The Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library Digital Archive was founded in 1997 to digitize and provide online access to finding aids to manuscript collections and selected materials within our manuscript collections. Selected items from several of our collections have been digitized.

African American Pamphlet Literature at Emory University
The Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library at Emory University houses several thousand 19th and 20th century pamphlets relating broadly to African American religion and politics. This online portal provides centralized access to this literature.

Belfast Group Poets
In 1963 Philip Hobsbaum, a recently-arrived lecturer in English at Queen's University, Belfast, organized a writing workshop made up of students, faculty, and a number of writers from the local community. The Group, as it has come to be known, met regularly during the term. Three years later, Seamus Heaney assumed responsibility for organizing the meetings, Later Michael Allen and Arthur Terry played organizational roles as well. The Belfast Group lasted, with occasional interruptions, for nine years. It finally ceased altogether in 1972. The original Group sheets, from which these electronic texts have been prepared, are housed in the Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Library of the Robert W. Woodruff Library of Emory University and in the Irish Collection of the Queen's University Library. While the large majority of sheets are not dated, some do include handwritten notations with date, place, and time information.

Civil War Guide
This guide provides descriptions of manuscript collections relating to the Civil War organized by topic. Approximately one-third of MARBL's manuscript holdings contain materials relating to the Civil War. Most collections appear under more than one category. A few selected items from the Civil War collections have been digitized. Please see the documents section for a list of those items.

Constituent Mail Analysis Project
The Constituent Mail Analysis Project (CMAP) is a pilot project exploring the possibilities for studying constituent mail using congressional correspondence management system files generated by the Senate Computer Center. The site currently provides online access to a database created by the correspondence managment system used by Senator Sam Nunn's office to manage the constituent mail received by his office between 1979 and 1994.

William Levi Dawson: The Collection at Emory University
The Internet exhibition commemorating the life, work, and legacy of composer and conductor William Levi Dawson has been prepared by a collaborative effort of Emory University’s Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL) and the Digital Programs and Systems division of the Robert W. Woodruff Library and highlights a rich collection of materials ranging from letters and books to film and radio broadcasts, the exhibition details Dawson’s life from early childhood to the posthumous symposium in 2005.

Early Emory College Class Photograph Project
The Early Emory College Class Photograph Project consists of more than 1,110 still images dating from 1860-1911. The photographs document the class members of Emory College in Oxford, Georgia, which was founded in 1836. The class and faculty photographs have been digitized and may be accessed on the web.

French Revolutionary pamphlets
This project digitized a selection of the 3000 texts contained in the French Revolution Pamphlet Collection held by the Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library. The digital collection includes literary and satirical pamphlets and links to other online collections of related materials.

Ralph McGill papers (MSS252)
Ralph Waldo Emerson McGill, journalist, editor, and publisher, was born 5 February 1898, in Igou's Ferry, Tennessee, and died 3 February 1969, in Atlanta, Georgia. McGill was a sports editor for the Nashville Banner (1923-1937); executive editor (1938-1941), editor-in-chief (1941-1960), and publisher (1960-1969) for the Atlanta Constitution. His FBI files and the finding aid to the McGill papers have been digitized.

Sam Nunn papers (MSS800)
U. S. Senator Sam Nunn (D-GA) was born 8 September, 1938, in Perry, Georgia. He was elected to the Georgia General Assembly to represent Houston County in 1968, and again in 1970. In 1971, Nunn was elected to fill the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by Senator Richard B. Russell's death. He served four terms, retiring in 1996. The finding aid to the Nunn papers, a collection of newsletters issued by his office, and several television transcripts have been digitized.

Witness to the Holocaust Project records (MSS608)
The Witness to the Holocaust Project's original aim was to collect eye witness accounts from the soldiers who liberated the German concentration camps during World War II, from Holocaust survivors, and from other witnesses in order to refute claims that the Holocaust never occurred. The collection includes audio and video recordings of oral histories with liberators, survivors and others; transcriptions of oral history interviews; photographs, slides and films donated by liberators; Project publications; and television programs produced by the Project.

Womens Genre Fiction Project
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a grant to create an online database of American and British genre fiction written by and about women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to the Emory Women Writers Resource Project (EWWRP) of Emory University. Spanning from the 1860's through the 1920's, the period addressed by the project roughly coincides with the peak of the popularity of dime novels. Emory's Robert W. Woodruff Library houses an extensive collection of detective, crime, and romance novels and provided the source texts for this digitization project.

YWCA of Greater Atlanta (MSS720)
Following two years of organization and planning, the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) of Atlanta received its charter from the state of Georgia in 1902. In 1912, the local YWCA became a charter member of the YWCA of the USA, and in 1915, the first high school girls' club was organized. To serve the needs of black women and girls, "The Blue Triangle" was formed on 4 September 1919 and shortly thereafter renamed the Phyllis Wheatley Branch. Historical sketches of the Atlanta YWCA from 1902-1975 have been digitized.

Selected portions of the Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library books and manuscripts have been digitized by the Lewis H. Beck Center for Electronic Collections and Services.