Archaeological Sites. Behind the Veil: Documenting African-American Life in the Jim Crow South. ATLANTA HISTORY CENTER ALBUM. Richmond Daily Dispatch. Free People of Color in Louisiana. This project brings together materials from LSU Libraries Special Collections, The Historic New Orleans Collection, the Louisiana Research Collection in Tulane University Special Collections, the Historical Center at the Louisiana State Museum, and the Louisiana Division of the New Orleans Public Library.
Digitizing these records will allow us to reunite collections from the same families that were divided across repositories as well as scattered documents, making these materials accessible in one place for the use of historians, genealogists, students, teachers, and the general public. Digitized collections include entire collections of papers from families or individuals that were free people of color. Many of these extend, chronologically, beyond the end of slavery. Because of the relative dearth of personal and family papers for free people of color, public records are a particularly important source for researchers.
Back to the top. Lost Friends Exhibition - The Historic New Orleans Collection. Hurricane Digital Memory Bank. Civil War in the American South. In recognition of the sesquicentennial of the start of the American Civil War, Civil War in the American South provides a central portal to access digital collections from the Civil War Era (1850-1865) held by members of the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL). ASERL members hold deep and extensive collections documenting the history and culture of the American South, developed over hundreds of years to support scholarly research and teaching. Many of the special or unique manuscripts, photographs, books, newspapers, broadsides, and other materials have been digitized to provide broader access to these documents for scholars and students around the world.
Civil War in the American South is a collaborative initiative to provide a single, shared point of access to the Civil War digital collections held at many individual libraries. This site currently links to more than 10,000 items from 30 libraries. Documenting the American South homepage. Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South - About this Collection - Prints & Photographs Online Catalog. All images are digitized | All jpegs/tiffs display outside Library of Congress | View All For highlights from the collection, see the Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South Image Sampler. Noted architectural photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864-1952) [see her Biographical Overview and Chronology] created a systematic record of early American buildings and gardens called the Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South (CSAS). This collection, created primarily in the 1930s, provides more than 7,100 images showing an estimated 1,700 structures and sites in rural and urban areas of Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Louisiana, and to a lesser extent Florida, Mississippi, and West Virginia.
Johnston’s interest in both vernacular and high style structures resulted in vivid portrayals of the exteriors and interiors of houses, mills, and churches as well as mansions, plantations, and outbuildings. Southern Voices: Texts from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, (American Memory, Library of Congress) Search by Keyword | Browse the Subject Index | Author Index | Title Index (for both collections) These two collections from the libraries at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill each won an award in the Library of Congress/Ameritech National Digital Library competition.
First-Person Narratives of the American South includes the diaries, autobiographies, memoirs, travel accounts, and narratives not only of prominent individuals, but also of relatively inaccessible populations: women, African Americans, enlisted men, laborers, and Native Americans. The Church in the Southern Black Community traces how Southern African Americans experienced and transformed Protestant Christianity into the central institution of community life. Both collections are also presented by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill through Documenting the American South. The Library of Congress presents these documents as part of the record of the past.
The University of Southern Mississippi Digital Collections : Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive. Mississippi was a focal point in the struggle for civil rights in America, and Hattiesburg, home of The University of Southern Mississippi, had the largest and most successful Freedom Summer project in 1964. The civil rights materials collected at the University document a local history with truly national significance. The Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive includes a selection of digitized photographs, letters, diaries, and other documents.
Oral history transcripts are also available, as well as finding aids for manuscript collections. Choose from one of the following options: Keyword Search: Browse Digitized Civil Rights Items View Civil Rights Finding Aids. Welcome to the Digital Library of Georgia. Forward Together: SC in WWI.