Primary Sources: University Collections

Dedicated to preserving the history of our institution and the surrounding communities, the mission of the archives is to identify, acquire, manage, and preserve records of enduring value and make them available for public use.

Dedicated to preserving the political, foreign policy, and military history of the Cold War Era at home and abroad, the extensive collections are of both regional and national interest.

Yale University's digital collections represent a fraction of their physical archives. Though some items may be restricted to the Yale network, many or open access.

The mission of the University of Cambridge is to contribute to society through the pursuit of education, learning, and research at the highest international levels of excellence.

The Carnegie Mellon University digital collections provide access to over 350,000 searchable documents and publications from our archives and special collections.

Columbia's digital library collection websites are a gateway to digital reproductions and descriptions of photographs, posters, drawings, objects, ephemera, and manuscripts as well as other archival material from Columbia's rare and special collections.

Digital Collections produced by Cornell University.

Digitized historic photographs, advertisements, texts & more from Duke University's unique library collections.

Digital Collections available through the University of Texas' Harry Ransom Center.

Harvard Digital Collections provides free, public access to more than 6 million objects digitized from our collections - from ancient art to modern manuscripts and audio visual materials.

These unique materials from Wilson Special Collections Library were digitized for research, teaching, and discovery. Some collections are the result of collaborations with UNC faculty members, partner libraries, museums, and cultural heritage institutions. This is a partial list of all materials digitized from Wilson Special Collections Library.

The Online Archive of California (OAC) provides free public access to detailed descriptions of primary resource collections maintained by more than 300 contributing institutions including libraries, special collections, archives, historical societies, and museums throughout California and collections maintained by the 10 University of California (UC) campuses.

This site features materials such as photographs, maps, newspapers, posters, reports and other media from the University of Washington Libraries (including Special Collections), University of Washington Faculty and Departments, and organizations that have participated in partner projects with the UW Libraries. The collections emphasize rare and unique materials.