CONTENTdm Collection of Collections

- Dakota Mosaic
- The North Dakota State Historical Records Advisory Board was awarded a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission in 2008 to scan 100 images from each of ten historical societies, libraries, and museums around the state....
- Indians of North America; Agriculture; History; Military; North Dakota - Politics and government; North Dakota; Frontier and pioneer life;
- Kentucky Historical Society Digital Collections
- Kentucky Historical Society Digital Collections provides access to digital images, sound, video, and text from the KHS collections. For over one hundred years the Kentucky Historical Society has been collecting, preserving, and sharing...
- Advertisements; African Americans; Agriculture; Art; Automobiles; Campaigns & battles; Carriages & coaches; Carts & wagons; Children; Churches; Cities & towns; Civil rights; Civil War, 1861-1865; Clothing & dress; Coal mining; Commerce;...
- King County Snapshots
- King County Snapshots presents King County, Washington, through 12,000 historical images carefully chosen from twelve organizations' collections. These cataloged 19th and 20th century images portray people, places, and events in the county's urban,...
- Urban culture; Suburban culture; Rural culture; Washington history; King County history; African Americans; Asian Americans; Japanese Americans; Minidoka Relocation Center; Aerial views; Aurora Avenue; Sea-Tac Airport; International District; Pike...
- Ohio Memory
- Established in 2000, the mission of the Ohio Memory Project is to provide access to historical treasures of Ohio, bringing together primary sources from all parts of the state in an digital library that celebrates state and local history,...
- Ohio Memory focuses on documenting the history of the State of Ohio and its local communities. Broad topics such as Ohio Citizenship, Culture, Economy, Presidents and Politics, People, and Environment are represented.
- Pieces of the Past: Des Moines History Online
- This collection, funded by a grant from Friends of the Des Moines Library and King County Library System Foundation, consists of historical photographs from the Des Moines Historical Society. The Pieces of the Past site also includes links to a...
- Lumber industry; Washington State; Shipping industry; African Americans; Restaurants; Motels; Mosquito Fleet; Steamboats; Local history; Churches; Buses; Des Moines; Marina; Des Moines Historical Society; Parades; Zenith Beach; Zenith; Buildings;
- American Journeys: Eyewitness Accounts of Early American Exploration and Settlement
- This digital library contains more than 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration, from the sagas of Vikings in Canada in AD1000 to the diaries of mountain men in the Rockies 800 years later. Read the words of explorers,...
- North American exploration; Vikings in Canada, explorers, Indians; Missionaries; Traders; Settlers; American history
- Digital Museum at the Portage
- About the “Tales of Old Portage” Collection Peggy Amend, a member of the Board of Directors of the Portage Historical Society and Judy Eulberg began reading Dorothy McCarthy’s “Tales of Old Portage” in September of 2008 with the...
- Portage; Columbia County; Wisconsin; History
- New Berlin Historical Society
- From the land grant days of 1839, New Berlin has developed from an agricultural community to a mostly urban setting. The New Berlin Historical Society was founded in 1964 to preserve New Berlin's history. Artifact collections are displayed in six...
- Cornfalfa Farms; Agricultural machinery & implements; Agriculture; Alfalfa; Apple orchards; Automobiles; Barns; Churches; Farmhouses; Farming; Farms; Harvesting; Harvesting machinery; Hay; Haystacks; Horse teams; Livestock; Men; Mowing; Plowing;...
- Columbia River Basin Ethnic History Project
- Funded by a grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Services, this collaborative project sought to create a database with thematic coherence that would engage online researchers in thinking more deeply about the significance of the rich...
- Columbia River Basin; Idaho; Oregon; Washington; African Americans; Basque Americans; Chinese Americans; German Americans; Japanese Americans; Mexican Americans; Russian Americans; Jewish Americans; Native Americans;
- The Morning Leader
- The Port Townsend Leader began publication as a daily in 1889, when the area was experiencing rapid growth in business ventures and real estate sales. From 1895 to 1904 it was known as the Morning Leader, and was issued every day but Monday. This...
- Historical events; Port Townsend, Washington;
- Hudson River Valley Heritage
- The Hudson River Valley Heritage collection provides online access to historical materials from New York State's Hudson River Valley. Collections are contributed from organizations in eight counties: Columbia, Greene, Ulster, Dutchess, Orange,...
- Henry Hudson; Early settlements; Relations with Native American Indian Tribes; Agricultural development; Industrialization; Revolutionary War; WWI; Huguenot history; Hudson River School; Hudson River; Tourism; Business development;...
- Olympic Legacy Collections
- This collection contains hundreds of artifacts and historical materials from the Salt Lake 2002 Winter Olympic Games. The collection is a permanent record for future generations to enjoy. Contributions were made by state agencies, corporations and...
- Olympic torch relay; Winter Olympics; Souvenirs; Collectibles; Logos; Flags; Paralympics; Tickets; Beverages; Containers; Pins; Stadiums; Coats; Clothing and dress; Advertising; Ice hockey; Beverages; Alcohol; Beer; Signs and signboards
- Arizona Memory Project
- The Arizona Memory Project is a collaborative online effort designed to provide access to the wealth of primary sources in Arizona libraries, archives, museums and other cultural institutions. This initiative provides the opportunity to view some...
- Arizona; Agriculture; Arts & Architecture; Business & Industry; Education; Family & Community; Government & Politics; History; Land & Resources; Leisure & Travel; Military & War; Native Americans; Race & Ethnicity; Religion & Philosophy; Science &...
- Man or Monster
- The nineteenth-century pamphlets shown in this online exhibition were drawn from the holdings of the Research Library of the New York State Historical Association (NYSHA) in Cooperstown, New York. NYSHA's collection of murder pamphlets contains 400...
- Murder; Crime; Propaganda; Criminal psychology; Confessions; Trial transcripts; Executions; Execution sermons; Sensationalism; Criminal deviance; Forensic science; Journalism
- Mimi Bird Historical Document Collection of Whitefish Bay
- The Whitefish Bay Public Library is home to the Mimi Bird Historical Collection, thirty-nine volumes of historical research compiled by local resident Mimi Bird. Bird was a resident of Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin since the age of four. In the 1980s,...
- Schools; Churches; Business enterprises; Cities and towns; Municipal government; Transportation; Local history; Dwellings; Roads; Obituaries; Maps; Burial records; Historic buildings
- La Crosse County Historical Society
- The Brekke Collection at the La Crosse County Historical Society represents the things that one man saved as mementos of his service in World War II. Kermit Brekke was raised on a farm outside of Blair, Wisconsin to parents of Norwegian descent; he...
- World War, 1939-1945; United States. Army; Africa, North; Italy
- Alliance Memory
- The Alliance Memory project, funded in part through an Institute of Museum and Library Services LSTA grant, is a joint venture of Rodman Public Library, the Alliance Historical Society, Alliance City Schools, Negro History Club, Haines House, and...
- Ohio history; World War II; Airplanes
- Turning Points in Wisconsin History
- The Wisconsin Historical Society's Archives collections include approximately three million photographs, negatives, films, cartoons, lithographs, posters, and ephemeral materials from private, business, and governmental sources. Although we...
- Original documents; Lesson plans; Classroom activities; Background essays on key historical events; Early Native Peoples; Early explorers; Traders & settlers; Territory to statehood; Immigration; Civil War era; Native Peoples; Effigy mounds; First...
- Lethbridge Historical Society Collection
- The Lethbridge Historical Society Newsletter was originally started by noted Lethbridge historian Alex Johnston and continues today under the auspices of the Lethbridge Historical Society. It has been published intermittently since 1960.
- Canada -- History; Alberta -- History -- Societies, etc ; Lethbridge Historical Society -- Periodicals ; History -- Periodicals
- Postcards of Indiana, The Jay Small Collection
- The collection contains real photo and printed postcards collected by Indianapolis resident Jay Small. Most images depict views and street scenes in towns and cities across Indiana, individuals, interurbans and railway stations, bandstands and...
- Indianapolis history; Indiana history; Urban culture; Midwestern life