Primary Sources

Digital collection from the Library of Congress. Focuses on United States history, but includes documents from around the world

Scanned documents and photographs collected by Harvard University. Browse by collection topic or search the entire collection.

Digital images and primary sources from libraries, museums, and archives worldwide. Mix of open access and restricted.

Non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, archived websites, and more.

Over 900,000 digitized items from the NYPL's public collections. Includes photographs, manuscripts, maps, and more.

Searches over 5 million records from over 1,000 different archival institutions. Note: only a fraction of the results are available to view online.

Billions of records in census data, vital records, directories, & photos. Includes individuals from North America, the United Kingdom, Europe, Australia, and more. NOTE: This resource is available for on-campus use only.

17+ million digitized items from a collaboration of academic and research libraries. Access to some items limited by copyright restrictions.