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Civil War service and Rutherford B. Hayes's duties as a United States Congressman and governor of Ohio prevented the Hayes family from making Spiegel Grove their permanent residence until May 2, 1873. On that date, Hayes began keeping a record of the improvements to the grounds. ...
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).
A collection of 15 photographs documenting the destruction Charleston suffered as a result of the August 1886 earthquake. Locations in the photos include King Street, Market Street, and Hibernian Hall.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
The 21st General Hospital and Base Hospital 21 Collections consist of almost 2000 items relating to the service of these Army hospital units in the First and Second World Wars. The items include photographic prints, negatives, lantern slides, sketches, documents, and memorabilia ...
This digital collection contains diaries and related items of soldiers from Iowa who fought in the American Civil War (1861-1865). The documents offer valuable insight on their day-to-day activities, accounts of battles, and feelings regarding the war and their time as soldiers. ...
A Villiage Grows: Fifty Years of Life in Elmwood Park is our collection of 408 photographs and artifacts from the first 50 years of the Village of Elmwood Park. We hope that you enjoy the collection and if you have any stories or can supply any missing information about any of ...
The inaugural online presentation of the Aaron Copland Collection at the Library of Congress celebrates the centennial of the birth of the American composer Aaron Copland (1900-1990). The multiformat Aaron Copland Collection from which the online collection derives spans the ...
Aaron Rose began photographing Pennsyvania Station in the fall of 1963, just as the demolition of the massive Beaux Arts structure designed by Charles McKim of the renowned architecture firm McKim, Mead & White was beginning. This collection, not developed and printed until the ...
This monumental collection portrays the Ottoman Empire during the reign of one of its last sultans, Abdul-Hamid II. The 1,819 photographs in 51 large-format albums date from about 1880 to 1893. They highlight the modernization of numerous aspects of the Ottoman Empire, featuring ...
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 ...
This collection, from the Illinois State Library, contains books and documents about Abraham Lincoln's life, political career, and assassination.
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 ...
In conjunction with the national Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial celebration, this dynamic collection showcases the University of Iowa Special Collections' holdings of books, letters, pamphlets, and memorabilia that explore the life and legacy of one of the nation's most notable ...
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 ...
The complete Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress consists of approximately 20,000 documents. The collection is organized into three "General Correspondence" series which include incoming and outgoing correspondence and enclosures, drafts of speeches, and notes and ...
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.
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. ...
A collection encompassing the 1948 Oklahoma Supreme Court case of Ada Lois Sipuel, the state's first black woman admitted to the University of Oklahoma law school.
The Adalbert Johann Volck Collection of etchings housed in the Special Collections Department at the Central Library, Enoch Pratt Free Library / Caricature by Adalbert Volck State Library Resource Center contains primarily the prints produced by Dr. Volck and follows in form and ...
Adams-Cates Company (currently known as Grubb & Ellis Atlanta) is a real estate firm located in Atlanta, Georgia. The company has been involved in commercial developments in the city of Atlanta, including Peachtree Center, Davison's Department Store, the Equitable Building, and ...
Adelaide Ruff McCarty was probably a relative, and perhaps the daughter of Solon Zachery Ruff, the civil engineer who was responsible for laying out Ansley Park, in Atlanta, Georgia. Ansley Park was developed by Edward P. Ansley between 1904 and 1913. It is located north of ...
The Arizona Adjutants General exhibit is comprised of photographs of Adjutants General in Arizona from territorial days to the present. An Adjutant General is the highest ranking officer of a state's militia or National Guard when it is not called into federal service. When ...
Adolph Rosenberg was a journalist who became the editor of the “Southern Israelite” after serving as a reporter for the Atlanta Journal and the Atlanta Constitution. A varied collection, these photographs are a mixture of images of rural areas in Fulton County, images relating to ...
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 ...
The exhibition The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship, showcases the incomparable African American collections of the Library of Congress. Displaying more than 240 items, including books, government documents, manuscripts, maps, musical scores, plays, films, ...
The Daniel A. P. Murray Pamphlet Collection presents a panoramic and eclectic review of African-American history and culture, spanning almost one hundred years from the early nineteenth through the early twentieth centuries, with the bulk of the material published between 1875 ...
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 ...
This digital collection of photographs, news clippings, pamphlets, scrapbooks, directories, and newsletters documents the experience of African American women in Iowa during the twentieth century. The collection, ca. 1924-1970, is an outgrowth of The African-American Women in ...
Though The University of Iowa was one of the first institutions to open admission to African Americans, African American women students at the University have often had to overcome other barriers to an equal education. This collection brings together newspaper articles, ...
This collection documents the history of African Americans at Miami University of Ohio using newspaper articles, photographs, and other media. Original documents as well as additional materials are available at the Miami University Archives.
Fox News and Fox Movietone News camera crews covered the people and events of the country and, indeed, the world. From 1919 to 1963 these journalists aimed their viewfinders at the mundane and the spectacular. The resulting images—most of which still exist as camera ...
This selection of manuscript and printed text and images drawn from the collections of the Ohio Historical Society illuminates the history of black Ohio from 1850 to 1920, a story of slavery and freedom, segregation and integration, religion and politics, migrations and ...
This collection consists of 1,305 pieces of African-American sheet music dating from 1850 through 1920. The collection includes many songs from the heyday of antebellum black face minstrelsy in the 1850s and from the abolitionist movement of the same period. Numerous titles are ...
After the Day of Infamy: "Man-on-the-Street" Interviews Following the Attack on Pearl Harbor presents approximately twelve hours of opinions recorded in the days and months following the bombing of Pearl Harbor from more than two hundred individuals in cities and towns across the ...
This collection consists of more than 250 images and 13 publications about the great Baltimore fire of 1904, including among the publications the act establishing the Burnt District Commission (BDC) and six of the BDC’s reports issued between 1904 and 1907. The phrase "burnt ...
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 ...
The collections of the Alaska State Museum represent the diverse cultures and rich historical record of a large geographic area. The museum's broad mandate is to collect, preserve and interpret the state’s human and natural history.
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 ...
The online version of the Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers at the Library of Congress comprises a selection of 4,695 items (totaling about 51,500 images). This presentation contains correspondence, scientific notebooks, journals, blueprints, articles, and photographs ...
A handmade ledger book from 1794 belonging to Alexander McBeth & Company, who began operations in Greenville County in the early 1790s. The store stood on the White Horse Road. This ledger is held by the Greenville County Library System's South Carolina Room.
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 ...
5 images. Alfred D. Gilchrist was active as an architect between 1913 and 1940. He designed buildings in many places in South and North Carolina but primarily in York, Chester, Lancaster, and Fairfield counties in South Carolina. The Louise Pettus Archives at Winthrop University ...
Alfred Whital Stern (1881-1960) of Chicago presented his outstanding collection of Lincolniana to the Library of Congress in 1953. Begun by Mr. Stern in the 1920s, the collection documents the life of Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) both through writings by and about Lincoln as well ...
Photographs of historical people and events in the local history of Algonquin and Lake in the Hills, Illinois.
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 ...
City of Cumberland and Allegany County Directory, 1895-96 published by Bell Publishers of Baltimore lists the names, occupations Advertisements featured in the Allegany County Directory 1895-96 and residences of heads of households in Allegany County, Maryland in 1895. It also ...
In 1895, Ivan Earnest Allen, son of Daniel and Susie Harris, moved to Atlanta, Georgia and co-founded an office supply company. He and his wife Irene Beaumont (1890-1972) gave birth to a son, Ivan in 1911. Ivan Allen, Jr. (1911-2003) served as president of the Ivan Allen ...
Alta Ruth Hahn was an amateur photographer active in New York in the 1930s, and the photographs in this collection center on Manhattan's Lower East Side. Most are portraits of street vendors, although several general street scenes and skyline views are also included.
In 2010 Miami University celebrated the 100th anniversary of Alumni Library. The building was dedicated on commencement day, June 16, 1910. Alumni Library remained Miami's main library until King Library was completed in 1972. Wings were added in 1824 and 1952, and the building ...
Welcome to the Iowa Heritage Digital Collections, an online repository of Iowa history and culture created by bringing together in digital form documents, images, maps, finding aids, interpretive and educational materials, and other media from collections held by a wide range of ...
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 ...
Work, school, and leisure activities in the United States from 1894 to 1915 are featured in this presentation of 150 motion pictures, 88 of which are digitized for the first time (62 are also available in other American Memory presentations). Highlights include films of the ...
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 ...
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, ...
For most of the nineteenth century, before the advent of phonograph and radio technologies, Americans learned the latest songs from printed song sheets. Not to be confused with sheet music, song sheets are single printed sheets, usually six by eight inches, with lyrics but no ...
An American Ballroom Companion presents a collection of over two hundred social dance manuals at the Library of Congress. The list begins with a rare late fifteenth-century source, Les basses danses de Marguerite d'Autriche (c.1490) and ends with Ella Gardner's 1929 Public dance ...
Each year students in St. Andrew's AP U.S. History and America in the Twentieth Century classes select an individual of no relation to interview about a particular period or event of the American Century. This project is teaching some of the next generation of Marylanders how to ...
This presentation features selected documents from the American Colony in Jerusalem Collection. The full collection in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress represents well over 10,000 items stemming from the history of the American Colony, a non-denominational ...
The Center for Applied Linguistics Collection contains 118 hours of recordings documenting North American English dialects. The recordings include speech samples, linguistic interviews, oral histories, conversations, and excerpts from public speeches. They were drawn from various ...
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.
The American Indian Oral History Collection may be used for educational purposes only. Descriptions of the interviews are available to the public through this web site and via the Rocky Mountain Online Archive. The recorded interviews may not be copied. Access to the interviews ...
The Oklahoma State University Library's Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties Internet site was developed to provide a digital collection of the final texts of 366 of the 375 American Indian treaties recognized by the United States Department of State. The remaining nine documents ...
This digital collection integrates over 2,300 photographs and 7,700 pages of text relating to the American Indians in two cultural areas of the Pacific Northwest, the Northwest Coast and Plateau. These resources illustrate many aspects of life and work, including housing, ...
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 ...
This collection of approximately 2,800 lantern slides represents an historical view of American buildings and landscapes built during the period 1850-1920. It represents the work of Harvard faculty, such as Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., Bremer W. Pond, and James Sturgis Pray, as ...
The Nation's Forum Collection consists of fifty-nine sound recordings of speeches by American leaders from 1918-1920. The speeches focus on issues and events surrounding the First World War and the subsequent presidential election of 1920. Speakers include: Warren G. Harding, ...
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 ...
These life histories were compiled and transcribed by the staff of the Folklore Project of the Federal Writers' Project for the U.S. Works Progress (later Work Projects) Administration (WPA) from 1936-1940. The Library of Congress collection includes 2,900 documents representing ...
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 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 ...
The maps and charts in this online collection number well over two thousand different items, with easily as many or more unnumbered duplicates, many with distinct colorations and annotations. Almost six hundred maps are original manuscript drawings, a large number of which are ...
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 ...
The American Variety Stage is a multimedia anthology selected from various Library of Congress holdings. This collection illustrates the vibrant and diverse forms of popular entertainment, especially vaudeville, that thrived from 1870-1920. Included are 334 English- and Yiddish- ...
Diaries, maps and trails of Mormon pioneers and their westward migration in the 1850s.
The University City Public Library's collection of materials about the American Woman's League and the American Woman's Republic includes promotional materials, minutes, reports, and correspondence relating to the League and the Republic. Much of the material was donated by ...
The Library's daguerreotype collection consists of more than 725 photographs dating from 1839 to 1864. Portrait daguerreotypes produced by the Mathew Brady studio make up the major portion of the collection. The collection also includes early architectural views by John Plumbe, ...
Vintage postcards from Amherst, Ohio.
The purpose of this bulletin was to publish the results and experiences of the rural school experiment being conducted in Rock Hill, South Carolina in the early 1910s. This publication is a good source of information regarding the state of rural public schools prior to 1910, of ...
The museum maintains a photo ollection of more than 500,000 images covering a broad range of topics in Alaska's history. More than 5,000 of these images are available as part of this digital collection.
Born in Paris to an American family of German origin, Andreas Feininger (1906-1999) was raised in Germany and studied at the Bauhaus. For 60 years, from his early 30s until his death in 1999, he called New York City his home. As a staff photographer for LIFE magazine, he was ...
Andrew Sparks was an editor and journalist for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Sparks’ collection of personal photographs includes images of College Park, Georgia and in Southwest Atlanta. College Park images include the Atlantic & West Point Railroad Depot, City Auditorium, ...
In 1874 Dr. A.T. Still (1828-1917) rebelled against standard 19th century medicine and launched his own health care system, later named osteopathy. Rather than just tweak old therapies, Still offered a new philosophy. He met heavy resistance, and the papers reveal Still's frank ...
This Collection features photographs taken of the century old town of Andrews, South Carolina. Andrews was formed when the towns of Rosemary and Harpers were incorporated in 1910. Known for its railway lines and lumber mills, Andrews quickly became a town that had a lot to offer ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The first title in this group is a unique gem for genealogical researchers. Record of the Pioneers of Outagamie County is a wonderful collection of information, often including photos, about the individuals and families who lived in Outagamie County in 1898. The introduction ...
This website illustrates with text and images the dramatic physical development of Nebraska's largest academic institution, the University of Nebraska, and the people who committed their lives to it. This website is devoted in particular to the growth of the Lincoln campuses, now ...
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- ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
The photograph collections in the Arizona State Archives include images from state government as well as private collections. Archives' photographs focus upon the unique cultural heritage of the state and territory of Arizona, beginning in 1863. The principal focus within the ...
Attorney General Opinions (1892 to current, in process) are issued when requested by the legislature (or either house of the legislature), any public officer of the State, or a county attorney, on a question of law relating to their office.
Ruth Reinhold (1902-1985), an aviation pioneer, was one of the first woman pilots in Arizona. She marked many milestones, from barnstorming to teaching pilots to fly four-engine bombers during World War II. These images were selected from the 1200 photographs researched and ...
With the Civil War still going on and Carleton still fighting the Navajos, the U.S. War Department authorized Governor John Noble Goodwin of Arizona to raise five companies of Arizona Volunteers in 1864. Recruitment was delayed for a year, but by the fall of 1865, the First ...
The Arizona County and Local Publications collection has been contributed by the Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records' Law and Research Library. Digital publications produced by and for Arizona counties and cities are available from this collection, which is updated ...
Executive Orders are issued by the Governor of Arizona to establish boards or commissions or to authorize the performance of other functions that are appropriate to the executive authority of the Governor. This listing is updated periodically. New Executive Orders are being ...
This collection consists of still images of cities, towns, scenic viewpoints, lumbering activities, and streetscapes from across Arizona, 1864-1970.
Latinos have contributed greatly to Arizona's heritage and history and in numerous endeavors. One of the more valiant contributions is that of risking one's life for their country. Throughout Arizona's history Latinos have been involved, from Territorial days and on into the ...
The Arizona Military Museum, an Arizona Centennial Legacy Project, is operated by a Historical Society whose purposes are: "To enhance the appreciation of the military history of Arizona and the contributions of the Militia of Arizona and the Arizona National Guard to the State ...
Since February 1863, when President Abraham Lincoln first recognized the Territory of Arizona as a protectorate of the United States of America, mining has been the backbone of the Arizona economy. And for over a century, the Arizona Geological Survey and its predecessors have ...
The Arizona State Agency Publications collection has been contributed by the Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records' Law and Research Library. Digitized publications produced by and for Arizona state agencies are available from this collection, which is updated on a ...
Government records protect the right of citizens, promote accountability for government officials and provide continuity. Records in the Arizona State Archives were created by individuals or agencies within state or local government organizations. Agency records include those ...
This exhibit is small representative sample of items in the archives of the Postal History Foundation in Tucson. Each page contains, in philatelic terms, a "cover" - either an envelope or postcard with one or more adhesive postage stamps, or an envelope or postal card with a pre ...
Federal publications are printed by the authority of Congress or by executive or judicial agencies at taxpayer expense and are distributed to federal agencies, their clientele and to depository libraries which serve the public. The Arizona State Library, Archives and Public ...
The many wonderful photographs in the Arizona Historical Foundation's collections have inspired this exhibit of Arizona Women and their diverse contributions. Historians have often downplayed the role of women in the West, denying them individual as well as collective importance ...
A collection of papers concerning the Civil War and World War II belonging to Arlington Heights residents.
Early photographs of the daily lives of Arlington Heights residents, including houses, businesses, and aerial photos.
Historical photographs of the buildings and people of Arlington Heights, Illinois.
Army officers' wives moved west onto the Great Plains with the Army following the Civil War. With the questions of Union and slavery settled, the nation turned its attention to the growing population and emerging cities of the territories and young states west of the Mississippi ...
19 images. This collection consists of Dr. Arnold Michael Shankmans professional and organizational files, including biographical data, correspondence, lecture and teaching materials, rough notes, published and unpublished drafts of Dr. Shankmans journal articles and books, ...
6 images. This collection includes mainly photocopies of manuscript collections which Dr. Shankman has used for his research and writing. Included are pamphlets, biographical sketches, correspondence, and newspaper accounts. Most of the collection relates to the Civil War, ...
The World's Transportation Commission Photograph Collection contains nearly nine hundred images by American photographer William Henry Jackson. In addition to railroads, elephants, camels, horses, sleds and sleighs, sedan chairs, rickshaws, and other types of transportation, ...
Arriving in Seattle in the 1880s, Arthur Churchill Warner engaged in photographing views of Seattle for the tourist trade. These included conventional street scenes, the ships on Elliot Bay, and the mills along the waterfront. In 1888, he joined a Mt. Rainier climbing expedition ...
Amatuer photographer Arthur D. Chapman (1882-1956) worked nights as a newspaper printer and by day strolled Manhattan with his view camera, recording compositions of pictorial interest in the everyday cityscape. This collection of photographs depicts the intriguing architectural ...
The Atlanta Coca Cola Bottling Company was established in 1900 by Joseph Whitehead and J.T. Lupton. It was the second company authorized by the Coca Cola Company to bottle the product (the first was established shortly before in Chattanooga, TN). Mr. Arthur L. Montgomery became ...
The photographs in this collection depict everyday sights of Arthur, Illinois, from the early 1900's to the midle of the century. Many of the photographs in this collection are made available through the generosity of Mr. Noel C. Dicks. Mr. Dicks, a local pharmacist and owner of ...
A museum collection of the Nebraska State Historical Society, a virtual exhibit of Thomas Berger Johnson's work not currently on exhibit. A Swedish American artist, Thomas B. Johnson was born in Omaha, Nebraska. At his death in 1968, Thomas Johnson left behind more than 40 ...
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 ...
Arizona State University's early research scientists were scholarly pioneers of earth, ice, animal, mineral, and space. In Arizona State's first days of transformation from a small college to a true university, these men of science were already leaders in their fields, asking ...
The Atlanta Art Association sponsored a museum tour of Europe in 1962. Soon after takeoff on June 3, 1962 the Boeing 707 crashed and 130 passengers died including 106 Atlantans. Many of those who died on the flight had strong ties to the arts and cultural organizations. To honor ...
The Atlanta Blue Print and Graphics Company (later named Imaging Technologies Services) is a supplier of imaging services in the southeastern United States with branches in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina. This collection features images of buildings ...
The Atlanta Chamber of Commerce is a private, independent organization founded in 1860 by local business leaders. Over the years, the Chamber has implemented two “Forward Atlanta” campaigns to attract business and promoting economic development, and assisted the city of Atlanta ...
The Atlanta Crackers were a minor league baseball team that played in the Southern Association from 1901 to 1961. In 1962 the Southern Association disbanded and so from 1962 to 1965 the Atlanta Crackers played in the International League. The Atlanta Crackers played their home ...
Album is a database of 10,000 photographs from photojournalism collections of the Kenan Research Center. The images document people, places, and events in Atlanta and the state of Georgia from 1895 to 1992. The primary content dates between 1930 and 1970. Subjects include ...
This diverse collection of photographic prints, lithographs, and cased images include a wide spectrum of images relating to diverse topics. The oldest images feature portraits of prominent men and women in Ante-bellum Atlanta and scenes from the aftermath of the Civil War. Street ...
The New Deal inaugurated the first urban public housing developments in Atlanta. In 1934, land was cleared to build Techwood Homes near the campus of Georgia Tech University and University Homes close to Atlanta University and Clark, Morehouse, Morris Brown, and Spelman Colleges ...
The Atlanta Lung Association, (A.L.A.) was established in 1907 by the Fulton County Medical Society, it was among the first organizations in Atlanta to offer treatment of tuberculosis to those unable to obtain sanatorium care. It merged with another such organization, the Home ...
The Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railway was formed in 1905 to purchase the Atlantic and Birmingham Railway and extend its track into Birmingham. The AB&A Railway consolidated with the A&B Railway in April of 1906 to form the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railroad. The ...
The Nebraska Prairie Museum has an extensive collection of artifacts and images from the Atlanta POW Camp, a selection of which have been included in this digital collection. These include uniforms, letters, photographs, drawings, objects manufactured by the prisoners and other ...
This collection includes oral history interviews surrounding lesbian and gay history and culture in Atlanta prior to the explosion of gay rights movements that occurred in cities across the United States in the early 1970s. Gay women and men were asked to share their backgrounds ...
The 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 ...
The Audio-Video Barn is full of stories about Illinois agriculture. It contains audio and video recordings of more than 130 oral-history interviews with people involved in agriculture and rural life in Illinois. It was produced by the Illinois State Museum's Oral History of ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
This is a collection of images of the Avery Research Center's artifact collections. The collections consist of an array of objects, from slave shackles to artwork by contemporary African-American artists. The largest of Avery's artifact collections is the Joseph A. Towles ...
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 ...
Local history collection of Bainridge, Ohio.
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.
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 ...
The Baltimore Recommended Capital Improvement Program is a three-volume collection of 259 reports with accompanying photographs of recommended capital improvements to Baltimore City streets submitted in 1955 by Henry A. Barnes, Director of Traffic, to Thomas F. Hubbard, Chairman ...
These 35mm color slides were taken by two men, Donald Kobi and the late Joe Schuller, members of the Maryland Chapter 11 of the National Mosaic inside Corpus Christi Church in Baltimore. Association of Watch and Clock Collectors (NAWCC). Inspired by the United States bicentennial ...
This collection of four hundred and eight 35-mm color slides of Baltimore Transit Co. and Potomac Edison streetcars, photographed between 1952 and 1953 by Edward S. Miller, captures scenes of Baltimore City and its suburbs and of the Frederick to Thurmont line just before ...
The Baltimore Transit Directories, Maps, and Timetables exhibit features Baltimore streetcar memorabilia from the personal collection of Jerry Kelly, a member of the Baltimore Streetcar Museum and an avid streetcar buff. This exhibit spans public transportation in Baltimore, ...
Claudia Chow's Banana is an interactive look at the Lees, a Chinese-American family attempting to balance Chinese traditions and Western culture.
Band Music from the Civil War Era makes available examples of a brilliant style of brass band music that flourished in the 1850s in the United States and remained popular through the nineteenth century. Bands of this kind served in the armies of both the North and the South ...
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.
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, ...
The Barneveld Local History Collection spans more than a century—from settlement, through the devastation of the 1984 tornado and the rebuilding effort, to more recent times. The collection includes public records as well as published and personal archival materials donated ...
This collection presents a Library of Congress treasure -- 2,100 early baseball cards dating from 1887 to 1914. The cards show such legendary figures as Ty Cobb stealing third base for Detroit, Tris Speaker batting for Boston, and pitcher Cy Young posing formally in his Cleveland ...
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 ...
Beadwork Masterpieces is a Nebraska State Historical Society exhibit of images of historical Native American Bandolier Bags of the Prairies and Lakes, originally exhibited at the Nebraska History Museum January 2005-January 2006. Bandolier bags are elaborately decorated shoulder ...
The online collection consists of two short industrial films made by the Georgia Marble Company in the 1950s-1960s that document the company's history, operations, skilled laborers and craftspeople, and the widespread use of their marble, limestone and serpentine products. ...
The Bedford-Pine neighborhood is an area in Atlanta, Georgia bounded by North Avenue on the north end, Highland Avenue to the south, Boulevard to the east, and Piedmont Avenue to the west. The area was annexed by Atlanta in 1870 and developed until a fire destroyed businesses and ...
This collection consists of twenty-six films of San Francisco from before and after the Great Earthquake and Fire, 1897-1916. Seventeen of the films depict San Francisco and its environs before the 1906 disaster. Seven films describe the great earthquake and fire. The two later ...
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.
In December 1941, the United States government selected Bell Aircraft Corporation to build B-29 bombers. On March 30, 1942, Bell broke ground in Marietta, Georgia, for a new plant to build the aircraft, and by March 1943, aircraft construction had begun. The Bell Aircraft ...
Descriptive information about the history of Bellaire, Ohio.
The Belle Isle Family of Atlanta, Georgia consisted of Alvin Looney Belle Isle (1884-1950), his wife Agnes Nelson and their children. Alvin Belle Isle was an executive in the transportation business most of his adult life, establishing and operating numerous several companies. ...
This collection features 854 photographs from the Belle W. Baruch Foundation and Hobcaw Barony. Purchased in 1905 by Bernard M. Baruch as a winter hunting retreat, today the Barony includes 17,500 acres of research reserve and is one of the few undeveloped tracts of land on the ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Born in Springfield, Ohio, Berenice Abbott (1898-1991) began her career in the 1920s in Paris as an assistant to portrait photographer Man Ray. Returning to New York in 1929, she had her first solo museum exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York in 1934. The Abbott ...
Once part of an album, the 66 photographs (circa 1900) show plantations, African Americans, horses, hunting, rice threshing, wagons and carts, and churches in Berkeley County, S.C. Some featured landmarks are: Medway, Wappahoola, Mulberry Castle, Dean Hall (bulk of collection), ...
The Grand Opera House was built on Peachtree Street in 1893 by Laurent DeGive as a larger and more elaborate successor to the DeGive Opera House built at the corner of Marietta and Forsyth Streets in the 1870s. The Grand came under the management of Marcus Loew's Theater ...
Berry O. Pyron (1922-2002) was a physicist at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Mr. Pyron was an Atlanta native and photography enthusiast who recorded the city’s history for posterity. This collection is comprised of photographs of downtown Atlanta, Georgia and includes ...
In about 1937 Miss Beulah Glover (17 Aug. 1887 - 4 Jan. 1991) opened a photography studio in Walterboro, S.C. Being also an historian, Miss Glover shot many historical scenes in the Lowcountry. She converted some of these images to postcards and sold them in her studio, Foto-Nook ...
"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 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 ...
William A. Horne, Jr. (1910-1991) was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and attended Technological High School and Georgia Institute of Technology. Mr. Horne became president of J.C. Penney and was president of the Jaycees when he shot the film of Marietta Street ...
William Bryan Wilson (1914-1993) worked as a photographer for the Atlanta Constitution from 1937-1942, and then volunteered for the Navy during World War II. Following the war, Wilson returned to the Atlanta Journal where he worked until he retired in 1979. In 1953, Wilson won ...
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, ...
The Black Heritage Society of Washington State, Inc. is a non-profit organization dedicated to the acquisition, preservation, and exhibition of materials relating to the history and culture of African Americans in the State of Washington. To fulfill its mission, the Society: ...
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 ...
This online collection of images includes vintage pictures of many of Blair's historic landmarks, structures, and scenes. It includes photographs downtown Blair, Railroad Bridge, Lincoln Memorial Bridge, Crowell Mansion, Dana College, Blair's churches, as well as past historic ...
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 ...
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' ...
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 ...
Selected newspaper clippings covering the Basque, Chinese, Hispanic, Japanese groups that settled in Idaho.
The Bonneville Collection is a collection of late nineteenth century photographs, postcards and artifacts pertaining to the American Plains Indians.
This is a selection of digitized full-text English-language books, as well as book covers of Danish, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, and Swedish translations of fiction works by Tony Hillerman. Topics covered include history and politics of New ...
This collection contains over 700 photographs from glass plate negatives taken from before 1910 to 1936. The negatives were selected from the Westhoff Archive at the Boone County Historical Society and were taken by Joe Douglass, Henry Holborn, and Wesley Blackmore. These ...
Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project of ...
Digitized Boston city directories between 1865-1955 as the foundation for contextual information about the city including images.
Boyd Henry Lewis, Jr (1944 - ) is a photographer, teacher, and former journalist who worked with black-owned newspapers in Atlanta. Lewis worked in East Tennessee and in Meridian, Mississippi before he was hired in 1969 working at the Atlanta Voicein Atlanta at the Atlanta Voice ...
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?- ...
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 ...
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, ...
A broadside—sometimes called a "penny ballad"—is a single sheet of paper with printing normally on one side only. The broadside was an easily produced and highly visible way for individuals or groups to show their support for a cause. Thus, by the end of the Civil War ...
Now, broadsides (posters, one page fliers, advertisements and other types of ephemera) from across many different South Caroliniana Library manuscript collections can be searched, viewed, read, and compared. The dates range from the 1700s to the present, and items will continue ...
Archer and Anna Huntington established Brookgreen Gardens in 1931 to preserve the native flora and fauna and to display objects of art in natural settings. The collection features 700 photographs showing the many features of the Gardens, as well as many of the residents of the ...
This collection of large-format photographs documents the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge. The images made by commercial photographers C.W. Pach, S.A. Homes, and Talfor date from 1870 and 1878 and include views of the caisson and pier construction, views of the anchorage, and ...
Collections Central Online is a website that allows Brooklyn Children's Museum visitors to interact with the collection, even from their own homes! Child-friendly descriptions, vibrant photos, and easy searching allow children to explore a selection of BCM's collection of ...
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle was published from October 26, 1841 to 1955 and was revived for a short time from 1960 to 1963. Phase I, which can at present be found on this site, covers the period from October 26, 1841 to December 31, 1902, representing half of the Eagle's years of ...
The Buckaroos in Paradise Collection presents documentation of a Nevada cattle-ranching community, with a focus on the family-run Ninety-Six Ranch. The documentation was largely the work of the Paradise Valley Folklife Project (1978-1982), a research initiative conducted by the ...
This collection contains the Buffalo Address Book & Family Directory from 1883-1894.
This collection is comprised of photographs of buildings, street scenes, and landmarks in Atlanta, Georgia. Also included is a set of images of houses, churches, and public buildings in the Druid Hills neighborhood. Another group of photographs include the Edward Peters home at ...
The Building and Exhibitions Lantern Slides contain a selection from a larger collection of nearly 1,000 glass lantern slides that document the exhibitions and interior and exterior of The Baltimore Museum of Art from its opening in 1923 through the 1950’s. The larger collection ...
This online presentation reproduces the one hundred and eighty-eight photographs and two transmittal slips in the scrapbook compiled by Harry T. Poe, Senior Engineer for the Santee-Cooper Navigation and Hydro-Electric Project, as well as six related photographs from a "general ...
"The Built Heritage of North Carolina" provides access to documentation on hundreds of buildings and structures in North Carolina dating from the 1700s to the early 1900s. Buildings represented in this project include well-known examples of historic architecture, such as Baldhead ...
The Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) and the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) collections are among the largest and most heavily used in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress. Since 2000, documentation from the Historic American ...
The phrase "burnt district" refers to the 140 acres or 80 city blocks of the business district of Baltimore that were reduced to so many piles of rubble by the great fire of February 7-8, 1904. It only took half an hour for a burning, six-story building to turn into a raging, out ...
2007 marks the 60th anniversary of Jackie Robinson's rookie season for the Brooklyn Dodgers. When he stepped onto Ebbets field on April 15th, 1947, Robinson became the first African American in the twentieth century to play baseball in the major leagues -- breaking the "color ...
The Library of Congress has extensive resources for the study of the United States presidents and first ladies. Frequent requests for presidential portraits inspired Prints and Photographs Division staff to compile this ready reference aid of formal and informal pictures in the ...
The Library of Congress has extensive and varied resources related to the campaign for woman suffrage in the United States. This selection of 38 pictures includes portraits of many individuals who have been frequently requested from the holdings of the Prints and Photographs ...
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 ...
For half a century, the Byron Company (1892-1942) was one of New York City's preeminent commercial photography studios. Two major areas of specialization—stage and ship photography—provided steady work for the firm while it pursued thousands of other commissions. ...
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 ...
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 ...
Historical Photographs of BYU Hawaii Campus ...
Historically significant photographs of students, faculty and buildings at Brigham Young University, Idaho.
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 ...
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 ...
The Cabinet of American Illustration contains more than four thousand original drawings by American book, magazine, and newspaper illustrators, made primarily between 1880 and 1910. It includes illustrations for magazines, novels, and children's books; cartoons; cover designs; ...
Residents of Georgetown County since the early 18th century, the Caines family photo collection includes photos of both the Caines Brothers and Caines Boys, both known as decoy carvers, fishermen and experts on local waterways. This collection chronicles the history of the family ...
"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 ...
This collection contains documentation relating to California Design, a triennial exhibition of decorative arts and crafts, which was active during the years 1955 to 1984.
The California Digital Newspaper Collection contains over 400,000 pages of significant historical California newspapers published from 1846-1922, including the first California newspaper, the Californian, and the first daily California newspaper, the Daily Alta California. It ...
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 ...
Ethnographic photographs by various photographers in the collection of the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology are works made for hire.
The WPA California Folk Music Project is a multi-format ethnographic field collection that includes sound recordings, still photographs, drawings, and written documents from a variety of European ethnic and English- and Spanish-speaking communities in Northern California. The ...
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 ...
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 ...
This collection contains correspondence, writings, and other papers of Richard Keith Call and his family, 1788-1916, and Theodore Washington Brevard and Mary Call Brevard and their family, 1820-ca. 1920s. Included are personal and business correspondence; financial records; land ...
Calvin F. Todd was a commercial photographer in Washington State from ca. 1905 to the 1930s. His business partners included Asahel Curtis and later the firm of Depue Morgan & Co. He was founder of the Pacific International Photographers Association, the Seattle Photographic ...
During the mid-1800s, photography became a popular hobby and natural tool for scientists. Samuel Calvin (1840-1911), a professor in natural sciences at the University of Iowa (1873-1911) and a state geologist, took more than 5,000 photographs which he used to illustrate ...
Forty-four letters, 1862-1863, of Union soldier Calvin Shedd, Co. A, Seventh New Hampshire Regiment, are written primarily from locations in coastal South Carolina and addressed to his wife, S. Augusta Shedd, at Enfield, N.H., and South Reading, Mass. Shedd, a first sergeant, ...
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 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 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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
Captain Pearl R. Nye: Life on the Ohio and Erie Canal captures the culture and music of the men, women, and children who worked and lived along the Ohio and Erie Canal. Nye, who was born and raised on a canal boat, never lost his love of the "Big Ditch." After the canal closed ...
Since 2000, high school students at Rome Free Academy in Rome, NY have interviewed over 120 veterans from World War II to the present as part of an elective class on World Wars of the 20th Century. Their teachers Matthew Fidler, Gary Ford and Riccardo Dursi worked with the New ...
Carl Dixon was a commercial photographer in the city of College Park, Georgia, located south of Atlanta. This collection contains photographs of College Park taken by Dixon, and features images the Atlanta and West Point Railroad Station, churches, businesses, private residences ...
Consisting of thirteen photographs, fifty-nine blueprints or mechanical drawings, and two other documents, this collection from Carl Spoerer's Sons Company, one of the earliest manufacturers of motor vehicles in Maryland, shows how a small business in the carriage-building ...
Carl Van Vechten (1880-1964) was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa and in 1906 moved to New York City, where he established a reputation as an essayist, opera critic, and novelist. He mingled with New York's avant-garde cultural and intellectual leaders - among them George Gershwin, ...
This collection documents generations of the family of James Cosby Carlisle (1837-1927) who moved with his wife and three children to Atlanta, Georgia from Abbeville, South Carolina in 1880. Included are portraits of members of four generations of the Carlisle family, and dozens ...
At the beginning of the twentieth century, many Iowa communities secured funding from Andrew Carnegie and the Carnegie Corporation to build public libraries—101 in all. Additionally, Carnegie provided funding to build seven academic libraries in Iowa. The Carnegie Libraries ...
Noted architectural photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864-1952) created a systematic record of early American buildings and gardens called the Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South (CSAS). This collection, created primarily in the 1930s, provides more than 7,100 ...
The online presentation of the Carol M. Highsmith Archive features photographs of landmark buildings and architectural renovation projects in Washington, D.C., and throughout the United States. The first 23 groups of photographs contain more than 2,500 images and date from 1980 ...
The online Carolina Bands Collection is a portion of the larger collection given to the University of South Carolina by two previous band directors: James Pritchard Sr. and James K. Copenhaver, and includes sheet music, audio files, drill charts, and album covers. The audio clips ...
The Carolina Student's Handbook offers a glimpse of the campus culture at the University of South Carolina from the 1920s through the 1940s. Published annually by the University's YMCA and YWCA chapters, it was primarily aimed at freshman, and included information on the honor ...
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 ...
The Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection consists of photographs produced and gathered by Frank G. Carpenter (1855-1924) and his daughter Frances (1890-1972) to illustrate his writings on travel and world geography. Carpenter's works helped popularize cultural anthropology and ...
The Cartoon Drawings filing series offers more than 9,000 original drawings for editorial cartoons, caricatures, and comic strips spanning the late 1700s to the present, primarily from 1880 to 1980. The cartoons cover people and events throughout the world, but most of the images ...
The Caroline and Erwin Swann Collection of Caricature and Cartoon contains 2,085 drawings, prints, and paintings that span the years 1780 to 1977. Most of the images are cartoons, comic strips, and periodical illustrations drawn by American artists between 1890 and 1970. The ...
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 ...
The approximately 9,000 cartoon prints (approximately 8,500 distinct images) in the British Cartoon Prints Collection at the Library of Congress were published primarily between 1780 to 1830, an era dominated by the prodigious talents and prolific efforts of such famous ...
Local history photographs of Cary, Illinois.
The "Case Book" collection consists of more than 2,200 books and serials spanning the period 1550 to the present, with most published between 1840 and 1970. Illustrations are the featured aspect of these works, and many of the volumes contain original visual materials such as ...
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 ...
The Cator Collection of Baltimore Views, housed in Special Collections at Pratt's State Library Resource Center, consists of nearly 200 etchings, engravings, watercolors, prints and other lithographs, from 1752 to 1930. The images provide a visual timeline from the city's ...
This digital collection includes selected land grant files, which pertain to the adjudication of certain New Mexico land grant cases in the Court of Private Land Claims. They contain materials of potential value to researchers from an enormously broad range of disciplines and ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 Atlanta Progress, Inc. (C.A.P) is a private, nonprofit corporation that works to improve the economic climate of downtown Atlanta. The organization’s primary functions are to stimulate economic development; promote urban development programs, such as enterprise zones; ...
Central Florida Memory is the beginning of an on-going, proactive force for generating excitement about the past, present, and future history of Central Florida, among all interested communities worldwide.
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 ...
Beginning with the Continental Congress in 1774, America's national legislative bodies have kept records of their proceedings. The records of the Continental Congress, the Constitutional Convention, and the United States Congress make up a rich documentary history of the ...
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.
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 E. Troutt was a commercial photographer who worked in Atlanta from approximately 1951 to 1969. This collection contains photographs taken by Troutt, presumably for his clients. Included are images of commercial buildings, government buildings, private residences, ...
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 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 ...
A collection of photographs taken by Charles N. Bayless in and around Charleston, SC, ca. 1820-1859.
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 ...
In 1932 realtor J. Clarence Davies, collector of New Yorkiana and patron of the Museum of the City of New York's Print Department, commissioned photographer Charles Von Urban to document New York City buildings that were likely to be threatened with demolition. This 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 ...
The main line of the Charleston and Savannah Railroad Company, which began operations in 1861, ran between Charleston, South Carolina and Savannah, Georgia, with service to other locations south and west of Charleston. In January 1867 under pressure from the bondholders, the ...
This collection contains photographs held by the Charleston Museum, America's first museum. Currently the collection features 204 photographs documenting the damage inflicted on Charleston by the earthquake of August 31, 1886. Primarily professional photographs, these images were ...
A collection of slave passes, some found in a Book of Common Prayer donated to the College of Charleston.
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.) ...
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 ...
This collection showcases more than 3,800 images of original manuscripts, broadsides, photographs, prints and artifacts relating to the Haymarket Affair. The violent confrontation between Chicago police and labor protesters in 1886 proved to be a pivotal setback in the struggle ...
Botanical illustrations from the collections of the Lenhardt Library of the Chicago Botanic Garden.
Chicago Ridge Public Library’s Online History Collection contains images and texts related to the people and places unique to the history of the village of Chicago Ridge, Illinois. The collection includes photographs, pamphlets, newsletters, brochures, scrapbook pages, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Chinese in California, 1850-1925 illustrates nineteenth and early twentieth century Chinese immigration to California through about 8,000 images and pages of primary source materials. Included are photographs, original art, cartoons and other illustrations; letters, excerpts ...
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 the history of Oklahoma, 1923-2002.
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 ...
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 ...
This compilation of printed texts from the libraries at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill traces how Southern African Americans experienced and transformed Protestant Christianity into the central institution of community life. Coverage begins with white churches' ...
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 ...
In celebration of Glendale's approaching 100-year anniversary, this collection of City Council minutes dating from August 1st, 1910 to December 28th, 1914 has been compiled electronically for the first time. Minutes include roll calls of council members in attendance, agreements ...
The Civic Services Committee (CSC) (1942-1946) was the predecessor body to Historic Charleston Foundation. It was formed by the Carolina Art Association to address the need for architectural preservation and to implement city planning in response to growth. The Committee received ...
The Civil Rights Digital Library Initiative represents one of the most ambitious and comprehensive effort to date to deliver educational content on the Civil Rights Movement via the Web. The struggle for racial equality in the 1950s and 1960s is among the most far-reaching social ...
The Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive is an Internet-accessible, fully searchable database of digitized versions of rare and unique library and archival resources on race relations in Mississippi. Mississippi was a focal point in the struggle for civil rights in America ...
The 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 ...
This digital collection contains diaries and related items of soldiers from Iowa who fought in the American Civil War (1861-1865). The documents offer valuable insight on their day-to-day activities, accounts of battles, and feelings regarding the war and their time as soldiers. ...
This online collection provides access to about 7,000 different views and portraits made during the American Civil War (1861-1865) and its immediate aftermath. The images represent the original glass plate negatives made under the supervision of Mathew Brady and Alexander Gardner ...
Civil War Maps brings together materials from three premier collections: the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division, the Virginia Historical Society, and the Library of Virginia. Among the reconnaissance, sketch, and theater-of-war maps are the detailed battle maps made ...
The IMLS grant funded project brings Tufts, and the Virginia Center for Digital History together with the University to build a digital repository of Civil War-Era newspapers. Not only will this project provide online access to The Liberator, Philadelphia Ledger and the Richmond ...
The 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 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 ...
A Civil War Soldier in the Wild Cat Regiment: Selections from the Tilton C. Reynolds Papers documents the Civil War experience of Captain Tilton C. Reynolds, a member of the 105th Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers. Comprising 164 library items, or 359 digital images, this ...
The images in this digital collection are drawn from the New-York Historical Society's rich archival collections that document the Civil War. They include recruiting posters for New York City regiments of volunteers; stereographic views documenting the mustering of soldiers and ...
The New Deal under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt attempted to provide recovery and relief from the Great Depression by the establishment of a number of emergency relief programs. The Civil Works Administration was a subdivision of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration ...
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 ...
These photographs of New York shop windows from 1935 were made by Katherine H. Clark and Herman L. Rogers. The images focus on retail centers on Broadway, Madison, and Fifth Avenues and depict such notable retailers as Bergdorf Goodman and Gimbel Brothers.
The Clemson University Football Program Cover Collection comes from the University Archives, and features 198 unique cover layouts of both home and away games. Typical of sports programs, these covers are the combined efforts of illustrators, graphic artists and printers that ...
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 ...
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 ...
This digital collection consists of photographic prints made, for the most part, by The Cobbs Studio, which operated in Albuquerque, New Mexico from 1885 to 1942. The studio was established by William Henry Cobb, and was run after his death, from 1909, by Mrs. Cobb and a daughter ...
The Bisbee Deportation documents are comprised of about 1,600 court documents filed in 1919 and 1920 in Cochise County Superior Court, pertaining to Cochise County Case number 2725, entitled, State of Arizona, Plaintiff, vs. Phelps Dodge Corporation, A Corporation, et als., ...
The theme of this collection is the unique history and culture of Southeastern Arizona. The centerpiece of the collection is a video created by the Cochise College Library media department that documents an archaeological dig site from the era. The dig site is located at Murray ...
In May of 1881, just three months after Cochise County was formed out of southeastern Pima County, district court sessions began in Tombstone, Arizona. The 652 page collection contains brief notations by the district court clerk of matters and proceedings taken up by the judge& ...
Tour Code City and uncover a series of interactive maps, historic photographs and essays that detail how housing policy changes the cities we live in. Created by New York-based collectives, CUP and HONEST.
The Iowa Digital Library contains a collection of broadsides distributed to publicize the arrival of Flunk Day, an annual occurring student skip day at Coe College.
This collection contains the mementos Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin Franklin Eshleman, a former commander of the Washington Artillery battalion, saved in his scrapbook. It portrays a civil war colonel's dedication to preserving the memory of his unit along with a larger more ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
These digital images highlight some of the artwork found in the manuscript collections of the College of Charleston's Special Collections Department. Current collections include sketchbooks by Charleston architect Albert Simons and artwork by the Middleton Family.
These archival manuscripts in the Special Collection's department at the College of Charleston were produced by former members of the school's faculty. Included are Paul Weidner's research notes on Milton and Shakespeare, political writings from former college president Nathaniel ...
The College of Charleston Photograph Collection consists of images from the Special Collections Department in the Addlestone Library.
This group of collections features scientific observations held by Special Collections at the College of Charleston. The first collection to be added is the Reverend Alexander Glennie Meteorological Observations. Between 1838 and 1880, Rev. Glennie, a tutor and Episcopal minister ...
This collection highlights various albums and scrapbooks housed in the Special Collections department of the College of Charleston library.
More than 180 artists living and working in Japan created the 212 fine art prints in the College Women's Association of Japan Print Show Collection. The prints, dating primarily from 2003 to 2005, encompass a rich diversity of styles, printmaking techniques, and subject matter. ...
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 ...
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 ...
Regional Colorado newspapers from 1859-1924.
Postcards, pamphlets, photographs and more - covering the rich history of Columbia College.
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 ...
This pilot project consists of a small portion of the aerial photo collection, approximately 360 images of 130,000, focusing just on Columbia, SC for the dates of 1938, 1959-60, 1971, and 1980. Photos will continue to be added to the collection.
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 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 ...
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 ...
The Springfield-Greene County Library District and several organizations throughout the Ozarks are working together to digitize Civil War era documents. Funded by a Library Services and Technology Act grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the Missouri State ...
The John J. Rhodes Papers consist of correspondence, reports, financial and travel records and printed matter. The collection documents Rhodes' congressional career from 1953 1983 and significant portions of the collection concern the Central Arizona Project, Indians, water, ...
Connecticut History Online currently contains about 14,000 images of photographs, drawings and prints which may be searched or browsed in a variety of ways, including by keyword, subject, creator, title and date. Geographical sites may be searched using a Digital Geographic ...
Constance Fauntleroy Runcie was the founder of the first women's social club east of the Mississippi, The Minerva Society in New Harmony, Indiana (1859). She later founded the oldest existing women's club today, the Runcie Club, located in St. Joseph, Missouri. Mrs. Runcie was ...
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 ...
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 ...
A unique collection of ephemera, published materials, and artifacts from U.S. national political campaigns (1800-1976). The collection consists of published material, ephemera, and artifacts dating to between 1800 and 1976, including ballots and slates of candidates; promotional ...
Cortlandt F. Luce, Jr. (1907-1992) was a professional photographer and supervising agent for Aetna Insurance Agency in Atlanta, Georgia. This collection of photographs is comprised of images of geographical locations, events, and people in the Atlanta metropolitan area. ...
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.
Through Creating Communities: Digitizing Denver’s Historic Neighborhoods, information on Denver neighborhoods from official records of the City and County of Denver and a wide variety of partner institutions were digitized and brought together in a centralized digital repository ...
The Carl Van Vechten Photographs Collection at the Library of Congress consists of 1,395 photographs taken by American photographer Carl Van Vechten (1880-1964) between 1932 and 1964. The bulk of the collection consists of portrait photographs of celebrities, including many ...
Photographs and advertisements for Crystal Beach, New York.
Battlefield archeology studies material reflections of past conflict with the goal of understanding of specific battles and, more generally, war and human conflict. It is a new field, having emerged over the past two decades. The goal of modern battlefield archeology is to meld ...
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 ...
Digital collection of over 6,000 cylinder records from 1895-1920s with downloadable and streaming audio held by the Department of Special Collection, University of California, Santa Barbara. Collection includes recordings made by Edison, Columbia, Indestructible, US Everlasting, ...
The Cyrus F. Jenkins Civil War Diary, 1861-1862, held at the Troup County Archives, chronicles Cyrus Franklin Jenkins' experiences as an enlisted man in the Meriwether Volunteers, Company B, 13th Georgia Infantry Regiment, during the first year of the war, June 1861 to March 1862 ...
Dating back to 1868 the Daily Iowan Newspaper Collection provides access to digitized versions of The Daily Iowan and its predecessors: the University Reporter (1868-81), the Vidette (1879-81), the Vidette-Reporter (1881-1901) and the University Mirror (1881). The newspaper ...
The more than 7,500 historic images from The Daily Reflector, Greenville, NC's daily newspaper, document the sweeping changes in Eastern North Carolina between 1949 and 1967. This period of dramatic social and economic change saw the increasing power of federal and state ...
The photographs in this collection were taken by Dale Elliott Roberts, the proprietor of Elliott’s’ Peachtree Studio from approximately 1954-1975. This collection contains images of churches, schools, and businesses in towns near Atlanta, Georgia, including Alpharetta, Ben Hill, ...
Darlene Roth & Associates was a professional historical consulting business in Atlanta, Georgia. The company offered a broad range of services to clients in the public and private sector such as historical structure surveys, community histories, environmental reviews, and ...
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 ...
The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection was started over 25 years ago, and it is one of the largest personal map collections in the world. The collection focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North American and South American maps and other cartographic materials. Historic ...
The Day Family became known in the Colorado Plateau region for their activities as traders on the Navajo Reservation. During their time on the Reservation, they served as agents, and became close with the Navajo. This collection includes images of Sam Day, Sr., his wife Anna, and ...
The Day Family were Anglo traders, on the Navajo Reservation in eastern Arizona. The collection includes the personal and business papers of Sam Day, Sr. (1845-1925) surveyor, Indian trader, legislator and United States Indian Commissioner; Anna Day, Sam Sr.'s wife (1872-1932); ...
The Miller Flute Collection contains nearly 1,700 flutes and other wind instruments, statuary, iconography, books, music, trade catalogs, tutors, patents, and other materials mostly related to the flute. It includes both Western and nonwestern examples of flutes from around the ...
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 ...
The Phyllis and Robert Massar Photograph Collection of Pacific Northwest Architecture is a photographic archive created when they were professional architectural photographers in the Pacific Northwest during the period 1943-1963. During the time when they were active in ...
This 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, ...
This collection contains 32 letters and postcards relating to Delbert Claire Brandt (Claire Brandt), a young man from Sharon, Pennsylvania who served with the 1st Cavalry in World War I, was wounded, and died on November 16, 1918. The letters were written between May 1918 and ...
This collection is comprised of images taken by Delta Airlines corporate photographers and utilized for promotional purposes by the company. The photographs are of geographic locations in the metropolitan Atlanta region, but most of the images are of downtown Atlanta. Included ...
In celebration of the 125th anniversary of the University of Iowa College of Dentistry, class photo boards (1883-1967) were converted to digital format as part of the preservation process. This digital collection includes photo boards that display entire classes as well as ...
Although not an original member of the King County Snapshots project, the Des Moines Historical Society Museum added their database, entitled Pieces of the Past, to this site in June 2007. Des Moines Historical Society was formed out of the Des Moines-Zenith Improvement Club in ...
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, ...
This collection of photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company Collection includes over 25,000 glass negatives and transparencies as well as about 300 color photolithograph prints, mostly of the eastern United States. Subjects strongly represented in the collection include ...
This collection offers a wide survey of typography, page design, and book illustration spanning 500 years of printing in Europe and the Americas. Also included are manuscript leaves from the medieval and early modern periods, including some examples from the Middle East.
Rutherford B. Hayes kept a diary from age twelve to his death at age 70 in 1893. He was one of only three presidents to keep a diary while in office. His collection of handwritten journals are at the Hayes Presidential Center. The edited diaries and letters were published in ...
Digging In: The Historic Trails of Nebraska is a web site for archaeological and historical research on Nebraska's immigrant trails ...
Statewide aerial photographs were first acquired for Illinois from 1936 through 1941. This historical collection consists of more than 33,000 photographic paper prints. The original silver nitrate film negatives were destroyed by the National Archives in the 1980s due to ...
This collection brings together historic costume collections from several institutions into a single searchable web accessible database. The partner institutions are libraries and museums from metropolitan Detroit. Their collections number more than 40,000 items and cover 300 ...
For many years scholars have recognized that late nineteenth-century Durham, North Carolina makes an ideal case study for examining emancipation, industrialization, immigration, and urbanization in the context of the New South. "With its tobacco factories, textile mills, black ...
Digital Forsyth, the definitive online collection of historical photographs of Forsyth County, NC., is a grant-funded multi-year digitization project among Forsyth County Public Library, Old Salem Museum and Gardens, Winston-Salem State University's C.G. O'Kelly Library, and Wake ...
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.
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 ...
Part of the E-Books collection at Columbia University Libraries.
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 ...
This searchable database provides access to the bibliographic records and, for those pieces in the public domain, access to images of the cover and each page of music. Currently, the collection contains over 10,000 pieces of classical, popular, and sacred music from the 19th and ...
Historical treasures of southeastern Ohio.
The North Carolina Digital Heritage Center is a statewide digitization and digital publishing program housed in the North Carolina Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The Digital Heritage Center works with cultural heritage institutions across North ...
Records with links to the web sites of digitized serials at the Library of Congress.
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), ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Continental Congress Broadside Collection (256 titles) and the Constitutional Convention Broadside Collection (21 titles) contain 277 documents relating to the work of Congress and the drafting and ratification of the Constitution. Items include extracts of the journals of ...
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 ...
This demonstration project provides digital images and descriptions of the Dorothea June Grossbart Historic Costume Collection. The physical collection contains over 400 garments and accessories from the 19th and 20th centuries, and is curated by the Fashion Design and ...
The insightful and compassionate photographs of Dorothea Lange (1895 - 1965) have exerted a profound influence on the development of modern documentary photography. Lange's concern for people, her appreciation of the ordinary, and the striking empathy she showed for her subjects ...
Professor Douglas Eugene Pike (July 27, 1924-May 13, 2002) was a veteran, journalist, diplomat, teacher, scholar, writer, and renowned leading expert on Vietnam. Pike first became involved in Vietnam as a part of the US Information Agency in Saigon in the 1960s, and later as part ...
The Documentary Drawings category includes more than 3,000 drawings made between 1750 and 1970. Eye-witness sketches made during the U.S. Civil War are the most frequently used images. Also included are topographical views, bank note vignettes, portraits, and courtroom sketches. ...
The Master Drawings Collection (about 5,000 original drawings) offers works by artists of various nationalities. Although most of the images date from between 1830 and 1930, the oldest drawings were created before 1600 and the most recent in the 1950s. The collection represents ...
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 ...
Founded in 1978, the Committee for African American History Observances (CAAHO)) presents arts and cultural activities designed to promote pride in and appreciation for the contributions of African- Americans to the larger society. The Dreamkeepers Collection contains photos of ...
The Druid Hills School opened in 1919 through Emory University as a school for faculty children, grades kindergarten to eleventh. In 1928, the school was moved to 1798 Hayward Drive, in Atlanta, and in 1959, this location began to house only grades eight through twelve. The ...
Duane L. Cronk, of Duane L. Cronk & Associates is a public relations consultant based out of Angwin California. This collection contains images of the construction of Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) rail stations, including the Five Points Station, Civic ...
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 ...
Digitized books owned by the Dundee Township Public Library.
These records document the plans for the urban redevelopment of Durham, North Carolina, in the 1960s and 1970s. Created in 1958, the Durham Redevelopment Commission oversaw seven projects of urban renewal aimed at combating "urban blight," one in Durham's downtown and the other ...
E. E. Burson worked as a photographer in Denmark, South Carolina, and the surrounding areas of Bamberg County approximately between the years of 1905 and 1920. Burson not only worked in his Denmark studio, but he also photographed town scenes and nearby Voorhees College. Burson's ...
E. T. Start of New York State moved to Camden, South Carolina in 1903, as the photographer at the Kirkwood Hotel. Photographing the Winter Colony and local scenes, he spent time in Camden until c. 1945. This collection of 200 photographs includes images of people, animals, and ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
This collection currently contains maps and atlases of the United States, Nebraska, county and regional maps and atlases relating to the history of Nebraska.
Omaha, founded in 1854, is the site of the Union Pacific headquarters and point of eastern origin for the first trans-continental railway to be built across the west, the greatest western trail of the nineteenth century. Omaha became the home to many seeking their fortune and to ...
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 ...
Early Virginia Religious Petitions presents images of 423 petitions submitted to the Virginia legislature between 1774 and 1802 from more than eighty counties and cities. Drawn from the Library of Virginia's Legislative Petitions collection, the petitions concern such topics as ...
Published yearly since 1919, and well illustrated, the Warbler conveys information on students and faculty, chronicles important cultural and sporting events, describes organizational activities, and depicts changes in the campus layout and physical plant. This collection ...
In 2003-2004, the North Carolina History and Fiction Digital Library was launched. During 2003-2004, approximately 200 texts were digitized pertaining to the history of 29 eastern North Carolina counties. Principle Investigator for 2003-2004, Elizabeth Smith, and her colleagues ...
The Eastside Heritage Center's mission is to steward Eastside history by actively collecting, preserving, and interpreting documents and artifacts and by promoting public involvement in and appreciation of this heritage through educational programming and community outreach. The ...
On January 19, 1934, under the direction of Joseph L. Wheeler, the Enoch Pratt Free Library opened the Edgar Allan Poe Room to the public. Pratt's collection of Poeana has been bolstered over the years by three major gifts. The first, a gift of letters, books, clippings and other ...
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 ...
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 is an online exhibit and image database of educational visual aids produced by the Museum Extension Project (MEP), a division of the New Deal jobs creation program, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and owned by the Bienes Center for the Literary Arts at ...
The 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 (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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Edwin Hughes was a noted pianist with ties to South Carolina. Hughes studied with noted pianist Theodor Leschetizky, who was a pupil of major composers and pianists of the late 1800s. Hughes had a very successful teaching and touring career, and eventually became editor with ...
This growing collection features correspondence from the eighteenth and nineteenth century chosen from the College of Charleston's Special Collections holdings. It includes two letters written by Dr. John Vaughan of Philadelphia to Philip Tidyman, discussing smallpox vaccines. ...
This collection of 104 items features rare and original handwritten documents that help to tell the history of Georgetown County. Real Estate Indentures, Land Grants, Survey Maps, Conveyance of Land, Titles, Mortgages and Agreements from the early residents including the Trapier ...
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 ...
Historical photographs of people and places in Harwood Heights, Illinois from the archives of the Eisenhower Public Library.
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 ...
Historical photographs of Lake County, Illinois from the collections of the Ela Area Historical Socieity
Historic photographs of Elgin, Illinois.
Historical photographs of Elgin Community College
As the Gilded Age in America shifted into the Progressive Era, journalist, novelist, poet, short story writer, and playwright, Elia Wilkinson Peattie stood out as an uncommon woman who used her pen to instruct, entertain, and enrich the lives of her readers. In 1886 Peattie began ...
Ellinor Dale Runcie (? -1935) was the only daughter of Constance Faunt LeRoy Runcie, founder of the oldest existing women's social club, The Runcie Club located in St. Joseph, Missouri. Ellinor was a world traveler and prolific writer like her mother. She was a teacher at the ...
Program for the reception and banquet given in honor of Elisha Gray on November 15, 1878. Elisha Gray (August 2, 1835 – January 21, 1901) was an American electrical engineer who co-founded the Western Electric Manufacturing Company. Even though Alexander Graham Bell was awarded ...
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 ...
Emergence of Advertising in America presents over 9,000 images relating to the early history of advertising in the United States. The materials, drawn from the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University, include cookbooks, photographs of billboards ...
Emile Berliner and the Birth of the Recording Industry is a selection of more than 400 items from the Emile Berliner Papers and 118 Berliner sound recordings from the Library of Congress's Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division. Berliner (1851-1929), an ...
Enduring Communities: The Japanese American Experience in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, and Utah is a collaboration between educators, communities, and students and the Japanese American National Museum to create curricula about the Japanese American World War II ...
In 2002 the Enoch Pratt Free Library began to create a collection of live-action, multicultural storyteller performances to be displayed over the web. In all, 41 stories from 21 storytellers of national and regional renown have been taped and edited. Representing diverse cultures ...
Envisaging the West: Thomas Jefferson and the Roots of Lewis and Clark is an electronic archive of over 150 letters, 3 journals, 25 statutes and treaties, a bibliography of Jefferson's geography books, 22 map images, and a geo-rectified cartographic database of 8 interactive maps ...
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 ...
Born in Great Britain, Ernest Walter Histed (1862-1947) was a noted portrait photographer with a studio on Fifth Avenue in New York. This collection largely includes portraits depicting New York society personalities, including the Astors, Belmonts, Fricks, and Vanderbilts, ...
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.
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 ...
This collection is comprised of 32 opaque watercolors, or gouaches, on paper created in the late 1700s. Each depicts at least one species of flora and fauna (primarily birds, trees, and flowering plants) found in the American Southeast.
Historic photographs of Rockford, Illinois from the collections of the Rockford Ethnic Heritage Museum.
Although Alfred Kroeber is universally regarded as the founder of California Indian studies, his important use of the camera as an ethnographic tool is virtually unknown. In fact, Kroeber was one of the first anthropologists to photograph California Native peoples.
In 1924, native Iowan Eve Drewelowe received the first graduate degree in fine arts granted by The University of Iowa. She then married Jacob Van Ek, moved to Boulder, and embarked on a 13-month trip around the world that she documented in seven travel sketchbooks. After a health ...
Iowa native Evelyn Corrie Birkby (1919-) has been a wife, mother, homemaker, newspaper columnist, author, an radio personality. In 1950, she became known as a "radio homemaker," bringing her newspaper column on country living to the then-new format of radio. This digital ...
The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920 documents the historical formation and cultural foundations of the movement to conserve and protect America's natural heritage, through books, pamphlets, government documents, manuscripts, prints, photographs, and motion ...
The International Cotton Exposition of 1881 was one of three expositions in Atlanta designed to attract business and venture capitol to Atlanta. Buildings were erected for the 1881 exposition along what is now Ashby Street in West Atlanta. In 1882, these structures were ...
What was it like to be a minority in Cache Valley during the Civil Rights era? The Merrill-Cazier Library presents this digital collection of interviews, images, and documents illustrating attitudes toward race and ethnicity in Cache Valley before and after the events in Little ...
The Quaker community of Sandy Spring, in Montgomery County, had one of the highest concentrations of schools in the Maryland area during the 19th century. These facilities varied from private academies to public schools, from well-known establishments to tiny neighborhood ...
The photographs in 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, who ...
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 ...
The Work Projects Administration (WPA) was created in 1935 under President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal, to provide work relief for the unemployed. Under the auspices of the WPA, the Federal Arts Project (FAP) was created specifically to aid visual artists by paying wages for ...
The New Deal under Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1933-34) attempted to provide recovery and relief from the Great Depression by the establishment of a number of emergency relief programs. Among these the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) program, the first of his major ...
A collection derived from the bibliography Forty-Six Important Federal Publications About Oklahoma. These documents were selected as the most important federal publications in Oklahoma's history. This collection is a joint project of the U.S. Government Information Division and ...
Feeding America is an online collection of the most important and influential 19th and early 20th century American cookbooks. The site also includes a glossary of cookery terms, essays by culinary historian Jan Longone, biographies of the cookbook authors, and multidimensional ...
The Fenians were established in Ireland and the United States in 1858 with the avowed purpose of overthrowing British rule in Ireland and establishing an Irish Republic. (In Ireland the Fenians were also known as the Irish Republican Brotherhood.) The Fenians in the United States ...
Roger Fenton's Crimean War photographs represent one of the earliest systematic attempts to document a war through the medium of photography. Fenton, who spent fewer than four months in the Crimea (March 8 to June 26, 1855), produced 360 photographs under extremely trying ...
This selection from the Ferdinand C. Latrobe papers includes his hand-written speeches, with some composed during his terms as the Mayor of Baltimore City. The speeches discuss a wide-range of topics, pertinent to both local and national politics and events. Speeches discussing ...
Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier: The Henry Reed Collection is a multi-format ethnographic field collection of traditional fiddle tunes performed by Henry Reed of Glen Lyn, Virginia. Recorded by folklorist Alan Jabbour in 1966-67, when Reed was over eighty years old, the tunes ...
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 ...
Fifty Years of Coca-Cola Television Advertisements: Highlights from the Motion Picture Archives at the Library of Congress presents a variety of television advertisements, never-broadcast outtakes, and experimental footage reflecting the historical development of television ...
The State Archives of Florida's film and video collection features moving images depicting variety of topics, including: education, environment, family life, industry, integration, politics, tourism and World War II. The 60 films featured in this online collection are only a ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
About 85,000 prints created as art works, ca. 1450-present (most dating between 1800 and the present). Prints by American printmakers and artists (e.g., Paul Revere, Mary Cassatt, Jim Dine, Joseph Pennell) predominate, but creators in many other countries are also represented (e. ...
The Prints and Photographs Division houses more than 2,500 Japanese woodblock prints and drawings, dating from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries, by such artists as Hiroshige, Kuniyoshi, Sadahide, and Yoshiiku. Subjects include actors, women, landscapes, scenes from ...
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 ...
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 ...
This compilation of printed texts from the libraries at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill documents the culture of the nineteenth-century American South from the viewpoint of Southerners. It includes the diaries, autobiographies, memoirs, travel accounts, and ex- ...
The series includes files on approved and denied pension claims from 1885 to 1954. Most files contain the original application, any supplemental applications, proof of service and residency, and occasional correspondence between the applicant and the Board. Veterans' applications ...
The Florida Folklife Collection includes approximately 150 cubic feet of administrative, survey and fieldwork files and tens of thousands of audio and video recordings dating from the 1930s through 2001. The collection consists of 88 record series documenting performances by, ...
Featuring over 161,000 digitized photographs from the State Library and Archives of Florida, the Florida Photographic Collection is the most complete online portrait of Florida available--one that draws its strength from family pictures, the homes of Floridians, their work, and ...
The collection includes five archival series, and features the 1838, 1861, 1865, 1868, and 1885 Florida constitutions.
Floyd E. Jillson (1926 -) was a photographer at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution for the News Department from 1950 until 1955 after which he moved to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Magazine. The Floyd Jillson photographs are comprised of images Jillson took as staff ...
Source: Oxford Companion to Shakespeare, online, introduction by Eric Rasmussen, 2/12/08 ...
Folkstreams.net collects, preserves, and makes available free streaming video of hard-to-find documentary films about American folk or roots culture, giving wider audience to the independent filmmakers and the diverse American artists and groups they have documented. The ...
For Our Mutual Benefit consists of a minute book, covering the years 1912-1920, from the Athens Woman's Club collection housed in the Heritage Room of the Athens-Clarke County Library that documents the social, philanthropic and reform activities of the Athens Woman's Club during ...
This exhibit of twenty-seven Forman Hanna photographs from the Arizona State Museum's collection showcases the tradition of pictorial photography as practiced in the early twentieth century by photographers in the American West. Native Americans, cowboys and scenic landscapes ...
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 ...
Photographs from the collections of the Fort Sheridan Museum
Forward Together is a multiple-venue project, developed by a consortium of historical and educational institutions, that focuses on the participation of South Carolina during World War I and its effects on the state. Through exhibitions, public lectures, and the development of ...
Four Mounds Foundation was founded in 1987 as a non-profit organization as a means for managing and stewarding a generous gift of property willed of the City of Dubuque from the estate of Elizabeth Adams Burden upon her passing in 1982. The Burdens had a vision for the 54 acres ...
Fox Movietone News: The War Years provides important insight into how news during the war was processed by Fox Movietone News for popular consumption. In its current form, the exhibit of 2000 dope sheets provides only a small sample of the more than 30,000 filed by Fox Movietone ...
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 ...
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 (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 ...
Included in this collection are photographs of Atlanta religious centers. Frances Outlar primarily photographed Christian churches, but also provided images of Jewish synagogues. The collection contains exterior views of the Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church, Central Baptist ...
Francis E. Price (1886-1928) was hired in 1909 as the first staff photographer at the Atlanta Constitution. The collection includes photographs of people, places, and events taken by Price. Most of the images were probably produced for news stories in the paper. Included are ...
Frank and Emmagene Davenport lived on 345 Pine Street in Atlanta when on May 21, 1917 ...
The 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 ...
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.
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 ...
Frank R. Snyder was the leading photographer in Oxford, Ohio during the early twentieth century. His work documents the events and activities of the Oxford community from the 1890's to the 1930's. Snyder also worked for Miami University during this period; many of his ...
Fred L. Howe (1857-1903) was a commercial photographer who practiced in Atlanta from 1895-1903, and was also a photographer for the Atlanta Constitution. The Cotton States and International Exposition was an international event that took place on the Piedmont Exposition grounds ...
A collection including photographs, newspaper clippings, advertising, documents and more highlighting the content of these scrapbooks.
The Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress presents the papers of the nineteenth-century African-American abolitionist who escaped from slavery and then risked his own freedom by becoming an outspoken antislavery lecturer, writer, and publisher. The release of the ...
These case files consist of 301 legal petitions for freedom filed by people of color in St. Louis courts between 1814 and 1860. They make up the largest corpus of freedom suits currently available to researchers in the United States. The bulk of these suits were filed between ...
Freedom’s Fortress: The Library of Congress, 1939-1953 tells the history of the Library of Congress during a particularly important period. From 1939 to 1953 the Library underwent a myriad of changes that established the institution as one of America’s foremost citadels of ...
The News-Messenger is the only daily newspaper headquartered in Sandusky County, Ohio. It serves its home city of Fremont, all of Sandusky County and portions of adjacent counties in Northwest Ohio. The News-Messenger traces its roots to 1856, and is one of the oldest business ...
The Friendly Moralist Society was a benevolent society for free brown (mulatto or mixed race) men established in Charleston, S.C. in 1838. The group provided burial aid and purchased plots for those in need and provided charitable assistance to widows and orphans of deceased ...
Friends of Our Native Landscape Publications
Fritz Hollings: In His Own Words is a collection of Senator Hollings' writings, speeches, photographs, and audio files from his days as Lt. Governor, Governor, and U.S. Senator. 200 items showcase the compelling intellect, keen wit, and, at times, sharp tongue that Senator ...
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 Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1822-1909 presents 396 pamphlets from the Rare Book and Special Collections Division, published from 1822 through 1909, by African-American authors and others who wrote about slavery, African colonization, ...
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.
Frontline Diplomacy: The Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training presents a window into the lives of American diplomats. Transcripts of interviews with U.S. diplomatic personnel capture their experiences, motivations, ...
The Furman Family Letters will contain letters from three collections: The Richard Furman Papers (1775-1825) consist of correspondence, biographical information, and writings. The bulk of the papers fall within his lifetime. The principal correspondents include Oliver Hart, ...
The Furman Natural History Collection is dedicated to preserving the natural history of Furman University, initially focused on the Furman Lake, sustainability, and the environmental impact of humans.
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 ...
Photographs of the Gail Borden Public Library.
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 ...
The USC Garnet and Black Yearbooks are currently being scanned and will be made available from this site as they are done. Each yearbook is searchable and browsable by section. The first available years are 1956, 1957, 1961, 1962, 1965, 1966, and 1975. Eventually, we hope to have ...
Gay Bolling Shepperson (1887 – 1977) was the administrator of three successive federal relief projects in Georgia: the Civil Works Administration (CWA), the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) and the Works Progress Administration (WPA). The Works Progress ...
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. ...
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 ...
Arnold Genthe (1869-1942) was an internationally recognized photographer working in the soft-focus pictorialist style. The Library of Congress acquired approximately 20,000 items from his unclaimed studio after his death. The "electronic collection" contains approximately 16,000 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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'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 was born in Switzerland (1857). His father ...
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 ...
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, ...
This collection of glass plate negatives of Charleston and Summerville was made by George LaGrange Cook in the 1880s and early 1890s. The son of the famous Civil War photographer, George Smith Cook, LaGrange learned the art of photography from his father. He lived in Charleston ...
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.
George W. Johnson took photographs of Charleston buildings and people at the turn of the 20th century. His collection also includes a number of photographs of the 1901-1902 South Carolina Inter-state and West Indian Exhibition.
The complete George Washington Papers collection from the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress consists of approximately 65,000 documents. This is the largest collection of original Washington documents in the world. Document types in the collection as a whole include ...
This Collection of photographs chronicles the many hurricanes that have impacted coastal South Carolina. Two of the most powerful storms, Hazel and Hugo, will never be forgotten by the residents of Georgetown County. As people began to piece back together their lives, numerous ...
This collection features over fifty photographs of individuals who lived in Georgetown County in the late 19th and early 20th century. Names such as LaBruce, Ehrich, Sampson, Ward, and Gasque make up this unique collection of photographs that have been donated to the Georgetown ...
Georgetown County newspapers ranging from the early 1800s until 1899: including the Winyah Observer, the Pee Dee Times, the True Republican, the South Carolinian, the Winyah Intelligencer, the Georgetown American and the Georgetown Union.
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 ...
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 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.
The Georgia Legislative Documents Project has digitized Georgia's Acts and Resolutions from 1799-1999. All but a few years of the Acts and Resolutions are currently available on-line as a searchable, full-text database. Participants in the Georgia Legislative Documents Project ...
The 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 ...
The Research Center Archives houses hundreds of letters to and from Georgia O'Keeffe. The bulk of the letters were written by Georgia O'Keeffe and addressed to Alfred Stieglitz, Maria Chabot or Claudia O'Keeffe. This is a growing collection and additional materials will be made ...
As of December 2009, the collection includes almost 3,000 works. Foremost among those items are over 1,000 works by O'Keeffe herself, comprising the largest repository of her work available to the public in a single institution. Subjects range from the artist's iconic flowers and ...
The Georgia O'Keeffe Personal Tangible Property Archive consists of the artist's art materials (brushes, easels, frames, paints, pastels, etc.); found objects that became subjects in works--(bones, rocks, shells); clothing and household furnishings.
The Photograph Collection contains photographs from both the Museum and Research Center archival collections. The bulk of the collection includes photographs by known and anonymous photographers of Georgia O'Keeffe from childhood to old age, her New Mexico properties, her friends ...
The personal collection of Gerrit Smith himself, the Gerrit Smith Papers at Syracuse University, contain a significant volume of his collected works, publications by others on important themes of the day, and a large body of correspondence. Among the correspondents are Frederick ...
Getting the Message Out! National Political Campaign Materials, 1840-1860 presents an examination of national popular political culture in antebellum America. It includes histories of the presidential campaigns from 1840-1860, as well as primary source material, such as campaign ...
Our collection is a gathering of historic maps of Gila County dating back over 100 years. Some of these maps include historic places, names and marking of the Territory of Arizona.
Gilded Age Plains City: The Great Sheedy Murder Trial and the Booster Ethos of Lincoln, Nebraska explores the development of towns and cities on the Great Plains through the lens of a murder case in the 1890s that evolved into a fascinating story that drew the attention of nearly ...
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 ...
The William A. Gladstone Collection of African American Photographs provides almost 350 images showing African Americans and related military and social history. The Civil War era is the primary time period covered, with scattered examples through 1945. Most of the images are ...
The Glencoe Historical and Architectural Survey was commissioned in 1985 by the Glencoe Historical Society to identify Glencoe’s significant homes and structures. It was done by architectural historian Susan Benjamin of Highland Park, Illinois. Three hundred homes and structures ...
Since its inception the Library Media Center (LMC) has been charged with the college's internal production needs entailing still, moving images, and audio recordings. The production of this material was required in order to support the institution's instructional program; cover ...
In 1937 a $6,000 bond issue and a Public Works Administration grant from the government enabled the city to construct a $12,000 library building in 1938. The 2,200 sq. ft. building would serve a population of 3,500. The Spanish-style mission library was located in the center of ...
Photographs of the Glenview Public Library.
The General Land Office (GLO) surveys, ca. 1832-1859, are manuscript maps of Iowa townships, providing a detailed record of the landscape in its earliest stages of transformation by Euro-American settlement. The maps include such features as Native American villages and fields; ...
This collection contains over 400 pamphlets from the Federal Security Agency and Health, Education and Welfare programs discussing a wide variety of subjects. These pamphlets, ranging in dates from the 1930s-1970s, can also be found in the online catalog. Government information ...
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 ...
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.
The celebration of the Graham Hospital School of Nursing’s 100th anniversary provided the impetus to begin a two-fold project documenting the history of the School through words and images. Images from the Past includes a digital collection of photographs and scanned documents ...
The City of Stevensville rests on the shores of Lake Michigan. One of its unique natural areas is the Grand Mere Dunes area. Although the dunes now make up a state park, in 1960 the area was the site of sand mining. Industry attempts to remove all the sand from the dunes and fill ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Great Basin Museum collection contains an assortment of historical photographs that depict historical events in infrastructure development in the Great Basin Area.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
The Historical Records search involved close collaboration between Greenville County Government and the Greenville County Library System. The Digital Collection is a gateway to historical records consisting of Deeds, Probate Estate Papers, and District Court Records. It is our ...
This collection contains documents, postcards, and photographs from the Greenville Woman's College of Greenville, South Carolina.
This photograph collection is a small portion of USC Aiken's historical Gregg-Graniteville Archive of documents and memorabilia of the Graniteville Company, a major Southern textile manufacturing firm founded in 1845 by William Gregg. The archive represents the only collection in ...
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 ...
This digital collection is a selection of photographs related to one of the pioneer wholesale and retail mercantile companies in the Southwest -- Gross, Kelly and Company -- and its predecessor firms. The bulk of the images were made between 1902 and 1954. Photos show buildings ...
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 ...
What happened in Baltimore with Mencken is truly a remarkable story. This man who never went to school beyond the age of fifteen years and nine months taught himself to write and became one of the most distinguished stylists in prose nonfiction in the history of American letters ...
City Directories prove to be an excellent source for researching individual and family history. They fill the void over the ten years Excerpts from Hagerstown City Directory between United States censuses ...
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 ...
The papers of the author, educator, and political philosopher Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) are one of the principal sources for the study of modern intellectual life. Located in the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress, they constitute a large and diverse 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 ...
This collection of 113 photographs, also available through the original photo album, represents Harbison Agricultural College, which began in 1885 when the Rev. Emory W. Williams of Washington, D.C. founded a school to educate young African Americans. In 1899, Samuel Harbison of ...
Over 20,000 immigrants are currently being detained by the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Hard Place, a new web art by Lauren Gill and Jenny Polak project allows visitors to enter INS detention centers and see the conditions that detainees face every day.
The 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 ...
The goal of the Harford County Public Library's Living Treasures Oral History Project is to preserve for future generations firsthand accounts of what life in Harford County has been like for previous generations ...
Illustrations from Harpers Weekly Journal of Civilization and Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper.
The Harris & Ewing Collection of photographic negatives includes glass and film negatives taken by Harris & Ewing, Inc., which photographed people, events, and architecture, particularly in Washington, D.C., during the period 1905-1945. Harris & Ewing, Inc., gave its collection ...
The photographs in this collection relate to Atlanta author Medora Field Perkerson. The earliest images, a photograph from 1924, shows Ms. Perkerson seated in the center with other members of the Atlanta Journal Sunday Magazine, including Margaret Mitchell. Other photographs ...
Fred Harvey saw a need for better food and service along the rails and in 1876 pioneered a chain of restaurants and inns known as Harvey Houses from Chicago to San Francisco. Experience soon demonstrated that women made better servers, and the "Harvey Girls" were borne ...
Hawaii War Records Depository is a collection of materials dealing with World War II as it affected Hawaii and its residents. It was created in 1943, during the first territorial legislature to meet after the Army declared martial law in the islands on 7 Dec. 1941. The Hawai'i ...
Images of Hawaiian language newspapers published from 1834 to 1948. Includes stories, chants, photographs, advertisements, political notices, letters to the editor. Documents a unique period in history and presents the Hawaiian view of events, genealogy and culture.
HEARTH is a core electronic collection of books and journals in Home Economics and related disciplines. Titles published between 1850 and 1950 were selected and ranked by teams of scholars for their great historical importance. It includes all aspects of historical home economics ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
This digital collection of Henry A. Wallace (1888-1965) Papers is currently in production. It includes images and a collection index, but will eventually grow to include more than 67,000 pieces of correspondence (letters, telegrams, and postcards), appointment books, and ...
Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village's clothing and personal effects collection is recognized by the National Endowment for the Humanities as one of national significance. It contains over 10,000 items and ranges in date from l750 to the present day. The collection includes ...
This collection includes paintings by Henry Sugimoto, a Japanese American artist who flourished in the 1930s and continued to paint well into the 1990s.
This collection of over 400 historical photographs was donated by the Herald-Journal in 1999. Most of the photographs were taken by Alfred Tennyson Willis, a Spartanburg commercial photographer, and date from the early 1900s to the 1940s. Alfred's son Robert Henry (Bob) Willis, ...
Included in this collection are images of Atlanta landmarks and neighborhoods, social and civic events, and images depicting transportation in Atlanta and throughout the state of Georgia. The collection contains images of downtown Atlanta, including aerial views, government ...
Herbert Turner Jenkins (1907 –1990) was born in Lithonia Georgia and became an Atlanta police officer at the age of 24. In 1947, Mayor William B. Hartsfield appointed him chief of police, a position he held until 1972. During the 1960s, Jenkins worked with Mayor Ivan Allen, Jr ...
Herbert L. Block (1909-2001), known to the world as Herblock, was one of the most influential political commentators and editorial cartoonists in American history. His long chronicle of major social and political events began to appear in newspapers in 1929, and he continued to ...
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 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, ...
The Heyward and Ferguson family papers consist of over 1400 pages of family and business correspondence, plantation records, slave lists, military and legal documents and Civil War letters of the Heyward and Ferguson families on the Combahee, Savannah and the Cooper Rivers in the ...
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 ...
Photos and items from Highland Park, Illinois around the turn of the 20th century.
Highlights of the Catholic Diocese of Tucson includes documents and letters from the time of Bishop Salpointe, from the late 1860's to the mid 1880's. Most of the documents are written by or addressed to Bishop Salpointe himself. The collection also includes the first baptismal ...
Sixty-three oil paintings painted by Hisako Hibi at Tanforan Assembly Center in California and Topaz concentration camp in Utah from 1942 to 1945. Subjects include various daily activities, still lifes, and landscapes.
Hispano Music and Culture of the Northern Rio Grande: The Juan B. Rael Collection is an online presentation of a multi-format ethnographic field collection documenting religious and secular music of Spanish-speaking residents of rural Northern New Mexico and Southern Colorado. In ...
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 ...
The Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) and the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) collections are among the largest and most heavily used in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress. Since 2000, documentation from the Historic American ...
The Historic American Sheet Music collection presents 3,042 pieces of sheet music drawn from the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University, which holds an important, representative, and comprehensive collection of nineteenth and early twentieth ...
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 ...
This collection of historic Arizona county maps includes maps of each Arizona county, dating from the mid 1880s to the late 1920s. Most of the maps were produced by the County Engineer or County Surveyor and published by the county Board of Supervisors. Some of the maps appear to ...
Historic photographs of Champaign County from the collections of the Urbana Free Library.
Various booklets and albums held by the archives of the Historic Charleston Foundation, an organization founded in 1947 to protect the buildings and cultural resources of Charleston. Their collections primarily focus on the Lowcountry's historic places and architecture. The ...
One of the first fund-raising programs developed by Historic Charleston Foundation after its incorporation in 1947 was its annual spring tours of historic houses, during which trained "hostesses" would guide visitors through several private homes in Charleston’s historic district ...
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 ...
This collection seeks to connect Iowa's youth with state history by showing them how young settlers 150 years ago recorded their lives through diary writing. Led by the staff of the Old Capitol Museum on the University of Iowa Pentacrest, it contains a sampling of diary entries ...
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 ...
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, ...
The Historic Pittsburgh Image Collections website contains over 8,000 visual images of the Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania region selected from dozens of photographic collections held by three cultural heritage institutions in Pittsburgh. The image collections visually ...
Historic photographs of Quincy, Illinois.
This collection creates a snapshot of the music Eastern Iowans played and sang in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Much of the music was originally housed at the Cedar Rapids Public Library and then dispersed to area colleges and universities upon its withdrawal ...
This collection contains photographs, both old and new, of historically significant people and places of Greenville County, South Carolina. The original materials can be found in the Greenville County Library System's South Carolina Room.
Of the over 2500 audio items in the Vietnam Archive's collections, 1600 are available online in digital format. The originals encompass a variety of formats such as reel-to-reel and LP, and have a wide range of topics, including: audio letters; combat recordings; armed forces ...
The Historical Maps Online digital collection contains images of maps charting the last 400 years of historical development in Illinois and the Northwest Territory, as well as topographic maps of Illinois. Designed to appeal both to map aficionados and to educational institutions ...
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. 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
BYU Idaho's archive of their student newspaper from 1933 to 1972.
Some of the places shown in the "Historical Sites of Greenville County" are currently in deteriorating condition or have been razed. One of the missions of this project is capture those historical sites while still in existence and to advocate their preservation or restoration. ...
These forty South Carolina soil survey maps from the early Nineteen Hundreds were prepared with booklets to explain the soil classifications on the county level. They include information that do not appear on updated survey maps, such as old rail lines, schools, churches and ...
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 ...
Digitized copies of two histories of Park Ridge.
The project provides images of the available resources in Ponce's Autonomous Historical Archive and Museum of History. These materials respond to the History Course syllabus offered at Inter American University of Puerto Rico, and the history courses in the secondary schools of ...
The "History of Sedona" is a collection of historic images presented as a series of sub-collections divided by historical theme or context. Lacking a newspaper before the 1960s and a city government before 1988, these photographs come from private collections of area pioneer ...
This sub-collection of the "History of Sedona" illustrates the Sedona area's agricultural heritage from the subsistence farmers and homesteaders who established elaborate irrigation systems to divert Oak Creek's water through the rise and fall of a commercial orchard industry.
This sub-collection of the "History of Sedona" chronicles the first eight families who arrived along Oak Creek between 1876 and 1900 and whose descendants continued to live and contribute in the area through at least a second generation.
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.
Over 30,000 photographs, drawn from the holdings of the Western History and Genealogy Department at Denver Public Library, illuminate many aspects of the history of the American West. Most of the photographs were taken between 1860 and 1920. They illustrate Colorado towns and ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
95 plat books, published by W.W. Hixson & Co. in 1930, showing land ownership maps for townships in Iowa counties. The maps include some topographic information.
This multimedia web site is part of an 18-month project to catalog, digitize, and preserve every item in Indiana University's extensive collections pertaining to the life and career of master songwriter Hoagland "Hoagy" Carmichael (1899-1981).
Pueblo Grande was a major Hohokam village on the north bank of the Salt River in what is now Phoenix, Arizona. Pueblo Grande was occupied for 1000 years, from about AD 500 - 1450. In addition to dwellings, it contained public architecture, such as the platform mound, a stone ...
These haunting images from the Jewish Heritage Collection at the College of Charleston tell the personal stories of survivors and one liberator who witnessed the horrors of the Holocaust.
This collection features a portion of the more than 15,000 color slides taken by former deputy director for the U.S. Department of State Homer L. Calkin (1912-1995). Images taken from 1948 to 1983 by this distinguished University of Iowa alum show historic and tourist sites in ...
The Hotchkiss Map Collection contains cartographic items made by Major Jedediah Hotchkiss (1828-1899), a topographic engineer in the Confederate Army. Hotchkiss made detailed battle maps primarily of the Shenandoah Valley, some of which were used by the Generals Robert E. Lee and ...
This collection was originally featured in "How New York Lives", an exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York in 1939. Organized by the Citizen's Housing Council of New York, the exhibition documented the streets and tenements populated by the city's poor as they struggled ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
This extensive, digitized newspaper collection dates back to 1960. You can view high resolution scans of pages from the archives of the longest running publication about Huntley, IL.
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"I Do Solemnly Swear . . .": Presidential Inaugurations is a collection of approximately 400 items or 2,000 digital files relating to inaugurations from George Washington's in 1789 to Barack Obama's inauguration of 2009. This presentation includes diaries and letters of ...
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.
The Idaho Digital Publications (IDP) project is intended to capture and provide a central repository for state government publications in digital format.
A collection of full-text paper and digital resources from Idaho Government Publications, selectively chosen to meet the needs of secondary students.
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 ...
Experience nineteenth century Illinois history! Explore some of its people, places, and a rich tapestry of events and characters.
During the nineteenth century Illinois underwent an incredible transformation as it developed from a sparsely settled frontier region into a dynamic, prosperous, rural-urban state that exerted national leadership in a variety of fields. Illinois Alive! The Heritage and Texture of ...
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.
The Illinois Blue Book is one of the most comprehensive sources of state government information. It is a nationally recognized source for information about Illinois' executive, judicial and legislative branches of government. Originating in 1861 as a privately published roster of ...
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 ...
IDA (Illinois Digitial Archives) is really two services under one roof. The first of these services is a search engine for images, sound files, and other multi-media events that exist on Internet sites throughout Illinois. The search engine indexes images, etc., describing the ...
The Illinois Digital Newspaper Collection (IDNC) is a project of the History, Philosophy and Newspaper Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The IDNC is a repository of digital facsimiles of historic Illinois newspapers. Using digital imaging technology, we ...
IFLODD, the Illinois Firefighter Line of Duty Deaths Digital Image Collection Database, documents the ultimate sacrifice of more than 800 Illinois firefighters over the past 150 years.
The Illinois Government Information search engine is a joint project of the Illinois State Library and the University of Illinois, providing search capabilities across the state government websites of Illinois. These facilities were designed, implemented, and are operated by the ...
Statewide aerial photographs were first acquired for Illinois from 1936 through 1941. This historical collection consists of more than 33,000 photographic paper prints. The original silver nitrate film negatives were destroyed by the National Archives in the 1980s due to ...
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 ...
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 ...
The first Illinois State Fair opened on October 11, 1853 with an admission of 25 cents. The attractions included cattle, horses, and sheep venues, among displays of reapers, mowers, farming tools, and a variety of corn planters. On the third day, over 15,000 people attended. The ...
This collection includes digitized books in numerous subject areas, some of which contain searchable full-text.
Illinois State University History is a growing collection that currently includes campus history books, proceedings of the first university governing board, photographs, campus history videos, and presidential letters. Support for this collection is provided by The Friends of ...
Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White initiated the Illinois Veterans' History Project to create a permanent record of the names and stories of Illinois war veterans and civilians who served our state and country during war, so that their contributions will not be forgotten. To ...
A collection of historical photographs of Toledo and Northwest Ohio.
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 ...
Historic images of Lorain, Ohio
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 ...
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 ...
Historic images of New Straitsville, Ohio.
Images of North Carolina features photos and postcards depicting North Carolina people and places from the late 19th century to the present.
The Images collection consists of photographs of bishops and priests who served Catholics of Arizona from as early as the 1860s. Most of the earliest priests and bishops came from France through the recruitment of Archbishop Salpointe and Archbishop Lamy, of Santa Fe. The ...
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 ...
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, 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.; ...
This digital collection contains correspondence and documents relating to Indian affairs in New Mexico, during the Territorial Period. Most of the materials either originated in Santa Fe, or were sent to Santa Fe from Pueblos including Laguna, Cochiti, Isleta, Zia, Santa Ana, ...
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 ...
Images of the Indian Peoples of the Northern Great Plains is a searchable online photograph database. The Project strives to broaden access to new constituencies by providing students, researchers, and the general public with direct access to important primary source material on ...
Indiana Memory, the Indiana digital library, is a collaboration of Indiana libraries, museums, archives, and related cultural organizations to enable access to Indiana's unique cultural and historical heritage through a variety of digital formats and free distribution over the ...
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 ...
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 ...
This wiki contains Inland Riverboat photographs scanned from the rare books collection of The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County.
The Westinghouse Works Collection contains 21 actuality films showing various views of Westinghouse companies. Most prominently featured are the Westinghouse Air Brake Company, the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, and the Westinghouse Machine Company. The films ...
This digital collection documents history of the Institute of American Indian Arts, its students, alumni and faculty, and the important developments that IAIA has had on the Native American Fine Art Movement since the Institute opened in 1962.
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 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 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 ...
The International Quilt Study Center & Museum at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is the home of the largest publicly-held quilt collection in the world. The quilts range from outstanding early examples of American quilts to contemporary and international quilts. The ...
A historical records survey known as the Inventory of Church Archives was completed by W.P.A. workers between 1937 and 1939. Inventory of Church Archives survey sheets are available for forty-two of South Carolina’s forty-six counties. Surveys for Chester, Edgefield, Fairfield, ...
Over 2,000 aerial photomosaic index sheets of Iowa. The index images correspond to detailed aerial photographs held in the Maps Collection of The University of Iowa Libraries.
Founded in 1982, The Iowa City Foreign Relations Council (ICFRC) is a non-profit association interested in learning more about U.S. foreign policy, world affairs, and current global issues impacting society. The Council provides opportunities to hear dozens of experts each year ...
This collection features work by two photographers who documented The University of Iowa and the surrounding community for over a century. The work of Samuel Calvin (1840-1911), a professor in natural sciences, and Frederick Wallace Kent (1894-1984), a lecturer in photography, ...
The Iowa Journalists Oral History Project is the world's first video-streaming online repository of interviews with American journalists. The Project chose to interview Iowa reporters, editors, photographers and publishers at small, medium and large Iowa newspapers.
County atlases from the late 1800s and early 1900s are currently being digitized from the collections of the University of Iowa Libraries Map Collection and The State Historical Society Library, Iowa City. Nearly all of Iowa's 99 counties are available in the digital collection, ...
This digital collection includes photographs and scrapbooks featuring news clippings, newsletters, and correspondence formerly owned by Iowa natives Louise Noun and Mary Louise Smith. Noun was a social activist, art collector, and author of several books on women's history. Smith ...
The Irish Volunteers, organized in Charleston, South Carolina about 1798, included many prominent members of the Hibernian Society who served as officers. Originally part of the 28th Regiment of the South Carolina Militia, the Irish Volunteers Company was first on active service ...
The career of Irving Fine (1914-1962), composer, conductor, writer, and academic, is documented in the Library of Congress Music Division by approximately 4,350 items from the Irving Fine Collection. Comprising manuscript and printed music, sketchbooks, writings, personal and ...
Irving Weber began writing articles on the history of the city in 1973 for the Iowa City Press Citizen. These articles collectively became the 8 volumes known as "Irving Weber's Iowa City." Part recollection, part research each article conveys a part of the city's story from its ...
Rosenberg, recognized as the first significant Jewish poet in English literature, was one of the major poets whose life was cut short by the Great War, and the only one who served in the ranks. This online collection includes six items, including one of only three known copies of ...
Newman was a Methodist pastor, civil rights activist, and entrepreneur. A leading figure in the Civil Rights movement in South Carolina, he helped organize the Orangeburg branch of the NAACP in 1943, helped found the Progressive Democratic Party, and served the South Carolina ...
Island Lake Property Owner's Association Newsletter
Photographs of the Itasca Fire Department.
Historic photographs of Itasca, Illinois.
Photographs of Itasca, Illinois.
Photographs of the Itasca Depot Museum.
J.J. Allen was a professional photographer from Hapeville, Georgia. He began his career as a photographer in the early 1950’s and has specialized in commercial and advertising photography as well as portraiture. Since the 1990’s, Allen has operated a studio and published two how- ...
The J. Marion Sims Letters, 1858-59 and 1880-1881, consist of four original letters from J. Marion Sims to Gen. Waddy Thompson of Greenville, South Carolina (1858-1859); to O.B. Mayer (1880); and Tom Taylor (1881). His letters refer to patients suffering with fibrous tumors of ...
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 Etheridge was a Senior Judge in the Superior Court of the Atlanta Judicial Circuit. This collection is comprised of images of the construction of a section of highway that merges Interstate 75 and Interstate 85, known as the downtown connector. Included are aerial ...
This collection consists of 166 photographs and copy negatives of photographs taken at Manazanar and Tule Lake concentration camps between 1942 and 1945. Subjects include scenes of daily life, group portraits, and landscapes.
John J. ("Jack") Keilen (d. 1999) was a native of Pittsburgh and received a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. He came to Charleston during the mid-1940s, working first for West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company and later Charleston Rubber Company. An ...
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 ...
Danish-born Jacob Riis (1849-1914) was a journalist, social reformer, and social documentary photographer. He is best known for his 1890 book How the Other Half Lives, which brought public attention to New York's squalid housing, sweatshops, bars, and alleys. The Museum holds the ...
The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Archives houses the entire, extensive collection of scientific and personal materials of CSHL leader, Nobelist James Watson (CSHL Director 1968-94, CSHL President 1994-2003, CSHL Chancellor 2003-2007, CSHL Chancellor Emeritus 2007-present). In ...
James F. Byrnes (May 2, 1879 - April 9, 1972) was a U.S. Congressman, U.S. Senator, Supreme Court Justice, Secretary of State, and Governor of South Carolina. During World War II Byrnes was nicknamed the "Assistant President" because of the power he wielded over the war effort in ...
This collection contains diaries of James Kershaw, 1791-1825, with meteorological observations, recipes, and home remedies, including advice for treatment of pimples, boils, baldness, and unwanted hair. The papers record observations, 17 September 1811, of a solar eclipse, ...
The James Madison Papers from the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress consist of approximately 12,000 items captured in some 72,000 digital images. They document the life of the man who came to be known as the "Father of the Constitution" through correspondence, ...
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 ...
James W. Bollinger was a lawyer and judge from Davenport, Iowa. As a child, Bollinger received a book from his mother about Lincoln's mother, Nancy Hanks. This book sparked his interest in Lincoln and resulted in a lifetime of collecting books, journals, and many types of ...
Janesville, located in southern Wisconsin near the Illinois border, was settled in 1835, making it one of the earliest communities in the state. In 2005, it was Wisconsin's 11th largest city and one of the fastest growing in the 1990s. Its 2000 population was 60,200. Thirty-nine ...
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 ...
Jessie Tarbox Beals (1870-1942) is widely considered to be the world's first female photojournalist. Born in 1870 in Ontario, Canada, she was hired by the Buffalo Inquirer in 1902 and, in 1905, moved to New York City and set up a portrait studio and took freelance work. The ...
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 ...
Postcards from Dayton Ohio, including postcards of the 1913 flood.
Josephine “Jo Beth” Cornelia Elizibeth Apperson (1909 - ) was the daughter of Mr. Lawrence Apperson and Mrs Caroline Middlebrooks of Atlanta. She is of the tenth generation of the Middlebrooks family (who founded the Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia). Her maternal grandfather ...
The Catholic Shrine of the Immaculate Conception is the oldest Catholic Church in Atlanta, Georgia. A founding date for the parish (originally called “The Catholic Church”) has not been determined. The original structure was built on the corner of Lloyd Street and Hunter Street ...
Joe McTyre worked as a photojournalist at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and for other newspapers in Atlanta and Marietta, Georgia. The collection is comprised of images taken by McTyre, and other Atlanta photojournalists. The photographs include images of prominent ...
John Albok (1896-1982) emigrated from his native Hungary in 1921 and opened a tailor shop on Madison Avenue, between 96th and 97th Streets, which he also used as a location for his pursuit of photography. His first solo exhibition was staged at the Museum of the City of New York ...
John B. Jervis (1795-1885) was America's leading consulting engineer of the antebellum era (1820 - 1860). Jervis was a pioneer in the development of canals and railroads for the expanding United States. He designed and supervised the construction of five of America's earliest ...
To commemorate the 140th anniversary of the hanging of John Brown in Charles Town, West Virginia, the West Virginia State Archives placed online a new electronic database of materials pertaining to Brown from the Boyd B. Stutler Collection. A recognized authority on the man, Boyd ...
The 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 ...
The photographs in this collection depict the Roxy Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia, which was opened in 1926 by R.E. Hall & Company on 210 Peachtree Street. Included are images of the first anniversary program edition of 1927, interior photographs of the pipe organ chamber, balcony, ...
All recordings in this collection were made by John Donald Robb, former UNM Dean of Fine Arts. The music in this collection, recorded in the 1940s and 50s, is representative of Southwestern Music, much of it folk music and Hispanic folk music. Songs are performed by diverse ...
Artist Naturalist is how Dick described himself in his autobiographical book entitled Other Edens (1979). He established a reputation as one of the leading bird painters in the United States when he illustrated the Warblers of America (edited by Ludlow Griscom and Alexander ...
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 ...
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 Calhoun "Cal" Moak (1920-1961), was the son of Mr. & Mrs. C. Calhoun Moak of Columbia, S.C. He received his wings and ratings as a flight officer on August 30, 1943 at Lubbock, Texas. His diary begins August 30, 1943 and runs through July 18, 1944. In his diary, he talks ...
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 ...
53 images. Includes a genealogy, articles, letters and photographs, newspaper clippings on the life and work of John R. Schorb, one of America's first photographers. Of particular interest are his poems and compositions, which give insight into his personal philosophy and ...
The series of photograph albums document the time that John Shaw Billings (1898-1975) and his extended family spent at the Redcliffe plantation in Aiken County, South Carolina. Known for his position as the first managing editor of Life Magazine, Billings purchased Redcliffe in ...
In 1810, the Reverend John W. Browne was appointed as a missionary to solicit and receive donations for Miami University. Receiving $50 a month and expenses along the way, Browne traveled East on horseback, collecting approximately $2,500 and accepting books for the institution. ...
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 ...
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 ...
José Guadalupe Posada (1852-1913)was an illustrator, engraver, and etcher. His popularity began in the years following the Mexican Revolution, and he is now considered one of Mexico's greatest printmakers. Posada produced more than 15,000 engravings, devoted to expressing ...
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 ...
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 Carl Fisch (1907-1966) ran a bakery by profession, but was an avid photographer. The collection contains photographs of Atlanta, Georgia, including federal and state buildings, retail stores and businesses, streets, expressways, churches, hospitals, colleges and residences ...
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 ...
The 3287 photographs, 207 negatives, 638 slides and including 4 panoramic photographs available online from the Joseph E. Winter (1920-1992) Collection reflect the career of Joseph E. Winter, housing inspector (1955-1965) and director (1965-1980) of the Columbia Rehabilitation ...
Encompassing nearly two centuries of impressive achievement, Joslyn's American collection includes excellent examples of Colonial art, both Spanish and British, in particular two early American portraits by James Peale and Mather Brown. The 19th-century Hudson River School, ...
The Museum's collection of American Indian art features historic and contemporary examples of painting, sculpture, drawings, prints, and decorated objects by the native peoples of North America.
Joslyn Art Museum is noted especially for its collection of art of the American West and is world-renowned for its collection of works by the Swiss artist Karl Bodmer, whose watercolors and prints document his 1832-34 journey to the Missouri River frontier with the German ...
From 1803-1806, in an exciting journey to the Pacific Ocean and back, Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery mapped the lands, described the natural wonders, and encountered the people of western North America. But, as Walter Kim wrote in Time, "If not for the. . . epic the ...
The Journals, Diaries and Travelogues collection brings together an extensive array of unique writings. Among the highlights are a "Diary of a Voyage to China, 1850-1851" by Captain Thomas Small, writings by plantation owner Elizabeth Allston Pringle, a legal "Book of Precedents ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Kaminski House Collection features images taken by Harold and Julia Kaminski of their Georgetown and Pawleys Island homes, their travels around the world and their friends and family. Harold Kaminski (1886-1953), was the son of Heiman and Rose Kaminski of Georgetown. He ...
This collection contains photographs by Karl Kernberger documenting political movements, meetings, and demonstrations between 1965-1970. These include a convention of La Alianza Federal de las Mercedes (later named La Alianza Federal de Pueblos Libres) in Albuquerque, NM (1967), ...
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 ...
Many of the over 700 photographs by Kenneth Frederick Marsh (d. 1968) available in this collection have not been published. Some were used to illustrate books by photographer Marsh and his wife, Blanche Marsh. The photographs and negatives depict historic and modern homes, public ...
Kenneth Rogers was a photographer for the Atlanta Constitution from 1923-1972. Rogers covered important news events in Atlanta and Georgia, and captured scenes from the Georgia countryside. The Kenneth Rogers photograph collection is comprised of images Rogers took as head of ...
Yearbooks from the Kewanee and Wethersfield High Schools.
These lantern slides were produced for classroom use by the highly successful Education Department of the Keystone View Company. The slides cover a wide range of subject matter including scenes of industry, places of architectural or historical significance and places of natural ...
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 ...
This selection of almost 800 photographs by Balthazar Korab (b. 1926) documents 19 projects designed by renowned architect Eero Saarinen (1910-1961). Included are corporate headquarters, airports, university facilities, embassies, private residences, churches, a museum, and a ...
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 ...
Welcome to La Crosse History Unbound. Learn more about La Crosse County history through these digitized collections from La Crosse Public Library and Murphy Library, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
Historic documents, images, and artifacts from Lake County, Illinois
The late local historian Charles E. Frohman of Sandusky, Ohio, collected more than 14,000 historic photographs documenting Lake Erie's Western Basin, its shoreline communities,and the Erie Islands. The collection includes images that date from before the Civil War and span nearly ...
Historic photographs and documents from the Archives of Lake Forest Academy.
Selected Lake Forest places of architectural significance are represented in this collection of photos, postcards, articles, and reports.
The online presentation of the Lamb Studios Archive offers images of nearly 2,500 design sketches for stained glass windows, murals, mosaics, furnishings, metalwork, and interior architecture. The drawings feature striking watercolors created from the 1860s to the 1990s, ...
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 ...
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 ...
The twenty-eight films of this collection are actuality motion pictures from the Paper Print Collection of the Library of Congress. They include footage of President William McKinley at his second inauguration; of the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York; of President ...
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 ...
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 ...
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" contains the full text of 260 League of Nations documents. The League existed from 1919 to 1946. Although Russia and the United States refused to join, its members included countries from Africa, Asia, Europe and North and ...
Robert Moses Grove, known in baseball circles as Lefty Grove, was born in Lonaconing, Allegany County, Maryland in 1900. He pitched for the Baltimore Orioles, the Philadelphia Athletics and the Boston Red Sox. Grove won the first Most Valuable Player trophy awarded to an American ...
The 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 ...
The composer, conductor, writer, and teacher Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) was one of 20th-century America's most important musical figures. The Leonard Bernstein Collection is one of the largest and most varied of the many special collections held by the Library of Congress ...
The majority of this collection is comprised of images of Lester Maddox during his tenure as governor, and lieutenant governor of Georgia. Also included are campaign events during his run for mayor of Atlanta, and governor and lieutenant governor of Georgia. Most of the campaign ...
John A. Henneman mailed this letter from Spartanburg to his cousin Balser Weber in Centre County, Pennsylvania on February 26, 1861. He was expecting that Fort Sumter would soon be bombarded. Henneman served in the Civil War as second lieutenant in Co. E, Holcombe Legion. He was ...
Levi O. Leonard (1854-1942) was a historian, journalist and long-time employee of the Union Pacific and the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroads. He co-authored, with Jack T. Johnson, A Railroad to the Sea (Iowa City: Midland House, 1939) about the building of the Union ...
Enjoy selected items from the archives of the Libertyville-Mundelein Historical Society, including postcards and photographs of early Libertyville, telephone books, wedding dresses, and mail order houses.
This collection contains forty-five films of New York dating from 1898 to 1906 from the Paper Print Collection of the Library of Congress. Of these, twenty-five were made by the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, while the remaining twenty are Edison Company productions.
More than 700 ambrotype and tintype photographs highlight both Union and Confederate soldiers during the American Civil War (1861-1865). The Liljenquist Family sought out striking images, especially young enlisted men. The photographs often show weapons, hats, canteens, musical ...
Abraham Lincoln documents in the Illinois State Archives
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 ...
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.
Yearbooks of Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Missouri from 1915-1975. Lincoln University was previously named Lincoln Institute from 1866-1930.
Historic artifacts and photographs from the Lincolnwood Public Library's archives.
This database contains about 500 scanned images from the Schuelke and Wolcott collections ...
The Living Museum has for decades been a rich source of information on Illinois art, natural history, anthropology, and history. This online project does not replace the print version of The Living Museum but makes this popular educational resource also accessible electronically ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
The Look Magazine Photograph Collection is a vast photographic archive created to illustrate Look magazine and related publications produced by companies founded by Gardner Cowles. The cataloged portion of the collection totals some four million published and unpublished images ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 will give educators ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
A collection of select regional Louisiana newspapers from the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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 ...
The Louisiana Purchase in 1803 stands as the most significant event in the westward expansion of the United States and as an experiment to incorporate a substantially different culture. This LSU Libraries' Special Collections digital project emphasizes the diverse history of that ...
The 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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Louisiana State Museum's cartographic holdings, comprised of original works as well as photographic and facsimile reproductions, are dated 1525 to the present.
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 ...
The Louisiana State Museum Digital Library Jazz collection is composed of photographs, audio recordings and musical instruments from the collections of the Louisiana State Museum. Primarily dealing with traditional New Orleans jazz, the collections focus on photographs (including ...
The 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Louisiana Purchase is a landmark event in American history, one that had a lasting impact not only on the size of the United States, but also on its economic, cultural, and political makeup. Before President Thomas Jefferson's administration purchased the territory in 1803, ...
This collection includes an illustrated pamphlet that gives a brief history of the Dock Street Theatre in Charleston, South Carolina and provides rich physical details about the building, including photographs, floor plans and cross sections. Another pamphlet highlights some of ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Mackle Construction Company was founded by Frank E. Mackle, Sr. in Jacksonville, Florida in 1908. The company was a leading builder of residential and commercial property in the southeast. This collection contains images of residential, commercial, and governmental property ...
The creation of this collection serves to preserve and give access to a wealth of information about Madison County history. It contains numerous atlases, cemetery records, indexes, and other documents pertinent to the history of Madison County.
The Maine Memory Network is a statewide database of electronic versions of Maine's Historical Documents, contributed by cultural institutions from around the state, from their own locations.
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 ...
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 (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 (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 ...
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 ...
Digitized issues of the Manchester Enterprise from 1867 through 1892.
Explore the history of Manitowoc and the surrounding communities through a wide selection of images, historical texts, and maps and plat books that date back to the mid 19th century. Whether for historical or genealogical research, school assignments, or business or civic ...
Manning, Selvage & Lee/Atlanta (formerly Bell and Stanton) is a public relations firm in Atlanta, Georgia, and operates as a division of Manning, Selvage & Lee, Inc. The company’s first client was the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce which by 1968 had launched the third phase of its ...
The Center for Southwest Research manuscript collections, of which a small portion is available in this online collection, provide primary source materials emphasizing the political and social history of New Mexico, and to a lesser extent, the Southwest and Mexico. Materials, ...
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 ...
The Map Collection contains over 1500 maps on Vietnam, Indochina, Southeast Asia. A majority of the maps in this collection come from the Army Map Service with the remainder from such public sources as National Geographic. All non-copyrighted maps are available online in ...
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, ...
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 ...
The Maple Valley Historical Society, a volunteer-run organization founded in 1972, collects and houses writings and materials that will record, preserve, and illustrate the natural features, as well as the development, of Hobart, Ravensdale, Maple Valley and the surrounding areas ...
Due to land disputes with neighboring states the original boundaries of Maryland set forth in the charter are a bit different from her present day boundaries, particularly as pertains to the Eastern Shore area. The northernmost boundary started at the fortieth parallel, or forty ...
The Mapping the National Parks collection documents the history, cultural aspects and geological formations of areas that eventually became National Parks. The collection consists of approximately 200 maps dating from the 17th century to the present, reflecting early mapping of ...
This group of material includes maps and atlases of La Crosse County of a variety of types, including plat (rural land ownership), highway, soil, topographic; city of La Crosse (Wisconsin) including zoning, parks, and street; other La Crosse County municipalities; and ...
This collection of Liberia maps includes twenty examples from the American Colonization Society (ACS), organized in 1817 to resettle free black Americans in West Africa. These maps show early settlements in Liberia, indigenous political subdivisions, and some of the building lots ...
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 ...
Marguerite Andell was born on November 6, 1884 on John's Island. Ms. Andell was a graduate of Roper Hospital's School of Nursing in 1914, and was elected Superintendent of Nurses in 1924, a position in which she proposed ideas that were ahead of her time. She retired in 1948 ...
The Connell Collection of Historic Maricopa Pottery consists of pots that were collected by Eliza Ann Connell and her daughter, Caroline, between 1895 and 1907, in Phoenix. According to documents on file at both Pueblo Grande Museum and the Arizona State Museum, Burridge D. ...
Marion Johnson (1917 - 1998) was born in Geneva, Georgia and moved to Atlanta in 1936, joining his sister who worked as office secretary for the Atlanta Constitution. At her suggestion, Johnson took a job doing errands for the paper. While there, he was approached by Kenneth ...
This web site will provide a fully searchable and indexed digital library of Samuel Clemens'Mississippi novels and reminiscences (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi). These works will serve as lenses through which the public ...
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 ...
Royal Oak, Michigan based sculptor, active 1928-1998, best known for monumental figurative sculpture, public memorials and fountains, portraits, and animal figures including the Cleveland War Memorial: Fountain of Eternal Life in the Civic Center Mall in Cleveland, Ohio; The ...
30 images. A collection of papers, letters, campaign memorabilia, and photographs spanning the years from Martha Thomas Fitzgerald's graduation from college to her death. The collection mainly consists of letters and other correspondence regarding Mrs. Fitzgerald's legislative ...
This collection of Maryland colonial and continental currency from the Maryland Department of the Central Library of the Enoch Pratt Free Library includes various denominations of Maryland paper dollar notes dating from 1767 to 1776 ...
Postcards have always been a way to send a message to friends and family. The precursors of postcards were pictures on envelopes. The first postcard, suggested by Dr. Emanuel Herrmann (1839-1902), an Austrian professor of economics, was approved by the Austro-Hungarian ...
The Historical Department of the Mason City Public Library has an impressive photographic collection of over 100,000 images, dating back to the earliest days of Mason City. The collection consists of both photographic negatives and prints. A significant part of the collection ...
Materials Towards a History of the Baptists in the Provinces of Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia was prepared as a manuscript by Morgan Edwards (1722-1795), a British-born Baptist minister and pastor in Philadelphia. This collection includes a bound ...
The G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection is a rich source of historical images of the Middle East. The majority of the images depict Palestine (present day Israel and the West Bank) from 1898 to 1946. Most of the collection consists of over 22,000 glass and film ...
31 images. The Matt Christopher Papers include 70,000 pieces and 800 bound volumes. The collection, extending from the 1910s to 2004, include most of his published and unpublished manuscripts (poems, short stories and articles, screenplays and novels) as well as his notes, ...
Maxcy Gregg's Sporting Journal (1839-1860) describes hunting and fishing expeditions, a record of game animals taken, weather conditions and Fisher's Pond. Other entries discuss a trip to the mountains (17 July - 12 August 1843), attending "the Washingtonian lecture" in Winnsboro ...
Meadow Brook Hall's clothing and accessories collection, consisting of over 500 items, is that of the home's owner, Matilda Dodge Wilson. Born in 1883 and passing away in 1967, Matilda Dodge Wilson experienced her share of fashion trends from Edwardian sheaths and oversized hats ...
The Medallion Papers is a series of 39 publications issued between 1928-1950 by the Gila Pueblo Archaeological Foundation. Gila Pueblo, as it later became known, was one of the earliest Arizona institutions doing archaeological surveying and research in the Southwest. It was ...
A collection of colorful illustrations satirizing both doctor and patient, illness and treatment. Notable artists represented in the collection include Louis Crusius, M.D., James Gillray, and Louis Boilly.
Newspaper clippings regarding local soldiers during the World War II era.
These photos represent a small portion of the collection from Herbert V. Young who was engaged as secretary to the general manager of the United Verde Copper Company mine from 1912-1955 ...
Miami University is fortunate in having a very rich documentary history, beginning with the chartering of the University in 1809. This digital collection represents only a small portion of related historical materials held on site at the University Archives and the Walter ...
From the 1920's to 1970's, the M-Book served as a pocket-sized freshman orientation manual. A companion publication, For Women Only, served female students from the 1940's to the early 1960's. The publications served as campus guidebooks and repositories of University tradition ...
Coordinated by the University Archives, Miami Stories invites groups of people with common experiences--current and former students, faculty, and staff, as well as friends of the University--to offer recollections of their Miami years and to hear reminiscences of those who shared ...
This collection provides digital access to the Miami Student from its first issue in 1867. Researchers can search the issues by keyword or browse a series of issues by decade.
Michael Harker has been a fine arts photographer since 1973. In 1993 he began a series of photographs of barns in Iowa. In the course of researching this subject he discovered that close to a thousand Iowa barns were being destroyed each year due to various causes, and he decided ...
This digital collection contains correspondence and business records relating to Michael Steck's tenure as Indian Agent for the Mescalero Apache in Southeastern New Mexico(1852-1863)and Superintendent of Indian Affairs for New Mexico (1863-1865). Steck strongly and bitterly ...
The Michael W. Lemberger Photography Collection documents the life work of the Ottumwa, Iowa, photojournalist and collector. Lemberger has been an active photojournalist and artist for more than 50 years. His interest in photography started at age 9, and by high school he was ...
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 ...
Newspaper clippings about Illinois soldiers in the American Civil War.
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.
Between 1897 and 1911 Elizabeth Smith Miller and her daughter, Anne Fitzhugh Miller, filled seven large scrapbooks with ephemera and memorabilia related to their work with women's suffrage. The Elizabeth Smith Miller and Anne Fitzhugh Miller scrapbooks are a part of the National ...
The 1825 publication of Robert Mills' Atlas of the State of South Carolina marked an American cartographic first. This volume is the first systematic atlas of any state in the union. Remarkably, too, no other state atlas of South Carolina was published for the next century and a ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Beginning in the late 1980s, Minnesota's population has been augmented by successive waves of immigration—especially from Asia and East Africa. The Minnesota Immigrant Oral Histories Online collection will make available online oral histories from collaborative projects ...
Minnesota's Original Land Survey Maps: Minnesota's original Public Land Survey plats are housed at the Office of the Secretary of State. The plats were created during the first government land survey of the state conducted by the U.S. Surveyor General's Office during the years ...
Minnesota Reflections now brings you more than 62,000 images and documents shared by more than 120 cultural heritage organizations across the state. This site offers a variety of resources on Minnesota's history for researchers, educators, students and the public. We add ...
Minor Studio operated in the Atlanta area from approximately 1939-1954. The studio was owned by David and Cecile Mino and was first located on Whitehall Street in downtown Atlanta, and later in East Point, a city located south of Atlanta. This collection contains photographs, ...
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 ...
The Mississippi Freedom Summer Project 1964 Digital Collection provides an opportunity to learn about a key initiative within the Civil Rights Movement. In 1964, organizations such as the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), National Association for the Advancement ...
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 ...
The Missouri County History project, sponsored by the Missouri State Library, has gathered county histories from all over the state. There are currently 115 volumes in this collection. Where counties are not covered specifically, there is usually some regional coverage.
The Missouri County Plat Books Collection is a selection of county atlases and plat books from all over the state published from 1875 to 1930. There are currently 141 volumes in this collection. Major publishers included in this collection are Brink McDonough & Co, (7 volumes, ...
The Missouri Digital Heritage Initiative is a collaborative effort that dramatically expands the amount of information available online about Missouri's past. Through the Missouri Digital Heritage Initiative, the Missouri State Archives and the Missouri State Library are ...
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 ...
This collection of 17th century world maps was published and printed by the Danckerts family, and was donated as a part of the Mitchell King Library. These 31 maps cover various countries in Europe, as well as the continents of Asia, Africa, and North and South America. The maps ...
American Indian art from the collections of the Mitchell Museum of the American Indian.
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 is a group of California museums working with libraries and archives to increase and enhance access to cultural collections. MOAC includes a broad range of museum and library collections.
This collection of photographs, 1890's through the 1940's, provide a snapshot of the role transportation systems and vehicles played in the development of Mohave County. Subjects presented are: horses, mules, burros, railroads, stagecoaches, freight wagons, trucks, buses, hotels ...
The Moldenhauer Archives at the Library of Congress contain approximately 3,500 items documenting the history of Western music from the medieval period through the modern era and is the richest composite gift of musical documents ever received by the Library. Before his death, ...
The "Montana Memory Project" is a collection of digital collections and items relating to Montana's cultural heritage. In part, these collections and items will document the Montana experience. Access is free and open through the Internet. Many of these items are digitized copies ...
The Montezuma Castle Historic Photo Archive collection represents the history of Montezuma Castle National Monument, from its time before National Park Service control in the late nineteenth century, through the 1960's. These images chronicle not only early interest and ...
A collection of selected newspaper clippings, photographs, and assorted ephemera highlighting the events of 1972 in Montpelier, Idaho.
The Morgan-Trenholm Collection combines the collections of William D. Morgan (1853-1938) and Alfred Glover Trenholm (1874-1952). The photographs document life in Georgetown County in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Many of the photographs in the collection come from local ...
Moriyuki Shimada was twenty-two years old when he and his family were forcibly removed from their home in Santa Clara, California to the Heart Mountain Concentration Camp in Wyoming. Shimada created a scrapbook after the war with the photographs he had taken and collected during ...
Historic photographs from the collections of the Sterling Morton Library, The Morton Arboretum.
Images of Morton Grove's World War I monument.
This collection includes items related to the history of the village of Mount Prospect and some of the surrounding area. Businesses, churches, government agencies, organizations, residents, and schools are represented by photographs, newspaper clippings, oral histories, ...
The Mount Prospect Public Library collection includes documents, photographs, and ephemera related to the history and development of the Mount Prospect Public Library from the 1930s to the present. Among these are photographs of each the building the Library has used and the ...
Since September 1857, the events of the Mountain Meadows Massacre have been recounted and interpreted by innumerable writers. From newspaper articles, to government reports, to novels, to plays, and even to films, the massacre has been represented in popular culture and public ...
Of the more than 3000 film and video items in the Vietnam Archive's holdings, over 800 are available online in digital format. These include historical footage from the Vietnam War era, such as military training films, combat footage, and personal films. The collection also ...
Welcome to the MU in Brick and Mortar project. Through this new online project, the Building and Infrastructure Archives, with the assistance of the University Archives and MU Libraries, displays scans of building elevations and architectural renderings that provide a historical ...
The Mujeres Latinas Project of the Iowa Women's Archives seeks to collect and preserve materials which document the lives and contributions of Latinas and their families to Iowa history. A portion of oral histories, clippings, postcards, text, and photographs from the project ...
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& ...
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.
This collection features over a hundred photographs taken by New Jersey native, Monty Watson, who was stationed in the Inlet during World War II. Watson served with the Crash Boat Crew and his photographs showcase life in the Inlet area during the 1940s.
Class composites and group photos of graduates of the MUSC College of Nursing.
A collection of mostly aerial photographs of MUSC documenting the progress of construction on and around the campus between the 1950's and 1990's.
The Seattle Historical Society formed in 1911 on the 60th anniversary of the landing of Seattle's founding settlers. Chartered three years later, and later known as the Seattle-King County Historical Society, the group worked hard for the next fifty years to open a museum that ...
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 ...
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, ...
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.
22 images. This collection consists of personal and business correspondence, legal and financial papers, published short works of Nathan Asch, book reviews, unpublished manuscripts, notes, photographs, clippings, and a tape recording of the novelist. Asch, the son of the famous ...
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 ...
Located in the Rose and Robert Skillman Branch Library of the Detroit Public Library, the National Automotive History Collection (NAHC) is regarded as the nation's premier public automotive archive. The NAHC documents the history and development of the automobile and other forms ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
This collection showcases the art and artifacts that document the history of Navajo County. This items are currently on display at the Navajo County Historical Society, Holbook, Arizona branch.
Nebraska Memories, a cooperative project to digitize Nebraska-related historical and cultural heritage materials and make them freely available to researchers of all ages via the Internet, is brought to you by the Nebraska Library Commission. Nebraska Memories uses CONTENTdm ...
From the Archives of the UNL Libraries, Nebraska U is a collaborative effort to explore, through student research projects and multimedia, the history of Nebraska's most important University. The name, Nebraska U, comes from the University's popular and often-heard song "Dear Old ...
Find a wide range of artifacts, books, documents, maps, postcards, original paintings, and photographs on a variety of topics relating to trails in Nebraska. Collected into a searchable database from the holdings of museums and libraries across Nebraska, these images illustrate ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
This collection contains photographs of the new campus of Furman University in Greenville, SC, dating from 1950-1962.
This online presentation includes over 13,000 images of items selected from the Federal Theatre Project Collection at the Library of Congress. Featured here are stage and costume designs, still photographs, posters, and scripts for productions of Macbeth and The Tragical History ...
The New Jersey Digital Highway (NJDH) is a new way to explore our history and culture. The Highway will bring together digitized versions of historical and cultural treasures from our libraries, museums, and historical collections. The result will be a digital archive of ...
The 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 Mexico Waters contains historical source materials about rivers, irrigation, ecology, and the economic impact of water resources on communities in New Mexico, primarily along the Rio Grande. The material is from the collections of the Center for Southwest Research and the Map ...
Stereoscopic views of the World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition in New Orleans, 1884-5.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
During the World War I era (1914-18), leading newspapers took advantage of a new printing process that dramatically altered their ability to reproduce images. Rotogravure printing, which produced richly detailed, high quality illustrations—even on inexpensive newsprint paper—was ...
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 ...
Reports of the proceedings of the board of the Niles Public Library.
The books in this collection bear nineteenth century American imprints, dating mainly from between 1850 and 1880. They have been digitized by the University of Michigan as part of the Making of America project, a major collaborative endeavor to preserve and provide access to ...
This collection presents twenty-three popular periodicals digitized by Cornell University Library and the Preservation Reformatting Division of the Library of Congress. They include literary and political magazines, as well as Scientific American, Manufacturer and Builder, and ...
The Noble Photographs digital collection features historic images of and by Iowa women, documenting early twentieth-century rural life. Subjects include farms, parades, schools, automobiles and houses. Digitized artifacts include panoramic photographs, postcards, and cabinet ...
This collection includes published city directories from North Carolina cities and towns from the mid 19th century through the 1940s.
The North Carolina College and University Yearbooks digital collection contains student yearbooks, from the 1890s to the present, from colleges, universities, and community colleges in North Carolina. From sports teams to sororities, fashions to hairstyles, these volumes document ...
"The North Carolina Experience, Beginnings to 1940" is a collection that tells the story of the Tar Heel State as seen through representative histories, descriptive accounts, institutional reports, fiction, and other writing. It comprises digitized and encoded printed works, ...
North Carolina Memory includes scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, ledgers, manuscripts, pamphlets, ephemera, and other written accounts from North Carolinians past and present.
The North Carolina Newspapers digital collection contains community newspapers from across North Carolina from the early 19th-century to the present. The collection also includes student newspapers from selected North Carolina colleges and universities.
"North Carolinians and the Great War" examines how World War I shaped the lives of different North Carolinians on the battlefield and on the home front as well how the state and federal government responded to war-time demands. The collection focuses on the years of American ...
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 ...
Historic photographs of people and events at Northbrook School District schools.
These two collections from the Institute for Regional Studies at North Dakota State University contain 900 photographs of rural and small town life at the turn of the century. Highlights include images of sod homes and the people who built them; images of farms and the machinery ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Northwest Railway Museum provides the public a place to experience the excitement of a working railroad and to see and understand the significance of railroads in the development of Washington and adjacent areas. The Museum's collection includes the 1890-built Snoqualmie ...
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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"Now What a Time": Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals, 1938-1943 consists of approximately one hundred sound recordings, primarily blues and gospel songs, and related documentation from the folk festival at Fort Valley State College (now Fort Valley State ...
Established in 1856, Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfield, Illinois, is the largest cemetery in Illinois in land area (365 acres). More than seventy thousand people are interred in this historic cemetery. With more than 2.5 million visitors each year, it is the second most-visited ...
The Object of History is a cooperative project between the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History and George Mason University's Center for History and New Media. The project was conceived of in an effort to find a low cost way for students and teacher of U.S. History ...
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 ...
This collection was gathered by the U.S. Office of War information's Overseas Branch in 1944 and used to form two traveling exhibitions on New York City highlighting the city's infrastructure and the quality of life of the average citizen. subjects include such landmarks as the ...
This item documents the 1923 meeting in Columbia, S.C., of the Bishops' Council of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. The session convened at Bethel A.M.E. Church, the impressive, masonry structure built in 1921 at the corner of Sumter and Taylor Streets. This publication is ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
The Science Museum of Minnesota (SMM)'s Ojibwe and Dakota ethnographic collection forms the basis of the Ethnology Online data base and includes a selection of ethnographic objects from indigenous peoples around the world. This initial project is continuing and new objects will ...
The Oklahoma Author collection highlights the literary heritage of our state through a compilation of contemporary and historical author profiles. It is an ongoing collaborative effort of the Oklahoma Center for the Book and the Oklahoma Collection of the Oklahoma Department of ...
"Oklahoma Crossroads: Documents and Images" of the Oklahoma Department of Libraries consists of major digital collections such as online exhibits and collaborative projects. Collections include documents, photographs, newspapers, reports, pamphlets, posters, maps, and an author ...
The Oklahoma Image Project was sponsored by the Oklahoma Department of Libraries and the Oklahoma Library Association and funded by a $400,000 grant from National Endowment for the Humanities. The grant period ran from October 1978-October 1980. This collection houses materials ...
Reference and primary source material important to the study of Oklahoma's history and culture.
The electronic collection of the Oklahoma Publications Clearinghouse is a permanent location for publications available through state agency websites, beginning in 2006.
A scrapbook containing photographs and watercolor paintings of old churches that are located in Queen Anne's County, Maryland. The scrapbook was created by the Homemakers' Clubs of Queen Anne's County. At the request of the Homemakers' Clubs the watercolors of the churches were ...
A scrapbook containing photographs and watercolor paintings of old houses that are located in Queen Anne's County, Maryland. The scrapbook was created by the Homemakers' Clubs of Queen Anne's County. At the request of the Homemakers' Clubs the watercolors of the houses were ...
This collection contains photographs of the old main campus of Furman University in Greenville, SC, dating from 1851-1958.
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
The the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City was a very big event ...
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 ...
This collection is a result of a collaborative research project involving the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, the University of Nebraska State Museum, the Nebraska Historical Society, and members of the Omaha Tribe. Collection makes Omaha artifacts and photographic ...
Omaha Indian Music features traditional Omaha music from the 1890s and 1980s. The multiformat ethnographic field collection contains 44 wax cylinder recordings collected by Francis La Flesche and Alice Cunningham Fletcher between 1895 and 1897, 323 songs and speeches from the ...
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 ...
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 is a compilation of interviews commemorating Arizona's first 100 years of Statehood. It was made possible by partial funding by an Arizona State Library LSTA Grant. The oral historian, Joyce McBride, began interviewing in September 2007, choosing ...
"Oral Histories of the American South" is a three-year project to select, digitize and make available 500 oral history interviews gathered by the Southern Oral History Program (SOHP). These 500 are being selected from a collection of over 4,000 interviews, housed at the Southern ...
This audio collection consists of snippets from interviews with residents who lived in and around the White Mountains area. The 1977 interviews were part of a Northland Pioneer College project to document the history of the Northeastern Arizona region. Complete interviews can be ...
The Oral History Collection at UIS consists of material collected by the Sangamon State University Oral History Office from 1971 to 1991. Some oral history memoirs have been added in recent years by volunteers and UIS graduate history students. The collection includes the memoirs ...
In 1999 the Vietnam Center and Archive initiated the Oral History Project (OHP). The history of the wars in Southeast Asia is not complete without the inclusion of the voices of those who were in some way involved. To that end, the mission of the OHP is to create and preserve a ...
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 ...
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 ...
During the 1980's and 90's, the Families of Vietnamese Political Prisoners Association (FVPPA) helped over 10,000 former Vietnamese reeducation camp detainees and their families immigrate to the United States under the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugee's Orderly ...
The development of early American animation is represented by this collection of 21 animated films and 2 fragments, which spans the years 1900 to 1921. The films include clay, puppet, and cut-out animation, as well as pen drawings. They point to a connection between newspaper ...
Our Americas Archive Partnership (OAAP) is an innovative digital humanities project with a view to supporting scholarly inquiry into the Americas from a hemispheric perspective. Scholars, librarians and technologists are collaborating to develop an integrated approach to ...
The histories of the City of Delaware, the Methodist Episcopal Church, and Ohio Wesleyan University are deeply intertwined. In a very real sense, the three grew up together. A confluence of events during the early years of the 19th century resulted in the birth of a beautiful ...
Pages from the Past comprises a digital record of all the medieval manuscripts in South Carolina's institutional archives. None of the manuscripts in private hands has been documented. A total of 118 items includes eight more or less complete codices, but most are individual ...
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 ...
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.
This digital collection is drawn from The Palace of the Governors Photo Archives, which contains an estimated 800,000 original items including historic photographic prints, cased photographs, glass plate negatives, film negatives, stereographs, photo postcards, panoramas, color ...
20 images. Consists of copies of photographs, letters, diaries, newsletters and other papers from the Louise Pettus Archives and Special Collections that document the lives of women in South Carolina. The collection was assembled as a traveling exhibit as part of Winthrop's " ...
A selection of photographs from Special Collections, including images of politics, agriculture, and the history of Clemson University.
Collection consists of hundreds of pamphlet maps of various places around the world.
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 ...
The panoramic map was a popular cartographic form used to depict U.S. and Canadian cities and towns during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Known also as bird's-eye views, perspective maps, and aero views, panoramic maps are nonphotographic representations of ...
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 ...
Paper Trail features selected historic photographs and original documents, letters, diaries, and government records that are part of the holdings of the Manuscript Collections of the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center. Featured are materials from the Rutherford B. Hayes ...
This collection contains a handwritten copy of the will of Zephaniah Kingsley from the 1886 Supreme Court case files and two documents concerning the contesting of Zephaniah Kingsley's will ...
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 ...
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 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 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 ...
This small collection of letters written by U.S. Secretary of the Navy Paul Hamilton (1762-1816) documents concerns and developments during the months preceding the War of 1812.
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 ...
This Collection features many of the historic photographs from Pawleys Island: A Century of History and Photographs that tell the story of this remarkable island community from 1900-1999. First settled by rice planters who looked for an escape from the deadly malaria that plagued ...
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.
The PH filing series section of the catalog covers more than 2,500 original, individually cataloged photographic prints and more than 100 portfolios containing sets of prints created between the 1840s and the present. Many of the Library's photographic prints that have a special ...
Over the years the Special Collections Department of the Gutman Library has acquired a number of Philadelphia postcards. Many of these cards showed images of buildings or street scenes in Philadelphia. These cards span a time period from the turn of the century to the 1980's. ...
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 ...
This collection of photographs provides a feel for what Phoenix College was like during its first several decades. Images were selected to represent college life, as well as the architecture of the various campus locations. The photographs come from the Library and the Alumni ...
The Jewish News Photographic Collection consists of over 10,000 photographs and other documentation donated by the Jewish News of Greater Phoenix to the Arizona Jewish Historic Society in May 2007. The Jewish News of Greater Phoenix is a privately owned weekly newspaper reporting ...
This collection of 548 photographs comes from two albums of family photographs created by Conrad Munro Donner (1844-1916), a peripatetic engineer from the Hamburg-Altona area near the border between Denmark and Germany who had an active interest in photography. Self-taught, the ...
The Photochrom Print Collection has almost 6,000 views of Europe and the Middle East and 500 views of North America. Published primarily from the 1890s to 1910s, these prints were created by the Photoglob Company in Zürich, Switzerland, and the Detroit Publishing Company in ...
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, ...
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 ...
A Photographic Record of the Construction of the Cooper River Bridge; Charleston, South Carolina - 1928-29
This collection comprises over 55,000 images of urban life captured on glass plate negatives between 1902 and 1933 by photographers employed by the Chicago Daily News, then one of Chicago's leading newspapers. The photographs illustrate the enormous variety of topics and events ...
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, ...
In 1843, Dr. John M. W. Davidson of Gadsden County began recording medical recipes and treatments in a small, leather-bound notebook ...
Selected Pictorial collections are available in digital format. These include historical photographs of New Mexico as well as photographs and graphic materials from Latin America. Guides to all CSWR Pictorial Collections are available via the Rocky Mountain Online Archive. The ...
A selection of photographs collected by Mary Miller Strauss that record the rich history of Accident, a small town in Garrett County. Owned by the Accident Branch of the Ruth Enlow Library of Garrett County. Contributed to the MDCH Program by WHILBR - Western Maryland's ...
The online collection consists of forty turn-of-the-twentieth century Augusta-related picture postcards selected from the collection Augusta and Environs: Picture Post Cards in Color held at the East Central Georgia Regional Library in Augusta, Georgia. The postcards in this ...
Pieces of Park Ridge: this collection includes photographs and other items from community organizations, businesses and citizens.
Pieces of Park Ridge: this collection includes photographs and other items from community organizations, businesses and citizens. Additional items can be found in this second Pieces of Park Ridge (New) collection.
Pierrine Smith Byrd was the first female graduate of the College of Charleston. She was a lifetime supporter of the College. The collection contains memorabilia from her high school and college days, correspondence relating to her alumni activities, newspaper articles relating to ...
Pioneering the Upper Midwest: Books from Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, ca. 1820-1910 portrays the states of Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin from the seventeenth to the early twentieth century through first-person accounts, biographies, promotional literature, local ...
The Pittsburgh Iron & Steel Heritage Collection is a digital archive of over 500,000 pages from historic materials documenting the emergence of the iron and steel industry in Pittsburgh and the surrounding region. Dating from the 1800s, the archive features books, journals, ...
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 ...
This collection offers access to the four Walt Whitman Notebooks and a cardboard butterfly that disappeared from the Library of Congress in 1942. They were returned on February 24, 1995. The Thomas B. Harned collection of the Walt Whitman papers spans the period 1842 to 1937, ...
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. ...
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.
About 15,000 historical prints (ca. 1700-1900) created to document geographic locations or popular subjects and sometimes used for advertising and educational purposes. Most are by American printmakers (e.g., Baillie, Currier & Ives, Sachse & Co.), but publishers in many other ...
The full-length portraits of the six Lords Baltimore, which hang in the Central Hall of the Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore's public Kiplin Hall, the Calvert home in Bolton-On-Swale,Yorkshire, England library, constitute a series of historical paintings without parallel in ...
Historic images of Portsmouth, Ohio.
The Curt Teich Postcard Archives, part of the Lake County Discovery Museum, is recognized throughout the world as the largest public collection of postcards and related materials.
The Curt Teich Postcard Archives, part of the Lake County Discovery Museum, is recognized throughout the world as the largest public collection of postcards and related materials.
The Curt Teich Postcard Archives, part of the Lake County Discovery Museum, is recognized throughout the world as the largest public collection of postcards and related materials.
The Curt Teich Postcard Archives, part of the Lake County Discovery Museum, is recognized throughout the world as the largest public collection of postcards and related materials.
The Curt Teich Postcard Archives, part of the Lake County Discovery Museum, is recognized throughout the world as the largest public collection of postcards and related materials.
The Curt Teich Postcard Archives, part of the Lake County Discovery Museum, is recognized throughout the world as the largest public collection of postcards and related materials.
The Curt Teich Postcard Archives, part of the Lake County Discovery Museum, is recognized throughout the world as the largest public collection of postcards and related materials.
The Curt Teich Postcard Archives, part of the Lake County Discovery Museum, is recognized throughout the world as the largest public collection of postcards and related materials.
The Curt Teich Postcard Archives, part of the Lake County Discovery Museum, is recognized throughout the world as the largest public collection of postcards and related materials.
The Curt Teich Postcard Archives, part of the Lake County Discovery Museum, is recognized throughout the world as the largest public collection of postcards and related materials.
The Curt Teich Postcard Archives, part of the Lake County Discovery Museum, is recognized throughout the world as the largest public collection of postcards and related materials.
The Curt Teich Postcard Archives, part of the Lake County Discovery Museum, is recognized throughout the world as the largest public collection of postcards and related materials.
The online Artist Posters consist of a small but growing proportion of the more than 85,000 posters in the Artist Poster filing series. This series highlights the work of poster artists, both identified and anonymous. It includes posters from the nineteenth century to the present ...
The Performing Arts posters illustrate the wide range of popular, live entertainment in America from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century. The approximately 2,100 posters in the online Performing Arts Posters category represent the entire contents of three ...
In July of 1936, Francisco Franco led a military coup with the goal of overthrowing the democratically elected government of the Spanish Republic, marking the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. The violent conflict sparked the creation of posters by both the victorious ...
The Yanker Poster Collection includes more than 3,000 political, propaganda, and social issue posters and handbills, dating 1927-1980. Most posters are from the United States, but over 55 other countries and the United Nations are also represented. The materials were acquired by ...
The Powwow Photographs by Ann Leonard collection consists of 69 color digital photographs by Arizona State University's Labriola National American Indian Data Center's Library Aid, Ann Leonard. Leonard documented the Tohono O'odham's Wa:K Pow Wow, held at Tucson's San Xavier del ...
The 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 ...
This digital collection integrates two collections from the holdings of the Nebraska State Historical Society, the Solomon D. Butcher photographs and the letters of the Uriah W. Oblinger family. Together they illustrate the story of settlement on the Great Plains. Approximately 3 ...
The President's Collection is a three-volume set of vintage photographs of Baltimore streets and streetcars. It is believed that the photographs were taken at the request of the President of the United Railways & Electric (UR&E) Company to document some aspects of managing and ...
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 ...
In collaboration with a pilot group of South Carolina teachers, USC Libraries has made these primary resources available online.
Digitized copies of the PHIA Community Bulletin
Historic photographs of Prospect Heights, Illinois.
Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929 assembles a wide array of Library of Congress source materials from the 1920s that document the widespread prosperity of the Coolidge years, the nation's transition to a mass consumer economy, and the ...
The Remembering Provo: Historical Photographs Project began in January 2009. Historical photographs were supplied by the Provo City Library Special Collections, Provo City departments, citizens, businesses, and institutions. The photographs were digitized in high archival quality ...
Public Art in the Bronx, a project of Lehman College Art Gallery/City University of New York, examines the rich collection of public art found in our borough. This site provides an overview of works in public places from the earliest created in the 19th century, those produced ...
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 ...
Puerto Rico at the Dawn of the Modern Age: Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century Perspectives portrays the early history of the commonwealth of Puerto Rico through first-person accounts, political writings, and histories drawn from the Library of Congress's General Collections ...
The Puget Sound Maritime Historical Society (PSMHS) promotes the collection, preservation, and display of objects, artifacts, and data of maritime interest, with special emphasis on the history of Pacific Northwest maritime activities. As the only and longest-standing ...
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 ...
Quilts and Quiltmaking in America showcases materials from two American Folklife Center collections, the Blue Ridge Parkway Folklife Project Collection (1978) and the "All-American Quilt Contest" sponsored by Coming Home, a division of Lands' End, and Good Housekeeping. Together ...
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.
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 ...
The Railroad maps represent an important historical record, illustrating the growth of travel and settlement as well as the development of industry and agriculture in the United States. They depict the development of cartographic style and technique, highlighting the achievement ...
The Railroad Telegrapher was a national serial that started in La Porte City, Iowa, August 1885 as "A journal devoted to the interest of the telegrapher and official organ of the Order of Railway Telegraphers of North America." It featured organizational news of the Order and ...
This project seeks to document and represent the rapid and far-reaching social effects of railroads and to explore the transformation of the United States to modern ideas, institutions, and practices in the nineteenth century. The railroad was the first and most complex national ...
The Rainier Valley Historical Society collects, preserves, exhibits, and interprets the history and heritage of Rainier Valley and its people, and promotes public involvement in and appreciation of its history and culture. The Historical Society maintains an extensive archival ...
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 ...
RCPL's Local History Photograph Collection comes from several sources, including USC's South Carolina Library, Library of Congress and generous donations from library users.
Reclaiming the Everglades includes a rich diversity of unique or rare materials: personal correspondence, essays, typescripts, reports and memos; photographs, maps and postcards; and publications from individuals and the government. Major topics and issues illustrated include the ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
This site presents digitized primary source materials from the Northern Illinois Regional History Center. It was produced with grant funding in conjunction with Northern Illinois University Libraries Digitization Unit.
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 ...
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 ...
In 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, a lifelong sailor and former assistant secretary of the Navy, sent Winston Churchill a handwritten note, in which he included a quotation from an 1849 William Longfellow poem, “The Building of the Ship,” which began “Sail On, O Ship of ...
Remembering the Houses of Western Springs is a collection of photographs of 19th century houses, with dates and some background information on each house. The Western Springs Historical Society took the photographs in 1977, and Thomas Ford Memorial Library in Western Springs ...
Charles Crosland (1845-1918), who served in the 19th South Carolina Cavalry Battalion, with Company H of the Confederate Army's Hampton Legion, recounts his combat experiences, his father's death, and the destruction of the Crosland family plantation in Bennetsville. He also ...
The Renton Historical Museum exists to provide educational experiences to the general public through the preservation and interpretation of Greater Renton's history. Goals include the collection, documentation, preservation, conservation, and interpretation of artifacts, ...
This core unit of three hundred fifty items -two hundred sixty-two manuscripts, miscellaneous printed artifacts, and eighty-eight photographs- added to the papers of the late Joseph Armstrong DeLaine (1898-1974) covers chiefly the period from 1942, when he submitted his annual ...
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 ...
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 ...
The RCPL Historical Collection is a selection of digital images of Harper’s Weekly and Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Weekly civil war lithographs that feature Columbia, S.C.
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 ...
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 Bracklow (1849-1919) began actively producing photographs as an amateur in the 1880s. A member of the Camera Club of New York, Bracklow combined his love of city history with his picture-making and chose to document historic and newly created landmarrks with his camera. ...
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 ...
12 images. The collection consists of plats, maps, field notes & field books, architectural drawings, correspondence & deeds, and other related items of Robert Marett, Land Surveyor. There are a number of plats done by other surveyors throughout the collection. Marett operated ...
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, 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Rochambeau Map Collection contains cartographic items used by Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau (1725-1807), when he was commander in chief of the French expeditionary army (1780-82) during the American Revolution. The maps were from Rochambeau's personal ...
The Rochester Images database will include 22,000 historical and contemporary images from Rochester and Monroe County. Photographs and postcards form the foundation of the database which will be expanded to include other collections and materials such as maps, manuscripts, and ...
This collection presents a brief introduction to the rock art of Cochise County, Arizona. A wide diversity of prehistoric and historic rock art is found in the county including petroglyphs and pictographs. Petroglyphs are carved rock designs and pictographs are painted rock ...
150 years of Photographs from the Winthrop University Archives and Special Collections
20 images. The collection consists of reproductions of photographs found in the Manuscript and Archives collections of the Louise Pettus Archives and Special Collections. The photographs range in date from 1896 to the late 1940s. They include scenes from Rock Hill and Winthrop ...
Photographs and clippings from the collections of Rockford College.
Historic photographs and associated artifacts of Rockford, Illinois.
These hundred images are a portion of the many scientific and naturalistic images that Vishniac took in his life time and that the University of South Carolina holds. More will be added to this collection in the future.
The records of the Rome-Turney Radiator Company include correspondence, copies of outgoing letters and incoming, telegrams; financial records, invoices, both incoming and outgoing, financial ledgers, purchasing department letters, purchase orders and requisitions, quotations ...
Eisenmann was born in Germany in 1850 and emigrated to the United States some time before 1870, settling in New York City. At an early age, Eisenmann established a photography studio in the Bowery. A lower class area that was the hub of popular entertainment, the Bowery was known ...
Rabbi William A. Rosenthall's collection of prints of world synagogues. Mr. Rosenthall was the rabbi at Charleston's Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim Synagogue from 1976 through 1992. He traveled extensively during his life and collected items related to Jewish life and culture.
Historic images of Cedar Lake Road and Round Lake, Illinois.
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. ...
Born in New York City in 1911, Roy Perry began as an amateur photographing the residents and environs of his Lower East Side neighborhood. The photographs in this collection primarily depict the lives of the children in the Lower East Side whom Perry observed while working for ...
Roy S. MacElwee was a planner who specialized in port development. He was the author of a number of books including "Ports and Terminal Facilities" (1918) and he authored with Henry F. Church "A Comprehensive Handbook on the Port of Charleston" (1924). This is an oversized ...
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, 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.
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 ...
Edward Sachse (1804-1873), a German immigrant, was one of the great lithographers working in Baltimore. His works from the Civil War are regarded not only as wonderful examples of artistry from the era but also as valuable historical resources detailing views as they actually ...
The Sagebrush Vernacular website is an exhibition of 120 photographs of rural Nevada architecture.
Sahuaro Ranch was one of the first farms in the Glendale area and a reminder of Glendale's agricultural beginnings. Started by wealthy Illinois businessman William H. Bartlett in 1886, the ranch was a commercial operation and became known as the "Showplace of the Valley." ...
The 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.
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, ...
This digital collection contains 4041 images and corresponding descriptions of posters from Cuba, El Salvador, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Panama, Nicaragua, the United States, Chile, Guatemala, Honduras, and Peru. It represents a significant selection of the collection of approximately ...
The online presentation of The Samuel F. B. Morse Papers at the Library of Congress comprises about 6,500 items, or approximately 50,000 images, that document Morse's invention of the electromagnetic telegraph, his participation in the development of telegraph systems in the ...
As a young man, Samuel Gottscho (1875-1971) recorded the nighttime glories of Coney Island's early 20th-century amusement parks, but he became a professional success with the establishment of his own architectural photography firm in 1925. He received numerous important ...
Samuel Hudson (1921-2006), was the son of Melvin and Wilhelmina Hudson and a native of Georgetown, South Carolina. Hudson served with the US Marine Corps during WWII and returned to Georgetown to operate several prosperous businesses including Hudson's Real Estate Agency. He ...
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 ...
Samuel Lord Hyde was a photographer and amateur historian who lived in Charleston and Summerville, S. C. These images represent two unique collections of his work. The first collection consists of 25 photographs of the South Carolina Inter-State and West Indian Exposition taken ...
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 ...
Originally conceived in the late 18th Century, fire insurance maps provided structural and urban environmental information necessary for insurance underwriters. Included here are over 2000 Sanborn Maps of over eighty cities in South Carolina from 1884 - 1923 as well as over two ...
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 ...
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 ...
This database provides information about the residents of Sandusky County (Ohio) who served in the Civil War, including those whose service comprised three years, one hundred days, three months as well as draftees, substitutes, Squirrel Hunters, U.S. Naval personnel, U.S. ...
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 ...
A historic timeline of Sandusky, Ohio.
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 ...
Written by Sarah H. Bradford, Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman was published in 1869 and became the source of most of the stories about and, later, books on Tubman's life and deeds up to and during the American Civil War. The book was published at Tubman's request to help her ...
Explore the rich history of Schleisingerville, its citizens and local businesses through this digital collection consisting of two significant histories published by the Slinger Advancement Association and over 300 photographs providing accessibility to historians, genealogist ...
The School Insurance Photographs, ca. 1935-1952 series at the South Carolina Archives and History Center includes photographs made between ca. 1935 and 1952 of approximately 2,600 schools in South Carolina. The photographs were made by the Sinking Fund Commission, a state agency ...
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."
The Scottish Literature Digital Projects is part of an on-going series that makes available materials from the G. Ross Roy Collection and other Scottish literature holdings in Rare Books & Special Collections. The collection currently includes full digital facsimiles of materials ...
Today Scottsdale is a beautiful bustling city with many attractions enjoyed by residents and tourists alike. But did you know, that the town began as a little farming settlement? Many active community organizations worked to create the Scottsdale of today and as the town grew, ...
The Scottsdale Room, located at Scottsdale's Civic Center Library, contains items of local interest with a focus on Scottsdale. The Room has evolved over the years through the cooperative efforts of Scottsdale's City Council, Library Advisory Board, Scottsdale Cultural Council, ...
The photographs by Randy Bradford from this collection of historical Spartanburg images are from the decade of the 1940s. Bradford recorded important events, political leaders, and visiting celebrities. His photographs also depict the everyday life and interests of Spartans from ...
The collection consists of postcards (typically about 4 1/2" X 6 1/2") that originate from and depict places around the world. The postcards appear to generally date from after 1945 and are photographic and printed. The items that depict U.S. sites have been organized and ...
Selections from the Willis Collection, photographs by brothers Alfred and Henry Willis. These images were discovered in 2003 by Elizabeth Willis Fowler, the daughter of Alfred Willis. The original negatives were cleaned and digitally scanned by Steve Fincher Photography. The ...
These photographs of Camp Croft were taken by Joseph Peter Pizzimenti who was from Detroit, Michigan. He was a musician in the jazz and marching bands at Camp Croft from 1941 until early 1945. He had permission to carry a camera on base and used the darkroom on base to do his ...
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 ...
Before television, radio and the Internet, Florida society communicated widely and often through broadsides, advertisements, flyers and other ephemera. This online collection consists of more than 200 broadsides and forms of paper communication.
These images (some rare and rarely seen) were selected from over 5,000 photographs found in the Personal and Political Papers of Senator Barry M. Goldwater (1909-1998). They document his interests in aviation, Arizona history, photography and travel as well as his military, ...
The September 11, 2001, Documentary Project captures the heartfelt reactions, eyewitness accounts, and diverse opinions of Americans and others in the months that followed the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and United Airlines Flight 93. Patriotism and ...
This collection contains a scrapbook belonging to Charleston-born Septima Poinsette Clark, an educator and civil rights activist, ca. 1910-1990.
The Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection features color photographic surveys of the vast Russian Empire made between ca. 1905 and 1915. Frequent subjects among the 2,607 distinct images include people, religious architecture, historic sites, industry and agriculture, ...
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 ...
After a long period of Europe lagging behind China and Japan in usage of cartography, the Renaissance brought considerable advancement. The discoveries of the New World, easier travel, and military conquests, in tandem with technological and scientific developments, made the need ...
This collection of still images is related to the American Indians of Arizona and the Southwest (1865-1970). Tribes include Navajo, Apache, Yavapai, Hualapai, Papago, Hopi, Mohave, Paiute, Yaqui, Havasupai, Pima and Maricopa.Also included in the collection are images of ...
The Sharlot Hall Museum Oral History collection represents a cross-section of our larger collection of interviews, presentations, speeches and radio programs conducted mainly in Prescott, Arizona from 1939-present. Collections include the Westerner's Collection, a collection of ...
This collection of still images is related to structures in Prescott Yavapai County, and Northern Arizona. Included are stage stations, businesses, residences, banks, schools, churches, hotels, interiors, ranches, and government buildings (1864-present). The majority of the ...
The Sharlot Hall Museum Map Collection consists of approximately 5,000 maps relating to Prescott, Arizona, Yavapai County, and Arizona and the west in general, 1850-present. Mining, railroad, and survey maps make up the bulk of the collection and are supplemented by aeronautical ...
This collection of still images represent military activity in Arizona, specifically Yavapai County and Northern Arizona, 1864-Present. Subjects included in the collection are Ft. Whipple, Camp Verde, Ft. Apache, Ft. Grant, San Carlos, Ft. McDowell, Camp Huachuca, Ft. Bowie, Camp ...
This collection of still images is related to mining activities in Yavapai County and Northern Arizona(1864-1975). Gold, copper, iron, onyx, and silver mining are represented, as well as placer, hydraulic, underground, and open pit mining.
This collection of still images is related to transportation in Northern Arizona (1864-1965). Subjects represented in this collection are railroads, stagecoaches, train depots, bridges, freighting, and general transportation.
Sharlot M. Hall was a forward-thinking woman, a woman of vision and daring living during an era when most women didn't dare have any vision at all. Born in 1870 in Kansas, she traveled on the Santa Fe Trail at the age of eleven to the Arizona Territory with her family in 1882, ...
The Sheldon Jackson Museum collections include objects from each of the Native groups in Alaska: Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, Aleut, Alutiiq, Yup’ik, Inupiat and Athabascan. The collections strongly reflect the collecting done by founder, Sheldon Jackson, from 1887 through about ...
American-born photographer Sherril Schell (1877-1964) ran a successful portrait studio in London during the first two decades of the 20th century. Returning to New York after World War I, he became interested in the city's architecture. The images of the built environment in this ...
The beautiful photos in this collection show you people, places, business, buildings, and events of the Intermountain West ...
Ships for Victory: J.A. Jones Construction Company and Liberty Ships in Brunswick, Georgia consists of eighty-four black-and-white photographs from the J.A. Jones Construction Company collection at the Brunswick-Glynn County Library that depict the companys World War II cargo ...
Housed in the historic Ronald Elementary School, the Shoreline Historical Museum preserves, records and interprets the history of the Shoreline area and its relationship to the Northwest. The archive of 6,000 photos and the collection of 5,000 artifacts tell the story of local ...
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.
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.
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.
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 ...
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.
Robert Pou Shuford (1880-1941), served as Georgetown City Recorder, Police Chief, County Treasurer and owner of "Shuford's Store" in Georgetown, SC. After his death, his widow, Edna, was appointed by the Governor of South Carolina to fill his position as Georgetown County ...
Documents reflecting the American Jewish experience.
The Silver City Museum Photograph Collection contains more than 1,000 photographs, from New Mexico and across the United States, most taken in the late 19th and early 20th century. At the nucleus of our photo archive, and comprising a significant part of the online photo ...
The Old Courthouse Museum and the Pettigrew Home & Museum, known jointly as the Siouxland Heritage Museums, have extensive manuscript and archival holdings. The foundation of these holdings are the papers of Senator Richard Franklin Pettigrew, who, upon his death in 1926, ...
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.
Andrews, with the assistance of some of his fellow soldiers, recalls the Company's combat experiences during the second Battle of Bull Run, Virginia (1862; also called Second Manassas) and the siege of Petersburg, Virginia (1864-1865), as well as his own capture and imprisonment ...
Historic images and documents of the Skokie Fire Department
This is a collection of photographs and documents of houses and apartment buildings in Skokie, Illinois and Niles Center, Illinois from the collection of the Skokie Historical Society.
During 1977 and 1978, a small group of neo-Nazis, led by Frank Collin, attempted to hold a rally in the Village of Skokie, Illinois. Village officials resisted Collin's efforts to demonstrate in Skokie, first by passing a series of ordinances aimed at preventing distribution of ...
In 2004, Skokie Public Library received a grant to digitize materials documenting the life and career of Dr. Louise Klehm, Skokie's first woman doctor. Amelia Louise Klehm was born in 1870 to one of Skokie’s pioneer families. She graduated from Chicago Baptist Hospital’s nursing ...
Slavery, the "peculiar institution," generated a variety of documents chronicling daily activities that touched all strata of American society, free and enslaved. Each of the following documents offers a glimpse of what was unfortunately commonplace in a bygone era. The ordinary ...
Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860 contains just over a hundred pamphlets and books (published between 1772 and 1889) concerning the difficult and troubling experiences of African and African-American slaves in the American colonies and the United States. The documents, most from ...
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 ...
12,000 photographs of the Mid-Atlantic states New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut from the 1850s to the 1910s, from the Robert N. Dennis Collection of Stereoscopic Views at the New York Public Library. The views show buildings and street scenes in cities, towns, and villages as ...
The purpose of the SNHU Academic Archive is to preserve and make accessible the intellectual output and selected institutional records of Southern New Hampshire University, and encourage an open access environment. The Academic Archive supports the Shapiro Library’s mission "to ...
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— ...
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 ...
A collection of photographs, manuscripts, books, and maps from the Civil War era. This collection will continue to have materials added to it.
The South Carolina Digital Library (SCDL) is a collaborative effort that includes South Carolina's schools, libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions. SCDL's mission is to encourage our collaborators to create, maintain, and promote digital ...
The South Carolina Hospital Postcard collection includes postcards representing hospitals throughout South Carolina. The postcards provide a visual record for hospitals that may no longer exist or have changed location, and reflect the ways that hospital architecture has changed ...
This collection contains picture postcards from the early part of the twentieth century that depict scenes across South Carolina. Items in this collection are held by the Greenville County Library System's South Carolina Room.
A collection of pamphlets and items related to the exposition held in Charleston's Hampton Park in 1901-1902.
The South Carolina Public Library History, 1930-1945 collection consists of photographs and documents from the archives of the SC State Library. These digital images highlight public libraries, bookmobiles, librarians, and patrons from around the state. Many photographs and ...
The South Caroliniana Library has been collecting photographs of train stations, depots, rail yards, engines, and rolling stock for many years. The images come in as single items, as part of other collections, or as collections of their own. There are also photographs of railways ...
This historic digital collection at South Carolina State University encompasses all of the Presidents who have provided leadership over the years to this historic land grant university. The collection details their accomplishments and their diverse backgrounds. Each of these ...
The Fall Line is a geographic region within South Carolina where the rivers are no longer navigable from the Low Country. This area, which stretches from Cheraw on the Pee Dee River to Hamburg (present day North Augusta) on the Savannah River, yielded experiences and material ...
This collection of photographs from the early twentieth century shows life on two South Santee River plantations: Hampton and the Wedge. Hampton Plantation was owned by the Rutledge family, including Archibald Rutledge, Poet Laureate of South Carolina. The Wedge plantation was ...
The Robert Runyon Photograph Collection of the South Texas Border Area, a collection of over 8,000 items, is a unique visual resource documenting the Lower Rio Grande Valley during the early 1900s. Donated by the Runyon family to the Center for American History in 1986, it ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, contains approximately 2,000 documents and images relating to the Native American population of the Southeastern United States from the collections of the University of Georgia Libraries, the University of Tennessee at Knoxville ...
The 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 ...
Collected by The University of California, Los Angeles, Fowler Museum of Cultural History, Archaeology Collections Facility.
"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 ...
In June of 2009, the Southern Maryland Regional Library Association embarked on an oral history project as a gift to celebrate the organization's fiftieth birthday. The regional library, working with StoryCorps, conducted 29 interviews with individuals who represent the broad ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
Spalding Base Ball Guides, 1889-1939 comprises a historic selection of Spalding’s Official Base Ball Guide and the Official Indoor Base Ball Guide. The collection reproduces 35 of the guides, which were published by the Spalding Athletic Company in the late nineteenth and early ...
The series consists of "dossiers" containing those papers which were filed in evidence as valid claims before the Board of Land Commissioners. Each land claim with supporting documents was later encased in a manila jacket on which appears the name of the applicant, the number of ...
This presentation features 68 motion pictures produced between 1898 and 1901 of the Spanish-American War and the subsequent Philippine Revolution. The Spanish-American War was the first U.S. war in which the motion picture camera played a role. These films were made by the Edison ...
This collection includes A Story of Spartan Push: The Greatest Cotton Manufacturing Centre in the South: Spartanburg, South Carolina, and Its Resources by Edward P. McKissick and Spartanburg, City and County, South Carolina: Their Wonderful Attractions and Marvelous Advantages as ...
This collection of coins features 74 coins which were created during the years of the Roman Empire. While several of the coins are of Greek or Roman Republic origin, the bulk of the collection was created in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd centuries. In addition to the ancient coins, there ...
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 ...
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 ...
These pieces are drawn from the thousands of items in the Ephemera Collection of the Maryland Department, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Central Library/State Library Resource Center ...
John Springer (1850 -- 1937), an Iowa City printer, bequeathed his collection of printing ephemera, letters and books to the University of Iowa at his death in 1937. This digital collection contains samples from various printing companies, calendars and political clippings.
The Springfield Aviation Company Collection, 1927-1955, was donated to the Sangamon Valley Collection at Lincoln Library in May 1995 by Craig Isbell, former co-manager of the company. Isbell formed a partnership with Gelder Lockwood in the late 1920s and operated this company at ...
Springfield College was initially incorporated as the School for Christian Workers in 1885. In 1890, the name was changed to the International YMCA Training School at Springfield. The images reflect the activities of local, national, and international YMCAs from approximately ...
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.
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 ...
Historic photographs from the collections of St. John's College Department of Nursing.
Gathered from the Civil War collections of twenty-five historical and archival institutions across Missouri and the U.S., the St. Louis Area Civil War Digitization Project database contains many unique documents that tell the story of St. Louis during the Civil War. In order to ...
This comprehensive set of Columbia area images includes 146 prints from periods ranging from 1865 to 1980. The collection was amassed from various long time photographers in the community such as John A. Sargeant, Charles Old and Walter Blanchard. They operated studios in the ...
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. ...
From February 8, 1918, to June 13, 1919, by order of General John J. Pershing, the United States Army published a newspaper for its forces in France, The Stars and Stripes. This online collection, presented by the Serial and Government Publications Division of the Library of ...
The Staten Island Historical Society is located at Historic Richmond Town in Staten Island, New York. The Staten Island Historical Society's collections, which range in date from the 1600s to the present day, tell the story of the American experience through the lives of Staten ...
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 ...
Historic photographs from the collections of the Sterling/Rock Falls Historical Society.
In an effort to keep young people from leaving the farm at the end of the nineteenth century, progressive educators around the country began providing out-of-school-programs designed to convey new agricultural methods through hands-on experiences. These programs formed the basis ...
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 ...
In 1855, when Francis Scott Street and Francis Shubael Smith bought The New York Weekly Dispatch, Street & Smith embarked on a publishing mission that remained remarkably prolific and profitable for over one hundred years. Street & Smith rapidly became a "fiction factory," ...
Over the course of many decades, curators of the Museum of the City of New Yorks Photography Collection assembled a large body of images documenting specific streets, buildings, and locations in New York City. This collection is valuable tool for anyone doing historic research of ...
This selection of photographs from Mss 100, the Strom Thurmond Collection, documents Senator Thurmond's life from 1903 to 1987, with particular emphasis on his early life and career. They are arranged chronologically, with the earliest photographs first.
This collection contains posters from government, commercial, and charitable organizations and are multi-national in scope and cover veterans' benefits, war bonds and loans, military recruitment and morale, civil defense, industrial production, freedom and loyalty campaigns, ...
This collection presents 163 Sunday school books published in America between 1815 and 1865, drawn from the collections of Michigan State University Libraries and the Clarke Historical Library at Central Michigan University Libraries. They document the culture of religious ...
This collection was created to showcase photographs of the Carnegie Library building from 1905-2007. The images show students, architectural features, and interior & exterior views. All historical images are from Syracuse University Archives. Future additions will include ...
The Catawba Indian collection was created using slides and photographs from the Native American Studies Archive at USC Lancaster. Many of the photographs and slides depict the Catawba reservation, pottery, people, and buildings.
From the Maryland Room of the Talbot County Free Library come a selection of 12 maps from its Arthur J. Gutman Collection and 6 maps from its Starin Collection. This selection of Maryland maps, which covers its Proprietary, Early Colonial, and Post-Colonial periods from the years ...
Taller de Gráfica Popular (Workshop for Popular Graphic Art) was founded in 1937 in Mexico City (Mexico)by artists Leopoldo Méndez,Pablo O'Higgins, and Luis Arenal. The TGP applied the unique properties of print—its rapid and inexpensive production and potent ...
We are pleased to introduce our online catalogue raisonne, which is intended to provide an efficient and readily accessible means to research the lithographs that have been made at Tamarind. This catalogue includes all lithographs (monotypes are not included) made at Tamarind ...
This project represents a collaborative effort by the Joiner History Room at the Sycamore Public Library, the DeKalb Public Library, the Ellwood House and Museum, the Northern Illinois Regional History Center and Northern Illinois University Libraries. These institutions have ...
A collection of books covering topics dealing with early Utah history and Mormon culture.
A diverse set of materials from up to 10 museums and libraries digitized to correspond to lesson plans from 15 K-12 school teachers. Lesson plans are mapped to the Illinois State Board of Education Learning Standards.
The Telling-Grandon Scrapbook is a 28-page scrapbook/diary containing photographs and ephemera collected by an Evanston, Illinois group during a visit by train to the New Orleans Carnival of 1903. The New Orleans section includes brief references to Begue's Restaurant, Fabacher's ...
The WGBH Media Archives and Preservation Center has preserved and described 523 tapes from The Ten O'Clock News, WGBH's in-depth nightly news program. Dating from 1974 to 1991, this collection focuses on news stories relating to Boston's African American community. Browse our ...
Tending the Commons: Folklife and Landscape in Southern West Virginia incorporates 718 excerpts from original sound recordings, 1,256 photographs, and 10 manuscripts from the American Folklife Center's Coal River Folklife Project (1992-99) documenting traditional uses of the ...
The "Tennessee Documentary History, 1796-1850," contains 2,000 documents and images relating to the history of antebellum Tennessee.
This collection is comprised of 100 photographic prints documenting 6 field seasons during the years 1935-1941 when James T. Tanner and associates studied the ivory-billed woodpecker and its environment on the Singer Tract, Madison Parish, Louisiana, in what is now the Tensas ...
Explore the turbulent times of "Bleeding Kansas." Hundreds of personal letters, diaries, photos, and maps bring to life the settling of Kansas during the fierce debate over slavery.
Texas Heritage Online provides unified online access to Texas' historical documents and images for use by teachers, students, historians, genealogists, and other researchers.
"Thar's Gold in Them Thar Hills": Gold and Gold Mining in Georgia, 1830s-1940s consists of selected legal, financial, and promotional documents as well as photographs and picture postcards that represent episodes of renewed interest in gold mining in Lumpkin County during ...
Exhibition catalogs from the Art Institute of Chicago.
Founded in 1670 as the capital city of the Carolina Colony, Charleston has had a colorful, turbulent history. From the first major naval battle of the Revolution to the opening shots of the Civil War, it has embodied the American experience in a uniquely visible way. An ...
As a Southern military college, The Citadel and its cadets were integrally involved in the events of the American Civil War. This collection includes first-person accounts of the Civil War period, in addition to a signed copy of the U.S. War Department orders to raise the flag at ...
The Citadel Oral History Program seeks to deepen understanding of the Lowcountry's rich history and culture through the gathering and presentation of recorded memories from area residents. This collection currently houses a sample of interviews from Citadel alumni in World War II ...
A collection of speeches presented at The Citadel by notable South Carolinians. Topics include the education, military, economy, and politics of the State in the nineteenth and early twentieth century.
This collection was brought together in honor of the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War. Many of the stories of those who lived during the period are told in the letters, diaries, photographs, and other documents that have been kept by families and handed down through ...
The Department of the Army Special Photograph Office (DASPO) was an US Army unit that traveled with military units between 1962-74 to document their history and activities on both still and moving images, as well as to create training films for the military. Many former DASPO ...
The Frederick E. Kredel, M.D. Papers document the professional life of Dr. Kredel, MUSC's first full-time professor of surgery. The collection includes awards, ceritifcates, and honors received by Dr. Kredel, corespondence, and speeches given by Dr. Kredel. The highlight of the ...
The Furman Cougar Project (2008-2013) collection contains photographs from the Ladder Ranch in Sierra County, New Mexico. The cameras used in the capturing of photos were funded in part by the Oregon Zoo Future for Wildlife Conservation Grant and sponsored by Michelle Schireman. ...
In 1986, Dr. Constance Schulz of the Public History Department at the University of South Carolina set out to compile a slide collection covering all aspects of South Carolina history for use in elementary through high schools. The result was the 1989 publication, The History of ...
The official publication of the Association of Colored Physicians of South Carolina, the Hospital Herald was published from 1899-1900. Edited by A.C. McClennan, MD, surgeon in charge of the Colored Hospital and Training School for Nurses, the Hospital Herald was a monthly journal ...
The Sentinel was published weekly by the Sentinel Pub. Co. from 1911-1996.
The Naperville Heritage Digital Collection is a digital core collection of local historical primary sources. The collection includes the histories of Naperville area farm families, businesses that were based in Naperville in 1886, the earliest City Council minutes, background ...
The New Mexico Newspaper Project began in 1992 and ended in 1996. Over the five year period, the staff sought out newspapers from every nook and cranny in New Mexico. One thousand six hundred unique newspaper titles that were published in New Mexico since 1844 were identified, ...
Union postmaster Joseph H. Sears published the New South newspaper out of the post office building on Union Square in Port Royal, S.C., on a weekly basis beginning in March 1862. The paper was moved to the town of Beaufort sometime in 1865 and remained there until it ceased in ...
The Melrose Park Public Library digitized copies of our local newspaper, The Herald, from the WWII years of 1941-1945. These papers depict life during the war years for the residents of not only Melrose Park, but neighboring communities including Maywood, Bellwood, Forest Park, ...
The Virtual Vietnam Archive is a free web-based database and digital material access system that allows online patrons to view materials that have been digitized from the archival holdings of the Vietnam Center and Archive at Texas Tech University. The Vietnam Center and Archive ...
The collection consists of 23 letters and a pocket diary from Confederate Army (i.e. C.S.A.) Lieutenant W.E. Johnson to his wife, father and other persons. Lt. Johnson and his wife appear to have been residents of Liberty Hill, Kershaw County, South Carolina. At the time of his ...
The collection includes published materials from the collection of the Waring Historical Library. Here you can find historic books, pamphlets, and broadsides relating to the history of the health sciences.
The Western Round-Up Collection provides online access to student newspapers published by Western College from 1930 to 1971. Western College was founded in 1853 as the 'western' representation of Mt. Holyoke in Massachusetts, with its dual vision of missionary zeal and low-cost ...
A town twice ravaged by tornadoes (1926 and 2002), La Plata sits in the heart of historic Southern Maryland. The county seat of Charles County has learned the importance of preserving the memory of its buildings and community. This collection of twenty-four photographs from the ...
Theodore E. Peiser, an early pioneer photographer, was active in Washington State from the 1880s to 1907. He documented early scenes in Seattle including pioneers, 1900 military expedition to China and the Territorial University. Unfortunately, early during his stay in Seattle, ...
Theodore Roosevelt was the first U.S. president to have his career and life chronicled on a large scale by motion picture companies (even though his predecessors, Grover Cleveland and William McKinley, were the first to be filmed). This presentation features 104 films which ...
The Thomas and Annie Taylor Dee Collection contains family correspondences, family photographs, a marriage register, and yearbooks from the Dee School of Nursing.
This extraordinary collection documents 100 years of history in and around Natchez and contains approximately 20,000 images including wet and dry collodion glass plate negatives, film negatives, ferrotypes, and historic and modern prints as well as nearly 100 pieces of ...
Thomas Johnson (1732-1819), Maryland's first elected Governor, held a variety of positions throughout his life both in the political arena as well as in the private sector. This collection includes letters written to Johnson from a variety of sources as well as the commission ...
The following veterans were interviewed and/or researched by 10th-grade students in Mike Gilbert's 20th Century Global Studies classes at Fremont Ross High School, Fremont, Ohio. The selections shown here are samplings from the projects of 2005 and 2007. No efforts in editing ...
This collection depicts the story of Thunderbird Field I, a vital World War II air training base at which more than 10,000 pilots learned to fly. The collection then shows the early years of the school, known as American Institute for Foreign Trade. Thanks to the vision of ...
TIDES offers a digital gateway to rich historical, cultural and scientific resources held in Texas and Mexican libraries, museums, archives, historical societies, private collections, state parks and wildlife preserves. These resources (photographs, scanned documents and ...
Timothy Vedder was a Union soldier from New York, stationed at Camp Douglas in Washington, D.C. and at Arlington Heights, Va. The collection contains holograph letters signed to family members in New York and Connecticut. Describes Washington, including brief mention of Columbian ...
Historic images of the Tinker Swiss Cottage and its Gardens.
The Tissandier Collection contains approximately 975 items documenting the early history of aeronautics with an emphasis on balloon flight in France and other European countries. Subjects include general and technical images of balloons, airships, and flying machines; portraits ...
This collection documents the activities of the Tobacco Free Project of the San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFTFP). The bulk of the materials in this collection is made up of contracts, reports, and other materials generated by the SFTFP and its contracting agencies. ...
This exhibit is composed of 109 photographs of the Tohono O'odham Indians taken by the Arizona State Museum's photographer Helga Teiwes during the years 1970 -- 1980. The exhibit is arranged into eleven themes and covers their arts and crafts, traditional practices and customs, ...
William Thomas Bell (1886-1963) was born in Lancaster County, South Carolina, in 1886. As a young man, he moved to Corsicana, Texas, where he worked in the oil fields. He met and married Annie Daniel, and on their honeymoon in 1911, they moved to Vivian, Louisiana. He drilled his ...
In 1942 shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, over 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry were forcibly removed from California, Oregon, and Washington and confined to relocation centers. One of these relocation centers was the Topaz Relocation Center located on 17,500 acres in ...
From 1942 to 1945, over 100,000 Japanese-Americans were interned in camps throughout the American West. Topaz Camp, located near Delta, Utah, held around 8,000 of these individuals. This collection contains an assortment of historical photos depicting the hardships met by these ...
This World War I soldier's sketchbook is the mark of Cpl. Douglas G. Ward, an otherwise unknown British soldier-artist. His sketches are executed in pen and ink and watercolor and cover subjects ranging from basic training to romance. The sketchbook was acquired in 2006 with ...
The Map Library has made available from this site 236 of it's 15 minute, 30 minute, and 7.5 minute topographic maps of South Carolina. Measuring 14 x 20 inches the Polyconic Projections were first published in the late 19th Century. Some were produced by the Army, others by the ...
This collection of photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company Collection includes more than 25,000 glass negatives and transparencies as well as about 300 color photolithograph prints, mostly of the eastern United States. The collection includes the work of a number of ...
Newspaper clippings, postcards, and photographs from the collections of the Towanda Area Historical Society and the Towanda District Library.
The University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI), in collaboration with the School of Information and Library Science (SILS) at UNC Chapel Hill, will preserve, analyze, and make publicly accessible online documents relating to the practice of redlining ...
Trading posts were not just a western phonenoma, as Congress established Federal Trading Houses at the urging of George Washington in 1796. By the time posts were dotting the landscape in northern Arizona, laws had changed several times, but traders were still required to ...
Trails of Hope: Overland Diaries and Letters, 1846-1869 is a collection of the original writings of 49 voyagers on the Mormon, California, Oregon, and Montana trails who wrote while traveling on the trail. Some diarists speak with uncommon eloquence and others with maddening ...
The Trans Mississippi International Exposition of 1898 and the concurrent Indian Congress were held in Omaha, Nebraska from June 1, 1898 through November 1, 1898. The Exposition showcased the developed West from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Coast. Business and community ...
Digitized copy of the Transactions of the Illinois State Academy of Science.
The Transportation History Collection in the Special Collections Library of the University of Michigan contains a unique body of printed and visual materials on transportation technology and travel. Although there are printed items from as early as 1588, the majority of the ...
The digital collection Traveling Culture: Circuit Chautauqua in the Twentieth Century comprises 7,949 publicity brochures, promotional advertisements and flyers for 4,545 lecturers, teachers, preachers, statesmen and politicians, actors, singers and opera stars, glee clubs and ...
The final results will include: a selection of online resources, with a web-based GIS tool to make them useful; products that demonstrate the variety of stories geographic information can help tell; an online curriculum package that shows teachers how to apply the resources and ...
This collection of over 100 images of early Tucson and Southern Arizona pioneers is the result of a collaborative effort by the Arizona Historical Society, the Arizona State Genealogical Society (ASGS) and the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society (AAHAS) Tucson ...
This collection features documents and images from various state government agencies regarding the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921.
The University of Iowa Libraries has collected U.S. federal government information since 1884 in partnership with the Government Printing Office. During that time, hundreds of government-issued posters that promoted services, programs and initiatives or were used as social ...
Located in Vernal, Utah, the Uintah County Library serves as a key information center in its area. These collections contain a wide assortment of historical photos from the Uintah County area.
Located in Vernal, Utah, the Uintah County Library serves as a key information center in its area. These collections contain a wide assortment of historical photos from the Uintah County area.
Located in Vernal, Utah, the Uintah County Library serves as a key information center in its area. These collections contain a wide assortment of historical photos from the Uintah County area.
Collection consists of newspapers and other materials representing American and some British and French underground, alternative and extremist literature. Includes materials from both sides of the political spectrum, such as Black Panther Party, Christian Anti-Communism Crusade, ...
This printed ledger book listing the members of Post 7, South Carolina Department of the United Spanish War Veterans. Information recorded in the ledger includes dates and places of birth, dates of service, home addresses and the names of closest relatives. This ledger is held by ...
The United States and its Territories, drawn from the University of Michigan Library's Southeast Asia collection, comprises the full text of monographs and government documents published in the United States, Spain, and the Philippines between 1870 and 1925. The primary focus of ...
This collection provides access to two student newspapers published at the University at Buffalo between 1921 and 1950. The Bee (1921-1950) focused almost entirely on student activities, often with humor. There was almost no coverage of events beyond the UB campus or on how those ...
Online version of The Bumble Bee, obviously not an official publication of the University of Georgia. It appears to have been issued by graduating students of the University during the period 1889 to 1902. The online collection contains issues from 1889, 1893, 1894, 1897, and ...
The materials in this collection, dating from 1917-1919, document the participation of the students, alumni, faculty and staff of Illinois State Normal University in World War I. During the war, Illinois State Normal University Librarian Ange Milner corresponded with women in ...
The collection is comprised of student projects from the Southeast Asian American Experience class (course number 151H) taught by Linda Vo. The class was first offered in 2003 within the Asian American Studies Program at the University of California, Irvine. Students' projects ...
The Web site consists of scanned images of 1,749 biographical sketches of University of Georgia students prior to 1901 that were collected to celebrate 100 years of classes at the Athens campus. Although the word "alumni" was used, the project attempted to collect biographical ...
The approximately 1,100 SACS documents included in this database are from the 1999-2000 SACS Self Study undertaken by the University of Georgia for accreditation purposes. SACS (Southern Association of Colleges and Schools) is a private, non-profit, voluntary organization founded ...
The Illinois Built Environment collection provides to the public for the first time, a first-hand view of selected original documents used to shape the Campus. Among others, items include hand sketches of campus plans, original trace and linen drawings of many of the Central ...
The collection includes digitized books about history of the University of Illinois and persons associated with it since it was founded in 1867. This collection is a subset of the University of Illinois Digitized Books Collection.
This digital collection of maps from course catalogs and other archival sources documents the growth of the University of Iowa throughout the 20th century. Early items include an 1893 pacing survey of what is now the Pentacrest and Sanborn fire insurance maps. The collection also ...
Bookbinding models are used to exemplify and demonstrate the various mechanisms of books. They range from practical to experimental and may reproduce traditional bookbinding techniques of various cultures. Bill Anthony, past Conservator of the University of Iowa Libraries, was ...
The Department of Physical Education for Women at The University of Iowa was a pioneer in the development of graduate study and professional training as well as athletic opportunities for women. The records of the department held by the Iowa Women's Archives span more than 100 ...
This collection traces the growth of the university through, among other things, the buildings as they were first erected on campus. Represented are images of virtually every campus building, the Quad, the athletic facilities, and the university farm, including new buildings ...
The University of New Mexico University Archives' online collection represents a small portion of the University Archives. The University Archives was established in 1985 in conjunction with planning for the University Centennial celebration in 1989. The purpose of the archives ...
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the founding of UNO, the Earl K. Long Library Oral History committee conducted audio and videotaped interviews with University professors, administrators, and students who reviewed events concerned with the early years of the institution. ...
The Supreme Court of Louisiana holds the distinction of being the state's highest court, or, as it is often called, the court of last resort in Louisiana. By order of the Court on November 4, 1976, its historical archives-defined as those records created from the Court's ...
The Survey Research Center at the University of New Orleans (the "UNO Poll") exists to serve the research, teaching and service needs of the University and of the larger community. The Center promotes socially significant research with public policy implications as well as ...
Historic photographs of the University of St. Mary of the Lake.
These images, dating from the 1920s to the 1950s, document the evolution of the University's physical structures.
The University of South Carolina Football Program Covers showcases the unique artwork created to support and promote Gamecock football. The collection contains program covers ranging from 1923 to present.
These student examinations date largely from the second half of the 19th century, a period in which the University of South Carolina underwent significant changes not only in its curriculum but also in its student body, its faculty and its educational goals.
An assortment of photographs of department chairs, university buildings, and professors related to the University's Health Sciences.
The University of Utah Photo Archives contain many thousands of photos spanning many topics.
These photographs reflect University of Washington campus history from the time the Territorial University was established in the Central Business District of Seattle in 1861 to later days when the campus was transferred to its present location. The cornerstone of the university ...
This growing collection will ultimately contain digitized copies of catalogues and yearbooks of the University. Currently, the collection includes the Furman University Bonhomie yearbooks, dating 1901 - 1932 and 58 of the Greenville Women's College Course Catalogues, spanning ...
The goal of the UA Archives is to preserve original documents, photographs, and oral histories, while providing increased visibility and improved access to these valuable primary reference sources. The Upper Arlington Public Library initiated the program in November 2002. Soon ...
The Upper Mississippi Valley Digital Image Archive eventually will consist of a searchable database of thousands of digital images from local history collections covering the 1860s through the 1950s ...
BYU Idaho's collection of historical sketches of Upper Snake River Valley settlers from 1883 to 1893.
In October 2006, the Field Museum Library's Photo Archives began a project that was funded by the Library Services Technology Act through the Honorable Jesse White, Illinois Secretary of State and State Librarian. The purpose of the project was to use digital technology to create ...
The USF Library is pleased to provide this collection of digital materials produced from the USF Archives. This collection contains digital images of photographs, letters, newspaper articles, pamphlets and brochures pertaining to the evolution of the USF Library and the ...
The USS Arizona became infamous on December 7th, 1941 as the first U.S. battleship sunk during World War II. It continues to be in the forefront of American consciousness as a memorial to the servicemen who died during the war. The Arizona Capitol Museum is home to the silver ...
Case files consist of letters to the Governor, a formal application for a pardon, petitions and letters of support from the public and officials connected to the case and during the first 40 years, case files often contained court transcripts, biographical sketches, prison ...
The Utah Construction-Utah International Collection consists of the company's annual reports spanning from 1947 to 1976, a collection of photographs highlighting the company's founders and laborers, a scrapbook collection spotlighting the Hoover Dam Project, and lectures, ...
Digitized state (Utah) historical newspapers. Full text/keyword searchable.
Brand books contain all livestock brands and ear marks registered with the State Department of Agriculture. Livestock is assumed to include all types of animals raised for pleasure or for profit. The 1917 law was the first to specifically mention cattle, horses, and mules as ...
This collection contains news clippings collected by the Governor's office from various sources. They document, through print and television media coverage, events and activities concerning Governor Michael O. Leavitt. They also include information about issues relating to both ...
This collection consists of photographs collected or generated by the Governor's Office during the administration of Michael O. Leavitt. The photographs may be prints, negatives, or both for the same event or subject. Major types of events include election campaigns, parades, ...
This series consists of scrapbooks created by Governor Walker's daughters and members of her office. Contents include newspaper clippings, letters, programs and other memorabilia from both her tenure as governor (2003-2004) and lieutenant governor (1993-2003).
An assortment of various, historical laws, ordinances, and legal documents pertaining to the greater Utah area. Most of these were in effect before Utah was established as a state in 1896.
This series documents the legislative process in the Utah House of Representatives. The series contains the working copies of House bills, claims (through 1915), petitions (until 1921), memorials, reports (1897 only) and resolutions. The working copy includes the bill as ...
These photographs, taken from the Utah State Historical Society Classified Photograph Collection, are in high demand by our patrons. Prints of these photos are available for browsing at the Research Center.
Continually published from 1909 to 1971, Utah State University's yearbook, the Buzzer, captures in its pages a rich history of small-town college life in Logan, Utah ...
A century's worth of images from Utah State University's past (1880s-1980s) depict the changing faces and landscape on campus, from the university's early years when women's gym classes and military cadet formations took place inside Old Main's auditorium (1890s), to 1906 when ...
The materials housed by the Special Collections & Archives have been collected for the benefit of the public and are available for use by researchers. Historically, however, the public has not been aware of the research possibilities of archival material. Making digitized ...
This digital collection brings to light many elusive reports written about Utah by state and government agencies, but not widely distributed. Full of interesting and significant research, these hard-to-find reports contain baseline data as well as perspectives from earlier eras. ...
The Utonian - The annual yearbook of the University of Utah, beginning in 1905.
The digital images in this collection, made available by the Sangamon Valley Collection at the Lincoln Library in Springfield, Illinois are drawn from the larger physical collection and show Vachel Lindsay, his family, Elizabeth Graham, the Lindsay Verse Speaking Choir (1940) and ...
Since its founding in 1894, Van Alen Institute has produced more than 2,400 design competitions that have engaged an international community of architects, student designers, educators, and civic leaders. The Design Archive's digital collection presents a unique selection of ...
This collection is comprised of publications and other printed ephemera on Southeast Asian refugees in California and the United States that were accumulated during the course of his work by Van Le, a consultant in bilingual resources at the California State Department of ...
Vanishing Georgia comprises nearly 18,000 photographs documenting more than 100 years of Georgia history and life. These images cover family and business life, street scenes and architecture, agriculture, school and civic activities, landscapes, and important individuals and ...
Verla Birrell was born on November 24, 1903 in Tacoma, Washington to James Walter and Elfie Naylor Birrell. She was a Member, of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Birrell graduated in 1929 from the University of Utah with a B.S. degree; Claremont M.F.A. in 1942; ...
In 1923, the Victor Animatograph Corporation of Davenport, Iowa made the world's first 16mm motion picture projector, or "animatograph." The company continued to pave the way in film technology throughout the first part of the twentieth century. This digital collection contains ...
Among the most important founders of American photography, the French-born Victor Prevost (1820-1881) moved to New York in 1850 and opened a studio. Prevost created some of the earliest paper prints of the city, utilizing the negative/positive collotype process invented by ...
The Charles and Laura Dohm Shields Trade Card Collection is housed in the Walter Havighurst Special Collections Library at Miami University. Donated in 1987 by Charles Dohm Shields the collection contains several thousand advertising trade cards dating from the late 19th and ...
Valentines from the Victorian period.
African Americans have contributed their talents, skills, and culture to the State of Maryland. As early as the first settlers who arrived in the state, African American life has been an integral part of Maryland's history. This collection of mostly black and white photographs ...
Old Morenci and Metcalf mining townsites were located on the eastern border of Arizona from 1870 - 1984. Morenci was known as "Joy Camp", (named after Captain Miles Joy). In 1882, "Joy Camp" was renamed "Morenci' by William Church, head of the Detroit Copper Company. Metcalf was ...
Excerpt from "A Little Bit of History: the Village of Kildeer, " by Clayton Brown
The Enid M. Baa Library of the Division of Libraries, Archives and Museums (DLAM) has acquired an extensive collection of memorial booklets since the early 1970's for U. S. Virgin Islands residents. Booklets are usually more than 10 pages long and give details of the life and ...
The digitization of the Libraries' photograph collections is an attempt to display records of important events and personalities in the Virgin Islands' social life and history. Photographs donated by the late Geraldo Guirty represent a significant portion of the collection.
Virtual Motor City is the name of an IMLS sponsored digitization project, carried out by the Wayne State University Library System and the Walter P. Reuther Library ...
VIVA History: Visual Index to the Virtual Archives, is an innovative visually-based interface that uses a 3-D computer model of Manhattan as a click-on map, allowing Web visitors to view the city, present and past, and to access the Museum's collections through an on-line, ...
The almost seven hours of recorded interviews presented here took place between 1932 and 1975 in nine Southern states. Twenty-three interviewees, born between 1823 and the early 1860s, discuss how they felt about slavery, slaveholders, coercion of slaves, their families, and ...
Voices from the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection is an online presentation of a multi-format ethnographic field collection documenting the everyday life of residents of Farm Security Administration (FSA) migrant work camps in central ...
An online multimedia museum collection featuring oral history recordings and historic photographs that document life on the Colorado Plateau. The collection is divided into three sections: People, Places, and Topics. The site is designed to increase viewer's understanding and ...
The NAWSA Collection consists of 167 books, pamphlets and other artifacts documenting the suffrage campaign. They are a subset of the Library's larger collection donated by Carrie Chapman Catt, longtime president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, in November of ...
Prime-time TV in America didn't start in a laboratory at General Electric, RCA or AT&T, but instead at the corner of Dubuque Street and Iowa Avenue in Iowa City. W9XK, the University of Iowa's experimental television station, went on the air January 25, 1933, with a weekly or ...
The Walt Whitman Archive is a dynamic site devoted to Whitman's poetry, published works, manuscripts, and life.
The Walter Mason Camp digital collection includes 86 photographic images, centering on Camp's interest in the Indian Wars of North America occurring between 1865 and 1890. These images, from the larger collection of 218 photographs housed in the L. Tom Perry Special Collections, ...
Walter Wataru Muramoto (1915-1984) was an amateur photographer from Redondo Beach, California. Muramoto, a nisei, learned about taking pictures from his father, a photographer who specialized in school photos in Japan. While incarcerated at Rohwer concentration camp with his ...
Documents from the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society about the War of 1812.
Propaganda, the systematic dispersal of a doctrine, peaked in the United States during World War I and World War II. The United States government utilized propaganda measures to mobilize its citizens and make them more aware of the immediate tasks of preparing for war and the ...
As part of a grant from the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelly Foundation, the Waring Historical Library is photographing 500 objects from its' collection of medical artifacts. The artifacts date to the 18th century, and include pharmacy containers, surgical instruments, and bleeding ...
Spanning from the mid 1920s through the 1950s, the Theodor Horydczak collection (about 14,350 photographs online) documents the architecture and social life of the Washington metropolitan area in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, including exteriors and interiors of commercial, ...
Washington during the Civil War: The Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft, 1861-1865 presents three manuscript volumes, totaling 1,240 digital images, that document daily life in Washington, D. C., through the eyes of Horatio Nelson Taft (1806-1888), an examiner for the U. S. Patent ...
With music and lyrics written by long time Des Moines area musician Bob Cook, the album "We Love Iowa" was published in 1979 as a promotional album for an area Savings & Loan Association. The eleven songs on the album, from the signature tune "We Love Iowa&" to "Are You Goin' to ...
Among the best known of the Western History Collections resources is the Photographic Archives, with its holdings of over 250,000 prints and negatives. With an emphasis on the American Southwest and West for the period 1870-1940, the Photographic Archives is a major source for ...
This site contains information on the women's suffrage movement in the greater Rochester region on Western New York. The site is built around biographies of 35 suffragists from the region and contains digitized images of photographs, books, calendars, letters, and other ...
A collection of digitized primary source material on Western Trails - broadly defined - including native trails, roads, highways, and westward migration.
The Western Waters Digital Library will be a distributed collection of materials from research institutions in the Western United States of America. Water pervades all issues in the West, from agriculture, energy, native peoples and settlers, to recreation and water rights.
The Western Ways Features Company Photographs were selected from over 22,000 photographic prints and negatives contained within the Western Ways Feature Manuscript and Photograph Collection, ca. 1930-1970. The images include localities and landscapes throughout Arizona and ...
Westlake, Ohio has a rich history as part of the Western Reserve region. In an effort to preserve and share information and images from our history, we are building online collections of images and documents. Employing computer technology makes it possible for users to quickly ...
This selection of items from Mystic Seaport's archival collections includes logbooks, diaries, letters, business papers, and published narratives of voyages and travels. The unique maritime perspective of these materials offers a rich look at the events, culture, beliefs, and ...
Family photos and documents belonging to library district residents.
The White River Valley Museum preserves and shares the history of the area known by the pioneers as the White River Valley (Auburn, Kent, Algona, and Pacific). This mission is carried out primarily through the operation of the museum, its exhibits, research collection, ...
The online presentation of The Wilbur and Orville Wright Papers at the Library of Congress, comprising about 10,121 library items or approximately 49,084 digital images, documents the lives of Wilbur and Orville Wright and highlights their pioneering work which led to the world's ...
The Willa Cather Archive is an ambitious endeavor to create a rich, useful, and widely-accessible site for the study of Willa Cather's life and writings. To that end, we are providing digital editions of Cather texts and scholarship free to the public as well as creating a large ...
The William A. Keleher collection contains a variety of materials pertaining to the history of New Mexico. As a historian, Keleher conducted thorough research on the territorial era of the State. As a prominent lawyer and citizen of the State in the 1900's, Keleher's legal work ...
Formerly owned by wealthy Charleston merchant William Ancrum (ca. 1722-1808), this single volume (171 pages, bound in vellum) contains both a letter book and financial accounts that reflect the financial impact of the American Revolution on this South Carolina businessman and ...
William C. Brumfield, Professor of Russian Studies at Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, has extensively photographed and written about the wooden architecture of the Russian North, the jumping-off point for the explorers, traders, and missionaries who colonized Siberia. ...
Pennsylvania-born William Davis Hassler (1887-1920) moved to New York in 1905, and from 1909 to his death, he made a successful living here as a commercial photographer. This collection includes images of Manhattan from the Financial District to Inwood in northern Manhattan, made ...
This collection of one hundred fifty-three manuscripts begins in 1858 when Rutherford was courting Sallie Fair, the daughter of Simeon Fair, of Newberry, S.C. The courtship of William ("Drate") Rutherford and Sallie Fair was interrupted in 1861 by secession and war.
This collection consists of 84 scans of 4x5 glass plate negatives taken between 1878 and 1882 by photographer William Edward Hook. The photos include scenes of buildings, life, people, railroads, and scenic vistas of the Salt Lake area and Utah ...
From the mid 1950s through the early 1980s, William Gedney (1932-1989) photographed throughout the United States, in India, and in Europe. From the commerce of the street outside his Brooklyn apartment to the daily chores of unemployed coal miners, from the indolent lifestyle of ...
William Hale Kirk created this collection of panoramic views depicting roadways, meadows, and other scenic sites of Central Park around 1900. Many of these photographs were included as illustrations in the popular book, The Art of Landscape Architecture by Samuel Parsons Jr., ...
The William Hayes Papers are primarily family letters written from 1830-1857, years in which Hayes and his wife Anna moved from Galway, New York to Cleveland, Ohio, then to Fort Clark, Illinois (present-day Peoria) and finally to Randolph County, Illinois. However, they also ...
The photographs and art work, which comprise the bulk of the William Henry Jackson collection in the L. Tom Perry Special Collections, include 1,082 individual items, of which 1,079 can be found in this digital collection. There is an astonishing range of subjects and media, and ...
The resources available at this site consist of selected documents from the William Holmes McGuffey Papers, held by the Walter Havighurst Special Collections Library at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. The major portion of the McGuffey Papers was collected by Mrs. Mary (Thompson ...
In 2004 the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Research Center acquired an extensive archival collection from Professor William Innes Homer, one of America's most important and well-known scholars of American art. Homer received his doctoral degree in art history from Harvard in 1961, and ...
The William P. Gottlieb Collection, comprising over sixteen hundred photographs of celebrated jazz artists, documents the jazz scene from 1938 to 1948, primarily in New York City and Washington, D.C. In 1938 Gottlieb began working for the Washington Post, where he wrote and ...
The journal covers Tennent's trek though the S.C. back-country, at times in the company of William Henry Drayton and Rev. Oliver Hart in an effort to persuade Loyalist Tories to join the Patriot cause. The album contains papers documenting his life as a Presbyterian minister in ...
Records of the architectural firm Wurster, Bernardi, and Emmons (WBE) span the years 1922-1974, and include the files of its parent firm, William W. Wurster (Wurster). The collection is organized into six series: Professional Papers, Office Records, Project Records 1922-1944, ...
The Wilmette Public Library history site displays photographs, letters, and documents to illustrate the history of the village of Wilmette and New Trier Township in Cook County, Illinois, U.S.A. A special focus of the collection is the history of the Wilmette Public Library.
Art from the collections of the Wilmette Public Library District.
Interviews with local Wilmette residents, historic documents, and photographs from the collections of the Wimette Public Library District.
Photographs of historic buildings from the collections of the Wilmette Public Library District.
The Wing Luke Asian Museum engages the Asian Pacific American community and the public in exploring issues related to the history, culture, and art of Asian Pacific Americans. The images selected and scanned for this Web site include Asian American people, clubs, and businesses ...
This collection includes images of Charles Shepard Davis, David Bancroft Johnson, James Pinckney Kinard, Phillip Lader, Mary Hall Leonard, Shelton J. Phelps, Henry Radcliffe Sims, and Charles B. Vail.
This collection includes an assortment of publications from Winthrop University, including bulletins, catalogs, prospectus, and two volumes of the Winthrop Viewbook.
This collection includes historical and current images of the buildings on the Winthrop University campus.
This collection includes images from around the Winthrop university campus. Images are from 1890-1980.
This collection includes images of buildings, structures, Winthrop presidents, and two timelines of the university.
14 photographs. The date of the first May Day is disputed, but most agree on 1929. May Day was the final celebration of the year before graduation. It was celebrated as a time of festivity, the opening of spring, and a remembrance of the traditional May Day. The May Court ...
This collection includes images of events and daily life around Winthrop University, including Army Air Corps Cadets from 1943, dances, home demonstration, The Swanks dance band, and the Winthrop Scrapbook.
The National Woman’s Party, representing the militant wing of the suffrage movement, utilized open public demonstrations to gain popular attention for the right of women to vote in the United States. Their picketing, pageants, parades, and demonstrations—as well as their ...
Women Working, 1800-1930 explores women's roles in the US economy between 1800 and the Great Depression and includes documentation of working conditions, conditions in the home, costs of living, recreation, health and hygiene, conduct of life, policies and regulations governing ...
Woody Guthrie and the Archive of American Folk Song: Correspondence, 1940-1950 highlights letters between Woody Guthrie and staff of the Archive of American Folk Song (now the Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center) at the Library of Congress. The letters were written ...
In honor of the Manuscript Division's centennial, its staff has selected for online display approximately ninety representative documents spanning from the fifteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. Included are the papers of presidents, cabinet ministers, members of ...
Working in Paterson: Occupational Heritage in an Urban Setting presents 470 interview excerpts and 3882 photographs from the Working in Paterson Folklife Project of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. The four-month study of occupational culture in Paterson, ...
Worklore: Brooklyn Workers Speak, a joint research/exhibition project of The Brooklyn Historical Society and the Brooklyn Public Library, explores the work lives of Brooklynites as they made, and continue to make, their living in the borough. Using photographs and personal quotes ...
The photographs reproduced in this online collection were taken under the auspices of the Works Progress Administration of Maryland's Division of Operations. Although they document only a fraction of the WPA projects that occurred throughout the state, they help to convey the ...
This collection, from the Illinois State Library, contains monographs and pamphlets on such subjects as Illinois' participation in the war effort, the role of women, and educational challenges during what was called "the Great War ...
Samuel Bloom (1895-1976), a first generation Ukrainian immigrant and recent City College graduate, served as private first class and signaler with Company L, 325th Infantry Battalion, US Army, from October 1917 till July 1919. His regular letters home about his World War I ...
World War I obituaries from The State newspaper in Columbia, SC.
The World War I posters include posters made in America and in France between 1914 and 1920 to advertise war efforts and issues.
On April 6, 1917, the United States declared war on Germany and its allies, entering a conflict that had raged since August 1914. Millions of American men and women served their nation in the Great War, including over 42,000 Floridians: 35,829 Floridians served in the U.S. Army, ...
This collection, from the Illinois State Library, contains United States government documents on subjects such as rationing and conservation, women's work, civil defense, the Japanese interment, the development of the United Nations, and more.
Audio and video recordings of oral histories are accompanied by photographs, correspondence, and memorabilia from private collections to illustrate the home front and warfront lives of Coal City, Illinois area residents during World War II. Special tribute is given to those who ...
During World War II the United States government issued posters on topics such as national security, rationing and conservation, investing in war bonds, military recruitment, civil defense, and industrial production. These posters were part of an aggressive propaganda campaign ...
A collection of letters written by former IWU faculty member Fred "Bud" Brian to members of his family during his time in the Army Air Corps: 1943-1945. Many of these letters contain drawings and some have photographs and telegrams associated with them.
World War II had a profound impact on the daily lives of Marylanders. On the home front, state residents contributed to the war effort in a variety of ways, including producing military equipment and other vital goods at factories and shipyards, growing “victory” gardens, and ...
The State Historical Society of Iowa collected, sorted, and filed about 800,000 Iowa newspaper clippings documenting Iowa's war efforts both at home and on foreign soil. More than 30 topics are covered by the clippings, including business and labor, casualties, education and ...
The World War II Military Situation Maps contains maps showing troop positions beginning on June 6, 1944 to July 26, 1945. Starting with the D-Day Invasion, the maps give daily details on the military campaigns in Western Europe, showing the progress of the Allied Forces as they ...
The Government and Geographic Information and Data Services Department at Northwestern University Library has a comprehensive collection of over 300 posters issued by U.S. Federal agencies from the onset of war through 1945.
This collection contains WWI Photographs, WWII Photographs, WWII POW Camp 1943 to 1946, and WWII POW Oral History Project from Weber State University.
"The World's Columbian Exposition of 1893" website was created to provide world-wide access to thousands of illustrations and full-text images of the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 for purposes of teaching and research. The site highlights four works focusing on various aspects of ...
As the planned outcome of Chicago's 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, The Field Museum may well be called "the Fair that never ended ...
This collection of design proposals and renderings for the 1939 World's Fair includes depictions of buildings, displays, and objects, demonstrating the development of the fair as it evolved from 1936 to 1939. Many structures were built as depicted in the drawings, others were ...
Worthington Libraries and the Worthington Historical Society in Ohio have partnered to build Worthington Memory. The goal of this collaborative program is to collect and preserve local history materials through the creation of a digital library, providing greater access to and ...
The Works Progress Administration Los Angeles Household Census Cards collection dates from 1939. The physical cards which number nearly half a million items are owned by USC's Information Services, Regional History Collection. More than a quarter of the collection has been ...
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) conducted a land use survey from Dec. 18, 1933 to May 8, 1939 for the City of Los Angeles, Department of City Planning. It covered approximately 460 square miles within the boundary of the City of Los Angeles and resulted in a series of ...
The stories presented here were created by writers working for the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Project Administration (WPA) in Florida. These writings present a variety of subject matter, from folk stories and nature writings to scientific research and Florida history, ...
The WPA/TVA Archaeological Photograph Archive is an on-line database of information describing photographs taken by Works Progress Administration (WPA) workers of archaeological projects conducted in preparation for Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) dam construction in the 1930s. ...
Among the materials the Wright Brothers estate gave the Library of Congress in 1948 were 300 glass plate negatives and two nitrate negatives, most taken by the Wright brothers themselves between 1897 and 1928. About 200 views from 1900 to 1911 document their successes and ...
Between 1875 and 1925, American frontier fiction found a new landscape—the Southwest—and it's most popular genre—the western. The mythical world created by the popular writers of the period such as Bret Harte, Owen Wister, and Zane Grey, was situated in the ...
The Thomas Wentworth Higginson Collection at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln is part of the larger Carlton and Territa Lowenberg Collection at the UNL Archives and Special Collections. The Lowenberg Collection's primary focus is Emily Dickinson, and it contains many ...
The Wurts Brothers Company (1894-1979) was among the first studios in New York City to specialize in architectural photography. Founded by brothers Norman and Lionel Wurts, the firm earned commissions from numerous New York City architects, developers, and contractors. They ...
Springfield College was initially incorporated as the School for Christian Workers in 1885. In 1890, the name was changed to the International YMCA Training School at Springfield. The images reflect the activities of local, national, and international YMCAs from approximately ...
Springfield College was initially incorporated as the School for Christian Workers in 1885. In 1890, the name was changed to the International YMCA Training School at Springfield. The images reflect the activities of local, national, and international YMCAs from approximately ...
Springfield College was initially incorporated as the School for Christian Workers in 1885. In 1890, the name was changed to the International YMCA Training School at Springfield. The images reflect the activities of local, national, and international YMCAs from approximately ...
Springfield College was initially incorporated as the School for Christian Workers in 1885. In 1890, the name was changed to the International YMCA Training School at Springfield. The images reflect the activities of local, national, and international YMCAs from approximately ...
Springfield College was initially incorporated as the School for Christian Workers in 1885. In 1890, the name was changed to the International YMCA Training School at Springfield. The images reflect the activities of local, national, and international YMCAs from approximately ...
Springfield College was initially incorporated as the School for Christian Workers in 1885. In 1890, the name was changed to the International YMCA Training School at Springfield. The images reflect the activities of local, national, and international YMCAs from approximately ...
This organization consisted of Jewish residents of Charleston who supported the creation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine. The organization is known alternately in the minutes as Bnei Zion and the Charleston Zionist Society. The records cover the meetings held from 1917 through ...
The Zora Neale Hurston Plays at the Library of Congress present a selection of ten plays written by Hurston (1891-1960), author, anthropologist, and folklorist. Deposited as typescripts in the United States Copyright Office between 1925 and 1944, most of the plays remained ...