Collections associated with the Aquifer American Social History Online project

1893 Chicago World Columbia Exposition

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1893 Chicago World Columbia Exposition, Copy of

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The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire Digital Collection

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 ...

Abraham Lincoln, Slavery, and the Civil War

Biographies of and writings by Abraham Lincoln and his contemporaries; works pertaining to slavery in the United States and to the American Civil War.

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, ...

Albany Library: Historical Photograph Collection

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 ...

Allen Leigh Photograph Collection

The Allen Leigh Photograph Collection contains images of scenery and life in Southern Utah. Ashdown Gorge, Brian Head, Cedar Breaks, and Navaho Lake are featured. His photographs also show the ...

America from the Great Depression to World War II: Color Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1939-1945

The collection encompasses the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Resettlement Administration (1935-1937), the Farm ...

American History

Early American history with a focus on the Midwestern states.

American Notes: Travels in America, 1750-1920

American Notes: Travels in America, 1750-1920 comprises 253 published narratives by Americans and foreign visitors recounting their travels in the colonies and the United States and their observations ...

American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera

The library of Peter Force, acquired by the Library of Congress in 1867, furnished the basis of the Printed Ephemera Collection. Force himself had secured many of the pieces assembled by an earlier ...

Anaheim Public Library: Photograph Collection on Anaheim Local History

Anaheim Public Library's photograph collection includes images of historical interest of the City of Anaheim and other areas of Orange County from the 1860s to 2002. Images document public, ...

Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar

Adams's Manzanar work is a departure from his signature style of landscape photography. Although a majority of the photographs are portraits, the images also include views of daily life, agricultural ...

Architecture and Interior Design for 20th Century America: Photographs by Samuel Gottscho and William Schleisner, 1935-1955

The collection also provides a look at nature through the eyes of Samuel Gottscho. Another major highlight of the Gottscho-Schleisner collection are the images from the 1939 New York Worlds Fair. It ...

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 Attorney General Opinions

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 ...

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 ...

Auto Club Digital Archive

Provides documentation on the region's transportation history from the Auto Club's Corporate Archives. The Digital Archive includes: a selection of about 100 historic strip maps, illustrating the ...

Beaver Murdock Academy Collection

Originally the Beaver Branch of Brigham Young University, the school became independent in 1908 and was renamed Murdock Academy. Housed in the buildings of Fort Cameron, a former military base outside ...

Brady-Handy Collection

E. and H.T. Anthony acquired Brady's Civil War negatives as payment for his debt to that photographic supply company. These negatives, distinguished by the prefix LC-B8, were purchased by the Library ...

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 ...

By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943

The By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943 collection consists of 908 boldly colored and graphically diverse original posters produced from 1936 to 1943 as part of Franklin ...

"California As I Saw It": First-person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900

"California as I Saw It:" First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900 consists of the full texts and illustrations of 190 works documenting the formative era of California's history ...

California Historical Society Digital Archive

This collection contains over 15,600 photographs from the California Historical Society Collection of over 23,000 photographs. The full archive was placed on long-term deposit at USC in 1990 and ...

The Capital and the Bay: Narratives of Washington and the Chesapeake Bay Region, ca. 1600-1925

The Capital and the Bay: Narratives of Washington and the Chesapeake Bay Region, ca. 1600-1925 comprises 139 books selected from the Library of Congress's General Collections and two books from its ...

Cartoon Prints, American

The prints illustrate the rise and decline of allegorical expression and the evolution of important symbols such as Uncle Sam, Liberty, and Justice. Because of the testimony they provide to earlier ...

A Celebration of Women Writers

A Celebration of Women Writers is a collection of electronic text transcriptions (many with illustrations) edited by volunteer Mary Mark Ockerbloom. This sister site to The On-Line Books Page has ...

Champaign County

Historical materials pertaining to cities and towns of Champaign County, Illinois, including Champaign and Urbana.

Charles W. Cushman Photograph Collection

Charles Weever Cushman, amateur photographer and Indiana University alumnus, bequeathed approximately 14,500 Kodachrome color slides to his alma mater. The photographs in this collection bridge a ...

Charlotta Bass / California Eagle Digital Archive

The Charlotta Bass/California Eagle Photograph Collection is comprised of almost 500 photographs that were among the personal papers and artifacts of Charlotta Bass, publisher of the California Eagle ...

Chicago

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 ...

Chinese Historical Society Digital Archive

Includes 1,040 color images of artifacts excavated from the site of the original Los Angeles Chinatown; an additional 150 images document artifacts from the site of a Chinese laundry in Santa Barbara ...

Church and Congregational History in Illinois

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 ...

Civil War Photographs

Civil War Photographs provides online access to about 7,000 different images made during the American Civil War (1861-1865) and in its immediate aftermath. The images were scanned from the Prints and ...

The Clay Herrick Slide Collection

Clay Herrick (1911-1993) was an historian, a civic leader who worked to preserve Cleveland's historic buildings and an author whose book Cleveland Landmarks received the Western Reserve Architectural ...

Cleveland Along the Nickel Plate Road® During the 1920’s

In 1922 the New York, Chicago, & St. Louis Railway (Nickel Plate Railway or NKP) took a series of photographs along its right-of-way and adjacent neighborhoods from Euclid through the west side of ...

The Cleveland Cultural Gardens Collection

The Cleveland Cultural Gardens, extending along East Blvd. and Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. in Cleveland's University Circle area, is a unique collection of landscaped, themed gardens each ...

Cleveland Heights & University Heights, Ohio: A Collection of Historic Images

Cleveland Heights and University Heights are first ring suburbs located on the “heights” east of Cleveland, Ohio. While each is incorporated as a separate city, they share a school district and ...

The Cleveland Press Collection

Comprised of hundreds of thousands of clippings and photographs, The Cleveland Press Collection is the former editorial library, or "morgue," of The Cleveland Press and is now part of Cleveland State ...

Cleveland Press Shakespeare Photographs

The site includes approximately 400 images from publicity photographs featuring regional production companies --Cleveland's Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival, the Stratford Festival in Ontario, Canada ...

The Cleveland Union Terminal Collection

The Cleveland Union Terminal Collection is the archives of the company that built the Terminal Tower, the union passenger station, the complex of office buildings, post office, department store and ...

The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln

In 1953, the Abraham Lincoln Association published The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, a multi-volume set of Lincoln's correspondence, speeches, and other writings. Roy P. Basler and his editorial ...

Collections of Historical Content with Digitized Items

Records with links to the web sites of American Memory collections.

Community Cookbooks

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The Core Historical Literature of Agriculture

The Core Historical Literature of Agriculture (CHLA) is a core electronic collection of agricultural texts published between the early nineteenth century and the middle to late twentieth century. Full ...

County and Local Histories (Illinois)

Early histories of Illinois counties, cities, and towns, including portrait and biographical records and numerous pictorial works.

The Cuyahoga County Engineer's Photography Collection

Over 1,200 images from the the Cuyahoga County Engineer's Office, documenting Engineer's Office projects to install and maintain the civil infrastructure ...

The Cuyahoga County Public Library Collection

The images reproduced here currently are courtesy of the South Euclid Historical Society and represent Cuyahoga County Public Library's inaugural effort to digitally preserve and present images that ...

Digital New York City

Part of the E-Books collection at Columbia University Libraries.

Digitized Serials

Records with links to the web sites of digitized serials at the Library of Congress.

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 ...

Dunbar Economic Development Digital Archive

The Dunbar Economic Development Corporation (Dunbar EDC) collection contains photographs and artifacts which document the Vernon-Central neighborhood of Los Angeles which is the historic core of the ...

Edison Motion Pictures

Edison's laboratory was responsible for the invention of the Kinetograph (a motion picture camera) and the Kinetoscope (a peep-hole motion picture viewer). Most of this work was performed by Edison's ...

Education in Illinois

General histories of early public schooling in Illinois, as well as histories of various colleges and universities in the state.

Edward S. Curtis Collection

The Edward S. Curtis Collection offers a unique glimpse into Curtis's work with indigenous cultures. The more than 2,400 silver-gelatin photographic prints were acquired by the Library of Congress ...

El Clamor Publico Digital Archive

This archive is available through a partnership with The Huntington Library, who generously allowed USC to digitize their complete holdings of this newspaper. Billed as Los Angeles' "Periodica ...

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 ...

Feeding Cleveland: Urban Agriculture

A recurring theme in 20th century Cleveland that continues to the present day is that during difficult economic periods communities of people have come together to raise food crops on city land. The ...

Fenn College On-Line

On September 1, 1965 Fenn College became Cleveland State University. This exhibit, our vision of what an early Fenn College Web site might have looked like had the Internet been around in the 1960's, ...

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 ...

The First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820

This was a joint project between the University of Chicago Library and the Filson Historical Society of Louisville, Kentucky, to digitize 745 rare books, pamphlets, newspapers, maps, prints, and ...

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; ...

Genealogy Resources

Extensive resources for genealogy enthusiasts, particularly those relating to Illinois. General and professional directories, social registers, local histories, portrait and biographical records, " ...

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 ...

The Gerald R. Sherratt Library Historical Photograph Collection

The Gerald R. Sherratt Library Historical Photograph Collection is a composite of photographs from many sources covering places and events in Iron County, Utah and the surrounding areas.

German Americans of Cleveland

German Americans of Cleveland is third in a series of websites developed or planned by the Cleveland State University Library to explore the ethnic influence that helped shape the history and ...

The Greater Cleveland Ethnographic Museum Collection

The Greater Cleveland Ethnographic Museum was established in 1975 to preserve the traditions and histories of Cleveland ethnic communities. Although the museum closed in 1981, it was able to capture ...

Greene & Greene Digital Archive

The Greene & Greene Digital Archive contains images of drawings, architectural plans, rooms, furnishings, books, sketches, photographs, correspondence, and other historical documents related to the ...

Hemispheric Institute Digital Video Library

The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics is a consortium of institutions, artists, and scholars dedicated to exploring the relationship between expressive behavior (broadly construed as ...

Home Economics Archive: Research, Tradition, and History

HEARTH is a core electronic collection of books and journals in Home Economics and related disciplines. Titles published between 1850 and 1950 were selected and ranked by teams of scholars for their ...

Humphrey Family Photographs of Euclid Beach Park

A Cleveland icon for more than 70 years,Euclid Beach Park can trace its origins to the golden age of amusement parks. Multitudes of similar venues appeared near the nation’s cities and along rail ...

Hungarian Americans of Cleveland

Hungarian Americans of Cleveland is one of a series of websites developed or planned by Cleveland State University Library to explore the ethnic influence that helped shape the history and development ...

Illinois Art and Literature

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Illinois History and Culture

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 ...

Immigration and Emmigration

Handbooks and guides for emigrants primarily those coming to the American Midwest. History of emigrant communities, with emphasis on those who settled in Illinois.

Immigration to the United States (1789-1930)

Concentrating heavily on the 19th century, Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930, includes approximately 1,800 books and pamphlets as well as 9,000 photographs, 200 maps, and 13,000 pages from ...

Irish Americans of Cleveland

Irish Americans of Cleveland is one of a series of websites developed or planned by Cleveland State University Library to explore the ethnic influence that helped shape the history and development of ...

Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive

This collection of 222 photographs from the Hearst Collection of the Los Angeles Examiner in the USC Regional History Collection, documents the relocation of Japanese Americans in California during ...

John C. H. Grabill Collection

The collection includes a visual record of railroad development, coaches and wagons, mining, smeltering, and milling, freighting, emerging cities and towns, parades, cattle roundups and branding, ...

Korean American Digital Archive

Funded through a California State Library LSTA grant, the archive includes over 13,000 document images, over 1,900 photographs, and about 180 sound files relating to the "first wave" Korean-American ...

LA Examiner Digital Archive

The Los Angeles Examiner Collection consists of approximately 1.4 million prints and negatives from the Los Angeles Examiner newspaper. Almost every event and individual receiving news coverage in Los ...

LA Star Digital Archive

The Los Angeles Star (La Estrella de Los Angeles) is available through a partnership with The Huntington Library, who generously allowed USC to digitize their complete holdings of this newspaper. ...

Labor and Social Reform Movements

Early 20th century history of labor and social reform movements, with emphasis on Illinois and Chicago. Trade unions, temperance, prostitution, suffrage, the settlement movement, etc.

Lawrence & Houseworth Collection

In 1867 the Library of Congress acquired a set of more than 900 albumen silver half stereographs published by Lawrence and Houseworth of San Francisco. The acquisition also included the third edition ...

Lehman Special Correspondence Files

The Special Correspondence Files of the Herbert Lehman Papers contain correspondence with nearly 1,000 individuals from 1864 through 1982. Beginning with letters from Lehman's family in the late ...

Lomax Collection of Photographs Depicting Folk Musicians

Roughly 400 snapshot photographs made in the course of sound recording expeditions carried out by John Avery Lomax, Alan Lomax, and Ruby Terrill Lomax, between 1934 and ca. 1950 for the Archive of ...

Making of America (MoA): Cornell University

The MOA project is a multi-institutional initiative to create and make accessible over the Internet a distributed digital library of important materials on the history of the United States. The ...

Making of America (MoA): University of Michigan

Making of America (MoA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas ...

Map Collections, 1500-1999

The focus of Map Collections is Americana and Cartographic Treasures of the Library of Congress. These images were created from maps and atlases and, in general, are restricted to items that are not ...

Michigan County Histories and Atlases

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 ...

Military History

Histories of Illinois regiments in the Civil War; war memorials; participation of Illinois soldiers during the first and second world wars.

Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1820-1860, 1870-1885

Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music contains more than 62,500 pieces of historical sheet music registered for copyright: more than 15,000 registered during the years 1820-1860 and more than 47, ...

Musical Scores

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National Child Labor Committee Collection

The collection consists of more than 5,100 photographic prints and 355 glass negatives, given to the Library of Congress, along with the NCLC records, in 1954 by Mrs. Gertrude Folks Zimand, acting for ...

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 ...

Natural Resources

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New York State Historical Literature Collection

The Cornell University Library New York State Historical Literature is a collection of selected monographs, pamphlets and other materials with expired copyrights chosen from from the Cornell Library's ...

Notable Blacks of Cleveland

African Americans of Note in Cleveland contains approximately 2000 images of 500 individuals selected from the photographs in the Cleveland Press Collection. This collection was donated to the ...

Notable Illinoisans

Biographies and autobiographies of Illinois politicians, social reformers, educators, journalists, military leaders, labor activists, ministers, jurists, and others.

Panoramic Photographs: Taking the Long View, 1851-1991

The Panoramic Photograph Collection contains approximately four thousand images featuring American cityscapes, landscapes, and group portraits. These panoramas offer an overview of the nation, its ...

The Papers of John Jay

The Papers of John Jay is an image database and indexing tool comprising some 13,000 documents (more than 30,000 page images) scanned chiefly from photocopies of original documents. Most of the source ...

Parallel Histories: Spain, the United States, and the American Frontier

Parallel Histories: Spain, the United States, and the American Frontier is a bilingual, multi-format English-Spanish digital library site that explores the interactions between Spain and the United ...

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 ...

The Photograph Albums of Glenallen

Like the other Severance estates that lined Taylor and Mayfield Roads in Cleveland Heights in the early 20th century, the life of Glenallen, the estate of Elisabeth Severance Allen Prentiss, was also ...

Photographs from the Berea Children's Home

In 1864, the German Methodist Episcopal Church founded the German Methodist Orphan Asylum to shelter Civil War orphans. Known today as the Berea Children's Home, they serve children and youth needing ...

Photographs of the Cleveland Metroparks

The Cleveland Metroparks is one of city’s highlights. Conceived by engineer William Stinchcomb back in 1917, this system of sixteen reservations encircles the city of Cleveland to create a 21,000 acre ...

The Poet's Voice: A Digital Poetry Collection

The Woodberry Poetry Room, named in honor of Harvard alumnus and Professor George E. Woodberry (A.B., 1877), opened in 1931 in Widener Library for the purpose of bringing alive the poet's voice and ...

Polish Americans of Cleveland

Polish Americans of Cleveland was developed by the Cleveland State University Library to explore the ethnic influence that helped shape the history and development of Cleveland.

Postcards of Cleveland

Walter Leedy began his comprehensive collection of Cleveland postcards, now numbering nearly 8,000 in earnest in 1989. The earliest of Leedy's postcards date from 1898, before many people traveled ...

Praying Grounds: African American Faith Communities

An ongoing documentary and oral history project which will ultimately offer audio and video recordings of oral histories and musical performances, as well as photographs, newspaper articles, ...

Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States

Each Public Papers volume contains the papers and speeches of the President of the United States that were issued by the Office of the Press Secretary during the specified time period. The material is ...

Railroad History

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 ...

Rural Life and Agriculture

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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 ...

San Bernardino Public Library: Historical Treasures of San Bernardino

San Bernardino Public Library's photograph collection includes images of family life, work life, daily activities in the community that would be of historical interest to the people of San Bernardino ...

San Francisco Performing Arts Library & Museum: Chinese Theater Images in California

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 ...

Santa Ana Public Library: Santa Ana History Room Photograph Collection

The Santa Ana History Room photograph collection includes images of historical interest of the city of Santa Ana and other areas of Orange County from the late 1800's to 2002. The images chronicle a ...

The Shaker Heights Collection

Founded in 1912, Shaker Heights is situated on the eastern side of Cleveland, Ohio. Famous for its planned garden-city design, neo- traditional architecture,and green spaces, the city of Shaker ...

Society of California Pioneers: Collection of Autobiographies and Reminiscences of Early Pioneers

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 ...

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 ...

Transportation History Collection: Railroads

The collection of railroad material consists of over 14,000 items relating to American, Canadian, Mexican, British, French, German, and Russian railroad companies and their rolling stock. There are ...

Travel Literature

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UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library: De la Guerra Family Photographs

Mainly studio portraits of members of the de la Guerra family, descendants of Don José Antonio Julian de la Guerra y Noriega. Includes views of the family home in Santa Barbara, member of the family ...

UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library: Disabled Students' Program Records, 1965-

The Disabled Students' Program Records, 1965-[ongoing], consist of materials created or collected by the leaders and administrators of the Disabled Students' Program at the University of California, ...

UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library: Drawings of Indians and California Scenery

The drawings are mainly by Henry B. Brown with a few by J.R. Bartlett. The collection includes some copy photos "by Merriam" of Brown's drawings. Subject matter includes images of mining camps, mining ...

UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library: George and Phoebe Apperson Hearst Papers

Contains personal and business papers of George Hearst and his wife, Phoebe Apperson Hearst. A small portion of the collection relates to Mr. Hearst, a rancher, mining tycoon, and politican. His ...

UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library: Hale Zukas Papers, 1971-1998

The Hale Zukas Papers, 1971-1998, consist of materials reflecting Zukas's leading role as a founder and activist for the disability rights and independent living movements. The collection includes his ...

UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library: Herbert Willsmore Papers, 1968-1993

The Herbert Willsmore papers, 1968-1993, document his residency at Cowell Hospital, his involvement with the Rolling Quads, and his work with the California State Department of Rehabilitation. The ...

UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library: James Ralston Caldwell Papers

The James Ralston Caldwell papers include materials relating to the Loyalty Oath Controversy on the University of California and the University of Nevada campuses, a small amount of material relating ...

UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library: Land Case Maps Collection

The Land Case maps collection comprises maps found in private land claim cases in the U.S. Northern and Southern District Courts. The maps were created to establish ownership of the land represented. ...

UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, West Coast Region Photographs, ca. 1946-1970

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 ...

UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library: Papers Relating to the Loyalty Oath Controversy, University of California, 1949-1956

Edward Chace Tolman, professor of psychology, University of California, Berkeley, was the foremost leader among the faculty in the protest against the loyalty oath. These papers were transferred from ...

UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library: Photograph Collection of Family Members and Descendents of General M.G. Vallejo

The collection, received from a member of the Emparan family, includes portraits (some inscribed) of General Mariano G. Vallejo, his wife, their children, Salvador Vallejo, Napoleon Vallejo, Fannie ...

UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library: Records of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Region I

The Records of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Region I document the daily work of the NAACP in the Western United States from 1942-1986 (bulk 1945-1977). Regular ...

UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library: San Francisco News-Call Bulletin Newspaper Photograph Archive

The Bancroft Library's holdings of The San Francisco News-Call Bulletin newspaper photograph archive consist almost entirely of original photographic negatives of San Francisco Bay Area news events ...

UC Berkeley, Environmental Design Archives: St. Francis Wood Virtual Collection

The St. Francis Wood Virtual collection contains digital images of drawings, photographs, correspondence and other historical documents relating to the architecture and landscape architecture of the ...

UC Berkeley, Environmental Design Archives: William W. Wurster/Wurster, Bernardi & Emmons Collection, 1922-1974

The majority of the collection documents Wurster and WBE projects. Office Records such as photographs, presentation boards, clippings and scrapbooks were most likely created and collected to promote ...

UC Berkeley, Ethnic Studies Library: Chung Sai Yat Po Newspaper Collection

On April 22, 1854, the Golden Hills' News, a Chinese weekly, published its first issue in San Francisco. Although it lasted only four months, this paper inaugurated the Chinese language press in the U ...

UC Berkeley, University Archives: Records of the Committee on Academic Freedom During the Loyalty Oath Controversy

These records represent primarily the files of the chair of the Committee on Academic Freedom during the loyalty oath controversy, Wendell Stanley. Included are correspondence, position papers, ...

UC Berkeley, Water Resources Center Archives: Joseph Barlow Lippincott Papers, 1882-1942

This is an annotated listing of reports, papers and photographs in the J.B. Lippincott collection, Water Resources Center Archives, University of California, Berkeley. The collection is arranged here ...

UC Davis, Special Collections: K.W. (Kyung Won) Lee Papers, 1972-1998

In the Chol Soo Lee case, the correspondence between K.W. Lee and Chol Soo Lee, the newspaper coverage of the case (particularly the Sacramento Union stories by K. W. Lee), and the court documents ...

UC Irvine, Special Collections and Archives: Anne Frank Photographs

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 ...

UC Irvine, Special Collections and Archives: Brigitte Marshall Collection on Southeast Asian Refugees

Among the highlights of the printed materials are a field report on how the Hmong fared after resettlement in the Fresno area; several issues of the Phanat Nikhom Press, including articles written by ...

UC Irvine, Special Collections and Archives: Collection on Refugee Forums

This collection consists of the administrative files of the Refugee Forum of Orange County (RFOC), and the California State Refugee Forum (CSRF), and other documents relating to these organizations. ...

UC Irvine, Special Collections and Archives: Fort Chaffee Photographs

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 ...

UC Irvine, Special Collections and Archives: Gayle Morrison Files on Southeast Asian Refugees

This collection contains materials acquired by Gayle Morrison during the time she served with the Lao Family Community, Inc., and the Governor's Task Force regarding issues of Southeast Asian refugees ...

UC Irvine, Special Collections and Archives: Linda Vo Collection on the Southeast Asian American Experience Archive Project

The collection is comprised of student projects from the Southeast Asian American Experience class (course number 151H) taught by Linda Vo. The class was first offered in 2003 within the Asian ...

UC Irvine, Special Collections and Archives: Ly Kien Truc Photographs of the Hi-Tek Demonstrations

This collection consists of 98 color photographic prints taken by Ly Kien Truc, publisher of Van Hoa, a bi-weekly Vietnamese magazine. The photographs are of the 1999 demonstrations over the posting ...

UC Irvine, Special Collections and Archives: Mitchell I. Bonner Photographs and Ephemera

This collection comprises approximately 3,000 photographs and slides taken by Mitchell Bonner between 1975 and 2001, as well as printed ephemera collected by him. The images document Iu Mien, Lao, ...

UC Irvine, Special Collections and Archives: Mitsuye Yamada Papers

The Mitsuye Yamada Papers are comprised of correspondence, clippings, memoranda, printed resource materials, videotapes and audiotapes that reflect her career as a poet and political activist. Of ...

UC Irvine, Special Collections and Archives: Orange County Californio Families Portrait Photograph Album

This collection comprises an album of 66 studio photographs, carte de visites, and tintypes of early and prominent Californio family members. The families are predominantly from the Orange County area ...

UC Irvine, Special Collections and Archives: Orange County Manuscript Maps

Egan's signature can be found on the survey map of lands bordering Rancho Niguel. The other maps are drawn in the same, consistent hand. All maps are drawn on thin canvas. The lines are created ...

UC Irvine, Special Collections and Archives: Orange County Rancho Title Abstracts

This collection comprises 3 bound, handwritten title abstracts, prepared by the Abstract and Title Insurance Company of Los Angeles, containing transcriptions of documents, dating back as early as ...

UC Irvine, Special Collections and Archives: Paul Tran Files on Southeast Asian Refugees

This collection contains correspondence, audiovisual materials, publications of organizations, artifacts, artwork, and other documents related to Southeast Asian refugees. Materials from the refugee ...

UC Irvine, Special Collections and Archives: Pleasants Family Papers

This collection comprises the personal papers of J.E. Pleasants and his first and second wives, Mary Refugio Carpenter Pleasants and Adelina Pleasants, and includes diaries, correspondence, ...

UC Irvine, Special Collections and Archives: Robert Walsh Files on Southeast Asian Refugee Resettlement and Education

This collection comprises materials accumulated during Walsh's involvement with the Overseas Refugee Program for Southeast Asian refugees in the Philippines and Thailand, and also materials that he ...

UC Irvine, Special Collections and Archives: Southeast Asian Archive Vertical File Collection

These materials have been collected by the Southeast Asian Archive since its creation in 1987. They come from a variety of sources: roughly half of the materials have been donated by individuals and ...

UC Irvine, Special Collections and Archives: Southeast Asian Genetics Program Records

This collection comprises records produced by the Southeast Asian Genetics Program (SEAGEP), including correspondence and manuscripts, grant applications, research data regarding birth defects and ...

UC Irvine, Special Collections and Archives: Southeast Asia Resource Action Center Records

This collection consists of the organizational files of the Southeast Asia Resource Action Center (SEARAC), a national organization created to further the development of nonprofit organizations led by ...

UC Irvine, Special Collections and Archives: Van Le Files on Southeast Asian Refugees

This collection is comprised of publications and other printed ephemera on Southeast Asian refugees in California and the United States that were accumulated during the course of his work by Van Le, a ...

UC Los Angeles, Fowler Museum of Cultural History: Baja California (Paipai) Indian Archaeological and Ethnographic Collections 1955-1959

The Paipai Indians continue in present day to live in Baja California, Mexico in an area south-east of Ensenada. Materials in the Paipai collection were field collected from 1955 to 1959 and consist ...

UC Los Angeles, Fowler Museum of Cultural History: Southern Coastal California (Chumash & Gabrielo) Indian Archaeological Collections

Collected by The University of California, Los Angeles, Fowler Museum of Cultural History, Archaeology Collections Facility.

UC Los Angeles, Fowler Museum of Cultural History: California Indian Baskets ca. 1800s-1900s

The UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History's collection includes baskets made by California American Indians in the 19th and early 20th century. The baskets represent works from the Panamint Shoshone ...

UC Los Angeles, Special Collections, Young Research Library: Augustus F. Hawkins Papers

Collection consists of materials documenting Augustus F. Hawkins's lengthy service as a U.S. Congressman representing South Central Los Angeles from 1963-90 and as Chairman of the House Education and ...

UC Los Angeles, Special Collections, Young Research Library: Edward Ross Roybal Papers

Edward Ross Roybal (1916- ) was a public health educator for the California Tuberculosis Association (1942-44), the director of health education for the Los Angeles County Tuberculosis and Health ...

UC Los Angeles, Special Collections, Young Research Library: California Ephemera Collection

Collection consists of broadsides, clippings, brochures, and other ephemeral materials relating to California. Subjects include: abortion, Alcatraz Island, building and loan associations, California ...

UC Los Angeles, Special Collections, Young Research Library: Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee Records

The Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee (formerly the Citizen's Committee for the Defense of Mexican American Youth) formed in 1942 in reaction to the indictment of 22 young men for murder. 12 defendants ...

UC Los Angeles, Special Collections, Young Research Library: S. Guy Endore Papers

S. Guy Endore (1901-70) was a prolific author of books as well as television and movie scripts. His script, G.I. Joe, was nominated for an Oscar in 1945. He was reputedly blacklisted by the Hollywood ...

UC Los Angeles, Special Collections, Young Research Library: Southern California Cadastral and Tract Maps Collection

The tract and cadastral maps in this collection are of real estate developments located in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and Ventura counties. The maps are listed by location using the Thomas ...

UC Los Angeles, Special Collections, Young Research Library: Map Collection on Los Angeles, California, the United States and the World

Collection consists of maps of Los Angeles, other parts of the United States, and various places in the world. Includes maps of California, California Geological Survey maps, tract maps of the San ...

UC Los Angeles, Special Collections, Young Research Library: Brian Urquhart Collection on Ralph J. Bunche

Collection consists of papers of, about, and collected by Ralph J. Bunche and later used by his colleague and biographer, Brian Urquhart. Includes manuscripts, his notebooks, project files, audiotape ...

UC Los Angeles, Special Collections, Young Research Library: Pamphlet Maps Collection on California

Collection consists of hundreds of pamphlet maps of various places around the world.

UC Los Angeles, Special Collections, Young Research Library: Ralph J. Bunche Papers

Collection consists of correspondence, speeches, manuscripts, articles, publications, and photographs related to the life and career of Ralph J. Bunche. Includes materials related to his teaching and ...

UC Los Angeles, Special Collections, Young Research Library: Underground, Alternative and Extremist Literature Collection

Collection consists of newspapers and other materials representing American and some British and French underground, alternative and extremist literature. Includes materials from both sides of the ...

UC Los Angeles, Special Collections, Young Research Library: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives Collection

The Los Angeles daily news was originally named the Illustrated Daily News by Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr. when he started it in 1923. He copied the tabloid format of the New York daily news, although he ...

UC Los Angeles, Special Collections, Young Research Library: Estelle Ishigo Papers

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 ...

UC Los Angeles, Special Collections, Young Research Library: Grace M. Thomas Collection on Ralph J. Bunche

Collection consists of newspaper clippings relating to the career and death of Dr. Ralph J. Bunche and a black and white photographic print of the members of his junior high school class, including ...

UC Los Angeles, Special Collections, Young Research Library: Manzanar War Relocation Center Records

The Manzanar War Relocation Center was located in the Owens Valley in Central California. The United States Army initially established the camp as the Owens Valley Reception Center under the ...

UC Los Angeles, Special Collections, Young Research Library: Los Angeles Urban League Records

The Los Angeles branch of the National Urban League stems from a 1921 organization founded by Katherine Barr and others who attended Booker T. Washington's Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. The league ...

UC Los Angeles, Special Collections, Young Research Library: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archive

Collection consists of photonegatives documenting events and people in Southern California and photographic prints documenting events and people in Southern California, the U. S., and the world. The ...

UC Los Angeles, Special Collections, Young Research Library: Alice Greenfield McGrath Papers

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 ...

UC Los Angeles, University Archives: Biographical Files (Reference Collection)

Biographical information and photographs of faculty and staff affiliated with: the Los Angeles State Normal School (LASNS), 1881-1919; the University of California, Southern Branch, 1919-1926; the ...

UC San Diego, Mandeville Special Collections Library: Ben Yellen Papers, 1945-1994

The Ben Yellen Papers document grassroots social and political activism in the arenas of western farm labor and water policy. Yellen's correspondence dates from 1948 to 1994 and encompasses a variety ...

UC San Diego, Mandeville Special Collections Library: Estado que Manifiesta el que Tenian las Misiones de la Antigua California

Holograph statistical report of the human and livestock population, acreage, and agricultural output at 14 Baja California missions at the end of June 1775 while under Dominican curatorship. Signed by ...

UC San Francisco, Tobacco Control Archives: Asian/Pacific Islanders Tobacco Education Network Records

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, ...

UC San Francisco, Tobacco Control Archives: Tobacco Free Project, San Francisco Dept. of Public Health Records

This collection documents the activities of the Tobacco Free Project of the San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFTFP). The bulk of the materials in this collection is made up of contracts, ...

UC Santa Barbara, California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives: Self-Help Graphics Archives

The Self-Help Graphics & Art, Inc. Collection (SHGA) consists of eight series distributed among fifty-seven archival boxes that occupy twenty-seven linear feet of space. These boxes hold information ...

UC Santa Barbara, California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives: Centro Cultural de la Raza Archives - Catalog of Slides

The Centro Cultural de la Raza archives represents activities at and involving CCLR and its members between 1971 and 1999. The collection consists of 8 series contained in 156 archival boxes occupying ...

UC Santa Barbara, California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives: Royal Chicano Air Force Archives

The Royal Chicano Air Force Archives consists of eight series distributed among 43 archival boxes that occupy approximately 20 linear feet of space. In addition, there are 550 prints housed in 22 ...

UC Santa Barbara, California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives: Lucero, Linda Collection of La Raza Graphics/La Raza Silkscreen Center

Linda Lucero Collection on La Raza Silkscreen Center/La Raza Graphics [1971-1985]. As early as 1970, La Raza Silkscreen/La Raza Graphics Center was producing silkscreen prints by Chicano and Latino ...

UC Santa Barbara, California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives: Ochoa, Victor Papers

Ochoa [Victor] Collection. Art files, exhibition files, ephemera, posters and prints and other printed matter, photographs and slides, correspondence files, and recordings of the Chicano painter/ ...

UC Santa Barbara, California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives: Prigoff, James Collection

The James Prigoff slide collection is an important visual resource that helps document the Chicano visual arts movement in California, and in particular, the San Diego and Tijuana area. The collection ...

UC Santa Barbara, California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives: Galeria de la Raza Archives - Catalog of Slides

The Galería de la Raza Collection (GDLR) consists of seven series distributed among 68 archival boxes that occupy about 37.5 linear feet of space. Also, there are 304 silkscreen prints, housed in flat ...

UC Santa Cruz, Special Collections and Archives: Helen Hosmer Papers

This small collection includes a letter from Helen Hosmer to Carey McWilliams, [1969?] describing the demise of the newsletter and an incomplete run of the Rural Observer, along with miscellaneous ...

University of Illinois

History of the University of Illinois and persons associated with it.

War Posters

Through partial coincidence and good fortune, two of the most significant collections in the world of posters from World War I and World War II are located within close physical proximity, in ...

Washington As It Was: Photographs by Theodor Horydczak, 1923-1959

Spanning from the mid 1920s through the 1950s, the Theodor Horydczak collection (about 14,350 photographs online) documents the architecture and social life of the Washington metropolitan area in the ...

The Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad: Cleveland's Iron Cross

The Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad (WLE) was founded in 1871 and it was originally designed to span the distance from the Ohio River through the coal fields of southeastern Ohio to the ports on Lake ...

Women Working, 1800-1930

Provides access to digitized books (over 3,500), manuscripts (7,500 pages) and images (1,200) from the collections of Harvard University Libraries and Museums on the topic of women in the U.S. economy ...

World War I Posters

The World War I posters include posters made in America and in France between 1914 and 1920 to advertise war efforts and issues.

World War II Poster Collection

The Government and Geographic Information and Data Services Department at Northwestern University Library has a comprehensive collection of over 300 posters issued by U.S. Federal agencies from the ...

WPA Cards Digital Archive

The Works Progress Administration Los Angeles Household Census Cards collection dates from 1939. The physical cards which number nearly half a million items are owned by USC's Information Services, ...

WPA Maps Digital Archive

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) conducted a land use survey from Dec. 18, 1933 to May 8, 1939 for the City of Los Angeles, Department of City Planning. It covered approximately 460 square ...

Wright Brothers Negatives

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 ...

Yesterday's Lakewood

This illustrated history consists of over 2,500 photographic images from the Lakewood Historical Society and Cleveland State University Special Collections. The site gives viewers an opportunity to ...