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United states history - local

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American Photography: A Century of Images: Centres on the power and critical appreciation of photography and uses specific photographs to make points about cultural identity, social change, and war. An 'Image Lab' provides an interactive educational presentation which is available on video, with transcriptions for teachers.
Author: Public Broadcasting Service
Subjects: photographs, united states history - local
DeweyClass: 779.097
Resource type: documents, image collection
Basque Oral History Project: An archive of recorded interviews with Basque people of the American West. An alphabetical list of interviewees, together with details of chronicler, interviewer, location, and date, as well as biographical information is given.
Author: Basque Museum and Cultural Center
Subjects: cultural studies, united states history - local
DeweyClass: 978
Resource type: documents, sounds
California History Online: Timeline of documents and images tracing Californian history from 1600 to 1900. Covers the physical setting, the first Californians, European exploration, the Spanish Colonial Frontier, Mexican California, the Gold Rush, the impact of railroads, economic growth, and the great depression.
Author: California Historical Society
Subjects: united states history - local, united states history to 1900
DeweyClass: 978
Resource type: documents, images
Chicago in 1900: Articles, images and a bibliography of resources which document life in Chicago. Aspects considered include signs, architecture, crime, streets and miscellany. Provides links to other sites.
Author: Chrucky, Serhii and Kaplan, Jakob
Subjects: united states history - local
DeweyClass: 977
Resource type: bibliography, documents, images
Chinese in California 1850-1925: Offers over 8,000 images and pages of primary source materials illustrating nineteenth and early twentieth century Chinese immigration to California between 1850 and 1925. Includes photographs, original art, cartoons and other illustrations, letters, excerpts from diaries, business records, and legal documents, as well as pamphlets, broadsides, speeches, sheet music, and other printed materials. Aforementioned documents describe the experiences of Chinese immigrants in California, including the nature of inter-ethnic tensions and highlight the specific contributions of Chinese immigrants to commerce and business, architecture and art, agriculture, industry, and cultural and social life in California. Although the collection concentrates on Chinatown in San Francisco as the oldest and largest community of Chinese in the United States, documentation of smaller Chinese communities throughout California is also included.
Author: Library of Congress
Subjects: chinese history, united states culture, united states history - local, united states population
DeweyClass: 304.8794051
Resource type: document collection, image collection
Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19th Century America: Presents primary sources documenting the culture of the American South from the viewpoint of Southerners. Digitisation projects include Slave Narratives, First-Person Narratives comprising autobiographies, diaries, and memoirs, and a Library of Southern Literature. The texts come primarily from the premier Southern collections in the Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel-Hill.
Author: Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina
Subjects: united states history - local
DeweyClass: 975
Resource type: documents
Free Speech Movement: This resource facilitates the study of the student protest movement at the University of California, Berkeley, 1964-65, by providing related full text documents, oral histories, journals, newsletters, books, legal papers, and minutes of meetings.
Author: University of California, Berkeley Library
Subjects: freedom and privacy, human rights, united states history - local
DeweyClass: 323.7
Resource type: document collection
Indiana Historical Society: Indiana Historical Society collects, preserves, researches and interprets the 19th century heritage of Indiana state. Press releases, archives and publications are available.
Author: Indiana Historical Society
Subjects: united states history - local
DeweyClass: 977.2
Resource type: index, institution
Klondike Gold Rush: Resource providing original documentation such as letters, personal descriptions, diary extracts, and photographs relating to the Klondike gold rush and its impact on Seattle, and a set of maps of the Pacific Northwest and Alaska.
Author: University of Washington Special Collections and Hackman, Rebecca
Subjects: mining, united states history - local
DeweyClass: 978
Resource type: documents, images, maps
Library of Virginia Digital Collections: Program which aims to preserve, digitize, and provide access to significant archival and library collections. Includes Virginia Colonial Records Project, US Army Signal Corps Photographs, Virginia Newspaper Project, Board of Public Works Inventory and the Family Bible Records Project.
Author: Library of Virginia
Subjects: digital library collections, digital library programmes, historical data, united states history - local
DeweyClass: 975
Resource type: document collection
Ohio Public Library Information Network: We are the Ohio Public Library Information Network. Our mission is to ensure that all Ohio residents have fast, free public Internet access throughout the state, as well as the use of high-quality research databases not freely available on the World Wide Web. We do this through Ohio's 251 independent local public libraries. OPLIN is headed by Executive Director Carol Lynn Roddy, and the OPLIN Board of Trustees.
Author: OPLIN
Subjects: united states history - local
DeweyClass: 977.1
Resource type: documents
PALMM: Publication of Archival Library and Museum Materials: Cooperative project aiming to deliver a searchable database of library materials which either belong to SUS (State University System of Florida) institutions, or relate to the State of Florida through geography or themes. An annotated listing of collections is given, together with guidelines as to what constitutes a 'PALMM Collection'.
Author: State University System of Florida
Subjects: archives, united states history - local, united states libraries
DeweyClass: 975.9
Resource type: documents
Special Collections and Archives Image Database: Catalogue of photographs, searchable by creator, title, subject, and collection. Includes images of life on the Navaho Reservation between 1895 and 1945 and photographs documenting four decades of people and events in southwest US. A finding guide helps with identifying and accessing digitised materials.
Author: Northern Arizona University Cline Library
Subjects: american indians, anthropology, united states history - local
DeweyClass: 305.8
Resource type: image collection
Special Collections Historic Photograph Collection: Historical photographs depicting Californian counties including Butte, Glenn, Nevada, Sierra, Trinity, and Yuba. Thumbnail images are retrieved via keyword, and people, place, photographer, or donor name searches.
Author: California State University Library
Subjects: united states history - local
DeweyClass: 978.405
Resource type: image collection
Traders: Voices from the Trading Post: Examines the trade history of Native Americans of the southwest through photographs from the special collections of the university's Cline Library, maps of Indian territories, and oral histories from Native American and white traders and residents who interacted with the Navaho. Includes information on products made and traded such as livestock, weaving, jewellery, and pinon nuts, and features a silent film of Navaho rug weaving.
Author: Northern Arizona University Cline Library
Subjects: american indians, anthropology, economic history, united states history - local
DeweyClass: 305.8
Resource type: documents, image collection, sound collection
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo: Full text of the treaty signed in 1848, which ended the Mexican-American War. Includes the original text of Article IX, which was modified by the US Senate, and Article X, which was previously deleted from the treaty.
Author: Monterey Council Historical Society
Subjects: mexico, united states history - local
DeweyClass: 972
Resource type: document
Union Pacific Railroad History: Texts, photographs and images of Union Pacific, which became one of the main railways in the USA. Provides overviews, chronologies, information about equipment such as business cars and dome coaches, historical locations, railroad museums, a photo gallery, and details of past and present railroad job descriptions.
Author: Union Pacific Railroad
Subjects: rail travel, united states history - local
DeweyClass: 625
Resource type: documents, images
United States Historical Census Data Browser: Collection of data describing the people and the economy of the United States for each state and county from 1790 to 1970.
Author: Harvard University
Subjects: economic history, historical data, united states history - local
DeweyClass: 973
Resource type: reference data
Vital Records Information United States: Offers information about where to obtain vital records from each state, territory and county of the United States, such as requests for information for birth, marital and death records. Arranged by state and county, with links to other sources of information useful for genealogists.
Author: Orsay, Elizabeth
Subjects: birth, death, genealogy, historical data, united states history - local
DeweyClass: 929.1
Resource type: reference data index
Wisconsin Electronic Reader: Information on the history and culture of the US state of Wisconsin. Organised chronologically into sections covering selected years from 1835 to 1949, it includes early lumbering, women in Wisconsin, early Madison, galleries of people, places, and the University of Wisconsin.
Author: University of Wisconsin
Subjects: united states history - local
DeweyClass: 977.5
Resource type: documents, images