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Even richer than Google or full-text databases are library vertical files and archives. They contain "grey" materials - self-published, ephemera, resumes, business cards, correspondence and other unique items.
Other libraries have vertical files and other ephemera collections:
Museum of Modern Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Thomas J. Watson Library
The Whitney Museum of American Art
New York Historical Society Library
Archives are only gradually beginning to be cataloged in a consistent way and be findable with the ease that libraries can be.
Columbia University Archival Collections Portal
Cornell University Archival Guides
Harvard University Online Archival Search Information System (OASIS)
New York Public Library Archives & Manuscripts
Online Archive of California
Library of Congress Finding Aids
Brooklyn College Library Archival Finding Aids Online
Access to Archives (UK)
Northwest Digital Archives
Yale University Finding Aids
NYPL Digital Gallery
Metropolitan Museum of Art Permanent Collection
The National Archives
Best case scenario: you can search an aggregate of archives:
UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, provides a list of links to archives around the world with a Web presence.
Several divisions in the Research Libraries hold archival collections – the papers of individuals and families, the records of organizations, and consciously assembled collections of unique and unpublished material. Archival collections contain a wide variety of primary source material, not only paper documents –such as correspondence, manuscripts, and diaries– but also photographs, sound recordings, films, videotapes, artifacts, and electronic records.
Archival collections can range in size from a single document to hundreds of boxes and are described by catalog records, which provide a summary description of an entire collection, and more detailed guides, called finding aids.
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