Herbert M. Webster began chronicling his adventures of the Great Smoky Mountains at age 16 when he attended at Rotary Club camps for underprivileged boys is Gatlinburg.  He has since captured many enduring images of the Smoky Mountain backcountry, including nearly 600 images in this collection.

The Live from a Dark Room exhibition photographs digital collection features 290 images used in a 2018 exhibit in Archives & Special Collections by the same name. This exhibit, and now digital collection, offers a wide sampling of the bands, people, venues, and photographers that have defined rock, indie, punk, and hardcore music in Louisville. Like the exhibition from which it derived, this digital collection is in no way comprehensive—many vital Louisville musicians and bands are not represented. This digital collection is a part of the Louisville Underground Music Archive (LUMA), founded in 2013 by the University of Louisville Libraries’ Archives and Special Collections (ASC), which documents the history and culture of the Louisville rock music scene from the 1970s to the present.

The purpose of the Triad Black Lives Matters Collection is to document the BLM movement, police brutality protests, and race relations in the Triad area of North Carolina. The collection contains digital photographs and video footage relating to the Black Lives Matter movement and the George Floyd protests.

TULANE UNIVERSITY — Fantastical floats and colorful costumes have become a hallmark of Mardi Gras parades, but did you know these Carnival traditions date back well over a century? Tulane’s Louisiana Research Collection preserves possibly the largest collection of New Orleans Carnival paper items, and the digital Carnival Collection features more than 5,500 original float and costume designs. Most are from Carnival’s “Golden Age” (the 1870s through the 1940s) with about three hundred designs from 1950 to 1970.