Digital versions of rare or delicate historical materials, such as photographs, documents, maps, sound recordings, books and more.
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Monroe County Library System Digital Collections
The Monroe County Library System Digital Collections provides access to print, pictorial, and audio collections. In addition to providing access to materials, the digital collection enables the library to preserve materials by limiting use of the originals.
Created to preserve, capture and make available for reference the barns and farmsteads of Monroe County.
Barns Survey
A selection of images contained within the Lawrence A. Frost Collection of Custeriana.
Images from the George A. Custer Collection
Created as an audio-visual project of the Monroe County Library System in 1971. It consists of slides, a cassette tape, and a booklet. It was compiled by Jody Vollrath with the assistance of community members and library staff.
Memories of Monroe Piers
Explore War of 1812 correspondence that have lain virtually unseen by historians since being archived some two centuries ago
Papers and Correspondence of the War of 1812
The Monroe Local History Collection holds more than 400 Monroe postcards. This digital project contains a selection of these materials.
Postcards of Monroe, Michigan