HONR 206A Storytelling with Archives Remixed

Bringing West Virginia to your fingertips!
e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia is the comprehensive reference resource for the Mountain State of West Virginia. Based on the best-selling West Virginia Encyclopedia, e-WV offers thousands of articles on West Virginia’s people and places, history, arts, science and culture.

Search over 4,000 archives and manuscript collections documenting West Virginia and Appalachian history: business records, family papers of early settlers, Civil War letters and diaries, papers of early industrial and labor leaders, county court records, congressional and political papers, research papers of West Virginia folklorists and manuscripts of Appalachian authors.

More than 850 telegrams document Frances H. Pierpont's efforts to maintain Union rule in western Virginia in the first two years of the Civil War.

Founded in 1915, the International Association for Identification is the world's oldest and largest criminal identification organization. Consisting of more than 100 linear feet of material: archives and manuscripts, books, periodicals and ephemeral publications: the most comprehensive forensics information resource in existence. Materials date back to late 19th century when the field of scientific criminal investigation was in its infancy.

A large and diverse collection of oral history recordings documenting the culture and history of West Virginia and the surrounding region. Most interviews were conducted and recorded from the 1940s to the 1980s.

Search the largest printed ephemera collection related to West Virginia in existence. Estimated to contain more than 100,000 pieces: pamphlets, brochures, isolated periodical issues, news clippings, event announcements and programs, and advertisements published primarily from the late 19th century to the present.

Online database that includes over 50,000 images digitized from our rich and diverse collections.

Nice assortment and arrangement of digital archives in the public domain

Discover 29,316,627 images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the United States

Explore 58,245,986 artworks, artifacts, books, films and music from European museums, galleries, libraries and archives

Free to Share & Reuse: Explore more than 180,000 items in the public domain with our visualization tool. Everyone has the freedom to enjoy and reuse these materials in almost limitless ways. The Library now makes it possible to download such items in the highest resolution available directly from the Digital Collections website.

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