Worcester Historical Museum Library and Archives

Archives in the United States

• American Antiquarian Society
• ArchiveGrid
• Academy Film Archive
• American Heritage Center
• American Radio Archive
• Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism
• Archives of American Art
• Archives of the History of American Psychology
• Atlanta Housing Archives
• Black Archives of Mid-America
• Charles E. Stevens American Atheist Library and Archives
• MIT Department of Distinctive Collections
• Harvard University Library
• Historic Films Archive
• Hoover Institution Library and Archives
• Interference Archive
• Internet Archive
• The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives
• Library of Congress
• Massachusetts Archives Searchable Collections
• Massachusetts Historical Society
• Mennonite Church USA Archives
• New England Historic Genealogical Society
• National African American Archives and Museum
• National Public Broadcasting Archives
• National Security Archive
• Pullman Library, Illinois Railway Museum
• Rhizome ArtBase
• Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library at Princeton University
• Sophia Smith Collection of Women’s History at Smith College
• South Texas Archives and Special Collections
• Ukrainian Museum-Archives
• Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs
• Washington Area Performing Arts Video Archive
• Washington University Special Collections
• National Archives and Records Administration
  • Civilian Personnel Records Center
  • Electronic Records Archives
  • National Personnel Records Center
  • Military Personnel Records Center
• Smithsonian Institution Archives
  • National Anthropological Archives
  • Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections

Cemeteries & Gravestones

• Cemetery Records Online
• Farber Gravestone Collection (American Antiquarian Society)
• Find A Grave
• Friends of Hope Cemetery
• Massachusetts Cemetery Guide
• Nationwide Gravesite Locator

Community Projects

• City Of Corsets
• Covid-19 Chronicles – Worcester’s Community Archive
• Digital Worcester
• Major Taylor Association
• Worcester Black History Project
• Worcester Latino History Project
• Worcester Women’s History Project
• Worcester Historical Photo Repository

Digital Exhibits

• Armenians at Work
• Commonwealth Museum
• Concord Museum Online Exhibits
• Early Caribbean Digital Archive
• Mass Air & Space Museum
• New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center
• Tenement Museum
• 9/11 Memorial and Museum

LGBTQ+

• Dyke TV – Collection at Smith College
• Fordham University Queer Studies Libguide
• GLBT Historical Society
• Gulf Coast Archive and Museum of GLBT History
• Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in GLBT Studies
• Lambda Archives of San Diego
• Lesbian Herstory Archives
• Northwest LGBTQ History
• ONE Archives at USC Libraries
• Pride Worcester
• The ArQuives of Canada
• The Center

Libraries, Museums & Repositories

• Armenian Museum of America
• Assumption College, Emmanuel d’Alzon Library
• Boston Public Library
• Cape Ann Museum
• Clark University Libraries
• College of the Holy Cross Libraries
• Digital Public Library of America
• Digital Commonwealth
• Freedom of Information Act Electronic Reading Room
• Getty Publications Virtual Library
• HaitiTrust
• Internet Archive
• Library of Congress
• Library of Congress Digital Collections
• Making of America
• Massachusetts Trial Court Libraries
• National Library of Medicine
• Nautical Archaeology Digital Library
• New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill
• New York Public Library
• Old Sturbridge Village
• Samuel Slater Experience
• Smithsonian Digital Library
• Quinsigamond Community College, George I Alden Library
• State Library of Massachusetts
• University of Massachusetts Medical School, Lamar Soutter Library
• Worcester Historical Museum Library
• Worcester Public Library
• Worcester Polytechnic Institute, George C. Gordon Library
• Worcester State University, Learning Resource Center

General Resources

• Mass Library Gale databases courtesy of the Mass Library System
• Google Scholar  
• US Post Office History

Genealogy Resources

• New England Historic Genealogical Society
• Massachusetts Vital Records
• 1930 Census Resources for Genealogists
• Castle Garden
• Cyndi’s List
• Ellis Island
• FamilySearch
• Genealogy.com
• One-Step Webpages by Steve P. Morse
• RootsWeb
• USGenWeb Project
• Jewish Genealogy

Historic Preservation, Property & Land

• Massachusetts Cultural Resource Information System (MACRIS)
• Massachusetts Land Records, 1620-1986 (FamilySearch Historical Records)
• National Register of Historic Places
• Photographs of Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Structures in Massachusetts Taken 1887-1945 by Harriette Merrifield Forbes (American Antiquarian Society)
• Preservation Massachusetts
• Preservation Worcester
• Worcester Registry of Deeds
• Friends of Institute Park

Maps

• Atlas of Historical County Boundaries
• Google Earth
• Google Maps
• HistoryPin
• Norman B. Levanthal Map Center (Boston Public Library)
• State Library of Massachusetts, Real Estate Atlases
• Union List of Sanborn & Other Fire Insurance Maps
• Waymarking.com
• Earthworks

Online Newspapers

• Cambridge Public Library Historic Cambridge Newspaper Collection
• Chronicling America
• Elephind
• Massachusetts Newspapers
• Old Fulton Postcards (newspapers)

Online Books & Publications

• Lincoln, William. History of Worcester, Massachusetts, from It’s Earliest Settlement to September, 1836.
• List of Persons Whose Names Have Been Changed in Massachusetts, 1780-1892
• New England Historical Genealogical Register Online
• Nutt, Charles. History of Worcester and Its People.
• Open Library – eBooks
• Paine, Nathaniel. Bibliography of Worcester History (1885).
• Project Guttenberg
• Rice, Franklin Pierce. Dictionary of Worcester, Massachusetts and It’s Vicinity
• Rice, Franklin P. The Worcester Book: a Diary of Noteworthy Events in Worcester, Massachusetts from 1657 to 1883