Major Collections
Center for Research Libraries
Harvard University Libraries
Library of Congress German Collections
- Geography and Map Division
- Law Library
- Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division
- Music Library
- Prints and Photographs Division
- Rare Books and Special Collections Division
- Science and Technology Division
University of California, Berkeley Libraries
Specialized and Topical Collections
German Americana and Germans in the U.S.
- Borneman Pennsylvania German Manuscript Collection, Free Library of Philadelphia
- German Society of Pennsylvania Manuscript Collections
- Lilly Library German Americana Collection, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
Law
- Harvard Law School Library and Special Collections
- Library of Congress Law Library
- University of California, Berkeley Law Library
Literature / Literary
- Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
- Houghton Library Manuscript Collections, Harvard University
- Thomas Mann Collection, Princeton University
- William Kurrelmeyer Collection: 1407-1940, Johns Hopkins University
- Yale University German Literature Collection
Medical and Scientific
- Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
- National Library of Medicine
- National Air and Space Museum Archives, German and Austrian Aviation and Space Activities
Nachlässe / Personal Papers
- German and Jewish Intellectual Émigré Collection, SUNY, Albany Library
- Papers of Lothar Meggendorfer, Rudolf Carnap, and Franz Werfel, UCLA Special Collections
- Papers of Individuals who had contacts with Germany (Baydalakoff, Egbert, Emerson. McGhee, Mooney, Mott, Rommen, Scott, Van Wagenen, and Walsh), Georgetown University Libraries
National Socialism / Nazi / Holocaust
- Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University
- Holocaust Collections, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies
- Captured German Records, National Archives and Records Administration
- Nazi Documents Collection and Theresienstadt Concentration Camp Documents, Brandeis University Special Collections
- Nazi Party Archives, Center for Research Libraries
- Third Reich Collection and Nazi Party officials’ private book collections, Library of Congress Special Collections
Visual Arts
Miscellaneous
- German and Central European Manuscripts, J. Paul Getty Museum
- German Historical Institute
- German Jewry, Leo Baeck Institute
- Kann Collection on Austrian History, University of Minnesota Special Collections
- Leopold von Ranke Manuscript Collection, Syracuse University Libraries
- Moravian Archives
German Archives and Manuscripts Resources (pdf)
Other Tools of the Trade
Printed Guide
- Hope, Anne and Jörg Nagler. Guide to German Sources in American Archives and Libraries. Washington, D. C.: German Historical Institute, 1991. (Dated but useful)
Potential Roadblocks – Can You Read Your Documents?
German Script Courses
Moravian Archives German Script Course
Archival Summer Seminar in Germany (GHI)
German Script Tutorial (BYU)
Sütterlin
German Script Books
- Grun, Paul Arnold. Schlüssel zu alten und neuen Abkürzungen: Wörterbuch lateinischer und deutscher Abkürzungen des späten Mittelalters und der Neuzeit mit historischer und systematischer Einführung für Archivbenutzer, Studierende, Heimat- und Familienforscher u.a. Nachbildungen der Originale. 625 Limburg/Lahn: Starke Verlag, 1966.
- Kirchner, Joachim. Germanistische Handschriften: Ein Lehrbuch für die Studierenden der Deutschen Philologie. 2. erg. Aufl. München: Beck, 1967.
- Minert, Roger P. Deciphering Handwriting in German Documents: Analyzing German, Latin, and French in Vital Records Written in Germany. Woods Cross, Utah: GRT Publications, 2001.
- Süß, Harald. Deutsche Schreibschrift Lehrbuch. Lehrbuch. München: Knaur, 2003.
