Primary Sources: Rise of Industrial America, 1877-1900

This digital collection, from the University Libraries at the University of Washington, provides access to photographs and documents about the Northwest Coast and Plateau Indian cultures.

This collection contains a host of primary source materials including; selections of goldman's writings, digitized copies of documents such as telegrams and handbills, photographs of Goldman and her contemporaries.

This collection, from the Library of Congress, provides access to digitized copies of books, pamphlets, government documents, manuscripts, prints, photographs and audiovisual footage.

This digital collection, a project of the University of Washington Libraries, contains more than four hundred fashion plates from Godey's Lady's Book, Le Follet, and other sources.

Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930, is a web-based collection of historical materials from Harvard's libraries, archives, and museums that documents voluntary immigration to the United States from the signing of the Constitution to the onset of the Great Depression. Concentrating heavily on the 19th century, Immigration to the US includes over 400,000 pages from more than 2,200 books, pamphlets, and serials, over 9,600 pages from manuscript and archival collections, and more than 7,800 photographs.

This collection, from the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, features images, texts and maps that illustrate the African-American migration experience.

Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, compiled and edited by Charles J. Kappler, is an historically significant, seven volume compilation of U.S. treaties, laws and executive orders pertaining to Native American Indian tribes. The volumes cover U.S. Government treaties with Native Americans from 1778-1883 (Volume II) and U.S. laws and executive orders concerning Native Americans from 1871-1970 (Volumes I, III-VII). Primary source material.

The Life photo archive, hosted by Google's Image Search, features millions of photographs from the magazine's archives. You can search the database keyword or by category. Those categories include: time period, people, places, events, sports and culture.

The collection comes from the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia. It includes dozens of texts and manuscripts, scores of contemporary reviews and articles, hundreds of images, and many different kinds of interactive exhibits.

This site, which is part of the California Digital Library, features more than 2300 letters written by Twain. Those letters are accompanied by detailed notes. Additionally you’ll find access the full text of Twain’s autobiography as well as the full Text of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. More digitized texts will be added in the future.

The Prelinger Archvies, housed at The Internet Archive, represents a collection of tens of thousands of advertising,educational, industrial and amateur films.

From the NARA website: "The National Archives was established in 1934 by President Franklin Roosevelt, but its major holdings date back to 1775. They capture the sweep of the past: slave ship manifests and the Emancipation Proclamation..."

This collection currently includes the narrative reports of the commissioner of Indian affairs for 1871, 1872, 1874, 1875, and 1876, and three additional reports for 1871. It also includes a map of western reservations published with the 1875 report.

This digital public law library, a project of The Native American Rights Fund, is devoted to Federal native American and tribal law.

Named for American Cartoonist Frederick Burr Opper, the items in this collection span decades of American history, from 1875-1932.

Clifford K. Berryman was a D.C. cartoonist who drew for the Washington Post and the Evening Star during his career, which spanned more than a half-century. This collection, from The National Archives, depicts all aspects of the campaign process.

This site, part of Harvard University Library’s Open Collections Program, features images of more than 420 separately published trial narratives from the Harvard Law School Library's extensive trial collections. Some items in the collection include: an account of the adultery trial of Caroline, Queen Consort of George IV and the sodomy trial of Oscar Wilde.

The National Archives and Records administration maintains a site devoted to Historical Election Results. Included on this page are the results of the electoral college votes dating back to 1789.

This site provides access to Whitman's letters, correspondence, public works, and papers. Also available on this site are a variety of portraits of the poet/essayist.

Women Working, 1800 - 1930 focuses on women's role in the United States economy and provides access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard University's library and museum collections. The collection features approximately 500,000 digitized pages and images including: 7,500 pages of manuscripts, 3,500 books and pamphlets, 1,200 photographs. This site is part of Harvard University Library’s Open Collections Program.