American MemoryThe National Digital Library Program: Archived Documentation

The Library of Congress / Ameritech National Digital Library Competition (1996-1999)

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Digital collections contributed by LC/Ameritech awardees are presented through American Memory at the Library of Congress. However, the original materials are held by the awardee institutions. Staff at those institutions prepared the catalog records and other descriptive materials.

Requests for reproductions and questions about the materials in any of these collections should be addressed to the awardee institution.

Questions relating to searching through American Memory should be directed to the American Memory Help Desk.

   
 

Brigham Young University (Harold B. Lee Library)

Online collection:
Trails to Utah and the Pacific: Diaries and Letters, 1846-1869

To order reproductions:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award99/upbhtml/repro.html

For other questions:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Harold B. Lee Library
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT 84602
Phone: (801) 422-3514 (Receptionist)
Fax: (801) 422-0461
Email: susan_fales@byu.edu

 

Brown University (John Hay Library)

Online collection:
African-American Sheet Music, 1850-1920

To order reproductions:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/rpbhtml/aasmrepro.html

For other questions:
The John Hay Library
Box A
Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island 02912
Phone: (401) 863-3723
Fax: (401) 863-2093
Email: hay@brown.edu

 

Chicago Historical Society

Online collection:
Chicago Anarchists on Trial: Evidence from the Haymarket Affair, 1886-1887

To order reproductions:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award98/ichihtml/hayrepro.html

For other questions:
Chicago Historical Society
Clark Street at North Avenue
Chicago, IL 60614-6071
Phone: (312) 642-4600
Fax: (312) 266-2077
Online Question Form: http://www.chicagohs.org/collections/research_collections.html

 

Denver Public Library (Western History and Genealogy Department)

Online collection:
History of the American West, 1860-1920

To order reproductions:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/codhtml/repro.html

For other questions:
Photography Collection
Western History/Genealogy Department
Denver Public Library
10 W. 14th Avenue Parkway
Denver, Colorado 80204
Phone: (720) 865-1817
Email: photograph@denver.lib.co.us

 

Duke University (Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library)

Online collections:
Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920
Emergence of Advertising in America, 1850-1920

To order reproductions:
for Sheet music: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/ncdhtml/repro.html
for Advertising: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/advertising/copyres.html

For other questions:
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library
Duke University, Box 90185
Durham, North Carolina 27708-0185
Phone: (919) 660-5822
Fax: (919) 660-5934
Email: special-collections@duke.edu

 

Harvard University (Frances Loeb Library, Graduate School of Design)

Online collection:
American Landscape and Architectural Design, 1850-1920

To order reproductions:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/mhsdhtml/obtainphotorepro.html

For other questions:
Alix Reiskind, Assistant Visual Resources Librarian
Frances Loeb Library, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University
48 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: (617) 496-8673
Email: areiskind@gsd.harvard.edu

 

Michigan State University

Online collection:
Sunday School Books: Shaping the Values of Youth in Nineteenth-Century America

For availability of reproductions, see: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award99/miemhtml/repro.html

For other questions:
Digital Sources Center
Michigan State University Libraries
100 Library
East Lansing, MI 48824
Phone: (517) 353-6444
Email: digital@mail.lib.msu.edu

 

Mystic Seaport Museum and the G.W. Blunt White Library

Online collection:
Westward by Sea: A Maritime Perspective on American Expansion, 1820-1890

To order reproductions:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award99/mymhihtml/myrepro.html

For other questions:
G.W. Blunt White Library
Mystic Seaport
P.O. Box 6000
Mystic, CT 06355
Phone: (860) 572-5367
Fax: (860) 572-5394
Email: library@mysticseaport.org

 

Nebraska State Historical Society

Online collection:
Prairie Settlement: Nebraska Photographs and Family Letters, 1862-1912

To order reproductions:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/nbhihtml/repro.html

For other questions:
Reference Desk
Nebraska State Historical Society
PO Box 82554
Lincoln, NE 68508-2554
Phone: (402) 471-4751

 

The New York Public Library (Humanities and Social Sciences Library)

Online collection:
Small-Town America: Stereoscopic Views from the Robert Dennis Collection, 1850-1920

To order reproductions:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/nyplhtml/repro.html

For other questions:
Julia VanHaaften, Curator of the Photography Collection
Humanities and Social Sciences Library
The New York Public Library
5th Avenue and 42nd Street
New York, NY 10018-2788
Phone: (212) 930-0967
Email: jvanhaaften@nypl.org

 

North Dakota State University (Institute for Regional Studies)

Online collection:
The Northern Great Plains, 1880-1920: Photographs from the Fred Hultstrand and F.A. Pazandak Photograph Collections

To order reproductions:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/ndfahtml/ngp_order.html

For other questions:
John Bye, University Archivist
Institute for Regional Studies
P.O. Box 5599
Fargo, ND 58105-5599
Phone: (701) 231-8914
Fax: (701) 231-5632
Email: archives@www.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu

 

Northwestern University (Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections)

Online collection:
Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian: Photographic Images

No reproductions available.

For other questions:
Preservation Department
Northwestern University Library
1935 Sheridan Rd.
Evanston, IL 60208-0821
Phone: (847) 491-7599
Email: nai@northwestern.edu

 

Ohio Historical Society

Online collection:
African-American Experience in Ohio: 1850-1920

To order reproductions:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/ohshtml/repro.html

For other questions:
Angela O'Neal
Digital Projects Manager
Ohio Historical Society
1982 Velma Avenue
Columbus, OH 43211
Phone: (614) 297-2576
Email: aoneal@ohiohistory.org
Contact list: http://dbs.ohiohistory.org/africanam/building.cfm

 

University of California, Berkeley (Bancroft Library)

Online collection:
The Chinese in California, 1850-1925

To order reproductions:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award99/cubhtml/repro.html

For other questions:
Theresa Salazar
Curator, Bancroft Collection of Western Americana
The Bancroft Library
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000
Phone: (510) 643-8153
Email: tsalazar@library.berkeley.edu

 

University of Chicago (Department of Special Collections, University of Chicago Library)

Online collections:
American Environmental Photographs, 1891-1936
The First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820

To order reproductions:
for American Environmental Photographs: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/ecology/copyres.html
for First American West: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award99/icuhtml/fawrepro.html

For other questions:
Department of Special Collections
University of Chicago Library
1100 E. 57th Street
Chicago, Illinois 60637
Phone: (773) 702-8705
Fax: (773) 702-3728
Email: SpecialCollections@lib.uchicago.edu

 

University of Iowa (Special Collections Department, University of Iowa Libraries)

Online collection:
Traveling Culture: Circuit Chautauqua in the Twentieth Century (from the Redpath Chautauqua Collection)

To order reproductions:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/chautauqua/copyres.html

To order reproductions:
Special Collections Department
University of Iowa Libraries
Iowa City, IA 52242
Phone: (319) 335-5921
Fax: (319) 335-5900
Email: lib-spec@uiowa.edu

 

University of Miami (University of Miami Libraries)

Online collection:
Reclaiming the Everglades: South Florida's Natural History, 1884-1934

To order reproductions:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/everglades/copyres.html#order

To order reproductions:
Gail Clement
Head, Digital Collection Center
Florida International University
11200 Southwest 8th St.
Miami, FL 33199
Phone: 305-361-4020
Email: clementg@fiu.edu

 

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Academic Affairs Library)

Online collections:
First-Person Narratives of the American South, 1860-1920
The Church in the Southern Black Community, 1780-1925

To order reproductions:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/ncuhtml/repro.html

For other questions:
Academic Affairs Library
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, N.C. 27514
Email: docsouth@listserv.unc.edu

 

University of Texas at Austin (Center for American History)

Online collection:
The South Texas Border, 1900-1920: Photographs from the Robert Runyon Collections

To order reproductions:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/txuhtml/repro.html

For other questions:
Aryn Glazier, Photography Services Coordinator
The Center for American History
SRH 2.101
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78712
Phone: (512) 495-4555
Email: cah.photos@austin.utexas.edu

 

University of Washington (University of Washington Libraries)

Online collection:
American Indians of the Pacific Northwest

To order reproductions:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/pacific/copyres.html

For other questions:
Ann Lally
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA 98195-2900
Email: alally@u.washington.edu
Contact list: http://content.lib.washington.edu/aipnw/contacts.html