Research Guides: Environmental Inequality in Postwar America: Finding Archival & Primary Source Collections

Congressional Publications

U.S. Congressional Publications: Indexes and provides selected full-text for Congressional Committee Prints, House and Senate Documents and Reports (Congressional Serial Set), Hearings, and Legislative Histories. Rutgers-restricted access

U.S. Declassified Documents Online: Full text access to a broad range of previously classified federal documents spanning the twentieth and twenty first centuries. Rutgers-restricted access

Library of Congress: Digital Collections: The Library of Congress site offers access to more than 9 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections of primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The collections include manuscripts, photographs, posters, maps, books, pamphlets, and sheet music, as well as sound recordings and motion pictures and can either be browsed or searched.

Digital Public Library of America: Over 40 million "images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the United States."

ArchiveGrid: Index to archival collection descriptions and finding aids. Rutgers-restricted Access

The Newark Archives Project: The Newark Archives Project is creating detailed descriptions of primary materials relating to Newark that are available in repositories in Newark and elsewhere. The collections described include papers of individuals and families; records of government agencies, organizations, and businesses; photographs and film; audio collections; and more. A wonderful, and growing, resource for finding archival materials on Newark!

Ironbound Environmental Justice History and Resource Center: A project of the Ironbound Community Corporation of Newark, the IEJHRC is housed at the Van Buren Branch of the Newark Public Library (140 Van Buren Street) and is open to the public.

Worldcat: Union catalog of over 179 million bibliographic records for titles owned by libraries that participate in/contribute to OCLC. As part of "Advanced Search" allows you to limit your search to "archival materials". (Rutgers-restricted Access)

Princeton University Findings Aids: Over 1700 finding aids from the Princeton Department of Rare Books and Special Collections. The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections includes the Manuscripts Division (housed at Firestone Library) and the Princeton University Archives and Public Policy Papers (housed at the Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library).

New York Public Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalog: Search the Archives and Manuscripts collections included in the New York Public Library catalog. To search the full text of archival collections descriptions search AMAT, the Archival Materials Access Tool.

Archival Finding Aids Hosted at New York University: Search across finding aids for collections in the Fales Library & Special Collections (NYU); the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives; New York University Archives; and the New York Historical Society.

Columbia University Archival Collections Portal: Descriptions and finding aids for more than 3,500 archival collections in six Columbia University Libraries repositories. These collections include personal papers, institutional records, corporate archives, architectural drawings, printed ephemera, and many other types of content.

Air Pollution in Donora, Pa. : Epidemiology of the Unusual Smog Episode of October 1948: Premilinary Report: H.H. Schrenk et al. U.S. Public Health Service, 1949.

The Donora Episode: Clarence A. Mills. Science 111(2873), January 20, 1950, pp. 67-68.; Letter responding to the above report.

Love Canal Collections: "An introduction to the history and background of the events that occured at Love Canal. Includes two chronologies of events, scanned documents of the Ecumenical Task Force, database of Love Canal articles, and a glossary of definitions for individuals, organizations, businesses, government agencies, chemical waste dump sites, and major issues relating to the Love Canal and other local environmental disaster areas." From the University at Buffalo Special Collections.

New York State Department of Health Investigations: Love Canal: Documents, health studies and reports.

The Three Mile Island Emergency: Resource Center: "An extensive collection of documents of the accident, including: transcripts and audio recordings of interviews collected at the time, government and industry documents not readily available in other places, photographs and newspaper coverage." From Dickenson College.

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