PPLD’s Digital Collections contains more than one million items including photographs, newspapers, oral histories, video, city directories, and maps. Use the following tips to explore our ever-growing collection!
The Browse All button on the left toolbar will display every item in Digital Collections, with the most recent additions at the top. Hover over an item to see its full title and additional information. You can also filter by format, first letter of the title, whether the item has OCR’d text (transcribed and searchable text), and date.
Searching
Perform a basic search from the homepage to pull up any items that have a title, description, or OCR’d text matching your keyword. The most relevant results will be listed at the top of the page and you can use the filters on the left to narrow your results.
Advanced Search allows you to refine your search initially with more powerful parameters. Click on the Search icon on the left-hand menu to begin an Advanced Search. In addition to narrowing your results by item type (e.g., photograph, newspaper, etc.), use Advanced Search to direct the system where to look for keyword matches (title or other fields) and even define which fields the system should search within. From here you can also limit by date and specify whether the system should match all your searched keywords, any searched keywords, or exact matches only.
Pikes Peak NewsFinder
Pikes Peak NewsFinder, PPLD’s popular local newspaper index, is in the process of being migrated to Digital Collections and can be searched HERE. To request a scan of an indexed article, click on the envelope icon in the left-hand Tools menu while viewing the indexed article. Other resources previously included in Pikes Peak NewsFinder such as the Colorado Springs Death Register, the Homicide Index, and church and funeral records will also be added to Digital Collections in the coming months.
