Great Lakes

• Marine Museum of the Great Lakes at Kingston
• Historical Collections of the Great Lakes (formerly the Institute for Great Lakes Research at Bowling Green State University)
• Alpena County Public Library Great Lakes Maritime Database based on the extraordinary photographic collection of C. Patrick Labadie is particularly strong on sail in the Nineteenth century.
• Milwaukee Public Library Great Lakes Marine collection including data on over 7000 Great Lakes vessels integrated into the library catalog.
  
  
• Great Lakes and Seaway Shipping (aka Boatnerd.com) (including Lighthouses of the Great Lakes) and the modern fleet photo gallery and vessel histories.
• Downward Bound: Help Finding Your Ancestors of Great Lakes Shipping. Part of the international GenWeb project organizing internet-based genealogical information
• Great Lakes Shipwreck Research Brendon Baillod's collection of Great Lakes information including the WMHS Great Lakes Vessel Enrollment database, the accident database and one of the best collections of links
• Dave Swayze's Great Lakes Shipwrecks (and History) page
  
  
• Wisconsin Historical Society Shipwreck Database part of Wisconsin's Maritime Trails
• Archives and Collections Society a not-for-profit foundation dedicated to marine history and conservation, maritime research and nautical education with a number of documents concerning the Great Lakes.
• Great Lakes Maritime History Project from University of Wisconsin's State of Wisconsin Collection
• Father Edward J. Dowling, S.J. Marine Historical Collection Database from University of Detroit Mercy Libraries
• Association for Great Lakes Maritime History leverages the strong collection of links and other resources relating to the lakes from Brendon Baillod's site with online newsletters and discussion forums.

Collections including Great Lakes material

• Robert H. Smith, Maritime Museums of North America Including Canada: includes links to the museum web sites where significant additional content may be found.
• Lighthouse Depot features "Lighthouse Explorer" database and the archives of Lighthouse Digest. Both feature a substantial number of Lakes lights and images rarely seen online elsewhere.

National and Regional Digital collections

• Google Book Search
• American Memory: a strong collection of American material including government documents, manuscripts, travel accounts, periodicals, maps, sound and still and moving images from throughout the history of the United States. Particularly relevant are the images of the Detroit Publishing Company and American Notes: Travels in America, 1750-1920.
• Making of America: nearly 10,000 books and 50,000 journal articles, some of which are also in the American Memory collection.
• Early Canadiana Online: nearly 14,000 volumes of pre-1900 Canadian printed material with a strong emphasis on government documents, literature, French Canada, women's history and native studies. The post-confederation Canadian government documents are restricted to member institutions but the balance is freely available.
• Library and Archives Canada: includes the Dictionary of Canadian Biography and Shipwreck Investigations (use the database to find individual ships.)
• Images Canada: a partnership of archives, libraries, museums and universities from across Canada

Digitized Newspaper Files

• Chronicling America: digitized newspapers from 1860 to 1920 from around the United States.
• Our Ontario newspapers: an experimental search of selected Ontario newspapers from Kingston to Thunder Bay. Some of the content is pure index, the balance are digitized papers, some from microfilm, some from originals.
• Google News: Google has announced they will not grow this collection but there is a wide range of papers from around the globe including a number of titles from both sides of the border in the Great Lakes region.
• Fulton History:
New York State newspapers from New York to Ogdensburg to Buffalo. For a list of the papers see the title list.
• Northern New York Library Network: online papers from Oswego to Ogdensburg
• Detroit Free Press Archive, 1831-1922 (pay-per-view) and Chicago Tribune Archive, 1852-1984 (pay-per-view)