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Online Archive of the Japanese American Relocation during World War II
http://departments.oxy.edu/digitalarch/web/index.htm
From 1941 to 1946, Occidental College President Remsen DuBois Bird and College Librarian Elizabeth McCloy made it their mission to preserve articles, newspapers, pamphlets, and other items related to the forced internment of persons of Japanese ancestry along the West Coast. Several years ago, a [...]

Oregon Multicultural Archives Digital Collection
http://digitalcollections.library.oregonstate.edu/cdm4/client/cultural/index.html
Ethnic minorities in Oregon are the subject of this Oregon State University Library website and the collection “consists of images that document the lives and activities of ethnic minorities in Oregon.” With its streamlined homepage, visitors can focus on the collection and how to search or browse through it. Visitors [...]

University of California, San Francisco: Drug Industry Document Archive

http://dida.library.ucsf.edu/
This archive is one that will be of particular importance to those with an interest in public health, public policy, and the general activities of pharmaceutical companies. The Drug Industry Document Archive (DIDA) was created by the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and it contains [...]

After a four year legal battle Google has won its fight to scan the archives of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.  Read more in the article, “Google bruises Gallic pride as national library does deal with search giant“, in the TimesOnline.

The Free Music Archive, directed by WFMU, is “an interactive library of high-quality, legal audio downloads.”  It currently has about 6,000 songs to offer.

The National Archives: Ancient Petitions
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/petitions.asp
These days, online petitions, missives, and other such documents are pretty much ubiquitous across the web. Centuries ago, petitions were a bit more difficult to draw up, and usually they would not [...]

The Library of Congress has a new digital archive covering the Iraq War.  Coverage begins March 13th, 2003 and continues to the present.  The materials that are currently available in the archive are from March 13th, 2003 – June 30th, 2003.  More material will continue to be added to this site.  Included in the web [...]

The Library of Congress holds the most comprehensive collection of American music in the world, more than 5.5 million items. The collection includes an extensive assemblage of original manuscripts by composers of the American musical theater and the largest collection of any one kind of musical instrument (flute) in the world. In addition, the Library [...]

The Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress holds 5.3 million items, the world’s largest collection of cartographic materials. It has the largest collection of fire-insurance maps of cities and towns in the United States, providing unparalleled coverage of the growth of urban America from the late 19th to the mid-20th centuries. The [...]

On September 8, 2008 Google launched “an initiative to make more old newspapers accessible and searchable online by partnering with newspaper publishers to digitize millions of pages of news archives”. You can find the Google news archive search here.  If you use Google News, there is a “News archive search” link (under the search box, right [...]