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Prairie Settlement: Nebraska Photographs and Family Letters

This collection from the Library of Congress American Memory project "integrates two collections from the holdings of the Nebraska State Historical Society: the Solomon D. Butcher photographs and the letters of the Uriah W. Oblinger family that together illustrate the story of settlement on the Great Plains." There are approximately 3,000 photographs of Central Nebraska taken during the period of...

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award98/nbhihtml/pshome.html
Robin Flies Again: Letters written by women of Goucher College, class of 1903

Goucher College presents this Web version of a series of round robin letters, kept in volumes that were passed from hand to hand, written by 37 women of the class of 1903. Two volumes dated 1919 and 1937 are available at the Website. The letters speak of many aspects of women's lives during this period of American history: family and children, careers, suffrage, World War I, and the Depression....

http://meyerhoff.goucher.edu/library/robin/
The University of Vermont Libraries' Center for Digital Initiatives: Fletcher Family

The University of Vermont Libraries' Center for Digital Initiatives has continued to add to their online offerings in recent years. This latest collection is quite a pip, and it contains family correspondence from the Fletcher Family of Vermont. The family correspondence begins in 1826, and it is primarily focused around several family members who moved west to New York, Ohio, and other parts of...

https://cdi.uvm.edu/collection/uvmcdi-uvmcdifletcher