InfoGuides: American History Sources 1600s-1820s: Find Archival Collections

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Archive Finder This link opens in a new window
Describes over 220,000 collections of primary source material housed in thousands of repositories across the United States, the United Kingdom and Ireland.
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Provides records of any type of material cataloged by OCLC member libraries, such as books, music, videos, microform, digital content, and medieval manuscripts.

ArchiveGrid
Provides access to detailed archival collection descriptions, making information available about historical documents, personal papers, family histories, and other archival materials.

American Historical Association's Archives Wiki
Archives Wiki is sponsored by the American Historical Association. It is intended to be a clearinghouse of information about archival resources throughout the world. While it is primarily designed to be useful to historians and others doing historical research, we hope that researchers in many disciplines will find it useful.
Archives Portal Europe
The Archives Portal Europe provides access to information on archival material from different European countries as well as information on archival institutions throughout the continent.

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Consolidates more than 11,000 finding aids that describe a vast array of manuscripts and archival materials housed in historical societies, libraries museums, colleges, and universities across the Commonwealth, and help users discover primary source materials documenting the history, culture, and people of Virginia.