Collections containing material about Mountain Region U.S. (general region)
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.
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 ...
A collection of images documenting the history of Bannock County. The BCI are the result of collaboration between ISU, the Bannock County Historical Society, and the South Bannock County Historical ...
Selected newspaper clippings covering the Basque, Chinese, Hispanic, Japanese groups that settled in Idaho.
Historically significant photographs of students, faculty and buildings at Brigham Young University, Idaho.
The collection consists of 140 albumen prints on their original 22 x 28 inch mounts. The collection comprises views of the western United States including Upper Geyser Basin National Park, a rare set ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
A collection of costume sketches done by Edward Stevenson. Stevenson was a native of Pocatello, Idaho who went on to head the costume department for RKO Pictures and DesiLu. The images document the ...
The Estelle Ishigo Papers are a part of the Japanese American Research Project (JARP) Collection (Collection 2010). JARP is considered one of the finest collections of primary sources in the United ...
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 ...
Mailboxes, quilts, murals, tree bark graffiti, fences, gravestones, and festivals are among the many examples of folklife and material culture visually recorded by folklorists Austin and Alta Fife and ...
The Idaho State Historical Society holds over 700 manuscript collections. We are scanning in our paper copies of their finding aids and making them available to all outside the building.
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 ...
A collection including photographs, newspaper clippings, advertising, documents and more highlighting the content of these scrapbooks.
There are 1799 photographs in the George Beard Photograph Collection, primarily consisting of exquisite landscapes of Beard’s adopted mountain west. Usually these landscapes were not identified by ...
In the summer of 1985 a team of folklife specialists (folklorists, architectural historians, & historians) from the Library of Congress and Utah spent a couple of weeks living in Grouse Creek, ...
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, ...
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 ...
BYU Idaho's archive of their student newspaper from 1933 to 1972.
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Watch the weekly progress of the Idaho State Capitol renovation and expansion project from three different angles -- east, west and a front overview -- starting in July, 2007.
The Idaho Digital Publications (IDP) project is intended to capture and provide a central repository for state government publications in digital format.
A collection of full-text paper and digital resources from Idaho Government Publications, selectively chosen to meet the needs of secondary students.
Images of the Indian Peoples of the Northern Great Plains is a searchable online photograph database. The Project strives to broaden access to new constituencies by providing students, researchers, ...
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 ...
Cache Valley, Utah is home to a rich and varied Latino population whose voice is often underrepresented in local repositories. To rectify this, in the summer/fall 2007 Utah State University's Special ...
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 "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.
Moriyuki Shimada was twenty-two years old when he and his family were forcibly removed from their home in Santa Clara, California to the Heart Mountain Concentration Camp in Wyoming. Shimada created a ...
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 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Region 1 photograph collection consists of photographs from records of the NAACP Region 1 Office, and includes material from NAACP ...
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 ...
In the two decades following the arrival of the Mormon pioneers, Ogden grew as an important, modest, agricultural settlement north of Salt Lake City. With the driving of the Golden Spike in 1869, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Religious Education Image Archive contains approximately 4,300 images pertaining to the doctrines and history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Images include photographs, drawings ...
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 beautiful photos in this collection show you people, places, business, buildings, and events of the Intermountain West ...
E. L. "Shorty" Fuller photographed the Treasure Valley as a freelance photographer during the 1930s and 1940s. This sampling highlights some interesting photos, though we have hundreds in our ...
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.
The maps selected for this digital project document the cartographic history and context of this region, telescoping in scale from the Western Hemisphere to the streets of Las Vegas. Maps were ...
The Thomas and Annie Taylor Dee Collection contains family correspondences, family photographs, a marriage register, and yearbooks from the Dee School of Nursing.
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 ...
BYU Idaho's collection of historical sketches of Upper Snake River Valley settlers from 1883 to 1893.
Case files consist of letters to the Governor, a formal application for a pardon, petitions and letters of support from the public and officials connected to the case and during the first 40 years, ...
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.
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 ...
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 collection consists of photographs collected or generated by the Governor's Office during the administration of Michael O. Leavitt. The photographs may be prints, negatives, or both for the same ...
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 series documents the legislative process in the Utah House of Representatives. The series contains the working copies of House bills, claims (through 1915), petitions (until 1921), memorials, ...
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 ...
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- ...
Verla Birrell was born on November 24, 1903 in Tacoma, Washington to James Walter and Elfie Naylor Birrell. She was a Member, of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Birrell graduated in ...
An online multimedia museum collection featuring oral history recordings and historic photographs that document life on the Colorado Plateau. The collection is divided into three sections: People, ...
The Walter Mason Camp digital collection includes 86 photographic images, centering on Camp’s interest in the Indian Wars of North America occurring between 1865 and 1890. These images, from the ...
A collection of digitized primary source material on Western Trails - broadly defined - including native trails, roads, highways, and westward migration.
The Western Waters Digital Library will be a distributed collection of materials from research institutions in the Western United States of America. Water pervades all issues in the West, from ...
The photographs and art work, which comprise the bulk of the William Henry Jackson collection in the L. Tom Perry Special Collections, include 1,082 individual items, of which 1,079 can be found in ...
This collection contains WWI Photographs, WWII Photographs, WWII POW Camp 1943 to 1946, and WWII POW Oral History Project from Weber State University.