American Engravings to 1820
Catalog of American Engravings
American Antiquarian Society project containing descriptive records for American engravings issued as separate publications or as illustrations in books and periodicals from the early eighteenth century through the year 1820. Included are portraits, views, political cartoons, and illustrations covering many subjects and genres. Excluded are maps and ephemera, such as bookplates, billheads, trade cards, and currency.
American History
Evans Digital Edition, 1639-1800
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Early American Imprints. Full text searching and digital images of printed works published in America before 1800 described in the American Bibliography by Charles Evans and Roger Bristol's Supplement to Evans' American Bibliography. Includes works documenting every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century America including history, literature, philosophy, religion, agriculture, foreign affairs, diplomacy, music, the Revolutionary War, temperance, and witchcraft among others.
Digital Shaw-Shoemaker
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The Digital Shaw-Shoemaker database provides a comprehensive set of American books, pamphlets, and broadsides published in the early part of the 19th century. It is based on the noted American Bibliography: A Preliminary Checklist for 1801-1819, compiled by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker.
History Cooperative
Full-text access to The Journal of American History, The American Historical Review, and other historical journals.
http://www.historycooperative.org/
American Periodicals
Accessible Archives
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Selected 18th & 19th Century American Periodicals and Newspapers. Full text searching and digital images of The Pennsylvania Gazette, 1728-1800; Godey`s Lady`s Book, 1830-1880; a selection of mid-19th century African American newspapers; Civil War era newspapers, 1860-1865; and county histories for counties in New Jersey and Pennsylvania published before 1900. Also includes two newspaper indexes containing excerpts from Pennsylvania newspapers published in Chester County, 1809-1870 and in Delaware County, 1819-1870.
RSAP
RSAP, the Research Society for American Periodicals is an interdisciplinary organization of scholars interested in American magazines and newspapers. It publishes the journal American Periodicals, sponsors panels at the annual meeting of the American Literature Association, and has a free moderated discussion list, which you may join at their website. RSAP's resource page lists numerous sites relating to American periodicals, including many full text reproductions.
http://home.earthlink.net/~ellengarvey/index1.html
The Americas
Early Canadiana Online
Early Canadiana Online (ECO) is a digital library providing access to over 1,330,000 pages of Canada's printed heritage. It features works published from the time of the first European settlers up to the early 20th Century. Includes colonial, federal, and provincial government publications and materials concerning Hudson's Bay Company and Jesuit Relations.
http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/mtq
Early Americas Digital Archive (EADA)
Early Americas Digital Archive (EADA), a collection of electronic texts written in or about the
Americas from 1492 to approximately 1820. EADA is driven by an XML database that allows robust searching, either by keyword (such as author, title, period, geographical region, genre, etc.) or full text.
The Archive also features a collection of links to early American texts on the Internet. EADA is freely available to the public for research and teaching purposes. It has been created by the staff of MITH under the directorship of Prof. Ralph Bauer as a long-term inter-disciplinary project committed to exploring the intersections between traditional humanities research and digital technologies. EADA invites scholars from all disciplines, including graduate students, to submit their editions of early American texts for publication on its site.
http://www.mith2.umd.edu/eada/
Architecture and the Built Environment
Historic American Buildings Survey and Historic American Engineering Record (HABS/HAER)
These government surveys document achievements in architecture, engineering, and design in the United States and its territories. Site includes digitized images of measured drawings, black-and-white photographs, color transparencies, photo captions, data pages including written histories, and supplemental materials compiled by the surveyors.
lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/hhhtml/hhhome.html
Philadelphia Architects and Buildings
Historical data, digital images, and links to resources documenting buildings and structures within the city of Philadelphia or designed by Philadelphia architects.
www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/
Places in Time: Historical Documentation of Place in Greater Philadelphia
Digital images and other resources useful for pursuing historical information about place in the five-county Philadelphia area: Bucks, Chester, Delaware. Montgomery, and Philadelphia counties.
www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/
Civil War History
Pennsylvania Civil War Era Newspapers
The Pennsylvania Civil War Era Newspapers database contains all the words and images from selected newspapers published during the pivotal years before, during, and after the U.S. Civil War. Newspapers helped mobilize public opinion for, or against, the war, relayed battlefield developments to their readers, and documented political life on the homefront. Beyond military or political concerns there is much on cultural topics including travel, arts and leisure, sports and contests, and local social events.
The Pennsylvania Civil War Era Newspapers
The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War
The Valley of the Shadow is a digital archive of primary sources that document the lives of people in Augusta County, Virginia, and Franklin County, Pennsylvania, during the era of the American Civil War. Here you may explore thousands of original documents that allow you to see what life was like during the Civil War for the men and women of Augusta and Franklin.
http://valley.vcdh.virginia.edu/
Colonial Virginia
Past Portal
Past Portal is a digital library project created by Colonial Williamsburg’s John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library. Visitors to the site can search and view digitized versions of rare books and manuscripts from the foundation’s collections, a selection of reports on the buildings and people of 18th century Williamsburg, and the complete run of the Virginia Gazette.
http://pastportal.org/menu.htm
Economics
The Annuity Museum
Founded in 2004, the Annuity Museum has assembled the finest collections of antique documents and artifacts about annuities in the world. The mission of the museum is threefold: to preserve and display the rich cultural and economic impact of annuities on society; to foster scholarly research and encourage the study of annuities as a source of history about the cultures in which they evolved; and to assist museums and schools with exhibitions and publications about annuities. The museum allows visitors to learn about the history of annuities from their earliest origins in ancient Rome through the middle of the 20th century.
http://www.immediateannuities.com/annuitymuseum/
Benjamin Franklin
Collection of Benjamin Franklin’s (1706-1790) papers and correspondence. Approximately 30,000 extant papers. Provides access in three modes: by volume and page number in the Yale edition (46 volumes, plus autobiography), by the name of the person with whom Franklin was corresponding, and by keywords and phrases.
http://www.franklinpapers.org/franklin/
Nineteenth-Century Books & Journals
Making of America (MoA)
Making of America (MoA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The collection currently (as of 11/1/03) contains approximately 8,500 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints.
http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/moagrp/
Wright American Fiction, 1851-1875
Nineteenth-Century American Fiction. Full text searching and digital images of works listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography American Fiction, 1851-1875. Includes nearly 3,000 works of adult fiction, including "novels, novelettes, romances, short stories, tall tales, tract-like tales, allegories, and fictitious biographies and travels, in prose."
www.letrs.indiana.edu/web/w/wright2/
Ohio Imprints
Morgan Bibliography of Ohio Imprints, 1796-1850
The Morgan Bibliography of Ohio Imprints contains bibliographic entries for over 10,000 bookks, pamphlets, and broadsides printed in Ohio from 1796 to 1850.
http://olc7.ohiolink.edu/morgan/
Philadelphia History
Watson's Annals
Provides full text of John F. Watson's A Collection of Memoirs, Anecdotes, and Incidents of the City and its Inhabitants and of the Earliest Settlements of the Inland Part of Pennsylvania from the Days of the Founders: Intended to Preserve the Recollections of Olden Time, and to Exhibit Society in its Changes of Manners and Customs, and the City and Country in their Local Changes and Improvements (Philadelphia, 1857)
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/philadelphia/watsontoc.htm
Political Cartoons
American Political Prints 1766-1876
Digital images and descriptive text from Bernard Reilly's catalogue of political cartoons in the collections of the Library of Congress Print and Photograph Department. Additional subject access to this collection is available through the Library of Congress' on-line catalog.
www.loc.gov/rr/print/catalog.html
Slavery
The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record
A collection of hundreds of images related to slavery, from Africa to the Colonies to Emancipation. Images are culled from primary and secondary sources, contain bibliographic citations, and are searchable by category or keyword.
http://gropius.lib.virginia.edu/Slavery/index.html
Samuel J. May Antislavery Collection
Cornell Library's May Anti-Slavery Collection, including over 10,000 pamphlets and ephemera, is available as a searchable database.
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