Physical Archives
Ray and Pat Browne Popular Culture Archive
The Ray and Pat Browne Popular Culture Archive for Popular Culture Studies at Bowling Green State University has a huge repository of popular culture artifacts. From mystery, detective, and romance novels to science fiction to television and film and recorded music, the collection is large and varied. A searchable index can be found here.
University of Minnesota's Children's Literature Research Collections
The University of Minnesota's Children's Literature Research Collections are also impressive. They include large holdings of dime novels, pulp fiction, series books (including an extraordinarily large collection of Oz-related materials), and silver age comic books.
Georgia Tech's Science Fiction Archive
The Georgia Institute of Technology has a massive collection of American science fiction, including more than 10,000 novels and 1,000 periodicals. A link to a more detailed description of the collection's holdings can be found here.
Miriam Snow Mathes Historical Children's Literature Collection
The University of Albany has a collection of more than 12,000 volumes of children's literature from the 19th and 20th Century. The holdings of this extensive collection can be searched here.
Online Archives
Archive.org
Most people are probably familiar with Internet Archive at www.archive.org, which seeks to collect public domain film, television, and radio programs and much, much more. It is a highly useful resource for historians of popular media, simply because of the size of the collection and the relative age of the resources.
Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature
While it also has a sizable physical collection of books, the University of Florida's Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature contains more than 6,000 titles that can be read in their entirety online. Here is a link to their digitized collection.
UCLA's Children's Book Archive
UCLA also has a digitized collection of more than 1,800 children's books. Access to that online archive can be found here.
