Digital Collections
The Ingalls Library and Museum Archives digitizes books, auction catalogs, photographs, and other archival materials for access and preservation purposes. Use the links below to access our digital collections.
The Ingalls Library focuses digitization efforts on rare and unique items in our collection. Once an item is scanned, we make it available to the public via the Internet Archive, please visit our collections page to browse our digitized items. Check back often! We add new materials regularly. We also contribute metadata records to the Getty Research Portal, an authoritative, worldwide resource providing one-stop multilingual access to art history texts.
Included in digitalarchives.clevelandart.org are 10,000+ images from the editorial photography collection, which documents museum exhibitions, events, people, and buildings beginning in 1916; the Mrs. Emil (Mollie) Brudno Collection of photographs of musicians, dancers, conductors, and other performers who participated in Mrs. Brudno’s museum sponsored Cleveland Concert Course from the 1930s-1950s; a small selection of beautiful photographs of the ghost town Bodie, California, from the John Paul Miller Collection; and two watercolor drawings from the John C. Bonebrake Collection. Archives staff and volunteers are busily scanning and uploading new images regularly so check back often to see more historical views of the museum.