Digital Exhibitions and Collections

These unique materials from Wilson Special Collections Library were digitized for research, teaching, and discovery. Some collections are the result of collaborations with UNC faculty members, partner libraries, museums, and cultural heritage institutions. This is a partial list of all materials digitized from Wilson Special Collections Library.

Digital Exhibits

Exhibits in Translation

Chang and Eng Bunker exhibit:

Chang and Eng: The Original “Siamese Twins” (English)

昌与恩，独一无二的“暹罗双胞胎” (Simplified Chinese)

อินและจัน: กำเนิดแฝดสยาม (Thai)

Exhibits Created by UNC Students

• Climbing the Hill: Women in the History of UNC
• Teaching with Mass Market Paperbacks

• The Worlds Within Austen’s Two Inches Of Ivory: A Special Rare Books Exhibition For the Jane Austen Summer Program

Collection Titles

• 19th-Century American Sheet Music
• Carolina Digital Repository
• Carolina Keepsakes
• Catesby’s Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands
• The Civil War Day By Day
• Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions
• De Bry Engravings
• Diane McKenzie Hospital Postcard Collection
• Digital NC
• Digital North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives
• Digital Southern Folklife Collection
• Digital Southern Historical Collection
• Documenting the American South
• Edward J. McCauley Photographs
• Eng & Chang Bunker: The Siamese Twins
• Fiddlers Grove: Retrospective 1970-2000
• Florence Nightingale Letters
• Folkstreams: A National Preserve of Documentary Films about American Roots Cultures
• Gilmer Civil War Maps Collection
• Hecho a Mano: Book Arts of Latin America
• Historic Moneys
• Hugh Morton Collection of Photographs and Films
• José María Vargas Vila Digital Library
• Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society (Journal of the North Carolina Academy of Science)

• Lew Powell Memorabilia Collection
• The MacKinney Collection of Medieval Medical Illustrations
• Manigault Plantation Journal
• Medicine in Paris, 1801-1971
• The Mini Page Archive
• Minority Student Caucus
• New York Academy of Medicine Collection of International Medical Theses
• North Carolina Civil War Image Portfolio
• The North Carolina Election of 1898
• North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection
• North Carolina Maps
• North Carolina Postcards
• Paper Currency & Banknotes in the André Savine Collection
• Playmakers Repertory Company Playbills
• Russia Beyond Russia: Resources for the Study of the Russian Diaspora
• Southern Oral History Program Interviews
• The Thomas E. Watson Papers
• Tobacco Bag Stringing Operations in North Carolina and Virginia
• UNC Open Content Alliance Texts at the Internet Archive
• Vesalius Images: De Humani Corporis Fabrica
• A Virtual Museum of University History
• The William Blake Archive (hosted project)
• The William R. Ferris Collection
• World War 1 Postcards from the Bowman Gray Collection