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Contents
Digital Collection Finders
Digital Collections by Subject
• Biology & Chemistry
• Classics
• Computer Science &
Mathematics
• Criminal Justice & Law
• Fine Arts
• History
• Humanities
• Literature
• Modern Languages
• Nursing
• Physics
• Politics & Economics
• Theology
• Gateway Websites
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Locating manuscript collections in archives and other repositories:
Repositories of Primary Sources
A listing of websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar in the United States, Canada, Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa.
National Union Catalog of Manuscripts Collections
A guide to manuscript holdings in the United States.
Biology & Chemistry
Beinecke Digital Collections
Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library is Yale University's principal repository for literary papers and for early manuscripts and
rare books in the fields of literature, theology, history, and the natural sciences. Beinecke's Digital Images Online contains approximately 70,000 images, including photographs, manuscripts, correspondence, illustrations, and selections of printed works.
Linus Pauling Research Notebooks
From Oregon State University, this digitalized collection of notebooks contain many of Pauling's laboratory calculations and experimental data, as well as scientific conclusions, ideas for further research, and numerous autobiographical musings.
National Academies Press
NAP was created by the National Academies to publish reports and books on topics in science, engineering, and health. If offers access to 3,000 books and reports published by NAP.
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Classics
Codices Electronici Sangallenses
The purpose of the "Codices Electronici Sangallenses" (Digital Abbey Library of St. Gallen) is to provide access to the medieval codices in the Abbey Library of St. Gallen by creating a virtual library.
The Online Medieval and Classical Library
This collection of texts gathers some of the most important literary works of Classical and Medieval civilization.
Perseus Digital Library/Project
Tufts University has collected here primary and secondary sources for the study of ancient Greece and Rome and the English Renaissance.
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Computer Science & Mathematics
ArXiv.org
ArXiv.org is a fully automated electronic archive and distribution server for research papers in physics, computer science, mathematics, and other scientific endeavors.
Computer Science Technical Reports
The Computer Science Technical Reports is a collection of 2,100 technical reports produced by students, faculty, and staff of the Cornell University Computer Science Department. These reports span a period from 1995 to the present.
European Mathematical Information Service (EMIS) Mirror Site
The EMIS mirror site stores the content of 62 mathematics journals and provides outside links to several mathematics databases.
Historical Monographs in Mathematics
The Cornell University Historic Math Collection consists of 512 titles. The original collection was scanned as a result of a research
collaboration between Cornell University and Xerox Corporation, with the support of the Commission on Preservation and Access in the
early 1990's.
National Academies Press
NAP was created by the National Academies to publish reports and books on topics in science, engineering, and health. If offers access to 3,000 books and reports published by NAP.
Online Mathematics Textbooks
George Cain, School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology, has collected links to over forty online mathematics texts. He states, "The writing of textbooks and making them freely available on the web is an idea whose time has arrived."
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Criminal Justice & Law
Avalon Project
Digital historical documents relevant to the fields of law, economics, politics, diplomacy, and government. The collection currently contains, among other things, the debates in the Federal Convention of 1787, reported by James Madison; materials relating to the Nuremberg trials; works by Thomas Jefferson; materials relating to diplomatic relations between the United States and Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries; and the 9/11 Commission Report.
International Court of Justice
In partnership with the International Court of Justice, the Cornell Law Library created the first official Web site for the Court, and was instrumental in the Court starting its own official Web site. The Law Library makes available complete and simultaneous access to the full-text decisions, documents, and other materials produced by the World Court.
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Fine Arts
Ad*Access
Ad*Access concentrates on five main subject areas: Radio, Television, Transportation, Beauty and Hygiene, and World War II. This collection provides a coherent view of a number of major campaigns and companies through images preserved at and made available through Duke University.
A. D. White Collection of Architectural Photographs
The Andrew Dickson White architectural photographs document a wide range of 19th- and early 20th-century architecture of Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas, including structures, panoramas, and habitats that have vanished due to wars and urban development.
Beautiful Birds: Masterpieces/ Hill Ornithology Collection
Beautiful Birds traces the development of ornithological illustration in the 18th and 19th centuries and highlights the changing illustration techniques during that period.
Chicano Visual Arts Digital Image Collection
From the California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives (CEMA), the collection consists of 1,362 images and their descriptions.
Digital Archive of Architecture
This collection of photographs and illustrations of European and American architecture is courtesy of Prof. Jeffery Howe, Fine Arts department, Boston College.
Fantastic in Art and Fiction
Graphic material from the Cornell witchcraft collections provides an unusual and rarely seen counterpoint to a comparative literature
course analyzing German, Anglo-American, French, and Latin-American works from the late 18th century to the present. The project is a
model for new and unusual ways of incorporating digitized resources into teaching.
Global Performing Arts Database (GloPAD) (click on "Database")
This project of the Global Performing Arts Consortium (GloPAC; see description under Projects) includes images, sound recordings, video clips, and 3-D models of the world's performing arts with detailed descriptions in standardized formats to enable effective cross-cultural searching.
Illustrated Shakespeare
This online collection of selected electronic facsimiles represents a variety of responses of artists to the stimulus of Shakespeare's words. This online collection, originally published in venues as distant as Philadelphia and Leipzig, includes images produced by an array of technologies available in the 19th and early 20th century.
Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music
The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music, from the Milton S. Eisenhower Library of The Johns Hopkins University, contains over 29,000 pieces of music spanning the period 1780 to 1960. The focus of this online, searchable collection is popular American music.
NYPL Digital Gallery
The NYPL Digital Gallery contains over 415,000 images digitized from primary sources and rare prints in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, photographs, and more.
Utopia
Utopia is a database of images of European Renaissance art, primarily from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. It is a joint project of Cornell's History of Art Department, College of Arts and Sciences, the Knight Visual Resources Facility, College of Architecture, Art, and Planning, the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, and the Rare and Manuscript Collections of the Cornell University Library.
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History
Ad*Access
Ad*Access concentrates on five main subject areas: Radio, Television, Transportation, Beauty and Hygiene, and World War II. This collection provides a coherent view of a number of major campaigns and companies through images preserved at and made available through Duke University.
American Journeys
This is a collection of eyewitness accounts of early American exploration and settlement, with more than 18,000 pages of text, from sagas of Vikings in Canada to diaries of mountain men in the Rockies.
American Memory
Historical collections from the Library of Congress and other institutions have been gathered for the National Digital Library's record of American History. It includes more than 7 million digital items on the history and culture of the U.S. from more than 100 historical collections and features a Collection Finder, Search program, and Learning Page with teaching tips.
Avalon Project
Digital historical documents relevant to the fields of law, economics, politics, diplomacy, and government. The collection currently contains, among other things, the debates in the Federal Convention of 1787, reported by James Madison; materials relating to the Nuremberg trials; works by Thomas Jefferson; materials relating to diplomatic relations between the United States and Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries; and the 9/11 Commission Report.
Beinecke Digital Collections
Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library is Yale University's principal repository for literary papers and for early manuscripts and
rare books in the fields of literature, theology, history, and the natural sciences. Beinecke's Digital Images Online contains approximately 70,000 images, including photographs, manuscripts, correspondence, illustrations, and selections of printed works.
Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project
The Michigan State University Library and the MSU Museum have partnered to create an online collection of some of the most influential and important American cookbooks from the late 18th to early 20th century. Digital images of the pages of 76 cookbooks are available as well as full-text transcriptions and the ability to search within the books, across the collection, in order to find specific information.
Foreign Relations of the United States (1861–1960)
Foreign Relations of the United States (1960–1976)
The Foreign Relations of the United States series is the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions that have been declassified and edited for publication. Collectively, these two websites provide online access to selected volumes from 1861–1976. On both websites, the FRUS volumes can be either browsed or searched by keyword.
Historical Monograph Collection
441 monographs that were originally scanned in the 1990s as part of a joint digital preservation research project with Cornell University Library and Xerox are now available for online viewing. These books are part of a group of materials that included the Historical Monographs in Mathematics, Cornell Dissertations, New York State Historical Literature, and Core Historical Literature of Agriculture.
Historic Government Publications from World War II
From Southern Methodist University, this digital collection contains PDF copies of almost 200 documents, including 6,000 pages of pamphlets, posters, booklets, and photos from the World War II era.
Labor Photos Database
The Kheel Center's Labor Photos database provides an introductory sample of 1000 images from the International Ladies Garment Workers
Union photo collection, documenting 100 years of union activities and working class history.
Letters of the Delegates to Congress: 1774–1789
A 25-volume, searchable and browseable collection of letters from all the delegates to the first Congress of the United States.
Making of America (MOA) Cornell University
Making of America (MOA) University of Michigan
This collection represents a major collaborative effort between these two universities to preserve and make accessible a significant body of primary sources related to American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. Cornell's site provides access to 267 monograph volumes and over 100,000 journal articles with 19th-century imprints. Michigan's site has approximately 8,500 books and 50,000 journal articles.
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
This government Web site provides several primary source documents, including America's Historical Documents.
New Deal Network
The New Deal Network, from the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute (FERI), is a database of primary source materials related to the public works and arts projects of the New Deal. View photographs, political cartoons, and texts (speeches, letters, and other historic documents) from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, the National Archives and Records Administration, the Library of Congress, and other sources.
New York State Historical Literature Collection
691 monographs and pamphlets that were originally scanned in the early 1990s as part of a joint digital preservation research project
with Cornell University Library and Xerox are now available for online viewing. These books are part of a group of materials that included the Historical Monographs in Mathematics, Cornell Dissertations, New York State Historical Literature, and Core Historical Literature of Agriculture.
Nineteenth Century Documents Project
This project brings together primary texts covering American politics, slavery, and the Civil War during the 1800s.
Samuel May Anti-Slavery Collection
The Samuel May Anti-Slavery Collection gathers together over 8,500 important pamphlets and leaflets relating to the anti-slavery
struggle at the local, regional, and national levels. Sermons, position papers, off-prints, local Anti-Slavery Society newsletters,
poetry anthologies, Freedmen's testimonies, broadsides, and Anti-Slavery Fair keepsakes all document the social and political implications of the movement.
Suffragists Oral History Project
This collection, Sponsored through UC Berkeley Library and part of Oral History Online, transcribed oral histories of activist women born between 1860 and 1890. These include Alice Paul, Sara Bard Field, Burnita Shelton Matthews, Helen Valeska Bary, Mabel Vernon, Rebecca Hourwich Reyher, and Jeannette Rankin.
Television News of the Civil Rights Era: 1950–1970
This digital archive is based on an extensive collection of 16 mm news footage from the Roanoke TV station, WSLS. The Virginia Center for Digital History is experimenting with using the GDMS for delivery of this material. This is a work-in-progress.
Valley of the Shadow
The Valley of the Shadow is a digital archive of thousands of primary sources recorded during the American Civil War era. Access letters and diaries, census and government records, and newspapers and speeches documenting the lives of people in Augusta County, Virginia, and Franklin County, Pennsylvania during this historical period.
Witchcraft Collection
Here are selected scanned works from Cornell Library's Witchcraft Collection, which contains over 3,000 titles documenting the history of the Inquisition and the persecution of witchcraft.
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Humanities
Illustrated Shakespeare
This online collection of selected electronic facsimiles represents a variety of responses of artists to the stimulus of Shakespeare's words. This online collection, originally published in venues as distant as Philadelphia and Leipzig, includes images produced by an array of technologies available in the 19th and early 20th century.
The Online Medieval and Classical Library
This collection of texts gathers some of the most important literary works of Classical and Medieval civilization.
Perseus Digital Library/Project
Tufts University has collected here primary and secondary sources for the study of ancient Greece and Rome and the English Renaissance.
University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative
This effort was started in 1994 to provide online access to freely available full-text resources.
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Literature
Beinecke Digital Collections
Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library is Yale University's principal repository for literary papers and for early manuscripts and
rare books in the fields of literature, theology, history, and the natural sciences. Beinecke's Digital Images Online contains approximately 70,000 images, including photographs, manuscripts, correspondence, illustrations, and selections of printed works.
British Women Romantic Poets, 1789–1832
This scholarly archive consists of E-text editions of poetry by British and Irish women written (not necessarily published) between 1789 and 1832.
Fantastic in Art and Fiction
Graphic material from the Cornell witchcraft collections provides an unusual and rarely seen counterpoint to a comparative literature
course analyzing German, Anglo-American, French, and Latin-American works from the late 18th century to the present. The project is a
model for new and unusual ways of incorporating digitized resources into teaching.
Illustrated Shakespeare
This online collection of selected electronic facsimiles represents a variety of responses of artists to the stimulus of Shakespeare's words. This online collection, originally published in venues as distant as Philadelphia and Leipzig, includes images produced by an array of technologies available in the 19th and early 20th century.
The Jack London Collection
These materials reflect on the life and influence of one of America's most enduring authors. Letters, manuscripts and photographs from the Bancroft Library, as well as out-of-print publications, electronic texts of some of London's writings, and original essays are gathered in this digital collection, which is cooperatively produced by the UC Berkeley Library and Sonoma State University.
James Joyce Scholars Collection
Created in collaboration with Professor David Hayman, one of the pioneers of Joyce scholarship, this collection includes a broad range of works related to the study of Joyce, and includes books currently out-of-print and Hayman's own highly regarded publications on the subject.
The Online Medieval and Classical Library
This collection of texts gathers some of the most important literary works of Classical and Medieval civilization.
Perseus Digital Library/Project
Tufts University has collected here primary and secondary sources for the study of ancient Greece and Rome and the English Renaissance.
University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative
This effort was started in 1994 to provide online access to freely available full-text resources.
Victorian Women Writers Project
This collection of works includes anthologies, novels, political pamphlets, religious tracts, children's books, and volumes of poetry and verse drama. It is sponsored by Indiana University and edited by John Walsh.
Wright's American Fiction
This is a collection of 19th-century American fiction, as listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography American Fiction, 1851–1875.
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Modern Languages
Gallica
These French-language digital archives are from the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, and include 6,000 images and 130 documents.
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Nursing
In Their Own Words: NIH Researchers Recall...
See the transcripts of interviews with Ms. Barbara Fabian Baird, R.N., and Christine Grady, R.N., Ph.D.
National Academies Press
NAP was created by the National Academies to publish reports and books on topics in science, engineering, and health. If offers access to 3,000 books and reports published by NAP.
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Physics
ArXiv.org
ArXiv.org is a fully automated electronic archive and distribution server for research papers in physics, computer science,
mathematics, and other scientific endeavors.
Einstein Archives Online
Here is the first online access to Albert Einstein's scientific and non-scientific manuscripts held by the Albert Einstein Archives at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
National Academies Press
NAP was created by the National Academies to publish reports and books on topics in science, engineering, and health. If offers access to 3,000 books and reports published by NAP.
Physical Review Online Archive (PROLA) Mirror
Cornell University Library houses a live mirror of PROLA, the American Physical Society's Physical Review Online Archive.
It is "the concrete expression of APS's commitment to ensuring the immediate and long-term accessibility all journal content that
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Politics & Economics
The American Presidency Project
This collection provides free access to the Public Papers of the presidents: Hoover to Clinton (1993–June 2000) and G.W. Bush (January–June 2001).
Avalon Project
Digital historical documents relevant to the fields of law, economics, politics, diplomacy, and government. The collection currently contains, among other things, the debates in the Federal Convention of 1787, reported by James Madison; materials relating to the Nuremberg trials; works by Thomas Jefferson; materials relating to diplomatic relations between the United States and Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries; and the 9/11 Commission Report.
Cornell University Collection of Political Americana
This collection primarily contains images of over 5,000 items of American political campaign memorabilia and commemorative items, dating from 1789 to 1960.
Foreign Relations of the United States (1861–1960)
Foreign Relations of the United States (1960–1976)
The Foreign Relations of the United States series is the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions that have been declassified and edited for publication. Collectively, these two websites provide online access to selected volumes from 1861–1976. On both websites, the FRUS volumes can be either browsed or searched by keyword.
National Security Archive
This comprehensive collection of primary documents includes more than 60,000 declassified documents regarding critical U.S. policy decisions.
Nineteenth Century Documents Project
This project brings together primary texts covering American politics, slavery, and the Civil War during the 1800s.
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Theology
Beinecke Digital Collections
Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library is Yale University's principal repository for literary papers and for early manuscripts and
rare books in the fields of literature, theology, history, and the natural sciences. Beinecke's Digital Images Online contains approximately 70,000 images, including photographs, manuscripts, correspondence, illustrations, and selections of printed works.
Codices Electronici Sangallenses
The purpose of the "Codices Electronici Sangallenses" (Digital Abbey Library of St. Gallen) is to provide access to the medieval codices in the Abbey Library of St. Gallen by creating a virtual library.
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Gateway Websites
EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents from Western Europe
Brigham Young University has collected these links to Western European (mainly primary) historical documents that are transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated.
OAIster
OAIster, from the University of Michigan, is a searchable, meta-collection of academically oriented, digital resources. There are currently 6,326,471 records from 577 institutions.
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