Digital Resources for the Humanities

Provides access to Godey's Lady's Book from 1830-1898, a publication intended for American women. Covers topics such as fashion, mineralogy, handcrafts, dance, health and hygiene, recipes, and remedies.

Directly experience the richness and historical significance of Harper’s Weekly, America's leading 19th century illustrated newspaper.

Full-text and color digital images of rare books, ephemera, maps and other materials relating to the 18th, 19th and early 20th century London.

The British Theatre, Music, and Literature: High and Popular Culture module of NCCO features a wide range of primary sources related to the arts in the Victorian era, from playbills and scripts to operas and complete scores.

Contains diaries, letters and biographies of women from the Colonial Period through 1950.

Focuses on adult comic books and graphic novels, from the first underground comix in the 1960s to modern graphic novels. The collection contains over 75,000 pages of comics and graphic novels, in addition to over 25,000 pages of interviews, criticism, and journal articles.

Digitized material on all topics from the Library of Congress's collection.

Over 2,000 early baseball cards dating from 1887 to 1914, from the Library of Congress's collection. Sadly, they do not have Honus Wagner or Babe Ruth.

Over 17,000 digitized menus from mainly New York City restaurants, clubs, and special events, going back to the 1850s.

Traces the history of childhood through products designed for - and art objects about - children since 1900.

Cigarette cards were similar to baseball and other trading cards, and could be on any subject: movie stars, sports teams, life in the British colonies, varieties of freshwater fish. The New York Public Library collection contains almost 50,000 of these cards.

Over 800 items, including photographs, posters, and programs pertaining to dozens of American and foreign circuses and showmen.

A fascinating collection of 10 scrapbooks owned by the legendary escape artist Harry Houdini. Included are playbills, theater programs, clippings, photographs, prints, correspondence, and other materials dating from ca. 1850 to the 1920s on the history of magic and the spiritualist movement.

Selected visual images from the Ransom Center's Harry Houdini collection and Magicians collection pertaining to magicians and the history of magic from 1750 to 1920.