What can I find here?
The materials in our repository are divided into text and image collections. Books and other printed materials which consist mostly of words can be found in the text collections; image collections consist primarily of images, such as post cards, newspaper images, and picture books. You can search them all from here, or search and browse each collection type individually.
What is this place?
Founded in 2001, the University of Missouri Digital Library provides a repository for digitized items on behalf of the UM Libraries. Over 20 text collections, and 23 image collections, have been added, including collections from 15 libraries around the state of Missouri. We provide negotiated free storage for digital objects and metadata, as well as a search interface, at no charge to any Missouri library, museum, or historical society. UM Library Systems keeps all this stuff running smoothly.
Other Collections
We maintain a list of other collections, including other University of Missouri Digital Collections, which we invite you to explore. If you are interesting in historic newspapers, you should check out our Missouri Historic Newspapers repository. We also have a handful of eBind and PDF files, created in the early days of the digital.library. We will incorporate these older collections into our full text repository, but you may currently view them as-is.
Sanborn Maps for Missouri
The Sanborn Fire Insurance Map Company,
established in 1867, compiled and
published maps of U.S. cities and towns for
the fire insurance industry to assess the risk
of insuring a particular property. At a scale
of 50 feet to an inch, the maps offer detailed
information on the use made of commercial
and industrial buildings, their size, shape
and construction material. Between 1955
and 1978, the Library of Congress withdrew
duplicate maps from their collection and
offered them to selected libraries. Maps for
Missouri towns and cities were given to the
MU Libraries. Documenting the layout of
390 Missouri cities from 1883 to 1951, LSO
has digitized 6,798 of the maps for Missouri
cities from 1880 to 1923.
University of Missouri Alumnus Magazine
This collection contains the principal
publication of the MU Alumni Association,
which has been represented by three
different titles throughout its history. The
publication was started in 1905, as the
Missouri Alumni Quarterly. In 1912, the
name was changed to Missouri Alumnus,
and the magazine became a monthly
publication. In 1916, publication was
assumed by the University of Missouri
Union and occurred on a twice monthly
basis. By 1921, the Alumni Association was
once again responsible for the Missouri
Alumnus and started publishing the
magazine ten months out to the year, later
changing to five publications per year. In
1995, the name was changed to its current
title: MIZZOU, and the magazine is now
published on a quarterly basis.
