Central Michigan University’s Clarke Historical Library has several free online collections including:

• Digital Michigan Newspaper Portal

• Birdseye View Collection “The earliest views appeared in the 1830s; the last in the 1920s.”

• Mapping Michigan

• Michigan Cookbooks

• One Room Schools

• Michigan Historical Calendar

• French Colonial Michigan

• Isabella County History including Obituary Index from 1875

• Detroit: Pre-Statehood Descriptions, 1701-1837