Public Free Library
A popular government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both.
-- James Madison
Information is the currency of democracy.
-- Thomas Jefferson
Rare Book Room:
Library of Congress: American Memory
British Library Online Gallery
Massachussetts Historical Society Collections Online
Thomas Jefferson Digital Collection
(other links to Jefferson papers here)
Darwin Papers & Manuscripts
British Library Treasures in Full: Shakespeare in Quarto
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
A Few Days in Athens by Frances Wright (1822)
The Star Amateur Electrician (c.1910-1920)
Le Clef de l'Occultisme by Horus (1922) (in French)
Main Stacks:
Project Gutenberg catalog
Hathi Trust
University of Virginia Scholar's Lab: Digital Resources
The Online Books Page
Open Library
Digital Public Library of America
The Public Domain Review
Arthur's Classic Novels
Bartelby.com
UNZ.org: A Free Website for Periodicals, Books, and Videos
Athena
Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes
PLoS (Public Library of Science)
Eighteenth-Century E-Texts
A digital library of 18th and 19th Century journals
Online Parallel Study Bibles
Internet Sacred Text Archive
other online lists of reading matter (incl. some commercial sites)
Music Room:
Historic American Sheet Music
Popular Songs in American History
Public Domain Music (MIDI files)
Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project
Tunes at Ceolas
County Champaign Irish Tune Collections Online
Capt. O'Neill's Irish tune collections (sheet music & MIDI files)
Richard Robinson's Tunebook
The Public Domain Review
Art Exhibit:
Wikimedia Commons
The Public Domain Review
Computer Room:
Info on the 'Net
Serendipity:
Quotations
Library Locations:
Public Libraries in the United States
Lib-Web-Cats: A directory of libraries throughout the world (use search; browse doesn't work well)