The Grosvenor Room: Genealogy, Local History, Maps, Music & Rare Books
A blog from the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library's Special Collections Department.
United States
Erie County
Backstretch Careening and Carousing Society Home
Archived personal website of an Army Security Agency veteran who served in the Special Activities Detachment III in Korea from 1970-1972.
Rick & Linda's - Travelin' Partners
A lovely personal website of family memories and photos. Dated late 90s and early 2000s
Open Archives at UMass Boston
University Archives & Special Collections in the Joseph P. Healey Library at the University of Massachusetts Boston collects materials related to the university's history, as well as materials that reflect the university's urban mission and strong support of community service, notably in collections of records related to urban planning, social welfare, social action, alternative movements, community organizations and local history related to neighboring communities.
Suffolk CountyGeorgia State University Library Digital Collections
Georgia
Portal to Texas History
A gateway to rare, historical, and primary source materials from or about Texas. They have amazing collections from all over the United States. Also has lots of rare military records.
TexasDigital Collection of the Vintage Radio and Communications Museum of Connecticut
The Vintage Radio & Communications Museum, located in Windsor, Connecticut, houses a one-of-a-kind transcription disc, reel-to-reel and various format library, documenting the activities of radio stations from the Northeast to the Midwest. In our Digital Collection, you will find a vast array of digitized items from the library spanning the early days of radio to the mid 20th-century (1930-1955) including news items, war updates (WWII), music, soap operas and script readings.
Allegany County
New Haven Free Public Library Digital Collections | CT
Also includes collections from Fair Haven.
New Haven County
Lost Photos
Scanned photographs collected by the site author in hopes of returning them to family.
Local History Photo Archive | Corning, Steuben County, NY
Photos from the library’s Local History Photo Archive, showing people, places and events that occurred in Corning and nearby areas. The descriptions for the photos will be added in the future.
Steuben County
Kanestio Historical Society | Canisteo, Steuben County, NY
Legal Defense Fund (LDF) Civil Rights Archive
Consists of legal case files, legislative advocacy materials, reports and publications, correspondence, photographs, videos, administrative records, community organizing materials, social science research, and oral history interviews.
Bergen County Historical News Archive | NJ
Bergen County
Yonkers Home News | NY
The Yonkers Home News was published between June 17, 1941 and January 29, 1946 and sent to more than 15,000 service members around the world during World War II, sharing local Yonkers news vignettes and social history.
Westchester CountyBronx History Online
Digital repository for The Bronx County Archives and special collections of The Bronx County Historical Society Research Library
Yonkers Public Library Archive | Westchester County, NY
Documenting Exclusion & Resilience
This project looks at the dynamics of exclusion among communities that generate both segregation as well as resilience in Northern Virginia. The project identifies and geo-locates racially restrictive covenants on properties in Northern Virginia from 1900 through the 1960s. This area is often referred to as NoVa and includes Arlington and Fairfax Counties and the cities of Alexandria, Fairfax, and Falls Church.
Fairfax County
Virginia
Military History of McKean County, Pennsylvania
McKean County
Chippewa County Genealogy Society
Scanned and indexed local records.
Library of Michigan Digital Repository
Collections include content digitized from their archives, born-digital content captured from Michigan web publishers and photographs, postcards, scrapbooks and local history resources provided through collaborations with individuals, groups and organizations interested in recording and promoting the Michigan story.
Michigan
The Chesaning Argonaut
Website sharing research related to the local area.
Saginaw County
New York Western House of Refuge 1876- 1960
Scanned inmate lists. The Western House of Refuge was a prison for children in Rochester, NY founded in the mid-1800's that was the first state managed reformatory in the United States. In the 1880's, the prison was changed into a vocational school known as the State Industrial School. In the early 1900's, the school would move to Industry, NY, where it now operates as the Industry Residential Center.
Monroe CountyBuffalo (New York) Death Index
This collection holds images of the entire Buffalo, New York death index from 1852-1944. These files were obtained by the non-profit group Reclaim The Records using the New York Freedom of Information Law (FOIL).
The Wilmington Town Crier, 1928 -2025 | Middlesex County, MA
contributed by Wilmington Memorial Library.
Middlesex County
Digitizing Rochester’s Religions – A Public History Project
Details more than 150 years of religious history in Rochester’s southwestern neighborhoods, providing historical and ethnographic essays, documents from community archives, home movies, interactive maps, and classroom materials.