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Public Research Centers & Archives

A comprehensive listing of Public Moving Image Archives and Research Centers from around the world.

Africa & the Near East

Burkina Faso

African Film Library/FESPACO

Eritrea

Eritrea Research and Documentation Centre

Iran

Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance

Israel

Malawi

National Archives of Malawi

Morocco

Mozambique

Instituto Nacional De Audiovisual E Cinema

Nigeria

University of Nigeria Library and Research

Rwanda

Iriba Center for Multimedia Heritage

South Africa

Syria

Syrian Archive

United Arab Emirates (UAE)

National Film Archive Library, Zayed University, Dubai.

Asia & Oceania

Afghanistan

Afghan Film Archive

Australia

Bangladesh

Bangladesh Film Archive

Brunei

Radio Television Brunei

Cambodia

China

India

Indonesia

National Library of Indonesia
Sinematek Indonesia

Japan

Laos

National Library of Laos

Malaysia

Mongolia

National Archives of Mongolia (Archives for Film and Audio-Visual Records)

New Zealand

North Korea

JOSON MINJUJUI INMINGONGHWAGUK KUGGA YONGHWA MUNHONGO / NATIONAL FILM ARCHIVE OF DPRK

Philippines

Cultural Center of the Philippines: Library and Archives

Singapore

South Korea

Korean Film Archive

Sri Lanka

National Film Corporation of Sri Lanka

Thailand

Thai Film Archive

Tibet

Tibet Film Archive

Vietnam

Vietnam Film Institute

Canada

Europe

Albania

Armenia

Azerbaijan

STATE FILM FUND OF AZERBAIJAN / AZERBAYCAN DÖVLET FILM FONDU (Baku)

Austria

Belarus

Belgium

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Kinoteka Bosnia and Hercegovinia and National Film Archive

Bulgaria

Bulgarska Nacionalna Filmoteka and English language version

Canary Islands

Filmoteca Canaria

Croatia

Hrvatski Drzavni Arhiv/Hrvatska Kinoteka

Czech Republic

Denmark

Det Danske Filmmuseum

Estonia

Eesti Filmiarhiiv

Finland

France

Georgia

Germany

Greece

Hungary

Iceland

National Film Archive of Iceland

Ireland

Irish Film Archive at the Irish Film Institute

Italy

Latvia

Lithuania

Luxembourg

Macedonia

Kinoteka Na Makedonija

Netherlands

Brabants Film Archief and Dept of Photos and Films, Universiteit van Tilburg (Tilburg University)
European Foundation Joris Ivens
Europeana provides access to millions of books, paintings, films, museum objects and archival records that have been digitised throughout European cultural and scientific institutions.
EYE Film Institute Netherlands
Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
Netherlands Institute for Animation Film

Norway

Poland

Portugal

Cinemateca Portuguesa: Museo de Cinema, Portuguese Film Archive

Romania

Arhiva Nationala De Filme - Cinemateca Romana

Russia

Slovakia

Slovenia

Spain

Sweden

Switzerland

Turkey

Sinema-TV ENSTITÜSÜ (Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts Mimar Sinan Güzel Sanatlar Üniversitesi)

United Kingdom

ARKive
Creative Learning in the Digital Age: Northern Ireland Screen's Digital Film Archive
Automotive Film Archive
Barnardo's Photographic and Film Archive
Bill Douglas Centre for the History of Cinema and Popular Culture
British Film Institute
British Universities Newsreel Database
East Anglian FilmArchive
Film Archives Online (MIDAS project: Moving Image Database for Access and Re-use of European Film Collections)
Films from the Home front, WWII film collections from seven regional screen archives and collections in the UK.
Fleet Air Arm Archive
Halas & Batchelor Collection, British Film Institute
ITN Source
Imperial War Museum Film Collection
Kent Museum of the Moving Image
Lincolnshire Film Archive
London's Screen Archive
London Transport Museum: Film and Video Collection
Media Archive for Central England
Moving History: Guide to UK Film and Television Archives in the Public Sector
National Archive of the United Kingdom
National Co-operative Film Archive
National Film and Television Archive
National Maritime Museum Film Archive
National Media Museum
National Museum of Wales: Film Archive
National Screen and Sound Archive of Wales
North East Film Archive
North-West Film Archive
Northern Ireland Digital Film Archive
Scottish Screen Archive
South East Film and Video Archive
South West Film and Television Archive
Staffordshire Film Archive , Staffordshire University.
UK Film Archive Forum
Ulster Folk and Transport Museum
Video Active
Wellcome Film, digital moving images on healthcare and medicine.
Wessex Film and Sound Archive
Wimbledon Archive
Yorkshire Film Archive
Amnesty International Video Film Archive

Vatican City

Yugoslavia

Yugoslav Film Archive

Latin America

Argentina

Bolivia

Cinemateca Boliviana

Brazil

Chile

Colombia

Dominican Republic

.Cinemateca Dominicana

Ecuador

Cinemateca Nacional Del Ecuador

El Salvador

Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen

Guatemala

Universidad Francisco MarroquÌn, New Media

Mexico

Nicaragua

Cinemateca Nacional De Nicaragua

Peru

Uruguay

Venezuela

United States

Alabama

Alabama Department of Archives and History (Montgomery)
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (Birmingham)
University of Alabama, Center for Public Television and Radio (Tuscaloosa)
University of Alabama, W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library (Tuscaloosa)

Alaska

Alaska Center for Documentary Film , Alaska Digital Archives , & Alaska Film Archives, Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks (Fairbanks)
Alaska Moving Image Preservation Association (Anchorage)
Alaska Native Knowledge Network (Fairbanks)
KYUK-TV (Bethel)
Pratt Museum (Homer)

Arizona

Arizona Historical Foundation (Tempe)
Arizona Historical Society (Phoenix, Tucson, Yuma, & Flagstaff)
Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records (Phoenix)
Arizona State Museum (Tucson)
Arizona State University Libraries: Archives and Special Collections (Tempe)
Heard Museum (Phoenix)
Pima Air and Space Museum (Tucson)
University of Arizona, Center for Creative Photography (Tucson)

Arkansas

William J. Clinton Presidential Library (Little Rock)

California

Academic Film Archive of North America (San Francisco & St. Louis)
Academy Film Archive
American Indian Film Institute
ASIFA: Hollywood Animation Archive (Burbank)
Archive of American Television (Los Angeles)
Blackchair Digital External (San Francisco)
California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) Library (Valencia)
California Department of Water Resources (Sacramento)
California Digital Library: Online Archive of California
California Light and Sound, historical moving images and audio from the California Audiovisual Preservation Project.
California Pacific Medical Center, Health Sciences Library: Special Collections (San Francisco)
California State Archives (Sacramento)
California State Railroad Museum Library (Sacramento)
California State University, Northridge, Library Special Collections, Urban Archives Center (Northridge)
Caltech Institute Archives (Pasadena)
Center for Home Movies (Los Angeles)
Center for Visual Music (Los Angeles)
Chinese American Museum (Los Angeles)
Computer Museum History Center (Mountain View)
Deep Focus: A Directory to Moving Image Resources (Hollywood)
DefenseImagery.mil (Riverside)
Getty Images (Los Angeles, Chicago, New York City, & Seattle)
GLBT Historical Society of Northern California (San Francisco)
Harappa Film Archive (San Francisco)
History San Jose (San Jose)
Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University: Library and Archives & Firing Line Television Collection (Stanford)
Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality (San Francisco)
Internet Moving Images Archive (San Francisco)
Japanese American National Museum (Los Angeles)
Japanese American History Archives (San Francisco)
Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Beacon Library and Archives (Pasadena)
Long Beach Museum of Art (Long Beach)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art: Audiovisual Collection (Los Angeles)
Mills College, Olin Library: Special Collections and Archives (Oakland)
NASA Dryden Flight Research Center: Photo, Movies and Graphics Collections (Edwards)
Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum External(Fremont)
Richard M. Nixon Library Audiovisual Materials (Yorba Linda)
Richard Nixon Library: Archives (Yorba Linda)
Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley)
Paley Center for Media (New York City, NY & Los Angeles)
Paso Robles Pioneer Museum (Paso Robles)
Oakland Public Library: African American Museum (Oakland)
Pomona College: Pacific Basin Institute Archive (Claremont)
Prelinger Archives (San Francisco)
Ronald Reagan Presidential Library (Simi Valley)
Will Rogers Institute (Toluca Lake)
Center for Sacramento History: Moving Images Collection External (Sacramento)
San Diego Aerospace Museum: Film Archive (San Diego)
San Diego Historical Society (San Diego)
San Francisco Bay Area Television Archives (San Francisco)
San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, Maritime Museum Library (San Francisco)
San Francisco Media Archive/Oddball Films External (San Francisco)
San Francisco Museum of Performance and Design (San Francisco)
Scripps Institution of Oceanography: Moving Images
Sherman Library and Gardens (Corona Del Mar)
Southern California Library (Los Angeles)
Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation (Los Angeles)
Stanford University Libraries: Media Collections , Monterey Jazz Festival Collection and Stanford University Libraries: Special Collections (Palo Alto)
Tobacco Control Archives, University of California, San Francisco (San Francisco)
UCLA Film & Television Archive (Los Angeles)
UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive (Los Angeles)
USC Moving Image Archive and USC Cinemamatic Arts Library (Los Angeles)
University of California, Berkeley, Bancroft Library, Special Collections (Berkeley)
University of California, Berkeley, Media Resource Center (Berkeley)
University of California, Berkeley, Hearst Museum of Anthropology (Berkeley)
University of California, Davis Library Special Collections (Davis)
Univ. of California, San Diego, Factual Film Library (San Diego & La Jolla)
USA TV Ads (New York City, Los Angeles, Ft. Lauderdale)
Visual Communications (Los Angeles)
Wende Museum (Culver City)
Western Railway Museum (Suisun City)
William S. Hart Ranch and Museum (Newhall)

Colorado

Aspen (CO) Historical Society: Archives, Collection and Research (Aspen)
Bessemer Historical Society: Colorado Fuel and Iron Archives (Pueblo)
Colorado Historical Society (Denver)
Naropa University Library: Special Collections (Boulder)
University of Colorado, Boulder, Norlin Library: Archives (Boulder)
World Figure Skating Museum (Colorado Springs)

Connecticut

Albers Foundation Archives (Bethany)
American Magic-Lantern Theater (East Haddam)
Bridgeport Public Library: Historical Collections (Bridgeport)
Connecticut Historical Society (Hartford)
Florence Griswold Museum (Old Lyme)
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies (Yale Univ.) (New Haven)
Mystic Seaport Museum (Mystic)
Wesleyan University Cinema Archives (Middletown)
Wesleyan University Library: World Music Archives (Middletown)
Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (New Haven)
Yale University Film Study Center (New Haven)

Delaware

Delaware Public Archives (Dover)
Hagley Museum and Library (Wilmington)
University of Delaware Libraries (Newark)

District of Columbia

Florida

Florida Moving Image Archive (Miami)
Florida State Archives: Film and Video Collection (Tallahassee)
Historical Society of Palm Beach County: Archives (Palm Springs)
International Game Fish Association: E.K. Harry Library of Fishes (Dania Beach)
International Swimming Hall of Fame: Henning Library (Ft. Lauderdale)
University of Florida, University Archives, Moving Image Archives and News and Public Affairs Videotape Collection (Gainesville)
University of Miami, Richter Library, Archives and Special Collections (Miami)
USA TV Ads (New York City, Los Angeles, Ft. Lauderdale)

Georgia

Atlanta History Center (Atlanta)
CNN ImageSource (Atlanta)
Emory University Libraries (Atlanta)
Georgia State Archives (Morrow)
The King Center (Atlanta)
Jimmy Carter Presidential Library External (Atlanta)
University of Georgia Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection (Athens)
University of Georgia Libraries: Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies (Athens)
Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation: Library and Archive (Warm Springs)
Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives (Augusta)

Hawaii

Bishop Museum Archives (Honolulu)
Honolulu Academy of Arts (Honolulu)
‘Ulu‘ulu Moving Image Archive at the University of Hawai‘i West O‘ahu (Honolulu)
University of Hawaii at Manoa Library (Honolulu)

Idaho

Illinois

Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum: Audiovisual Collection (Springfield)
Barrington (IL) Historical Society (Barrington)
Billy Graham Center Archives (Wheaton)
Center for Black Music Research (Chicago)
Chicago Film Archives (Chicago)
Chicago History Museum External (Chicago)
Chicago Province Archives: Society of the Divine Word (Techny)
Clio Awards Archives (New York City & Chicago)
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (Elk Grove Village)
Field Museum (Chicago)
Getty Images (Los Angeles, Chicago, New York City, & Seattle)
The History Makers (Chicago)
Illinois State Historical Society (Springfield)
Kartemquin Films (Chicago)
Marion E. Wade Center Archives, Wheaton College (Wheaton)
Media Burn Independent Video Archive (Chicago)
Museum of Broadcast Communications (Chicago)
Northern Illinois University, Regional History Center (DeKalb)
Southern Illinois University: Morris Library, Special Collections (Carbondale)
South Side Home Movie Project (Chicago)
University of Chicago, Special Collections, University Archives & Chicago Jazz Archives (Chicago)
University of Illinois Archives (Urbana-Champaign)
Video Data Bank (Chicago)

Indiana

Black Film Center/Archive Home Page (Indiana University) (Bloomington)
College Football Hall of Fame: Archive (South Bend)
Depauw University Archives and Indiana United Methodism Special Collections of DePauw University (Greencastle)
Ethnomusicological Video for Instruction and Analysis (Bloomington)
Honeywell Foundation (Wabash)
Indiana Historical Society: Visual Collections (Indianapolis)
Indiana University Libraries Film Archive (Bloomington)
Indiana University: Kinsey Institute Film and Video (Bloomington)
Indiana University: Archives of Traditional Music (Bloomington)
Studebaker National Museum (South Bend)

Iowa

Coe College Archives (Cedar Rapids)
Davenport Public Library (Davenport)
Iowa State University Library, Special Collections (Ames)
Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum (West Branch)
State Historical Society of Iowa: Audio-Visual Collections (Des Moines & Iowa City)
University of Iowa Libraries: Special Collections and University Archives (Iowa City)

Kansas

Bethel College: Mennonite Library and Archives (North Newton)
Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library (Abilene)
Kansas State Historical Society: Audio-Visual Collection (Topeka)
Martin and Osa Johnson Safari Museum: Stott Explorers Library & Henshall Archives (Chanute)
Robert J. Dole Archive & Special Collection, University of Kansas (Lawrence)
University of Kansas, Spencer Research Library, University Archives (Lawrence)

Kentucky

Appalshop Archive (Whitesburg)
Eastern Kentucky University: Special Collections and Archives (Richmond)
Kentucky Educational TV: Public Affairs Video Archive (Lexington)
Pine Mountain Settlement School (Pine Mountain)
University of Kentucky Audio-Visual Archives (Lexington)
University of Louisville: University Archives and Records Center (Louisville)

Louisiana

Backstreet Cultural Museum (New Orleans)
The Historic New Orleans Collection: Williams Research Center (New Orleans)
Louisiana State Archives: Multimedia Archives (Baton Rouge)
Louisiana State Museum (New Orleans)
Louisiana State University Libraries: Special Collections (Baton Rouge)
New Orleans Public Library: Louisiana Division (New Orleans)
Tulane University Libraries, Hogan Jazz Archive, Special Collections (New Orleans)

Maine

Bates College: Edmund S. Muskie Archives (Lewiston)
Maine Historical Society (Portland)
Margaret Chase Smith Library (Skowhegan)
Northeast Historic Film (Bucksport)
University of Maine, Fogler Library, Special Collections (Orono)
Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center (Brunswick)
Wendell Gilley Museum (Southwest Harbor)

Maryland

American Film Institute (Los Angeles & Silver Spring)
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum (St. Michaels)
Human Studies Film Archives (Smithsonian Institution) (Suitland)
Johns Hopkins University: Peabody Institute (Baltimore)
Johns Hopkins University: University Archives (Baltimore)
Johns Hopkins University: Medical Archives (Baltimore)
Maryland Historical Society (Baltimore)
George Meany Center for Labor Studies: Memorial Archives (Silver Spring)
Maryland Moving Image Archive (MarMIA)
National Library of Medicine, History of Medicine Division Collections (Bethesda)
National Public Broadcasting Archives (College Park)
University of Baltimore Library Special Collections (Baltimore)
University of Maryland, Library of American Broadcasting & University Archives , and Other Media Collections (College Park)
Seventh-day Adventist Church Archives (Silver Spring)

Massachusetts

Boston TV News Digital Library
Brandeis University, Robert D. Farber University Archives & Special Collections Department:Moving Image Collections (Waltham)
DEFA Film Library (East German Cinema), University of Massachusetts, Amherst (Amherst)
Documentary Educational Resources (Watertown)
Framingham State College Library: Archives and Special Collections (Framingham)
Harvard Film Archive , Harvard University Weissman Preservation Center , and Harvard University Library: University Archives (Cambridge)
Massachusetts Archives (Boston)
MIT Museum: Science and Technology (Cambridge)
Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame: Hickox Library (Springfield)
John F. Kennedy Library and Museum (Boston)
National Center for Jewish Film (Waltham)
Peabody Museum of Archaelogy and Ethnology, Harvard University (Cambridge)
University of Massachusetts Boston, Healey Library: Archives and Special Collections (Boston)
University of Massachusetts, Lowell: Home Movie Archives (Lowell)
Peabody Essex Museum (Salem)
Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study (Cambridge)
Simmons College Library: College Archives (Boston)
Smith College Libraries: College Archives (Northampton)
USS Constition Museum (Boston)
WGBH Television Archives & Media Library (Boston)
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Marine Biological Laboratory, MBLWHOI Library (Woods Hole)
Long Bow China Archive (Brookline)

Michigan

Alden B. Dow Archives (Midland)
Archives of Michigan (Lansing)
Henry Ford Museum: Library and Archives Collections (Dearborn)
Michigan State University, University Archives and Historical Collections (East Lansing)
Gerald R. Ford Library and Museum (Grand Rapids)
University of Michigan, Bentley Historical Library, Michigan Historical Collections (Ann Arbor)
Perry Archives at the Sloan Museum (Flint)
Wayne State University, Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Audiovisual collections (Detroit)

Minnesota

Bell Museum of Natural History Film Collection (Minneapolis)
Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota (Minneapolis)
Minnesota Historical Society: Moving Images Collection (St. Paul)
University of Minnesota Libraries, Manuscripts Division and Archives & Performing Arts Archive (Minneapolis)
Science Museum of Minnesota (St. Paul)
Walker Art Center: Film and Video (Minneapolis)

Mississippi

Missouri

Academic Film Archive of North America (San Francisco & St. Louis)
American Jazz Museum (Kansas City)
Missouri Historical Society: Archives and Photographs (St. Louis)
Harry S. Truman Library and Museum (Independence)
University of Missouri, Columbia Libraries: University Archives (Columbia)
University of Missouri Science and Technology (Rolla)
Washington University: Film and Media Archive (St. Louis)
Washington University Library: University Archives (St. Louis)
Western Historical Manuscript Collection External (Multiple locations)

Montana

Museum of the Rockies (Bozeman)
University of Montana, Mansfield Library, K. Ross Toole Archives (including KRTV Collection (Missoula)

Nebraska

American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (Lincoln)
Nebraska State Historical Society: Audiovisual Archives (Lincoln)
University of Nebraska Libraries: Archives and Special Collections (Lincoln)

Nevada

University of Nevada, Las Vegas: Short Film Archive (Las Vegas)
Nevada Historical Society (Reno)
Nevada State Museum (Carson City)
University of Nevada, Reno: Basque Film Archive (Reno)

New Hampshire

New England Ski Museum (Franconia)
New Hampshire Library of Traditional Music and Dance, University of New Hampshire (Durham)
University of New Hampshire, University Archives (Durham)

New Jersey

Dover Free Public Library (Dover)
Edison National Historical Site: Collections (West Orange)
General Commission on Archives and History, United Methodist Church (Madison)
New Jersey Environmental Digital Library (New Brunswick)
Pinelands Cultural and Historical Preservation Society (Waretown)
Rutgers University Libraries: Institute of Jazz Studies (Newark)
Rutgers University Libraries: Special Collections and University Archives (New Brunswick)

New Mexico

Los Alamos County Historical Society (Los Alamos)
Los Alamos National Laboratory: Audio-Visual Collections (Los Alamos)
New Mexico State Records Center and Archives: Archives and Historical Services Division (Santa Fe)
University of New Mexico, Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections (Albuquerque)
Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian (Santa Fe)

New York

American Dance Festival (Durham, North Carolina & New York City)
American Jewish Historical Society (New York City)
American Museum of Natural History: Moving Image Collection (New York City)
Anthology Film Archives (New York City)
Barnard College Archives (New York City)
National Baseball Hall of Fame Library (Cooperstown)
Brooklyn Historical Society
City College of New York Libraries (New York City)
Clio Awards Archives (New York City & Chicago)
Columbia University: Harriman Institute (New York City)
Columbia University Teachers College: Special Collections (New York City)
Corning Museum of Glass: Rakow Library (Corning)
Democracy Now (New York City)
Electronic Arts Intermix (New York City)
Estate Project for Artists with AIDS: Film Preservation Program (New York City)
Explorers Club (New York City)
Film-makers Cooperative (New York City)
Franklin Furnace Archive (Brooklyn)
Buckminster Fuller Institute (Brooklyn)
Getty Images (Los Angeles, Chicago, New York City, & Seattle)
Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. Museum (New York City)
Guggenheim Museum Archives (New York City)
HBO Sports Archives (New York City)
Hadassah Archives (New York City)
Harness Racing Museum and Hall of Fame: Historic Collections and Library Research Services (Goshen)
Harry Smith Archives (New York City)
House Foundation for the Arts (New York City)
Hunter College, City University of New Tork: Center for Puerto Rican Studies (New York City)
International Film Foundation (New York City)
International Museum of Photography and Film at George Eastman Museum External (Rochester)
Ithaca College Archives: Rod Serling Collection (Ithaca)
Jewish Educational Media and The Living Archive (Brooklyn)
Jewish Museum New York (New York City)
The Juilliard School, Wallace Library (New York City)
The Kitchen (New York City)
LaGuardia and Wagner Archives/City University of New York (Long Island City)
Lower East Side Tenament Museum (New York City)
Marist College: Archives and Special Collections (Poughkeepsie)
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Libraries and Study Centers (New York City)
Museum of Jewish Heritage (New York City)
Museum of Modern Art Dept. of Film and Video (New York City)
Museum of the Moving Image and Living Room Candidate (Astoria)
Paley Center for Media (New York City & Los Angeles)
National Baseball Hall of Fame: Media Department (Cooperstown)
National Museum of the American Indian: Film and Video Center (New York City)
NBC News Archives (New York City)
New York City Municipal Archives (New York City)
New York Foundation for the Arts (Brooklyn)
New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center: Medical Archives (New York City)
New York Public Library, Dance Collection (New York City)
New York Public Library: Manuscripts and Archives Section (New York City)
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts (New York City) Reserve Film and Video Collection
New York State Archives and Motion Picture Script Collection (Albany)
New York State Historical Society: Fenimore Art Museum (Cooperstown)
New York University, Fales Library, Special Collections (New York City)
Larry Rivers Foundation (Bridgehampton)
University of Rochester Library: Department of Rare Books and Special Collections (Rochester)
Robert Wagner Labor Archives, NYU Tamiment Library, Nonprint Dept. (New York City)
Rockefeller Archive Center (Sleepy Hollow)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum (Hyde Park)
Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History (Jamestown)
Schenectady Museum presents a selection of rare films from its General Electric film collection, including more than 1,500 advertising, training, and educational films from 1915 through 1983. (Schenectady)
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division (NYC)
Syracuse University, Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture (Syracuse)
Temenos (New York City)
Thanhouser Company Film Preservation, Inc. (New Rochelle)
Third World Newsreel (New York
Tibet Film Archive (New York)
USA TV Ads (New York City, Los Angeles, Ft. Lauderdale)
Whitney Museum of American Art (New York City)
WITNESS Media Archive (Brooklyn)
Yivo Institute for Jewish Research: Film Collection (New York City)

North Carolina

Appalachian State University: W.L. Eury Appalachian Collection (Boone)
Duke University: Special Collections & John Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising and Marketing History (Durham)
East Carolina University Archives (Greenville)
North Carolina School of the Arts: Archive External (Winston-Salem)
North Carolina State University: Special Collections (Raleigh)
Schiele Museum of Natural History (Gastonia)
Southern Highland Craft Guild (Asheville)
State Archives of North Carolina (Raleigh)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Southern Folklife Collection , Southern Historical Collection , and North Carolina Collection (Chapel Hill)

North Dakota

State Historical Society of North Dakota, State Archives (Bismarck)

Ohio

Archives of the History of American Psychology, University of Akron (Akron)
Cincinnati Museum Center (Cincinnati)
Cleveland Museum of Art (Cleveland)
Historical Construction Equipment Association (Bowling Green)
John Carroll University: Northeast Ohio Broadcast Archives (University Heights)
Mahoning Valley Historical Society: Business and Media Archives (Youngstown)
Motorcycle Hall of Fame Museum (Pickerington)
Ohio Historical Society: Audiovisual Collections (Columbus)
Ohio State University Byrd Polar Archives , John Glenn Archives
University of Akron, Archival Services (Akron)
University of Toledo, Ward Canady Center, University Archives (Toledo)
Western Reserve Historical Society (Cleveland)

Oklahoma

Cherokee Heritage Center and National Historical Society (Tahlequah)
Oklahoma Historical Society: Motion Picture and Broadcasting Collections (Oklahoma City)
Political Commercial Archive (University of Oklahoma) (Norman)
University of Oklahoma, Western History Collections (Norman)
Will Rogers Memorial (Claremore)

Oregon

Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) Library Film Collection (Portland)
Oregon Electric Railway, Historical Society (Brooks)
Oregon Health and Science University Library (Portland)
Oregon Historical Society, Moving Images (Portland)
Oregon State University Archives: Motion Picture Films and Videotapes (Corvallis)
Southern Oregon Historical Society (KMED Collection) (Jacksonville)
Wallowa County (OR) Historical Society (Joseph)

Pennsylvania

Betzwood Film Archive (Blue Bell)
Carnegie Museum of Art: Film and Video (Pittsburgh)
Heinz History Center: Library and Archives (Pittsburgh)
National Canal Museum: Archives/Library (Easton)
National Railway Historical Society Heritage Film Collection (Philadelphia)
Penn State University Library, Special Collections: Historical Collections and Labor Archives , University Archives & Fred Waring's America Collection (University Park)
Pennsylvania State Archives (Harrisburg)
University of Pennsylvania, Museum of Anthropology and Archeology (Philadelphia)
University of Pennsylvania, University Archives (Philadelphia)
University of Pittsburgh, Archives Service Center (Pittsburgh)
Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania (Strasburg)
Swarthmore College Peace Collection (Swarthmore)
Temple University, Urban Archives, Television Audiovisual Collections (Philadelphia)
Andy Warhol Museum: Film and Video Collection (Pittsburgh)

Puerto Rico

Archivo General de Puerto Rico: Archivo De Imagenes em Movimiento (San Juan)

Rhode Island

International Tennis Hall of Fame: Museum (Newport)
Rhode Island Historical Society: Research Library Film Collections (Providence)
University of Rhode Island Libraries: Special Collections (Kingston)

South Carolina

Clemson University Libraries, Special Collections: University Archives and Manuscripts (Clemson)
University of South Carolina Moving Image Research Collections (Columbia)
Sheriar Foundation (North Myrtle Beach)
Winthrop University, Dacus Library: University Archives (Rock Hill)

South Dakota

South Dakota Art Museum (Brookings)
South Dakota State Agricultural History Museum (Brookings)
South Dakota State Historical Society (Pierre)

Tennessee

Center for Southern Folklore (Memphis)
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum: Moving Image Collection (Nashville)
East Tennessee State University: Archives of Appalachia (Johnson City)
Tennessee Archive of Moving Image and Sound (Knoxville)
Tennessee State Library and Archives (Nashville)
University of Memphis, Special Collections, Mississippi Valley Collection (Memphis)
Vanderbilt Television News Archive (Nashville)

Texas

Abilene Christian University: Brown Library (Herald of Truth Archives) (Abilene)
Austin History Center (Austin)
Dallas (Texas) Municipal Archives (Dallas)
Douglas Fairbanks Museum (Austin)
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Collection, UT Austin: Film Collection (Austin)
Houston Academy of Medicine/Texas Medical Center Library: John P. McGovern Historical Collections & Research Center (Houston)
Menil Collection (Houston)
Museum of Fine Arts: Robert Frank Collection (Houston)
NASA Johnson Space Center (Houston)
Lyndon B. Johnson Library and Museum (Austin)
George Bush Presidential Library and Museum (College Station)
Presidential Timeline of the 20th Century (Austin)
National Scouting Museum (Irving)
Southern Methodist University: G. William Jones Film Collection (Dallas), includes Sulphur Springs Collection of Pre-Nickelodeon Films
Texas A&M University, Cushing Memorial Library, University Archives (College Station)
Texas Archive of the Moving Image (Austin)
Texas State Library and Archives Division (Austin)
Texas State University Library: Special Collections (San Marcos)
Texas Tech University Library, Southwest Collection: Audio-Visual & Vietnam Archive (Lubbock)
University of Texas at Austin: Center for American History , Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection , & Petroleum Extension Service (Austin)
University of Texas at San Antonio Archives (San Antonio)
University of Texas Brownsville Special Collections and Archives (Brownsville)
Panhandle Plains Historical Museum (Canyon)
Le Tourneau University, R.G. LeTourneau Memorial Museum and Archives (Longview)

Utah

Brigham Young University, Harold B. Lee Library: L. Tom Perry Special Collections (Provo)
Topaz Internment Camp Museum (Delta)
University of Utah, Marriott Library, Audio-Visual Department (Salt Lake City)
Utah State Archives (Salt Lake City)
Utah State Historical Society (Salt Lake City)

Vermont

University of Vermont, Bailey/Howe Library, Special Collections (Burlington)
Vermont Folklife Center Archive (Middlebury)
Vermont Historical Society (Barre)
Vermont State Archives (Montpelier)
Roz Payne Archives: Newsreel Films (Richmond)

Virginia

Bridgewater College Library Special Collections: XPO 2000 films (Bridgewater)
Folkstreams
General Douglas MacArthur Memorial Library and Archives (Norfolk)
George C. Marshall Research Library (Lexington)
George Mason University: Special Collections and Archives (Fairfax)
Hollins University Library Special Collections (Roanoke)
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division (Washington, DC & Culpeper)
Lynchburg College Library: College Archives (Lynchburg)
MacNeil/Lehrer Archives (Arlington)
Marine Corps Archives & Special Collections (Quantico)
The Mariners' Museum (Newport News)
National Technical Information Service/National Audiovisual Center (Springfield)
Regent University Library Special Collections (Virginia Beach)
Roanoke College Library: College Archives (Salem)
United Daughters of the Confederacy (Richmond)
University of Virginia Health System Claude Moore Health Sciences Library Historical Collections and Services (Charlottesville)
University of Virginia Library: Special Collections (Charlottesville)
University of Virginia, Television News of the Civil Rights Era (Charlottesville)
Virginia Commonwealth University, Medical College of Virginia, Special Collections and Archives (Richmond)
Virginia Union University: Special Collections and Archives (Richmond)
Washington and Lee University: Lewis Powell Archives (Lexington)

Washington

Center for Pacific Northwest Studies, Western Washington University , including Guide to the KVOS Channel 12 Film Records, 1961-1967 (Bellingham)
Eastern Washington State University Museum of Art and Culture (Spokane)
Everett (WA) Public Library: Northwest History Collection (Everett)
Getty Images (Los Angeles, Chicago, New York City, & Seattle)
Historical Society of Seattle and King County/Museum of History and Industry (Seattle)
Museum of Flight (Seattle)
Nordic Heritage Museum (Seattle)
University of Washington, Ethnomusicology Archive (Seattle)
University of Washington, University Libraries: Manuscripts/Special Collections/University Archives (Seattle)
University of Washington Libraries Media Center (Seattle)
Washington State Archives (Olympia)
Washington State Historical Society: Special Collections (Tacoma)

West Virginia

Marshall University James Morrow Library, Special Collections, Manuscripts (WSAZ-TV newsfilm collection) (Huntington)
Mine Safety and Health Administration Library, Department of Labor (Beaver)
West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Archives Section (Charleston)
West Virginia State Archives (Charleston)
West Virginia University: American Religious Experience Film Archive (Morgantown)
West Virginia University Libraries: West Virginia and Regional History Collection (Morgantown)

Wisconsin

Circus World Museum: Parkinson Library and Research Center (Baraboo)
Marquette University Library: Special Collections (Milwaukee)
Neville Public Museum: Moving Image Collection (Green Bay)
Wisconsin Historical Society, Visual Materials (Madison)
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Golda Meir, Library, Archives (Milwaukee)
Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research (Madison)
Wisconsin Maritime Museum (Manitowoc)

Wyoming

American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming (Laramie)
Buffalo Bill Center of the West (Cody)

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