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Switching from 'image' view to 'PDF' view enables much better results with Detroit City Directory 1928-29, which has very fine print.

Books from the University of Michigan collection, scanned for preservation purposes. At present, there are 28,378 volumes in the General Collection. Collection includes 1899 Business and Professional Directory for Detroit and surrounding communities, and 1928-29 Detroit City Directory.

"Documenting Arkansas is an online digital archive of documents, visuals, maps, broadsides, pamphlets, and three-dimensional objects significant to Arkansas history and culture, from the holdings of the Arkansas History Commission, Arkansas's state archives."

"The Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress holds more than 4.5 million items, of which Map Collections represents only a small fraction, those that have been converted to digital form. The focus of Map Collections is Americana and Cartographic Treasures of the Library of Congress. These images were created from maps and atlases and, in general, are restricted to items that are not covered by copyright protection."

"This set contains postcards, mostly French, sent or collected during World War I. This is a small selection of the WWI material held at George Eastman House, which include aerial photographs produced and used by the military, stereocards and albums. We will continue to add to this set as objects are digitized."

Browse digital images of photographs, wartime documents, uniforms, and artifacts. View brief descriptions of manuscript collections and oral histories, some with complete transcriptions. These women were the first female puilots employed by the U.S. military.

Contains issues of historic papers published in Milledgeville, one-time capital of Georgia, from 1808-1922. A reference for Georgia politics, history, laws, slave data. The Milledgeville Historic Newspaper database is a project of the Digital Library of Georgia as part of Georgia HomePLACE. The project is supported with federal LSTA funds administered by the Institute of Museum and Library Services through the Georgia Public Library Service, a unit of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia.

"Lookbackmaps is a network of neighborhood historians, historical photo enthusiasts, historians, book publishers and others who collaborate to map history.\n\nThrough the online digitization of high-resolution public photo collections and geotagging technology, Lookbackmaps creates collaborative, standardized views into the past.\n\n \n\nThere's something in being human that wonders what was here before us-who occupied this space, how did they live, what did they leave behind? By mapping the millions of historical photos available through public libraries and private collections on the web, we start to piece together the puzzle."

"Content digitized as part of this project includes Duke University yearbooks and other Duke University history-related items, early advertising texts, Utopian literature, transcultural travel literature, and other materials."

The Midwest Genealogy Center is one of the nation's preeminent resources for family history. The MGC features 52,000 square feet of space to house all the resources and technology genealogists need to research. Amongst its many features, the MGC houses a uniquely expansive circulating collection and almost completely open stacks. New technology is also a major attribute of the building. Microfilm reader-printers, two self-digitization stations, and significant database access allow researchers to use today's technology to assist their investigation.

Instructions for building a portable copy stand to use with your digital camera to make copies of documents yourself.

"Fire destroyed the office of the War Department and all its files in 1800, and for decades historians believed that the collection, and the window it provided into the workings of the early federal government, was lost forever. Thanks to a decade-long effort to retrieve copies of the files scattered in archives across the country, the collection has been reconstituted and is offered here as a fully-searchable digital database."

Reviewed in Internet Genealogy magazine Dec/Jan 2010 issue by Diane L. Richard