State history

1893 Chicago World Columbia Exposition

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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 ...

Adjutants General of Arizona

The Arizona Adjutants General exhibit is comprised of photographs of Adjutants General in Arizona from territorial days to the present. An Adjutant General is the highest ranking officer of a state’s ...

The African American Experience in Ohio, 1850-1920

Digital collection of over 30,000 pages of manuscripts, printed text, and images from many separate Ohio collections presents the history of African Americans in Ohio from 1850 to 1920. Major topics ...

ALA Archives Digital Collections

Group pictures of librarians attending the ALA conferences in U.S. and Canada, covering the period of 1894-1932 and images library buildings in photographic papers and postcards.

Alaska, Western Canada and United States Collection

The Alaska and Western Canada collection is a digital collection of historic photographs documenting the geographic area of Alaska and the Canadian provinces of Yukon Territory and British Columbia. ...

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 ...

Albemarle County, Charlottesville City, University of Virginia Planimetric Data

This collection provides access to comprehensive collections of historical aerial photographs of Albemarle County, Virginia and the City of Charlottesville. Over 900 photographs, originally produced ...

Alvin H. Waite Photographs

Alvin H. Waite was an outdoorsman and traveler, and, along with his friends and associates Albert Barnes and Henry M. Sarvant, became one of Tacoma's most important landscape photographers during the ...

American Studies Information Community

The Census of American Studies Resources on the Web supports the creation, discovery, and delivery of an annotated directory of American Studies resources on the web. Entries in the directory are ...

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, ...

Archives of Irish America

The Archives of Irish America has been building upon a pilot project started in 1997 to survey and collect materials related to the New York Irish community. Under a multi-year grant from the Irish ...

"Arise and Build!": A Centennial Commemoration of the 1895 Rotunda Fire

Brings some of the riches of the Special Collections Department of the University Library to the attention of the world and demonstrates the Library's expertise in making materials in diverse formats ...

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 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'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 ...

Asahel Curtis Photo Company Photographs

The Asahel Curtis Photo Company Photographs of 1,677 items provides one of the most valuable photographic records of Seattle, Washington State, Alaska and the Klondike covering a period from the 1850s ...

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

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 ...

Before and After the Great Earthquake and Fire: Early Films of San Francisco, 1897-1916

Site offers a perspective on the effects the San Francisco earthquake and subsequent fires of 1906 had on the development of the city. Seventeen films shot before the devastating events and seven shot ...

Berenice Abbott: Changing New York, 1935-1938

Photographs taken by master American photographer Berenice Abbott as part of a Federal Artists Project documenting changes in New York, 1935-1938. The New York images are the products of one artist's ...

The Boston Transit Collection at the Fogg Art Museum

Comprised of approximately 700 glass plate negatives and prints documenting the construction of the city's subway and elevated railway systems between 1895 and the beginning of World War II, the ...

Boyd and Braas Photographs

The partnership of William F. Boyd and George H. Braas began in 1890 and ended when Boyd left the partnership to form his own business. This small collection shows the aftermath of the Seattle fire of ...

Bridging the Bay: Bridging the Campus

At a time when the Bay Area’s bridges are being analyzed and new structures are being planned, it is important to recognize the diversity and depth of the research collections that exist on the ...

The Cabell Family Papers

The history of Virginia and that of the Cabell family are inextricably linked; indeed, since about 1726, the Cabells have been one of the Commonwealth's most interesting and influential families. This ...

"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 Gold: Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties

The WPA California Folk Music Project is a multi-format ethnographic field collection that includes sound recordings, still photographs, drawings, and written documents from a variety of European ...

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 ...

Cavalier Daily Digital Archive

Digital Library Production Services and Alderman Library Reference Services are collaborating on a project to digitize the entire run of the UVA student newspaper, The Cavalier Daily. The text is ...

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 ...

A Century of Progress: The 1933-34 World's Fair Collection

On May 27, 1933 Postmaster General James A. Farley officially opened the gates to A Century of Progress. When the fair closed October 31, 1934, thirty-nine million visitors had paid to walk through ...

Champaign County

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

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 ...

Clark Kinsey Photographs Collection

Clark Kinsey's work as a photographer documented a vital aspect of the Pacific Northwest's economic and industrial history. Raised near Snoqualmie, Washington, Clark first practiced photography in the ...

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

Community Cookbooks

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Cornell University Library Historical Monographs Collection

Contains monographs that were originally scanned in the 1990s as part of a joint digital preservation research project with Cornell University Library and Xerox are now available for online viewing. ...

County and Local Histories (Illinois)

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

Daguerreotypes at Harvard

Images of more than 3,500 daguerreotypes, the first publicly-announced photographic process, from photograph collections throughout the University used in research and instruction.

Days of Cal

This Web site is a multimedia tour through the history of the University of California at Berkeley. The site was created by Steven Morgan Friedman, working with University Archivist Bill Roberts and ...

Digital Cultural Heritage Community

Materials from East Central Illinois archives, museums, and libraries for third, fourth, and fifth grade social science curriculum.

Digital New York City

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

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 ...

Early Virginia Religious Petitions

Images of 423 petitions submitted to the Virginia legislature between 1774 and 1802 from more than eighty counties and cities. Drawn from the Library of Virginia's Legislative Petitions collection, ...

Education in Illinois

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

Eighteenth Century Collections Online

The University of Michigan and Thomson-Gale are cooperating in a Text Creation Partnership to create 10,000 accurately keyed and fully searchable SGML/XML text editions from among the 150,000 titles ...

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 Eleuterio Escobar Collection

Exhibition based on the Benson Latin American Collection at the University of Texas at Austin. The collection houses the papers of Eleuterio Escobar (b. 1894 - d. 1970), a prominent San Antonio ...

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 ...

Free Speech Movement Digital Archive

Presents a collection of material relating to the student protests at Berkeley in 1964 and 1965. Site contains journals, newsletters, photographs, oral histories, books, pamphlets, reports, minutes of ...

The Geography of Slavery in Virginia

The Geography of Slavery in Virginia is a digital collection of advertisements for runaway and captured slaves and servants in 18th- and 19th-century Virginia newspapers. Building on the rich ...

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 ...

Harvard/Radcliffe Online Historical Reference Shelf

Electronic access to frequently consulted sources on the history of Harvard and Radcliffe including annual reports, narrative histories, writings, statistics, founding documents, Massachusetts ...

Historic Aerial Photo Imagebase

Digital preservation of and access to aerial photography of Illinois was the focus of a joint pilot project of the University's Map and Geography Library, Digital Imaging and Media Technology ...

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 ...

Historical Archaeology in Loudoun Valley and Harpers Ferry

Archaeological and historical research concerning 18th and 19th century sites in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, and nearby Loudoun Valley, Virginia, as well as the broader region of the upper Potomac ...

Historical Maps Online

Includes digital images of approximately 85 maps dating back over 350 years. The maps depict North America, the Northwest Territory, the state of Illinois, and counties and townships within the state ...

Historical New Haven Digital Collection

The Historical New Haven Digital Collection, a teaching tool developed over the past two years, now contains over 1,500 images, 800 interactive maps and 90 statistical documents relating to the city ...

History of the American West, 1860-1920: Photographs from the Collection of the Denver Public Library

Over 30,000 photographs, drawn from the holdings of the Western History and Genealogy Department at Denver Public Library, illuminate many aspects of the history of the American West. Most of the ...

Human Ecology Historical Photographs

A database of selected images and information from the records of the College of Home Economics, Cornell University. The photographs are organized by general subjects: Resident Teaching; International ...

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 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 ...

Indiana Magazine of History

The yearly indexes of the Indiana Magazine of History from 1980 to 2000 are currently available on the web. The 25-year index covering 1955-1979 has been marked up and will be available on the web in ...

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, ...

John H. White: Portrait of Black Chicago

From June through October 1973 and briefly during the spring of 1974, John H. White, a 28-year-old photographer with the Chicago Daily News, worked for the federal government photographing Chicago, ...

King County Snapshots

King County Snapshots presents King County, Washington, through 12,000 historical images carefully chosen from the twelve organizations' collections. These cataloged 19th and 20th century images ...

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 as Subject

Hosted by the USC Libraries, L.A. as Subject is an alliance of research archives, libraries, and collections dedicated to preserving the rich history of the Los Angeles region. L.A. as Subject is ...

LA Comprehensive Bibliographic Database

The Los Angeles Comprehensive Bibliographic Database (LACBD) publishes in one comprehensive electronic edition two bibliographies: "Los Angeles and its Environs in the Twentieth Century: A ...

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 ...

Lewis Wickes Hine: The Construction of the Empire State Building, 1930-1931

Lewis Wickes Hine (1874 -1940), photographer, sociologist and humanist, is best known for his insightful portraits of immigrants at Ellis Island and his unflinching views of housing and labor ...

The Life of a City: Early Films of New York, 1898-1906

Site contains forty-five films from 1898 to 1906 highlighting the character of New York City around the turn of the century. A selected bibliography and information about early cameramen are also ...

Making it in Los Angeles

Angelenos have always been, literally, making it. From the early inhabitants of El Pueblo who made handcrafts to the contemporary resident who may make movies, clothing, or any one of thousands of ...

The Making of Ann Arbor

Online pictorial history of Ann Arbor, Michigan resulting from a collaboration between the University of Michigan Library, the Ann Arbor District Library, and the University of Michigan Bentley ...

Maryland ArtSource

Based at the Sheridan Libraries, Maryland ArtSource is the collaborative effort of eight cultural and arts organizations in Baltimore dedicated to promoting art information resources that illuminate ...

Medical Historical Library Exhibits

The Medical Historical Library has exhibits on the history of the medical school, hospital, and the schools of nursing and public health, and New Haven's Hospitals. In addition, 1600 prints and ...

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 ...

Menus Collection

This collection represents menus, place mats, and other graphic materials from many of the Puget Sound area's most famous restaurants and dining facilities in the years between 1889 and 2003. ...

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 ...

Modern Photographers Collection

A selection of images from the work of nationally and internationally renowned local photographers Art Hupy, Ernest Kassowitz, Kyo Koike, Frank Kunishige, Mary Randlett and others. These photographers ...

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 ...

Mount St. Helens Post-Eruption Chemistry Database

The collection provides a look at both the human and the scientific sides of studying the eruption of a volcano. The slides were taken by Professor William Zoller, Professor of Chemistry, University ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Northern Great Plains, 1880-1920: Photographs from the Fred Hultstrand and F.A. Pazandak Photograph Collections

Over nine hundred black and white and hand-colored photographs taken from the collections of Fred Hultstrand and F.A. Pazandak have been mounted on this site. Photos depict pioneer and town life from ...

Notable Illinoisans

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

Oliver S. Van Olinda Photographs

A collection of 420 photographs depicting life on Vashon Island, Whidbey Island, Seattle and other communities of Washington State's Puget Sound from the 1880s to the 1930s. This collection provides a ...

Omaha Indian Music

Omaha Indian Music features traditional Omaha music from the 1890s and 1980s. The multiformat ethnographic field collection contains 44 wax cylinder recordings collected by Francis La Flesche and ...

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 ...

Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen, Local 160 Records, 1884-1927

The Order was founded in 1868 in Amboy, Illinois as the Conductors Union. This collection contains records relating to the Wyoming Valley-Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania Division 160. In addition to ...

Pacific Northwest Historical Documents Database

A collection of writings, diaries, letters, and reminiscences drawn from various sources within the Manuscripts, Special Collections, University Archives collections that recount the early settlement ...

The Pacific Northwest Olympic Peninsula Community Museum

Northwestern Olympic Peninsula communities and The University of Washington worked together to create this Web-based museum to showcase aspects of the rich history and culture of the region. This ...

Patients' Voices in Early 19th Century Virginia: Letters to Doct. James Carmichael & Son

In 1998 the University of Virginia Libraries purchased a 700-piece collection of the correspondence and daybook of Dr. James Carmichael and his son, Dr. Edward Carmichael, of Fredericksburg, Virginia ...

Penn State-University Park Campus History Digital Archives

This collection of primary source materials has been gathered and placed on the web to enable students and others to learn about the history of the Penn State-University Park campus, including its ...

Pictorial & Graphics Collections

The moving image collection contains film and video of a wide variety of formats. The film collection contains films dating back to 1914 and includes 35mm, 16mm, 8mm and Super 8mm formats. The ...

Pioneering the Upper Midwest: Books from Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, ca. 1820-1910

Portrays the states of Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin from the seventeenth to the early twentieth century through first-person accounts, biographies, promotional literature, local histories, ...

Poetry Here and Then

A sampling of the papers of Michigan poets from various collections housed at the Bentley Historical Library, featuring handwritten and typed manuscripts, letters and essays as well as photographs, ...

Portraits Database

An ongoing database of over 200 historical portraits of men and women well known in the Pacific Northwest region and also nationwide. These include, among others, architects, artists and writers, ...

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. ...

Proceedings of the Board of Regents of the University of Michigan (1837-present)

Please note that as of May 2006, the Regents Proceedings Index has been updated only through June 2005, and the digitized version of the Regents Proceedings is only available through June 2005.

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 ...

The Rhone Family of Fayette Co., Texas

Exhibition based on the Rhone Family Papers. The Papers document aspects of the lives of members of a central Texas black family from 1886 to 1971. Calvin Lindley Rhone (1867-1921) and his wife Lucia ...

Richard Thomas Walker Duke, Jr. and the Duke Family Papers at the University of Virginia

Between 1899 and 1926, Richard Thomas Walker Duke, Jr., a prominent Albemarle County, Virginia, jurist and civic leader, recorded the most memorable events of his life in five, leather-bound volumes ...

Rural Life and Agriculture

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SAGE: Selected Archives at Georgia Tech and Emory

Home page for SAGE, the Selected Archives at Georgia Tech and Emory. Contains links to information about SAGE and to four online digital archives: the Fred R. Crawford Witness to the Holocaust Project ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Seattle Water and Power Supply Collection

This collection showcases images of hydroelectric power and water supply facilities built in Washington State from the late 1890s to the 1950s. Many of these dams, power plants and reservoirs were ...

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 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 ...

Small-Town America: Stereoscopic Views from the Robert Dennis Collection

A few big cities -- and many more small towns -- long ago made the Mid-Atlantic states of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut one of the most densely populated regions in North America. This website ...

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 ...

The South Texas Border, 1900-1920: Photographs from the Robert Runyon Collection

A collection of 8,241 items documenting the Lower Rio Grande valley during the early 1900s. It includes glass negatives, lantern slides, nitrate negatives, prints, and postcards, representing the life ...

Stanford Historical Photograph Collection

The Stanford Historical Photograph Collection is one of the Stanford University Archives' major collections, consisting of some 16,000 photographs from throughout Stanford's history, and covers ...

Tennessee Documentary History, 1796-1850

The "Tennessee Documentary History, 1796-1850," on-line project will contain 2,000 documents and images relating to the history of antebellum Tennessee. With financial support from the Institute of ...

Texas, Texans, and the Alamo

The Center's Barker Texas History Collection contains books, manuscript collections, maps, newspapers, and other materials that document the historical development of Texas from Spanish colonization ...

Travel Literature

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Tucson Territorial Pioneer Project

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 Archives Photograph Collection

The Special Collections Research Center is engaged in a multi-year project to digitize and create metadata for selected photographs from the 250,000-image University Archives Photograph Collection ...

University of Illinois

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

Vietnam War Era Ephemera Collection

The text are selections from Vietnam War era ephemera collection of printed ephemera including pamphlets, posters, manifestos, newsletters, booklets, and open letters created by the various Seattle- ...

The View from Here

Digitization of materials in a variety of formats - audio, video, text and images - documenting the local manifestation of events or movements of national importance (the Vietnam War, Civil Rights, ...

The Virginia Elections and State Elected Officials Database Project, 1776-2008

Update (2005): Election data for Virginia candidates running for U.S. Congress back to the 1960s, election and service data for candidates in 2004 elections, and campaign finance data for candidates ...

A Virginia Gazetteer

The Virginia Gazetteer contains the official name, type, and location of over 51,000 geographic features in Virginia. The Virginia Gazetteer is linked to an inventory of collections archived at the ...

The Virginia Heritage: Guides to Manuscript & Archival Collections in Virginia

The Virginia Heritage Project concluded successfully in December 2002. Over the course of the grant, Special Collections encoded 2,203 collection guides in the EAD format, representing 27,923 pages of ...

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- ...

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 ...

WPA/TVA Images

An on-line searchable database of information describing photographic images taken by Works Progress Administration (WPA) workers of archaeological projects conducted in preparation for Tennessee ...

WTO Seattle Collection

A collection of interviews and images depicting the protests of the WTO ministerial meeting held in Seattle on November 29 - December 3, 1999. The collection illustrates the efforts to bring activists ...