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A-to-Z Digitization Project

The A to Z Digitization Project encompasses all pre-1960 federal government documents which we have identified for retro-cataloging purposes. We are digitizing them alphabetically, starting with the call number A, which includes agricultural documents.

Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations

The Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations (ACIR) was an independent, bipartisan intergovernmental agency established by Public Law 86-380 in 1959. The ACIR was disbanded in September of 1996. As it was established, ACIR's mission was: To ...

America at War, 1941-1945

The collection comprises documents pertaining to military life, as well as educational materials for U.S. soldiers (particularly the G.I. Roundtable & Army Talks series). The materials serve as primary resources for understanding the concerns of military ...

Army Map Service and Army Corps of Engineers

The Map and Imagery Digital Collections from the University of Florida Libraries include topographic maps done by the Army Map Service and maps by the Army Corps of Engineers, which are rich and valuable historical resources. The maps come from all over ...

Army Map Service Topographic Maps

U.S. Army Map Service 1:250,000 topographic series, ca. 1950-

Checklist of United States Government Publications, 178...

The 1909 Checklist includes holdings of titles that went through the depository system from 1789 - 1909.

Digital Library of the Caribbean

The Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) is a cooperative digital library for resources from and about the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean. dLOC provides access to digitized versions of Caribbean cultural, historical and research materials currently hel ...

Everglades Digital Library

The Everglades Digital Library is an evolving library of information resources relating to the South Florida environment. The scope of our collections includes scientific and technical reports, natural history writings, educational and interpretive materi ...

Federal Communications Commission Record (FCC Record)

The FCC Record is a comprehensive compilation of decisions, reports and public notices and other documents of the Federal Communications Commission from 1986 to the present. It was preceded by the FCC Report (1934 - 1986), which may be the focus of a futu ...

Federal Newsmaps

The Newsmaps were published by the Special Service Division, Army Service Forces, War Department of the U.S. and were prepared and distributed by the Army Orientation Course during the World War II era. They usually feature maps displaying the theaters o ...

Florida and the Civil War

Florida and the Civil War provides online access to primary sources about the American Civil War from the collections of the Department of Special & Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Library, University of Florida. Florida had the smallest p ...

Florida Digital Newspaper Library

The Florida Digital Newspaper Library includes both historic and current newspapers from across the state of Florida, including current and historic military newspapers. The Drew Field Echoes: http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/UFDC/?c=fdnl1&b=UF00076231 The Ty ...

Forty-Six Important Federal Publications about Oklahoma...

Important federal publications about Oklahoma from 1891 through 2000, beginning with the annual reports of the Governors of Oklahoma Territory from 1890 - 1907.

Historic Government Publications from World War II

Publications distributed through the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) from 1939 to 1945. Covers all facets of the war, from military campaigns abroad to activities along the home front. The collection's individual pieces reflect the pervasiveness ...

Historic USGS Topographic Maps of New England and New Y...

Images scanned from USGS topographic quadrangles from the states of NH, VT, ME, MA, RI, CT and NY dating from 1890s until 1950s. There are approximately 1100 maps in the present collection with nearly complete coverage of the 15-minute series at a scale o ...

Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publication...

This project involves digitization of the Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications (MOCAT), supplements, and indexes from 1970-June 1976. The MOCAT is a catalog containing bibliographic records of information products created by Federal ag ...

Panama and the Canal

Panama and the Canal is a joint project from the University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries and the Panama Canal Museum. Panama and the Canal builds from the Panama Canal Museum's rich collection of Panama and Canal Zone materials and the extensi ...

SanbornĀ® Fire Insurance Company Maps of Florida

The 'SanbornĀ® Fire Insurance Company Maps of Florida' comprise a collection of more than 300 bibliographic units in more than 3,000 map sheets. The maps were mainly designed to help fire insurance agents determine the degree of damage to a property and ...

Texas Register Archive

The Texas Register Archive is hosted by the UNT Libraries, and includes issues published since June 1991. For the most current issue of the Texas Register, please visit the Texas Secretary of State's Web site . To browse the archived issues, use the l ...

Texas Soil Surveys

The Texas Soil Surveys demonstrate early scientific thought regarding soil classification and use. Each survey consists of a soil map and separate book. The maps show many cultural features in the landscape such as businesses, churches, schools, mills, gi ...