About our Finding Aids

Finding aids are guides to the contents of archival collections. They include notes about the people or organizations who created or collected the materials, how and when the SCRC acquired them, and an inventory of what is included. You can search finding aids for manuscripts, institutional records, media, photographs, correspondence, memorabilia, and printed works found within our collections.

• Please note that some finding aids may be very brief and not include a full inventory. If you are interested in more information about one of these collections, please contact us.
• Some materials and descriptions may include harmful content.

Search Tips

• Use Advanced Search to select a specific parameter for your search.
• Enclose exact phrases in quotes (e.g. "civil war").
• If using more than one term, select AND to find collections with both terms. Select OR to find collections with any of the terms.
• To search on a partial match, use an asterisk. For example, fred* will match fred, fredegar, frederic, frederick, fredericka, etc.
• Once you’ve searched for terms, you can filter results by date range, names, subjects, types of material, subject strengths, and languages in the left column.