Research Guides: Finding and Using Library Resources: SCAD Digital Collections

List of SCAD Digital Collections

""A Wanderer on the Face of the Earth" by R.F. Bunner, from SCAD's Images from LIFE database.

SCAD Artist Book Collection This link opens in a new window
Digitized artists' books from the SCAD Library Special Collections in Atlanta. The collection includes selected books from the 1960s through contemporary works, including a large collection of Nexus Press books produced in Atlanta from 1978 to 2003.
For more information about SCAD special collections databases, visit the SCAD Special Collections Guide.
Images from Life This link opens in a new window
SCAD image database of illustrations and advertisements from the original Life magazine between 1883 and 1936.
Life magazine during the coverage period of this database addressed issues of politics, fashion, society, religion, and literature. Many famous illustrators and authors were contributors to Life, such as Charles Dana Gibson, Norman Rockwell, and Theodor Seuss Geisel. For more information about SCAD special collections databases, visit the SCAD Special Collections Guide.
Images of Savannah This link opens in a new window
SCAD image database of postcards, slides, stereographs, and more dating back to the 1870s.
Images of Savannah presents several collections of visual art and artifact, including stereographs dating from the 1870s, cabinet cards from the 1880s, publications from the 1890s, postcards from the 1900s, and more recent photographs and slides. Images have been divided into categories for ease of discovery, such as Aerial Views, Churches, Downtown Buildings, Hotels, and Schools. For more information about SCAD special collections databases, visit the SCAD Special Collections Guide.
Graduate Thesis Digital Collection This link opens in a new window
Thesis collection for SCAD MFA programs from all locations since fall 2010 in a keyword searchable platform that includes both written and visual components.
For help with the SCAD Graduate Thesis Digital Collection, search SCAD Libraries' FAQ, or use the chat feature to contact library staff.
Don Bluth Collection of Animation This link opens in a new window
Digitized collection consisting of cels, animation drawings, storyboards, color models, and other materials created by Don Bluth Productions and later incarnations of this company in the creation of animated features and video games between 1979 and 2000.
The Don Bluth Collection of Animationcame to SCAD in 2005 as a donation from Don Bluth and Gary Goldman. Also included in the Don Bluth Collection of Animation are administrative, legal, and other documents as well as scripts, concepts, and publicity related materials. The Bluth studio operated in both the United States and Ireland and was, at various times, affiliated with other production companies. A preliminary inventory was completed by summer of 2006 and processing began in fall of that same year. Though the processing of the collection will continue for many years, materials already processed are available to researchers now. For more information about SCAD special collections databases, visit the SCAD Special Collections Guide.

Splendore Dell' Antica Roma: The Splendors of Rome, Circa 1625
Selected images from the Jen Library's copy of "Splendore Dell' Antica Roma", which served as a guidebook to Rome at the time it was published in 1625. Within it, engraver Giacomo Lauro illustrated Roman buildings, customs, burial sites, and gardens; as well as several maps. Useful for anyone researching the history of Rome, Roman architecture, and the Grand Tour.