Digital Collections

Digital Collections

The Filson’s digital collections consist of unique born-digital and digitized materials that support our mission of collecting, preserving, making available, and interpreting materials related to the history of the Ohio Valley Region.

Materials are ingested and digitized from the Filson’s special collections, photographs, published materials, art, and artifacts. These digital collections constitute only a small percentage of the more than 2.1 million manuscript pages and over 100,000 photographs in the collection.

Use the links below to navigate to online digital content.

Screenshot of Omeka webpage

Screenshot of the Digital Projects Omeka site

Explore Digital Collections and Exhibits

View manuscript, photograph, audiovisual, and museum items on Omeka. The bulk of the items correspond with interactive digital exhibits.

Screenshot of PastPerfect Online homepage

Screenshot of PastPerfect Online

Past Perfect Online

Search and browse highlights from photograph, print, and museum collections.

Screenshot of the Community (Louisville) Newspaper webpage

Screenshot of the Community newspaper page

Jewish Community Newspaper Digital Archive

Browse and search Louisville’s Jewish newspaper, Community, on the Jewish Historical Press project hosted by the National Library of Israel and Tel Aviv University.

Screenshot of map of Louisville, Kentucky businesses involved in the domestic slave trade.

Sustaining Slavery map

Sustaining Slavery: Mapping Kentucky’s Support for the Domestic Slave Trade

An interactive ArcGIS StoryMap that explores the antebellum Kentucky transportation, financial, hospitality, manufacturing, and retail businesses that supported the exportation of enslaved people to the Old Southwest.

Screenshot of the First American West website

Screenshot of the First American West website

First American West

An NEH-supported reboot of the original online collection of letters, financial records, sermons, books, maps, and objects relating to the Ohio River Valley in the mid-1700s through the early 1800s.