Ways To Find Things

Ways to Find Things

Card Catalogs

Search for historical collections (not from government offices) and for photographs in these catalogs in our public reading room. Cards list authors, topics, and location information.

Finding Aids.

These documents describe each group of archival records (government files) or historical collections (papers of individuals, families, businesses or organizations.)
- WyoCOMET. This searchable online database lists finding aids for a growing number of our collections (e.g. the records of the Governor’s office; the records of the Secretary of State). Each finding aid describes the collection and gives a box and folder listing. Some of the finding aids include links to actual digitized documents within the collections.
- Printed finding aids for each collection. Housed in notebooks in our public reading room.
- Digital copies of finding aids for each collection. Ask our staff if you would like a copy of a finding aid downloaded or sent to you from our internal files.

Wyoming’s Statewide Online Catalog

Soon you can search here for our books, city directories, phone books, and more.

Search separate online databases for photographs, maps, microfilm holdings, newspapers, death certificates, Wyoming cities, Wyoming history, and finding aids for our archival collections and manuscript collections.