These digital collections at Manoa Library include historical and cultural material in digital form. Idaho Digital Atlas of Idaho: Primary source materials in the Department of Special Collections in the University of Idaho Library include personal and organizational records and university archives, rare books, manuscripts, and historical photographs; these and other materials support research into nearly all facets of the history of Idaho and the Pacific Northwest. This collection has information on these topics and more. The Illinois State Library provides access to the images in these collections for educational and research purposes only.
Illinois Historical Digitization Projects: This link allows visitors to see a collection of digital projects that principally shed light on American history and culture. Indiana Digital Media Repository: Indiana Memory seeks to support and enhance education and scholarship for all Hoosiers. Indiana State Digital Archives: Visitors to this site can search for their ancestors through indexes of state records that have taken more than 15 years to create. Indiana University Digital Library Program: This is a collaborative effort among Indiana libraries to preserve these valuable resources and provide users with documents and images that pertain to the historical and cultural heritage of Indiana.
Iowa Iowa Digital Library: The Iowa Digital Library contains more than 75, digital objects—photographs, maps, sound recordings and documents—from libraries and archives at University of Iowa and their partnering institutions. New collections are being added constantly. Iowa Heritage Digital Collections: This site is an online repository of Iowa history and culture created by bringing together in digital form documents, images, maps, finding aids, interpretive and educational materials, and other media from collections held by a wide range of organizations throughout Iowa.
Iowa State University Digital Collections: Kansas Digital Collections and Projects: This is a project conducted by the University of Kansas KU , and it includes ten digital projects that range from scholarly works from KU to historical documents and images that focus on Kansas history. Kansas State Historical Society: Several projects to make images or transcripts of primary source documents available through the Internet are either completed or are underway at this site.
For now, you can peruse items such as automobile and road pamphlets, railroad immigration pamphlets, and the Western Trails collection. Hundreds of personal letters, diaries, photos, and maps bring to life the settling of Kansas between and Kentucky Kentucky Digital Library: Visit these rare and unique digitized collections housed in Kentucky archives and offered online, including newspapers, maps, oral histories, images, and more.
Tulane University Digital Library: This link takes scholars, students and the public to collections in areas such as jazz, Latin American studies, and New Orleans and Louisiana history and architecture. Maine Maine Memory Network: The Maine Memory Network provides access to over 12, historical items from over museums, historical societies, libraries, and other organizations from every corner of Maine.
Windows on Maine is a pilot project to develop an online service offering streaming video programs and clips, and other primary and secondary digital resources, via broadband and wireless connections. This virtual library contains includes Native American resources, the Gulf of Maine science projects, and more.
University of Maine System Libraries: The gateway to digital collections found here provides the public access to thousands of selected, digitized materials. The materials are among the special collections made available by the UMS Libraries, in collaboration with other campus units, and in partnership with other cultural institutions in Maine.
Maryland Archives of Maryland Online: This site contains collections from Bernard C. All texts contain descriptions of Maryland from their writings from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Maryland Digital Cultural Heritage: Sponsored by the Maryland State Archives, this site contains a list of all online projects such as the original official Maryland charter language in English actual document. The archives contain text, maps, image files and more. Boston College Libraries offers this database to find relevant records and more to the general public.
The purpose of the Digital Commonwealth is to promote the creation of digital resources by libraries and other cultural organizations in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and to provide public access to these resources. This resource also contains links to smaller collections within the state that are sponsored by local and regional efforts by individual and collaborative libraries and museum projects.
Northeast Massachusetts Digital Library: Michigan The Making of Modern Michigan: MMM is a collaborative project involving 52 Michigan libraries. It includes local history materials from communities around the state. Minnesota Minnesota Digital Library: Mississippi Mississippi Digital Library: The project focuses on primary sources associated with the civil rights era, since the partner repositories hold rich collections on that topic.
Missouri Missouri Digital Heritage: Browse through this site to discover many online resources such as their online exhibits , a birth and death records database and more. University of Missouri Digital Library: Be sure to follow links on this page to visit other lists of collaborative digital collections.
Montana Montana Historical Society: Nebraska Nebraska State Historical Society: This site contains online contents, information about state museums, and more. The online content contains link to outside sources as well as finding aids and transcribed materials. From pioneer wagon trails to modern recreational trails, this site covers them all through books, documents, maps, postcards, original paintings, and photographs. These artifacts were collected into a searchable database from the holdings of museums and libraries across Nebraska. Nevada Nevada State Library and Archives: The Department of Cultural Affairs within this site maintains a page that carries information about a variety of Nebraska history topics.
Most of these projects contain text and image collections pertaining to Nevada history. These digital collections include categories such as the Civil War, local history and genealogy, music and dance, and science and technology. University of New Hampshire Internet Archive: Browse these collections by history, music and dance, maps, literature and poetry, and images. Materials for inclusion in the Digital Collections Initiative are drawn from all state library collections, especially government documents and special collections.
These collections contain documents, photographs, maps, posters, art and music, and topics include New Mexico history, water and land issues and Latin American art and politics. New Mexico Digital History Project: This site was constructed with the backing of the Office of the State Historian to foster and facilitate an appreciation and understanding of New Mexico history and culture through education, research, preservation, and community outreach. Online Archive of New Mexico: Scroll down the page to find the list of collections, which range from Brooklyn Democratic Party and WWII scrapbooks to fashion design history databases and more.
Hamilton College Digital Collections: This site provides access to thousands of pages of unique and rare materials held by the Hamilton College Library. Choose from the Civil War collection, the Shaker collection, or the illustrations gallery, which displays a selection of images and illustrations found on documents in the previous two collections. Hudson River Valley Heritage: This site houses a large number of various digital collections, everything from the African American Migration Experience to The Life of Charles Dickens. New York State Documents: For many recent State documents, the catalog record contains a link to an electronic version of the document.
Many of these online publications are scanned documents , which were created by the library and made available online as PDF portable document format files. State University History Archives: The Department of History at the University at Albany is one of the pioneers in wedding historical scholarship and teaching with digital technologies. Current projects are listed in the left column, with information about the collections shown on this page as you scroll down.
Syracuse University Digital Library: Housed in the North Carolina Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, this center works with cultural heritage institutions across North Carolina to digitize and publish historic materials online. North Carolina State Archives: This link will take you to the online projects, which include news and press releases, postal history, WWI documents and more. North Dakota Frontier Scout: The North Dakota State Historical Society has scanned all known issues and made them available online.
Institute for Regional Studies and University Archives: Lawrence Collection housed at the Tallmadge Branch Library. The latter collection consists of historical materials about the community of Tallmadge, from its beginnings as an early town of the Connecticut Western Reserve to current information. This site holds a digital collection of texts, maps, and images, as well as access tools for digital and non-digital works, all concerning the history of greater Cleveland and the Western Reserve region of northeastern Ohio.
Supported and maintained by special collections in the Cleveland State University Library. This is a separate project from the one listed previously, and it showcases the special collections in the Cleveland State University Library. Search for images and texts that relate to the history of southeastern Ohio. Greater Cincinnati Memory Project: Other resources that you can tap through this site include the Ohio Death Index and more.
The site currently holds fifteen galleries on topics that range from street scenes to historical fashion to famous Ohioans. This link takes users to a collection of numerous resources, including sources for genealogy and digital content, and ebooks. Oklahoma Electronic Publishing Center: They seek to expand this collection, which will remain faithful to collections focused on OSU or to the State of Oklahoma. This site will direct you to the current edition entitled, Oklahoma Crossroads.
This latter site consists of selected digital collections of the Oklahoma Department of Libraries spanning more than years of rich, vibrant history, including documents, photographs, newspapers, reports, pamphlets, posters, maps, and an author database ranging in date from the late s to present. Oregon Oregon Historic Photograph Collections: Photographs of Oregon, all digitized and searchable online, with special focus on the City of Salem and other Willamette Valley communities.
This archive offers exhibits that include information about crafting the Oregon constitution, Oregon in the s, and more.
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This list brings collections from all over the state of Pennsylvania to public access, including State Library of Pennsylvania collections, Wissahickon Valley Public Library collections and more. The Three Mile Island project has been disabled as of this writing. This site contains a comprehensive collection of local resources that supports personal and scholarly research of the western Pennsylvania area. Browse collections categorized by images, text, maps, and more. The PHMC is the official history agency of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and through the Pennsylvania History portal, users can search people, places, events, and other things.
Users are able to search through photos and images, manuscripts, maps and more. This site brings together collections from various statewide institutions and provides both introductions and links to these various sites. This collaboration effort includes a wide variety of unique collections in audio, visual, and textual resources. South Dakota Historical Society: The online exhibits include archives in the SDHS museum and materials from state archives.
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Tennessee Tennessee State Library and Archives: Users can search through numerous digital collections, including the photograph and image search and the Tennessee Virtual Archive , which include collections about the Tennessee School for the Deaf and the Civil War. This program involves the collaborative efforts of Tennessee archives, historical societies, libraries, museums, and schools. Austin State University, this collection of digital archives includes photographs, documents, maps, and books, and other archival materials associated with the East Texas region.
Portal to Texas History: The Portal to Texas History offers students and lifelong learners a digital gateway to the rich collections held in Texas libraries, museums, archives, historical societies, and private collections. The site embraces all geographic areas of Texas and covers prehistory through the twentieth century, and includes digital reproductions of photographs, maps, letters, documents, books, artifacts, and more. This project is still under development, with new materials being added constantly.
Texas State Library and Archives Commission: This site houses several hidden treasures. The University of Utah offers high-resolution digital facsimiles of selected collections that range from the arts to sports and recreation. Utah State Archives Digital Collections: You can search through time capsule records for , news clippings from , and more at this site. Vermont Center for Digital Initiatives: Visitors to the University of Vermont Libraries Center for Digital Initiatives can browse through numerous unique digital collections.
All images are online and free to the public. Middlebury College Digital Collections: Browse or read about the digital collections at this Vermont college, which include a growing collection of digitized rare books and manuscripts, images, video and audio of lectures, and more than historic images. Vermont in the Civil War: This independent Web site is a great resource, as it includes a transcription of George G. Gain access to historical photographs and databases at this official site.
This library is slowing expanding its digital collections, and their land records and WPA artifacts represent superb resources for historians and genealogists. The Virginia Center for Digital History: The online exhibits at this Virginia Commonwealth University site focus mainly on Virginia history and architecture. Part of the Library of Virginia, the Virginia Memory regularly adds new digital collections. Be sure not to miss the featured collection, which also changes periodically. Washington King County Snapshots: Washington State Digital Archives: Washington State Digital Collections: The digital collections in this archive are primary sources that have been digitized and organized by collection and database.
The photographs contains the most comprehensive collection of historic images pertaining to West Virginia in existence, and the Child Ballads of West Virginia are performed on audio files by Patrick Ward Gainer West Virginia Memory Project: This collection includes searchable databases, photographs, and documents. This project is part of the West Virginia Division of Culture and History site, where you can find more online materials.
Wisconsin The State of Wisconsin Collection: The State of Wisconsin Collection brings together, in digital form, two categories of primary and secondary materials: Books, manuscripts, sound recordings, photographs, maps and other resources deemed important to the study and teaching of the State of Wisconsin. This site offers transcribed stories, essays, letters and poems that are illustrated and that focus on Wisconsin history from to WHO is an expanding digital collection, featuring documentary sources and material culture from Wisconsin libraries, archives, and museums.
University of Wisconsin Digital Collections: They are loosely organized into collections that span a range of subjects including art, ecology, literature, history, music, natural resources, science, social sciences, the State of Wisconsin, and the University of Wisconsin. Digital resources include text-based materials such as books, journal series, and manuscript collections; photographic images; slides; maps; prints; posters; audio; and video.
This information-rich site also contains genealogical materials, information about historic buildings, and historical images. Wyoming University of Wyoming Digital Initiative: Browse through general collections and wildlife, geography, and living sections. Wyoming research had been made easy through this site, as it offers online collections of historical documents, historical trails, and genealogical materials.
Some collections are merely described or inventoried and not offered online. Multi-State Resources The following resources are projects that range from the efforts between two states to larger collections that focus on the development of the entire U. This site features a digital collection of approximately objects and transcribed document pages from Memorial Hall Museum and Library. The focus is a view from New England on the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries. This site contains more than 18, pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration, from the sagas of Vikings in Canada in AD to the diaries of mountain men in the Rockies years later.
The list found through this link contains universities and institutions located in the New England area, and each link leads to digitization projects that are currently underway. This site brings together selected highlights of the ethnic collections from leading repositories in Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. Combined Arms Research Library: The researcher can discover texts that reach from obsolete military manuals to WWII operational documents. Digital Archive of American Architecture: This archive is maintained by the Fine Arts Department at Boston College, and examples and accompanying text range from the seventeenth century to current urban projects.
Digital Library of Appalachia: The DLA provides online access to archival and historical materials related to the culture of the southern and central Appalachian region.
Documenting the American South: DocSouth is a digital publishing initiative that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture. Currently DocSouth includes ten thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs. Early Americas Digital Archive: EADA is a collection of electronic texts originally written in or about the Americas from to approximately Fish and Wildlife Digital Library System: Use the search engine or browse list of hyperlinked keywords to find recent images of Alaska, the northeast U.
This is a collaborative effort with the University of Michigan. Currently, the project extends beyond this collaboration to bring audio, video, text, and image files to the general public on subjects such as the African e-Journals Project, American Voices, and more. Mountain West Digital Library: This site contains an aggregation of digital collections from universities, colleges, public libraries, museums, and historical societies in Utah, Nevada, and Idaho.
The Mountain West defines the region of contributors, but the content extends far beyond the Mountain West and into different fields.
This government organization provides a growing collection of thousands of images, documents, drawings and maps about the cultural and natural resources maintained by the National Park Service across the U. The digitization process is ongoing at this site, but they invite you to peruse the newspaper issues that they have put on line including the Civil War and the Turn of the Century They also include a section on antique books that they are in process of digitizing.
This project provides access to more than hours of Supreme Court audio. All audio in the Court recorded since is included here. Before , the audio collection is selective. Rocky Mountain Online Archive: These materials include correspondence, diaries, or photographs, and digital reproductions of primary sources are available in some cases. United States Digital Map Archive: This project and its all-volunteer staff are dedicated to free, online access for the general public.
The maps usually are large, and they offer images for every state and often for many counties within these states. Upper Mississippi Valley Digital Archive: The late nineteenth and early twentieth century photographs were gathered from the collections of Davenport Public Library, Augustana College, and Musser Public Library in Muscatine. The University of South Carolina provides resources for the general public, including broadsides from the Colonial Era to the present, the travel journal and album of collected papers of William Tennent III, — , and more.
Valley of the Shadow: Western Waters Digital Library: WWDL contains government reports, classic water literature, legal transcripts, water project records, personal papers, photographic collections, and video materials about the Columbia, Colorado, Platte, and Rio Grande river basins. This site is a collaborative regional project created by twelve university libraries in eight western states.
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Washington State University offers textual, image, and photographic collections online and to the general public. Some materials are merely described rather than offered online, such the audio collections although you can find abstracts on some of these materials. Larger Collections These selections are gathered mainly from U. Maps Alexandria Digital Library: ADL is a distributed digital library with collections of georeferenced materials such as maps, aerial photographs and remote sensing satellite data. Digitized Japanese language texts.
Computer science and information science. A free online service used to index and search academic social networks, hosted at Department of Computer Science and Technology of Tsinghua University. Arts and Humanities Data Service. Images, texts and datasets largely collected from UK universities. Ceased operation in Website is still active. Preprints in mathematics , physics , computer science , quantitative biology and statistics.
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Digitizes French texts in the public domain. Library hosts Over 35 classical and contemporary exegesis of Quran, all major books of hadith, a large number of books on biographies of early Muslims and a lot of other related titles. Library serves international audience and offers books in numerous international languages.
Legal studies and history. Science fiction and fantasy. Literature , reference and verse. An open access digital library for biodiversity literature. BHL operates as a consortium of natural history and botanical institutions around the world that cooperate to digitize the natural history literature in their collections and make it openly available through their website at www. Currently over 42, popular and educational books in the collection. A digital library that will link many of the different academic digital library collections around British Columbia.
British Columbia Electronic Library Network [12]. Core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles. Canadian historical primary sources, including books, newspapers, periodicals, and nationally significant archival material. Textbooks used in Mexico in preschool, primary, secondary and high school education in - Historic textbooks used in Mexico in primary education from to Center for Research Libraries. Christian Classics Ethereal Library.
Choral Public Domain Library. Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse. The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies. Cornell University Library Windows on the Past. The Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. Safekeeping and curating information about and images of over objects inscribed with cuneiform text. University of California, Los Angeles. Over thematic collections that together contain over , digital objects of various academic interests, including almost out-of-print titles from the University of Pittsburgh Press.
Digital Bibliography and Library Project. Digital library for Dutch literature. Digital Library of Georgia. Digital Library of India. Arts and humanities, Middletown studies. Digital Public Library of America. Digital South Asia Library. Materials for reference and research on South Asia. Directory of Open Access Journals.
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South Carolina State Library. Toronto , Ontario , Canada. Volunteer initiative to converts books in the Canadian public domain to readable electronic formats. Classic works including literature, philosophy, science, religion and history. English literature , English broadside ballads. Online digital archive of primarily 17th century English broadside ballads, digitized into multiple accessible formats for scholars and members of the general public.
An off-line digital library for communities with inadequate Internet bandwidth, i. Over 35 million resources in every format: Includes tools for patrons to create, upload, share, and archive their own content. Has built-in search tools and Web 2. Online Sources for European History.
A digital library of economic, financial and banking materials covering the economic history of the United States. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Harvard University Library digital collections. Links to digitized collections from the University's libraries, museums, archives and special collections, covering subjects such as art, architecture, religion, history, culture, botany, biology, landscape design, music, politics, law, and advertising. Projects involved digitizing of analog collections including images, text, audio files, and music scores , georeferencing maps, or harvesting web resources.
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Harvard University [25] [26]. Heidelberg University Digital Library. University of Michigan [28]. International collaborative effort to conserve, catalogue and digitise manuscripts, printed texts, paintings, textiles and artifacts from Dunhuang and other archaeological sites at the eastern end of the Silk Road. British Library and twenty other institutions. International Music Score Library Project. International relations , security. Open-source Digital Library service for material related to international relations IR and security.
Available content includes PDF-documents journal articles, books, papers, reports , a directory of IR- and security-centered organizations, and multimedia material podcasts, videos. Internet Memory Foundation is a non-profit institution. It actively supports the preservation of Internet as a new media for heritage and cultural purpose. Internet History Sourcebooks Project.
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Page image archive of important scholarly journals, with searchable OCR text. The Kurdish Digital Library. The Digital Library consists of writings about the Kurds and Kurdistan. Its aim is to make the Kurdish cultural heritage available as digital data. Kurdish Institute of Paris. A digital library serving accessible audio textbooks and general titles to people with print disabilities. Currently over 75, popular and educational books in the collection. Library of Economics and Liberty. Public Domain books in the United States.
An online digital library of free public domain audiobooks, read by volunteers. Around ninety percent of the collection is in English.