The Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library, is home to the Andrew Dickson White Collection of Architectural Photographs, comprised of approximately 13,000 nineteenth- and early twentieth-century photographs of architecture. White (1832-1918), the first president of Cornell University, established the collection by donating several thousand images from his personal architectural library. In 1999, the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, in collaboration with the Department of Preservation and Conservation, undertook a project to preserve, catalogue and digitize the entire collection. A prototype of the A. D. White Architectural Photographs image database is now available, using the Luna Insight® browser (be sure to check the minimum browser and system requirements before launching the browser).
