State history
A gubernatorial project featuring biographies, photographs, archival finding aids, state-of-the-state addresses, and much more relating to the administrations of Charles Haskell (1907-1911) through ...
The 1936 Gainesville Tornado: Disaster and Recovery provides online access to a historical film depicting the extensive damage from the severe multi-funnel tornado strike that devastated Gainesville, ...
In 1861 Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) became the United States' sixteenth president. But before Lincoln became the nation's chief executive, he led a fascinating life that sheds considerable light upon ...
A collection encompassing the 1948 Oklahoma Supreme Court case of Ada Lois Sipuel, the state's first black woman admitted to the University of Oklahoma law school.
The Arizona Adjutants General exhibit is comprised of photographs of Adjutants General in Arizona from territorial days to the present. An Adjutant General is the highest ranking officer of a state's ...
AlabamaMosaic is a repository of digital materials on Alabama's history, culture, places, and people. Its purpose is to make unique historical treasures from Alabama's archives, libraries, museums, ...
The photograph collections in the Arizona State Archives include images from state government as well as private collections. Archives' photographs focus upon the unique cultural heritage of the state ...
Attorney General Opinions (1892 to current, in process) are issued when requested by the legislature (or either house of the legislature), any public officer of the State, or a county attorney, on a ...
Ruth Reinhold (1902-1985), an aviation pioneer, was one of the first woman pilots in Arizona. She marked many milestones, from barnstorming to teaching pilots to fly four-engine bombers during World ...
With the Civil War still going on and Carleton still fighting the Navajos, the U.S. War Department authorized Governor John Noble Goodwin of Arizona to raise five companies of Arizona Volunteers in ...
The Arizona County and Local Publications collection has been contributed by the Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records' Law and Research Library. Digital publications produced by and for ...
The Arizona Electronic Atlas is an interactive atlas that allows one to create, manipulate, and download accurate and current maps and data. This site has more data available than can easily be viewed ...
Executive Orders are issued by the Governor of Arizona to establish boards or commissions or to authorize the performance of other functions that are appropriate to the executive authority of the ...
This collection consists of still images of cities, towns, scenic viewpoints, lumbering activities, and streetscapes from across Arizona, 1864-1970.
Latinos have contributed greatly to Arizona's heritage and history and in numerous endeavors. One of the more valiant contributions is that of risking one’s life for their country. Throughout Arizona’ ...
The Arizona Military Museum, an Arizona Centennial Legacy Project, is operated by a Historical Society whose purposes are: “To enhance the appreciation of the military history of Arizona and the ...
Since February 1863, when President Abraham Lincoln first recognized the Territory of Arizona as a protectorate of the United States of America, mining has been the backbone of the Arizona economy. ...
The Arizona State Agency Publications collection has been contributed by the Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records' Law and Research Library. Digitized publications produced by and for ...
Government records protect the right of citizens, promote accountability for government officials and provide continuity. Records in the Arizona State Archives were created by individuals or agencies ...
This exhibit is small representative sample of items in the archives of the Postal History Foundation in Tucson. Each page contains, in philatelic terms, a "cover" - either an envelope or postcard ...
Federal publications are printed by the authority of Congress or by executive or judicial agencies at taxpayer expense and are distributed to federal agencies, their clientele and to depository ...
The many wonderful photographs in the Arizona Historical Foundation's collections have inspired this exhibit of Arizona Women and their diverse contributions. Historians have often downplayed the role ...
The photographs in this collection depict everyday sights of Arthur, Illinois, from the early 1900's to the midle of the century. Many of the photographs in this collection are made available through ...
Arizona State University's early research scientists were scholarly pioneers of earth, ice, animal, mineral, and space. In Arizona State's first days of transformation from a small college to a true ...
Album is a database of 10,000 photographs from photojournalism collections of the Kenan Research Center. The images document people, places, and events in Atlanta and the state of Georgia from 1895 to ...
The Audio-Video Barn is full of stories about Illinois agriculture. It contains audio and video recordings of more than 130 oral-history interviews with people involved in agriculture and rural life ...
The baskets in the Museum's collection come from private donations by collectors, from the basket weavers themselves, and from occasional purchases by their non-profit support group, the Pueblo Grande ...
The online collection consists of two short industrial films made by the Georgia Marble Company in the 1950s-1960s that document the company's history, operations, skilled laborers and craftspeople, ...
"Beyond the Shelf" contains rare historic published Kentuckiana monographs and serials. The titles selected are included in J. Winston Coleman's landmark compilation of Kentuckiana "A Bibilography of ...
Black Swamp Memories is an online scrapbook of historical images and documents illustrating the history and development of the northwestern Ohio region formerly known as the Great Black Swamp. The ...
The online collection consists of selected correspondence, financial records, contracts, and advertising materials from the Douglass Theatre's records in the Middle Georgia Archives' Charles Henry ...
Digitized Boston city directories between 1865-1955 as the foundation for contextual information about the city including images.
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle was published from October 26, 1841 to 1955 and was revived for a short time from 1960 to 1963. Phase I, which can at present be found on this site, covers the period from ...
Ethnographic photographs by various photographers in the collection of the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology are works made for hire.
The Arizona Historical Foundation houses two collections pertaining to Arizona's two World War II Japanese Relocation Camps, Gila River and Poston. Wade Head served as director of the Poston camp from ...
Central Florida Memory is the beginning of an on-going, proactive force for generating excitement about the past, present, and future history of Central Florida, among all interested communities ...
Charles Overstreet is a long-time citizen of Flora, Illinois with a passion for photography. During most of his eighty years, Mr. Overstreet has used his camera to record images of history. During ...
In celebration of Glendale’s approaching 100-year anniversary, this collection of City Council minutes dating from August 1st, 1910 to December 28th, 1914 has been compiled electronically for the ...
The Civil Rights Digital Library Initiative represents one of the most ambitious and comprehensive effort to date to deliver educational content on the Civil Rights Movement via the Web. The struggle ...
The Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive is an Internet-accessible, fully searchable database of digitized versions of rare and unique library and archival resources on race relations in ...
The Clifford K. Berryman Collection consists of 13 oversized boxes containing 209 cartoons, 12 Christmas cards, and 3 facsimiles of cartoons drawn by the late Clifford K. Berryman (1869-1949). The ...
Strip mining was a major source of employment and very important to the Wilmington Coal Field towns of Coal City, Braidwood, and Wilmington during the 1930's through the 1950's. The Wilmington Coal ...
The Bisbee Deportation documents are comprised of about 1,600 court documents filed in 1919 and 1920 in Cochise County Superior Court, pertaining to Cochise County Case number 2725, entitled, State of ...
The theme of this collection is the unique history and culture of Southeastern Arizona. The centerpiece of the collection is a video created by the Cochise College Library media department that ...
In May of 1881, just three months after Cochise County was formed out of southeastern Pima County, district court sessions began in Tombstone, Arizona. The 652 page collection contains brief notations ...
The collection consists of 140 albumen prints on their original 22 x 28 inch mounts. The collection comprises views of the western United States including Upper Geyser Basin National Park, a rare set ...
The topics represented in this selection from Northern Arizona University Cline Library include: Colorado River running, surveying, and exploration; Grand Canyon hiking and tourism; railroad and ...
Regional Colorado newspapers from 1859-1924.
The story of the Columbia River Basin's ethnic groups has been relatively hidden, and museums, libraries, and scholars have only just begun to gather the records, images, recollections, and artifacts ...
Columbus Public Library Association Minutes, 1881-1883 provides online access to early handwritten minutes of the Columbus Public Library Association, documenting the origin and initial development of ...
The John J. Rhodes Papers consist of correspondence, reports, financial and travel records and printed matter. The collection documents Rhodes' congressional career from 1953 1983 and significant ...
Connecticut History Online currently contains about 14,000 images of photographs, drawings and prints which may be searched or browsed in a variety of ways, including by keyword, subject, creator, ...
The Denver Public Library, in partnership with the City of Denver, the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries, Colorado Historical Society, University of Colorado at Denver Auraria Library, and ...
The Cyrus F. Jenkins Civil War Diary, 1861-1862, held at the Troup County Archives, chronicles Cyrus Franklin Jenkins' experiences as an enlisted man in the Meriwether Volunteers, Company B, 13th ...
The Day Family became known in the Colorado Plateau region for their activities as traders on the Navajo Reservation. During their time on the Reservation, they served as agents, and became close with ...
The Day Family were Anglo traders, on the Navajo Reservation in eastern Arizona. The collection includes the personal and business papers of Sam Day, Sr. (1845-1925) surveyor, Indian trader, ...
Statewide aerial photographs were first acquired for Illinois from 1936 through 1941. This historical collection consists of more than 33,000 photographic paper prints. The original silver nitrate ...
Digital Past is a local history digitization program undertaken by libraries, historical societies, museums, and other cultural venues in Illinois in partnership with the North Suburban Library System ...
The insightful and compassionate photographs of Dorothea Lange (1895 - 1965) have exerted a profound influence on the development of modern documentary photography. Lange's concern for people, her ...
This collection documents the growth, activities and history of the Sonoran Desert Foothills spanning the time period of the 1870's to the 1920's. Within this time span military operations, mining ...
The artifacts and historic sites that are included in this collection not only serve as examples of daily pioneer living in Taylor, Arizona, but also provide insight into the changes which occurred as ...
This collection captures what it was like to be a student at Yavapai College when it was a small, rural community college in the late 1960's – early 1980's. It includes the first published College ...
Published yearly since 1919, and well illustrated, the Warbler conveys information on students and faculty, chronicles important cultural and sporting events, describes organizational activities, and ...
Enduring Communities: The Japanese American Experience in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, and Utah is a collaboration between educators, communities, and students and the Japanese American ...
The Erie Railroad Company glass plate negatives are arranged by Erie subsidiary railroads in the states of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. Mainline scenes come from all of the preceding ...
Although Alfred Kroeber is universally regarded as the founder of California Indian studies, his important use of the camera as an ethnographic tool is virtually unknown. In fact, Kroeber was one of ...
The photographs of the Franciscan, Augustine Schwarz, O.F.M., were donated to the Anthropology Department at Arizona State University by a niece, Elizabeth M. Jones, in 1986, and transferred to the ...
A collection derived from the bibliography Forty-Six Important Federal Publications About Oklahoma. These documents were selected as the most important federal publications in Oklahoma's history. This ...
The Find-It! Illinois Program is the Illinois State Library's initiative to establish and administer a statewide digital library. Key components include the Illinois Government Information (IGI) ...
The Florida Folklife Collection includes approximately 150 cubic feet of administrative, survey and fieldwork files and tens of thousands of audio and video recordings dating from the 1930s through ...
For Our Mutual Benefit consists of a minute book, covering the years 1912-1920, from the Athens Woman's Club collection housed in the Heritage Room of the Athens-Clarke County Library that documents ...
This exhibit of twenty-seven Forman Hanna photographs from the Arizona State Museum’s collection showcases the tradition of pictorial photography as practiced in the early twentieth century by ...
A selection of framed items from the collections of The Bancroft Library. Includes paintings, drawings, prints and photographs dating from the late 1600s to the mid-1970s. Subject matter is chiefly ...
The Franklin motor car was invented by the engineer John Wilkinson and manufactured by the industrialist H. H. Franklin and marketed under his name. The Franklin was one of the most innovative motor ...
George Edward Anderson's photographic collection reflects his lifelong commitment to his photography and his religion. The photographs taken over his career, spanning 1878-1928, demonstrate his ...
The Georgia Legislative Documents Project has digitized Georgia's Acts and Resolutions from 1799-1999. All but a few years of the Acts and Resolutions are currently available on-line as a searchable, ...
Our collection is a gathering of historic maps of Gila County dating back over 100 years. Some of these maps include historic places, names and marking of the Territory of Arizona.
Since its inception the Library Media Center (LMC) has been charged with the college's internal production needs entailing still, moving images, and audio recordings. The production of this material ...
In 1937 a $6,000 bond issue and a Public Works Administration grant from the government enabled the city to construct a $12,000 library building in 1938. The 2,200 sq. ft. building would serve a ...
Fred Harvey saw a need for better food and service along the rails and in 1876 pioneered a chain of restaurants and inns known as Harvey Houses from Chicago to San Francisco. Experience soon ...
Hawaii War Records Depository is a collection of materials dealing with World War II as it affected Hawaii and its residents. It was created in 1943, during the first territorial legislature to meet ...
Images of Hawaiian language newspapers published from 1834 to 1948. Includes stories, chants, photographs, advertisements, political notices, letters to the editor. Documents a unique period in ...
The Helen Nestor photographic collection at the Oakland Museum of California in Oakland, California contains more than 2,000 prints and 20,000 negatives, is the life's work of an important documentary ...
Heritage Colorado - Digital Treasures of the West is a database that brings to the people of Colorado the special collections and unique resources of Colorado's archives, historical societies, ...
Highlights of the Catholic Diocese of Tucson includes documents and letters from the time of Bishop Salpointe, from the late 1860's to the mid 1880's. Most of the documents are written by or addressed ...
This collection of historic Arizona county maps includes maps of each Arizona county, dating from the mid 1880s to the late 1920s. Most of the maps were produced by the County Engineer or County ...
This collection represents South 1st Avenue, now 58th Drive and Glendale Avenue, from around 1910 to 1950. It depicts early development in downtown Glendale, Arizona. The collection also includes ...
The Historic Pittsburgh Image Collections website contains over 8,000 visual images of the Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania region selected from dozens of photographic collections held by three ...
The project provides images of the available resources in Ponce's Autonomous Historical Archive and Museum of History. These materials respond to the History Course syllabus offered at Inter American ...
The "History of Sedona" is a collection of historic images presented as a series of sub-collections divided by historical theme or context. Lacking a newspaper before the 1960s and a city government ...
This sub-collection of the "History of Sedona" illustrates the Sedona area’s agricultural heritage from the subsistence farmers and homesteaders who established elaborate irrigation systems to divert ...
This sub-collection of the "History of Sedona" chronicles the first eight families who arrived along Oak Creek between 1876 and 1900 and whose descendants continued to live and contribute in the area ...
Pueblo Grande was a major Hohokam village on the north bank of the Salt River in what is now Phoenix, Arizona. Pueblo Grande was occupied for 1000 years, from about AD 500 - 1450. In addition to ...
During the nineteenth century Illinois underwent an incredible transformation as it developed from a sparsely settled frontier region into a dynamic, prosperous, rural-urban state that exerted ...
IDA (Illinois Digitial Archives) is really two services under one roof. The first of these services is a search engine for images, sound files, and other multi-media events that exist on Internet ...
The Illinois Government Information search engine is a joint project of the Illinois State Library and the University of Illinois, providing search capabilities across the state government websites of ...
Illinois State University History is a growing collection that currently includes campus history books, proceedings of the first university governing board, photographs, campus history videos, and ...
The Images collection consists of photographs of bishops and priests who served Catholics of Arizona from as early as the 1860s. Most of the earliest priests and bishops came from France through the ...
Images of the Indian Peoples of the Northern Great Plains is a searchable online photograph database. The Project strives to broaden access to new constituencies by providing students, researchers, ...
This collection offers snapshots, some over 100 years old, from Native American life in and around Winslow, AZ, a border town to the Navajo and Hopi Reservations. These two tribes comprise most of the ...
Jackson Davis, an educational reformer and amateur photographer, took nearly 6,000 photographs of African American schools, teachers and students throughout the Southeastern United States. His ...
John B. Jervis (1795-1885) was America's leading consulting engineer of the antebellum era (1820 - 1860). Jervis was a pioneer in the development of canals and railroads for the expanding United ...
To commemorate the 140th anniversary of the hanging of John Brown in Charles Town, West Virginia, the West Virginia State Archives placed online a new electronic database of materials pertaining to ...
King County Snapshots presents King County, Washington, through 12,000 historical images carefully chosen from twelve organizations' collections. These cataloged 19th and 20th century images portray ...
This database contains about 500 scanned images from the Schuelke and Wolcott collections ...
The Living Museum has for decades been a rich source of information on Illinois art, natural history, anthropology, and history. This online project does not replace the print version of The Living ...
Through the collaborative efforts of Long Island archives, historical societies, libraries, museums, and organizations, the people of Long Island will have access to the visual and oral record of Long ...
The Louisiana Purchase in 1803 stands as the most significant event in the westward expansion of the United States and as an experiment to incorporate a substantially different culture. This LSU ...
The Maine Memory Network is a statewide database of electronic versions of Maine's Historical Documents, contributed by cultural institutions from around the state, from their own locations.
The Making of Modern Michigan is a collaborative project involving more than 50 Michigan libraries and other organizations. It includes local history materials from communities around the state. ...
This web site will provide a fully searchable and indexed digital library of Samuel Clemens'Mississippi novels and reminiscences (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Life ...
The Medallion Papers is a series of 39 publications issued between 1928-1950 by the Gila Pueblo Archaeological Foundation. Gila Pueblo, as it later became known, was one of the earliest Arizona ...
These photos represent a small portion of the collection from Herbert V. Young who was engaged as secretary to the general manager of the United Verde Copper Company mine from 1912-1955 ...
This collection, from the Mount Olive Public Library, includes photographs of mines and mine workers from Mount Olive as well as some Mother Jones memorabilia - including the letter she wrote to the ...
A group of interactive online resources which examine Minnesota's past and paint an overview of Minnesota history.
Beginning in the late 1980s, Minnesota’s population has been augmented by successive waves of immigration – especially from Asia and East Africa. The Minnesota Immigrant Oral Histories Online ...
This collection of photographs, 1890's through the 1940's, provide a snapshot of the role transportation systems and vehicles played in the development of Mohave County. Subjects presented are: horses ...
The "Montana Memory Project" is a collection of digital collections and items relating to Montana's cultural heritage. In part, these collections and items will document the Montana experience. Access ...
The Montezuma Castle Historic Photo Archive collection represents the history of Montezuma Castle National Monument, from its time before National Park Service control in the late nineteenth century, ...
Collection contains photographs, posters, letters, and other documents related to the 1932 "The Trunk Murders" case trial and the life of Winnie Ruth Judd. Judd allegedly shot to death her two ...
The McLean County Museum of History offers access to a wide range of Native American objects. The collection includes pre-historic lithics and pottery fragments found in Central Illinois used in ...
This collection showcases the art and artifacts that document the history of Navajo County. This items are currently on display at the Navajo County Historical Society, Holbook, Arizona branch.
Nebraska Memories, a cooperative project to digitize Nebraska-related historical and cultural heritage materials and make them freely available to researchers of all ages via the Internet, is brought ...
Find a wide range of artifacts, books, documents, maps, postcards, original paintings, and photographs on a variety of topics relating to trails in Nebraska. Collected into a searchable database from ...
The New Jersey Digital Highway (NJDH) is a new way to explore our history and culture. The Highway will bring together digitized versions of historical and cultural treasures from our libraries, ...
The Picture Collection Online is an image resource site for those who seek knowledge and inspiration from visual materials. It is a collection of 30,000+ digitized images from books, magazines and ...
"The North Carolina Experience, Beginnings to 1940" is a collection that tells the story of the Tar Heel State as seen through representative histories, descriptive accounts, institutional reports, ...
"North Carolinians and the Great War" examines how World War I shaped the lives of different North Carolinians on the battlefield and on the home front as well how the state and federal government ...
The Object of History is a cooperative project between the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History and George Mason University's Center for History and New Media. The project was conceived ...
The Oklahoma Author collection highlights the literary heritage of our state through a compilation of contemporary and historical author profiles. It is an ongoing collaborative effort of the Oklahoma ...
"Oklahoma Crossroads: Documents and Images" of the Oklahoma Department of Libraries consists of major digital collections such as online exhibits and collaborative projects. Collections include ...
The Oklahoma Image Project was sponsored by the Oklahoma Department of Libraries and the Oklahoma Library Association and funded by a $400,000 grant from National Endowment for the Humanities. The ...
Reference and primary source material important to the study of Oklahoma's history and culture.
The electronic collection of the Oklahoma Publications Clearinghouse is a permanent location for publications available through state agency websites, beginning in 2006.
Collections on display bear testament to the diverse history of this area. Winslow is one of 41 recognized sites on the Colorado Plateau with fossilized remains of the Columbian Mammoth from the ...
The Oliver Collection consists of approximately 2700 glass plate negatives and photographic prints taken mainly by amateur photographer William Letts Oliver and his son Roland L. Oliver. The ...
Northwestern Olympic Peninsula communities and The University of Washington are working together to create a Web-based museum to showcase aspects of the rich history and culture of the region. This ...
For more than sixty years the Library has been assembling data on social-religious movements of New York State during the nineteenth century as part of its collecting policy to include "local history ...
Oral Histories of Gila County is a compilation of interviews commemorating Arizona's first 100 years of Statehood. It was made possible by partial funding by an Arizona State Library LSTA Grant. The ...
"Oral Histories of the American South" is a three-year project to select, digitize and make available 500 oral history interviews gathered by the Southern Oral History Program (SOHP). These 500 are ...
This audio collection consists of snippets from interviews with residents who lived in and around the White Mountains area. The 1977 interviews were part of a Northland Pioneer College project to ...
The Oral History Collection at UIS consists of material collected by the Sangamon State University Oral History Office from 1971 to 1991. Some oral history memoirs have been added in recent years by ...
Our Americas Archive Partnership (OAAP) is an innovative digital humanities project with a view to supporting scholarly inquiry into the Americas from a hemispheric perspective. Scholars, librarians ...
Park Forest began in 1946 as a dream held by Carroll F. Sweet, Sr., to build a "G.I. Town" for returning veterans. Due to the lack of building during the Depression and World War II, the returning ...
This collection of photographs provides a feel for what Phoenix College was like during its first several decades. Images were selected to represent college life, as well as the architecture of the ...
The Jewish News Photographic Collection consists of over 10,000 photographs and other documentation donated by the Jewish News of Greater Phoenix to the Arizona Jewish Historic Society in May 2007. ...
This site is a repository of historic images. The collections of several Central Ohio Libraries and Historical Societies have been digitized and are available in a keyword searchable database. From ...
The online collection consists of forty turn-of-the-twentieth century Augusta-related picture postcards selected from the collection Augusta and Environs: Picture Post Cards in Color held at the East ...
The Powwow Photographs by Ann Leonard collection consists of 69 color digital photographs by Arizona State University's Labriola National American Indian Data Center's Library Aid, Ann Leonard. ...
Project Introspection produced a variety of materials on various aspects of the history and culture of the U.S. Virgin Islands. The goal "to coordinate units of work on the Virgin Islands and ...
Public Art in the Bronx, a project of Lehman College Art Gallery/City University of New York, examines the rich collection of public art found in our borough. This site provides an overview of works ...
The Raid on Deerfield: Many Stories of 1704 recounts this event in eight scenes with a prologue and an epilogue. Each scene is described from the perspectives of the cultures that were present.
Remembering the Houses of Western Springs is a collection of photographs of 19th century houses, with dates and some background information on each house. The Western Springs Historical Society took ...
Colonial Williamsburg is partnering with the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia to develop 3D models of five unique historical sites within Colonial ...
The Robert B. Honeyman Jr. Collection of Early Californian and Western American Pictorial Material is comprised of over 2300 items, with formats and media ranging from original oil paintings, ...
The Rochester Images database will include 22,000 historical and contemporary images from Rochester and Monroe County. Photographs and postcards form the foundation of the database which will be ...
This collection presents a brief introduction to the rock art of Cochise County, Arizona. A wide diversity of prehistoric and historic rock art is found in the county including petroglyphs and ...
The records of the Rome-Turney Radiator Company include correspondence, copies of outgoing letters and incoming, telegrams; financial records, invoices, both incoming and outgoing, financial ledgers, ...
Sahuaro Ranch was one of the first farms in the Glendale area and a reminder of Glendale's agricultural beginnings. Started by wealthy Illinois businessman William H. Bartlett in 1886, the ranch was a ...
The Samuel Hugh Hawkins Diary, January - July 1877, donated by Georgia State Senator George Hooks to the Lake Blackshear Regional Library System, chronicles Americus, Georgia entrepreneur, lawyer, and ...
The online collection consists of 4,445 maps by the Sanborn Map Company depicting commercial, industrial, and residential areas for 133 municipalities. Originally designed for fire insurance ...
Today Scottsdale is a beautiful bustling city with many attractions enjoyed by residents and tourists alike. But did you know, that the town began as a little farming settlement? Many active community ...
The Scottsdale Room, located at Scottsdale's Civic Center Library, contains items of local interest with a focus on Scottsdale. The Room has evolved over the years through the cooperative efforts of ...
These images (some rare and rarely seen) were selected from over 5,000 photographs found in the Personal and Political Papers of Senator Barry M. Goldwater (1909-1998). They document his interests in ...
This collection of still images is related to the American Indians of Arizona and the Southwest (1865-1970). Tribes include Navajo, Apache, Yavapai, Hualapai, Papago, Hopi, Mohave, Paiute, Yaqui, ...
The Sharlot Hall Museum Oral History collection represents a cross-section of our larger collection of interviews, presentations, speeches and radio programs conducted mainly in Prescott, Arizona from ...
This collection of still images is related to structures in Prescott Yavapai County, and Northern Arizona. Included are stage stations, businesses, residences, banks, schools, churches, hotels, ...
The Sharlot Hall Museum Map Collection consists of approximately 5,000 maps relating to Prescott, Arizona, Yavapai County, and Arizona and the west in general, 1850-present. Mining, railroad, and ...
This collection of still images represent military activity in Arizona, specifically Yavapai County and Northern Arizona, 1864-Present. Subjects included in the collection are Ft. Whipple, Camp Verde ...
This collection of still images is related to mining activities in Yavapai County and Northern Arizona(1864-1975). Gold, copper, iron, onyx, and silver mining are represented, as well as placer, ...
This collection of still images is related to transportation in Northern Arizona (1864-1965). Subjects represented in this collection are railroads, stagecoaches, train depots, bridges, freighting, ...
Sharlot M. Hall was a forward-thinking woman, a woman of vision and daring living during an era when most women didn't dare have any vision at all. Born in 1870 in Kansas, she traveled on the Santa Fe ...
The beautiful photos in this collection show you people, places, business, buildings, and events of the Intermountain West ...
Ships for Victory: J.A. Jones Construction Company and Liberty Ships in Brunswick, Georgia consists of eighty-four black-and-white photographs from the J.A. Jones Construction Company collection at ...
This collection includes photographs, documents, maps and other objects related to both old and recent history of Show Low, Arizona: quilts, t-shirts, dentist tools, cannons, hides, and more. The 2002 ...
Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842, contains approximately 2,000 documents and images relating to the Native American population of the Southeastern United States from the collections ...
"The Southern Homefront, 1861-1865," documents Southern life during the Civil War, especially the unsuccessful attempt to create a viable nation state as evidenced in both private and public life. " ...
The Southern Oregon History Collection brings together books, maps, government documents, oral histories, correspondence and miscellaneous materials that document the unique historical experience of ...
The Springfield Aviation Company Collection, 1927-1955, was donated to the Sangamon Valley Collection at Lincoln Library in May 1995 by Craig Isbell, former co-manager of the company. Isbell formed a ...
A diverse set of materials from up to 10 museums and libraries digitized to correspond to lesson plans from 15 K-12 school teachers. Lesson plans are mapped to the Illinois State Board of Education ...
The WGBH Media Archives and Preservation Center has preserved and described 523 tapes from The Ten O'Clock News, WGBH's in-depth nightly news program. Dating from 1974 to 1991, this collection focuses ...
The "Tennessee Documentary History, 1796-1850," contains 2,000 documents and images relating to the history of antebellum Tennessee.
Explore the turbulent times of "Bleeding Kansas." Hundreds of personal letters, diaries, photos, and maps bring to life the settling of Kansas during the fierce debate over slavery.
Texas Heritage Online provides unified online access to Texas' historical documents and images for use by teachers, students, historians, genealogists, and other researchers.
"Thar's Gold in Them Thar Hills": Gold and Gold Mining in Georgia, 1830s-1940s consists of selected legal, financial, and promotional documents as well as photographs and picture postcards that ...
This collection depicts the story of Thunderbird Field I, a vital World War II air training base at which more than 10,000 pilots learned to fly. The collection then shows the early years of the ...
TIDES offers a digital gateway to rich historical, cultural and scientific resources held in Texas and Mexican libraries, museums, archives, historical societies, private collections, state parks and ...
TimePieces is a collection of events and primary sources--the momentous and the trivial--from billions of years ago to the present day. Rather than providing comprehensive information, the collection ...
Timothy Vedder was a Union soldier from New York, stationed at Camp Douglas in Washington, D.C. and at Arlington Heights, Va. The collection contains holograph letters signed to family members in New ...
This exhibit is composed of 109 photographs of the Tohono O'odham Indians taken by the Arizona State Museum's photographer Helga Teiwes during the years 1970 -- 1980. The exhibit is arranged into ...
The University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI), in collaboration with the School of Information and Library Science (SILS) at UNC Chapel Hill, will preserve, analyze, and make ...
Trading posts were not just a western phonenoma, as Congress established Federal Trading Houses at the urging of George Washington in 1796. By the time posts were dotting the landscape in northern ...
The final results will include: a selection of online resources, with a web-based GIS tool to make them useful; products that demonstrate the variety of stories geographic information can help tell; ...
This collection of over 100 images of early Tucson and Southern Arizona pioneers is the result of a collaborative effort by the Arizona Historical Society, the Arizona State Genealogical Society (ASGS ...
This collection features documents and images from various state government agencies regarding the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921.
The materials in this collection, dating from 1917-1919, document the participation of the students, alumni, faculty and staff of Illinois State Normal University in World War I. During the war, ...
The Upper Mississippi Valley Digital Image Archive eventually will consist of a searchable database of thousands of digital images from local history collections covering the 1860s through the 1950s ...
The USS Arizona became infamous on December 7th, 1941 as the first U.S. battleship sunk during World War II. It continues to be in the forefront of American consciousness as a memorial to the ...
Digitized state (Utah) historical newspapers. Full text/keyword searchable.
The digital images in this collection, made available by the Sangamon Valley Collection at the Lincoln Library in Springfield, Illinois are drawn from the larger physical collection and show Vachel ...
Vanishing Georgia comprises nearly 18,000 photographs documenting more than 100 years of Georgia history and life. These images cover family and business life, street scenes and architecture, ...
Old Morenci and Metcalf mining townsites were located on the eastern border of Arizona from 1870 - 1984. Morenci was known as "Joy Camp", (named after Captain Miles Joy). In 1882, "Joy Camp" was ...
Virtual Motor City is the name of an IMLS sponsored digitization project, carried out by the Wayne State University Library System and the Walter P. Reuther Library ...
VIVA History: Visual Index to the Virtual Archives, is an innovative visually-based interface that uses a 3-D computer model of Manhattan as a click-on map, allowing Web visitors to view the city, ...
An online multimedia museum collection featuring oral history recordings and historic photographs that document life on the Colorado Plateau. The collection is divided into three sections: People, ...
A collection of digitized primary source material on Western Trails - broadly defined - including native trails, roads, highways, and westward migration.
The Western Waters Digital Library will be a distributed collection of materials from research institutions in the Western United States of America. Water pervades all issues in the West, from ...
The Western Ways Features Company Photographs were selected from over 22,000 photographic prints and negatives contained within the Western Ways Feature Manuscript and Photograph Collection, ca. 1930- ...
The William Hayes Papers are primarily family letters written from 1830-1857, years in which Hayes and his wife Anna moved from Galway, New York to Cleveland, Ohio, then to Fort Clark, Illinois ( ...
Worklore: Brooklyn Workers Speak, a joint research/exhibition project of The Brooklyn Historical Society and the Brooklyn Public Library, explores the work lives of Brooklynites as they made, and ...
"The World's Columbian Exposition of 1893" website was created to provide world-wide access to thousands of illustrations and full-text images of the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 for purposes of ...
The WPA/TVA Archaeological Photograph Archive is an on-line database of information describing photographs taken by Works Progress Administration (WPA) workers of archaeological projects conducted in ...
Between 1875 and 1925, American frontier fiction found a new landscape -- the Southwest—and it’s most popular genre -- the western. The mythical world created by the popular writers of the period such ...
