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HILLSIDE PUBLIC LIBRARY
155 Lakeville Road
New Hyde Park , NY 11040 
Mrs. Charlene Noll, Library Director

DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHS & PRIMARY SOURCES & MAPS

NEW YORK STATE DIGITAL IMAGES FROM THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
Manuscripts, broadsides, government documents, books, and maps

NewYorkHeritage.org is a research portal for students, educators, historians, genealogists, and others who are interested in the Empire State's history.

HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS

BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE 1841~1902

Long Island Memories Visual & oral records of Long Island archives, historical societies, libraries, museums, & organizations.

IMAGE COLLECTION Includes Photos of People & Places, Maps, Flags, Natural Science & Historical Photos. Click on Kids Search , then on Images.

California Digital Library

Harvard Open Collections
Women Working, 1870 -1930 provides access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard's library and museum collections. This collection explores women's roles in the US economy between the Civil War and the Great Depression.

American Memory Project from the Library of Congress
Written & spoken words, sound recordings, still & moving images, prints, maps, & sheet music that document the American experience.

National Museum of African Art

New York Historical Society Featuring the American Memory Project

New York Public Library Digital Library

100 Milestone Documents
List of 100 milestone documents, compiled by the National Archives and Records Administration, and drawn primarily from its nationwide holdings. The documents chronicle United States history from 1776 to 1965.

Pictoral Americana
From the Library of Congress

New York Public Library Picture Collection Online
Since its creation in 1915, the Picture Collection has met the needs of New York's large community of artists, illustrators, designers, teachers, students, and general researchers. Covering over 12,000 subjects, the Picture Collection is an extensive circulating collection and reference archive, the largest of its kind in any public library system.

DIGITAL HISTORY
Includes a lot of helpful text, including primary documents & background resources for U.S. history.

Brooklyn in the Civil War: Women, Soldiers, Slavery, Daily Life

In the First Person Index to English language personal narratives, including letters, diaries, memoirs, autobiographies, and oral histories. Working with archives, repositories, publishers, and individuals we've indexed first person narratives from hundreds of published volumes—those that are publicly available on the Web and those that are held by repositories and archives around the world. Our intent is to make it possible to find and explore the voices of more than 300,000 individuals.

Awesome Stories is a gathering place of primary-source information. Its purpose - since the site was first launched in 1999 - is to help educators and individuals findoriginal sources, located at national archives, libraries, universities, and government web sites.

Throughout the Ages. More than 200 digital images of historical photographs, letters, broadsides, maps, and paintings. The “Build Your Own Worksheet” option is an innovative feature that can be customized for individual needs.

Chronicling America:  Historic Newspapers From the Library of Congress.

Civil War Diaries from the collections at the Western Michigan University Archives.

LIFE PHOTO ARCHIVE By LIFE magazine, search events from 1860

MAPS

Long Island Maps & Their Makers

New York State Historical Maps

Maps of Countries from the CIA Factbook

Maps of New York 's Counties

Census Maps: On-Line Mapping Resources from the U.S. Census Bureau

American Shores
Collection of early maps from New York Public Library includes many maps of Long Island , to 1850.

Library of Congress Historical Maps

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