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100 Years of Oklahoma Governors

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).

1893 Chicago World Columbia Exposition: A Collection of Digitized Books

Souvenir guides, photo albums, directories, and reports, pertaining to the 1893 World Columbian Exposition held in Jackson Park on Chicago's south side. The collection is a subset of the University of Illinois Digitized Books Collection.

1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire Digital Collection

On April 18, 1906, San Francisco was wrecked by a powerful earthquake and for the next few days was consumed by fires that destroyed a large portion of the city. The earthquake's epicenter was located near the city along the San Andreas Fault. Damage from the earthquake was ...

1936 Gainesville tornado : disaster and recovery

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 ...

19th Century Monographs on the History of Western New York

This collection contains two books relating to the history of Western New York: the History of Niagara County, N.Y. and the History of the City of Buffalo and Erie County.

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Abraham L. Shushan Collection

The Abe L. Shushan Collection contains nearly 750 items including scrapbooks, photographs, and personal memorabilia of the former president of the Orleans Levee Board, under whose direction the Lake Pontchartrain sea wall and New Orleans Lakefront Airport were constructed. A ...

Abraham Lincoln - Full-Text Books and Documents

This collection, from the Illinois State Library, contains books and documents about Abraham Lincoln's life, political career, and assassination.

Abraham Lincoln Books from the University of Illinois

This collection contains a small but growing number of books -- from the collections of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign -- about the life, career and death of the United States' sixteenth President. All books are available in searchable full-text and can be viewed ...

Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project

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 ...

Abraham Lincoln, Slavery, and the Civil War: A Collection of Digitized Books

Biographies of and writings by Abraham Lincoln and his contemporaries; works pertaining to slavery in the United States and to the American Civil War. The collection is a subset of the University of Illinois Digitized Books Collection.

Actors and Musicians Photographs, 1880-1920

Publicity photographs of actors and musicians who appeared at New Orleans theaters during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Handwritten notes on the back of many of the photos identify the individuals, the theater where they appeared, and the name of the play or event. ...

Ada Lois Sipuel v. Board of Regents University of Oklahoma, 1948-

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.

Adjutants General of Arizona

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 ...

Aerial Photographs, Syracuse, NY, 1926

This collection consists of a set of six mosaic aerial photographs of the city of Syracuse, New York taken in 1926. They are currently housed with the aerial photography collections in the Map Room of the Syracuse University Library. These photos are the earliest and only known ...

African American Photographs Assembled for 1900 Paris Exhibition

The Paris Exposition of 1900 included a display devoted to the history and "present conditions" of African Americans. W.E.B. Du Bois and special agent Thomas J. Calloway spearheaded the planning, collection and installation of the exhibit materials, which included 500 photographs ...

AlabamaMosaic

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 ...

Albany Library historical photograph collection

The Albany Library Historical Photograph Collection includes images related to the history of Albany, from the late 1800s to 2001. Notable aspects of the collection includes images of homes and buildings (including school buildings, the public library, and the Peralta Park Hotel ...

Alfred and William Waud Collection

Alfred Rudolph Waud (1828-1891) achieved prominence as a "special artist" for national periodicals during the second half of the 19th century. The London-born Waud's specialty was producing drawings-from quick sketches to finished works-of places, people, and events assigned to ...

Alice Greenfield McGrath Papers

Collection consists of correspondence, photographs, publications, and printed material related to the activities and interests of Alice Greenfield McGrath, including Mexican American causes in Los Angeles. Includes material related to McGrath's involvement with production of Luis ...

America at War

The America at War Collection chronicles the military history of the United States from the 1760s through the Vietnam War. This collection provides an insight into how Louisiana impacted and was impacted by national and international engagements. America at War artifacts also ...

America Between the Wars 1920-1940

Current holdings include a variety of items, such as photographs and posters, from the Louisiana State Museum, the Louisiana State Archives and Tulane University Library Special Collections that document social, political and economic life during the 1920s and 1930s. Camp ...

America from the Great Depression to World War II: Color Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1939-1945

The photographs of the Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection form an extensive pictorial record of American life between 1935 and 1944. This U.S. government photography project was headed for most of its existence by Roy E. Stryker, ...

American History: A Collection of Digitized Books

Early American history with a focus on the Midwestern states such as Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, and Ohio. The collection is a subset of the University of Illinois Digitized Books Collection.

American Journeys

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 ...

American Library Association Archives Digital Collections

This collection contains samples from the ALA archives at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Items in this collection are drawn from two smaller collections: 1) The F. W. Faxon Photographs Collection, which consists mainly of group pictures of librarians attending ...

American Missionary Association and the Promise of a Multicultural America: 1839 - 1954

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 ...

American Notes: Travels in America, 1750-1920

American Notes: Travels in America, 1750-1920 comprises 253 published narratives by Americans and foreign visitors recounting their travels in the colonies and the United States and their observations and opinions about American peoples, places, and society from about 1750 to ...

American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera

The Printed Ephemera collection at the Library of Congress is a rich repository of Americana. In total, the collection comprises 28,000 primary-source items dating from the seventeenth century to the present and encompasses key events and eras in American history. Roughly 10,000 ...

American Westward Migration

Diaries, maps and trails of Mormon pioneers and their westward migration in the 1850s.

Amherst Public Library Digital Collection

Vintage postcards from Amherst, Ohio.

Anne Frank photographs of Southeast Asian American communities

The collection is comprised of photographs of businesses and cultural festivals within Southeast Asian American communities. The photographs were taken by Anne Frank, librarian of the Southeast Asian Archive at the University of California, Irvine. The communities include those ...

Annual reports of the mayor of Savannah, Georgia, 1855-1917

The annual reports of the Mayor of the city of Savannah Georgia for the years 1855-1917 include information on city activities and finances, commercial statistics, health including death and illness statistics, and information on trade, public schools, weather, charitable ...

Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar

In 1943, Ansel Adams (1902-1984), America's best-known photographer, documented the Manzanar War Relocation Center in California and the Japanese Americans interned there during World War II. In "Suffering under a Great Injustice": Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American ...

Antebellum Period Collection

Louisiana's antebellum history is reveled through a variety of artifacts that document a variety of critical topics in American History. Maps from the Louisiana State Museum, The Historic New Orleans Collection and Tulane University Library Special Collections follow the ...

Anthony J. Stanonis Pamphlet Collection

The Anthony J. Stanonis Collection is comprised of materials relating to the New Orleans tourist industry. Dating from 1902 to 1960, the guides, maps, brochures, books, and other literature document public and private tourism businesses. Anthony J. Stanonis gathered the materials ...

Architecture and Interior Design for 20th Century America: Photographs by Samuel Gottscho and William Schleisner, 1935-1955

The collection of more than 45,000 items (negatives, transparencies and prints) came to the Library of Congress in the early 1980s. The online collection provides access to 29,000 negatives and color transparencies. These were copied during a special preservation project in 1991- ...

Archival Finding Aids

Descriptions of many of the manuscript and university archives collections housed in the Special Collections Library are available online. These finding aids contain information on a collection's content and creator, as well as a list of the materials in the collection. ...

Archival Photofiles. Series II: Buildings and Grounds

The first series of the University of Chicago Library’s Archival Photofiles series. Most of the photographs in this series depict University of Chicago buildings, campus plans, landscaping, and maintenance. There are also some photos of the contiguous neighborhoods of Hyde Park ...

Archives of Cajun and Creole Folklore

The Archives of Cajun and Creole Folklore, housed by the Center for Louisiana Studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Begun in 1974, the collection is the most comprehensive repository of recorded and transcribed materials on French in Louisiana , as well as the ...

Arizona Archives Historic Photographs

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 ...

Arizona Attorney General Opinions

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.

Arizona Aviation History: The Ruth Reinhold Collection

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 ...

Arizona Bushmasters

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 ...

Arizona County and Local Publications

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 ...

Arizona Executive Orders

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 ...

Arizona Landscapes Collection

This collection consists of still images of cities, towns, scenic viewpoints, lumbering activities, and streetscapes from across Arizona, 1864-1970.

Arizona Latinos in Public Service

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 ...

Arizona State Agency Publications

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 ...

Arizona State Archives - State, County and Local Government Records

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 ...

Arizona Territorial Post Offices

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 ...

Arizona-related Federal Publications

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 ...

Arizona's Saints and Shady Ladies

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 ...

Arthur, Once Upon a Time - Local History Images of Arthur, Illinois

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 ...

Asian/Pacific Islanders Tobacco Education Network Records

The organizational records in this collection document the work of APITEN's central office staff in San Francisco, and outreach to communities throughout California, as well as Mini-Grant programs, conferences, and centrally-organized projects such as support for the California ...

ASU Science Pioneers: 1955 - 1970

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 ...

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company (A.T.&S.F.Ry.Co.) Collection Highlights

Atlanta History Center Album

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 ...

Atlases of the Hudson Valley

The Atlases of the Hudson Valley collection includes hundreds of colorful and detailed historic maps of New York’s Hudson River Valley from multiple atlases. These late 19th and early 20th century maps were created during a time of recognition for the Hudson River’s importance in ...

Augustus F. Hawkins Papers

Collection consists of materials documenting Augustus F. Hawkins's lengthy service as a U.S. Congressman representing South Central Los Angeles from 1963-90 and as Chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee from 1984-90. A small portion of the collection relates to his ...

Auto Club Digital Archive

Provides documentation on the region's transportation history from the Auto Club's Corporate Archives. The Digital Archive includes: a selection of about 100 historic strip maps, illustrating the development of major Southern California routes; nearly 500 photographs from the ...

Autry National Center Collections Online

The Autry National Center explores the experiences and perceptions of the diverse peoples of the American West, connecting the past with the present to inform our shared future. The Autry National Center's Collections Online provides integrated searching of the collections of the ...

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Baby Boom America Collection

The Baby Boom America Collection provides a unique look at the lifestyles, challenges and triumphs of the turbulent post-World War II period. Artifacts include photographs, newspaper articles, oral history interviews, audio files and correspondence that chronicle the Civil Rights ...

Bainbridge Memory

Local history collection of Bainridge, Ohio.

Baja California (Paipai) Indian Archaeological and Ethnographic Collections 1955-1959

The Paipai Indians continue in present day to live in Baja California, Mexico in an area south-east of Ensenada. Materials in the Paipai collection were field collected from 1955 to 1959 and consist of ethnographic as well as archaeological pieces.

Baldy editorial cartoons, 1946-1982, 1997 : Clifford H. Baldowski editorial cartoons at the Richard B. Russell Library

The online collection contains over 2500 editorial cartoons dating from 1946 to 1997. Clifford H. Baldowski, known by the pen-name "Baldy," depicted the local, national and international news of his day in the editorial pages of the Augusta Chronicle, Miami Herald, and Atlanta ...

Banana: A Chinese American Experience

Claudia Chow's Banana is an interactive look at the Lees, a Chinese-American family attempting to balance Chinese traditions and Western culture.

Bannock County Images

A collection of images documenting the history of Bannock County. The BCI are the result of collaboration between ISU, the Bannock County Historical Society, and the South Bannock County Historical Center, and funded in part by the Idaho Humanities Council.

Barnard's photographic views of the Sherman Campaign, ca. 1866

The site contains images of the sixty-one albumen prints found in early American photographer and member of the Matthew Brady studio, George N. Barnard's 1866 Photographic Views of Sherman's Campaign. Subjects of the photographs include Sherman and his generals, Nashville, ...

Basketry from the Pueblo Grande Museum

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 ...

Beauty in Stone : the industrial films of the Georgia Marble Company

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. ...

Before Gaming . . . Celebrating Las Vegas' Centennial, 1905-2005

Images of Las Vegas from its founding through 2005. The earliest images of Las Vegas are from the private collections of the families who were here in 1905 or who arrived soon after: Helen Stewart, Walter Bracken, William Ferron, Ed Von Tobel, Fred and Maurine Wilson.

Bellaire Public Library Local History

Descriptive information about the history of Bellaire, Ohio.

Ben Yellen Papers, 1945-1994

The Ben Yellen Papers document grassroots social and political activism in the arenas of western farm labor and water policy. Yellen's correspondence dates from 1948 to 1994 and encompasses a variety of topics: migrant farm workers, water policy, tax assessment, electricity rates ...

Bentley Image Bank, Bentley Historical Library

The Bentley Image Bank includes images from the holdings of the Bentley Historical Library at the University of Michigan. The collection includes history of the Michigan State and the University Michigan.

Bentley Snow Crystal Collection

The Bentley Snow Crystal Collection of the Buffalo Museum of Science is a digital library providing access to a high-quality collection of stunning, un-retouched images of Wilson A. Bentley’s original glass slide photographs of snow crystals, and his original scientific notebooks ...

Beyond the Shelf: Serving Historic Kentuckiana Through Virtual Access

"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 ...

Big Walnut Memory

Big Walnut Memory is an ongoing project sponsored by the Community Library Foundation of Sunbury, Ohio. The goals of the project are: to make local materials accessible that support the information needs of historians and genealogists everywhere; to support the endeavors of ...

Biographical Files (Reference Collection)

Biographical information and photographs of faculty and staff affiliated with: the Los Angeles State Normal School (LASNS), 1881-1919; the University of California, Southern Branch, 1919-1926; the University of California, Los Angeles, 1927- . Files include curriculum vitae, ...

Black Swamp Memories

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 ...

Bloomington-Normal, Illinois Black History Project

The Bloomington-Normal Black History Project was founded in 1982 and its collections span the 19th and 20th centuries. The collection contains photographs, portraits, booklets, articles, and photocopies related to club organizations and churches of the local Black community. In ...

Blues, Black vaudeville, and the silver screen, 1912-1930s : selections from the records of Macon's Douglass Theatre

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' ...

Bodmer Aquatints

Karl Bodmer created these watercolors during the 1832 -1834 expedition through the American west by Prince Maximilian zu Wied. For over one-hundred-fifty years Bodmer's aquatints have remained a major source of information regarding Plains Indian culture. These works of art were ...

Boise Public Library Ethnic History Archive

Selected newspaper clippings covering the Basque, Chinese, Hispanic, Japanese groups that settled in Idaho.

Boston Streets: Mapping Directory Data

Digitized Boston city directories between 1865-1955 as the foundation for contextual information about the city including images.

Brady-Handy Collection

In 1954 the Library of Congress purchased from Alice H. Cox and Mary H. Evans, the daughters of Levin C. Handy approximately 10,000 original, duplicate, and copy negatives. The L.C. Handy Studio had been located at 494 Maryland Avenue SW, Washington, DC. Levin C. Handy (1855?- ...

Brian Urquhart Collection on Ralph J. Bunche

Collection consists of papers of, about, and collected by Ralph J. Bunche and later used by his colleague and biographer, Brian Urquhart. Includes manuscripts, his notebooks, project files, audiotape recordings, clippings, travel photographs, and memorabilia. The notebooks ...

Brigitte Marshall Collection on Southeast Asian Refugees

This collection consists of printed materials, audio and videocassettes, and photographs taken by Brigitte Marshall, who worked as a volunteer in refugee camps in Thailand and as an English-language teacher in California. All materials relate to Southeast Asian refugees, ...

Brooklyn Daily Eagle Online

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 ...

Buffalo Address Book & Family Directory

This collection contains the Buffalo Address Book & Family Directory from 1883-1894.

By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943

The By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943 collection consists of 908 boldly colored and graphically diverse original posters produced from 1936 to 1943 as part of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal. Of the 2,000 WPA posters known to exist, the Library ...

BYU Campus Photographs

This collection contains historical photographs that document the history of Brigham Young University from its establishment in 1875 as Brigham Young Academy to its centennial in 1975. Images include presidents of the university, famous visitors, students, faculty, various views ...

BYU Family Historian

The Center for Family History and Genealogy was established at Brigham Young University in order to utilize BYU resources to simplify the finding of ancestors and the discovery of the world in which they lived; and to suppport the training of students for life-long temple and ...

BYU Hawaii Photograph Collection

Historical Photographs of BYU Hawaii Campus ...

BYU Idaho Campus Photographs

Historically significant photographs of students, faculty and buildings at Brigham Young University, Idaho.

BYU Master's theses on Mormonism

The digital collection entitled Master's Theses on Mormonism (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) includes over 650 theses written at Brigham Young University . It is an ever-growing and eclectic Mormon studies collection representing a broad look at the history, culture ...

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C.R. Savage Collection

C.R. Savage, born 16 August 1832 in England , became one of the foremost 19 th century landscape photographers of the western United States , as well as a renowned studio portrait photographer, with his studio in Salt Lake City , Utah . The idea to emigrate from England to Utah ...

California As I Saw It: First-person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900

"California as I Saw It:" First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900 consists of the full texts and illustrations of 190 works documenting the formative era of California's history through eyewitness accounts. The collection covers the dramatic decades between ...

California Design Collection, 1955-1984

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.

California Ephemera Collection

Collection consists of broadsides, clippings, brochures, and other ephemeral materials relating to California. Subjects include: abortion, Alcatraz Island, building and loan associations, California politics and government, Covina, drugs, Fort Ross, Greek-Americans, International ...

California Ethnographic Field Photographs, 1900-1960

Ethnographic photographs by various photographers in the collection of the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology are works made for hire.

California Historical Society Digital Archive

This collection contains over 15,600 photographs from the California Historical Society Collection of over 23,000 photographs. The full archive was placed on long-term deposit at USC in 1990 and includes the Title Insurance and Trust Company, also known as TICOR, and the Los ...

California Indian Baskets ca. 1800s-1900s

The UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History's collection includes baskets made by California American Indians in the 19th and early 20th century. The baskets represent works from the Panamint Shoshone (Timbisha Shoshone Tribe), a western division of the Shoshonean peoples, located ...

Camp Ruston Collection

During World War II, Camp Ruston was one of the largest prisoner of war camps in the United States. At its peak in October, 1943, the camp held 4,315 prisoners. The camp was built by the local T.L. James Company on 770 acres about seven miles northwest of Ruston, Louisiana in ...

Campus Archival Documents (University of Illinois at Springfield)

Campus Archival Documents includes documents pertaining to the history of Sangamon State University (1970-1995) and its successor, the University of Illinois at Springfield (1995-present). The collection contains documents from the formative years of SSU, including the memo " ...

Campus News Archives (University of Illinois at Springfield)

Campus News Archives collection includes two newsletters, SSU Journal (1973-1982) and SSU/UIS Weekly (1984-2002), and the SSU Alumni Association magazine Sangamon (1973-1976). The newsletters often illustrated and included campus news regarding faculty, staff and student ...

Canisius College Visitors

For almost 140 years, the Jesuits of Canisius College have stressed the importance of curas personalis ... or "care of the entire person". This concept exposes the individual to, and accepts the unique gifts, challenges, needs and possibilities of each person ...

Capital and the Bay: Narratives of Washington and the Chesapeake Bay Region, ca. 1600-1925

The Capital and the Bay: Narratives of Washington and the Chesapeake Bay Region, ca. 1600-1925 comprises 139 books selected from the Library of Congress's General Collections and two books from its Rare Book and Special Collections Division. The collection includes first-person ...

Capital District Library Council Digital Collections

Capital District Library Council Digital Collections provides online access to digitized materials from libraries, archives, historical societies, museums and cultural organizations in the Capital District Library Council's region. This region encompasses the following ten New ...

Capturing Their Pasts Veteran Oral Histories

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 ...

Caroline Wogan Durieux Collection

Caroline Wogan Durieux (1896-1989), a New Orleans native of Creole descent, was a celebrated Louisiana artist of the twentieth century who taught art at Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, La.) and invented a print-making process which involved radioactive ink ...

Cartoon Prints, American

This assemblage of more than 500 prints made in America during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries encompasses several forms of political art. Most of the prints are from the division's PC/US series, which consists of individually cataloged political cartoons and caricatures ...

Catalogue of the trustees, officers, alumni and matriculates of the University of Georgia at Athens, Georgia, 1785-1906 from the Hargrett Rare Book & Manuscript Library

As early as 1853 the University of Georgia started issuing a listing of faculty, officers and graduates, entirely printed in Latin. The work was periodically reissued with more recent graduates being added. By the time the last issue appeared in 1906, the Catalogue of the ...

Celebration of the Human Spirit: Japanese-American Relocation Camps in Arizona

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 ...

Celebration of Women Writers, A

A Celebration of Women Writers is a collection of electronic text transcriptions (many with illustrations) edited by volunteer Mary Mark Ockerbloom. This sister site to The On-Line Books Page has digitally republished over 150 books by women on-line, free for all to read. The ...

Cemetery Records of Ogle, Lee, Carroll, and Whiteside, Illinois Counties

This digital collection, made available by the Polo Public Library, consists of cemetery records dating to the 1850's. Volunteer members of the Polo Historical Society walked through each of the individual cemeteries and recorded information from stones and markers.

Centennial Exhibition Digital Collection

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 ...

Center for Louisiana Studies Digital Archive

The collection, established in 1976, documents the state's sixty-four parishes, as well as Louisiana images from various public domain sources, such as Harper's Weekly. It also contains images of Louisiana's sugar industry, Louisiana folklife, and the Farm Security Administration ...

Central Florida Memory

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.

Centro Cultural de la Raza Archives - Catalog of Slides

The Centro Cultural de la Raza archives represents activities at and involving CCLR and its members between 1971 and 1999. The collection consists of 8 series contained in 156 archival boxes occupying approximately 67 linear feet of space. There are also 738 slides for which a ...

Champaign County, Illinois: A Collection of Digitized Books

Historical materials pertaining to cities and towns of Champaign County, Illinois, including Champaign and Urbana. The collection is a subset of the University of Illinois Digitized Books Collection.

Charles Babbage Institute (Burroughs Photo Database)

The Charles Babbage Institute is home to the historical archives of the Burroughs Corporation, once the nation's largest manufacturer of adding machines and, later, a major computer company. The collection includes over 100,000 photographs depicting the entire visual history of ...

Charles L. Franck and Franck-Bertacci Collection

Tens of thousands of photographs and negatives from the Franck and Franck-Bertacci studios, held at the Historic New Orleans Collection, chronicle the face and growth of Louisiana, and New Orleans in particular, during the 20th century. The change of the city through its ...

Charles L. Thompson Photographs

Charles L. Thompson was a resident of New Orleans and collector of materials related to the history of New Orleans and Louisiana. Photographs and illustrations depict actors and other famous figures, buildings and monuments, and steamboats and wharves in New Orleans. The physical ...

Charles Overstreet Collection

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 W. Cushman Photograph Collection

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 ...

Charlotta Bass / California Eagle Digital Archive

The Charlotta Bass/California Eagle Photograph Collection is comprised of almost 500 photographs that were among the personal papers and artifacts of Charlotta Bass, publisher of the California Eagle from 1912-1951. The photos can be divided into 6 general categories: 1.) ...

Cherry Valley, Illinois Local History

The history of Cherry Valley in many ways typifies that of a small, mid-nineteenth century Illinois town. Its establishment in 1835, its mill on the Kishwaukee River, the coming of the railroad in 1852, its schools, businesses, civic organizations, and pioneer families - all the ...

Chicago: A Collection of Digitized Books

Extensive collection of monographs and pamphlets related to 19th and early 20th century Chicago, including general histories of Chicago; the 1893 Chicago World Columbian Exhibition; the great Chicago fire; the Haymarket Riots; extensive genealogy resources; Chicago parks and ...

Chickamauga-Chattanooga National Military Park Photographs

The Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park was the first and largest military park in the United States. The Park contains approximately 8,190 acres of land divided among several areas in Tennessee and Georgia. The collection contains twenty-nine (29) albumen ...

Chinese Historical Society Digital Archive

Includes 1,040 color images of artifacts excavated from the site of the original Los Angeles Chinatown; an additional 150 images document artifacts from the site of a Chinese laundry in Santa Barbara. These two outstanding Chinese Historical Society of Los Angeles artifact ...

Chinese Theater Images in California

The San Francisco Performing Arts Library & Museum's collection of images related to Chinese Theater in California ranges from 1883-2004, although the majority of the photographs document performers and productions from the 1920s to late 1940s. The photographs depict scenes from ...

Chronicles of Oklahoma

Chronicles of the history of Oklahoma, 1923-2002.

Chung Sai Yat Po Newspaper Collection

On April 22, 1854, the Golden Hills' News, a Chinese weekly, published its first issue in San Francisco. Although it lasted only four months, this paper inaugurated the Chinese language press in the U.S. In the past 150 years, Chinese language newspapers have witnessed both the ...

Church and Congregational History in Illinois: A Collection of Digitized Boooks

Early histories of churches, congregations, and religious communities in Illinois. Also includes books about Joseph Smith and Mormonism, as well as Dwight Lyman Moody, founder of the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. The collection is a subset of the University of Illinois ...

City Engineers Photo Collection

The Salt Lake City Engineers Photograph Collection provides an excellent look at how Salt Lake City developed between 1902 and 1932. The collection documents the construction of the infrastructure in Salt Lake City and surrounding areas, including roads, sewers, irrigation ...

City of Glendale Council Minutes of 1910-1914

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 ...

Civil Rights Digital Library

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 ...

Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive

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 ...

Civil unrest in Camilla, Georgia, 1868 : Reconstruction, republicanism, and race

The Civil Unrest in Camilla, Georgia, 1868 collection, located at the DeSoto Trail Library and comprised of photostatic copies from the Freedman's Bureau records held by the National Archives of the United States, consists of letters, affidavits, reports and a newspaper clipping ...

Civil War Newspapers Project

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 ...

Civil War Photograph Album, 1862-1900

The Civil War Photograph Album contains portraits of military personnel who fought during the American Civil War, 1861-1865. The album has 50 pages; each page has a capacity for four (4) photographs, and most of the photographs (cartes-de-visite) are Confederate enlisted men and ...

Civil War Photographs

Civil War Photographs provides online access to about 7,000 different images made during the American Civil War (1861-1865) and in its immediate aftermath. The images were scanned from the Prints and Photographs Division's collection of original glass plate negatives and from ...

Civilian Conservation Corps Collection

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), a New Deal program, operated from 1933 until 1942. The CCC provided jobs and training to young men (primarily between the ages of 18 and 25) and made improvements on public land ...

Clifford K. Berryman Collection

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 ...

Coal Mining in Illinois, Machine vs. Man

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 ...

Cochise County Clerk of Superior Court - Bisbee Deportation Documents

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., ...

Cochise County Historical & Archeological Collection

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 ...

Code City

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.

Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln

In 1953, the Abraham Lincoln Association published The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, a multi-volume set of Lincoln᾽s correspondence, speeches, and other writings. Roy P. Basler and his editorial staff, with the continued support of the association, spent five years ...

Collection of Photographs by Carleton E. Watkins

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 ...

Collection on Refugee Forums

This collection consists of the administrative files of the Refugee Forum of Orange County (RFOC), and the California State Refugee Forum (CSRF), and other documents relating to these organizations. These forums enable service providers for Southeast Asian and other refugees to ...

Colorado Plateau Digital Archives Selections

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 ...

Colorado Riverbed Case

The Colorado Riverbed Case, sometimes known simply as the Riverbed Case, grew out of a desire by the State of Utah to determine, legally, who owned the bed of the Colorado River. Paper documents of the Colorado Riverbed Case appear to be very rare. It would appear that this ...

Colorado's Historic Newspaper Collection

Regional Colorado newspapers from 1859-1924.

Columbia River Basin Ethnic History Archive

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 in Photographs

The Columbus in Photographs database contains pictures from the Columbus Circulating Visuals Collection in the Genealogy, History, and Travel Division at Main Library. The images depict the history of Columbus in a variety of ways.

Columbus Public Library Association minutes, 1881-1883

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 ...

Colville River Delta, Alaska Collection

Dr. H. Jesse Walker, a geographer at Louisiana State University, devoted more than four decades to the study of the Colville River Delta region of Alaska. In an ongoing effort, thousands of objects from his study of the region are available, including published and unpublished ...

Congressman John Rhodes Collection

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

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 ...

Core Historical Literature of Agriculture

The Core Historical Literature of Agriculture (CHLA) is a core electronic collection of agricultural texts published between the early nineteenth century and the middle to late twentieth century. Full-text materials cover agricultural economics, agricultural engineering, animal ...

Cornelius C. Platter Civil War diary, 1864-1865

The collection consists of a Civil War diary of Lt. (later Capt.) Cornelius C. Platter from November, 1864 to April 27, 1865. Platter's diary from November, 1864 to April 27, 1865 details Sherman's march through Georgia from Rome to Savannah and the march north through the ...

Cornell University Collection of Political Americana

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 ...

County and Local Histories of Illinois: A Collection of Digitized Books

Contains early histories of Illinois counties, cities, and towns, including portrait and biographical records and numerous pictorial works. The collection is a subset of the University of Illinois Digitized Books Collection.

Creating Communities

The Denver Public Library, in partnership with the City of Denver, the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries, Colorado Historical Society, University of Colorado at Denver Auraria Library, and University of Denver Penrose Library, will inventory, catalog, and digitize historic ...

Crystal Beach Photographs

Photographs and advertisements for Crystal Beach, New York.

Cuban Heritage Digital Collections

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 ...

Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project

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, ...

Cyrus F. Jenkins Civil War diary, 1861-1862

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 ...

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Darwin D. Martin Photograph Collection

This collection consists of photographs of the Darwin D. Martin family of Buffalo, NY and photographs of homes designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for the Martins: the Darwin D. Martin House Complex in Buffalo and Graycliff in Derby, NY. The Darwin D. Martin Photograph Collection ...

De la Guerra Family Photographs

Mainly studio portraits of members of the de la Guerra family, descendants of Don José Antonio Julian de la Guerra y Noriega. Includes views of the family home in Santa Barbara, member of the family of Thomas B. Dibblee and Francesca de la Guerra Dibblee, Pablo de la Guerra, and ...

Death Valley Region Photo Collection

This small collection of black and white photographs of the Death Valley area of Nevada and California was taken mainly in the late 1920s by "Shorty" Harris or one of his associates. Featuring buildings, a hearse, a gravestone, and other scenes from the ghost towns of Rhyolite, ...

Detroit Historical Museums and Society Historic Costume Collection

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, ...

Diaries and Letters of Rutherford B. Hayes

Rutherford B. Hayes kept a diary from age twelve to his death at age 70 in Two of President Rutherford B. Hayes' numerous diaries. His collection of handwritten journals are at the Hayes Presidential Center.1893. He was one of only three presidents to keep a diary while in office ...

Digital Archive of 1936-1941 Historical Aerial Photography of the State of Illinois

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 ...

Digital Dress: Historic Costume Collection

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 ...

Digital Image Collection (Western Illinois University)

The historic images in this collection come from all corners of the WIU Archives and Special Collections sixteen county collection area, with a special emphasis placed upon Western Illinois University, the City of Macomb, and McDonough County.

Digital Metro New York

In January 2005 METRO launched Digital Metro New York, a collaborative effort to support digitization projects involving significant collections held by METRO member libraries in New York City and Westchester County. This initiative is supported in part by funds from the New York ...

Digital New York City

Part of the E-Books collection at Columbia University Libraries.

Digital Past

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 ...

Digital Shoebox Project: Historical Treasures of Southeastern Ohio

Historical treasures of southeastern Ohio.

Digitized Serials

Records with links to the web sites of digitized serials at the Library of Congress.

Dillingham Commission Reports

The Reports of the Immigration Commission from Stanford University include statistical reviews, emigration and immigration conditions in Europe and other parts of the world, occupations of immigrants (including extensive coverage of immigrants in the industries of the time), ...

Disabled Students' Program Records, 1965-

The Disabled Students' Program Records, 1965-[ongoing], consist of materials created or collected by the leaders and administrators of the Disabled Students' Program at the University of California, Berkeley. The collection consists of records of the administration, services, and ...

Doc Horrell Photo Collection

C. William "Doc" Horrell operated a photographic studio in Anna, Illinois and was a key figure in the establishment of both Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIUC) Photographic Services and the Department of Cinema and Photography. Horrell’s images of "the land between the ...

Doris Duke Collection of American Indian Oral History

The Duke Collection of American Indian Oral History online provides access to typescripts of interviews (1967 -1972) conducted with hundreds of Indians in Oklahoma regarding the histories and cultures of their respective nations and tribes. Related are accounts of Indian ...

Dorothea June Grossbart Historic Costume Collection

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 ...

Dorothea Lange Collection 1919-1965

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 ...

Drawings of Indians and California Scenery

The drawings are mainly by Henry B. Brown with a few by J.R. Bartlett. The collection includes some copy photos "by Merriam" of Brown's drawings. Subject matter includes images of mining camps, mining activities and local Native American peoples chiefly from areas around ...

Dunbar Economic Development Digital Archive

The Dunbar Economic Development Corporation (Dunbar EDC) collection contains photographs and artifacts which document the Vernon-Central neighborhood of Los Angeles which is the historic core of the California African American community. The Dunbar EDC was founded by local ...

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Early Cave Creek, Arizona

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 ...

Early Las Vegas: A Digital Collection

This website is a historical photographic exhibition related to the early history of Las Vegas, Nevada. This newly-revised digital project currently contains six galleries: The Cottages, The Depot, Early Las Vegas, Fremont Street, Hoover Dam, and Night Club Las Vegas. There are ...

Early Life in Taylor, Arizona 1878 - 1940

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.

Early Louisiana French Correspondence

The Early Louisiana French Correspondence collection is a digital corpus of letters in French written in Louisiana in the 18th and 19th centuries. The purpose of the corpus is to enhance access to rare and understudied French language documents held in the LSU Libraries’ Special ...

Early Publications of Yavapai College

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 the ...

Eastern Illinois University Yearbook - Warbler

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 ...

Edison Motion Pictures

Edison's laboratory was responsible for the invention of the Kinetograph (a motion picture camera) and the Kinetoscope (a peep-hole motion picture viewer). Most of this work was performed by Edison's assistant, William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, beginning in 1888. Motion pictures ...

Edith Irvine Collection

The photographic collection, all of which has been digitized for this online collection, consists of 293 images as follows: 85 of Mokelumne Hill, Calaveras County, California; 81 of the Electra Power Project (one of which is an original print); 60 of the 1906 San Francisco ...

Education by Design: Educational Visual Aids from the Bienes Center's WPA Museum Extension Project Collection

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 ...

Education in Illinois: A Collection of Digitized Books

The collection includes eneral histories of early public schooling in Illinois, as well as histories of various colleges and universities in the state. This collection is a subset of the University of Illinois Digitized Books Collection.

Edward Ross Roybal Papers

Edward Ross Roybal (1916- ) was a public health educator for the California Tuberculosis Association (1942-44), the director of health education for the Los Angeles County Tuberculosis and Health Association (1945-49), a member of the Los Angeles City Council (1949-62), president ...

Edward S. Curtis Collection

The Edward S. Curtis Collection offers a unique glimpse into Curtis's work with indigenous cultures. The more than 2,400 silver-gelatin photographic prints were acquired by the Library of Congress through copyright deposit from about 1900 through 1930. About two-thirds (1,608) of ...

Edward S. Curtis' The North American Indian

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 ...

Edward Stevenson Collection

A collection of costume sketches done by Edward Stevenson. Stevenson was a native of Pocatello, Idaho who went on to head the costume department for RKO Pictures and DesiLu. The images document the glamour of old Hollywood from films such as I Remember Mama and The Magnificent ...

Edwin C. Bolles Collection on the History and Topography of London

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 ...

Eisenhower Communiques

The Daily Battle Communiques issued by the Communique Section, Public Relations Division of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force Europe (SHAEF), relate the daily progress of the Allied campaign in Europe from D-Day on June 6, 1944 until the German surrender on May ...

El Clamor Publico Digital Archive

This archive is available through a partnership with The Huntington Library, who generously allowed USC to digitize their complete holdings of this newspaper. Billed as Los Angeles' "Periodica Independiente y Literacio," El Clamor Publico was the first Spanish-language newspaper ...

Emancipator Newsletter

The Emancipator Newsletter, published monthly in Jonesborough, Tennessee in 1820 by Elihu Embree, advocated the abolition of slavery. Embree, a Quaker, had established what is probably the country's first anti-slavery paper in 1819, the Manumission Intelligencer, of which only ...

Enduring Communities: The Japanese American Experience in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, and Utah

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 ...

Enoch Pratt Free Library's E-Stories: A Multimedia Celebration of our Multicultural Heritage

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 ...

Erie Railroad Glass Plate Negative Collection

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 ...

Estado que Manifiesta el que Tenian las Misiones de la Antigua California

Holograph statistical report of the human and livestock population, acreage, and agricultural output at 14 Baja California missions at the end of June 1775 while under Dominican curatorship. Signed by Melchor de Peramas.

Estelle Ishigo Papers

The Estelle Ishigo Papers are a part of the Japanese American Research Project (JARP) Collection (Collection 2010). JARP is considered one of the finest collections of primary sources in the United States on Japanese immigration history. Conducted under the sponsorship of the ...

Ethnographic Photographs of California Indian and Sonora Indian Subjects by Alfred L. Kroeber, 1901-1930

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.

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Facing the color line: Race and ethnicity in Cache Valley

What was it like to be a minority in Cache Valley during the Civil Rights era ...

Father Augustine Schwarz Photograph Collection

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 ...

Federal Publications about Oklahoma

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: The Historic American Cookbook Project

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 ...

Fenian Brotherhood Collection

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 ...

Fife Slide Collection of Western U.S. Vernacular Architecture

Mailboxes, quilts, murals, tree bark graffiti, fences, gravestones, and festivals are among the many examples of folklife and material culture visually recorded by folklorists Austin and Alta Fife and presented in this digital collection. Alta Fife wrote: "Since our first ...

Finding Aids

Some individual items from Special Collections' manuscript collections have been digitized and are available online. These items may be searched by keyword or date. Also, links to these items may be found in the finding aids.;Descriptions of many of the manuscript and university ...

Finding Aids (Idaho State Historical Society)

The Idaho State Historical Society holds over 700 manuscript collections. We are scanning in our paper copies of their finding aids and making them available to all outside the building.

Find-It! Illinois

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 ...

First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820

The First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820 consists of 15,000 pages of original historical material documenting the land, peoples, exploration, and transformation of the trans-Appalachian West from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century. The collection ...

First Nations Collection

The First Nations Tribal Collection of the Southern Oregon Digital Archives consists of documents, books, and articles relating to the indigenous peoples of this bioregion. We have begun to collect and mount materials about many tribes in southwestern Oregon and northern ...

Florida Folklife Collection

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, ...

Folkstreams.net

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 : The Athens Woman's Club and social reform, 1899-1920

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 ...

Fort Chaffee photographs of Vietnamese and Cambodian refugees 1975

This collection is comprised of black and white photographs and negatives taken of Vietnamese and Cambodian refugees living at Fort Chaffee, a military base in Arkansas. The photographs document the daily life of the refugees, including the arrival of refugees by plane and bus, a ...

Framed Items from the Collection of the Bancroft Library

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 ...

Frances B. Johnston Photograph Collection

A collection of signed vintage prints by the famed female photographer, this series was part of the Pictorial Archives of Early American Architecture (PAEAA), which was the first photographic collection for the study of American architecture assembled at the Library of Congress. ...

Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection

Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864-1952) was one of the first American women to achieve prominence as a photographer. Trained at the Académie Julian in Paris, she studied photography upon her return to Washington, D.C., in the mid-1880s and opened a professional studio circa 1890. ...

Frank B. Moore Photograph Collection

The Frank Moore Collection contains nearly 550 negatives, most of them glass plates, taken from 1915 to 1950. Well over half of the collection consists of individual and group portraits, many featuring performers in costume, musicians, and local schools. The remaining images are ...

Frank Beckwith Photographs

Photographs and scrapbooks by Frank Asahel Beckwith, editor and publisher of the Millard County Chronicle from 1919-1951. Mr. Beckwith was an amateur geologist and anthropologist and his photographs depict Utah landscapes and Native Americans.

Frank Lloyd Wright - Wasmuth Portfolio

The Wasmuth Portfolio was a collaborative effort between Ernst Wasmuth, a Berlin publisher and Frank Lloyd Wright. It was Wasmuth's idea to publish a complete folio of Wright's work to date. The project was completed during Wright's first trip to Europe in 1909, and was published ...

Franklin Automobile Photograph Collection

The Franklin motor car was invented by the engineer John Wilkinson and manufactured by the industrialist H. H. Franklin and marketed under his name. The Franklin was one of the most innovative motor cars of its time, featuring an air-cooled engine, scientific light weight and ...

Fred Nordgaard Barbershop Quartet Scrapbooks

A collection including photographs, newspaper clippings, advertising, documents and more highlighting the content of these scrapbooks.

From Pi Beta Phi to Arrowmont: Bringing Education and Economic Development to the Great Smoky Mountains, 1910-2004

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 ...

From Warrior to Saint: The Journey of David Pendleton Oakerhater

From Warrior to Saint: The Journey of David Pendleton Oakerhater, a National Endowment for the Humanities We the People project, tells the story of Making Medicine, a Cheyenne warrior who became the first Oklahoman to be added to the Episcopal Church's calendar of saints.

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G. H. Suydam Photograph Album

Twenty photographs taken between 1862 and 1863 show the state capital of Louisiana, Baton Rouge, under occupation by Union forces. These photographs of street scenes, buildings, Union naval vessels, and Union army encampments are e among the very earliest photographic views of ...

Galeria de la Raza Archives - Catalog of Slides

The Galeria de la Raza Collection (GDLR) consists of seven series distributed among 68 archival boxes that occupy about 37.5 linear feet of space. Also, there are 304 silkscreen prints, housed in flat metal cabinets, and 2,737 slides slides in 10 albums. There are separate guides ...

Gayle Morrison Files on Southeast Asian Refugees

This collection contains materials acquired by Gayle Morrison during the time she served with the Lao Family Community, Inc., and the Governor's Task Force regarding issues of Southeast Asian refugees living both in the United States and in camps located in Southeast Asia. ...

Genealogy Resources: A Collection of Digitized Books

Extensive resources for genealogy enthusiasts, particularly those relating to Illinois. General and professional directories, social registers, local histories, portrait and biographical records, "Prairie Farmer" directories for various Illinois counties. The collection is a ...

George and Phoebe Apperson Hearst Papers

Contains personal and business papers of George Hearst and his wife, Phoebe Apperson Hearst. A small portion of the collection relates to Mr. Hearst, a rancher, mining tycoon, and politican. His papers include correspondence, illustrated mining notes and reports, bills of sale, ...

George Beard Photograph Collection

There are 1799 photographs in the George Beard Photograph Collection, primarily consisting of exquisite landscapes of Beard’s adopted mountain west. Usually these landscapes were not identified by place, however, his beloved Uinta mountains Grandaddy Lakes region, or his family ...

George C. Strong Photograph Album

The album contains two (2) photographs of sites around the United States Military Academy (USMA), West Point, New York, and forty two (42) photographic portraits of cadets in the classes of 1857 and 1858. This photograph album can be viewed at Louisiana State University's Hill ...

George Edward Anderson Collection

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 ...

George Francois Mugnier Collection

George Francois Mugnier was born in Switzerland (1857). His father ...

George Francois Mugnier New Orleans Scenes

George Francois Mugnier was born in France on January 1, 1855. He arrived in New Orleans by 1868. Originally a watchmaker, he turned to photography in 1884 opening a studio on Exchange Alley. Mugnier gained some fame as a photographer of views and landscapes in New Orleans and ...

George Grantham Bain Collection

The George Grantham Bain Collection represents the photographic files of one of America's earliest news picture agencies. The collection richly documents sports events, theater, celebrities, crime, strikes, disasters, political activities including the woman suffrage campaign, ...

George Oiye Album, 1943-1946

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.

Georgia Aerial Photographs

The Georgia Aerial Photographs database provides online access to approximately 50,000 black and white aerial photographs and indexes of forty-seven counties from the state of Georgia. The photographs and indexes, produced from 1938 to the 1980s by the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture's ...

Georgia government publications

Contains scanned images of public documents of departments or agencies within the Georgia state government. Coverage encompasses monographs from agencies including agriculture, arts, community affairs, courts, education, human resources, industry and trade, labor, legislature, ...

Georgia historic books

Georgia Historic Books consists of full-text, fully searchable books related to Georgia's history and culture. Most are from the 19th to early 20th century and focus on Georgia history, biography, and literature.

Georgia Legislative Documents

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 ...

Georgia official and statistical register

The Georgia Official and Statistical Register, published from 1923-1990 by the Georgia Department of Archives and History, is commonly known as the Georgia Blue Book. Considered to be a major reference work for historical research, the register contains brief biographical ...

Gerrit Smith Broadside and Pamphlet Collection

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

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 ...

Gila County Maps

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.

Giovale Library Digital Collections at Westminster College

The Giovale Library Digital Collections at Westminster College consist of digitized documents and photographs relating to the history of Westminster College from its inception as the Salt Lake Collegiate Institute, founded in 1875, to the present. The collections also include ...

Glendale Community College Archives

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 ...

Glendale Public Library History

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 ...

Governor's Olympic Photograph Collection

Five talented photojournalists shot thousands of photographs documenting the Salt Lake 2002 Olympic Winter Games. The photographs capture the Games from the vantage point of the Utah Governor's Office and the activities of Governor Michael Leavitt and Lt. Governor Olene Walker ...

Grace M. Thomas Collection on Ralph J. Bunche

Collection consists of newspaper clippings relating to the career and death of Dr. Ralph J. Bunche and a black and white photographic print of the members of his junior high school class, including Bunche.

Great Basin Association Photograph Collection

The Great Basin Association maintains this photo collection of Great Basin National Park. Located in Eastern Nevada, the once-thought barren area is full of unique wildlife and geological formations. This collection contains a number of antiquated photos, depicting early ...

Great Basin History of Medicine Photo Archives

These images represent just a portion of our collection of over 7,000 photographs that relate to the University of Nevada School of Medicine; the Nevada State Medical Association and member societies; the Reno Surgical Society; 19th-century frontier military medicine in the Great ...

Great Basin Museum Collection

The Great Basin Museum collection contains an assortment of historical photographs that depict historical events in infrastructure development in the Great Basin Area.

Great Lakes Collection

This collection depicts 17th century history of the Great Lakes region. The collection includes historical maps, portraits and lithographs of Indians. The images are from History of the Indian Tribes of North America, with biographical sketches and anecdotes of the principal ...

Green River Launch Complex

The Green River Launch Complex sits near Green River, a small community in central Utah. Built in 1964, by the US Air Force, the complex was used to test various missile and projectile weapons.

Greene & Greene Digital Archive

The Greene & Greene Digital Archive contains images of drawings, architectural plans, rooms, furnishings, books, sketches, photographs, correspondence, and other historical documents related to the life and work of the architects Charles Sumner Greene and Henry Mather Greene, who ...

Griffin (Canisius College Student Newspaper)

For approximately 15 years The Griffin, Canisius College's weekly student newspaper, documented the impact of impending war and its aftermath on Western New York. These collegiate papers (1933-1948) offer a unique insight into Buffalo in a time of war ...

Grouse Creek Cultural Survey: Mormon Buckaroo Territory, 1985

In the summer of 1985 a team of folklife specialists (folklorists, architectural historians, & historians) from the Library of Congress and Utah spent a couple of weeks living in Grouse Creek, interviewing its people and recording its history and culture. The survey's interviews ...

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Hale Zukas Papers, 1971-1998

The Hale Zukas Papers, 1971-1998, consist of materials reflecting Zukas's leading role as a founder and activist for the disability rights and independent living movements. The collection includes his papers from the Center for Independent Living, the Disabled Students Program at ...

Hans Hofmann Collection

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 ...

Hard Place

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.

Hardy Family Photographs

The Jacob Hardy farm was located at 2050 North French Road in Amherst, NY, across the street from the Dettmer farm. The Philip Hardy farm was on Campbell Boulevard, near Schoelles. While only a handful of working farms remain in operation in Amherst today, the northern section of ...

Harpers Weekly Journal of Civilization and Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper

Illustrations from Harpers Weekly Journal of Civilization and Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper.

Hawaii War Records Depository

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 ...

Hawaiian Language Newspapers

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 (Home Economics Archive: Research, Tradition, and History)

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 ...

Hebert Nuremburg Files

Paul Macarius Hebert (1907-1977) was the longest serving Dean of the LSU Law School, serving in that role (with brief interruptions) from 1937 until his death in 1977. One of these interruptions occurred in 1947-1948 when he was appointed as a judge for the United States Military ...

Helen Hosmer Papers

This small collection includes a letter from Helen Hosmer to Carey McWilliams, [1969?] describing the demise of the newsletter and an incomplete run of the Rural Observer, along with miscellaneous reports and balance sheets from the Lubin Society.

Helen Nestor Free Speech Movement Photographs

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 ...

Hemispheric Institute Digital Video Library

The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics is a consortium of institutions, artists, and scholars dedicated to exploring the relationship between expressive behavior (broadly construed as performance) and social and political life in the Americas. The Digital Library ...

Henderson County, Illinois Historical Society Museum

The Museum contains collections in frontier life, the development of an emerging agricultural economy, one-room prairie schoolhouses, the impact of both World Wars on rural Illinois, and the westward migration of the American population during the 19th century. The collection of ...

Henderson Memorial Public Library Digital Archives and Local History

Historic images of Jefferson, Ohio. Many of the images in our digital archives come from the Hakala collection. Paul J. Hakala was a local historian and elected County Recorder who created 2 giant scrapbooks full of local historical news articles, photographs, and other items. ...

Henry Ford Historic Costume Collection

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 ...

Henry Sugimoto Collection 1928-1990

This collection includes paintings by Henry Sugimoto, a Japanese American artist who flourished in the 1930s and continued to paint well into the 1990s.

Herbert Willsmore Papers, 1968-1993

The Herbert Willsmore papers, 1968-1993, document his residency at Cowell Hospital, his involvement with the Rolling Quads, and his work with the California State Department of Rehabilitation. The materials consist of correspondence, press releases, school papers relating to his ...

Heritage West

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, ...

Higgins Motor Torpedo Boat Diagram Collection

For nearly thirty years, the boat building company founded by Andrew Jackson Higgins was an important fixture in New Orleans. What began as a sideline to the petroleum industry in 1930 soon developed into a thriving commercial concern. Higgins specialized in shallow-draft boats ...

Highlights of the Catholic Diocese of Tucson

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 ...

Hisako Hibi Collection

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.

Historic Aerial Photos of Early Nevada

When the Forest Service and Soil Conservation Service photographers hung their cameras out of planes in consecutive summers in 1938 and 1939, they may not have known the historical or geographical significance of their images, but visitors to this digital collection will. The 61 ...

Historic Architecture and Landscapes of Georgia: The Hubert Bond Owens and John Linley Image Collections at the Owens Library

Historic Architecture and Landscapes of Georgia: The Hubert Bond Owens and John Linley Image Collections at the Owens Library, a joint project between the College of Environment and Design, University of Georgia and the Digital Library of Georgia, contains approximately 1500 ...

Historic Downtown Glendale

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 ...

Historic Maps of Aurora, Illinois

The Historic Maps Aurora collection represents a unique historical image and shows the physical changes and growth of Aurora, Illinois. They also show changes in the city's political boundaries such as ward changes, street names, and, in some cases, building and business ...

Historic Photographs of Southwest Louisiana

The Historic Photographs of Southwest Louisiana Collection consists of a selection from the approximately 3,000 photographs of the Archives and Special Collections Department at McNeese State University. The Archives staff collected the photographs from individual donations, ...

Historic Pittsburgh Image Collections

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 ...

Historical Maps Online

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 ...

Historical Photographs (Illinois Wesleyan University)

Images in this collection are from photographs located in the University Archives and illustrate some of the growth and changes to Illinois Wesleyan University since its founding in 1850. Background information for many of the photographs (approximate dates, people's names, etc ...

Historical Pictures from the Willard, Ohio, Area

Historical Pictures From the Willard, Ohio Area. Includes Railroad Photos; School Pictures; Trolley Photos; Willard Depot; Homesteads & People; Downtown Willard; Downtown Plymouth; Centerton, Ohio; Havana, Ohio; New Haven, Ohio; Spring Brook Park; Steuben, Ohio; Tornado Photos

Historical Ricks College / BYU Idaho Scrolls

BYU Idaho's archive of their student newspaper from 1933 to 1972.

Historical Treasures of San Bernardino

San Bernardino Public Library's photograph collection includes images of family life, work life, daily activities in the community that would be of historical interest to the people of San Bernardino and surrounding areas. Our photographs cover a period from the late 1878 to 1999 ...

History at our Hands: The Ponce's Historical Archive & Historical Museum Digitalized (Coleccion Historia de Puerto Rico)

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 ...

History of Sedona

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 ...

History of Sedona: Farms

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.

History of Sedona: Pioneers

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.

History of Shelley Idaho

Shelley, Idaho, a town of about 4,000, is located in east-central Idaho. First settled late in the 1800s, it was established as a town in 1904. This collection contains an assortment of pictures, descriptions, and articles that document the history of Shelley.

History of the Town of Amherst, N.Y., 1818-1965

A History of the Town of Amherst, N.Y., 1818-1965, was published by the Town of Amherst in 1965 and written by the Town Clerk and Town Historian, Sue Miller Young. A descendent of some of Amherst’s oldest families, Mrs. Young was one of the founding members of the Williamsville ...

History of the University of Georgia by Thomas Walter Reed

Digitized version of former University of Georgia registrar Thomas Walter Reed's unpublished manuscript on the history of the University of Georgia. The site also contains selected photographs of Reed.

History of Weber State University

Founded in 1889 as "Weber State Academy" the institution evolved through four different names and locations before being established as Weber State University with over 20,000 students. This collection contains the Weber State Academy Yearbook 1905-1918, Weber Normal College ...

HistoryMakers

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 ...

Hoagy Carmichael Collection

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).

Holland Land Company Maps

Hudson River Valley Heritage

The mission of HRVH is to provide universal access to a collaborative digital record of Hudson River Valley history and creativity. HRVH provides access to historical materials from digital collections contributed by colleges, libraries, archives, historical societies, museums ...

Huey P. Long Collection

The Huey Long Digital Collection contains original documents concerning depression-era Louisiana and detailing Huey P. Long's "Share Our Wealth" program. From the Historic New Orleans Collection, a variety of original broadsides and speeches offer insight into the popular appeal ...

Huey P. Long Photograph Album, 1928-1935

The album consists of 30 photographs that depict Long as governor and senator, Long's associates, family, LSU and Tulane events, the Overton trial, and Hattie Caraway's Arkansas campaign. This photograph album can be viewed at Louisiana State University's Hill Memorial Library.

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Idaho Capitol Commission

Watch the weekly progress of the Idaho State Capitol renovation and expansion project from three different angles -- east, west and a front overview -- starting in July, 2007.

Idaho Digital Publications

The Idaho Digital Publications (IDP) project is intended to capture and provide a central repository for state government publications in digital format.

I-Docs

A collection of full-text paper and digital resources from Idaho Government Publications, selectively chosen to meet the needs of secondary students.

Illinois Air Photo Imagebase

The Illinois Air Photo Imagebase collection, held by the University of Illinois Library, provides a dynamic history of the geographic features of Illinois in this century when both geographic and social features were rapidly changing. The collection includes 1024 historic aerial ...

Illinois Alive! The Heritage and Texture of a Pivotal State During the First Century of Statehood (1818-1918)

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 ...

Illinois Art and Literature: A Collection of Digitized Books

A collection of digitized books about literature, art, music, and theater with an Illinois focus. The collection is a subset of the University of Illinois Digitized Books Collection.

Illinois Constitutions, 1818-Present

Illinois’ first state constitution was adopted in 1818, the same year Illinois was admitted to the union. Since then the state constitution has been modified several times. Between 1818 and 1970, Illinois had five state conventions for the purpose of creating a state constitution ...

Illinois Digital Archives

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 ...

Illinois Government Information

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 ...

Illinois History and Culture: A Collection of Digitized Books

Contains an ever growing number of important and unique books and pamphlets from UIUC's Illinois History and Lincoln Library, including early general histories of Illinois and its principle cities and towns; pioneer experiences in Illinois; Lincoln and the Civil War; Native ...

Illinois in the Civil War - Documents from the Illinois State Library

Immediately following the capture of Fort Sumter, President Abraham Lincoln, on April 15, 1861, issued a call for 75,000 militia - thus putting an end to all speculation about whether there would be civil war. At this time, Illinois had neither arms nor an effective militia force ...

Illinois State Library - General Collection

This collection includes digitized books in numerous subject areas, some of which contain searchable full-text.

Illinois State University History

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 ...

Images in Time

A collection of historical photographs of Toledo and Northwest Ohio.

Images of Lake Tahoe

Lake Tahoe has been called the jewel of the Sierra and for hundreds of years it has been a source of beauty and inspiration. The images in this collection represent only a small portion of the photographic images of Lake Tahoe in the Special Collections Department of the UNR ...

Images of Lorain: Our Past in Pictures

Historic images of Lorain, Ohio

Images of Loves Park, Machesney Park and Roscoe, Illinois

In 1994 the Friends of North Suburban Library formed a local history committee. Since that time they have collected scrapbooks, photographs, maps, yearbooks, diaries, letters and other memorabilia documenting the history of the communities that surround Rockford, Illinois: Loves ...

Images of New Orleans: The Donn Young Photograph Collection

Donn Young began his professional photographer's life over 30 years ago. His work has appeared in Time, Newsweek, the New York Times, and many other publications. In addition to his studio and commercial work, he became the official photographer of the Port of New Orleans in 1996 ...

Images of New Straitsville, Ohio

Historic images of New Straitsville, Ohio.

Images of the Catholic Diocese of Tucson

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 ...

Immigration and Emigration: A Collection of Digitized Books

The collection consists of handbooks and guides for emigrants primarily those coming to the American Midwest. History of emigrant communities, with emphasis on those who settled in Illinois are also included. This collection is a subset of the University of Illinois Digitized ...

Immigration History Research Center Images

The Immigration History Research Center in University of Minnesota promotes research on migration with a special emphasis on immigration to the U.S. The IHRC has built one of the largest and most important collections of materials on U.S. immigration and refugee life to be found ...

Immigration to the United States (1789-1930)

Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930, is a web-based collection of selected historical materials from Harvard's libraries, archives, and museums that documents voluntary immigration to the US from the signing of the Constitution to the onset of the Great Depression.; ...

Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties

Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, compiled and edited by Charles J. Kappler, is an historically significant, seven volume compilation of U.S. treaties, laws and executive orders pertaining to Native American Indian tribes. The volumes cover U.S. Government treaties with Native ...

Indian Peoples of the Northern Great Plains

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 ...

Indian-Pioneer Papers Collection

The Indian-Pioneer Papers oral history collection spans from 1861 to 1936. It includes typescripts of interviews conducted during the 1930s by government workers with thousands of Oklahomans regarding the settlement of Oklahoma and Indian territories, as well as the condition and ...

Indigenous Peoples Near Winslow

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 ...

Inland Riverboats Photograph Collection

This wiki contains Inland Riverboat photographs scanned from the rare books collection of The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County.

Integrated Finding Aid to Walt Whitman Manuscripts

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 ...

Integrated in all respects: Ed Friend's Highlander Folk School films and the politics of segregation

"Integrated in All Respects consists of Ed Friend's film of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Highlander Folk School in Monteagle, Tennessee during Labor Day weekend in 1957 and the Georgia Commission on Education's propaganda broadside that features Friend's photographs and ...

Integration and the Black Experience at LSU

Integration and the Black Experience at LSU is a unique collection that includes audio files and transcripts from interviews conducted from 1985 to 1998 of black students, faculty, and administrators at LSU during integration (1950-1970). Additional interviewees include lawyers ...

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Jack Bradley Photojournalism Collection

The Cullom-Davis Library at Bradley University holds over 1,000 images in Special Collections which were donated by Jack Bradley, a retired photographer for the Peoria Journal Star. The images in this online collection are a representative sample of those already digitized. The ...

Jack Iwata Collection, 1942-1945

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 Collection of African American Educational Photographs

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 ...

James Ralston Caldwell Papers

The James Ralston Caldwell papers include materials relating to the Loyalty Oath Controversy on the University of California and the University of Nevada campuses, a small amount of material relating to Caldwell's writing, and personal papers containing correspondence and ...

Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive

This collection of 222 photographs from the Hearst Collection of the Los Angeles Examiner in the USC Regional History Collection, documents the relocation of Japanese Americans in California during World War II. It provides a glimpse into the lives of Japanese immigrants and ...

Jesuit scrapbooks from the New Orleans Province

The following scrapbook, inscribed Archives of the New Orleans Mission dates to the late 19th century and is a record of the men who served in the Society of Jesus, and the churches, schools and institutions they established in the South. Jesuits returned to the Southern United ...

Jewels from the Gem City

Postcards from Dayton Ohio, including postcards of the 1913 flood.

John Bloomfield Jervis Papers

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 ...

John Brown / Boyd B. Stutler Collection Database

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 ...

John C. H. Grabill Collection

The one hundred and eighty-eight photographs sent by John C.H. Grabill to the Library of Congress for copyright protection between 1887 and 1892 are thought to be the largest surviving collection of this gifted, early Western photographer's work. Grabill's remarkably well-crafted ...

John James Audubon in Louisiana

The John James Audubon in Louisiana collection contains water colored lithographs and engravings of birds Audubon did during a 4-month stay at the Oakley Plantation in St. Francisville, Louisiana in 1821. Many were later published in various incarnations of Birds of America. The ...

John Langdon Ward Lantern Slides

The collection consists of one hundred seven (107) lantern slides documenting the aftermath of the Siege of Port Hudson, 23 May - 09 July 1863. John Langdon Ward may have created these slides dating from circa 1880. John Langdon Ward, born October 25, 1841, was commissioned ...

John Norris Teunisson Photographs

As a commercial photographer, John Norris Teunisson (1869-1959) documented the New Orleans area during the first two decades of the twentieth century. Upon arriving in the city in 1892, he worked first as an inspector for the Underwriters Inspection Bureau but by 1901, his ...

John W. Fitzgerald Collection

John W. Fitzgerald was a school teacher, principal and army chaplain before becoming an author. In his writing, he reflects his political views, particularly about issues of importance locally. This collection contains a brief history of the Fitzgerald family, as well as an ...

John Wesley Powell Expeditions

Famous explorer of the Colorado River, John Wesley Powell left the American southwest with a rich legacy. During his expeditions he compiled data and a number of sketches describing the landscape. This collection contains various writings and geographical publications to which ...

Joseph Barlow Lippincott Papers, 1882-1942

This is an annotated listing of reports, papers and photographs in the J.B. Lippincott collection, Water Resources Center Archives, University of California, Berkeley. The collection is arranged here in the order in which it was kept by Mr. Lippincott, i.e., alphabetically by ...

Joseph Bauer Family Album

This collection consists of photographic prints (primarily amateur snapshots, but also included are portraits by professional photographers) depicting exterior and interior views of Dr. Joseph Bauer's residence (1032 Esplanade Avenue), views of the French Quarter and Market, ...

Joseph Henry Lumpkin Family Papers

The digitized selections from the Joseph Henry Lumpkin family papers consist of letters dated 1850-1861 (the bulk of which are from 1852-1856) to Callie Lumpkin King, wife of Alabama lawyer and plantation owner Porter King and daughter of Joseph Henry Lumpkin. Correspondents ...

Just Passin' Through: The Lincoln and Victory Highways in Nevada

In September 1912 Carl Graham Fisher began promoting the idea of a transcontinental graveled highway, the Coast-to-Coast Rock Highway. By 1928 the Lincoln Highway, as it came to be called, and the parallel Victory Highway, a memorial to those who served in World War I, were ...

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K.W. (Kyung Won) Lee Papers, 1972-1998

These papers cover K. W. Lee's professional life from 1977 to 1983. They are limited to his two main activities during those years: the Chol Soo Lee case and the founding of the Koreatown newspaper. There is also a small series hinting at his larger career as an investigative ...

Kautz Family YMCA Archives

The records of the YMCA of the USA, founded in 1851, and its various committees, programs, and constituent bodies, form the core of the Kautz Family YMCA Archives. In addition to personal papers of over 300 YMCA leaders, the collection has more than 75,000 photos dating from the ...

King County Snapshots: A photographic heritage of Seattle and surrounding communities

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 ...

Korean American Digital Archive

Funded through a California State Library LSTA grant, the archive includes over 13,000 document images, over 1,900 photographs, and about 180 sound files relating to the "first wave" Korean-American community in the United States. The documents focus on the organization of ...

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LA Examiner Digital Archive

The Los Angeles Examiner Collection consists of approximately 1.4 million prints and negatives from the Los Angeles Examiner newspaper. Almost every event and individual receiving news coverage in Los Angeles during the period late 1920's to 1961 is represented in the collection ...

LA Star Digital Archive

The Los Angeles Star (La Estrella de Los Angeles) is available through a partnership with The Huntington Library, who generously allowed USC to digitize their complete holdings of this newspaper. Established in 1851 as a weekly newspaper, it was printed half in Spanish and half ...

Labor and Social Reform Movements: A Collection of Digitized Books

Early 20th century history of labor and social reform movements, with emphasis on Illinois and Chicago. Topics include trade unions, temperance, prostitution, suffrage, the settlement movement, etc. The collection is a subset of the University of Illinois Digitized Books ...

Lafcadio Hearn Correspondence

Lafcadio Hearn was a writer during the closing decades of the nineteenth century and the opening years of the twentieth. His writings--fiction and nonfiction alike--typically drew on his firsthand observations of life in what were then considered exotic places: New Orleans, the ...

Land Case Maps Collection

The Land Case maps collection comprises maps found in private land claim cases in the U.S. Northern and Southern District Courts. The maps were created to establish ownership of the land represented. The maps show property boundaries, any buildings, and natural features. The maps ...

Land-Transportation Planning

Integrated land use-transportation scenario planning employs a range of possible future scenarios to facilitate public decision-making on land use policies and transportation investments. The technique has been used with increased frequency since the late 1980s. This digital ...

Latino/Latina Voices Digital Collection

Cache Valley, Utah is home to a rich and varied Latino population whose voice is often underrepresented in local repositories. To rectify this, in the summer/fall 2007 Utah State University's Special Collections and Archives collected the voices of 45 local Latino/a residents ...

Law Library Microform Consortium (LLMC)

The Law Library Microform Consortium (LLMC) is a non-profit cooperative serving member libraries᾽ needs for preservation, space recovery, and collection development on film and on-line. In its first 27 years of operation, it filmed over 7,500 titles, some 90,000 volumes, of ...

Lawrence & Houseworth Collection

In 1867 the Library of Congress acquired a set of more than 900 albumen silver half stereographs published by Lawrence and Houseworth of San Francisco. The acquisition also included the third edition of Gems of California Scenery, a catalog listing titles for all the views ...

League of Nations Statistical and Disarmament Documents

"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 ...

Lehman Special Correspondence Files

The Special Correspondence Files of the Herbert Lehman Papers contain correspondence with nearly 1,000 individuals from 1864 through 1982. Beginning with letters from Lehman's family in the late nineteenth century, the series documents the range and scope of Lehman's long career ...

Lincoln Highway Digital Image Collection

The Transportation History Collection of the Special Collections Library at the University of Michigan contains the archive of the original Lincoln Highway Association (1913-1927). The archive consists of materials from the central office in Detroit dating from 1912 up through ...

Lincoln Letters

This wiki contains scanned documents written by Abraham Lincoln from private collections as well as from the Bertrand B. Kahn Lincolniana Collection available in the Rare Books collection of The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County.

Liverpool (N.Y.) Public Library Local History Photographic Collection

This database contains about 500 scanned images from the Schuelke and Wolcott collections ...

Local History Resources (University of Illinois at Springfield)

This collection features selected resources relating to the history of Springfield and central Illinois drawn from Archives/Special Collections in Norris L Brookens Library at the University of Illinois at Springfield. Included are books and monographs, Clayville Rural Life ...

Lomax Collection of Photographs Depicting Folk Musicians

Roughly 400 snapshot photographs made in the course of sound recording expeditions carried out by John Avery Lomax, Alan Lomax, and Ruby Terrill Lomax, between 1934 and ca. 1950 for the Archive of American Folk-Song. The photographs, which were transferred to the Prints and ...

Long Island Memories

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, ...

Lorain Memory

A multi-media archive documenting the history of Lorain, Ohio, and relating to the communities of Avon, Camden Township, Columbia Township, Henrietta Township, Kipton, North Ridgeville, and Sheffield/Sheffield Lake, Ohio.

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives Collection

The Los Angeles daily news was originally named the Illustrated Daily News by Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr. when he started it in 1923. He copied the tabloid format of the New York daily news, although he rejected lurid and sensational journalism. In 1926 the paper went bankrupt and ...

Los Angeles Times Photographic Archive

Collection consists of photonegatives documenting events and people in Southern California and photographic prints documenting events and people in Southern California, the U. S., and the world. The material originates from the Los Angeles Times newspaper and includes glass ...

Los Angeles Urban League Records

The Los Angeles branch of the National Urban League stems from a 1921 organization founded by Katherine Barr and others who attended Booker T. Washington's Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. The league gathered information about racial discrimination against African Americans and ...

Louis Hasslemans

Collection of items (1825-1940) relating to the musical careers of Louis Hasselmans and his grandfather, Joseph Hasselmans. The papers of Louis Hasselmans consist of concert programs, newspaper reviews of opera and orchestral concerts, several personal papers (1914-1945). This ...

Louisiana Coastal Ecology

The digital material contained in the Louisiana Coastal Ecology Collection consists of maps, aerial photographs, audio files, geographic surveys, and interpretative materials on Louisiana's coastal zone. Included in this collection are the research materials used by the geologist ...

Louisiana Ecology and Conservation, The Percy Viosca Jr. Collection

While employed by the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, Percy Viosca, a pre-eminent herpetologist, documented the coastal Louisiana landscape between 1921 and 1932. He traveled the state for his work that included mosquito control, riparian and marshland studies, ...

Louisiana Gumbo: A Recipe for Empowerment

Louisiana Gumbo: A Recipe for Empowerment will give educators ...

Louisiana Historical Photographs Collection of the State Library

The Historic Photograph Collection of the State Library of Louisiana features predominantly black and white photographs from 1920's to 1970's. There is a strong emphasis on photographs of notable Louisiana personalities: governors, artists, authors and musicians. Historic ...

Louisiana Hurricane Resources

This collection consists of resources dealing with hurricanes and tropical storms in South Louisiana. Resources include government documents, historical reports, and photographs from 1957 to the present.

Louisiana Maps

This collection consists of historically important original maps associated with the French colonization of the territory of Louisiana, and the Louisiana Purchase. Maps included were created by Nicholas de Fer, Guillaume de L'Isle (1675-1726), Jacques Nicholas Bellin (1703-1772 ...

Louisiana Newspaper Access Program

A collection of select regional Louisiana newspapers from the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Louisiana Purchase and Louisiana Colonial History Collection

The Louisiana Purchase and Louisiana Colonial History primary source collection includes a significant number of artifacts contributed by members of the Teaching American History in Louisiana (TAHIL) partnership ...

Louisiana Purchase: A Heritage Explored

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 ...

Louisiana State Aerial Photographs

The LSU Cartographic Information Center currently holds 107,000 aerial photographs of Louisiana taken between 1939 and 1987. These photographs show the historical and geographical changes in the state, including the Mississippi Delta region, the loss of coastal lands, and the ...

Louisiana State Documents Digital Archive

Louisiana law requires that state agencies submit copies of their publications to the Recorder of Documents for distribution to the 40 libraries of the Louisiana Document Depository Program. This program preserves and assures the availability of state publications for use by the ...

Louisiana State Museum Carnival Collection

The Louisiana State Museum's Costume and Textile Department includes an encyclopedic collection of Louisiana Carnival materials, including an important collection of several hundred costume and float designs. These designs were executed in watercolor by the costume and float ...

Louisiana State Museum Costumes and Textiles Collection

The Louisiana State Museum is home to one of the most extensive collections of historic clothing and textiles in the Southeast. Illustrated here are examples of textiles, including flags, souvenir ribbons, samplers and other works of needle art. Another significant collection ...

Louisiana State Museum Currency Collection

The Louisiana State Museum paper currency collection is comprised of some 300 specimens. Included in this collection are French Colonial, Republic of Texas, Confederate States of America, City of New Orleans, Louisiana State Bank, New Orleans Canal and Banking Company notes and ...

Louisiana State Museum Historical Map Collection

The Louisiana State Museum's cartographic holdings, comprised of original works as well as photographic and facsimile reproductions, are dated 1525 to the present.

Louisiana State Museum Hurricane Katrina Oral History Project

The Louisiana State Museum is actively collecting artifacts and oral histories related to the impact of the destruction wrought by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in Louisiana and the importance of rebuilding South Louisiana. The comprehensive nature of the Louisiana State Museum ...

Louisiana State Museum Jazz Collection

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 ...

Louisiana State Museum Photography Collection

The Louisiana State Museum's Photography Collection contains 43,000 items encompassing daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, vintage albumen prints, salt paper print, hand colored or enhanced photographs, tintypes, glass plate negatives, 16mm films and twentieth century photography. The ...

Louisiana State Museum W.P.A. French Quarter Architectural Record

In the late 1930s, an unidentified photographer connected to the Louisiana State Museum took approximately 320 photographs of historic buildings in the French Quarter. Known as the Quarter Architectural Record Photographs (accession numbers T0010.1989.1-320), these images were ...

Louisiana State University Architectural Drawings by Theodore Link

Theodore C. Link designed most of the buildings for LSU when the campus was relocated in the 1920's. This group of approximately 200 drawings provide architectural, wiring, heating and plumbing specification for buildings across the campus. Many of the architectural plans provide ...

Louisiana Works Progress Administration Collection

From 1935-1943, the WPA built many public buildings and roads. Almost every American community has a park, bridge or facility constructed by the WPA. The program promoted literacy training, health and education improvement projects as well as programs for art and music. This ...

Loyola University Maroon

The Maroon, the student newspaper of Loyola University New Orleans, has been published since 1923. The Maroon covers student life, campus activities, cultural and athletic events, Loyola University New Orleans administration, faculty and staff, and other features.

LSU School of Dentistry: Historic Photographs

This collection includes selected photographs that document the major events, significant figures, and facilities of the L.S.U. School of Dentistry. The fifth dental school in the history of Louisiana, LSUSD was established in 1968 on a World War II naval base on Bayou St. John ...

Lucero, Linda Collection of La Raza Graphics/La Raza Silkscreen Center

Linda Lucero Collection on La Raza Silkscreen Center/La Raza Graphics [1971-1985]. As early as 1970, La Raza Silkscreen/La Raza Graphics Center was producing silkscreen prints by Chicano and Latino artists. The organizers and artists of what was originally called La Raza ...

Ly Kien Truc Photographs of the Hi-Tek Demonstrations

This collection consists of 98 color photographic prints taken by Ly Kien Truc, publisher of Van Hoa, a bi-weekly Vietnamese magazine. The photographs are of the 1999 demonstrations over the posting of a portrait of Ho Chi Minh and the Vietnamese flag by Truong Van Tran, the ...

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Maine Memory Network

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.

Making of America

Making of America (MoA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science ...

Making of America (MoA): Cornell University

The MOA project is a multi-institutional initiative to create and make accessible over the Internet a distributed digital library of important materials on the history of the United States. The project represents a major collaborative endeavor in preservation and electronic ...

Making of America Books

Making of America (MOA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history primarily from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and ...

Making of America Journals

Making of America (MOA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history primarily from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and ...

Making of Modern Michigan: Digitizing Michigan's Hidden Past

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 ...

Manzanar War Relocation Center Records

The Manzanar War Relocation Center was located in the Owens Valley in Central California. The United States Army initially established the camp as the Owens Valley Reception Center under the management of the Wartime Civil Control Administration (WCCA), March-May 1942. On June 1 ...

Map Collection on Los Angeles, California, the United States and the World

Collection consists of maps of Los Angeles, other parts of the United States, and various places in the world. Includes maps of California, California Geological Survey maps, tract maps of the San Francisco Bay area, beach cities of Southern California, New Mexico oil fields, ...

Map Collections, 1500-1999

The Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress holds more than 4.5 million items, of which Map Collections represents only a small fraction, those that have been converted to digital form.;The focus of Map Collections is Americana and Cartographic Treasures of the ...

Marcel Breuer Architectural Drawings and Sketches

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 ...

Maricopa Pottery (Connell Collection)

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. ...

Mark Twain's Mississippi

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 ...

Marshall Dunham Photograph Album

This photograph album was compiled by Sgt. Marshall Dunham of the New York 159th regiment and consists of photographs taken in Louisiana during the Civil War. They are categorized according to cities, with the largest group being New Orleans. The album includes photos of ...

Meadow Brook Hall Historic Costume Collection

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 ...

Medallion Papers

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 ...

Men, Mines and Money

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 ...

Michigan County Histories and Atlases

The Michigan County Histories collection is a collaborative effort of Michigan's Council of Library Directors. Initial collection content comprises titles selected from Frances Loomis's Michigan Biography Index (Detroit: Detroit Public Library, 1946), University of Michigan ...

Military History: A Collection of Digitized Books

The collection covers histories of Illinois regiments in the Civil War, war memorials, participation of Illinois soldiers during the first and second world wars. This collection is a subset of the University of Illinois Digitized Books Collection.

Millspaugh Collection

Giles Weedon Millspaugh Jr. was born in Natchitoches, Louisiana on July 12, 1901. A fifth generation native, he was the second son of Giles Weedon and Lelia Euprhasia Tauzin Millspaugh. Millspaugh graduated from St. Mary's Academy in 1917, and completed undergraduate work at ...

Mining and Mother Jones in Mount Olive

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 ...

Mining in Idaho

This selection highlights mining as it pertains to Idaho history with selections focusing all across the state. Within these digitized historical items you will find maps, photographs, oral histories, newspapers, and more pertaining to this important transition in Idaho's history ...

Minnesota Immigrant Oral Histories Online

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 with ...

Missing Chapter: Untold Stories of the African American Presence in the Mid-Hudson Valley

The goal of this collection is to illuminate the roots of the African American presence in the Mid-Hudson Valley, and to reveal the realities of the critical but subservient role African Americans played in colonial and antebellum society in the Mid-Hudson Valley region of New ...

Mississippi River Flood of 1927 Album

The Mississippi River Flood of 1927 Album is a visual record of one of the worst natural disasters to occur in the U. S. The flood took the lives of thousands, made refugees of hundreds of thousands, and caused vast destruction. The album contains 214 black and white photographs ...

Mitchell I. Bonner Photographs and Ephemera

This collection comprises approximately 3,000 photographs and slides taken by Mitchell Bonner between 1975 and 2001, as well as printed ephemera collected by him. The images document Iu Mien, Lao, Khmu, Vietnamese, and Cambodian community social and cultural events throughout ...

Mitsuye Yamada Papers

The Mitsuye Yamada Papers are comprised of correspondence, clippings, memoranda, printed resource materials, videotapes and audiotapes that reflect her career as a poet and political activist. Of particular interest is the material covering Yamada's internment in a World War II ...

MOAC: California museums working with libraries and archives to increase and enhance access to cultural collections

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.

Mohave Museum - History of Transportation in Mohave County

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 ...

Montana Memory Project

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 ...

Montezuma's Castle Historic Photo Archive

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 ...

Montpelier Idaho Time Capsule

A collection of selected newspaper clippings, photographs, and assorted ephemera highlighting the events of 1972 in Montpelier, Idaho.

Moriyuki Shimada Scrapbook, 1942-1945

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 ...

Murder & Mayhem: The Strange Saga of Winnie Ruth Judd

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 ...

Murray City Public Library Collection

The Murray City Library collection contains an assortment of photographs and documents depicting the history of Murray City. From rural beginnings to municipal development and government, this collection is a comprehensive visual history of the city.

Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1820-1860, 1870-1885

Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music contains more than 62,500 pieces of historical sheet music registered for copyright: more than 15,000 registered during the years 1820-1860 and more than 47,000 registered during the years 1870-1885. Included are popular songs, operatic ...

Music Temple Visitor's Register

A spectacular grotto in Glen Canyon of the Colorado River, Music Temple was a popular stop for parties of tourists. As early as the 1930s someone began the tradition of leaving a metal box in the grotto where travelers could write their names on notebooks and pieces of paper, ...

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Natchitoches Cane River Civil Rights Oral Histories - Louisiana State Museum

The Natchitoches / Cane River Civil rights Oral History Project is part of the Louisiana State Museum's Civil Rights Oral History Collection and features interviews with leading civil rights activists from the Natchitoches and Cane River areas.

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, West Coast Region Photographs, ca. 1946-1970

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Region 1 photograph collection consists of photographs from records of the NAACP Region 1 Office, and includes material from NAACP branches in the Western United States, the NAACP National Office and other ...

National Child Labor Committee Collection

Working as an investigative photographer for the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC), Lewis Hine (1874-1940) documented working and living conditions of children in the United States between 1908 and 1921. The NCLC photos are useful for the study of labor, reform movements, ...

National Photo Company Collection

The National Photo Company Collection documents virtually all aspects of Washington, D.C. life. During the administrations of Presidents Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover, the National Photo Company supplied photographs of current news events in Washington, D.C., as a daily ...

Native American Collection - McLean County Museum of History and ISU

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 ...

Native American Constitution and Law Digitization Project

Tribal constitutions and codes are the heart of self-government for over 500 federally recognized tribes, and are the lifeblood of Indian sovereignty. The University of Oklahoma Law Center Library and the National Indian Law Library work with tribes whose government documents ...

Native American Manuscript Collections

The Western History Collections has more than two hundred manuscript collections about Native Americans. Most of these collections date from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, although some include earlier materials as well. The collections focus on Indian history in ...

Natural Resources: A Collection of Digitized Boooks

The collection consists of digitized books about natural history and resources, primarily though not exclusively, with a focus on Illinois. This collection is a subset of the University of Illinois Digitized Books Collection.

Navajo County Historical Society Collection Highlights

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.

Nevada Agricultural Publications

Nevada has a long history of agricultural activity, from range livestock production to alfalfa and food crop production. See the Nevada Department of Agriculture for information about the diversity of agricultural activities across Nevada’s 17 counties ...

Nevada in Maps

Nevada is the 7th largest state of the 50 United States; in 2003, Nevada was ranked 35th in population size. The print cartographic resources found in Nevada are primarily located in the University of Nevada Library collections at Reno and Las Vegas, the State Library and the ...

Nevada Test Site Oral History Project

The Nevada Test Site Oral History Project at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas is a comprehensive program dedicated to documenting, preserving and disseminating the remembered past of persons affiliated with and affected by the Nevada Test Site during the era of Cold War ...

New Jersey Digital Highway

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 ...

New Mexico Digital History Project

The goal of this project is to create a virtual engagement with New Mexico history, past and present. We invite visitors to navigate through themes that explore the wisdom of places, the significance of events, the complexity of the human condition and the transformative power of ...

New Orleans Centennial Exposition Stereoscopic Views

Stereoscopic views of the World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition in New Orleans, 1884-5.

New Orleans Chamber of Commerce Photographs

Commissioned by the Chamber of Commerce in 1917, the photographer Covert created a pictorial record of the existing industrial, commercial, and civic conditions in the warehouse district and throughout New Orleans. These 981 workplace photographs document the diverse business and ...

New Orleans Image Collections at the LSU Libraries

The majority of the images are from the New Orleans French Quarter Scenes, circa 1900, Mss. 2116 collection and the Vieux Carre photographs, Mss. 3043. Other manuscript collections represented include: New Orleans Dock Views, Mss.423301; Chef-Rigolets Bridge construction ...

New Orleans Negative Exposures and Prints, circa 1900-1930

The New Orleans Negative Exposures and Prints Collection contains images that document New Orleans architecture and famous buildings such as the Cabildo, the Presbytere, the Pontalba Building, the Old Absinthe House, the Hotel Monteleone, and others, urban public spaces, and ...

New York State Historical Literature Collection

The Cornell University Library New York State Historical Literature is a collection of selected monographs, pamphlets and other materials with expired copyrights chosen from from the Cornell Library's extensive collection of New York State Literature. These were materials that ...

New York to Paris Collection

At the dawn of the 20th century, automobiles were an infant technology with none of the infrastructure we take for granted today. Most people in the world had not yet seen a car in person. The 1908 New York to Paris Race, won by the made-in-Buffalo Thomas Flyer, changed that.

Nickell Collection of Dr. R.V. Pierce Medical Artifacts

Dr. Joe Nickell, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Inquiry, owns many snake-oil items, quack medical devices, and patent-medicine artifacts. Of high interest to the Western New York region is Dr. Nickell's collection of Pierce artifacts and memorabilia ...

North Carolina Experience, Beginnings to 1940

"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 Carolinians and the Great War

"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 ...

North Country Digital History

The North Country Digital History projects represents the opportunity for researchers to gain immediate digital access to important collections housed in libraries, archives, historical document repositories, museums, and galleries throughout Northern New York ...

Northwest Architectural Archives (American Terra Cotta Company Photographs)

The collection contains shop drawings in ink on linen, paper and prints from the American, Indianapolis, Midland, and Winkle Terra Cotta Companies plus hundreds of photographs (prints and negatives), office indexes, order books, and advertising brochures. The bulk of the records ...

Northwest Architectural Archives (William Gray Purcell Job Files)

William Gray Purcell (1880-1965) and George Grant Elmslie's (1871-1952) highly successful partnership produced some of the finest Prairie School buildings in America. This collection presents drawings and other documents for almost every commission, plus those designed by both ...

Notable Illinoisans: A Collection of Digitized Books

A collection of biographies and autobiographies of notable Illinoisans including politicians, social reformers, educators, journalists, military leaders, labor activists, ministers, jurists, and others. The collection is a subset of the University of Illinois Digitized Books ...

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Oak Ridge Cemetery, Illinois Interment Records

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 ...

Object of History

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 ...

Ochoa, Victor Papers

Ochoa [Victor] Collection. Art files, exhibition files, ephemera, posters and prints and other printed matter, photographs and slides, correspondence files, and recordings of the Chicano painter/muralist long considered to be one of the pioneers of San Diego's Chicano art ...

Ogden History Collection

In the two decades following the arrival of the Mormon pioneers, Ogden grew as an important, modest, agricultural settlement north of Salt Lake City. With the driving of the Golden Spike in 1869, however, Ogden changed dramatically and became known as the "Junction City," an ...

Ogden Museum of Southern Art

Over the past three decades, New Orleans entrepreneur and art collector Roger Houston Ogden has assembled one of the finest collections of southern visual art. Now, with funding from the Louisiana Technology Innovation Fund, the University of New Orleans and Louisiana State ...

O'Hare International Airport Digital Collection

The Bensenville Community Public Library has collected a substantial amount of material dealing with the transformation of Douglas Field from a World War II aircraft manufacturing facility into O'Hare International Airport. Contained within this collection are letters, press ...

OhioPix

OhioPix is an image database created by the Ohio Historical Society's Archives/Library to provide online access to photographs, paintings, prints and objects from the Society's collections. The database is searchable by subject, title, photographer and dates. Staff has selected ...

Oklahoma Authors

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

"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 ...

Oklahoma Image

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 ...

Oklahoma Resources

Reference and primary source material important to the study of Oklahoma's history and culture.

Oklahoma State Government Publications

The electronic collection of the Oklahoma Publications Clearinghouse is a permanent location for publications available through state agency websites, beginning in 2006.

Old Trails Museum Collection Highlights

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 ...

Olide Schexnayder Collection

A truly unique and invaluable selection of Schexnayder's negatives document various aspects of daily life and work in Edgard on the German Coast of the Mississippi River. This group of 187 images feature the local doctor making a house call, the Columbia Plantation office, ...

Oliver Family Photograph Collection

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 ...

Olympic Legacy Collection

The the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City was a very big event ...

Olympic Peninsula Virtual Community Museum

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 ...

Oneida Community Collection in the Syracuse University Library

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 Centralia, Illinois

In 1975 a project to commemorate the American Revolution Bicentennial was undertaken by the Centralia Public Library. The result is this collection of oral histories created by local residents who talk about their personal experiences and their family histories. Topics covered ...

Oral Histories of Gila County

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

"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 ...

Oral Histories of the White Mountains

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 ...

Oral History Collection of the University of Illinois at Springfield

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 ...

Oral History of Illinois Agriculture

The Oral History of Illinois Agriculture project is developing a new interactive Web module - the Audio-Video Barn - featuring digital oral-history interviews with people involved in various aspects of agriculture and rural life in Illinois.

Orange County Californio Families Portrait Photograph Album

This collection comprises an album of 66 studio photographs, carte de visites, and tintypes of early and prominent Californio family members. The families are predominantly from the Orange County area and include the prolific and prominent Yorbas, Peraltas, and Sepulvedas, the ...

Orange County Rancho Title Abstracts

This collection comprises 3 bound, handwritten title abstracts, prepared by the Abstract and Title Insurance Company of Los Angeles, containing transcriptions of documents, dating back as early as 1868. The transcriptions are from original documents such as deeds, leases, tax ...

Our Americas Archive Partnership

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 ...

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Painting in Louisiana from the Historic New Orleans Collection

The Historic New Orleans Collection owns several hundred paintings (including oils and watercolors) by Louisiana and Southern artists. Examples of these works encompass genres and subjects dealing with historical events in American History: slavery, the Civil War, the war of 1812 ...

Paintings from the Louisiana State Museum

The Louisiana State Museum's Painting Collection contains more than 2000 works and is concentrated in portraiture, marine, landscape and genre paintings from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. There are currently 493 works in the digital library and more will be added.

Pamphlet Maps Collection on California

Collection consists of hundreds of pamphlet maps of various places around the world.

Pandora : yearbook of the University of Georgia from the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Since 1886, the Pandora has been the yearbook of the University of Georgia. Starting as a publication of the fraternities, the Pandora combined facts, photography, cartooning and humor (of varying quality) to provide an annual record of University activities. Its serious and ...

Panoramic Photographs: Taking the Long View, 1851-1991

The Panoramic Photograph Collection contains approximately four thousand images featuring American cityscapes, landscapes, and group portraits. These panoramas offer an overview of the nation, its enterprises and its interests, with a focus on the start of the twentieth century ...

Papers of John Jay, The

The Papers of John Jay is an image database and indexing tool comprising some 13,000 documents (more than 30,000 page images) scanned chiefly from photocopies of original documents. Most of the source material was assembled by Columbia University's John Jay publication project ...

Papers Relating to the Loyalty Oath Controversy, University of California, 1949-1956

Edward Chace Tolman, professor of psychology, University of California, Berkeley, was the foremost leader among the faculty in the protest against the loyalty oath. These papers were transferred from the University Archives to The Bancroft Library Manuscripts Division in 1966. ...

Parallel Histories: Spain, the United States, and the American Frontier

Parallel Histories: Spain, the United States, and the American Frontier is a bilingual, multi-format English-Spanish digital library site that explores the interactions between Spain and the United States in America from the fifteenth to the early nineteenth centuries. A ...

Park Forest - An Illinois Planned Community

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 ...

Paul Tran Files on Southeast Asian Refugees

This collection contains correspondence, audiovisual materials, publications of organizations, artifacts, artwork, and other documents related to Southeast Asian refugees. Materials from the refugee camps convey the struggles and issues faced by the refugees. Organizational ...

PBS Frontline Video

PBS Frontline Video contains records linking to Frontline programs, from "Country Boys" to "Is Wal-Mart Good for America?". Since 1983, Frontline has been an American public television's public affairs series.

Philo Farnsworth Television Tubes Collection

Philo T. Farnsworth, the inventor of television, was born in Beaver, Utah, in 1906. While a young teenager, he developed a theory for the electronic transmission of images. He graduated from Brigham Young University in 1925, then in 1927 he demonstrated the first working model of ...

Phoenix College - The Early Years

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 ...

Phoenix Jewish News Photographs Collection

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 ...

Photograph Collection of Family Members and Descendents of General M.G. Vallejo

The collection, received from a member of the Emparan family, includes portraits (some inscribed) of General Mariano G. Vallejo, his wife, their children, Salvador Vallejo, Napoleon Vallejo, Fannie Vallejo Frisbie and others of the Frisbie family, Sepulveda family members, ...

Photograph Collection on Anaheim Local History

Anaheim Public Library's photograph collection includes images of historical interest of the City of Anaheim and other areas of Orange County from the 1860s to 2002. Images document public, residential and commercial buildings, including businesses, schools, churches, citrus ...

Photohio.org

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, ...

Picturing Augusta: historic postcards from the collection of the East Central Georgia Regional Library System

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 ...

Pleasants Family Papers

This collection comprises the personal papers of J.E. Pleasants and his first and second wives, Mary Refugio Carpenter Pleasants and Adelina Pleasants, and includes diaries, correspondence, manuscripts, negatives, and photographic prints. J.E. Pleasants' long association with the ...

Poet's Voice: A Digital Poetry Collection

The Woodberry Poetry Room, named in honor of Harvard alumnus and Professor George E. Woodberry (A.B., 1877), opened in 1931 in Widener Library for the purpose of bringing alive the poet's voice and creating a place at Harvard for the enduring delight and significance of poetry. ...

Portsmouth Public Library Image Galleries

Historic images of Portsmouth, Ohio.

Powwow Photographs by Ann Leonard

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 ...

Practicing Medicine: A Historical Glimpse at Utah and Beyond

The digital collection Practicing Medicine: A Historical Glimpse at Utah and Beyond explores three centuries of medical practice and instruction, with particular focus on Utah. These historical materials take us back to the roots of medical practice and a time when remedies ...

Prigoff, James Collection

The James Prigoff slide collection is an important visual resource that helps document the Chicano visual arts movement in California, and in particular, the San Diego and Tijuana area. The collection complements that of other CEMA collections that make up a visual record about ...

Public Art in the Bronx

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 ...

Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States

The Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States contains material that was compiled and published by the Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration. It includes volumes covering the administrations of Presidents Hoover, Roosevelt, Truman ...

Pullman Company Car Drawings, 1870-1969 (bulk 1919-1969)

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 ...

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Raid on Deerfield: The Many Stories of 1704

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.

Railroad History: A Collection of Digitized Books

Books related to the history of railroading in the United States, with some international coverage as well. Numerous publications pertaining to the Illinois Central Railroad, its history and employees. The collection is a subset of the University of Illinois Digitized Books ...

Ralph J. Bunche Papers

Collection consists of correspondence, speeches, manuscripts, articles, publications, and photographs related to the life and career of Ralph J. Bunche. Includes materials related to his teaching and research, his affiliations with various organizations and conferences, and his ...

Reconstruction Through Progressivism Collection

The Reconstruction through Progressivism, 1865-1920 primary source collection includes artifacts contributed by members of the Teaching American History in Louisiana (TAHIL) partnership. Current holdings include a variety of items, such as sheet music and photographs, from the ...

Records of the Committee on Academic Freedom During the Loyalty Oath Controversy

These records represent primarily the files of the chair of the Committee on Academic Freedom during the loyalty oath controversy, Wendell Stanley. Included are correspondence, position papers, statements of support, and other materials.

Records of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Region I

The Records of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Region I document the daily work of the NAACP in the Western United States from 1942-1986 (bulk 1945-1977). Regular additions to the collection are expected. Although the Region initially consisted of ...

Religious Education Image Archive

Religious Education Image Archive contains approximately 4,300 images pertaining to the doctrines and history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Images include photographs, drawings, and paintings of LDS historic sites, Holy Land sites, and significant people in ...

Remarkable Ohio: Marking Ohio's History

There are currently 1287 markers located across the state that recognize Ohio's rich cultural history. Made of cast aluminum, these signposts provide a tangible record of Ohio's history ...

Remembering the Houses of Western Springs

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 ...

Revolutionary City: Developing a Virtual Reality Model of Williamsburg in 1776

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 ...

Richard Egan manuscript maps of Orange County, ca. 1878-1879

Four manuscript survey maps and one plat map depicting areas of Orange County and attributed to the noted surveyor and judge Richard Egan. One map is dated 1878 and 1879 by Egan. The other maps are undated and unsigned but it is likely that he drew them during these years. These ...

Ridgway Brothers: Explorers, Scientists, and Illustrators

This digital collection highlights the art work, correspondence, and research of the Ridgway brothers, John and Robert, late nineteenth century naturalists and illustrators of the American West ...

Robert B. Honeyman, Jr. Collection of Early Californian and Western American Pictorial Material

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, ...

Robert E. Williams photographic collection: African-Americans in the Augusta, Ga. vicinity (Richmond Co.), circa 1872-1898

Robert E. Williams (d. 1937), an African-American Photographer, operated a photography studio, R. Williams and Son, in Augusta, Georgia, from 1888 until around 1908. The digitized collection consists of images of 84 glass plate negatives and positive prints of African-Americans ...

Robert S.Maestri Photograph Collection

Robert Maestri (1889-1974), served as Mayor of New Orleans from 1936 until 1946. The Maestri Collection of photographs includes family portraits and snapshots, as well as portraits and snapshots of family friends, Maestri's immediate household, and both sides of their respective ...

Robert Tebbs Photograph Collection

Robert Tebbs, the prominent New York based architectural photographer, traveled to Louisiana in 1926. In a series of two hundred prints, Tebbs documented the existing and often decaying conditions of the plantations homes in southern Louisiana. Many of the plantations ...

Robert Toombs, letters to Julia Ann DuBose Toombs, 1850-1867

The digitized documents consist of correspondence from Robert Toombs to his wife, Julia Ann DuBose Toombs in Washington, Wilkes County, Georgia from 1850-1867. During 1850-1859 his letters come from Washington, D.C. while he served in the U.S. Senate. During the Civil War, he ...

Robert Walsh Files on Southeast Asian Refugee Resettlement and Education

This collection comprises materials accumulated during Walsh's involvement with the Overseas Refugee Program for Southeast Asian refugees in the Philippines and Thailand, and also materials that he collected regarding the education and resettlement of Southeast Asians in the ...

Rochester Images

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 ...

Rock Art of Cochise County

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 ...

Rome-Turney Radiator Company Records Collection

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 ...

Ronald G. Becker Collection of Charles Eisenmann Photographs

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 ...

Rowles Stereograph Collection

Grant Rowles, an amateur photographer and collector, amassed this impressive collection of 389 stereograph photographs acquired by the Louisiana State Museum. This collection of vintage albumen prints of New Orleans and Louisiana date from mid 1860s to the early 20th century. ...

Royal Chicano Air Force Archives

The Royal Chicano Air Force Archives consists of eight series distributed among 43 archival boxes that occupy approximately 20 linear feet of space. In addition, there are 550 prints housed in 22 archival boxes, and 4200 slides in 14 albums. A current guide to the silkscreen and ...

Rural Life and Agriculture: A Collection of Digitized Books

Rural life, farming and agriculture, with an Illinois emphasis are the main emphasis of this collection. The collection is a subset of the University of Illinois Digitized Books Collection.

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S. Guy Endore Papers

S. Guy Endore (1901-70) was a prolific author of books as well as television and movie scripts. His script, G.I. Joe, was nominated for an Oscar in 1945. He was reputedly blacklisted by the Hollywood studios for his political views in the late 1940s. Endore devoted much of his ...

Sagebrush Vernacular: Architecture of Rural Nevada

The Sagebrush Vernacular website is an exhibition of 120 photographs of rural Nevada architecture.

Sahuaro Ranch History

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." ...

Salt Lake Community College Archives and Digital Heritage

The Digital Heritage Collection is the digital archive of Salt Lake Community College. The Digital Heritage Collection features digitized archival photographs and documents that chronicle the history of the College.

Sam DeVincent Collection of American Sheet Music

The Sam DeVincent Collection of American Sheet Music contains approximately 24,000 pieces of sheet music, songbooks, and folios. It was acquired for the Lilly Library in 1998. Sam DeVincent who, until his death in 1997, hosted a popular radio show on WOWO in Fort Wayne, Indiana, ...

Samuel Hugh Hawkins diary, January-July 1877

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 ...

San Francisco News-Call Bulletin Newspaper Photograph Archive

The Bancroft Library's holdings of The San Francisco News-Call Bulletin newspaper photograph archive consist almost entirely of original photographic negatives of San Francisco Bay Area news events taken by staff photographers between about 1915 and September 1965. These files ...

Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps (Utah)

The Sanborn Map® Collection contains large-scale, detailed maps from 1867 -1969 depicting the commercial, industrial, and residential sections of cities. They were designed in 1866 by surveyor D.A. Sanborn to assist fire insurance agents in determining the risk associated with ...

Sanborn fire insurance maps for Georgia towns and cities, 1884-1922

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 ...

Sandusky County Scrapbook

This website is a cooperative project of four libraries in Sandusky County, intended to showcase images and documents from the county's history and to make them widely available to the public, especially students. Many of these are unique and fragile primary sources not otherwise ...

Sandusky Historic Timeline

A historic timeline of Sandusky, Ohio.

Santa Ana History Room Photograph Collection

The Santa Ana History Room photograph collection includes images of historical interest of the city of Santa Ana and other areas of Orange County from the late 1800's to 2002. The images chronicle a wide variety of topics like agriculture, ethnic heritage (notably Vietnamese ...

Schools of the Salt Lake Valley

Newell Beeman took these photographs in about 1916. The originals are mounted in a photo album titled: "State University of Utah, High Schools and Grade Schools of Salt Lake City, Utah."

Scottsdale's History in Images

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, ...

Self-Help Graphics Archives

The Self-Help Graphics & Art, Inc. Collection (SHGA) consists of eight series distributed among fifty-seven archival boxes that occupy twenty-seven linear feet of space. These boxes hold information pertaining to the everyday operation of SHGA. In addition, the collection ...

Senator Barry M. Goldwater: An Arizona Legend

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, ...

Seven Settlement Houses - Database of Photos (University of Illinois at Chicago)

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the settlement houses of Chicago led the nation in addressing problems of urbanization, immigration, and industrialization. While many people are familiar with Chicago's most famous settlement house, Hull-House, few are aware ...

Sharlot Hall Museum American Indian Image Collection

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 ...

Sharlot Hall Museum Audio Collection

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 ...

Sharlot Hall Museum Buildings Image Collection

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 ...

Sharlot Hall Museum Map Collection

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 ...

Sharlot Hall Museum Military Image Collection

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 ...

Sharlot Hall Museum Mining Image Collection

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.

Sharlot Hall Museum Transportation Image Collection

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: Arizona's Curator

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, ...

Shipler Photograph Collection

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

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 ...

Shorty Fuller Photographs

E. L. "Shorty" Fuller photographed the Treasure Valley as a freelance photographer during the 1930s and 1940s. This sampling highlights some interesting photos, though we have hundreds in our collection.

Shoup Papers

The small collection of papers to and from then future-Idaho Governor George Shoup concerning the Birch Creek Massacre which took place near Salmon during the Nez Perce Wars.

Show Low Collection Highlights

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.

Showgirls Collection

No other icon epitomizes Las Vegas like the showgirl. While Las Vegas has become known primarily as a gambling resort, in fact its entertainment is as important to its tourist industry as gambling. Las Vegas has, in a sense, lived up to its self-promotion as the entertainment ...

Shuffle Along: The Eubie Blake Collection

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.

Significant Documents Illuminating the American Jewish Experience

Documents reflecting the American Jewish experience.

Sister Joannette Rutkowski, FSSJ, Archives and Historical Collection

Sister Joanette Rutkowski, Hilbert College Archivist for more than 20 years, is the first and only official archivist at the college since it was founded. The collection was named in her honor in April 2008. The content at present reflects the history of the College.

Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee Records

The Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee (formerly the Citizen's Committee for the Defense of Mexican American Youth) formed in 1942 in reaction to the indictment of 22 young men for murder. 12 defendants were convicted of first degree murder. The Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee ...

Social Justice and Activism at Elmhurst College, Elmhurst, Illinois

Social Justice and Activism at Elmhurst College includes photographs, excerpts from Elm Bark, the Elmhurst College newspaper, and other supporting papers from the Elmhurst College archives. The largest part of the collection focuses on the social movements of the 1960's – civil ...

Society of California Pioneers: Collection of Autobiographies and Reminiscences of Early Pioneers

The Autobiographies and Reminiscences are made up of 153 documents varying in length from one page to over sixty pages, the average being around five pages in length. Most include details from the writer's early life, but the bulk of each document tends to be their overland ...

Southeast Asia Resource Action Center Records

This collection consists of the organizational files of the Southeast Asia Resource Action Center (SEARAC), a national organization created to further the development of nonprofit organizations led by and for Southeast Asians, and to aid in the adjustment of Southeast Asian ...

Southeast Asian Archive Vertical File Collection

Topical strengths include California-based Southeast Asian American organizations and events, transnational connections of Southeast Asian Americans with their home countries, and student activities. An A to Z list of topics is available for patrons to search on a particular ...

Southeast Asian Genetics Program Records

This collection comprises records produced by the Southeast Asian Genetics Program (SEAGEP), including correspondence and manuscripts, grant applications, research data regarding birth defects and genetic blood disorders, literature on Southeast Asian and Cham communities, SEAGEP ...

Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842

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 ...

Southern California Cadastral and Tract Maps Collection

The tract and cadastral maps in this collection are of real estate developments located in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and Ventura counties. The maps are listed by location using the Thomas Brothers Maps' Los Angeles County Popular Street Atlas, 1931 and Orange County, 1981. A ...

Southern Coastal California (Chumash & Gabrielo) Indian Archaeological Collections

Collected by The University of California, Los Angeles, Fowler Museum of Cultural History, Archaeology Collections Facility.

Southern Homefront, 1861-1865

"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 ...

Southern Nevada and Las Vegas History in Maps

The maps selected for this digital project document the cartographic history and context of this region, telescoping in scale from the Western Hemisphere to the streets of Las Vegas. Maps were selected to highlight the collection, both in terms of individually important maps and ...

Southern Oregon History Collection

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 ...

Southern Spaces

Using ideas of place and space as organizing principles, Southern Spaces is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal that employs emerging technologies to produce innovative scholarship about the American South. Southern Spaces publishes essays, gateways, events, conferences, ...

Southwestern Louisiana Institute Photographs, 1923-1940

These photographs depict many aspects of the Southwestern Louisiana Institute (now University of Louisiana at Lafayette) from 1923 to 1940. Included are photos of students, faculty, buildings and grounds, athletics, activities, organizations, and events. There are also some ...

Special Collections Photograph Collections, University of Nevada at Reno

The photographic image collections in the Special Collections Department of the University of Nevada, Reno Library contain more than 200,000 images. These images document life in Nevada and the surrounding region from the 1860's to the present ...

Special Delivery: A Showcase of LSU Libraries Special Collections

In spring of 2006, the LSU Libraries' featured some of its greatest treasures in an exhibition at Hill Memorial Library titled, 'Special Delivery: A Showcase of LSU Libraries Special Collections.' Selections from the original installation have been digitally scanned to create ...

Springfield Aviation Company Collection

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 YMCA Historical Image Collection

Springfield College was initially incorporated as the International YMCA Training School at Springfield in 1885. The images reflect the activities of local, national, and international YMCAs from approximately 1885 to 1920, with special reference to the growth of YMCA training ...

St. Charles, Illinois History - Then and Now

Materials in this collection of digitized historical items about St. Charles, Illinois span the 1800s through current times. Materials include militia records, old photographs, diaries, newspaper articles, and biographies, all on the engaging history of this community.

St. Francis Wood Virtual Collection

The St. Francis Wood Virtual collection contains digital images of drawings, photographs, correspondence and other historical documents relating to the architecture and landscape architecture of the St. Francis Wood neighborhood of San Francisco, California. All items in this ...

Starr Sheet Music Collection

The Starr Sheet Music Collection, containing over 100,000 separate items, is a rich resource for musicians, historians and students of American culture. It is primarily a collection of American popular music, which extends from the late eighteenth century through the 1950's. ...

Stereograph Cards

Stereographs consist of two nearly identical photographs or photomechanical prints, paired to produce the illusion of a single three-dimensional image, usually when viewed through a stereoscope. The Prints & Photographs Division's holdings include images produced from the 1850s ...

Strand Theater Collection

In 1923, brothers Julian and Abe Saenger and Simon and Harry Ehrlich dreamed of a grand theatre to surpass the existing ones of the day; two years later The Strand Theatre, "The South's Finest Theatre," was opened in Shreveport, Louisiana. Architect Emile Weil of New Orleans ...

Street and Smith Publishers' Archive and Dime Novel Cover Art

In 1855, when Francis Scott Street and Francis Shubael Smith bought The New York Weekly Dispatch, S