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The Arizona Memory Project offers up a real hodge-podge of the state's exciting history, pulling together digital materials from a wide variety of sources (many of which treat pre-1923 documents as if they are copyrighted. They're not, guys. Get with the spirit of public domain!).

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Here's a listing of their online collections:

*A Celebration of the Human Spirit: Japanese-American Relocation Camps in Arizona

*Adjutants General of Arizona

*Alpine Area Family History Preservation Project

*American Flag Ranch and Acadia Ranch: The Story of Oracle’s Post Offices

*APS Childs-Irving Collection

*Arizona's Saints and Shady Ladies

*Arizona-related Federal Publications

*Arizona Appellate Briefs

*Arizona Archives Historic Photographs

*Arizona Attorney General Opinions

*Arizona Aviation History: The Ruth Reinhold Collection

*Arizona Bushmasters

*Arizona County and Local Publications

*Arizona Executive Orders

*Arizona Latina Trailblazers

*Arizona Latinos in Public Service

*Arizona Military Museum Images

*Arizona Mines

*Arizona Photograph Company Collection - A Centennial Legacy Project

*Arizona State Agency Publications

*Arizona State Archives - State, County and Local Government Records

*Arizona State Archives Legislative Oral History Project

*Arizona State Archives Manuscript Collections

*Arizona Territorial Post Offices

*Arizona Women's Hall of Fame

*ASU Science Pioneers: 1955 - 1970

*Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company (A.T.&S.F.Ry.Co.) Collection Highlights

*Basketry from the Pueblo Grande Museum

*Between the Tracks: The Story of the Old Vail Post Office

*CAMA International Museum Day Collection

*City of Glendale Council Minutes of 1910-1914

*Cochise College Libraries - Cochise County Historical & Archeological Collection

*Cochise College Libraries - Rock Art of Cochise County

*Cochise County Clerk of Superior Court - Bisbee Deportation Documents

*Cochise County Territorial Court Documents

*Cochise County Territorial Tax Roll Index

*Colorado Plateau Digital Archives Selections

*Colossal Cave Mountain Park's Civillian Conservation Corps Image Collection

*Congressman John Rhodes Collection

*Courtship, Wedding and Marriage Beads

*David Swing Painting Collection at the Arizona Capitol Museum

*Day Family Collection

*Day Family Records

*Earle Forrest Collection

*Early Cave Creek, Arizona

*Early Life in Taylor, Arizona 1878 - 1940

*Early Publications of Yavapai College

*Early Southwest Archaeology at Point of Pines

*Father Augustine Schwarz Photograph Collection

*Flagstaff Telephone and City Directories

*Forman Hanna - Selected Photographs from the Arizona State Museum Collection

*Frank Lloyd Wright in Arizona: 1929-1959

*Geronimo! Revered and Reviled (The Man Behind the Legend)

*GFWC Desert Jade Woman's Club

*Gila County Maps

*Girl Scouts in Arizona, 1920-1940

*Glendale Community College Archives, David M. Rodriguez, Library Chair

*Glendale Public Library History

*Harvey Girls of the Winslow Harvey Houses

*Highlights of the Catholic Diocese of Tucson

*Historic Arizona County Road Maps

*Historic Downtown Glendale

*Hopi Artists and the Museum of Northern Arizona

*Images of the Catholic Diocese of Tucson

*Images of Tohono O'odham Polychrome Pottery Making Study

Cowboy Earle Forrest at Meadows Trading Post

*Indigenous Peoples Near Winslow

*Jerome Postal History

*Legal and Court History of Cochise County

*Listening to Glendale's Past

*Lon Megargee Paintings at the Arizona Capitol Museum

*Maricopa Pottery (Connell Collection)

*Medallion Papers

*Men, Mines and Money

*Minutes of the Pima County Medical Society (Pima County, Arizona), 1904-1954

*Mohave Museum - History of Transportation in Mohave County

*Mohave Museum - U.S. Presidents and the History of Arizona

*Montezuma's Castle Historic Photo Archive

*Murder & Mayhem: The Strange Saga of Winnie Ruth Judd

*Navajo County Historical Society Collection Highlights

*Old Trails Museum Collection Highlights

*Oral Histories of Gila County

*Oral Histories of Gila County Ranchers

*Oral Histories of Pinetop, Lakeside, McNary and Whiteriver, Arizona

*Oral Histories of the White Mountains

*Phoenix City Building Drawings, 1919-1991

*Phoenix College - The Early Years

*Phoenix Jewish News Photographs Collection

*Portraits of Poets by LaVerne Harrell Clark

*Postal Campaigns: Tucson Az and Surrounding Areas

*Powwow Photographs by Ann Leonard

*Richard Schaus Ranching Collection

*Rosa Ronquillo Rhodes: The Life of the Redington Ranch Postmistress

*Sahuaro Ranch History

*Scottsdale's History in Images

*Scottsdale Remembers: Recollections of Our Past

*Selections from the A.P. Miller Photograph Collection

*Selections from the Morris K. Udall Papers

*Selections from the Stewart L. Udall Papers

*Senator Barry M. Goldwater: An Arizona Legend

*Sharlot Hall Museum Audio Collection

*Sharlot Hall Museum Map Collection

*Sharlot Hall Museum Military Image Collection

*Sharlot Hall Museum Mining Image Collection

*Sharlot M. Hall: Arizona's Curator

*Show Low Collection Highlights

*Sonoran Heritage: A Learning Library Program

*The Bead Museum Collection Highlights

*The History of Sedona

*The Hohokam of Pueblo Grande

*Thunderbird School of Global Management - Historical Collections

*Tohono O'odham Collection, 1970 - 1980, Helga Teiwes Photographer

*Town of Marana History

*Trading Post Families of Winslow, AZ

*Tucson High School Memories: 1906-1939

*Tucson Museum of Art Historic Block Homes: A Window on Bygone Days

*Tucson Territorial Pioneer Project

*USS Arizona Silver Service Collection

*Views of Old Morenci and Metcalf

*Vintage Poetry Center Posters

*Walter Runke Collection, 1901-1903

*Western Ways Features Company Photographs

*Why Arizona

*William P Jones Collection

*Writers of the Purple Sage: Origins of a National Myth

*Yavapai College Creative Arts Magazines

There's not much here for family history researchers -- no name lookups, for example -- though the offline collections look to have a lot of interesting material.

The Arizona Memory Project does a nice job of compiling pointers to other online archives that cover Arizona history. Too many to list them all here, but one worth pointing out is the Phoenix Library Image Collection.

Intelius - Public Records Information

More historical archives and research materials can be found at these excellent resources: