British Columbia History Portal

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19th-Century American Merchant Marine Digital Library

Created by the Mystic Seaport Museum, this digital library consists of bibliographies, maritime documents and history, essays, a timeline, maritime legislation, and ship and yacht registers that can b...

http://www.mysticseaport.org/library/exhibits/mellon.cfm

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Alaska Historical Collections

Summary: "The U. S. Congress created the Alaska Historical Library and Museum on June 6, 1900. ... A U. S. Attorney General's opinion in 1922 declared the Alaska Historical Library and Museum a territ...

http://www.library.state.ak.us/hist/hist.html

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Albert Tissandier, Drawings of Nature and Industry in the U.S., 1885

A virtual exhibit and digitized set of drawings produced by French illustrator Albert Tissandier on four journeys to North America in 1885, 1886, 1890 and 1893. The collection includes scenes from Van...

http://www.lib.utah.edu/digital/tissandier/index.html

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American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library

"American Memory is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The site offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical...

http://memory.loc.gov/

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Beinecke Digital Images Database

"The Beinecke Digital Images Database contains approximately 60,000 images of a wide range of materials from throughout the Beinecke Collections: photographs, manuscripts, correspondence, artwork, o...

http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/dl_crosscollex/

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Library of Congress

The Library of Congress serves as the national library of the United States of America. Special Web sites containing resources specific to British Columbia are found in the American Memory Digital Lib...

http://www.loc.gov/

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Washington History

The Washington History section of the Washington State Library Web site offers a selection of digitized books called Classics in Washington History and full-text searchable historic newspapers dating ...

http://www.secstate.wa.gov/history/

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