Research Guides: Literature: Archival Research

Archive Databases

ArchiveGrid

Contains over 7 million records describing archival materials, bringing together information about historical documents, personal papers, family histories
Over 1,400 archival institutions represented
Archives Unbound
Collections: African American, African, American, Asian, British & European, business & economic, cultural, gender, health, Holocaust, law & politics, Middle Eastern, religious
Primary source audio recordings, documents, images, manuscripts, and personal papers

Archives Hub (U.K.)
Access to 20,059 descriptions of archives held in 160 UK repositories.
ARC: U.S. National Archives & Records Administration Research Catalog
The online catalog of NARA's nationwide holdings in the Washington, DC area, Regional Archives and Presidential Libraries.
The British Library-open images
Over a million images released into Flickr Commons for anyone to use, remix and repurpose. These images were taken from the pages of 17th, 18th and 19th century books digitized then released back into the Public Domain.
There are maps, geological diagrams, beautiful illustrations, comical satire, illuminated and decorative letters, colourful illustrations, landscapes, wall-paintings and more.

- See more at: http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/2013/12/a-million-first-steps.html#sthash.3kaubTLH.slBpKEdQ.dpuf