Coverage: 1830-1898

Provides access to Godey's Lady's Book, a 19th century publication intended for American women. Covers topics such as fashion, mineralogy, handcrafts, dance, health and hygiene, recipes, and remedies. Resources in this collection include poems, stories, articles, chromolithographs, color plates and color plate fashion, advertisements, cartoons, drawing, engravings, illustrations, maps, mezzotints, portraits, sheet music, and woodcuts. 

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Coverage: 1857-1912

Full text of Harper's Weekly, the U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction era periodical. HarpWeek provides access to illustrations, cartoons, news, literature, editorials, and advertisements. Coverage includes the Civil War Era (1857-1865), Reconstruction (1866-1877), and Gilded Age (1878-1912).

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Coverage: 18th-20th centuries

A digital collection of full-text and color images of rare books, ephemera, maps, posters, slag dictionaries, children's chapbooks, street cries, playbills, cartoons, and other materials relating to the 18th, 19th, and early 20th century Victorian London. This database also includes a chronology, interactive map, essays, visual galleries, and exhibitions. Topics covered include the underworld, religion, women and gender, politics, popular music, urban topography, slang, working-class culture, prostitution, the Temperance Movement, and police and criminality.

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Access to full text resources covering a variety of topics from the 19th century, including British politics and society, diplomatic and cultural exchange between Asia and the West, British theatre and music, and European literature from the Corvey Collection. Content is drawn from the world's preeminent libraries and archives and includes monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, maps, photographs, maps, manuscripts, and ephemera.

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Coverage: 1675-1950

This collection provides full text access to the personal writings of more than 1,300 North American women from all classes and walks of life. All age groups, all life stages, many ethnicities, and many geographical regions are represented, from colonial times to 1950. Resources include diaries and letters, as well as biographies.

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

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