Collections containing material about United States (nation)

African American Photographs Assembled for 1900 Paris Exhibition

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, ...

Archival Finding Aids

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 ...

Arizona Archives Historic Photographs

Archives' photographs focus upon the unique cultural heritage of the state and territory of Arizona, beginning in 1863. The collection includes about 90,000 images, including photographs, slides, ...

Arizona Aviation History - The Ruth Reinhold Collection

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 ...

Arizona Bushmasters

Arizona County and Local Publications

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 ...

Arizona Executive Orders

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 ...

Arizona Landscapes Collection

This collection consists of still images of cities, towns, scenic viewpoints, lumbering activities, and streetscapes from across Arizona, 1864-1970.

Arizona Military Museum Images

The Arizona Military Museum, an Arizona Centennial Legacy Project, is operated by a Historical Society whose purposes are: “To enhance the appreciation of the military history of Arizona and the ...

Arizona State Archives - State, County and Local Government Records

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 ...

Arizona Territorial Post Offices

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 ...

Arizona's Saints and Shady Ladies

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 ...

ASU Science Pioneers: 1955 - 1970

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 ...

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company (A.T.&S.F.Ry.Co.) Collection Highlights

The Atlantic World: America and the Netherlands

Basketry from the Pueblo Grande Museum

The baskets in the Museum’s collection come from private donations by collectors, from the basket weavers themselves, and from occasional purchases by their non-profit support group, the Pueblo Grande ...

Button Pin and Ribbon Collection

The button, pin and ribbon collection currently contains over 1,700 items and continues to expand. These items have been donated over many years to the Peace Collection (SCPC) by individual peace ...

A Celebration of the Human Spirit: Japanese-American Relocation Camps in Arizona

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 ...

Cleveland Memory Project

Here serious researchers and casual browsers will find thousands of historical photographs, as well as a growing collection of ebooks documenting the history of greater Cleveland and the Western ...

Cochise College Libraries - Cochise County Historical & Archeological Collection

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 ...

Cochise County Clerk of Superior Court - Bisbee Deportation Documents

Congressman John Rhodes Collection

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 ...

Day Family Collection

The Day Family became known in the Colorado Plateau region for their activities as traders on the Navajo Reservation. During their time on the Reservation, they served as agents, and became close with ...

The Dillingham Commission Reports

The Reports of the Immigration Commission from Stanford University include statistical reviews, emigration and immigration conditions in Europe and other parts of the world, occupations of immigrants ...

Early Cave Creek, 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 ...

Early Life in Taylor, Arizona 1878 - 1940

The artifacts and historic sites that are included in this collection not only serve as examples of daily pioneer living in Taylor, Arizona, but also provide insight into the changes which occurred as ...

The Emancipator Newsletter

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 ...

Father Augustine Schwarz Photograph Collection

Finding Aids

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 ...

France in America

Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection

Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864-1952) was one of the first American women to achieve prominence as a photographer. Trained at the Académie Julian in Paris, she studied photography upon her return to ...

From Pi Beta Phi to Arrowmont

The digital collection features photographs of the Settlement School, early Arrowmont, and the surrounding community; an historical essay collection that relates the “Pi Beta Phi to Arrowmont” story; ...

George Grantham Bain Collection

Available online are 39,744 glass negatives and a selection of about 1,600 photographic prints for which copy negatives exist. This represents all of the glass plate negatives the Library holds and a ...

Glendale Community College Archives

Since its inception the Library Media Center (LMC) has been charged with the college’s internal production needs entailing still, moving images, and audio recordings. The production of this material ...

Glendale Public Library History

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 ...

Harvey Girls of the Winslow Harvey Houses

Fred Harvey saw a need for better food and service along the rails and in 1876 pioneered a chain of restaurants and inns known as Harvey Houses from Chicago to San Francisco. Experience soon ...

Highlights of the Catholic Diocese of Tucson

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 ...

Historic Arizona County Road Maps

This collection of historic Arizona county maps includes maps of each Arizona county, dating from the mid 1880s to the late 1920s. Most of the maps were produced by the County Engineer or County ...

Historic Downtown Glendale

This collection represents South 1st Avenue, now 58th Drive and Glendale Avenue, from around 1910 to 1950. It depicts early development in downtown Glendale, Arizona. The collection also includes ...

The Hohokam of Pueblo Grande

Pueblo Grande was a major Hohokam village on the north bank of the Salt River in what is now Phoenix, Arizona. Pueblo Grande was occupied for 1000 years, from about AD 500 - 1450. In addition to ...

Images of the Catholic Diocese of Tucson

The Images collection consists of photographs of bishops and priests who served Catholics of Arizona from as early as the 1860s. Most of the earliest priests and bishops came from France through the ...

Maricopa Pottery (Connell Collection)

Men, Mines and Money

These photos represent a small portion of the collection from Herbert V. Young who was engaged as secretary to the general manager of the United Verde Copper Company mine from 1912-1955 ...

Mohave Museum - History of Transportation in Mohave County

This collection of photographs, 1890’s through the 1940’s, provide a snapshot of the role transportation systems and vehicles played in the development of Mohave County. Subjects presented are: horses ...

Murder & Mayhem: The Strange Saga of Winnie Ruth Judd

National Photo Company Collection

Available online are a growing proportion of the glass negatives and a selection of about 1,900 photographic prints for which copy negatives exist. The scanned photographic prints represent a small ...

Old Trails Museum Collection Highlights

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 ...

Oral Histories of Gila County

Oral Histories of Gila County is a compilation of interviews commemorating Arizona’s first 100 years of Statehood. It was made possible by partial funding by an Arizona State Library LSTA Grant. The ...

Oral Histories of the White Mountains

This audio collection consists of snippets from interviews with residents who lived in and around the White Mountains area. The 1977 interviews were part of a Northland Pioneer College project to ...

PBS Frontline Video

PBS Frontline Video contains records linking to Frontline programs, from "Country Boys" to "Is Wal-Mart Good for America?". Since 1983, Frontline has been an American public television's public ...

Phoenix College - The Early Years

This collection of photographs provides a feel for what Phoenix College was like during its first several decades. Images were selected to represent college life, as well as the architecture of the ...

Phoenix Jewish News Photographs Collection

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. ...

Powwow Photographs by Ann Leonard

The Powwow Photographs by Ann Leonard collection consists of 69 color digital photographs by Arizona State University’s Labriola National American Indian Data Center’s Library Aid, Ann Leonard. ...

Sahuaro Ranch History

This collection has two components. It features images from the last private owner of Sahuaro Ranch, Richard S. Smith, as well as photographs from the early administration of this historic site by the ...

Sam DeVincent Collection of American Sheet Music

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 ...

Scottsdale Remembers: Recollections of Our Past

Many active community organizations worked to create the Scottsdale of today and some worked to preserve its past. This collection contains material from three Scottsdale repositories: the ...

Scottsdale's History in Images

An essential portion of Scottsdale history is contained in a photograph collection located in the Scottsdale Room. This collection showcases the history and growth of what has changed from a small ...

Senator Barry M. Goldwater: An Arizona Legend

These images (some rare and rarely seen) were selected from over 5,000 photographs found in the Personal and Political Papers of Senator Barry M. Goldwater (1909-1998). They document his interests in ...

Sharlot Hall Museum American Indian Image Collection

This collection of still images is related to the American Indians of Arizona and the Southwest (1865-1970). Tribes include Navajo, Apache, Yavapai, Hualapai, Papago, Hopi, Mohave, Paiute, Yaqui, ...

Sharlot Hall Museum Audio Collection

The Sharlot Hall Museum Oral History collection represents a cross-section of a larger collection of interviews, presentations, speeches and radio programs conducted mainly in Prescott, Arizona from ...

Sharlot Hall Museum Buildings Image Collection

This collection of still images is related to structures in Prescott Yavapai County, and Northern Arizona. Included are stage stations, businesses, residences, banks, schools, churches, hotels, ...

Sharlot Hall Museum Map Collection

The Sharlot Hall Museum Map Collection consists of approximately 5,000 maps relating to Prescott, Arizona, Yavapai County, and Arizona and the west in general, 1850-present.

Sharlot Hall Museum Military Image Collection

This collection of still images represent military activity in Arizona, specifically Yavapai County and Northern Arizona, 1864-Present. Subjects included in the collection are Ft. Whipple, Camp Verde ...

Sharlot Hall Museum Mining Image Collection

This collection of still images is related to mining activities in Yavapai County and Northern Arizona(1864-1975). Gold, copper, iron, onyx, and silver mining are represented, as well as placer, ...

Sharlot Hall Museum Transportation Image Collection

This collection of still images is related to transportation in Northern Arizona(1864-1965). Subjects represented in this collection are railroads, stagecoaches, train depots, bridges, freighting, and ...

Sharlot M. Hall: Arizona's Curator

Sharlot M. Hall, the first woman to hold any salaried office in territorial Arizona, was a forward-thinking woman, a woman of vision and daring living during an era when most women didn't dare have ...

Show Low Collection Highlights

The Show Low Historical Society Museum has a varied collection of objects and photographs that document the history of the City of Show Low, including images from the Rodeo-Chediski fire.

Southern Spaces

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 ...

Starr Sheet Music Collection

The Starr Sheet Music Collection, containing over 100,000 separate items, is a rich resource for musicians, historians and students of American culture. It is primarily a collection of American ...

Stereograph Cards

The online Stereograph Cards category is limited to individual stereographs that have been cataloged online, generally because they have associated copy negatives, transparencies, or digital files. In ...

Studies in Scarlet

Studies in Scarlet presents the images of over 420 separately published trial narratives from the Harvard Law School Library's extensive trial collections. Included are a number of trials of the ...

Thunderbird School of Global Management - Historical Collections

This collection depicts the story of Thunderbird Field I, a vital World War II air training base at which more than 10,000 pilots learned to fly. The collection then shows the early years of the ...

Tohono O'odham Collection, 1970 - 1980, Helga Teiwes Photographer

This exhibit is composed of 109 photographs of the Tohono O’odham people taken by Arizona State Museum photographer Helga Teiwes during the years 1970 – 1980. The exhibit is arranged into eleven ...

Trading Post Families of Winslow, AZ

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 ...

USS Arizona Silver Service Collection

The Arizona Capitol Museum is home to the silver service that was donated to the USS Arizona by the citizens of this state in 1919. This service is comprised of 59 distinct pieces on display at the ...

Western Ways Features Company Photographs

The Western Ways Features Company Photographs were selected from over 22,000 photographic prints and negatives contained within the Western Ways Feature Manuscript and Photograph Collection, ca. 1930- ...

Writers of the Purple Sage: Origins of a National Myth