Collections containing material about Midwest U.S. (general region)
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 ...
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 ...
Early American history with a focus on the Midwestern states such as Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, and Ohio. The collection is a subset of the University of Illinois Digitized Books Collection.
American Journeys 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 ...
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 ...
Vintage postcards from Amherst, Ohio.
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 first series of the University of Chicago Library’s Archival Photofiles series. Most of the photographs in this series depict University of Chicago buildings, campus plans, landscaping, and ...
Army officers' wives moved west onto the Great Plains with the Army following the Civil War. With the questions of Union and slavery settled, the nation turned its attention to the growing population ...
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 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, ...
Local history collection of Bainridge, Ohio.
Beadwork Masterpieces is a Nebraska State Historical Society exhibit of images of historical Native American Bandolier Bags of the Prairies and Lakes, originally exhibited at the Nebraska History ...
Descriptive information about the history of Bellaire, Ohio.
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 ...
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 ...
Black Swamp Memories is an online scrapbook of historical images and documents illustrating the history and development of the northwestern Ohio region formerly known as the Great Black Swamp. The ...
This online collection of images includes vintage pictures of many of Blair's historic landmarks, structures, and scenes. It includes photographs downtown Blair, Railroad Bridge, Lincoln Memorial ...
The Bloomington-Normal Black History Project was founded in 1982 and its collections span the 19th and 20th centuries. The collection contains photographs, portraits, booklets, articles, and ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Charles Overstreet is a long-time citizen of Flora, Illinois with a passion for photography. During most of his eighty years, Mr. Overstreet has used his camera to record images of history. During ...
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 ...
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 San Francisco Performing Arts Library & Museum's collection of images related to Chinese Theater in California ranges from 1883-2004, although the majority of the photographs document performers ...
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 ...
Strip mining was a major source of employment and very important to the Wilmington Coal Field towns of Coal City, Braidwood, and Wilmington during the 1930's through the 1950's. The Wilmington Coal ...
The Columbus in Photographs database contains pictures from the Columbus Circulating Visuals Collection in the Genealogy, History, and Travel Division at Main Library. The images depict the history of ...
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 ...
Of particular note, the costume collection at the Detroit Historical Museums has over 30,000 items of clothing and accessories that represent a broad range of Detroit's citizens over the past 200 ...
Digging In: The Historic Trails of Nebraska is a web site for archaeological and historical research on Nebraska's immigrant trails ...
Statewide aerial photographs were first acquired for Illinois from 1936 through 1941. This historical collection consists of more than 33,000 photographic paper prints. The original silver nitrate ...
The historic images in this collection come from all corners of the WIU Archives and Special Collections sixteen county collection area, with a special emphasis placed upon Western Illinois University ...
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.
C. William "Doc" Horrell operated a photographic studio in Anna, Illinois and was a key figure in the establishment of both Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIUC) Photographic Services and the ...
This demonstration project provides digital images and descriptions of the Dorothea June Grossbart Historic Costume Collection. The physical collection contains over 400 garments and accessories from ...
The insightful and compassionate photographs of Dorothea Lange (1895 - 1965) have exerted a profound influence on the development of modern documentary photography. Lange's concern for people, her ...
This collection currently contains maps and atlases of the United States, Nebraska, county and regional maps and atlases relating to the history of Nebraska.
Omaha, founded in 1854, is the site of the Union Pacific headquarters and point of eastern origin for the first trans-continental railway to be built across the west, the greatest western trail of the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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- ...
Folkstreams.net collects, preserves, and makes available free streaming video of hard-to-find documentary films about American folk or roots culture, giving wider audience to the independent ...
Extensive resources for genealogy enthusiasts, particularly those relating to Illinois. General and professional directories, social registers, local histories, portrait and biographical records, " ...
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 ...
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 ...
Over 20,000 immigrants are currently being detained by the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Hard Place, a new web art by Lauren Gill and Jenny Polak project allows visitors to enter INS ...
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 ...
Historic images of Jefferson, Ohio. Many of the images in our digital archives come from the Hakala collection. Paul J. Hakala was a local historian and elected County Recorder who created 2 giant ...
Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village's clothing and personal effects collection is recognized by the National Endowment for the Humanities as one of national significance. It contains over 10,000 ...
This collection includes paintings by Henry Sugimoto, a Japanese American artist who flourished in the 1930s and continued to paint well into the 1990s.
The Historic Maps Aurora collection represents a unique historical image and shows the physical changes and growth of Aurora, Illinois. They also show changes in the city's political boundaries such ...
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 ...
Images in this collection are from photographs located in the University Archives and illustrate some of the growth and changes to Illinois Wesleyan University since its founding in 1850. Background ...
Historical Pictures From the Willard, Ohio Area. Includes Railroad Photos; School Pictures; Trolley Photos; Willard Depot; Homesteads & People; Downtown Willard; Downtown Plymouth; Centerton, Ohio; ...
The initial goal of The HistoryMakers is to complete 5,000 interviews of both well-known and unsung African American HistoryMakers within the next five years, creating an archive of unparalleled ...
The Illinois Air Photo Imagebase collection, held by the University of Illinois Library, provides a dynamic history of the geographic features of Illinois in this century when both geographic and ...
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 ...
A collection of historical photographs of Toledo and Northwest Ohio.
Historic images of Lorain, Ohio
In 1994 the Friends of North Suburban Library formed a local history committee. Since that time they have collected scrapbooks, photographs, maps, yearbooks, diaries, letters and other memorabilia ...
Historic images of New Straitsville, Ohio.
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 ...
This wiki contains Inland Riverboat photographs scanned from the rare books collection of The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County.
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 Cullom-Davis Library at Bradley University holds over 1,000 images in Special Collections which were donated by Jack Bradley, a retired photographer for the Peoria Journal Star. The images in this ...
Jackson Davis, an educational reformer and amateur photographer, took nearly 6,000 photographs of African American schools, teachers and students throughout the Southeastern United States. His ...
Postcards from Dayton Ohio, including postcards of the 1913 flood.
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 one hundred and eighty-eight photographs sent by John C.H. Grabill to the Library of Congress for copyright protection between 1887 and 1892 are thought to be the largest surviving collection of ...
Joslyn Art Museum is noted especially for its collection of art of the American West and is world-renowned for its collection of works by the Swiss artist Karl Bodmer, whose watercolors and prints ...
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 ...
Early 20th century history of labor and social reform movements, with emphasis on Illinois and Chicago. Topics include trade unions, temperance, prostitution, suffrage, the settlement movement, etc. ...
The 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 ...
A multi-media archive documenting the history of Lorain, Ohio, and relating to the communities of Avon, Camden Township, Columbia Township, Henrietta Township, Kipton, North Ridgeville, and Sheffield/ ...
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. ...
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 ...
Meadow Brook Hall's clothing and accessories collection, consisting of over 500 items, is that of the home's owner, Matilda Dodge Wilson. Born in 1883 and passing away in 1967, Matilda Dodge Wilson ...
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, 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 ...
Beginning in the late 1980s, Minnesota’s population has been augmented by successive waves of immigration – especially from Asia and East Africa. The Minnesota Immigrant Oral Histories Online ...
The McLean County Museum of History offers access to a wide range of Native American objects. The collection includes pre-historic lithics and pottery fragments found in Central Illinois used in ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
OhioPix is an image database created by the Ohio Historical Society's Archives/Library to provide online access to photographs, paintings, prints and objects from the Society's collections. The ...
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 ...
In 1975 a project to commemorate the American Revolution Bicentennial was undertaken by the Centralia Public Library. The result is this collection of oral histories created by local residents who ...
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 ...
The Oral History of Illinois Agriculture project is developing a new interactive Web module - the Audio-Video Barn - featuring digital oral-history interviews with people involved in various aspects ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Historic images of Portsmouth, Ohio.
Linen drawings and paper blueprints of sleeping and other railroad cars built and operated by the Pullman Company and dating mainly from the era of heavyweight and lightweight cars. Includes floor ...
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 ...
There are currently 1287 markers located across the state that recognize Ohio's rich cultural history. Made of cast aluminum, these signposts provide a tangible record of Ohio's history ...
Remembering the Houses of Western Springs is a collection of photographs of 19th century houses, with dates and some background information on each house. The Western Springs Historical Society took ...
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 Sam DeVincent Collection of American Sheet Music contains approximately 24,000 pieces of sheet music, songbooks, and folios. It was acquired for the Lilly Library in 1998. Sam DeVincent who, until ...
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, ...
A historic timeline of Sandusky, Ohio.
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 ...
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 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 ...
Explore the turbulent times of "Bleeding Kansas." Hundreds of personal letters, diaries, photos, and maps bring to life the settling of Kansas during the fierce debate over slavery.
The Trans Mississippi International Exposition of 1898 and the concurrent Indian Congress were held in Omaha, Nebraska from June 1, 1898 through November 1, 1898. The Exposition showcased the ...
The digital collection Traveling Culture: Circuit Chautauqua in the Twentieth Century comprises 7,949 publicity brochures, promotional advertisements and flyers for 4,545 lecturers, teachers, ...
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 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 Illinois Built Environment collection provides to the public for the first time, a first-hand view of selected original documents used to shape the Campus. Among others, items include hand ...
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 goal of the UA Archives is to preserve original documents, photographs, and oral histories, while providing increased visibility and improved access to these valuable primary reference sources. ...
The Upper 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 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 digital images in this collection, made available by the Sangamon Valley Collection at the Lincoln Library in Springfield, Illinois are drawn from the larger physical collection and show Vachel ...
Valentines from the Victorian period.
Virtual Motor City is the name of an IMLS sponsored digitization project, carried out by the Wayne State University Library System and the Walter P. Reuther Library ...
Walter Wataru Muramoto (1915-1984) was an amateur photographer from Redondo Beach, California. Muramoto, a nisei, learned about taking pictures from his father, a photographer who specialized in ...
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 ...
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 ( ...
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 ...
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 ...
"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 ...
Among the materials the Wright Brothers estate gave the Library of Congress in 1948 were 300 glass plate negatives and two nitrate negatives, most taken by the Wright brothers themselves between 1897 ...
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 ...