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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 Frank Keating (1995-2003).
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, Georgia, on April 6, 1936. The thirty-two-and-a-half minute film, probably shot ...
The 21st General Hospital and Base Hospital 21 Collections consist of almost 2000 items relating to the service of these Army hospital units in the First and Second World Wars. The items include photographic prints, negatives, lantern slides, sketches, documents, and memorabilia ...
A Villiage Grows: Fifty Years of Life in Elmwood Park is our collection of 408 photographs and artifacts from the first 50 years of the Village of Elmwood Park. We hope that you enjoy the collection and if you have any stories or can supply any missing information about any of ...
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 significant themes in American history. This World Wide Web site presents ...
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 Adalbert Johann Volck Collection of etchings housed in the Special Collections Department at the Central Library, Enoch Pratt Free Library / Caricature by Adalbert Volck State Library Resource Center contains primarily the prints produced by Dr. Volck and follows in form and ...
Adams-Cates Company (currently known as Grubb & Ellis Atlanta) is a real estate firm located in Atlanta, Georgia. The company has been involved in commercial developments in the city of Atlanta, including Peachtree Center, Davison's Department Store, the Equitable Building, and ...
Adelaide Ruff McCarty was probably a relative, and perhaps the daughter of Solon Zachery Ruff, the civil engineer who was responsible for laying out Ansley Park, in Atlanta, Georgia. Ansley Park was developed by Edward P. Ansley between 1904 and 1913. It is located north of ...
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 militia or National Guard when it is not called into federal service. When ...
Adolph Rosenberg was a journalist who became the editor of the “Southern Israelite” after serving as a reporter for the Atlanta Journal and the Atlanta Constitution. A varied collection, these photographs are a mixture of images of rural areas in Fulton County, images relating to ...
Africa Focus contains digitized visual images and sounds of Africa contributed over the years to the African Studies Program of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. These digital files are stored in an accessible database and provided for personal use or educational presentations ...
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, and other repositories electronically accessible to Alabama residents and to ...
Photographs of historical people and events in the local history of Algonquin and Lake in the Hills, Illinois.
City of Cumberland and Allegany County Directory, 1895-96 published by Bell Publishers of Baltimore lists the names, occupations Advertisements featured in the Allegany County Directory 1895-96 and residences of heads of households in Allegany County, Maryland in 1895. It also ...
In 1895, Ivan Earnest Allen, son of Daniel and Susie Harris, moved to Atlanta, Georgia and co-founded an office supply company. He and his wife Irene Beaumont (1890-1972) gave birth to a son, Ivan in 1911. Ivan Allen, Jr. (1911-2003) served as president of the Ivan Allen ...
Each year students in St. Andrew's AP U.S. History and America in the Twentieth Century classes select an individual of no relation to interview about a particular period or event of the American Century. This project is teaching some of the next generation of Marylanders how to ...
American Journeys contains more than 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration, from the sagas of Vikings in Canada in AD1000 to the diaries of mountain men in the Rockies 800 years later. Read the words of explorers, Indians, missionaries, traders and ...
The American Missionary Association and the Promise of a Multicultural America: 1839 - 1954 is a digital photo archives of more than 5000 photographs of the activities of and related to the American Missionary Association. Photographers working with the American Missionary ...
Text and illustrations that document the establishment of a distinctly American approach to natural science during the first half of the 19th century. The selected works were written by scientists affiliated with the Academy of Natural Sciences, the oldest continuously-operating ...
The University City Public Library's collection of materials about the American Woman's League and the American Woman's Republic includes promotional materials, minutes, reports, and correspondence relating to the League and the Republic. Much of the material was donated by ...
Andrew Sparks was an editor and journalist for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Sparks’ collection of personal photographs includes images of College Park, Georgia and in Southwest Atlanta. College Park images include the Atlantic & West Point Railroad Depot, City Auditorium, ...
In 1874 Dr. A.T. Still (1828-1917) rebelled against standard 19th century medicine and launched his own health care system, later named osteopathy. Rather than just tweak old therapies, Still offered a new philosophy. He met heavy resistance, and the papers reveal Still's frank ...
The first title in this group is a unique gem for genealogical researchers. Record of the Pioneers of Outagamie County is a wonderful collection of information, often including photos, about the individuals and families who lived in Outagamie County in 1898. The introduction ...
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 and territory of Arizona, beginning in 1863. The principal focus within the ...
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 question of law relating to their office.
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 War II. These images were selected from the 1200 photographs researched and ...
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 1864. Recruitment was delayed for a year, but by the fall of 1865, the First ...
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 Arizona counties and cities are available from this collection, which is updated ...
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 in one map, so initially four map themes were developed. These map themes are: ...
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 Governor. This listing is updated periodically. New Executive Orders are being ...
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's history Latinos have been involved, from Territorial days and on into the ...
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 contributions of the Militia of Arizona and the Arizona National Guard to the State ...
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. And for over a century, the Arizona Geological Survey and its predecessors have ...
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 Arizona state agencies are available from this collection, which is updated on a ...
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 within state or local government organizations. Agency records include those ...
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 with one or more adhesive postage stamps, or an envelope or postal card with a pre ...
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 libraries which serve the public. The Arizona State Library, Archives and Public ...
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 of women in the West, denying them individual as well as collective importance ...
Arizona-Sonora Documents Online provides web access to digital images of archival collections relating to Sonora, Mexico that are located at three Arizona repositories: the University of Arizona Library Special Collections; the Arizona Historical Society-Tucson; and the Arizona ...
A collection of papers concerning the Civil War and World War II belonging to Arlington Heights residents.
Early photographs of the daily lives of Arlington Heights residents, including houses, businesses, and aerial photos.
Historical photographs of the buildings and people of Arlington Heights, Illinois.
The Atlanta Coca Cola Bottling Company was established in 1900 by Joseph Whitehead and J.T. Lupton. It was the second company authorized by the Coca Cola Company to bottle the product (the first was established shortly before in Chattanooga, TN). Mr. Arthur L. Montgomery became ...
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 the generosity of Mr. Noel C. Dicks. Mr. Dicks, a local pharmacist and owner of ...
The combined records for works of art in the permanent collections of the Walker Art Center and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
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 university, these men of science were already leaders in their fields, asking ...
The Atlanta Art Association sponsored a museum tour of Europe in 1962. Soon after takeoff on June 3, 1962 the Boeing 707 crashed and 130 passengers died including 106 Atlantans. Many of those who died on the flight had strong ties to the arts and cultural organizations. To honor ...
The Atlanta Blue Print and Graphics Company (later named Imaging Technologies Services) is a supplier of imaging services in the southeastern United States with branches in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina. This collection features images of buildings ...
The Atlanta Chamber of Commerce is a private, independent organization founded in 1860 by local business leaders. Over the years, the Chamber has implemented two “Forward Atlanta” campaigns to attract business and promoting economic development, and assisted the city of Atlanta ...
The Atlanta Crackers were a minor league baseball team that played in the Southern Association from 1901 to 1961. In 1962 the Southern Association disbanded and so from 1962 to 1965 the Atlanta Crackers played in the International League. The Atlanta Crackers played their home ...
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 1992. The primary content dates between 1930 and 1970. Subjects include ...
This diverse collection of photographic prints, lithographs, and cased images include a wide spectrum of images relating to diverse topics. The oldest images feature portraits of prominent men and women in Ante-bellum Atlanta and scenes from the aftermath of the Civil War. Street ...
The New Deal inaugurated the first urban public housing developments in Atlanta. In 1934, land was cleared to build Techwood Homes near the campus of Georgia Tech University and University Homes close to Atlanta University and Clark, Morehouse, Morris Brown, and Spelman Colleges ...
The Atlanta Lung Association, (A.L.A.) was established in 1907 by the Fulton County Medical Society, it was among the first organizations in Atlanta to offer treatment of tuberculosis to those unable to obtain sanatorium care. It merged with another such organization, the Home ...
The Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railway was formed in 1905 to purchase the Atlantic and Birmingham Railway and extend its track into Birmingham. The AB&A Railway consolidated with the A&B Railway in April of 1906 to form the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railroad. The ...
This collection includes oral history interviews surrounding lesbian and gay history and culture in Atlanta prior to the explosion of gay rights movements that occurred in cities across the United States in the early 1970s. Gay women and men were asked to share their backgrounds ...
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 in Illinois. It was produced by the Illinois State Museum's Oral History of ...
The Baltimore Recommended Capital Improvement Program is a three-volume collection of 259 reports with accompanying photographs of recommended capital improvements to Baltimore City streets submitted in 1955 by Henry A. Barnes, Director of Traffic, to Thomas F. Hubbard, Chairman ...
These 35mm color slides were taken by two men, Donald Kobi and the late Joe Schuller, members of the Maryland Chapter 11 of the National Mosaic inside Corpus Christi Church in Baltimore. Association of Watch and Clock Collectors (NAWCC). Inspired by the United States bicentennial ...
The Baltimore Transit Directories, Maps, and Timetables exhibit features Baltimore streetcar memorabilia from the personal collection of Jerry Kelly, a member of the Baltimore Streetcar Museum and an avid streetcar buff. This exhibit spans public transportation in Baltimore, ...
Claudia Chow's Banana is an interactive look at the Lees, a Chinese-American family attempting to balance Chinese traditions and Western culture.
The Barneveld Local History Collection spans more than a century—from settlement, through the devastation of the 1984 tornado and the rebuilding effort, to more recent times. The collection includes public records as well as published and personal archival materials donated ...
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 Museum Auxiliary. The baskets in this online collection date from the late 19th ...
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, and the widespread use of their marble, limestone and serpentine products. ...
The Bedford-Pine neighborhood is an area in Atlanta, Georgia bounded by North Avenue on the north end, Highland Avenue to the south, Boulevard to the east, and Piedmont Avenue to the west. The area was annexed by Atlanta in 1870 and developed until a fire destroyed businesses and ...
In December 1941, the United States government selected Bell Aircraft Corporation to build B-29 bombers. On March 30, 1942, Bell broke ground in Marietta, Georgia, for a new plant to build the aircraft, and by March 1943, aircraft construction had begun. The Bell Aircraft ...
The Belle Isle Family of Atlanta, Georgia consisted of Alvin Looney Belle Isle (1884-1950), his wife Agnes Nelson and their children. Alvin Belle Isle was an executive in the transportation business most of his adult life, establishing and operating numerous several companies. ...
The Grand Opera House was built on Peachtree Street in 1893 by Laurent DeGive as a larger and more elaborate successor to the DeGive Opera House built at the corner of Marietta and Forsyth Streets in the 1870s. The Grand came under the management of Marcus Loew's Theater ...
Berry O. Pyron (1922-2002) was a physicist at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Mr. Pyron was an Atlanta native and photography enthusiast who recorded the city’s history for posterity. This collection is comprised of photographs of downtown Atlanta, Georgia and includes ...
"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 Kentucky History", published in 1949 by the University of Press of Kentucky in ...
William A. Horne, Jr. (1910-1991) was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and attended Technological High School and Georgia Institute of Technology. Mr. Horne became president of J.C. Penney and was president of the Jaycees when he shot the film of Marietta Street ...
William Bryan Wilson (1914-1993) worked as a photographer for the Atlanta Constitution from 1937-1942, and then volunteered for the Navy during World War II. Following the war, Wilson returned to the Atlanta Journal where he worked until he retired in 1979. In 1953, Wilson won ...
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 goal of the project is to, in time, provide a comprehensive and illustrative ...
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 Douglass, Jr. business records, and it documents the amusements available to Macon' ...
This collection contains over 700 photographs from glass plate negatives taken from before 1910 to 1936. The negatives were selected from the Westhoff Archive at the Boone County Historical Society and were taken by Joe Douglass, Henry Holborn, and Wesley Blackmore. These ...
Digitized Boston city directories between 1865-1955 as the foundation for contextual information about the city including images.
Boyd Henry Lewis, Jr (1944 - ) is a photographer, teacher, and former journalist who worked with black-owned newspapers in Atlanta. Lewis worked in East Tennessee and in Meridian, Mississippi before he was hired in 1969 working at the Atlanta Voicein Atlanta at the Atlanta Voice ...
A broadside—sometimes called a "penny ballad"—is a single sheet of paper with printing normally on one side only. The broadside was an easily produced and highly visible way for individuals or groups to show their support for a cause. Thus, by the end of the Civil War ...
Collections Central Online is a website that allows Brooklyn Children's Museum visitors to interact with the collection, even from their own homes! Child-friendly descriptions, vibrant photos, and easy searching allow children to explore a selection of BCM's collection of ...
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 October 26, 1841 to December 31, 1902, representing half of the Eagle's years of ...
This collection is comprised of photographs of buildings, street scenes, and landmarks in Atlanta, Georgia. Also included is a set of images of houses, churches, and public buildings in the Druid Hills neighborhood. Another group of photographs include the Edward Peters home at ...
This grant builds a testbed of map images of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at a scale of 1:75,000 held in three institutions; UConn, the New York Public Library and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee/American Geographical Society Library. The grant aims to build a scalable ...
"The Built Heritage of North Carolina" provides access to documentation on hundreds of buildings and structures in North Carolina dating from the 1700s to the early 1900s. Buildings represented in this project include well-known examples of historic architecture, such as Baldhead ...
The phrase "burnt district" refers to the 140 acres or 80 city blocks of the business district of Baltimore that were reduced to so many piles of rubble by the great fire of February 7-8, 1904. It only took half an hour for a burning, six-story building to turn into a raging, out ...
This collection contains documentation relating to California Design, a triennial exhibition of decorative arts and crafts, which was active during the years 1955 to 1984.
The California Digital Newspaper Collection contains over 400,000 pages of significant historical California newspapers published from 1846-1922, including the first California newspaper, the Californian, and the first daily California newspaper, the Daily Alta California. It ...
Ethnographic photographs by various photographers in the collection of the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology are works made for hire.
This collection contains correspondence, writings, and other papers of Richard Keith Call and his family, 1788-1916, and Theodore Washington Brevard and Mary Call Brevard and their family, 1820-ca. 1920s. Included are personal and business correspondence; financial records; land ...
Since 2000, high school students at Rome Free Academy in Rome, NY have interviewed over 120 veterans from World War II to the present as part of an elective class on World Wars of the 20th Century. Their teachers Matthew Fidler, Gary Ford and Riccardo Dursi worked with the New ...
Carl Dixon was a commercial photographer in the city of College Park, Georgia, located south of Atlanta. This collection contains photographs of College Park taken by Dixon, and features images the Atlanta and West Point Railroad Station, churches, businesses, private residences ...
Consisting of thirteen photographs, fifty-nine blueprints or mechanical drawings, and two other documents, this collection from Carl Spoerer's Sons Company, one of the earliest manufacturers of motor vehicles in Maryland, shows how a small business in the carriage-building ...
This collection documents generations of the family of James Cosby Carlisle (1837-1927) who moved with his wife and three children to Atlanta, Georgia from Abbeville, South Carolina in 1880. Included are portraits of members of four generations of the Carlisle family, and dozens ...
Local history photographs of Cary, Illinois.
The Cator Collection of Baltimore Views, housed in Special Collections at Pratt's State Library Resource Center, consists of nearly 200 etchings, engravings, watercolors, prints and other lithographs, from 1752 to 1930. The images provide a visual timeline from the city's ...
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 1942-1944, and his collection focuses on the administration and documentation ...
The Free Library of Philadelphia, with the generous support of the Institute of Museum and Library Services, invites you to visit our Web version of the 100th birthday party for the United States, the Centennial Exhibition of 1876. In these pages we present the Library's unique ...
Central Atlanta Progress, Inc. (C.A.P) is a private, nonprofit corporation that works to improve the economic climate of downtown Atlanta. The organization’s primary functions are to stimulate economic development; promote urban development programs, such as enterprise zones; ...
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 worldwide.
Charles E. Troutt was a commercial photographer who worked in Atlanta from approximately 1951 to 1969. This collection contains photographs taken by Troutt, presumably for his clients. Included are images of commercial buildings, government buildings, private residences, ...
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 World War II, as a member of the U. S. Army, 252nd Field Artillery Battalion, he ...
Charles Weever Cushman, amateur photographer and Indiana University alumnus, bequeathed approximately 14,500 Kodachrome color slides to his alma mater. The photographs in this collection bridge a thirty-two year span from 1938 to 1969, during which time Mr. Cushman extensively ...
Botanical illustrations from the collections of the Lenhardt Library of the Chicago Botanic Garden.
This collection will provide information about ornamental plants to gardeners, teachers and students in horticulture, etc. The site will feature annually updated profiles on approximately 1000 different garden plants undergoing trials in the Garden's Plant Evaluation Program.
Chicago Ridge Public Library’s Online History Collection contains images and texts related to the people and places unique to the history of the village of Chicago Ridge, Illinois. The collection includes photographs, pamphlets, newsletters, brochures, scrapbook pages, ...
Of the approximately 150 Chinese paintings in this collection guide, the majority were originally collected by UC Berkeley Professor Emeritus James Cahill and the Cahill family. The Cahill family collections, known historically as the Ching Yuan Chai Collection, are arguably ...
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 first time. Minutes include roll calls of council members in attendance, agreements ...
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 for racial equality in the 1950s and 1960s is among the most far-reaching social ...
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 Mississippi. Mississippi was a focal point in the struggle for civil rights in America ...
The IMLS grant funded project brings Tufts, and the Virginia Center for Digital History together with the University to build a digital repository of Civil War-Era newspapers. Not only will this project provide online access to The Liberator, Philadelphia Ledger and the Richmond ...
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 cartoons whose dates have been identified span the years 1899- 1949, thus ...
Many of the world's treasures are fragile and threatened by development, weather or war. CLIOH's mission is to digitally document these world heritage sites in as dimensionally and texturally accurate a manner as possible, before they disappear. CLIOH is a searchable collection ...
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 Field is located sixty miles south of Chicago. The growth of the city and its need ...
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 Arizona, Plaintiff, vs. Phelps Dodge Corporation, A Corporation, et als., ...
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 documents an archaeological dig site from the era. The dig site is located at Murray ...
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 by the district court clerk of matters and proceedings taken up by the judge& ...
Tour Code City and uncover a series of interactive maps, historic photographs and essays that detail how housing policy changes the cities we live in. Created by New York-based collectives, CUP and HONEST.
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 of images of Mammoth Hot Springs National Park, Casa Grande Pre-Historic Ruins ...
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 timber; landscape photography of Northern Arizona; and Native American communities on ...
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 of these groups and to write about their histories. This collection brings ...
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 Columbus Public Library, later to become today's Chattahoochee Valley ...
The Springfield-Greene County Library District and several organizations throughout the Ozarks are working together to digitize Civil War era documents. Funded by a Library Services and Technology Act grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the Missouri State ...
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 portions of the collection concern the Central Arizona Project, Indians, water, ...
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, title and date. Geographical sites may be searched using a Digital Geographic ...
Constance Fauntleroy Runcie was the founder of the first women's social club east of the Mississippi, The Minerva Society in New Harmony, Indiana (1859). She later founded the oldest existing women's club today, the Runcie Club, located in St. Joseph, Missouri. Mrs. Runcie was ...
A unique collection of ephemera, published materials, and artifacts from U.S. national political campaigns (1800-1976). The collection consists of published material, ephemera, and artifacts dating to between 1800 and 1976, including ballots and slates of candidates; promotional ...
Cortlandt F. Luce, Jr. (1907-1992) was a professional photographer and supervising agent for Aetna Insurance Agency in Atlanta, Georgia. This collection of photographs is comprised of images of geographical locations, events, and people in the Atlanta metropolitan area. ...
Through Creating Communities: Digitizing Denver’s Historic Neighborhoods, information on Denver neighborhoods from official records of the City and County of Denver and a wide variety of partner institutions were digitized and brought together in a centralized digital repository ...
The Cuban Heritage Collection (CHC) is the premier collection of research materials for Cuban and Cuban-American studies. It is the most comprehensive library of manuscripts, rare and contemporary books, and unique materials for the study of Cuba, its history, its people, and its ...
The Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI) represents the efforts of an international group of Assyriologists, museum curators and historians of science to make available through the internet the form and content of cuneiform tablets dating from the beginning of writing, ca ...
Digital collection of over 6,000 cylinder records from 1895-1920s with downloadable and streaming audio held by the Department of Special Collection, University of California, Santa Barbara. Collection includes recordings made by Edison, Columbia, Indestructible, US Everlasting, ...
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 Georgia Infantry Regiment, during the first year of the war, June 1861 to March 1862 ...
The more than 7,500 historic images from The Daily Reflector, Greenville, NC's daily newspaper, document the sweeping changes in Eastern North Carolina between 1949 and 1967. This period of dramatic social and economic change saw the increasing power of federal and state ...
The photographs in this collection were taken by Dale Elliott Roberts, the proprietor of Elliott’s’ Peachtree Studio from approximately 1954-1975. This collection contains images of churches, schools, and businesses in towns near Atlanta, Georgia, including Alpharetta, Ben Hill, ...
The Arts Broadcasting System (TABS) project will create a flexible, multifunctional system interface for unlimited access to 13,000 digital resources from the Dallas Museum of Art's encyclopedic collections. The project is based on five years of planning, audience research, and ...
Darlene Roth & Associates was a professional historical consulting business in Atlanta, Georgia. The company offered a broad range of services to clients in the public and private sector such as historical structure surveys, community histories, environmental reviews, and ...
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 Navajo. This collection includes images of Sam Day, Sr., his wife Anna, and ...
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, legislator and United States Indian Commissioner; Anna Day, Sam Sr.'s wife (1872-1932); ...
The Phyllis and Robert Massar Photograph Collection of Pacific Northwest Architecture is a photographic archive created when they were professional architectural photographers in the Pacific Northwest during the period 1943-1963. During the time when they were active in ...
This collection is comprised of images taken by Delta Airlines corporate photographers and utilized for promotional purposes by the company. The photographs are of geographic locations in the metropolitan Atlanta region, but most of the images are of downtown Atlanta. Included ...
Of particular note, the costume collection at the Detroit Historical Museums has over 30,000 items of clothing and accessories that represent a broad range of Detroit's citizens over the past 200 years. The collection includes examples of occupational, formal, recreational, ...
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 film negatives were destroyed by the National Archives in the 1980s due to ...
This collection brings together historic costume collections from several institutions into a single searchable web accessible database. The partner institutions are libraries and museums from metropolitan Detroit. Their collections number more than 40,000 items and cover 300 ...
For many years scholars have recognized that late nineteenth-century Durham, North Carolina makes an ideal case study for examining emancipation, industrialization, immigration, and urbanization in the context of the New South. "With its tobacco factories, textile mills, black ...
Digital Forsyth, the definitive online collection of historical photographs of Forsyth County, NC., is a grant-funded multi-year digitization project among Forsyth County Public Library, Old Salem Museum and Gardens, Winston-Salem State University's C.G. O'Kelly Library, and Wake ...
Because photographs are integral to the study of Africa, the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies includes photographs in its collections and is committed to making them available for scholarly research and curricular support. In December 2002, the Herskovits Library ...
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 in Wheeling, Illinois. It began in 1998 with a grant from the Illinois State ...
The Open Video Digital Library Toolkit (OVDLT) project will provide museums, libraries and other institutions holding moving image collections with the tools to create Web-based digital video libraries. Many museums and libraries have important video content that would be of ...
The North Carolina Digital Heritage Center is a statewide digitization and digital publishing program housed in the North Carolina Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The Digital Heritage Center works with cultural heritage institutions across North ...
Mesopotamia's diverse contributions in writing, mathematics, literature, and law will come alive again in Discover Babylon, a joint project of UCLA's Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative, the Federation of American Scientists Learning Technologies Project, and the Walters Art ...
This demonstration project provides digital images and descriptions of the Dorothea June Grossbart Historic Costume Collection. The physical collection contains over 400 garments and accessories from the 19th and 20th centuries, and is curated by the Fashion Design and ...
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 appreciation of the ordinary, and the striking empathy she showed for her subjects ...
Professor Douglas Eugene Pike (July 27, 1924-May 13, 2002) was a veteran, journalist, diplomat, teacher, scholar, writer, and renowned leading expert on Vietnam. Pike first became involved in Vietnam as a part of the US Information Agency in Saigon in the 1960s, and later as part ...
The Druid Hills School opened in 1919 through Emory University as a school for faculty children, grades kindergarten to eleventh. In 1928, the school was moved to 1798 Hayward Drive, in Atlanta, and in 1959, this location began to house only grades eight through twelve. The ...
Duane L. Cronk, of Duane L. Cronk & Associates is a public relations consultant based out of Angwin California. This collection contains images of the construction of Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) rail stations, including the Five Points Station, Civic ...
Digitized books owned by the Dundee Township Public Library.
These records document the plans for the urban redevelopment of Durham, North Carolina, in the 1960s and 1970s. Created in 1958, the Durham Redevelopment Commission oversaw seven projects of urban renewal aimed at combating "urban blight," one in Durham's downtown and the other ...
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 activity, sheep herding, pioneering and dude ranches have a part at shaping the ...
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 the citizens of Taylor adjusted to world, national and community development.
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 Catalog, class schedule, and Student Handbook (be sure to read the sections on ...
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 depicts changes in the campus layout and physical plant. This collection ...
In 2003-2004, the North Carolina History and Fiction Digital Library was launched. During 2003-2004, approximately 200 texts were digitized pertaining to the history of 29 eastern North Carolina counties. Principle Investigator for 2003-2004, Elizabeth Smith, and her colleagues ...
On January 19, 1934, under the direction of Joseph L. Wheeler, the Enoch Pratt Free Library opened the Edgar Allan Poe Room to the public. Pratt's collection of Poeana has been bolstered over the years by three major gifts. The first, a gift of letters, books, clippings and other ...
Education by Design is an online exhibit and image database of educational visual aids produced by the Museum Extension Project (MEP), a division of the New Deal jobs creation program, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and owned by the Bienes Center for the Literary Arts at ...
The North American Indian by Edward S. Curtis is one of the most significant and controversial representations of traditional American Indian culture ever produced. Issued in a limited edition from 1907-1930, the publication continues to exert a major influence on the image of ...
The digital archive represents a comprehensive and integrated collection of sources and resources on the history and topography of London. Texts, images, and maps in the Bolles collection are all interconnected. Together they form a body of material, heterogeneous in form, but ...
eFloras.org is a Web portal that enables researchers working in natural areas to interact with core botanical data, determine plant identifications, and record research observations.
Historical photographs of people and places in Harwood Heights, Illinois from the archives of the Eisenhower Public Library.
Historical photographs of Lake County, Illinois from the collections of the Ela Area Historical Socieity
Historic photographs of Elgin, Illinois.
Historical photographs of Elgin Community College
Ellinor Dale Runcie (? -1935) was the only daughter of Constance Faunt LeRoy Runcie, founder of the oldest existing women's social club, The Runcie Club located in St. Joseph, Missouri. Ellinor was a world traveler and prolific writer like her mother. She was a teacher at the ...
Program for the reception and banquet given in honor of Elisha Gray on November 15, 1878. Elisha Gray (August 2, 1835 – January 21, 1901) was an American electrical engineer who co-founded the Western Electric Manufacturing Company. Even though Alexander Graham Bell was awarded ...
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 National Museum to create curricula about the Japanese American World War II ...
In 2002 the Enoch Pratt Free Library began to create a collection of live-action, multicultural storyteller performances to be displayed over the web. In all, 41 stories from 21 storytellers of national and regional renown have been taped and edited. Representing diverse cultures ...
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 states, as well as from Indiana and Illinois. The image content of the glass ...
Historic photographs of Rockford, Illinois from the collections of the Rockford Ethnic Heritage Museum.
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 first anthropologists to photograph California Native peoples.
EthoSearch was created to further research in Ethology and address the need to establish taxon-specific ethograms. In partnership with SUNY Binghamton, and in collaboration with Ethosource, the development of EthoSearch makes a wide range of scientifically "vetted" ethograms ...
Exit Art's mission is to create and present exhibitions and programs that explore the diversity of cultures and voices that continually shape contemporary art and ideas in America. Exit Art is also committed to bringing to public attention the work of under-recognized and ...
The Exploratorium's Digital Assets Collection has collected and digitized museum materials related to interactive exhibits and scientific phenomena, including images, educational activities, PDFs, QuickTime movies, and audio files.
The International Cotton Exposition of 1881 was one of three expositions in Atlanta designed to attract business and venture capitol to Atlanta. Buildings were erected for the 1881 exposition along what is now Ashby Street in West Atlanta. In 1882, these structures were ...
The F.A. Pazandak Photograph Collection includes 119 images taken by him in the early twentieth century on the family farm near Fullerton, in southeastern North Dakota. F.A. Pazandak, a North Dakota farmer, developed an early interest in photography, a fortunate development for ...
The Quaker community of Sandy Spring, in Montgomery County, had one of the highest concentrations of schools in the Maryland area during the 19th century. These facilities varied from private academies to public schools, from well-known establishments to tiny neighborhood ...
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden is a leading center of palm research, horticulture, and conservation. Our scientists have been growing and studying the world's palms for over 70 years. We have built a large and diverse collection of living palms, a library of data and images, a ...
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 Labriola National American Indian Data Center, University Libraries, Arizona State ...
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 collection is a joint project of the U.S. Government Information Division and ...
Feeding America is an online collection of the most important and influential 19th and early 20th century American cookbooks. The site also includes a glossary of cookery terms, essays by culinary historian Jan Longone, biographies of the cookbook authors, and multidimensional ...
The Fenians were established in Ireland and the United States in 1858 with the avowed purpose of overthrowing British rule in Ireland and establishing an Irish Republic. (In Ireland the Fenians were also known as the Irish Republican Brotherhood.) The Fenians in the United States ...
Field Trip Earth is the global resource for teachers, students, and proponents of wildlife conservation. Field Trip Earth focuses on field-based wildlife conservation research projects ongoing around the world. Some of the projects are "live," meaning that research activities, ...
The State Archives of Florida's film and video collection features moving images depicting variety of topics, including: education, environment, family life, industry, integration, politics, tourism and World War II. The 60 films featured in this online collection are only a ...
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) search engine and the Illinois Digital Archives (IDA). Through IGI, you can access ...
This web site provides access to materials selected from Fish and Mammal Divisions of the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology and the Fungus Collections of the University of Michigan Herbarium. It is a working prototype of a system that could provide integrated access to all ...
The series includes files on approved and denied pension claims from 1885 to 1954. Most files contain the original application, any supplemental applications, proof of service and residency, and occasional correspondence between the applicant and the Board. Veterans' applications ...
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 2001. The collection consists of 88 record series documenting performances by, ...
Featuring over 161,000 digitized photographs from the State Library and Archives of Florida, the Florida Photographic Collection is the most complete online portrait of Florida available--one that draws its strength from family pictures, the homes of Floridians, their work, and ...
The collection includes five archival series, and features the 1838, 1861, 1865, 1868, and 1885 Florida constitutions.
Floyd E. Jillson (1926 -) was a photographer at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution for the News Department from 1950 until 1955 after which he moved to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Magazine. The Floyd Jillson photographs are comprised of images Jillson took as staff ...
Folkstreams.net collects, preserves, and makes available free streaming video of hard-to-find documentary films about American folk or roots culture, giving wider audience to the independent filmmakers and the diverse American artists and groups they have documented. The ...
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 the social, philanthropic and reform activities of the Athens Woman's Club during ...
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 photographers in the American West. Native Americans, cowboys and scenic landscapes ...
Photographs from the collections of the Fort Sheridan Museum
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 California scenes, events, towns and landmarks, as well as numerous portraits of ...
Included in this collection are photographs of Atlanta religious centers. Frances Outlar primarily photographed Christian churches, but also provided images of Jewish synagogues. The collection contains exterior views of the Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church, Central Baptist ...
Francis E. Price (1886-1928) was hired in 1909 as the first staff photographer at the Atlanta Constitution. The collection includes photographs of people, places, and events taken by Price. Most of the images were probably produced for news stories in the paper. Included are ...
Frank and Emmagene Davenport lived on 345 Pine Street in Atlanta when on May 21, 1917 ...
The Fred Hultstrand History in Pictures Collection consists of some 550 images documenting the settlement of the northern Great Plains, particularly northeastern North Dakota. In addition, approximately 300 of these images were later hand-colored, adding a unique flavor to the ...
Fred L. Howe (1857-1903) was a commercial photographer who practiced in Atlanta from 1895-1903, and was also a photographer for the Atlanta Constitution. The Cotton States and International Exposition was an international event that took place on the Piedmont Exposition grounds ...
These case files consist of 301 legal petitions for freedom filed by people of color in St. Louis courts between 1814 and 1860. They make up the largest corpus of freedom suits currently available to researchers in the United States. The bulk of these suits were filed between ...
Friends of Our Native Landscape Publications
In 1910, the Pi Beta Phi Fraternity for Women worked to open the first school to serve families in and around Gatlinburg. Thanks to a nearly quarter-million dollar grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the history of education and arts literacy in the ...
Photographs of the Gail Borden Public Library.
Over 30,000 public documents and 300 publications of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) are accessible from this site, a digital library created in a partnership between the Stanford University Libraries & Academic Information Resources (SULAIR) and the World Trade ...
Gay Bolling Shepperson (1887 – 1977) was the administrator of three successive federal relief projects in Georgia: the Civil Works Administration (CWA), the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) and the Works Progress Administration (WPA). The Works Progress ...
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 artistry with a camera and his perfectionism. Both studio and environmental portraits ...
A pictorial WWII ( World War II) history of C Battery of the 522nd Field Artillery Battalion through the 34-page album of black and white photographs taken by George Oiye and Susumu Ito.
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, full-text database. Participants in the Georgia Legislative Documents Project ...
The Research Center Archives houses hundreds of letters to and from Georgia O'Keeffe. The bulk of the letters were written by Georgia O'Keeffe and addressed to Alfred Stieglitz, Maria Chabot or Claudia O'Keeffe. This is a growing collection and additional materials will be made ...
As of December 2009, the collection includes almost 3,000 works. Foremost among those items are over 1,000 works by O'Keeffe herself, comprising the largest repository of her work available to the public in a single institution. Subjects range from the artist's iconic flowers and ...
The Georgia O'Keeffe Personal Tangible Property Archive consists of the artist's art materials (brushes, easels, frames, paints, pastels, etc.); found objects that became subjects in works--(bones, rocks, shells); clothing and household furnishings.
The Photograph Collection contains photographs from both the Museum and Research Center archival collections. The bulk of the collection includes photographs by known and anonymous photographers of Georgia O'Keeffe from childhood to old age, her New Mexico properties, her friends ...
The personal collection of Gerrit Smith himself, the Gerrit Smith Papers at Syracuse University, contain a significant volume of his collected works, publications by others on important themes of the day, and a large body of correspondence. Among the correspondents are Frederick ...
Getting the Message Out! National Political Campaign Materials, 1840-1860 presents an examination of national popular political culture in antebellum America. It includes histories of the presidential campaigns from 1840-1860, as well as primary source material, such as campaign ...
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.
The Glencoe Historical and Architectural Survey was commissioned in 1985 by the Glencoe Historical Society to identify Glencoe’s significant homes and structures. It was done by architectural historian Susan Benjamin of Highland Park, Illinois. Three hundred homes and structures ...
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 was required in order to support the institution's instructional program; cover ...
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 population of 3,500. The Spanish-style mission library was located in the center of ...
Photographs of the Glenview Public Library.
GloPAD (Global Performing Arts Database) is a multimedia, multilingual, Web-accessible database containing digital images, texts, video clips, sound recordings, and complex media objects (such as 3-D images) related to the performing arts from around the world. All GloPAD records ...
The Goodspeed Collection of New Testament Manuscripts comprises 65 early Greek, Syriac, Ethiopic, Armenian, Arabic, and Latin manuscripts ranging in date from the 7th to the 19th centuries. The acquisition of these hitherto unknown manuscripts was spearheaded by Edgar J. ...
The celebration of the Graham Hospital School of Nursing’s 100th anniversary provided the impetus to begin a two-fold project documenting the history of the School through words and images. Images from the Past includes a digital collection of photographs and scanned documents ...
The City of Stevensville rests on the shores of Lake Michigan. One of its unique natural areas is the Grand Mere Dunes area. Although the dunes now make up a state park, in 1960 the area was the site of sand mining. Industry attempts to remove all the sand from the dunes and fill ...
What happened in Baltimore with Mencken is truly a remarkable story. This man who never went to school beyond the age of fifteen years and nine months taught himself to write and became one of the most distinguished stylists in prose nonfiction in the history of American letters ...
City Directories prove to be an excellent source for researching individual and family history. They fill the void over the ten years Excerpts from Hagerstown City Directory between United States censuses ...
Hans Hofmann created a distinctive primordial world of color and light. He realized that in painting, unlike in nature, cause and effect are reversed: on canvas, color creates light. Hofmann wrote, "Every color emanates a very characteristic light," and the special luminosity and ...
Over 20,000 immigrants are currently being detained by the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Hard Place, a new web art by Lauren Gill and Jenny Polak project allows visitors to enter INS detention centers and see the conditions that detainees face every day.
The goal of the Harford County Public Library's Living Treasures Oral History Project is to preserve for future generations firsthand accounts of what life in Harford County has been like for previous generations ...
The photographs in this collection relate to Atlanta author Medora Field Perkerson. The earliest images, a photograph from 1924, shows Ms. Perkerson seated in the center with other members of the Atlanta Journal Sunday Magazine, including Margaret Mitchell. Other photographs ...
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 demonstrated that women made better servers, and the "Harvey Girls" were borne ...
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 after the Army declared martial law in the islands on 7 Dec. 1941. The Hawai'i ...
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 history and presents the Hawaiian view of events, genealogy and culture.
HEARTH is a core electronic collection of books and journals in Home Economics and related disciplines. Titles published between 1850 and 1950 were selected and ranked by teams of scholars for their great historical importance. It includes all aspects of historical home economics ...
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 photographer who specialized in recording the political and social changes of ...
Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village's clothing and personal effects collection is recognized by the National Endowment for the Humanities as one of national significance. It contains over 10,000 items and ranges in date from l750 to the present day. The collection includes ...
This collection includes paintings by Henry Sugimoto, a Japanese American artist who flourished in the 1930s and continued to paint well into the 1990s.
Included in this collection are images of Atlanta landmarks and neighborhoods, social and civic events, and images depicting transportation in Atlanta and throughout the state of Georgia. The collection contains images of downtown Atlanta, including aerial views, government ...
Herbert Turner Jenkins (1907 –1990) was born in Lithonia Georgia and became an Atlanta police officer at the age of 24. In 1947, Mayor William B. Hartsfield appointed him chief of police, a position he held until 1972. During the 1960s, Jenkins worked with Mayor Ivan Allen, Jr ...
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, libraries and museums in digital format. You can access photos, textual materials, ...
Photos and items from Highland Park, Illinois around the turn of the 20th century.
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 to Bishop Salpointe himself. The collection also includes the first baptismal ...
Sixty-three oil paintings painted by Hisako Hibi at Tanforan Assembly Center in California and Topaz concentration camp in Utah from 1942 to 1945. Subjects include various daily activities, still lifes, and landscapes.
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 Surveyor and published by the county Board of Supervisors. Some of the maps appear to ...
Historic photographs of Champaign County from the collections of the Urbana Free Library.
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 photos of the Sine Family, a pioneering family to Glendale, who were instrumental in ...
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 cultural heritage institutions in Pittsburgh. The image collections visually ...
Historic photographs of Quincy, Illinois.
Of the over 2500 audio items in the Vietnam Archive's collections, 1600 are available online in digital format. The originals encompass a variety of formats such as reel-to-reel and LP, and have a wide range of topics, including: audio letters; combat recordings; armed forces ...
The Historical Maps Online digital collection contains images of maps charting the last 400 years of historical development in Illinois and the Northwest Territory, as well as topographic maps of Illinois. Designed to appeal both to map aficionados and to educational institutions ...
Digitized copies of two histories of Park Ridge.
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 University of Puerto Rico, and the history courses in the secondary schools of ...
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 before 1988, these photographs come from private collections of area pioneer ...
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 Oak Creek's water through the rise and fall of a commercial orchard industry.
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 through at least a second generation.
The initial goal of The HistoryMakers is to complete 5,000 interviews of both well-known and unsung African American HistoryMakers within the next five years, creating an archive of unparalleled importance and exposing the archival collection to the widest audience possible. Not ...
This multimedia web site is part of an 18-month project to catalog, digitize, and preserve every item in Indiana University's extensive collections pertaining to the life and career of master songwriter Hoagland "Hoagy" Carmichael (1899-1981).
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 dwellings, it contained public architecture, such as the platform mound, a stone ...
There are approximately four thousand original Daumier lithographs, some proofs, and several illustrated books and woodcuts. While the vast majority of these prints are from the large editions done on newsprint, there are also many fine examples printed on wove white paper (sur ...
This extensive, digitized newspaper collection dates back to 1960. You can view high resolution scans of pages from the archives of the longest running publication about Huntley, IL.
Experience nineteenth century Illinois history! Explore some of its people, places, and a rich tapestry of events and characters.
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 national leadership in a variety of fields. Illinois Alive! The Heritage and Texture of ...
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 sites throughout Illinois. The search engine indexes images, etc., describing the ...
The Illinois Digital Newspaper Collection (IDNC) is a project of the History, Philosophy and Newspaper Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The IDNC is a repository of digital facsimiles of historic Illinois newspapers. Using digital imaging technology, we ...
IFLODD, the Illinois Firefighter Line of Duty Deaths Digital Image Collection Database, documents the ultimate sacrifice of more than 800 Illinois firefighters over the past 150 years.
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. These facilities were designed, implemented, and are operated by the ...
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 film negatives were destroyed by the National Archives in the 1980s due to ...
County atlases, which began to be produced after the Civil War, are a uniquely American nineteenth-century publication. County atlas publication initially was centered in Philadelphia in the 1860s but by the 1880s Chicago had taken the lead, and a high proportion of the atlases ...
The first Illinois State Fair opened on October 11, 1853 with an admission of 25 cents. The attractions included cattle, horses, and sheep venues, among displays of reapers, mowers, farming tools, and a variety of corn planters. On the third day, over 15,000 people attended. The ...
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 presidential letters. Support for this collection is provided by The Friends of ...
Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White initiated the Illinois Veterans' History Project to create a permanent record of the names and stories of Illinois war veterans and civilians who served our state and country during war, so that their contributions will not be forgotten. To ...
A selection of items from the collection of the Berkeley Art Museum.
Images of North Carolina features photos and postcards depicting North Carolina people and places from the late 19th century to the present.
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 recruitment of Archbishop Salpointe and Archbishop Lamy, of Santa Fe. The ...
A collection of miniature Indian paintings from the collection of the Berkeley Art Museum.
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, and the general public with direct access to important primary source material on ...
Indiana Memory, the Indiana digital library, is a collaboration of Indiana libraries, museums, archives, and related cultural organizations to enable access to Indiana's unique cultural and historical heritage through a variety of digital formats and free distribution over the ...
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 native population near here, but Winslow became a second home to a contingent ...
INFOMINE is a virtual library of Internet resources relevant to faculty, students, and research staff at the university level. It contains useful Internet resources such as databases, electronic journals, electronic books, bulletin boards, mailing lists, online library card ...
Although Whitman is a foundational figure in American culture, his manuscripts as a whole are poorly understood and, curiously, the most important group of them, the poetry manuscripts, have never been collected and edited. The Whitman Archive has undertaken, therefore, to build ...
Island Lake Property Owner's Association Newsletter
Photographs of the Itasca Fire Department.
Historic photographs of Itasca, Illinois.
Photographs of Itasca, Illinois.
Photographs of the Itasca Depot Museum.
J.J. Allen was a professional photographer from Hapeville, Georgia. He began his career as a photographer in the early 1950’s and has specialized in commercial and advertising photography as well as portraiture. Since the 1990’s, Allen has operated a studio and published two how- ...
Jack Etheridge was a Senior Judge in the Superior Court of the Atlanta Judicial Circuit. This collection is comprised of images of the construction of a section of highway that merges Interstate 75 and Interstate 85, known as the downtown connector. Included are aerial ...
This collection consists of 166 photographs and copy negatives of photographs taken at Manazanar and Tule Lake concentration camps between 1942 and 1945. Subjects include scenes of daily life, group portraits, and landscapes.
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 photographs -- most intended to demonstrate the wretched conditions of African American ...
Janesville, located in southern Wisconsin near the Illinois border, was settled in 1835, making it one of the earliest communities in the state. In 2005, it was Wisconsin's 11th largest city and one of the fastest growing in the 1990s. Its 2000 population was 60,200. Thirty-nine ...
The Grunwald Center's collection of 40,000 works on paper includes 950 prints by Japanese Edo and Meiji period artists. The Center acquired many of these prints in 1965 from the Estate of Frank Lloyd Wright (American architect, 1867-1959). Artists represented in this impressive ...
Josephine “Jo Beth” Cornelia Elizibeth Apperson (1909 - ) was the daughter of Mr. Lawrence Apperson and Mrs Caroline Middlebrooks of Atlanta. She is of the tenth generation of the Middlebrooks family (who founded the Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia). Her maternal grandfather ...
The Catholic Shrine of the Immaculate Conception is the oldest Catholic Church in Atlanta, Georgia. A founding date for the parish (originally called “The Catholic Church”) has not been determined. The original structure was built on the corner of Lloyd Street and Hunter Street ...
Joe McTyre worked as a photojournalist at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and for other newspapers in Atlanta and Marietta, Georgia. The collection is comprised of images taken by McTyre, and other Atlanta photojournalists. The photographs include images of prominent ...
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 States. He designed and supervised the construction of five of America's earliest ...
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 Brown from the Boyd B. Stutler Collection. A recognized authority on the man, Boyd ...
The photographs in this collection depict the Roxy Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia, which was opened in 1926 by R.E. Hall & Company on 210 Peachtree Street. Included are images of the first anniversary program edition of 1927, interior photographs of the pipe organ chamber, balcony, ...
Joseph Carl Fisch (1907-1966) ran a bakery by profession, but was an avid photographer. The collection contains photographs of Atlanta, Georgia, including federal and state buildings, retail stores and businesses, streets, expressways, churches, hospitals, colleges and residences ...
Kenneth Rogers was a photographer for the Atlanta Constitution from 1923-1972. Rogers covered important news events in Atlanta and Georgia, and captured scenes from the Georgia countryside. The Kenneth Rogers photograph collection is comprised of images Rogers took as head of ...
Yearbooks from the Kewanee and Wethersfield High Schools.
UCR-California Museum of Photography faces the challenge of providing ready, useful and intellectual access to a valuable body of cultural and educational resources of interest to the general public and scholars alike. Consisting of 250,000 stereoscopic glass-plate and film ...
Cornell Library will partner with Cornell's College of Engineering and the Museum of Science in Boston to research and develop the use of stereolithographic ("3D printing") technology to create working physical replicas of mechanical artifacts that can be exchanged electronically ...
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 people, places, and events in the county's urban, suburban, and rural communities ...
Welcome to La Crosse History Unbound. Learn more about La Crosse County history through these digitized collections from La Crosse Public Library and Murphy Library, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.
Historic documents, images, and artifacts from Lake County, Illinois
Historic photographs and documents from the Archives of Lake Forest Academy.
Selected Lake Forest places of architectural significance are represented in this collection of photos, postcards, articles, and reports.
Since its founding in 1956 the Grunwald Center has acquired a formidable number of landscape prints and drawings dating from the Renaissance to the present. A 1988 bequest of more than 850 landscape prints and drawings from the collection of Los Angeles architect Rudolf L. ...
"League of Nations Statistical and Disarmament Documents" contains the full text of 260 League of Nations documents. The League existed from 1919 to 1946. Although Russia and the United States refused to join, its members included countries from Africa, Asia, Europe and North and ...
Robert Moses Grove, known in baseball circles as Lefty Grove, was born in Lonaconing, Allegany County, Maryland in 1900. He pitched for the Baltimore Orioles, the Philadelphia Athletics and the Boston Red Sox. Grove won the first Most Valuable Player trophy awarded to an American ...
The majority of this collection is comprised of images of Lester Maddox during his tenure as governor, and lieutenant governor of Georgia. Also included are campaign events during his run for mayor of Atlanta, and governor and lieutenant governor of Georgia. Most of the campaign ...
Enjoy selected items from the archives of the Libertyville-Mundelein Historical Society, including postcards and photographs of early Libertyville, telephone books, wedding dresses, and mail order houses.
Abraham Lincoln documents in the Illinois State Archives
Yearbooks of Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Missouri from 1915-1975. Lincoln University was previously named Lincoln Institute from 1866-1930.
Historic artifacts and photographs from the Lincolnwood Public Library's archives.
The Linking Florida's Natural Heritage (LFNH) website is a metasearch application providing a single query interface to museum specimen databases, library catalogs, citation databases, and digital collections of taxonomic and topical information. Some collections include the ...
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 Museum but makes this popular educational resource also accessible electronically ...
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 Island history, culture, government and industry through a variety of textual, ...
Louisiana Gumbo: A Recipe for Empowerment will give educators ...
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 Libraries' Special Collections digital project emphasizes the diverse history of that ...
The Louisiana State Museum Digital Library Jazz collection is composed of photographs, audio recordings and musical instruments from the collections of the Louisiana State Museum. Primarily dealing with traditional New Orleans jazz, the collections focus on photographs (including ...
The Mackle Construction Company was founded by Frank E. Mackle, Sr. in Jacksonville, Florida in 1908. The company was a leading builder of residential and commercial property in the southeast. This collection contains images of residential, commercial, and governmental property ...
The creation of this collection serves to preserve and give access to a wealth of information about Madison County history. It contains numerous atlases, cemetery records, indexes, and other documents pertinent to the history of Madison County.
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.
Five collections of music manuscript scores and sheet music, about 22,641 titles, were selected for digitization and inclusion in the pilot project. Four collections are from the Bagaduce Music Library and one from the Bangor Public Library. These collections are either unique or ...
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. Michigan's unique heritage is represented through photographs, family papers, oral ...
Welcome to the next generation of Making Sense of Modern Art (MSoMA). This program, recently brought to the Web in high bandwidth format, offers an extensive and engaging guide to modern and contemporary works in the Museum's permanent collection. Its rich-media format enables ...
Digitized issues of the Manchester Enterprise from 1867 through 1892.
Explore the history of Manitowoc and the surrounding communities through a wide selection of images, historical texts, and maps and plat books that date back to the mid 19th century. Whether for historical or genealogical research, school assignments, or business or civic ...
Manning, Selvage & Lee/Atlanta (formerly Bell and Stanton) is a public relations firm in Atlanta, Georgia, and operates as a division of Manning, Selvage & Lee, Inc. The company’s first client was the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce which by 1968 had launched the third phase of its ...
The Map Collection contains over 1500 maps on Vietnam, Indochina, Southeast Asia. A majority of the maps in this collection come from the Army Map Service with the remainder from such public sources as National Geographic. All non-copyrighted maps are available online in ...
Due to land disputes with neighboring states the original boundaries of Maryland set forth in the charter are a bit different from her present day boundaries, particularly as pertains to the Eastern Shore area. The northernmost boundary started at the fortieth parallel, or forty ...
This group of material includes maps and atlases of La Crosse County of a variety of types, including plat (rural land ownership), highway, soil, topographic; city of La Crosse (Wisconsin) including zoning, parks, and street; other La Crosse County municipalities; and ...
A remarkable visual source - not yet explored - these mostly unpublished and little known architectural drawings and sketches by Marcel Breuer (1902-1981), architect, designer and Bauhaus legend who was named one of the "Form Givers" of Modernism have now been made available ...
The Connell Collection of Historic Maricopa Pottery consists of pots that were collected by Eliza Ann Connell and her daughter, Caroline, between 1895 and 1907, in Phoenix. According to documents on file at both Pueblo Grande Museum and the Arizona State Museum, Burridge D. ...
Marion Johnson (1917 - 1998) was born in Geneva, Georgia and moved to Atlanta in 1936, joining his sister who worked as office secretary for the Atlanta Constitution. At her suggestion, Johnson took a job doing errands for the paper. While there, he was approached by Kenneth ...
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 on the Mississippi). These works will serve as lenses through which the public ...
Royal Oak, Michigan based sculptor, active 1928-1998, best known for monumental figurative sculpture, public memorials and fountains, portraits, and animal figures including the Cleveland War Memorial: Fountain of Eternal Life in the Civic Center Mall in Cleveland, Ohio; The ...
This collection of Maryland colonial and continental currency from the Maryland Department of the Central Library of the Enoch Pratt Free Library includes various denominations of Maryland paper dollar notes dating from 1767 to 1776 ...
Founded in 1917, the Allen Memorial Art Museum (AMAM) is now ranked among the finest college or university collections in the nation, and is one of the greatest cultural assets of Oberlin College. The comprehensive collection contains over 11,000 works that span the entire ...
Meadow Brook Hall's clothing and accessories collection, consisting of over 500 items, is that of the home's owner, Matilda Dodge Wilson. Born in 1883 and passing away in 1967, Matilda Dodge Wilson experienced her share of fashion trends from Edwardian sheaths and oversized hats ...
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 institutions doing archaeological surveying and research in the Southwest. It was ...
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Newspaper clippings regarding local soldiers during the World War II era.
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 ...
Newspaper clippings about Illinois soldiers in the American Civil War.
For a half century, Carnegie Mellon University has been a leader in the research and design of artificial intelligence (AI) - the creation of "thinking machines". Many of Carnegie Mellon's achievements came from pioneering work by professors Herbert A. Simon and Allen Newell. ...
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 miners of Mount Olive. She died on November 30, 1930 and is buried in the Union ...
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 collection will make available online oral histories from collaborative projects ...
Minnesota's Original Land Survey Maps: Minnesota's original Public Land Survey plats are housed at the Office of the Secretary of State. The plats were created during the first government land survey of the state conducted by the U.S. Surveyor General's Office during the years ...
Minnesota Reflections now brings you more than 62,000 images and documents shared by more than 120 cultural heritage organizations across the state. This site offers a variety of resources on Minnesota's history for researchers, educators, students and the public. We add ...
Minor Studio operated in the Atlanta area from approximately 1939-1954. The studio was owned by David and Cecile Mino and was first located on Whitehall Street in downtown Atlanta, and later in East Point, a city located south of Atlanta. This collection contains photographs, ...
Scientific Literature Indexing on Networked Computers.
The Missouri County History project, sponsored by the Missouri State Library, has gathered county histories from all over the state. There are currently 115 volumes in this collection. Where counties are not covered specifically, there is usually some regional coverage.
The Missouri County Plat Books Collection is a selection of county atlases and plat books from all over the state published from 1875 to 1930. There are currently 141 volumes in this collection. Major publishers included in this collection are Brink McDonough & Co, (7 volumes, ...
The Missouri Digital Heritage Initiative is a collaborative effort that dramatically expands the amount of information available online about Missouri's past. Through the Missouri Digital Heritage Initiative, the Missouri State Archives and the Missouri State Library are ...
American Indian art from the collections of the Mitchell Museum of the American Indian.
MOAC is a group of California museums working with libraries and archives to increase and enhance access to cultural collections. MOAC includes a broad range of museum and library collections.
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, mules, burros, railroads, stagecoaches, freight wagons, trucks, buses, hotels ...
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 is free and open through the Internet. Many of these items are digitized copies ...
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, through the 1960's. These images chronicle not only early interest and ...
Moriyuki Shimada was twenty-two years old when he and his family were forcibly removed from their home in Santa Clara, California to the Heart Mountain Concentration Camp in Wyoming. Shimada created a scrapbook after the war with the photographs he had taken and collected during ...
Historic photographs from the collections of the Sterling Morton Library, The Morton Arboretum.
Images of Morton Grove's World War I monument.
This collection includes items related to the history of the village of Mount Prospect and some of the surrounding area. Businesses, churches, government agencies, organizations, residents, and schools are represented by photographs, newspaper clippings, oral histories, ...
The Mount Prospect Public Library collection includes documents, photographs, and ephemera related to the history and development of the Mount Prospect Public Library from the 1930s to the present. Among these are photographs of each the building the Library has used and the ...
Of the more than 3000 film and video items in the Vietnam Archive's holdings, over 800 are available online in digital format. These include historical footage from the Vietnam War era, such as military training films, combat footage, and personal films. The collection also ...
Welcome to the MU in Brick and Mortar project. Through this new online project, the Building and Infrastructure Archives, with the assistance of the University Archives and MU Libraries, displays scans of building elevations and architectural renderings that provide a historical ...
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 girlfriends and former room mates—Agnes Anne LeRoi and Hedvig "Sammy" Samuelson& ...
Located in the Rose and Robert Skillman Branch Library of the Detroit Public Library, the National Automotive History Collection (NAHC) is regarded as the nation's premier public automotive archive. The NAHC documents the history and development of the automobile and other forms ...
The Center's National Collection of Endangered Plants contains plant material for more than 600 of the country's most imperiled native plants. An important conservation resource, the Collection is a back up in case a species becomes extinct or no longer reproduces in the wild. ...
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 farming, hunting, and food processing. The collection also contains objects obtained ...
Explore the Nature Museum's exhibits in a fun, new way! Nature Museum Online guides you through a series of interactive discoveries.
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 to you by the Nebraska Library Commission. Nebraska Memories uses CONTENTdm ...
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 holdings of museums and libraries across Nebraska, these images illustrate ...
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, museums, and historical collections. The result will be a digital archive of ...
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 newspapers as well as original photographs, prints and postcards, mostly created ...
Reports of the proceedings of the board of the Niles Public Library.
NJVid provides New Jersey K-20 educational institutions, museums and libraries state-of-the-art access to three different types of video collections: locally owned content, commercial, and lectures-on-demand. Through open source programs that provide authentication and ...
This collection includes published city directories from North Carolina cities and towns from the mid 19th century through the 1940s.
The North Carolina College and University Yearbooks digital collection contains student yearbooks, from the 1890s to the present, from colleges, universities, and community colleges in North Carolina. From sports teams to sororities, fashions to hairstyles, these volumes document ...
"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, fiction, and other writing. It comprises digitized and encoded printed works, ...
North Carolina Memory includes scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, ledgers, manuscripts, pamphlets, ephemera, and other written accounts from North Carolinians past and present.
The North Carolina Newspapers digital collection contains community newspapers from across North Carolina from the early 19th-century to the present. The collection also includes student newspapers from selected North Carolina colleges and universities.
"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 responded to war-time demands. The collection focuses on the years of American ...
Historic photographs of people and events at Northbrook School District schools.
Established in 1856, Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfield, Illinois, is the largest cemetery in Illinois in land area (365 acres). More than seventy thousand people are interred in this historic cemetery. With more than 2.5 million visitors each year, it is the second most-visited ...
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 of in an effort to find a low cost way for students and teacher of U.S. History ...
The Science Museum of Minnesota (SMM)'s Ojibwe and Dakota ethnographic collection forms the basis of the Ethnology Online data base and includes a selection of ethnographic objects from indigenous peoples around the world. This initial project is continuing and new objects will ...
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 Center for the Book and the Oklahoma Collection of the Oklahoma Department of ...
"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 documents, photographs, newspapers, reports, pamphlets, posters, maps, and an author ...
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 grant period ran from October 1978-October 1980. This collection houses materials ...
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.
The collection of digitized newspaper articles consists of commentaries written by Olasee Davis, alocal ecologist and environmental activist. Mr. Davis authorized the electronic reproduction of his articles that appeared in the Virgin Islands Daily News and the St. Croix Avis ...
A scrapbook containing photographs and watercolor paintings of old churches that are located in Queen Anne's County, Maryland. The scrapbook was created by the Homemakers' Clubs of Queen Anne's County. At the request of the Homemakers' Clubs the watercolors of the churches were ...
A scrapbook containing photographs and watercolor paintings of old houses that are located in Queen Anne's County, Maryland. The scrapbook was created by the Homemakers' Clubs of Queen Anne's County. At the request of the Homemakers' Clubs the watercolors of the houses were ...
In 15th-century Europe, the invention of the printed image coincided with both the wide availability of paper and the invention of moveable type in the West. A new print publishing industry developed in order to produce exactly repeatable images in woodcut or engraving and make ...
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 Pleistocene Age, a small collection of which is housed here. Continuing on a ...
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 photographs date from the late 1800s to the early 1900s. Subjects include maritime and ...
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 project is made possible by a 2003 National Leadership Grant for Library and ...
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"-with chief emphasis on the geographical region of Central New York within a ...
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 historian, Joyce McBride, began interviewing in September 2007, choosing ...
"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 being selected from a collection of over 4,000 interviews, housed at the Southern ...
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 document the history of the Northeastern Arizona region. Complete interviews can be ...
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 volunteers and UIS graduate history students. The collection includes the memoirs ...
In 1999 the Vietnam Center and Archive initiated the Oral History Project (OHP). The history of the wars in Southeast Asia is not complete without the inclusion of the voices of those who were in some way involved. To that end, the mission of the OHP is to create and preserve a ...
During the 1980's and 90's, the Families of Vietnamese Political Prisoners Association (FVPPA) helped over 10,000 former Vietnamese reeducation camp detainees and their families immigrate to the United States under the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugee's Orderly ...
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 and technologists are collaborating to develop an integrated approach to ...
The histories of the City of Delaware, the Methodist Episcopal Church, and Ohio Wesleyan University are deeply intertwined. In a very real sense, the three grew up together. A confluence of events during the early years of the 19th century resulted in the birth of a beautiful ...
This collection contains a handwritten copy of the will of Zephaniah Kingsley from the 1886 Supreme Court case files and two documents concerning the contesting of Zephaniah Kingsley's will ...
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 veterans and their young families faced a severe housing shortage. Carroll F. Sweet ...
Over the years the Special Collections Department of the Gutman Library has acquired a number of Philadelphia postcards. Many of these cards showed images of buildings or street scenes in Philadelphia. These cards span a time period from the turn of the century to the 1980's. ...
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 various campus locations. The photographs come from the Library and the Alumni ...
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. The Jewish News of Greater Phoenix is a privately owned weekly newspaper reporting ...
The George Eastman House will develop an online Wiki for Expertise in the Evaluation of Photographs. A wiki is a Web site or similar online resource that allows users to add and edit content. The George Eastman House is an authority on the care and evaluation of photographic ...
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 this site you can search through collections of newspaper photo archives, ...
The Photomuse collection provides a sample of the photographic archives of the International Center of Photography and the George Eastman House.
In 1843, Dr. John M. W. Davidson of Gadsden County began recording medical recipes and treatments in a small, leather-bound notebook ...
A selection of photographs collected by Mary Miller Strauss that record the rich history of Accident, a small town in Garrett County. Owned by the Accident Branch of the Ruth Enlow Library of Garrett County. Contributed to the MDCH Program by WHILBR - Western Maryland's ...
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 Central Georgia Regional Library in Augusta, Georgia. The postcards in this ...
Pieces of Park Ridge: this collection includes photographs and other items from community organizations, businesses and citizens.
Pieces of Park Ridge: this collection includes photographs and other items from community organizations, businesses and citizens. Additional items can be found in this second Pieces of Park Ridge (New) collection.
The Pittsburgh Iron & Steel Heritage Collection is a digital archive of over 500,000 pages from historic materials documenting the emergence of the iron and steel industry in Pittsburgh and the surrounding region. Dating from the 1800s, the archive features books, journals, ...
Plant images (drawings, photographs of living plants,images of herbarium specimens)
The Chicago Botanic Garden, in collaboration with APGA, the University of Kansas, Florida State University, BG-BASE, Inc. and 17 public gardens around the world, have developed PlantCollections, an application for web-based querying that will allow information from multiple ...
The full-length portraits of the six Lords Baltimore, which hang in the Central Hall of the Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore's public Kiplin Hall, the Calvert home in Bolton-On-Swale,Yorkshire, England library, constitute a series of historical paintings without parallel in ...
The Curt Teich Postcard Archives, part of the Lake County Discovery Museum, is recognized throughout the world as the largest public collection of postcards and related materials.
The Curt Teich Postcard Archives, part of the Lake County Discovery Museum, is recognized throughout the world as the largest public collection of postcards and related materials.
The Curt Teich Postcard Archives, part of the Lake County Discovery Museum, is recognized throughout the world as the largest public collection of postcards and related materials.
The Curt Teich Postcard Archives, part of the Lake County Discovery Museum, is recognized throughout the world as the largest public collection of postcards and related materials.
The Curt Teich Postcard Archives, part of the Lake County Discovery Museum, is recognized throughout the world as the largest public collection of postcards and related materials.
The Curt Teich Postcard Archives, part of the Lake County Discovery Museum, is recognized throughout the world as the largest public collection of postcards and related materials.
The Curt Teich Postcard Archives, part of the Lake County Discovery Museum, is recognized throughout the world as the largest public collection of postcards and related materials.
The Curt Teich Postcard Archives, part of the Lake County Discovery Museum, is recognized throughout the world as the largest public collection of postcards and related materials.
The Curt Teich Postcard Archives, part of the Lake County Discovery Museum, is recognized throughout the world as the largest public collection of postcards and related materials.
The Curt Teich Postcard Archives, part of the Lake County Discovery Museum, is recognized throughout the world as the largest public collection of postcards and related materials.
The Curt Teich Postcard Archives, part of the Lake County Discovery Museum, is recognized throughout the world as the largest public collection of postcards and related materials.
The Curt Teich Postcard Archives, part of the Lake County Discovery Museum, is recognized throughout the world as the largest public collection of postcards and related materials.
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. Leonard documented the Tohono O'odham's Wa:K Pow Wow, held at Tucson's San Xavier del ...
The President's Collection is a three-volume set of vintage photographs of Baltimore streets and streetcars. It is believed that the photographs were taken at the request of the President of the United Railways & Electric (UR&E) Company to document some aspects of managing and ...
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 Caribbean from all available sources had a two-fold objective: 1) to discover and ...
Digitized copies of the PHIA Community Bulletin
Historic photographs of Prospect Heights, Illinois.
The Remembering Provo: Historical Photographs Project began in January 2009. Historical photographs were supplied by the Provo City Library Special Collections, Provo City departments, citizens, businesses, and institutions. The photographs were digitized in high archival quality ...
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 in public places from the earliest created in the 19th century, those produced ...
In September 2003, The University of Alabama, University Libraries, in partnership with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries, received an IMLS National Leadership grant to create the digital resource, Publishers' Bindings Online, 1815-1930: The Art of Books (PBO ...
Linen drawings and paper blueprints of sleeping and other railroad cars built and operated by the Pullman Company and dating mainly from the era of heavyweight and lightweight cars. Includes floor plans, duct layouts, heating pipe diagrams, side elevations, and underneath ...
The Quilt Index aims to be a central resource that incorporates a wide variety of sources and information on quilts, quiltmakers and quiltmaking of interest to a broad range of audiences -- from elementary math and art classes through university level research in a variety of ...
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.
This site presents digitized primary source materials from the Northern Illinois Regional History Center. It was produced with grant funding in conjunction with Northern Illinois University Libraries Digitization Unit.
In 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, a lifelong sailor and former assistant secretary of the Navy, sent Winston Churchill a handwritten note, in which he included a quotation from an 1849 William Longfellow poem, “The Building of the Ship,” which began “Sail On, O Ship of ...
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 the photographs in 1977, and Thomas Ford Memorial Library in Western Springs ...
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 Williamsburg, and provide scanned, digitized facades of twenty-three buildings to ...
George Cruikshank (1792-1878) was a popular nineteenth-century British artist, widely recognized for his work as a caricaturist and book illustrator. George and his elder brother Robert Cruikshank (1789-1856) learned the craft of design, collaboration, and printmaking from their ...
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, watercolors, drawings, lithographs, engravings, etchings, lettersheets, clipper cards, ...
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 expanded to include other collections and materials such as maps, manuscripts, and ...
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 pictographs. Petroglyphs are carved rock designs and pictographs are painted rock ...
Photographs and clippings from the collections of Rockford College.
Historic photographs and associated artifacts of Rockford, Illinois.
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, purchasing department letters, purchase orders and requisitions, quotations ...
Eisenmann was born in Germany in 1850 and emigrated to the United States some time before 1870, settling in New York City. At an early age, Eisenmann established a photography studio in the Bowery. A lower class area that was the hub of popular entertainment, the Bowery was known ...
Historic images of Cedar Lake Road and Round Lake, Illinois.
Edward Sachse (1804-1873), a German immigrant, was one of the great lithographers working in Baltimore. His works from the Civil War are regarded not only as wonderful examples of artistry from the era but also as valuable historical resources detailing views as they actually ...
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 commercial operation and became known as the "Showplace of the Valley." ...
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 banker Samuel Hawkins' financial, agricultural, civic, and religious activities ...
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 assessment, the color-coded maps relate the location and use of buildings, as well as the ...
Written by Sarah H. Bradford, Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman was published in 1869 and became the source of most of the stories about and, later, books on Tubman's life and deeds up to and during the American Civil War. The book was published at Tubman's request to help her ...
Explore the rich history of Schleisingerville, its citizens and local businesses through this digital collection consisting of two significant histories published by the Slinger Advancement Association and over 300 photographs providing accessibility to historians, genealogist ...
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 organizations worked to create the Scottsdale of today and as the town grew, ...
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 Scottsdale's City Council, Library Advisory Board, Scottsdale Cultural Council, ...
Before television, radio and the Internet, Florida society communicated widely and often through broadsides, advertisements, flyers and other ephemera. This online collection consists of more than 200 broadsides and forms of paper communication.
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 aviation, Arizona history, photography and travel as well as his military, ...
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, Havasupai, Pima and Maricopa.Also included in the collection are images of ...
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 1939-present. Collections include the Westerner's Collection, a collection of ...
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, interiors, ranches, and government buildings (1864-present). The majority of the ...
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 survey maps make up the bulk of the collection and are supplemented by aeronautical ...
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, Ft. Apache, Ft. Grant, San Carlos, Ft. McDowell, Camp Huachuca, Ft. Bowie, Camp ...
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, hydraulic, underground, and open pit mining.
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, and general transportation.
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 Trail at the age of eleven to the Arizona Territory with her family in 1882, ...
The Sheet Music Consortium is a group of libraries working toward the goal of building an open collection of digitized sheet music using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting. Harvested metadata about sheet music in participating collections is hosted by ...
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 the Brunswick-Glynn County Library that depict the companys World War II cargo ...
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 Rodeo Fire is especially well documented.
The Maryland Historical Society is proud to host the definitive collection of jazz-pioneer Eubie Blake. Blake, born in Baltimore in the 1880s, went on to become one of the most popular ragtime composers of his era and one of the more influential musicians of the 20th century.
Historic images and documents of the Skokie Fire Department
This is a collection of photographs and documents of houses and apartment buildings in Skokie, Illinois and Niles Center, Illinois from the collection of the Skokie Historical Society.
During 1977 and 1978, a small group of neo-Nazis, led by Frank Collin, attempted to hold a rally in the Village of Skokie, Illinois. Village officials resisted Collin's efforts to demonstrate in Skokie, first by passing a series of ordinances aimed at preventing distribution of ...
In 2004, Skokie Public Library received a grant to digitize materials documenting the life and career of Dr. Louise Klehm, Skokie's first woman doctor. Amelia Louise Klehm was born in 1870 to one of Skokie’s pioneer families. She graduated from Chicago Baptist Hospital’s nursing ...
Slavery, the "peculiar institution," generated a variety of documents chronicling daily activities that touched all strata of American society, free and enslaved. Each of the following documents offers a glimpse of what was unfortunately commonplace in a bygone era. The ordinary ...
The purpose of the SNHU Academic Archive is to preserve and make accessible the intellectual output and selected institutional records of Southern New Hampshire University, and encourage an open access environment. The Academic Archive supports the Shapiro Library’s mission "to ...
The program will provide an adaptable model to demonstrate a shared statewide infrastructure available to cultural heritage organizations with audio resources by digitizing at least 2000 audio objects to be accessible through catalogs, exhibits, and special indexing ...
The South Carolina Digital Library (SCDL) is a collaborative effort that includes South Carolina's schools, libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions. SCDL's mission is to encourage our collaborators to create, maintain, and promote digital ...
This collection contains digitized early Western travel narratives from Cornell's John M. Echols Collection on Southeast Asia.
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 of the University of Georgia Libraries, the University of Tennessee at Knoxville ...
"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. "Homefront" includes over four hundred digitized and encoded contemporary printed ...
The Southern Oregon History Collection brings together books, maps, government documents, oral histories, correspondence and miscellaneous materials that document the unique historical experience of Southern Oregon. Most materials focus on historic era settlement or economic ...
The series consists of "dossiers" containing those papers which were filed in evidence as valid claims before the Board of Land Commissioners. Each land claim with supporting documents was later encased in a manila jacket on which appears the name of the applicant, the number of ...
These pieces are drawn from the thousands of items in the Ephemera Collection of the Maryland Department, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Central Library/State Library Resource Center ...
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 partnership with Gelder Lockwood in the late 1920s and operated this company at ...
Springfield College was initially incorporated as the School for Christian Workers in 1885. In 1890, the name was changed to the International YMCA Training School at Springfield. The images reflect the activities of local, national, and international YMCAs from approximately ...
Historic photographs from the collections of St. John's College Department of Nursing.
Gathered from the Civil War collections of twenty-five historical and archival institutions across Missouri and the U.S., the St. Louis Area Civil War Digitization Project database contains many unique documents that tell the story of St. Louis during the Civil War. In order to ...
Historic photographs from the collections of the Sterling/Rock Falls Historical Society.
In 1855, when Francis Scott Street and Francis Shubael Smith bought The New York Weekly Dispatch, Street & Smith embarked on a publishing mission that remained remarkably prolific and profitable for over one hundred years. Street & Smith rapidly became a "fiction factory," ...
This collection contains posters from government, commercial, and charitable organizations and are multi-national in scope and cover veterans' benefits, war bonds and loans, military recruitment and morale, civil defense, industrial production, freedom and loyalty campaigns, ...
From the Maryland Room of the Talbot County Free Library come a selection of 12 maps from its Arthur J. Gutman Collection and 6 maps from its Starin Collection. This selection of Maryland maps, which covers its Proprietary, Early Colonial, and Post-Colonial periods from the years ...
This project represents a collaborative effort by the Joiner History Room at the Sycamore Public Library, the DeKalb Public Library, the Ellwood House and Museum, the Northern Illinois Regional History Center and Northern Illinois University Libraries. These institutions have ...
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 Learning Standards.
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 on news stories relating to Boston's African American community. Browse our ...
The "Tennessee Documentary History, 1796-1850," contains 2,000 documents and images relating to the history of antebellum Tennessee.
Terence Vincent Powderly (1849-1924), who led the Knights of Labor at the peak of its power as Grand Master Workman (1879-1893), and who later held important posts with the Bureau of Immigration (1897-1921), was also an avid and talented amateur photographer. Several thousand of ...
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.
The Texas ETD Repository is a statewide system for managing the entire life cycle of electronic theses and dissertations from initial submission to final publication.
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 represent episodes of renewed interest in gold mining in Lumpkin County during ...
Exhibition catalogs from the Art Institute of Chicago.
The Gutman Collection was donated by Arthur J. Gutman, a native Baltimorean who was born in 1911 and graduated Baltimore City College High School in 1928. His donation in 1999 helped the Talbot County Free Library attain the most complete Maryland map collection on the Eastern ...
The Department of the Army Special Photograph Office (DASPO) was an US Army unit that traveled with military units between 1962-74 to document their history and activities on both still and moving images, as well as to create training films for the military. Many former DASPO ...
The Sentinel was published weekly by the Sentinel Pub. Co. from 1911-1996.
The Naperville Heritage Digital Collection is a digital core collection of local historical primary sources. The collection includes the histories of Naperville area farm families, businesses that were based in Naperville in 1886, the earliest City Council minutes, background ...
The Melrose Park Public Library digitized copies of our local newspaper, The Herald, from the WWII years of 1941-1945. These papers depict life during the war years for the residents of not only Melrose Park, but neighboring communities including Maywood, Bellwood, Forest Park, ...
The Starin Collection consists of maps of Maryland, especially of the Eastern Shore, and is named for Mary E. Starin, who in the 1960s was curator of the Maryland Room and first cataloguer of its collections of books and papers. In 1968 she oversaw and contributed to the ...
The Virtual Vietnam Archive is a free web-based database and digital material access system that allows online patrons to view materials that have been digitized from the archival holdings of the Vietnam Center and Archive at Texas Tech University. The Vietnam Center and Archive ...
A town twice ravaged by tornadoes (1926 and 2002), La Plata sits in the heart of historic Southern Maryland. The county seat of Charles County has learned the importance of preserving the memory of its buildings and community. This collection of twenty-four photographs from the ...
Although she lived only 33 years, Theresa Cha left a substantial and diverse body of work. The primary mediums in which she worked were: ceramic, performance, artist's books, concrete poetry, film, video, sculpture, mail art, audio, and slide projections. In many cases her work ...
Thomas Johnson (1732-1819), Maryland's first elected Governor, held a variety of positions throughout his life both in the political arena as well as in the private sector. This collection includes letters written to Johnson from a variety of sources as well as the commission ...
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 school, known as American Institute for Foreign Trade. Thanks to the vision of ...
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 wildlife preserves. These resources (photographs, scanned documents and ...
Between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, many Europeans and Americans traveled to the Middle East for a number of reasons. Some came to conduct archaeological expeditions or tour religious sites, while others hoped to investigate ancient cultures or pursue geopolitical ...
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 introduces a sampling of what has happened in the place known as Minnesota, ...
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 York and Connecticut. Describes Washington, including brief mention of Columbian ...
Historic images of the Tinker Swiss Cottage and its Gardens.
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 eleven themes and covers their arts and crafts, traditional practices and customs, ...
Newspaper clippings, postcards, and photographs from the collections of the Towanda Area Historical Society and the Towanda District Library.
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 publicly accessible online documents relating to the practice of redlining ...
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 Arizona, laws had changed several times, but traders were still required to ...
Digitized copy of the Transactions of the Illinois State Academy of Science.
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; an online curriculum package that shows teachers how to apply the resources and ...
The Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands included the Micronesian archipelagoes of the Marshalls, Carolines and Marianas during the U.S. administrative period from 1947 to 1994. The archive contains over 52,000 photographs and visually document nearly 50 years of the U.S. ...
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) and the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society (AAHAS) Tucson ...
This collection features documents and images from various state government agencies regarding the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921.
The collections represented here from the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History explores art and material culture primarily from Africa and Asia. This collection offers a superb representation of the arts of many African nations, including objects from Senegal, Nigeria, Ghana, ...
The University Documents collection includes the U.S. Congress Resolution to William Henry Harrison regarding John Symmes, 1792; the manuscript journal of the House of Representatives of the Northwest Territory (1799-1800) collection includes printed monographs and pamphlets of ...
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, Illinois State Normal University Librarian Ange Milner corresponded with women in ...
The University Photographs are from bound collections of portrait photos taken of faculty and students at Miami University in 1858, 1869 and 1891. Many of the photographs are signed.
Historic photographs of the University of St. Mary of the Lake.
UVI's Research and Public Service component produces a variety of documents detailing research findings on varieties of plants and animals, as well as general home economics practices applicable to the Virgin Islands and the Caribbean region. In addition, various agencies of the ...
This site is devoted to University-sponsored publications, such as catalogs and reports, and publications by student, faculty, and alumni affiliated with Miami. The latter include individuals as well as the student literary societies, fraternities, sororities, student clubs, and ...
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 ...
In October 2006, the Field Museum Library's Photo Archives began a project that was funded by the Library Services Technology Act through the Honorable Jesse White, Illinois Secretary of State and State Librarian. The purpose of the project was to use digital technology to create ...
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 servicemen who died during the war. The Arizona Capitol Museum is home to the silver ...
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 Lindsay, his family, Elizabeth Graham, the Lindsay Verse Speaking Choir (1940) and ...
Since its founding in 1894, Van Alen Institute has produced more than 2,400 design competitions that have engaged an international community of architects, student designers, educators, and civic leaders. The Design Archive's digital collection presents a unique selection of ...
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, agriculture, school and civic activities, landscapes, and important individuals and ...
African Americans have contributed their talents, skills, and culture to the State of Maryland. As early as the first settlers who arrived in the state, African American life has been an integral part of Maryland's history. This collection of mostly black and white photographs ...
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 renamed "Morenci' by William Church, head of the Detroit Copper Company. Metcalf was ...
Excerpt from "A Little Bit of History: the Village of Kildeer, " by Clayton Brown
The Enid M. Baa Library of the Division of Libraries, Archives and Museums (DLAM) has acquired an extensive collection of memorial booklets since the early 1970's for U. S. Virgin Islands residents. Booklets are usually more than 10 pages long and give details of the life and ...
The digitization of the Libraries' photograph collections is an attempt to display records of important events and personalities in the Virgin Islands' social life and history. Photographs donated by the late Geraldo Guirty represent a significant portion of the collection.
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, present and past, and to access the Museum's collections through an on-line, ...
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, Places, and Topics. The site is designed to increase viewer's understanding and ...
Three major botanical institutions, The Morton Arboretum, The Field Museum of Natural History, and the Chicago Botanic Garden are developing an on-line searchable herbarium (vPlants (TM), or "virtual plants") that will provide herbarium specimen data and digital images of ...
The Walt Whitman Archive is a dynamic site devoted to Whitman's poetry, published works, manuscripts, and life.
Walter Wataru Muramoto (1915-1984) was an amateur photographer from Redondo Beach, California. Muramoto, a nisei, learned about taking pictures from his father, a photographer who specialized in school photos in Japan. While incarcerated at Rohwer concentration camp with his ...
WebERA is designed to overcome the obstacles that most often prevent museums and libraries from managing storage environments effectively and efficiently. The premise of this project is that environmental risks to collections and structures can be managed and mitigated if they ...
This site contains information on the women's suffrage movement in the greater Rochester region on Western New York. The site is built around biographies of 35 suffragists from the region and contains digitized images of photographs, books, calendars, letters, and other ...
The Western Soundscape Archive (WSA) recognizes the vital connection between places and their soundscapes and features audio recordings of animals and environments throughout the western United States. The project's geographic focus includes 11 contiguous western states— ...
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 agriculture, energy, native peoples and settlers, to recreation and water rights.
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. 1930-1970. The images include localities and landscapes throughout Arizona and ...
Open Vault provides online access to unique and historically important content produced by public television station WGBH for individual and classroom learning. The ever-expanding site contains video excerpts, searchable transcripts, a select number of complete interviews for ...
Family photos and documents belonging to library district residents.
From the mid 1950s through the early 1980s, William Gedney (1932-1989) photographed throughout the United States, in India, and in Europe. From the commerce of the street outside his Brooklyn apartment to the daily chores of unemployed coal miners, from the indolent lifestyle of ...
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 (present-day Peoria) and finally to Randolph County, Illinois. However, they also ...
In 2004 the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Research Center acquired an extensive archival collection from Professor William Innes Homer, one of America's most important and well-known scholars of American art. Homer received his doctoral degree in art history from Harvard in 1961, and ...
The Wilmette Public Library history site displays photographs, letters, and documents to illustrate the history of the village of Wilmette and New Trier Township in Cook County, Illinois, U.S.A. A special focus of the collection is the history of the Wilmette Public Library.
Art from the collections of the Wilmette Public Library District.
Interviews with local Wilmette residents, historic documents, and photographs from the collections of the Wimette Public Library District.
Photographs of historic buildings from the collections of the Wilmette Public Library District.
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 continue to make, their living in the borough. Using photographs and personal quotes ...
The photographs reproduced in this online collection were taken under the auspices of the Works Progress Administration of Maryland's Division of Operations. Although they document only a fraction of the WPA projects that occurred throughout the state, they help to convey the ...
On April 6, 1917, the United States declared war on Germany and its allies, entering a conflict that had raged since August 1914. Millions of American men and women served their nation in the Great War, including over 42,000 Floridians: 35,829 Floridians served in the U.S. Army, ...
Audio and video recordings of oral histories are accompanied by photographs, correspondence, and memorabilia from private collections to illustrate the home front and warfront lives of Coal City, Illinois area residents during World War II. Special tribute is given to those who ...
"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 teaching and research. The site highlights four works focusing on various aspects of ...
As the planned outcome of Chicago's 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, The Field Museum may well be called "the Fair that never ended ...
The stories presented here were created by writers working for the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Project Administration (WPA) in Florida. These writings present a variety of subject matter, from folk stories and nature writings to scientific research and Florida history, ...
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 preparation for Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) dam construction in the 1930s. ...
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 as Bret Harte, Owen Wister, and Zane Grey, was situated in the ...
Springfield College was initially incorporated as the School for Christian Workers in 1885. In 1890, the name was changed to the International YMCA Training School at Springfield. The images reflect the activities of local, national, and international YMCAs from approximately ...
Springfield College was initially incorporated as the School for Christian Workers in 1885. In 1890, the name was changed to the International YMCA Training School at Springfield. The images reflect the activities of local, national, and international YMCAs from approximately ...
Springfield College was initially incorporated as the School for Christian Workers in 1885. In 1890, the name was changed to the International YMCA Training School at Springfield. The images reflect the activities of local, national, and international YMCAs from approximately ...
Springfield College was initially incorporated as the School for Christian Workers in 1885. In 1890, the name was changed to the International YMCA Training School at Springfield. The images reflect the activities of local, national, and international YMCAs from approximately ...
Springfield College was initially incorporated as the School for Christian Workers in 1885. In 1890, the name was changed to the International YMCA Training School at Springfield. The images reflect the activities of local, national, and international YMCAs from approximately ...
Springfield College was initially incorporated as the School for Christian Workers in 1885. In 1890, the name was changed to the International YMCA Training School at Springfield. The images reflect the activities of local, national, and international YMCAs from approximately ...
