What can be found in the Western Americana collection?
• Today the Western History Department is recognized for having one of the outstanding collections of Western Americana in the country. The collection reflects all phases of development of the trans-Mississippi West. It includes some 100,000 cataloged books and pamphlets and approximately 600,000 photographs, of which over 120,000 have been cataloged and digitized and are accessible on the Internet in the Western History Digital Image Catalog (formerly Photoswest). Also in the collection are 6,000 maps and atlases; hundreds of Western journals and newspapers; and large holdings of manuscripts, business records, scrapbooks, prints, and original art.
