Rocky Mountain Online Archive Inventories & descriptions of thousands of archival collections from 13 New Mexico libraries & museums plus additional Colorado and Wyoming institutions.
Find online documents, photographs, oral histories, videos, and more.
Whether you are a student, journalist, preservationist, or other researcher looking for information about historic Route 66, get started here!
Library collection catalogs from around the state offer a wide-range of materials, including books, government documents and videos.
Find articles in magazines, journals, and newspapers.
The on-line Maps section of the Library of Congress offers a variety of digitized cartographic information, including maps, aerial views, plat books, and Sanborne Fire Insurance maps.
Maps are also available through the American Memory Project offered by the The Library of Congress.
The National Archives of the United States is another place to look for maps.
Find maps from various sources in New Mexico.
Article Databases. Many libraries have online “databases” to point you to articles on Route 66 in magazines, scholarly journals, newspapers and more. Most are by library subscription only but are available free to you as a member of a library or when you are visiting a library on-site. Examples of good databases for Route 66 topics include: Academic OneFile, Academic Search Complete, America: History & Life, and Proquest Historical Newspapers. Each library’s subscriptions differ. Check your local library’s website or
With each map, brochure, diary, or photograph we learn more about the highway—what it looked like, who used it, what it was like to drive it.
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