

Find Other Digital Collections

OAIster: Search this OCLC database to find all types of digital resources from academic institutions all over the world. OAIster contains over 20 million digital objects, from poems and electronic theses to photographs and historic documents.