History Guide

EMU Archives

The EMU Archives collects and houses organizational, administrative, and personal documents, photographs, scrapbooks, memorabilia and other materials that help preserve the history of Eastern Michigan University (EMU), its students, alumni, faculty and staff.

Michigan Archives, Manuscript Repositories, & Special Collections

While many archives are making portions of their collections available online, few archives have all or the majority of their materials available online.

There are local and Michigan archives and special collections that may be useful for some topics.

*If you are looking for digitized materials from these collections, click on the "Primary Sources - Digital Collections" tab on the left.


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