This online guide to African American resources at the CHS is derived from the first thematic printed guide to the CHS' extensive artifact, manuscript and bibliographic holdings. This guide is available for purchase for $20. Contact Jill Padelford(jill_padelford@chs.org) to place your order.

The online guide is grouped into 7 major sections, each dealing with specific collections areas. There is also an index to the items in our collections that is available in one file (which makes it excellent for searching by pressing CTRL+F on your keyboard, but the file is quite large), or 13 smaller files, accessible from the A-Z menu bar at the top of this page.

• Printed Material
• Manuscript Resources
• Broadsides, trade cards and other ephemera
• Paintings, toys, costumes and other artifacts
• Prints
• Photographs
• editorial Cartoons

In addition there is a list of illustrations, if you are interested in just seeing images from our collections. More images are constantly being added.