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America's Historical Imprints This link opens in a new window
Coverage: 1535-1922
Covering every aspect of American life during the early decades of the United States, this primary source collection provides full text access to over 150,000 early American books, pamphlets and broadsides. This resource includes the Evans Series (1639-1800), Shaw-Shoemaker Series (1801-1819), American Broadsides and Ephemera (1760-1900), Afro-Americana Imprints (1535-1922), African History and Culture (1540-1921), Black Authors (1556-1922), and Caribbean History and Culture (1535-1920).
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collection (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Coverage: 1691-1877
Presents over 7,600 titles ranging from early works imported by the colonists to the Civil War and Reconstruction. The collection is grouped in five chronological series and covers all aspects of American society during this time period.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online print or video tutorial.
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American Periodicals Series This link opens in a new window
Coverage: 1741-1943
Provides access to over 1,500 periodicals published between 1741 and 1943, including special interest and general magazines, journals, and other historically significant periodicals.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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British Literary Manuscripts This link opens in a new window
Coverage: 1100-1900
Provides access to facsimile images of letters, poems, plays, novels, and other literary works of British authors over seven centuries.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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British Periodicals This link opens in a new window
Coverage: 1681-1939
Provides access to hundreds of periodicals from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth century. Formats include magisterial quarterlies, scholarly and professional organs, coterie art periodicals, penny weeklies and illustrated family magazines.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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Early English Books Online This link opens in a new window
Coverage: 1473-1700
Early English Books Online contains over 140,000 titles listed in Pollard and Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640), Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661), and the Early English Tract Supplement. All titles are full text digital facsimiles from the Early English Books microfilm collection. Highlights of the collection include works by Shakespeare, Malory, Erasmus, Newton, and Galileo.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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London Low Life This link opens in a new window
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.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
Resouces on the Web
Available to anyone.
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NYPL Digital CollectionsA rich repository of digital content including photographs from the Billy Rose Theatre Collection and videos from the Jerome Robbins Dance Division Moving Image Archive.
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We Wear CultureDigital exhibits on historical and contemporary fashion and designers.
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Billy Rose Theatre Division (NYPL) Digital CollectionOne of the largest and most comprehensive archives devoted to the theatrical arts. Encompassing dramatic performance in all its diversity, the division is an indispensable resource for artists, writers, researchers, scholars, students, and the general public.
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Shakespeare DocumentedDigitized primary source documents regarding Shakespeare's family and career.
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Blue Mountain Project Avant-Garde PeriodicalsDrawing on Princeton University’s exceptional collections and curatorial and academic expertise, the Blue Mountain Project is a digital thematic research collection of art, music and literary periodicals published between 1848, the year of the European Revolutions, and 1923.
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American Vaudeville Museum ArchiveMany items from this collection at the University of Arizona are digitized.