Research
Sources
Archives and digital collections feeding this project
Digital Sources
Online collections and digital archives
Latvian National Digital Library
digitalabiblioteka.lv
3.8 million items including 16th–18th century map collections
Historical Maps of Latvia
kartes.lnb.lv
Interactive historic maps of Riga and Latvia, 1588–1983
Latvian Digital Book Collection
gramatas.lndb.lv
6,000+ digitized Latvian texts from multiple centuries
Latvian Periodicals Archive
periodika.lv
3,000+ newspaper titles, 3 million+ pages from 1612 onward
Lost Latvia
zudusilatvija.lv
Historical photographs of Latvia, primarily 19th–20th century
NLL Cultural Portraits
lnb.lv
2,200+ pre-1914 portrait photographs
Bavarian State Library (MDZ)
digitale-sammlungen.de
Hennenberger 1595 fully digitized
Polish Digital Library (KPBC)
kpbc.umk.pl
Hennenberger 1595 and other Baltic materials
Wikimedia Commons
commons.wikimedia.org
Old maps of Riga, 54 Hennenberger images, public domain materials
Library of Congress
loc.gov
Baltic maps by Mercator, de Wit, Homann
Physical Archives
Institutions with original materials
Latvian National Library
Manuscripts & Rare Books Department — 18,000+ manuscripts from the 14th century
Latvian State Historical Archive
Administrative records, church registers, guild documents
Swedish National Archives (Riksarkivet)
Swedish-era administrative documents and maps of Livonia