Digitized collection of archival material from the Browne Popular Culture Library (Bowling Green State University), the Bancroft Library (University of California, Berkeley), the British National Archives, the University of Sussex Library, and the Rock Source Archive.
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The American West: Sources from the Graff Collection at the Newberry Library
Digital collection of travel narratives, manuscripts, personal papers, printed books, maps, city directories, store catalogs, newspapers, company records, and ephemera (e.g. trade cards, posters, photos, claim certificates, city prospectuses, and more) that document the American west in its frontier period.
Defining Gender, 1450-1910
Digital collection of ephemera, pamphlets, college records, exam papers, commonplace books, diaries, periodicals, letters, ledgers, account books, pedagogical treatises, government documents, anatomy books, midwifery texts, manuscript journals, poetry, novels, ballads, drama, receipt books, literary manuscripts, travel writing, and conduct and advice literature.Comprises five sections: Conduct and Politeness, Domesticity and Family, Consumption and Leisure, Education and Sensibility, and The Body.
Slavery, Abolition, and Social Justice
Digital collection of manuscripts, pamphlets, books, paintings, and maps covering the period 1490 to 2007.
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Everyday Life and Women in America, 1800-1920
Digital collection of books, periodicals, pamphlets, and broadsides.
Perdita Manuscripts
Over 230 manuscripts, authored by women, that document life in Early Modern England.
Meiji Japan
Digitized collection of documents (diaries, correspondence, research files, drawings, lecture notes, publications, scrapbooks and manuscripts) from the Edward Sylvester Morse Collection in the Peabody Essex Museum’s Phillips Library.
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Jewish Life in America, 1654-1954
Letters, scrapbooks, autobiographies, notebooks and other materials from the American Jewish Historical Society in New York City.
19th Century Collections Online
Thematically organized collections of books, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, and statistics that document the global history of the 19th century. Currently, the database includes the following collections: Asia and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange; British Politics and Society; British Theatre, Music, and Literature: High and Popular Culture; and European Literature, 1790–1840: The Corvey Collection. More Information.
18th Century Journals: A Portal to Newspapers and Periodicals, 1685-1835
Over 270 newspapers and periodicals from across the British Empire, but mostly from Britain.