Central Michigan University’s Clarke Historical Library has several free online collections including historic newspapers, photos & more.
Online collections include:
- Digital Michigan Newspapers
For more than 50 years, the Clarke Historical Library has been actively preserving Michigan’s historic newspapers through microfilm. Over the last decade, it has begun to convert the treasure trove of historical newspapers found on microfilm both here and around the state into digital formats that can be accessed online. Thousands of pages of local newspapers recording Michigan history as it happened are found here. - Digital Michigan Newspaper Portal The Digital Michigan Newspaper Portal is a list of digitized versions of newspapers or links to digitized newspapers made available from a variety of sources. Among these links are papers held by the Clarke Historical Library and also Michigan newspapers found in Chronicling America , a database maintained by the Library of Congress. The Library of Michigan has developed newspaper family histories that trace the connections between papers within a city.
- Central Michigan University History Documentation about the history of CMU is found here. The documentation includes a large number of records created by the University and the University’s leadership, such as the minutes of the CMU Board of Trustees and the various Bulletins published annually that describe programs and classes offered at CMU. In addition to these official records, found here are also valuable, but less formal historical information such as records from the Student Government Association, the pages of CMLife and the student published newspaper’s which preceded it, the annual CMU yearbook, the Chippewa, alumni publications, and similar documents.
- Central Michigan University Scholarly and Creative Works
The faculty, staff, and students of Central Michigan University regularly create significant contributions to scholarship. Many of these works, including theses and dissertations written at CMU, are found here. - Clarke Digital Collections
The Clarke Historical Library holds a large body of material documenting the history of Michigan as well as a substantial collection of children’s books. Selected items digitized from the holdings of the Clarke Historical Library are found here. - Construction and Renovation Photographs of St. Marys Falls Canal and Locks
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Soo Area Office held 1,731 glass plate negative photographs documenting the construction of the Soo Locks during the period ca. 1885 to 1941. View all 1,731 images via this database.
Onsite Collections include:
Michigan Material: Local
- Alma’s Gardener: Louisa King
- Bay City: Aladdin Co.
- Ann Arbor Railroad
- Beaver island: Helen Collar Papers
- Detroit: Pre-Statehood Descriptions
- Isabella County
- Sault Ste. Marie: Constructing the Locks
- Birdseye View Collection
- Tourism: Leonard Gas
- Hemingway in Michigan
- Michigan Oil & Gas Industry
- Michigan Historical Calendar
- Mapping Michigan
- Michigan Cookbooks
- Michigan Lighthouses
- One Room Schools
- Circuses & Carnivals
- Newspapers in Michigan
- Michigan’s First Newspapers
- Role in Pioneer Communities
- Pioneer Journalists
- Michigan Press Association
- Filling the Pages
- Advertising
- The Campaign of 1896
- The New Journalists
- Michigan’s Metropolitan Papers
- New Economic Realities
- Latter Half of the 20th Century
- Newspapers for Specific Groups
- Ethnic Newspapers
- Future of Michigan Newspapers
- Endnotes
- Suburban Weeklies
- French Colonial Michigan
- Tocqueville in Michigan
- 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
Native American Material
- Anishinabe Art
- Bibliography of Clarke Material
- Native American Children’s Lit
- Isabella County Docs
- Pioneer & Historical Coll.
- Isabella Indian Reservation
- Treaty Rights
- Treaty Signers
Historical Maps
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