INFORMATION CLEARINGHOUSES

American Antiquarian Society, 185 Salisbury Street, Worcester, MA 01609
The largest collection of printed materials on the history and culture of the first 250 years of the country.

American Association for State and Local History, 530 Church Street, Suite 600, Nashville, TN 37219
A leading source of aid for local history research. AASLH helps individuals, museums, and historical societies through books, a Technical Leaflet series, a magazine, videotapes, seminars, and related programs.

Catalogue of Landscape Records in the United States, Wave Hill, 675 West 252nd Street, Bronx, NY 10471
Provides information on the location of historical landscape documentation, and collections helpful in researching the work of landscape architects.

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Genealogical Society, 50 East North Temple Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84105
Maintains the largest genealogical repository in the country. Of interest and use for non-Mormons through 200 branch libraries.

Directory of Archives and Manuscript Repositories. Washington, DC: National Historical Publications and Records Commission, 1978. 905 pp. index.
Information about 3,250 institutions, arranged alphabetically by State and town. Information about documents, photographs, architectural drawings, oral history, collections, and other source materials, with lists of institutions by type (corporate archives, religious archives, etc.) and descriptions of local public records programs in each State.

Directory of Historical Societies and Agencies in the United States and Canada. Mary Bray Wheeler, ed. 1990. 14th ed. Nashville: American Association for State and Local History. Describes about 6,000 historical societies' library and research capacity and special emphases. Includes Federal records centers.

National Archives, Correspondence Branch, Washington, DC 20408
Genealogical and other records. Issues a free kit describing what is available at the National Archives. Regional depositories are in Boston; New York; Philadelphia; Atlanta; Chicago; Fort Worth; Denver; San Francisco; Laguna Niguel, CA; and Kansas City, MO.

National Union Catalogue of Manuscript Collections. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, Cataloguing Distribution Service Building 159, Navy Yard Annex, Washington, DC 20541. 1959-93. 29 vols.
The complete series describes more than 40,000 collections in 1,000 repositories, arranged by name of collection within each volume. The listings are indexed by topical subjects and personal, family, corporate, and geographical names.