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Michigan History General Sources

Detroit: Looking Back to Move Forward (Oral Histories)
Digital Public Library of America - Michigan
Detroit Public Library - Digitized Special Collections
Making of Modern Michigan
Local history materials from communities around the state.
Michigan Memories
Provides access to digital collections from cultural institutions throughout the state of Michigan.
Michiganology (formerly Seeking Michigan)
Digitized materials from the Library of Michigan and the Archives of Michigan.

Detroit Free Press Historical (1831 - 1999)

Search and browse the Detroit Free Press backfile in pdf. Includes news, editorials, ads, photos, graphics.

Detroit News (1970 to present)
Also available at the University of Michigan's Hatcher Graduate Library from 1873 to present.
Digital Michigan Newspaper Portal
Michigan newspaper titles available online from various institutions including the Library of Congress.

Michigan Historical Newspapers

Search and browse the backfiles of Battle Creek, Lansing, and Port Huron newspapers in PDF. Includes news, editorials, ads, photos, graphics.

Upper Peninsula Newspapers
Cloverland Magazine, Escanaba (Daily Mirror, Morning Press and Daily Press, Tribune, and Iron Port), Grand Marais (Gazette, Herald, and Superior Sun [Grand Marais High School]), Ishpeming, Manistique (Courier, Pioneer Tribune, Saturday & Sunday Morning Star), Marquette, Negaunee, Nishnawbe News.

Michigan County Histories and Atlases
An online collection of 428 Michigan county histories and atlases.

Sanborn Insurance Maps - Michigan

Detailed historical town and city maps from 1880s to 1950s
Subjects: Historic Preservation, Local History, Geography, Genealogy

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