Archives Subject Guide

Repositories of Primary Sources

 

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Michigan

World Wide

http://www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Other.Repositories.html
A listing of over 3300 websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar.

American Memory open access

Multimedia collections from the Library of Congress of digitized documents, photographs, sound recordings, motion pictures, and texts. Over 100 collections, including, for example, African-American pamphlets, Chautauqua flyers, Depression photographs, Coca-Cola advertising, and the papers of Alexander Graham Bell, to name just a few.

United States

Links to archives throughout the United States.

National Archives

http://www.archives.gov
Governmental repository for the United States.

Women's Collections

Prepared by the Archives for Research on Women and Gender Project at the University of Texas, San Antonio Library, this guide lists archives, libraries and other repositiories that have collections of primary source materials by and about women. Provides a geographic index to repositories.

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Last updated: August 2008