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Making of Modern Michigan
- photographs, family papers, oral histories, genealogical materials, and
more
contributed from over 50 public, academic, special and school libraries
throughout the state of Michigan.
Ad*Access from Duke University Images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers & magazines between 1911 and 1955.
Digital Archive of American Architecture From Boston College, this collection is composed of 1,500 images of American Architecture from the 17th Century through the 20th Century.
Emergence of Advertising in America, 1850-1920 Over 9,000 images relating to advertising - including cookbooks, print advertisements, trade cards, calendars, billboards and leaflets for a multitude of products.
American Memory from the Library of Congress "American Memory is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The site offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections," including a collection of American Sheet Music 1820-1860 and 1870 - 1885.
America Votes: Presidential Campaign Memorabilia "Winners share the limelight with the defeated in this exhibit of U.S. presidential campaign memorabilia drawn primarily from the holdings of the Duke University Special Collections Library. The exhibit illustrates the nation's presidential elections in letters, sheet music, leaflets, buttons, and bumper stickers."
Digital Library of the New York Public Library "Read about the history of New York's Hudson River, or tour the waterway. This digital collection of nineteeth-century materials on the art and culture of the Hudson includes rare prints, maps, photos, guidebooks, and histories -- all drawn from The New York Public Library's collections."
American Memory Map Collections: 1500-2002 The Focus of this collection 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 covered by copyright protection."
Canada's Digital Collection This Collection showcases over "400 Web sites celebrating Canada's history, geography, science, technology and culture."
Cornell University's Digital Library Cornell's collection covers many areas including anti-slavery literature, theater, historic math books and Icelandic Sagas.
Doc Heritage From the Pennsylvania State Archives, this site includes images of historical documents & narratives, placing them in a regional, state or national context, and helpful likes for further research.
F.D.R. Archives and Digital Library From the files of President Roosevelt's secretary, a vast assortment of diplomatic files dealing with Germany, Great Britain and the Vatican are made available on-line.
Delaware Public Archives A collection of materials dealing with state history and genealogy as well as Slavery Papers, Civil War Records and more.
The Galeway to Northwestern Ontario History Photos, books, drawings and artifacts from Libraries & Museums of Northwestern Ontario.
Global Gateway - As an international effort to preserve world cultures and documents, The Library of Congress and many worldwide organizations have gathered together digital archives dealing with the colonization of America by various counties. As of now, Spain, Russia, and the Netherlands are represented.
The First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820. This site contains 15,000 pages of original historical material documenting the land, peoples, exploration, and transformation of the trans-Appalachian West from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century.
Internet Library of Early Journals A digital library of 18th and 19th Century journals from Great Britain.
Historic
American Sheet Music This collection from Duke University contains digital
images of 3042 pieces of sheet music published in the United States between
1850 and 1920.
The
Making of America - From U of M, this is a digital collection of over 8,000
books and 50,000 articles dealing with American Social History from the 1850s
through 1870s.
Meeting
of Frontiers -
"tells
the story of the American exploration and settlement of the West, the parallel
exploration and settlement of Siberia and the Russian Far East, and the meeting
of the Russian-American frontier in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest."
This is
brought to us by the Library of Congress.
University
of Michigan Digital Text Collection This
massive undertaking is composed of 33 Collections serving 27,908 texts
including literature,
history, University history, mathematics and science & technology. Some
texts are restricted to students and faculty.