Portal for the state archive's digital collections, such as land records, birth/death indices, photographs, military records, etc.
Over 2000 scanned maps from the University of Texas at Austin, plus links to many external online maps, including "maps of current interest".
Broadway shows from the 1930s-
This online collection of records from Playbill purports to be the largest Broadway database on the Internet. Rich in photos, the site is searchable by People, Shows, Theatres, Awards, Seasons, and Grosses.
Collection of contemporary political/editorial cartoons. Most arranged chronologically, but some arranged by theme (e.g. immigration, climate change). Not searchable.
Images, video, and print material covering popular culture and lifestyle and major events of the time period such as the Vietnam War, the Space Race, the Civil Rights and Women's Liberation movements, and more.
Extensive collection of images of quilts in museums, private collections, etc. Can be searched or browsed by pattern, quiltmaker, time period, colors, and many other fields.
Digitized maps of towns or cities in Pennsylvania originally created for use by fire insurance companies. Maps are drawn to a scale of 50 feet to an inch; list street blocks and building numbers; and are coded for building materials used. For color versions of those maps, see the collection hosted by Penn State's map library. For Sanborn Maps in areas other than Pennsylvania, see Sanborn Maps from the Library of Congress.
Digitized newspapers published for WWII soldiers. Strength in US and UK but expands beyond this to cover Allied and Axis armies from around the world.
Detailed data on slaving voyages from the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database and the Intra-American Slave Trade Database. Also includes the African Names Database, which provides details of Africans taken from captured slave ships or from African trading sites, and a database of images relating to the slave trade.