Showing posts with label Arizona. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Arizona. Show all posts

Sunday, January 17, 2010

52 Weeks of Online American Digital Archives and Databases: Arizona

This is the third post in a weekly series of Online American Digital Archives and Databases found for free at state, county, municipal, college and university history, library, and archive websites, as well as public and private library and museum sites, and historical and genealogical society sites.


Arizona State University Libraries: Online Collections - http://www.asu.edu/lib/archives/exhibits.htm - includes pioneer biographies, photographs, family collections, Chicano Research Collection, Native American photographs, and a pictoral history of ASU

University of Arizona Library Special Collections - http://speccoll.library.arizona.edu/collections/digital.html - includes the Arizona-Sonora (Mexico) Documents Online, Civil War diary of Alexander Bowman, oral history project, and family papers

Northern Arizona University - Cline Library Colorado Plateau Digital Archives - http://library.nau.edu/speccoll/coloplateau.html - thousands of vintage and contemporary photographs, diaries and letters, oral history interviews, films, and maps which document the history of the region and NAU

The Heard Museum Library and Archives - http://www.heard.org/digitallibrary/index.html - images, historical photographs and repository guides of archival collections; future additions will include select museum publications, audio and video files

Note: You can search across all the above collections at the Arizona Archives Online site.

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Arizona Memory Project - http://azmemory.lib.az.us/ - over 59,000 digital items related to Arizona history and culture in over 80 separate collections - includes town histories, oral histories, photographs, railroads, biographies, information on two Japanese relocation camps, mining, court documents, maps, Harvey Girls, community college archives, pioneer projects, military images, Native American images, Phoenix Jewish News Photographs Collection, and images of the Diocese of Tuscon

Arizona Genealogy Birth and Death Recordshttp://genealogy.az.gov/ - Scanned images of birth certificates from 1855 to 1933 and death certificates from 1844 to 1958

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 Casa Grande Public Library Digital Archives - http://casagrandepl.newspaperarchive.com/Default.aspx - four digitized newspapers from Pinal County; plus the Daily Laredo Times from Laredo, Webb County, Texas

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Check out my Arizona Historical Directories and Arizona Historical Newspapers pages.

Friday, March 02, 2007

Happy Birthday - March 2

Happy Birthday to:
  • Maude Mae (HOEKSTRA) Van HARTESVELDT, who was born on this date in 1890 in Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan. She would be 117 years old today, if she still lived. As it was, she lived to be 101 years old! Maude was the second daughter of my ancestors Martin HOEKSTRA and Jennie TON, and my great-grandfather John Martin HOEKSTRA's older sister. She married Frederick Carroll Van HARTESVELDT on 1 Jan 1913 in Kent County, and they had at least three children, including a child who died around age 5. While she lived in Detroit during the 1940's, Maude lived for many years in Sedona, Coconino County, Arizona. She died in Arizona on 2 Nov 1991.