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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 ...
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 ...
The Upper Mississippi Valley Digital Image Archive eventually will consist of a searchable database of thousands of digital images from local history collections covering the 1860s through the 1950s ...
The 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 ...
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 ...
Extensive resources for genealogy enthusiasts, particularly those relating to Illinois. General and professional directories, social registers, local histories, portrait and biographical records, " ...
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 ...
BYU Idaho's collection of historical sketches of Upper Snake River Valley settlers from 1883 to 1893.
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, ...
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 ...
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. ...
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) ...
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 ...
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 ...
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' ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Arizona Adjutants General exhibit is comprised of photographs of Adjutants General in Arizona from territorial days to the present. An Adjutant General is the highest ranking officer of a state's ...
AlabamaMosaic is a repository of digital materials on Alabama's history, culture, places, and people. Its purpose is to make unique historical treasures from Alabama's archives, libraries, museums, ...
The 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Government records protect the right of citizens, promote accountability for government officials and provide continuity. Records in the Arizona State Archives were created by individuals or agencies ...
This exhibit is small representative sample of items in the archives of the Postal History Foundation in Tucson. Each page contains, in philatelic terms, a "cover" - either an envelope or postcard ...
Federal publications are printed by the authority of Congress or by executive or judicial agencies at taxpayer expense and are distributed to federal agencies, their clientele and to depository ...
"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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Civil Rights Digital Library Initiative represents one of the most ambitious and comprehensive effort to date to deliver educational content on the Civil Rights Movement via the Web. The struggle ...
The Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive is an Internet-accessible, fully searchable database of digitized versions of rare and unique library and archival resources on race relations in ...
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 ...
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 ...
A collection including photographs, newspaper clippings, advertising, documents and more highlighting the content of these scrapbooks.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Diaries, maps and trails of Mormon pioneers and their westward migration in the 1850s.
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Latinos have contributed greatly to Arizona's heritage and history and in numerous endeavors. One of the more valiant contributions is that of risking one’s life for their country. Throughout Arizona’ ...
The Arizona 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
A collection of digitized books about literature, art, music, and theater with an Illinois focus. The collection is a subset of the University of Illinois Digitized Books Collection.
Illinois’ 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, ...
IDA (Illinois Digitial Archives) is really two services under one roof. The first of these services is a search engine for images, sound files, and other multi-media events that exist on Internet ...
The Illinois Government Information search engine is a joint project of the Illinois State Library and the University of Illinois, providing search capabilities across the state government websites of ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Local history collection of Bainridge, Ohio.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
This collection contains the Buffalo Address Book & Family Directory from 1883-1894.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
"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 ...
"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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Chronicles of the history of Oklahoma, 1923-2002.
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 ...
In celebration of Glendale’s approaching 100-year anniversary, this collection of City Council minutes dating from August 1st, 1910 to December 28th, 1914 has been compiled electronically for the ...
The 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 ...
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 ...
"The Southern Homefront, 1861-1865," documents Southern life during the Civil War, especially the unsuccessful attempt to create a viable nation state as evidenced in both private and public life. " ...
The theme of this collection is the unique history and culture of Southeastern Arizona. The centerpiece of the collection is a video created by the Cochise College Library media department that ...
In 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 ...
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 Utonian - The annual yearbook of the University of Utah, beginning in 1905.
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
As the planned outcome of Chicago’s 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition, The Field Museum may well be called "the Fair that never ended ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Denver Public Library, in partnership with the City of Denver, the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries, Colorado Historical Society, University of Colorado at Denver Auraria Library, and ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Rutherford B. Hayes kept a diary from age twelve to his death at age 70 in Two of President Rutherford B. Hayes' numerous diaries. His collection of handwritten journals are at the Hayes Presidential ...
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 ...
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 ...
Historical treasures of southeastern Ohio.
This collection currently contains maps and atlases of the United States, Nebraska, county and regional maps and atlases relating to the history of Nebraska.
This collection captures what it was like to be a student at Yavapai College when it was a small, rural community college in the late 1960's – early 1980's. It includes the first published College ...
Published yearly since 1919, and well illustrated, the Warbler conveys information on students and faculty, chronicles important cultural and sporting events, describes organizational activities, and ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
What was it like to be a minority in Cache Valley during the Civil Rights era ...
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 ...
The Find-It! Illinois Program is the Illinois State Library's initiative to establish and administer a statewide digital library. Key components include the Illinois Government Information (IGI) ...
The 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- ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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) ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
BYU Idaho's archive of their student newspaper from 1933 to 1972.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
John B. Jervis (1795-1885) was America's leading consulting engineer of the antebellum era (1820 - 1860). Jervis was a pioneer in the development of canals and railroads for the expanding United ...
To commemorate the 140th anniversary of the hanging of John Brown in Charles Town, West Virginia, the West Virginia State Archives placed online a new electronic database of materials pertaining to ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
"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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Louisiana Gumbo: A Recipe for Empowerment will give educators ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
This web site will provide a fully searchable and indexed digital library of Samuel Clemens'Mississippi novels and reminiscences (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Life ...
The "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 ...
A collection of selected newspaper clippings, photographs, and assorted ephemera highlighting the events of 1972 in Montpelier, Idaho.
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
"The North Carolina Experience, Beginnings to 1940" is a collection that tells the story of the Tar Heel State as seen through representative histories, descriptive accounts, institutional reports, ...
"North Carolinians and the Great War" examines how World War I shaped the lives of different North Carolinians on the battlefield and on the home front as well how the state and federal government ...
The North Country Digital History projects represents the opportunity for researchers to gain immediate digital access to important collections housed in libraries, archives, historical document ...
A collection of biographies and autobiographies of notable Illinoisans including politicians, social reformers, educators, journalists, military leaders, labor activists, ministers, jurists, and ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Oral History Collection at UIS consists of material collected by the Sangamon State University Oral History Office from 1971 to 1991. Some oral history memoirs have been added in recent years by ...
Our Americas Archive Partnership (OAAP) is an innovative digital humanities project with a view to supporting scholarly inquiry into the Americas from a hemispheric perspective. Scholars, librarians ...
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 ...
The Reconstruction through Progressivism, 1865-1920 primary source collection includes artifacts contributed by members of the Teaching American History in Louisiana (TAHIL) partnership. Current ...
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 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 ...
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, ...
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.
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 ...
The Samuel Hugh Hawkins Diary, January - July 1877, donated by Georgia State Senator George Hooks to the Lake Blackshear Regional Library System, chronicles Americus, Georgia entrepreneur, lawyer, and ...
The online collection consists of 4,445 maps by the Sanborn Map Company depicting commercial, industrial, and residential areas for 133 municipalities. Originally designed for fire insurance ...
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, ...
Documents reflecting the American Jewish experience.
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 ...
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 ...
The Southern Oregon History Collection brings together books, maps, government documents, oral histories, correspondence and miscellaneous materials that document the unique historical experience of ...
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 ...
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.' ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A collection of books covering topics dealing with early Utah history and Mormon culture.
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 ...
The "Tennessee Documentary History, 1796-1850," contains 2,000 documents and images relating to the history of antebellum Tennessee.
Explore the turbulent times of "Bleeding Kansas." Hundreds of personal letters, diaries, photos, and maps bring to life the settling of Kansas during the fierce debate over slavery.
Texas Heritage Online provides unified online access to Texas' historical documents and images for use by teachers, students, historians, genealogists, and other researchers.
Texas 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 ...
"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 ...
The Thomas and Annie Taylor Dee Collection contains family correspondences, family photographs, a marriage register, and yearbooks from the Dee School of Nursing.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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; ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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- ...
The Walt Whitman Archive is a dynamic site devoted to Whitman's poetry, published works, manuscripts, and life.
Documents from the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society about the War of 1812.
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 ...
The Western Waters Digital Library will be a distributed collection of materials from research institutions in the Western United States of America. Water pervades all issues in the West, from ...
The 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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Capital District Library Council Digital Collections provides online access to digitized materials from libraries, archives, historical societies, museums and cultural organizations in the Capital ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
This collection contains two books relating to the history of Western New York: the History of Niagara County, N.Y. and the History of the City of Buffalo and Erie County.
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The Upper Mississippi Valley Digital Image Archive eventually will consist of a searchable database of thousands of digital images from local history collections covering the 1860s through the 1950s ...
The 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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
Digitized state (Utah) historical newspapers. Full text/keyword searchable.
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive is an Internet-accessible, fully searchable database of digitized versions of rare and unique library and archival resources on race relations in ...
The 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 ...
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 ...
A collection including photographs, newspaper clippings, advertising, documents and more highlighting the content of these scrapbooks.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
With the Civil War still going on and Carleton still fighting the Navajos, the U.S. War Department authorized Governor John Noble Goodwin of Arizona to raise five companies of Arizona Volunteers in ...
The 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A collection of select regional Louisiana newspapers from the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Selected newspaper clippings covering the Basque, Chinese, Hispanic, Japanese groups that settled in Idaho.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
"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 ...
Collection consists of broadsides, clippings, brochures, and other ephemeral materials relating to California. Subjects include: abortion, Alcatraz Island, building and loan associations, California ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Regional Colorado newspapers from 1859-1924.
The story of the Columbia River Basin's ethnic groups has been relatively hidden, and museums, libraries, and scholars have only just begun to gather the records, images, recollections, and artifacts ...
"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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Find-It! Illinois Program is the Illinois State Library's initiative to establish and administer a statewide digital library. Key components include the Illinois Government Information (IGI) ...
The 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- ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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) ...
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 ...
The project provides images of the available resources in Ponce's Autonomous Historical Archive and Museum of History. These materials respond to the History Course syllabus offered at Inter American ...
The 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
Through the collaborative efforts of Long Island archives, historical societies, libraries, museums, and organizations, the people of Long Island will have access to the visual and oral record of Long ...
The 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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
A collection of selected newspaper clippings, photographs, and assorted ephemera highlighting the events of 1972 in Montpelier, Idaho.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Reconstruction through Progressivism, 1865-1920 primary source collection includes artifacts contributed by members of the Teaching American History in Louisiana (TAHIL) partnership. Current ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Topical strengths include California-based Southeast Asian American organizations and events, transnational connections of Southeast Asian Americans with their home countries, and student activities. ...
The Southern Oregon History Collection brings together books, maps, government documents, oral histories, correspondence and miscellaneous materials that document the unique historical experience of ...
The Springfield Aviation Company Collection, 1927-1955, was donated to the Sangamon Valley Collection at Lincoln Library in May 1995 by Craig Isbell, former co-manager of the company. Isbell formed a ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Texas Heritage Online provides unified online access to Texas' historical documents and images for use by teachers, students, historians, genealogists, and other researchers.
Texas 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A collection of digitized primary source material on Western Trails - broadly defined - including native trails, roads, highways, and westward migration.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Capital District Library Council Digital Collections provides online access to digitized materials from libraries, archives, historical societies, museums and cultural organizations in the Capital ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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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 ...
The Upper Mississippi Valley Digital Image Archive eventually will consist of a searchable database of thousands of digital images from local history collections covering the 1860s through the 1950s ...
The 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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
"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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
With the Civil War still going on and Carleton still fighting the Navajos, the U.S. War Department authorized Governor John Noble Goodwin of Arizona to raise five companies of Arizona Volunteers in ...
The 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 ...
A collection of full-text paper and digital resources from Idaho Government Publications, selectively chosen to meet the needs of secondary students.
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 Government Information search engine is a joint project of the Illinois State Library and the University of Illinois, providing search capabilities across the state government websites of ...
Illinois State University History is a growing collection that currently includes campus history books, proceedings of the first university governing board, photographs, campus history videos, and ...
"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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
"The World's Columbian Exposition of 1893" website was created to provide world-wide access to thousands of illustrations and full-text images of the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 for purposes of ...
The 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 ...
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 ...
Records with links to the web sites of digitized serials at the Library of Congress.
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 ...
The Find-It! Illinois Program is the Illinois State Library's initiative to establish and administer a statewide digital library. Key components include the Illinois Government Information (IGI) ...
The 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A collection of selected newspaper clippings, photographs, and assorted ephemera highlighting the events of 1972 in Montpelier, Idaho.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Topical strengths include California-based Southeast Asian American organizations and events, transnational connections of Southeast Asian Americans with their home countries, and student activities. ...
The Southern Oregon History Collection brings together books, maps, government documents, oral histories, correspondence and miscellaneous materials that document the unique historical experience of ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Capital District Library Council Digital Collections provides online access to digitized materials from libraries, archives, historical societies, museums and cultural organizations in the Capital ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Collections on display bear testament to the diverse history of this area. Winslow is one of 41 recognized sites on the Colorado Plateau with fossilized remains of the Columbian Mammoth from the ...
The 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 ...
"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. " ...
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 ...
As the planned outcome of Chicago’s 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition, The Field Museum may well be called "the Fair that never ended ...
The 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 ...
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- ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Maine Memory Network is a statewide database of electronic versions of Maine's Historical Documents, contributed by cultural institutions from around the state, from their own locations.
The Making of Modern Michigan is a collaborative project involving more than 50 Michigan libraries and other organizations. It includes local history materials from communities around the state. ...
Collection contains photographs, posters, letters, and other documents related to the 1932 "The Trunk Murders" case trial and the life of Winnie Ruth Judd. Judd allegedly shot to death her two ...
The 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), ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842, contains approximately 2,000 documents and images relating to the Native American population of the Southeastern United States from the collections ...
The "Tennessee Documentary History, 1796-1850," contains 2,000 documents and images relating to the history of antebellum Tennessee.
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 ...
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 ...
The materials in this collection, dating from 1917-1919, document the participation of the students, alumni, faculty and staff of Illinois State Normal University in World War I. During the war, ...
The 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 ( ...
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 ...
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.
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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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
This collection includes digitized books in numerous subject areas, some of which contain searchable full-text.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
As the planned outcome of Chicago’s 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition, The Field Museum may well be called "the Fair that never ended ...
The 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, ...
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- ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
"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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Collection contains photographs, posters, letters, and other documents related to the 1932 "The Trunk Murders" case trial and the life of Winnie Ruth Judd. Judd allegedly shot to death her two ...
The 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), ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The materials in this collection, dating from 1917-1919, document the participation of the students, alumni, faculty and staff of Illinois State Normal University in World War I. During the war, ...
The 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 ( ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
"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. " ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
John B. Jervis (1795-1885) was America's leading consulting engineer of the antebellum era (1820 - 1860). Jervis was a pioneer in the development of canals and railroads for the expanding United ...
To commemorate the 140th anniversary of the hanging of John Brown in Charles Town, West Virginia, the West Virginia State Archives placed online a new electronic database of materials pertaining to ...
The Maine Memory Network is a statewide database of electronic versions of Maine's Historical Documents, contributed by cultural institutions from around the state, from their own locations.
"The North Carolina Experience, Beginnings to 1940" is a collection that tells the story of the Tar Heel State as seen through representative histories, descriptive accounts, institutional reports, ...
"North Carolinians and the Great War" examines how World War I shaped the lives of different North Carolinians on the battlefield and on the home front as well how the state and federal government ...
The 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, ...
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 ...
This collection comprises records produced by the Southeast Asian Genetics Program (SEAGEP), including correspondence and manuscripts, grant applications, research data regarding birth defects and ...
Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842, contains approximately 2,000 documents and images relating to the Native American population of the Southeastern United States from the collections ...
The "Tennessee Documentary History, 1796-1850," contains 2,000 documents and images relating to the history of antebellum Tennessee.
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
This collection includes paintings by Henry Sugimoto, a Japanese American artist who flourished in the 1930s and continued to paint well into the 1990s.
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 ...
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 ...
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.