Collections containing material about Southern U.S. (general region)
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Paris Exposition of 1900 included a display devoted to the history and "present conditions" of African Americans. W.E.B. Du Bois and special agent Thomas J. Calloway spearheaded the planning, ...
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 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 ...
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.
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 ...
Descriptions of many of the manuscript and university archives collections housed in the Special Collections Library are available online. These finding aids contain information on a collection's ...
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 ...
This collection consists of still images of cities, towns, scenic viewpoints, lumbering activities, and streetscapes from across Arizona, 1864-1970.
Album is a database of 10,000 photographs from photojournalism collections of the Kenan Research Center. The images document people, places, and events in Atlanta and the state of Georgia from 1895 to ...
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 online collection contains over 2500 editorial cartoons dating from 1946 to 1997. Clifford H. Baldowski, known by the pen-name "Baldy," depicted the local, national and international news of his ...
The site contains images of the sixty-one albumen prints found in early American photographer and member of the Matthew Brady studio, George N. Barnard's 1866 Photographic Views of Sherman's Campaign ...
The online collection consists of two short industrial films made by the Georgia Marble Company in the 1950s-1960s that document the company's history, operations, skilled laborers and craftspeople, ...
"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 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 ...
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. ...
Caroline Wogan Durieux (1896-1989), a New Orleans native of Creole descent, was a celebrated Louisiana artist of the twentieth century who taught art at Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, La.) ...
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 collection, established in 1976, documents the state's sixty-four parishes, as well as Louisiana images from various public domain sources, such as Harper's Weekly. It also contains images of ...
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 ...
Tens of thousands of photographs and negatives from the Franck and Franck-Bertacci studios, held at the Historic New Orleans Collection, chronicle the face and growth of Louisiana, and New Orleans in ...
Charles L. Thompson was a resident of New Orleans and collector of materials related to the history of New Orleans and Louisiana. Photographs and illustrations depict actors and other famous figures, ...
The Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park was the first and largest military park in the United States. The Park contains approximately 8,190 acres of land divided among several areas in ...
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 Civil War Photograph Album contains portraits of military personnel who fought during the American Civil War, 1861-1865. The album has 50 pages; each page has a capacity for four (4) photographs, ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Early Louisiana French Correspondence collection is a digital corpus of letters in French written in Louisiana in the 18th and 19th centuries. The purpose of the corpus is to enhance access to ...
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 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 ...
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 Florida Folklife Collection includes approximately 150 cubic feet of administrative, survey and fieldwork files and tens of thousands of audio and video recordings dating from the 1930s through ...
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 ...
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 ...
This collection is comprised of black and white photographs and negatives taken of Vietnamese and Cambodian refugees living at Fort Chaffee, a military base in Arkansas. The photographs document the ...
A collection of signed vintage prints by the famed female photographer, this series was part of the Pictorial Archives of Early American Architecture (PAEAA), which was the first photographic ...
The Frank Moore Collection contains nearly 550 negatives, most of them glass plates, taken from 1915 to 1950. Well over half of the collection consists of individual and group portraits, many ...
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 ...
Twenty photographs taken between 1862 and 1863 show the state capital of Louisiana, Baton Rouge, under occupation by Union forces. These photographs of street scenes, buildings, Union naval vessels, ...
George Francois Mugnier was born in Switzerland (1857). His father ...
George Francois Mugnier was born in France on January 1, 1855. He arrived in New Orleans by 1868. Originally a watchmaker, he turned to photography in 1884 opening a studio on Exchange Alley. Mugnier ...
The Georgia Aerial Photographs database provides online access to approximately 50,000 black and white aerial photographs and indexes of forty-seven counties from the state of Georgia. The photographs ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Historic Architecture and Landscapes of Georgia: The Hubert Bond Owens and John Linley Image Collections at the Owens Library, a joint project between the College of Environment and Design, University ...
The Historic Photographs of Southwest Louisiana Collection consists of a selection from the approximately 3,000 photographs of the Archives and Special Collections Department at McNeese State ...
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 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 ...