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Key Resources
About MeL Michigana More
Watch this video and learn about the multitude of digital treasures in MeL Michigana.
Archives of Michigan Image Collection More
Digitally reproduced photographs of Governors of Michigan, Civil War Soldiers, Cased Images, MWG Rare Sheet Music featuring Michigan, and the Idlewild Photograph Collection.
Birdseye View Panoramas of Michigan Communities More
Panoramic maps, or birdseye views, are one of the cartographic treasures of the 19th century. They create a detailed, visual record of the community and depict both the spatial relationships within t...
Civil War Diaries Collection More
Western Michigan University's United States Civil War Collection consists of 8 diaries from the mid-1860s by men with connections to Michigan and the Midwest, regimental or residence, and represents d...
Connecting the Upper Peninsula: East to West and North to South - The Wesley Perron Railroad Collection and Others More
Transportation plays a unique and vital role in Upper Michigan’s history. In the late 19th and 20th century, the Upper Peninsula presented the greatest challenges and richest rewards to people who we...
Early Detroit Images from the Burton Historical Collection More
Detroit Public Library's digital database of 19th century and pre-1922 photographs of Detroit illustrate the social and cultural history of Detroit as well as document the historical events that have ...
Grand Valley State University Digital Collections More
This database contains a selection of photographs, correspondence, diaries, interviews, and publications covering subjects from the Civil War to Michigan philanthropists.
John Todd Photography Collection More
The John Todd Photographic Collection consists of over thirteen-thousand negatives of South West Michigan spanning a forty year time period beginning in 1940 and ending in 1981. The primary focus of t...
Keweenaw Digital Archives - Michigan's Copper Country in Photographs More
Michigan Tech University's searchable database of hundreds of photographs spans a wide range of topics and dates, providing a detailed look at the lives of copper miners and their families.
Mackinac Bridge Authority - Mackinac Bridge More
This collection from the Upper Peninsula Digitization Center provides over 2,000 images of the events and activities surrounding the building of the "Big Mac".
Making of Ann Arbor More
The Making of Ann Arbor gives an extensive look at the history and development of the Ann Arbor community.
Making of Modern Michigan More
The Making of Modern Michigan is a collaborative project involving 52 Michigan libraries. It includes local history materials from communities around the state. Michigan's unique heritage is represent...
Michigan County Histories More
The collection is projected to provide access to 192 histories dating from 1866 to 1926.
Michigan Oral History Database More
The Michigan Oral History Association (MOHA) provides effective cooperation and communication among persons, programs and institutions concerned with the techniques, uses and promotion of oral history...
Michigana (Sabin Collection): Sources in U.S. History Online More
This digital archive documents state history. Drawn from the Sabin collection and other Gale sources, the archive provides access to a wide variety of documents: personal narratives and memoirs, pamph...
Polar Bear Expedition Digital Collections More
The "American Intervention in Northern Russia, 1918-1919," nicknamed the "Polar Bear Expedition," was a U.S. military intervention in northern Russia at the end of World War I. Since many of these so...
Sault Ste. Marie Shipping and Locks Collection More
Over 450 digitized images in this unique collection provide a visual history of the Soo Locks and the shipping industry in Sault Ste. Marie area.
Seeking Michigan More
Seeking Michigan is a growing digital collection of unique historical information including source documents, maps, films, images, oral histories and artifacts. Whether they are interested in Civil Wa...
Selected Library of Congress Resources for Michigan More
The Library of Congress has rich documents and artifacts from every state. This page highlights selected images and audio files pertaining to Michigan. You can browse some of the best primary sources ...
Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary Collection More
This collection was donated by C. Patrick Labadie to the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary and Underwater Preserve (TBNMS&UP). The TBSRC includes over 65,000 photographs and 60,000 data cards. Th...
Upper Peninsula Digitization Center Collections More
The Upper Peninsula Digitization Center Colllections provide an excellent resource of photographs, images, and audio files of historical events and places in the U.P. Images from the building of the M...
Vincent Voice Library More
A collection of over 40,000 hours of spoken recordings of over 100,000 persons from all walks of life recounting experiences back to 1888 on war, women, civil rights, sports, religion, business, liter...
Virtual Motor City More
The digitized images in this project represent a small subset of the Detroit News Collection, held at the Reuther Library. In 1997, the Detroit News' editor and publisher Robert Giles conveyed the ...
Virtual Motor City: Images from the Detroit News [Wayne State University] More
A collection of digitized images from the files of the Detroit News dating from the late 19th century, with the bulk falling between 1900 and 1980. Search by keyword or browse the images by decade or ...
Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive More
This archive from the University of Michigan-Dearborn contains over three hundred interviews of Holocaust survivors, has more than fifty testimonies on line--transcriptions and voices along with maps ...
Walter Reuther Library Digital Collections More
The Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs is the largest labor archive in North America holding more than 2,000 collections related to such topics as union history and working class org...
War of 1812 Digitization Project: Footsteps to the Battlefield More
Digitized books (some rare), photos, slides, postcards, letters and original artwork pertaining to the War of 1812 with emphasis on the Battle of the River Raisin in Frenchtown in what is now Monroe, ...
Ward Morgan Photography Collection, Southwest Michigan Images from 1939-1980 More
These photographs reflect the people, industries, built environment, and commercial activities of the Kalamazoo area in the mid 20th century.



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