Arizona Archives Online provides a free publicly accessible and searchable database which includes descriptions of archival collections, preserved and made accessible by Arizona repositories, including libraries, special collections, archives, historical societies, and museums. Participating institutions include:
Click here to view the Library Directory database, which includes names and contact information for libraries throughout Arizona. Many of these libraries have genealogical and local history resources in print, microfilm/fiche, and/or digital form, as well electronic access within their libraries to Ancestry Library.
The Arizona Historical Society Libraries & Archives collects published and unpublished material of enduring historical value that allows researchers to explore Arizona’s economic, political, social, and cultural heritage. Formats include manuscripts, photographs, diaries, letters, oral histories, sound recordings, moving images, microfilm, maps, books, and digital files.
Their online catalog searches the collections of their four museums: Pioneer Museum in Flagstaff, Arizona Heritage Center at Papago Park in Phoenix/Tempe, Arizona History Museum in Tucson, and Sanguinetti House Museum & Gardens in Yuma.
The McClelland Library is home to rare books, research materials, a Genealogy Centre, maps, children’s collection, literature, poetry, and popular fiction. The library even boasts a circulating and browsing research collection for members of the Irish Cultural Center and McClelland Library. To checkout materials you need to be a member of the Irish Cultural Center and McClelland Library. All materials are available for use by the general public within the library building.
While the Research Facility located inside the Mohave Museum of History and Arts focuses on Mohave County and Kingman, Arizona, the collection also includes a broad selection of historic information about people and places of the State of Arizona and the southwestern region of the U.S. Valuable historic documents and maps are preserved and protected, including items related to mines, real properties, and cities that once were but are no more. They have magazines and newspapers—many digitized—from 1882 to the present day. Their photo collection is searchable and contains more than 15,000 images. Their reference map collection is one of the finest historic records available for the region. Their collection contains a wide selection of information about historic and current mining activity in Mohave County as well as county and city maps and historic maps of the Territory of Arizona.
The Sharlot Hall Museum Research Center (Library & Archives) [SHMRC] is a full-service research facility, collecting and preserving archaeological, cultural, and historical materials related to Prescott and the surrounding communities, Yavapai County, and Central Arizona. The primary function of SRMRC is to provide support to amateur, professional, and academic researchers, as well as members of the general public who are interested in its resources. In reference to the museum’s namesake, Sharlot Mabridth Hall, SHMRC also collects materials regarding pioneering, territorial, and modern-day Arizona women and their families who settled and lived in Yavapai County and Arizona Central Highlands area.