We are happy to be able to open free access to more than 1 million images and documents from The National Archives and others.

Here’s an example of a diagram found in the WWII Japanese Air Targets Analyses (WWII) documents…

…And just one of more than 5,000 images from the Brady Civil War photos:

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Pennsylvania State Archives	117,831
Project Blue Book – UFO Investigations	129,658
Lincoln Assassination Papers	12,004
Papers of the Continental Congress	171,519
Misc. Papers of the Continental Congress	6,939
George Washington Correspondence	1,030
American Milestones	69
Constitutional Convention Records	346
NH Town Records – Hancock	7,436
NH Town Records – Goffstown	942
Japanese Air Targets Analyses (WWII)	7,845
Gorrell’s History of AEF Air Service (WWI)	74,348
Hesse Crown Jewels Court Martial Case – a $2.5 million heist by American officers in 1945	12,424
Naval Press Clippings	4,045
Brady Civil War Photographs	5,688
WWII – Japanese Photographs	47
Fine Arts Commission Photographs	6,862
Harry S Truman Photographs	1,517
Franklin D. Roosevelt Photographs	587
Dwight D. Eisenhower Photographs	593
Calvin Coolidge Photographs	506
George A. Custer’s Court Martial	339
Foreign Letters of the Continental Congress	474
Ratified Amendments to the US Constitution	9,932
Amistad Court Records	1,800
American Colonization Society	301,266
VA Town Records – City of South Boston	5,209
Domestic Letters of Department of State	181,431
Total:	1,062,687

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