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Daughters of the American Revolution - Manuscript Collection

Hidden Collections Initiative for Pennsylvania Small Archival Repositories | Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room - Online Collections from the Manuscript Division

African American Odyssey; American Colony in Jerusalem; American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Folklore Project, WPA Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940; American Women: A Gateway to Library of Congress Resources for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States (Manuscript Division section); The Hannah Arendt Papers at the Library of Congress; The Clara Barton Papers at the Library of Congress; The Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers, 1862-1939; The Harry A. Blackmun Papers at the Library of Congess; The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920; Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929; Finding Our Way in the Cosmos: From Galileo to Sagan and Beyond; The Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress; Frontline Diplomacy: The Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training; Freedom's Fortress: The Library of Congress, 1939-1953; "I Do Solemnly Swear ...": Presidential Inaugurations, Warren G. Harding-Carrie Fulton Phillips Correspondence; The Zora Neale Hurston Plays at the Library of Congress; The Thomas Jefferson Papers at the Library of Congress; Letters of Delegates to Congress; Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress; Lewis H. Machen Family Papers; The James Madison Papers; Meeting of Frontiers; Patsy T. Mink Papers; Samuel F. B. Morse Papers at the Library of Congress; The Daniel P. Moynihan Papers at the Library of Congess; Phillips/Math

Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries (PACSCL)

The collections of the thirty six member libraries and archives of PACSCL include a total of more than 4,000,000 rare books, 260,000 linear feet of manuscripts and archival materials, and 9,000,000 photographs, maps, and more.

The Newberry - Modern Manuscripts and Archives

More than 800 Modern Manuscript Collections dating from the mid-18th through the 20th centuries. Holdings are strongest for Chicago and the Midwest.