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Fitchburg Historical Research
- American Antiquarian Society Digital Archive - (go to "Browse the Image Archive" and search Fitchburg)
- Architectural/Historical Inventory of Fitchburg and Comprehensive Community-wide Survey: Fitchburg, Massachusetts.
- Archive.org (search Fitchburg and check "Search full text of books") There are over 75,000 items for Fitchburg.
- Digitalcommonwealth.org (primarily pictures) There are over 1,700 pictures for Fitchburg.
- Fitchburg High School Yearbooks Archive
- Fitchburg Historical Society - a local non-profit organization that includes a Research Library, archives and artifacts, and rotating exhibits.
- The Fitchburg Mosaic - A series of videos created by a partnership of Fitchburg State College, Fitchburg Historical Society and the Fitchburg Public Library, under the guidance of the Fitchburg Mosaic Committee. These tapes were released on VHS format in the mid-1980s. In 2022 they were digitized and uploaded to this YouTube playlist.
- Fitchburg Past and Present on Open Library.org
- Local History Research Guide - Provided by FSU’s Amelia V. Gallucci-Cirio Library, a guide to some sources of local history
- Massachusetts Cultural Information Resource System (MACRIS) - A source of information on historic properties in MA, searchable by Town/City or address. Provided by the MA Historical Commission.
- Newspaper archives available in the library:
- Archives of the Fitchburg Sentinel/Sentinel & Enterprise are on microfilm (1839-Present). These are available for public use during any of the library's open hours.
- The Raivaaja (Finnish-American newspaper) archives (1905-2009) are available for in-library use in digital form. Please ask at the Information Desk to access. Thanks to the Raivaaja Foundation for completing the digitization of this resource.