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A gubernatorial project featuring biographies, photographs, archival finding aids, state-of-the-state addresses, and much more relating to the administrations of Charles Haskell (1907-1911) through ...
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 ...
The 1936 Gainesville Tornado: Disaster and Recovery provides online access to a historical film depicting the extensive damage from the severe multi-funnel tornado strike that devastated Gainesville, ...
This collection contains two books relating to the history of Western New York: the History of Niagara County, N.Y. and the History of the City of Buffalo and Erie County.
The 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 ...
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 ...
Publicity photographs of actors and musicians who appeared at New Orleans theaters during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Handwritten notes on the back of many of the photos identify the ...
A collection encompassing the 1948 Oklahoma Supreme Court case of Ada Lois Sipuel, the state's first black woman admitted to the University of Oklahoma law school.
The Arizona Adjutants General exhibit is comprised of photographs of Adjutants General in Arizona from territorial days to the present. An Adjutant General is the highest ranking officer of a state's ...
This collection consists of a set of six mosaic aerial photographs of the city of Syracuse, New York taken in 1926. They are currently housed with the aerial photography collections in the Map Room of ...
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 Albany Library Historical Photograph Collection includes images related to the history of Albany, from the late 1800s to 2001. Notable aspects of the collection includes images of homes and ...
Alfred Rudolph Waud (1828-1891) achieved prominence as a "special artist" for national periodicals during the second half of the 19th century. The London-born Waud's specialty was producing drawings- ...
Collection consists of correspondence, photographs, publications, and printed material related to the activities and interests of Alice Greenfield McGrath, including Mexican American causes in Los ...
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 ...
Diaries, maps and trails of Mormon pioneers and their westward migration in the 1850s.
Vintage postcards from Amherst, Ohio.
The collection is comprised of photographs of businesses and cultural festivals within Southeast Asian American communities. The photographs were taken by Anne Frank, librarian of the Southeast Asian ...
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 ...
This website illustrates with text and images the dramatic physical development of Nebraska's largest academic institution, the University of Nebraska, and the people who committed their lives to it. ...
The Archives of Cajun and Creole Folklore, housed by the Center for Louisiana Studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Begun in 1974, the collection is the most comprehensive repository of ...
The photograph collections in the Arizona State Archives include images from state government as well as private collections. Archives' photographs focus upon the unique cultural heritage of the state ...
Attorney General Opinions (1892 to current, in process) are issued when requested by the legislature (or either house of the legislature), any public officer of the State, or a county attorney, on a ...
Ruth Reinhold (1902-1985), an aviation pioneer, was one of the first woman pilots in Arizona. She marked many milestones, from barnstorming to teaching pilots to fly four-engine bombers during World ...
With the Civil War still going on and Carleton still fighting the Navajos, the U.S. War Department authorized Governor John Noble Goodwin of Arizona to raise five companies of Arizona Volunteers in ...
The Arizona County and Local Publications collection has been contributed by the Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records' Law and Research Library. Digital publications produced by and for ...
Executive Orders are issued by the Governor of Arizona to establish boards or commissions or to authorize the performance of other functions that are appropriate to the executive authority of the ...
This collection consists of still images of cities, towns, scenic viewpoints, lumbering activities, and streetscapes from across Arizona, 1864-1970.
Latinos have contributed greatly to Arizona's heritage and history and in numerous endeavors. One of the more valiant contributions is that of risking one’s life for their country. Throughout Arizona’ ...
The Arizona State Agency Publications collection has been contributed by the Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records' Law and Research Library. Digitized publications produced by and for ...
Government records protect the right of citizens, promote accountability for government officials and provide continuity. Records in the Arizona State Archives were created by individuals or agencies ...
This exhibit is small representative sample of items in the archives of the Postal History Foundation in Tucson. Each page contains, in philatelic terms, a "cover" - either an envelope or postcard ...
Federal publications are printed by the authority of Congress or by executive or judicial agencies at taxpayer expense and are distributed to federal agencies, their clientele and to depository ...
The many wonderful photographs in the Arizona Historical Foundation's collections have inspired this exhibit of Arizona Women and their diverse contributions. Historians have often downplayed the role ...
The photographs in this collection depict everyday sights of Arthur, Illinois, from the early 1900's to the midle of the century. Many of the photographs in this collection are made available through ...
A museum collection of the Nebraska State Historical Society, a virtual exhibit of Thomas Berger Johnson's work not currently on exhibit. A Swedish American artist, Thomas B. Johnson was born in Omaha ...
The organizational records in this collection document the work of APITEN's central office staff in San Francisco, and outreach to communities throughout California, as well as Mini-Grant programs, ...
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 ...