Most American Memory collections are searchable. Use this keyword in the "Search by Keyword" section in any of the following collections to find documents, photos, films, or sound recordings. Collections marked with a 
are not searchable.
(search also type of disaster, e.g. earthquakes, fires)
(see also Ruins)
- African-American Experience in Ohio, 1850-1920
- Alexander Graham Bell Papers, 1862-1939
- American Environmental Photographs, 1891-1936
- California As I Saw It: First Person Narratives, 1849-1900
- California Gold: Folk Music from the Thirties, 1938-1940
- The Capital and the Bay, ca. 1600-1925
- Florida Folklife, 1937-1942
- Great Earthquake and Fire: San Francisco, 1897-1916
- Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920
- History of the American West, 1860-1920
- Inventing Entertainment: The Edison Companies
- Music for the Nation, 1870-1885
- The Nineteenth Century in Print: Books
- The Nineteenth Century in Print: Periodicals
- Nineteenth-Century Song Sheets
- The Northern Great Plains, 1880-1920
- Small-Town America, 1850-1920
- Small-Town America, 1850-1920
- The South Texas Border, 1900-1920
- Taking the Long View, 1851-1991
- Tending the Commons
- Touring Turn-of-the-Century America, 1880-1920
