The Strong: National Museum of Play in Rochester, NY is home to the Brian Sutton-Smith Library & Archives of Play.  The Strong proclaims that it “owns and cares for the world’s most comprehensive collection of toys, dolls, board games, video games, other electronic games, and other historical materials related to play.” Fortunately, much of its

The William F. Cody Archives is a joint project between the Buffalo Bill Center of the West and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. This digital archive allows researchers to follow the life of Buffalo Bill Cody and his generational impact on the American West.  Topics addressed in the archive range from Buffalo Bill’s biography, to his

In the mountains of Western Massachusetts you’ll find Smith College whose Special Collections hosts a treasure trove of artifacts pertaining to Women’s history in the United States. As one of the oldest all-female institutions, its three repositories – Smith College Archives, the Sophia Smith Collection of Women’s History, and the Mortimer Rare Book Collection –