Digital Archive: Springfield-Greene County Library District Local History

LOCAL HISTORY

DIGITAL ARCHIVE

The Battle of Springfield
An interactive map of the Battle of Springfield, Missouri, January 8, 1863.
Black Families of the Ozarks
A genealogy guide to Southwest Missouri's black families from the 1820s to the 1950s.
Civil War Photo Archive
Hundreds of photos from the Civil War.
Civil War Timeline
A timeline (1820-1870) of the Trans-Mississippi Theater in the Civil War with artifacts, descriptions and parallel events.
Civil War Virtual Museum
Civil War-era artifacts including letters, maps, diaries, weapons, flags, uniforms and photographs.
Community and Conflict
The Impact of the Civil War in the Ozarks. Photographs, journals, business and personal letters and other artifacts, 1850-1875.
The Ethnic Life Stories Project
Giving the Springfield community a window to its diversity through the life stories of more than 30 ethnic elders.
The Frisco
A Look Back at the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway. Photographs, postcards, employee magazines and more.
From the Darkroom: Springfield's Historic Newspaper Photographs
Thousands of photographic negatives and prints from the Springfield News & Leader, Leader and Press, and the Daily News.
Greene County History
Histories of Greene County, Missouri, available in full text.
Greene County Records
Abstracts and indexes of a number of court and other records.
Historical Markers of Springfield and Greene County
Photos, text and related information for 21 historical markers. A Project of the University Club.
Historical Postcards of Springfield, Missouri
113 postcards display a variety of themes and periods.
The Max Hunter Collection
An archive of more than 1600 Ozark Mountain folk songs. This site is a joint project of the Missouri State University Department of Music and The Library.
Missouri Over There
A statewide, collaborative digitization project investigating the state's involvement in World War I.
Moser's Directory of Towns, Villages and Hamlets Past and Present of Missouri
An annotated gazetteer of place names of populated places.
O'Reilly General (Army) Hospital of Springfield, Missouri
A collection of 194 photographs, a map, and history of this wartime facility.
Ozarks Obituary Collection
A collection of more than 115,000 obituaries from southwest Missouri newspapers.
Regional Periodicals
Full text of three Ozarks periodicals: OzarksWatch, Bittersweet, and White River Valley Historical Quarterly.
Springfield, Missouri, and Surroundings 1889
A 35-page illustrated booklet containing numerous engraved prints of Springfield scenes they appeared in 1889.
The Turnbo Manuscripts
800 tales of life in the early days of the Ozarks.