About the Collections

The Digital Collections program is coordinated by the Digital Initiatives Department. The collections contain over 16,000 digital objects -including photographs, tradecards, student newspaper, manuscripts, and videos- archived in Special Collections, Western College Memorial Archives, and other library departments.

Digital Initiatives was created to be a center for the benchmarking, establishment of best practices, production, quality control, delivery, storage, retrieval, description and preservation of digital library collections for the Miami University Libraries.

Current collections available online:

William Holmes McGuffey William Holmes McGuffey Collection

The resources available at this site consist of selected documents from the William Holmes McGuffey Papers, held by the Walter Havighurst Special Collections Library at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. The major portion of the McGuffey Papers was collected [...more]

Miami Oral History Miami Stories Oral History Project

Coordinated by the University Archives, Miami Stories invites groups of people with experiences commoncurrent and former students, faculty, and staff, as well as friends of University theto offer recollections of their Miami years and to hear reminiscences [...more]

Frank Snyder Collection Frank Snyder Photograph Collection

Frank R. Snyder was probably the leading Oxford, Ohio, photographer during the early twentieth century. He also worked for Miami University during this period, taking many of the photographs that were used in University publications. After his death in 1958 [...more]

Western Round-Up Student Newspaper Western Round-Up Student Newspaper

The Western Round-Up project, a new collection that allows for online access to student newspapers from Western College, made its official debut on Reunion Weekend, June 15-17. The collection aims to preserve, digitize and provide access to the student [...more]

Victorian Trade Cards Victorian Trade Card Collection

The Charles and Laura Dohm Shields Trade Card Collection is housed in the Walter Havighurst Special Collections Library at Miami University. Donated in 1987 by Charles Dohm Shields the collection contains several thousand advertising trade dating from the [...more]