Archival Finding Aid Project (Yale University Library)
Provides access to archival finding aids in a platform-independent electronic format, using SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language) and HTML. Finding aids are inventories, indexes, or guides that are created by archival and manuscript repositories to provide information about specific collections. While the finding aids created by repositories may vary somewhat in style, their common purpose is to provide detailed description of the content and intellectual organization of collections. Access to finding aids through the Internet will assist scholars in determining whether collections contain material relevant to their research.

ArchiveGrid
Contains primary sources for material on family and corporate histories, personal papers, and historical records with direct search access to dispersed collections and collection descriptions.

ArchivesUSA
Integrates three resources: The National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMUC), The Directory of Archives and Manuscript Repositories in the US (DARMUS), and The National Inventory of Documentary Sources in the United States (NIDS).

Eureka
Provides catalog records for books, journals, maps, sound recordings, musical scores, films, archives, and computer files held in research, corporate, and public libraries, as well as museums, archives and historical societies.

History Universe
Provides a finding aid for 125 microform collections.  Materials can then be accessed through Yale University Library's collections or through inter-library loan.

WorldCat
Contains records from academic, public, special and national libraries around the world.

Below are some Manuscripts, Archives, and Collections that may be helpful. Many of these resources are guides to the libraries and collections. See also History and Research Projects and Institutes, Research Centers, and Museums.

African-American History and Culture. Library of Congress Manuscript Collection, 1998. Includes papers pertaining to slavery, emancipation and prominent African Americans. 

African and African American Collections at UC Berkeley. UC Berkeley Library web site, 1998.

Black Archives of Mid-America

Brown, Rae Linda. Music, Printed and Manuscript, in the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of Negro Arts and Letters: An Annotated Catalog. [Beinecke Rare Book Library, Yale University] New York: Garland,1982. Music Reference ML136 N566 Y1

The Chicago Afro-American Union Analytic Catalog. An Index to Materials on the Afro American in the Principal Libraries of Chicago. Housed in the Vivian G. Harsh Collection of Afro-American History and Literature at the George Cleveland Hall Branch of the Chicago Public Library. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1972. SML, Reference Z1361 N39 +C45 (LC) 

Heath, Trudy. Slavery and Anti-slavery Pamphlets: An Index to the Microfilm Collection. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms International, 1979. SML Z7164 S6 +H42 (LC)

Howard University Library. Moorland Foundation. Dictionary Catalog of the Jesse E. Moorland Collection of Negro Life and History, Howard University, Washington, DC. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1970. SML, Reference Z1361 N39 +H68 (LC)

Milton S. Eisenhower Library. The Birney Anti-Slavery Collection of the Johns Hopkins University. Baltimore, Md.: M. S. Eisenhower Library, Special Collections Division, 1985. SML Z1249 S6 +M54 1985 (LC) 

Moorland-Spingarn Research Center. Library. The Glen Carrington Collection: A Guide to the Books, Manuscripts, Music, and Recordings. Washington, DC: Howard University, 1977. SML Z5961 U5 +M66 1977 (LC) 

Newman, Debra L. Black History: A Guide to Civilian Records in the National Archives. Washington, DC: National Archives Trust Fund Board, General Services Administration, 1984. SML, Reference Z1361 N39 N576 1984 (LC) 

Plunkett, Michael. Afro-American Sources in Virginia: A Guide to Manuscripts. Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 1990. SML Z1361 N39 P496 1990 (LC) Also online.

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Dictionary Catalog of the Schomburg Collection. Boston, G. K. Hall, 1962. [Suppl. 1, 1967; Suppl. 2, 1972.] 
SML, Reference Z881 N592 +S353 (LC) 

Spencer, Jon Michael. As the Black School Sings: Black Music Collections at Black Universities and Colleges With a Union List of Book Holdings. New York: Greenwood Press, 1987. MUSIC ML128 A2 S7

Thackery, David T. Afro-American Family History at the Newberry Library: A Research Guide and Bibliography. Chicago: The Library, 1988. SML Z1361 N39 +T48X 1988 (LC) 

Von Salis, Susan J. Revealing Documents: A Guide to African American Manuscript Sources in the Schlesinger Library and the Radcliffe College Archives. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1993. SML Z1361 N39 V66X 1993 (LC)

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