Digital PUL

Documenting Global Activism, 1933 to 2021

The Pakistani Film Ephemera Collection contains posters and film booklets produced from the second half of the twentieth century forward.

A selection of digitized rarities

Transforming rare texts into accessible digital resources

The Badakhshan Manuscript Digitization Project consists of roughly 65 original, privately held genealogical histories (nasab-namahs) from Badakhshan in Tajikistan and Afghanistan dating from the 16th to the 20th centuries. It is the first effort to make available the history of genealogical documentation in the Ismaili community.

A Princeton Collaboration with the Jewish Theological Seminary

The Geniza Collection represents a substantial portion of some 300,000 items "discovered" in the late 19th century in the Cairo Geniza (a Hebrew word meaning "storeroom") of the Ben Ezra Synagogue in the old city of Cairo (Al-Fusṭāṭ). The Cairo Geniza fragments — which span more than a millennium — were consigned to the storeroom because damaged or worn-out religious texts and unneeded old documents could not be thrown away if they contained the name of God."

These photographs document the multiple forms of visual resistance that emerged during the early months of protest (roughly from October to December 2019), from graffiti to larger-scale interventions, many of which were subsequently modified or destroyed.

Step by Step: The March Towards Equal Employment Opportunity

Companion to the exhibition jointly developed by Princeton University Library and the Industrial Relations Section--showcasing efforts made by governments and organizations over the last 80 years.

"Dissidents and Activists in Sri Lanka, 1960s to 1990s" is a collection of ephemera curated by the American Institute for Lankan Studies, hosted by PUL, and federated for discovery by the South Asia Open Archives.

Over the past several years, Princeton University Library (PUL) has collected several ledger books and related materials that document free African-American communities in the early 19th century and post-emancipation African-American communities from the Reconstruction period and into the late 19th century.

The Guatemala News and Information Bureau (GNIB) was an activist and solidarity group based in San Francisco, California, created in 1978 to support and inform the public about Guatemalan movements for peace and justice, indigenous rights, and labor rights.

The Indigenous Studies digital portal serves as a landing page for some 400 digitized manuscripts, books, prints, maps, and artifacts related to the Indigenous cultures of North America, including items related to the Lunaapeewak peoples on whose ancestral lands sits the campus of Princeton University.

This collection contains digital images of protest signs created in various cities across Spain during the Indignados/15M protest movement of 2011.

Records of Resistance from the Princeton University Library

Since 2010, Khenpo Sodargye has been invited to give talks at more than 100 universities in Asia, Europe, Oceania, North America and Africa, including most top universities of the world, such as Harvard University, Yale University, Columbia University, Stanford University, Princeton University, Sydney University, and the University of Göttingen.

LGBTQIA+

This collection is comprised of LGBTQIA materials including: periodicals, magazines, ephemera and monographs. The collection is international in scope, largely concentrated from the 1950's to the early 2000's.

Items related to the Lunaapeewak peoples

An exhibit of selected items in the DPUL collections related to the Lunaapeewak peoples, on whose ancestral lands sits the campus of Princeton University.

مخطوطات العالم الإسلامية في مكتبة جامعة برينستون

A curated selection of extraordinary manuscripts hosted or held by Princeton University Library.

Most of the Library's papyri are in the Manuscripts Division, chiefly Greek documents from Ptolemaic, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt (Oxyrhynchus and the Fayum towns). There are also Greek literary, sub-literary, and Scriptural fragments, and examples in Hieroglyphic, Hieratic, Demotic, Coptic, Latin, and Arabic.

Selections from Princeton’s collections of rare documents of the artistic, intellectual, social and political history of Russia, Eastern Europe and the territories of the Former Soviet Union.

Princeton, J.Douglas Brown, and the Cornerstone of Economic Security

This exhibit showcases the work of labor economist, and Princeton economics professor, J. Douglas Brown (1898-1986). Brown’s philosophies informed the design of the Social Security Act of 1935.

The South Asian Ephemera Collection is an openly accessible repository of items from the region of South Asia. It spans a variety of subjects and languages and supports research, teaching, and private study. Newly acquired materials are being digitized and added on an ongoing basis.

Digital collection of works by Ukrainian artists

Collection of Digital Artwork

This exhibit preserves part of the digital art from the Woman, Life, Freedom movement of Iran following the police killing of Mahsa Jina Amini in September 2022.