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About Collection Finding Aids
A finding aid is an inventory that lists the contents of an archival collection. Archival collections typically contain unpublished, primary source materials that were all created by the same person, family, agency, or organization. Our collections include state and local government records, manuscripts, personal and family papers, business and organizational records, photographs, sound recordings, moving images, oral histories, sheet music, telephone directories, and newspaper collections.
A finding aid includes an overview explaining what each collection is, who created it, when, and what materials or topics are included. A more detailed description lists the contents of the collection. A finding aid will not list every item, but it will give enough detail to help you discover parts you can explore further by visiting the Library.
Some include digital content from our collections and we are constantly adding more. The finding aids here represent about 17% of our collections. Finding aids to collections that are not included here are available at our Library. To learn more about those collections, search our library catalog.
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We've put together a sample search about the Civil War. Checkmark the image filter and you can focus on inventories that contain digital content like these two letters written by Edward A. Walker.