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American Journeys contains more than 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration, from the sagas of Vikings in Canada in AD1000 to the diaries of mountain men in the Rockies 800 years later.

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American Journeys: Eyewitness Accounts of Early American Exploration and Settlement

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Read, search, and print this work at American Journeys, a digital library of early American exploration and settlement. Brought to you by the Wisconsin Historical Society and National History Day

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SNCC focused on voter registration and on mounting a systemic challenge to the white supremacy that governed the country's entrenched political, economic and social structures.

Young activists and organizers with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, or SNCC (pronounced "SNICK"), represented a radical, new unanticipated force whose work continues to have great relevance today. For the first time, young people decisively entered the ranks of civil rights movement leadership. They committed themselves to full-time organizing from the bottom-up, and with this approach empowered older efforts at change and facilitated the emergence of powerful new grassroots voices...

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SNCC focused on voter registration and on mounting a systemic challenge to the white supremacy that governed the country's entrenched political, economic and social structures. Young activists and organizers with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, or SNCC (pronounced "SNICK"), represented a radical, new unanticipated force whose work continues to have great relevance today.

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Patronage and Populism: The Politics of the Gilded Age

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Patronage and Populism: The Politics of the Gilded Age

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The term "Gilded Age" was coined by Mark Twain in his 1873 book, The Gilded Age: A Tale for Today. Twain's phrase uses the practice of gilding, in which a thin sheet of gold leaf is laid over plain metal, as a metaphor to describe how major societal and political problems were hidden with a veneer of respectability during the post-Civil War era. In the Gilded Age, corruption and graft permeated every level of American politics. Campaigns promised patronage and civil service positions in order to win elections and access to infrastructure benefitted corporations over small-scale farmers.

This corruption met various forms of resistance. Backlash to self-serving Gilded Age politicians led to the arrest of New York Democratic Party Boss William Tweed, who controlled votes and appointments. A decade later, Charles Guiteau murdered President James Garfield; Guiteau believed the President owed him a government job as recompense for unsolicited political campaign work. The National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry and the Populist Party both rose to national prominence for their fight against railroad conglomerates' preferential treatment of business allies. Both groups also pushed for bimetallism-backing American currency with both gold and silver-and wanted to put more paper money into circulation.

One of the most active critics of Gilded Age politics was Thomas Nast, a New York political cartoonist best known for creating the elephant and donkey as symbols for the Republican and Democratic parties. Nast's cartoons spurred citizens' opposition to corruption throughout the era. By the late 1890s, American politics had moved toward the ideals of Progressivism, which sought to protect social welfare, encourage productivity, ensure morality, and generate economic reform by reinterpreting the United States Constitution as an organic or alterable document.

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Patronage and Populism: The Politics of the Gilded Age

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The term "Gilded Age" was coined by Mark Twain in his 1873 book, The Gilded Age: A Tale for Today. Twain's phrase uses the practice of gilding, in which a thin sheet of gold leaf is laid over plain metal, as a metaphor to describe how major societal and political problems were hidden with a veneer of respectability during the post-Civil War era.

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Explore the turbulent times of "Bleeding Kansas." Hundreds of personal letters, diaries, photos, and maps bring to life the settling of Kansas during the fierce debate over slavery.

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Territorial Kansas Online was a repository of digitized historical materials from the collections of the Kansas State Historical Society and the Kansas Collection of the University of Kansas representing the time period from 1854 through January 1861, when Kansas entered the Union. The project was made possible through a major grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Project work included lessons plans developed to enhance the teaching of U. S. history at the middle school, high school, and college levels.

Though the original Territorial Kansas Online website was retired in January 2022, digital materials from the project remain available in the Kansas Memory digital collections at the Kansas State Historical Society and the the University of Kansas Libraries digital collections. The Internet Archive has captured an archive of the site.

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Territorial Kansas Online was a repository of digitized historical materials from the collections of the Kansas State Historical Society and the Kansas Collection of the University of Kansas representing the time period from 1854 through January 1861, when Kansas entered the Union.

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This includes newspaper editorials related to four events: The Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854), the caning of Charles Sumner (1856), the Dred Scott decision (1857), and John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry (1859).

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Mapping the Fourth of July in the Civil War Era

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Mapping the Fourth of July in the Civil War Era

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These sources reveal how a wide range of Americans — northern and southern, white and black, male and female, Democrat and Republican, immigrant and native born — all used the Fourth to articulate their deepest beliefs about American identity during the great crisis of the Civil War.

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The Black Abolitionist Digital Archive is a collection of over 800 speeches by antebellum blacks and approximately 1,000 editorials from the period.

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University of Detroit Mercy Libraries/Instructional Design Studio

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Course Catalogs + Bulletins :: UDM Libraries / Instructional Design Studio

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The historical Undergraduate and Graduate Catalogs contain information about academic programs, course descriptions and student services offered by University of Detroit Mercy or the previous institutions known as Mercy College of Detroit and University of Detroit. The catalogs also contain general…

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Colored Conventions Project: Bringing Nineteenth-Century Black Organizing to Digital Life

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Colored Conventions Project: Bringing Nineteenth-Century Black Organizing to Digital Life

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From 1830 until the 1890s, already free and once captive Black people came together in state and national political meetings called "Colored Conventions."

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From 1830 until well after the Civil War, African Americans gathered across the United States and Canada to participate in political meetings held at the state and national levels. A cornerstone of Black organizing in the nineteenth century, these "Colored Conventions" brought Black men and women together in a decades-long campaign for civil and human rights.

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The Colored Conventions Project (CCP) is a scholarly and community research project dedicated to bringing the seven decades-long history of nineteenth-century Black organizing to digital life. Mirroring the collective nature of the nineteenth-century Colored Conventions, CCP uses innovative, inclusive models and partnerships to locate, transcribe, and archive the documentary record related to this nearly forgotten history and to curate digital exhibits that highlight its stories, events and themes.

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This includes sources about Asian American activism in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Produced by Asian American Movement Project (AAMP). Presented by KQED.

Based on material from the anthology, Asian Americans: The Movement and the Moment. Excerpts and images used courtesy of the anthology's contributors.

" Audio Webcast from the May 23, 2002, event
Snapshots of Asian America:
A Look at the Movement's Spirit and Legacy
An evening exploring the rich history of the social activism of Asian Americans from the 1960s and '70s through personal accounts and a panel discussion with movement participants.
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Snapshots of the Asian American Movement, activism, and activists in the 1960s and 1970s

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Produced by Asian American Movement Project (AAMP). Presented by KQED. Based on material from the anthology, Asian Americans: The Movement and the Moment. Excerpts and images used courtesy of the anthology's contributors.

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This includes primary source material on every period of U.S. history.

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The world’s largest library. View historic photos, maps, books and more. Contact experts for help with research. Plan a visit. Home of U.S. Copyright Office.

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Since the days of Benjamin Franklin (its founder), the collection has grown to more than half a million rare books, manuscripts, pamphlets, broadsides, prints, and photographs, making the Library Company one of the nation’s largest collections of printed and graphic materials relating to early American history.

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Digital Collections | Library Company of Philadelphia Digital Collections

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© Copyright 2020 - The Library Company of Philadelphia, 1314 Locust Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107. TEL (215) 546-3181 FAX (215) 546-5167 For inquiries, please contact our IT Department

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The National Archives of the United States

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The National Archives of the United States

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This is an excellent resource for all periods and topics.

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Request military records and learn about other services for yourself or a family member.

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AMDOCS: Documents for the Study of American History

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AMDOCS: Documents for the Study of American History

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Documents for the Study of American History: US History: AMDOCS: 800 - 2008 Primary Sources | www.vlib.us

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AMDOCS: DOCUMENTS FOR THE STUDY OF AMERICAN HISTORY

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This is a great starting place for research in U.S. newspapers.

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Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1770-1963 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities external link and the Library of Congress. Learn more

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Chronicling America " Library of Congress

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Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1770-1963 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present.

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DPLA connects people to the riches held within America’s libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions.

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DPLA provides free digital access to banned books

DPLA has launched The Banned Book Club to ensure that all readers have access to the books they want to read. The Banned Book Club makes e-book versions of banned books available to readers in locations across the United States where titles have been banned via the free Palace e-reader app.

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The Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of America's libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world.

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The Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy

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The Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy

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Avalon Project - Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy

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LibGuide to Digital Collections (Christopher Newport University)

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LibGuide to Digital Collections (Christopher Newport University)

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This is probably the most comprehensive research guide that exists, covering all time periods, countries, continents, and regions.

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These resources provide access to collections of libraries around the world that would otherwise not be available for use or would require extensive travel to access.

Images and other materials may be in the public domain or under copyright.

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LibGuides: Primary Sources Home: Digital Collections

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Documenting the American South (DocSouth) is a digital publishing initiative that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture. Currently DocSouth includes sixteen thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs.

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Documenting the American South (DocSouth) is a digital publishing initiative that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture. Currently DocSouth includes sixteen thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters,…

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Indian Peoples of the Northern Great Plains

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Indian Peoples of the Northern Great Plains

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This includes photographs, paintings, ledger drawings, documents, serigraphs, and stereographs from 1874 through the 1940's.

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Indian Peoples of the Northern Great Plains Digital Collection - Montana State University (MSU) Library - Montana State University Library

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Indian Peoples of the Northern Great Plains Digital Collection

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A collaborative digital collection of North American Northern Great Plains Indian Peoples with photos and original artwork from the collections of Museum of the Rockies, Montana State University Bozeman Library Archives and Special Collections, Montana State University Billings Library Special Collections, Montana State University Northern Library, and Little Big Horn College Library.

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The Virtual Jamestown Archive is a digital research, teaching and learning project that explores the legacies of the Jamestown settlement and "the Virginia experiment."

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Find out how Virtual Jamestown is being used in the class room. A number of teaching scenarios are listed here, including new role-playing strategies>.

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John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library

The research center of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, the John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library advances knowledge of colonial British America, the American Revolution, the early United States, American decorative arts and folk art, and the Restoration and continuing story of Colonial Williamsburg.

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Research & Education | Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

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The research center of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, the John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library advances knowledge of colonial British America, the American Revolution, the early United States, American decorative arts and folk art, and the Restoration and continuing story of Colonial Williamsburg.

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The Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive and Transcription Project consists of an electronic collection of primary source materials relating to the Salem witch trials of 1692 and a new transcription of the court records.

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Project Director: Benjamin Ray. Technical Development: Scholars' Lab.
© Copyright 2018 by Benjamin Ray and

The material presented in the Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive is provided freely for non-commercial educational purposes. All other uses require advance permission from the project originators. The University of Virginia

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danvers; salem; witchcraft trials; witch trials; 1692; the witchcraftvictims' memorial; rebecca nurse

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Project Director: Benjamin Ray. Technical Development: Scholars' Lab. © Copyright 2018 by Benjamin Ray and The material presented in the Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive is provided freely for non-commercial educational purposes. All other uses require advance permission from the project originators. The University of Virginia

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This is a collection of writings and articles from Jonathan Edwards. The collection contains edited published works and raw manuscripts.

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Entire corpus of Jonathan Edwards Online

The Works of Jonathan Edwards Online is a collection of writings and articles from Jonathan Edwards. The collection contains edited published works and raw manuscripts.

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Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale University

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The Works of Jonathan Edwards Online is a collection of writings and articles from Jonathan Edwards. The collection contains edited published works and raw manuscripts. Browse the Collection

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A New Nation Votes is a searchable collection of election returns from the earliest years of American democracy.

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A New Nation Votes is a searchable collection of election returns from the earliest years of American democracy. The data were compiled by Philip Lampi. The American Antiquarian Society and Tufts University Digital Collections and Archives have mounted it online for you with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Browse candidates

View complete list of candidates and links to their elections.

Download

You may also download the election returns dataset for offline analysis, including both state-by state records and the authority records.

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A New Nation Votes is a searchable collection of election returns from the earliest years of American democracy. The data were compiled by Philip Lampi. The American Antiquarian Society and Tufts University Digital Collections and Archives have mounted it online for you with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library Digital Collections

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Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library Digital Collections

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Digital Collections

The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant
Grant, Ulysses S, John Y. Simon, and John F. Marszalek. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1967.
The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant were published in 31 volumes by Southern Illinois University Press between 1967 and 2009. These materials contain thousands of letters written by Ulysses S. Grant (1837-1885), and to him; his military and presidential documents; and a small number of photographs. These manuscripts are extensively annotated to explain their significance. There is also an extended calendar synopsis of letters in each volume. In total, this is the largest and most comprehensive published collection of Ulysses S. Grant correspondence available for scholarly use.

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Digital Collections | Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library

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The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant Grant, Ulysses S, John Y. Simon, and John F. Marszalek. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1967. The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant were published in 31 volumes by Southern Illinois University Press between 1967 and 2009. These materials contain thousands of letters written by Ulysses S.

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Welcome to Famous Trials, the Web’s largest and most visited collection of original essays, trial transcripts and exhibits, maps, images, and other materials relating to the greatest trials in world history.

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New Deal Photo Gallery Over 5000 Great Depression era images from the National Archives, the FDR Library and many other sources.

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The Bancroft Library Digital Collections

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The Bancroft Library Digital Collections

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This is a digital repository created by the University of California--Berkeley.

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Moffitt Library is opening Aug. 22. Other libraries will have updated services and hours. Learn more.

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This includes collections on a variety of topics and time periods.

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Except where otherwise noted, this work is subject to a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which allows anyone to share and adapt our material as long as proper attribution is given. For details and exceptions, see the Harvard Library Copyright Policy ©2022 Presidents and Fellows of Harvard College.

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Joseph Smith founded the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

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The Joseph Smith Papers: A comprehensive digital collection of the papers of Joseph Smith

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View the original histories, journals, revelations, and other documents of Joseph Smith, the founding prophet of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

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Their collection is strongest in these fields: history of the American West, medicine and technology, the American Civil War, Latin American history, and British history.

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Included are about 4,000 pages from the papers of Joseph Smith, founding prophet of the Church; the Revelations collection; 34,000 pages of letters and typescripts of Brigham Young correspondence; as well as thousands of pages from other selected items in the Church archives.

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American Journeys contains more than 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration, from the sagas of Vikings in Canada in AD1000 to the diaries of mountain men in the Rockies 800 years later.

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American Journeys: Eyewitness Accounts of Early American Exploration and Settlement

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Read, search, and print this work at American Journeys, a digital library of early American exploration and settlement. Brought to you by the Wisconsin Historical Society and National History Day

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Denver Public Library Digital Collections

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Denver Public Library Digital Collections

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This online collection contains a selection of photographs, maps, broadsides, architectural drawings and other documents from the collections of the Western History/Genealogy Department at the library.

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This archive of filmed oral histories was created by filmmakers Anne de Mare, Kirsten Kelly and Elizabeth Hemmerdinger under the guidance of the irreplaceable Dr. Michael Nash. The 48 women represented here provide a complex portrait of Rosie the Riveter, taking the viewer beyond the iconic "We Can Do It" poster girl and deep into the experiences real Rosies from diverse backgrounds, challenging the popular perception of women in American History. The filmmakers were inspired by the extraordinary women of The Real Rosie The Riveter Project to develop this material into an animated documentary project using new media technologies called The Girl With The Rivet Gun.

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This archive of filmed oral histories was created by filmmakers Anne de Mare, Kirsten Kelly and Elizabeth Hemmerdinger under the guidance of the irreplaceable Dr. Michael Nash. The 48 women represented here provide a complex portrait of Rosie the Riveter, taking the viewer beyond the iconic "We Can Do It" poster girl and deep into the experiences real Rosies from diverse backgrounds, challenging the popular perception of women in American History.

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This is a privately owned collection amassed over twenty years. It is comprised of more than 1,200 books, objects, correspondence, periodicals, lobbying materials, postcards, and more.

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Site created by Jennifer Krafchik, Krafchik Cultural Heritage Consulting, and Ronda Bernstein, History Preservation, Inc.

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The Ann Lewis Women's Suffrage Collection is a privately owned collection, amassed over more than twenty years, of more than 1,200 books, periodicals, postcards, buttons, memorabilia, correspondence, and lobbying materials.

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This includes digitized sources from the Newberry Library in Chicago that address the history of the Midwest/Great Plains.

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In the meantime, browse more than a million images at our digital collections at the Internet Archive and CARLI.

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Native American Manuscripts at the U. of Oklahoma

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Native American Manuscripts at the U. of Oklahoma

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The Samuel Checote Collection includes typescripts of Checote's messages in his role as the first principal chief of the Creek Nation under the Muskogee Constitution of 1867 to the House of Kings and Warriors; newspaper editorials on Checote and George W. Grayson from the Vindicator and the Cherokee Advocate, as well as a biographical sketch of Checote.

The Ward Coachman Collection contains typescripts of messages and an editorial, concerning an attempt to unite Creek political factions and promote the Creek constitution of 1867.

The Creek Nation Collection features court decisions, treasury warrants, and related legal documents; correspondence; and typescripts of newspaper articles; all relating to land, institutions, and the affairs of the Creek Nation, Indian Territory. Correspondents include Samuel Checote, Ward Coachman, Joseph M. Perryman, and Isparecher.

The Grayson Family Collection (1834-1919) consists of correspondence regarding Creek Indian history, including tribal politics, tribal factionalism, the Green Peach War, sale of Creek lands in Alabama, removal, allotment of land, and related administrative matters. Correspondents include George W. Grayson, Washington Grayson, Pleasant Porter, Return J. Meigs, Samuel Checote, James A. Garfield, and Dennis W. Bushyhead.

The Lochar Harjo Collection includes typescripts of newspaper articles pertaining to Harjo's inaugural speech as principal chief of the Creeks, on governmental affairs during his administration, and, subsequently, on his impeachment.

The Isparhecher Collection contains typescripts of letters, speeches, editorials, and biographical accounts, all relating to Isparhecher's time as principal chief of the Creek Nation on subjects such as tribal factionalism, finance, land titles, and related government affairs.

The James M. Latty Collection consists of a letter with typescript copies from Mr. Latty of Muskogee, Indian Territory, to his brother in Idaho, describing his intention to move west so that his children would receive a better education. Latty lived in the Creek Nation.

The Roley McIntosh Collection includes typescripts of a speech to the Comanche and Wichita nations, as well as the Creek Nation; McIntosh's message to the Creek Nation; newspaper articles regarding McIntosh; and a biographical sketch of McIntosh.

The Mrs. Alfred Mitchell Collection (1895-1910) features typescripts of articles and poems written by the Creek Indian poet Alex Posey. The articles include information on Posey's actions while he was a member of the Dawes Commission, the opposition to allotment by the Snake Clan of Creek Indians, and Creek Indian opposition to Oklahoma statehood.

The Opothleyaholo Collection (1928) contains a biographical typescript commenting on Opothleyaholo's, a member of the Creek Nation, mistrust of white men.

The Joseph M. Perryman Collection (1883-1901) consists of newspaper articles, including editorials, proclamations, and reports relating to Perryman, Principal Chief of the Creek Nation; his term of office; and his service as a delegate from the Creek Nation to the Indian International Council.

The L.C. Perryman Collection (1887-1907) includes typescripts of newspaper articles relating to Perryman's service as Principal Chief of the Creek Nation, the Dawes Commission, Perryman's ouster from office in 1895, and his involvement with a plan for Creek Indians to emigrate to Mexico in 1905.

The Sapulpa Euchee Boarding School Collection (1915-1918) is comprised of ledgers recording supplies used by the school, along with the number of teachers and students in attendance at the U.S. Indian Service school.

The Evelyn H. Shumard Collection (1898-1915) includes minutes of the city council of Sapulpa, Indian Territory; diaries of Evelyn Shumard; short manuscripts by Shumard entitled "Outlaws," "The Parade," The Spirit of Tulsa," "My Life," and "Oklahoma;" scrapbooks by Marion, Alice, and Gordon Shumard on various topics including "An Early History of Sapulpa," and memorabilia from schools attended by the Shumards.

The Moty Tiger Collection (1899-1931) features typescripts of newspaper articles relating to the change in status of the Creek Nation and the role of Tiger, the tribe's first Principal Chief following the amalgamation of Indian Territory into Oklahoma.

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University of Oklahoma Libraries - Western History Collections - Native American Manuscripts

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The Samuel Checote Collection includes typescripts of Checote's messages in his role as the first principal chief of the Creek Nation under the Muskogee Constitution of 1867 to the House of Kings and Warriors; newspaper editorials on Checote and George W. Grayson from the Vindicator and the Cherokee Advocate, as well as a biographical sketch of Checote.

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This is a collection of selected speeches, legislation, and battle reports that were written during the U.S.-Mexican War of 1846-1848. Most were taken from A Documentary History of the Mexican War, a Descendants of Mexican War Veterans publication.

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This site recovers and preserves rare Indigenous newspapers, photographs, and archival materials from all across Native North America.

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Native American Constitution and Law Digital Project

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Native American Constitution and Law Digital Project

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Users worldwide can find, in this virtual Schomburg Center, exhibitions, books, articles, photographs, prints, audio and video streams, and selected external links for research in the history and cultures of the peoples of Africa and the African Diaspora.

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Digital Schomburg provides access to trusted information, interpretation, and scholarship on the global Black experience through online materials at the Schomburg Center created and curated by our staff and librarians. Visitors can locate online articles, digital exhibitions, photographs, audio and…

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The collection is an exploration of women's impact on the economic life of the United States between 1800 and the Great Depression. Working conditions, workplace regulations, home life, costs of living, commerce, recreation, health and hygiene, and social issues are among the issues documented.

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Though it's a relatively recent field of study, women's history is inscribed across all of the Harvard Library holdings gathered since 1638.

By examining those holdings afresh and querying them in a new and feminist light, the curators of the Women Working collection have aggregated thousands of items that illuminate women's history.

The result is a unique digital collection comprising over 650,000 individual pages from more than 3,100 books and trade catalogs, 900 archives and manuscript items, and 1,400 photographs.

The collection is an exploration of women's impact on the economic life of the United States between 1800 and the Great Depression. Working conditions, workplace regulations, home life, costs of living, commerce, recreation, health and hygiene, and social issues are among the issues documented.

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Though it's a relatively recent field of study, women's history is inscribed across all of the Harvard Library holdings gathered since 1638. By examining those holdings afresh and querying them in a new and feminist light, the curators of the Women Working collection have aggregated thousands of items that illuminate women's history.

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The Center Digital Collections catalog provides access to the digital assets of the Center for Jewish History and its five partner organizations, the American Jewish Historical Society, the American Sephardi Federation, the Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University Museum, and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. The combined collections of the five partners constitute a vital resource for the documentation and exploration of the Jewish experience.

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Indian Peoples of the Northern Great Plains

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Indian Peoples of the Northern Great Plains

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Indian Peoples of the Northern Great Plains Digital Collection - Montana State University (MSU) Library - Montana State University Library

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Indian Peoples of the Northern Great Plains Digital Collection

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A collaborative digital collection of North American Northern Great Plains Indian Peoples with photos and original artwork from the collections of Museum of the Rockies, Montana State University Bozeman Library Archives and Special Collections, Montana State University Billings Library Special Collections, Montana State University Northern Library, and Little Big Horn College Library.

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This consists of three databases: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, the Intra-American Slave Trade Database, and the African Names Database.

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Drawing on extensive archival records, this digital memorial allows analysis of the ships, traders, and captives in the Atlantic slave trade. The three databases below provide details of 36,000 trans-Atlantic slave voyages, 10,000 intra-American ventures, names and personal information. You can rea…

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This consists of three databases: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, the Intra-American Slave Trade Database, and the African Names Database.

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Drawing on extensive archival records, this digital memorial allows analysis of the ships, traders, and captives in the Atlantic slave trade. The three databases below provide details of 36,000 trans-Atlantic slave voyages, 10,000 intra-American ventures, names and personal information. You can rea…

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Anna Julia Cooper Collection | Howard University Research | Digital Howard @ Howard University

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This project was completed with funding and support from Dr. Shirley Moody-Turner in conjunction with the Anna Julia Cooper Society; a Digital Humanities Grant from the Center for Humanities and Information at Penn State University; and Adrena Ifill and DoubleBack Productions.

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The most comprehensive online resource on Jewish history, politics and culture.

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Encyclopedia of Jewish and Israeli history, politics and culture, with biographies, statistics, articles and documents on topics from anti-Semitism to Zionism.

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The papers of reformer and suffragist Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) span the period 1846-1934 with the bulk of the material dating from 1846 to 1906. The collection, consisting of approximately 500 items (6,265 images) on seven recently digitized microfilm reels, includes correspondence, diaries, a daybook, scrapbooks, speeches, and miscellaneous items. Donated by her niece, Lucy E. Anthony, the papers relate to Susan B. Anthony's interests in abolition and women's education, her campaign for women's property rights and suffrage in New York, and her work with the National Woman Suffrage Association, the organization she and Elizabeth Cady Stanton founded in 1869 when the suffrage movement split into two rival camps at odds about whether to press for a federal women's suffrage amendment or to seek state-by-state enfranchisement. With the possible exception of her close collaborator Stanton, no woman is more associated with the campaign for women's voting rights than Anthony, whose name became so synonymous with suffrage that the federal amendment, which formally became the Nineteenth Amendment, was called for many years by its supporters as simply the Anthony Amendment.

A volume of correspondence, 1846-1905, consists primarily of Anthony's letters to Rachel Foster Avery concerning the details of Anthony's extensive lecture circuit, her finances, the activities of the National Woman Suffrage Association, and her work on the multivolume History of Woman Suffrage which she coedited with Stanton and others. The file also includes several letters from Anthony to the Reverend Anna Howard Shaw and letters from Wendell Phillips. Although most letters concern suffrage, a few deal with personal and family matters.

Two letters were added to the collection in 1997. A photocopy of a letter dated 1883 from Anthony to Mary Kimball Rogers concerns a speech she thought had been lost in Omaha, Nebraska. A typed letter, dated 1896, from Anthony to Adelaide Johnson concerns the charges of illegality that were raised when Johnson's marriage ceremony was performed by a woman. Anthony's lobbying effort to have statues placed in the United States Capitol of herself, Stanton, and Mott as the founders of the woman suffrage movement is also noted in her letter to Johnson.

A daybook, 1856-1860, records the financial accounts Anthony kept of her work for the American Anti-Slavery Society, woman's rights, and personal expenditures for postage, room and board, travel, advertising, rent for lecture halls, and other items.

Twenty-five volumes of diaries span the period from 1865 to 1906 with some gaps and omissions. For the most part, the diaries contain brief notations of Anthony's activities and a financial record kept in the back of each volume. Other topics noted in the diaries include family matters, African-American and woman suffrage, lecture tours, and important events of the day, such as President Abraham Lincoln's assassination.

Individuals represented by either correspondence or diary entries include Rachel Foster Avery, Amelia Jenks Bloomer, Adelaide Johnson, Lucretia Mott, Wendell Phillips, Parker Pillsbury, Anna Howard Shaw, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Lucy Stone.

Also included are six scrapbooks compiled by Anthony's younger sister Mary, containing a valuable compilation of newspaper clippings, convention programs, and other contemporary accounts, which would be impossible to reassemble today. The scrapbooks primarily document Susan's and Mary's activities on behalf of woman suffrage, especially the conventions of the National Woman Suffrage Association and the New York State Woman Suffrage Association. The scrapbooks also contain biographical articles on Anthony and her associates in the suffrage movement and articles on women in higher education and professional employment, particularly in law, medicine, and journalism.

Completing the collection are manuscripts of speeches and other writings. Anthony's early focus was temperance and abolition as well as women's suffrage and education. The manuscripts date from her first public address in 1848 to 1895 when she spoke about Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible.

A finding aid ( PDF and HTML) to the Susan B. Anthony Papers is available online with links to the digital content on this site.

The collection is arranged in five series:

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About this Collection | Susan B. Anthony Papers | Digital Collections | Library of Congress

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The papers of reformer and suffragist Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) span the period 1846-1934 with the bulk of the material dating from 1846 to 1906. The collection, consisting of approximately 500 items (6,265 images) on seven recently digitized microfilm reels, includes correspondence, diaries, a daybook, scrapbooks, speeches, and miscellaneous items. Donated by her niece, Lucy E.

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This includes the complete transcription of American social reformer Frances Willard's 50-volume, handwritten journals dating from 1855-1896.

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This online resource provides access to Willard's complete journals for the first time. The original journals are fragile, and Willard's handwriting is very difficult to decipher. The fully searchable transcription makes Willard's journal easily accessible to scholars of women's history, rhetoric, education, and the American progressive era. And this easily legible online resource can be used by a new audience of History Day students, undergrads, and members of the general public.

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This online resource provides access to Willard's complete journals for the first time. The original journals are fragile, and Willard's handwriting is very difficult to decipher. The fully searchable transcription makes Willard's journal easily accessible to scholars of women's history, rhetoric, education, and the American progressive era.

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Colored Conventions Project: Bringing Nineteenth-Century Black Organizing to Digital Life

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Colored Conventions Project: Bringing Nineteenth-Century Black Organizing to Digital Life

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From 1830 until the 1890s, already free and once captive Black people came together in state and national political meetings called "Colored Conventions."

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From 1830 until well after the Civil War, African Americans gathered across the United States and Canada to participate in political meetings held at the state and national levels. A cornerstone of Black organizing in the nineteenth century, these "Colored Conventions" brought Black men and women together in a decades-long campaign for civil and human rights.

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The Colored Conventions Project (CCP) is a scholarly and community research project dedicated to bringing the seven decades-long history of nineteenth-century Black organizing to digital life. Mirroring the collective nature of the nineteenth-century Colored Conventions, CCP uses innovative, inclusive models and partnerships to locate, transcribe, and archive the documentary record related to this nearly forgotten history and to curate digital exhibits that highlight its stories, events and themes.

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Ciphering Book, [1819-1826] (Legislative Digital Edition)

Petition of Reuben Brown and Others to the Macon County Commissioners' Court, 26 May 1830 (Legislative Digital Edition)

Appraisal of an Estray by Abraham Lincoln and John W. Reed, 16 December 1830 (Legislative Digital Edition)

Petition of Hiram Watson and Others to the Sangamon County Commissioners' Court, 11 March 1831 (Legislative Digital Edition)

Bill of Sale from James A. Richerson to John Ferguson, 20 October 1831 (Legislative Digital Edition)

Bond of James Estep to Solomon Teter, 12 November 1831 (Legislative Digital Edition)

Account of William Odam to James Rutledge, [1831] (Legislative Digital Edition)

Bill of Sale from John Ferguson to Alexander Trent, 25 January 1832 (Legislative Digital Edition)

Receipt of Denton Offutt to James Rutledge, 8 March 1832 (Legislative Digital Edition)

Abraham Lincoln to the People of Sangamon County, 9 March 1832 (Legislative Digital Edition)

Receipt of Denton Offutt to William Barnett, 26 March 1832 (Legislative Digital Edition)

Receipt of Denton Offutt to William Sampson, 21 April 1832 (Legislative Digital Edition)

Order to Provide Muskets, 28 April 1832 (Legislative Digital Edition)

Certificate of Appointment for William Carpenter as Paymaster, 30 April 1832 (Legislative Digital Edition)

Certificate of Discharge for Royal Potter, 13 May 1832 (Legislative Digital Edition)

Muster Roll of Abraham Lincoln's Company of Mounted Volunteers, 27 May 1832 (Legislative Digital Edition)

Muster Roll of Abraham Lincoln's Company of Mounted Volunteers, 27 May 1832 (Legislative Digital Edition)

Muster Roll of Captain Jacob M. Early's Company of Mounted Volunteers, 10 July 1832 (Legislative Digital Edition)

Certificate of Discharge for Nathan Drake, 24 July 1832 (Legislative Digital Edition)

Certification of Abraham Lincoln, John Brannen, and Hugh Armstrong, July 1832 (Legislative Digital Edition)

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Ciphering Book, [1819-1826] (Legislative Digital Edition) Petition of Reuben Brown and Others to the Macon County Commissioners' Court, 26 May 1830 (Legislative Digital Edition) Appraisal of an Estray by Abraham Lincoln and John W. Reed, 16 December 1830 (Legislative Digital Edition) Petition of Hiram Watson and Others to the Sangamon County Commissioners' Court, 11 March 1831 (Legislative Digital Edition) Bill of Sale from James A.

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This includes the complete transcription of American social reformer Frances Willard's 50-volume, handwritten journals dating from 1855-1896.

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This online resource provides access to Willard's complete journals for the first time. The original journals are fragile, and Willard's handwriting is very difficult to decipher. The fully searchable transcription makes Willard's journal easily accessible to scholars of women's history, rhetoric, education, and the American progressive era. And this easily legible online resource can be used by a new audience of History Day students, undergrads, and members of the general public.

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This online resource provides access to Willard's complete journals for the first time. The original journals are fragile, and Willard's handwriting is very difficult to decipher. The fully searchable transcription makes Willard's journal easily accessible to scholars of women's history, rhetoric, education, and the American progressive era.

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Welcome! Thank you for visiting the website of the Queer Newark Oral History Project. We are working to tell our community's stories in the words of its trailblazers and legends, by collecting audio-recorded oral history interviews. We hope you enjoy your visit - and consider sharing your own story with one of our trained project staff.

As a community-based and community-directed initiative supported by Rutgers University-Newark, QNOHP is dedicated to preserving the history of LGBTQ people and communities in Newark, New Jersey.

This website features interviews that we've already collected, a look at some of the primary-source documents we've archived, as well as a repository of published work on LGBTQ Newark by academic researchers and community members.

Video by Timothy Stewart-Winter

News and Media Mentions

"Audible.com Hosts Queer Newark History Exhibit", June 26, 2019

"The Queer Newark Oral History Project, August 15, 2018 (GET OUT!)

"The Brick City's Queer Oral History Project shines light on black LGBT past" April 22, 2017 (OUT IN JERSEY)

"Recording Newark's LGBTQ Community's Past and Present," (One on One with Steve Adubato), December 5, 2016

"How N.J.'s LGBT-friendly clubs have long strived for safety," June 20, 2016 (NJ.COM)

Queer Newark Oral History Project Wins Clement A. Price Human Dignity Award, April 13, 2016

"The History of LGBTQ Club Spaces," December 5, 2014 (WBGO)

"Rutgers Newark to Honor Essex County's Role in LGBT Solidarity With Events," October 6, 2014 (PATCH.COM)

"Sanctuary" series to feature month-long event schedule celebrating the LGBT Newark club, ballroom, and party scenes, September 19, 2014 (BRICK CITY LIVE)

"Gays in Newark: Our Stories, Our Lives," December 11, 2011 (NJ.COM)

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Welcome! Thank you for visiting the website of the Queer Newark Oral History Project. We are working to tell our community's stories in the words of its trailblazers and legends, by collecting audio-recorded oral history interviews. We hope you enjoy your visit - and consider sharing your own story with one of our trained project staff.

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The MHL’s growing collection of digitized medical rare books, pamphlets, journals, and films number in the tens of thousands, with representative works from each of the past six centuries, all of which are available here through the Internet Archive.

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Medical Heritage Library – online access to seven centuries of medical history

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South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA)

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South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA)

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SAADA digitally documents, preserves, and shares stories of South Asian Americans.

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Collections | Japanese American National Museum

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The over 150,000 objects that comprise the JANM permanent collection chronicle the Japanese American experience in its entirety from early immigration to the present. Artifacts related to early immigration to the United States at the turn of the 20th century, early life in Japanese American communit…

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This community-sourced GoogleDoc includes links to resources related to women's history, gender studies, LGBTQIA studies, etc.

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U.S. WGSS History--Digital Archives, Projects & Resources 

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The LHP is a faculty-student research project that aims to enhance undergraduate education and provide resources on Latina/o and Chicana/o history in the Central Texas region.

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This is a Library of Congress site that collects, preserves, and makes accessible the personal accounts of American war veterans so that future generations may hear directly from veterans and better understand the realities of war.

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Notice: To help us better serve you, please contact us at [email protected] at least 10 days in advance of your anticipated visit to ensure collection material is accessible during your visit at the Library. The Library of Congress asks all visitors to follow our COVID-19 health screening protocols (PDF,432 KB), which are based on guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and the Office of the Attending Physician of the U.S. Capitol.

Doing Research in
our Collections

Print Forms & Kits
Resources for Educators/Students

WWII Reunion

20th Anniversary Events & Videos

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The Veterans History Project at the Library of Congress

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VHP helps you preserve the memories of the U.S. veterans in your life and community at the Library of Congress. Spanning from WWI to the current conflicts, you can see and hear these first-hand accounts at loc.gov/vets. The Veterans History Project (VHP) is part of the Library's American Folklife Center.

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Chicana por mi Raza began collecting oral histories in 2009. Since then, the CPMR team has interviewed more than 52 women. From these interviews we've collected and processed approximately 5500 archival items.

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María Cotera and Linda Garcia Merchant in collaboration with The Institute for Computing in Humanities Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign . This project was made possible through the generous financial support of the University of Michigan and the many women who shared their time, their memories, and their artifacts.

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Chicago Women's Liberation Union Herstory Project

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Chicago Women's Liberation Union Herstory Project

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The CWLU was the most significant of the socialist feminist women’s unions established during the “second wave” feminist movement.

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The CWLU (1969 to 1976) was the most significant of the socialist feminist women's unions established during the "second wave" feminist movement. CWLU was formed in 1969 and played a leading role in the women's liberation movement in Chicago during the 1970s.

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Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writer's Project

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Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writer's Project

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Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves.  These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project (FWP) of the Works Progress Administration, later renamed Work Projects Administration (WPA).

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Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project (FWP) of the Works Progress Administration, later renamed Work Projects Administration (WPA). At the conclusion of the Slave Narrative project, a set of edited transcripts was assembled and microfilmed in 1941 as the seventeen-volume Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves. In 2000-2001, with major support from the Citigroup Foundation, the Library digitized the narratives from the microfilm edition and scanned from the originals 500 photographs, including more than 200 that had never been microfilmed or made publicly available. This online collection is a joint presentation of the Manuscript and Prints and Photographs divisions of the Library of Congress.

The Volumes

The published volumes containing edited slave narratives are arranged alphabetically by the state in which the interviews took place and thereunder by the surname of the informant. Administrative files for the project are bound at the beginning of Volume 1. These files detail the instructions and other information supplied to field workers as well as subjects of concern to state directors of the Federal Writers' Project.

Vol. 1

Vol. 2, Arkansas

Vol. 4, Georgia

Vol. 11, North Carolina

Vol. 14, South Carolina

Vol. 16, Texas

Historical Overview

In the Depression years between 1936 and 1938, the WPA Federal Writers' Project (FWP) sent out-of-work writers in seventeen states to interview ordinary people in order to write down their life stories. Initially, only four states involved in the project (Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and Virginia) focused on collecting the stories of people who had once been held in slavery. John A. Lomax, the National Advisor on Folklore and Folkways for the FWP (and the curator of the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress), was extremely interested in the ex-slave material he received from these states. In 1937 he directed the remaining states involved in the project to carry out interviews with former slaves as well. Federal field workers were given instructions on what kinds of questions to ask their informants and how to capture their dialects, the result of which may sometimes be offensive to today's readers (see A Note on the Language of the Narratives). The field workers often visited the people they interviewed twice in order to gather as many recollections as possible. Sometimes they took photographs of informants and their houses. The interviewers then turned the narratives over to their state's FWP director for editing and eventual transfer to Washington, D.C. The administrative files accompanying the narratives detail the information supplied to field workers as well as subjects of concern to state directors of the FWP. For more information about the interviewers, the people interviewed, and the processes of collection and compilation, see Norman Yetman's essay which accompanies this online collection.

In 1939, the FWP lost its funding, and the states were ordered to send whatever manuscripts they had collected to Washington. Once most of the materials had arrived at the Library of Congress, Benjamin A. Botkin, the folklore editor of the FWP who later became head of the Archive of Folk Culture at the Library of Congress, undertook the remaining editing and indexing of the narratives and selected the photographs for inclusion. As noted above, he organized the narratives by state, and then alphabetically by name of informant within each state, collecting them in 1941 into seventeen bound volumes in thirty-three parts under the title Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves (Washington, D.C., 1941). The multivolume set and other project files, including some earlier unbound annotated versions of the narratives, are housed in the Manuscript Division and described in the finding aid for the records of the WPA.

Other records relating to the ex-slave project are among the FWP files at the National Archives and Records Administration (Record Group 69.5.5) and are described in the Guide to Federal Records in the National Archives of the United States, Vol. I. (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1995). Volumes 2-17 of The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography, edited by George P. Rawick and others (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1972-79), present these narratives with a slightly different organization; the later volumes of Rawick's series also include ex-slave interviews housed in other archives. Anthologies containing selections from the Library of Congress collection include the Federal Writers' Project's Lay My Burden Down: A Folk History of Slavery, edited by B. A. Botkin (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1945) and Voices from Slavery (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970), edited by Norman R. Yetman, author of An Introduction to the WPA Slave Narratives under the Articles and Essays tab. For additional works using these narratives as well as other slave narratives, please see the list of Related Resources.

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About this Collection | Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 | Digital Collections | Library of Congress

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Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project (FWP) of the Works Progress Administration, later renamed Work Projects Administration (WPA).

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ABOUT THIS COLLECTION

This collection includes oral histories collected for the AIDS/Brooklyn exhibition, undertaken by the Brooklyn Historical Society in the early 1990s. The project attempted to document the impact of the AIDS epidemic on Brooklyn communities.

This collection was processed and described as part of the project, 'Voices of Generations: Investigating Brooklyn's Cultural Identity,' funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) and The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation.
AIDS/Brooklyn Oral History Project collection
ORAL HISTORIES

Broman, Melinda (1992/06/20)

Coleman, Philip (1992/06/13)

John, Marilyn (1992/06/23)

Morciglio, Adolph (1992/06/01)

Morrissey, Karen and Robert Ripp (1992/07/29)

Mulcahy, Donna (1992/06/27)

N., A. (1992/05/04)

Norris, Barbara (1992/08/19)

Palazzo, Maria (1992/07/30)

Pearson, Mildred (1992/07/11)

Post, Kenny and Cheryl Wagner (1992/09/26)

Rivera, Dolores (1992/09/11)

Rosa, Luis Nieves (1992/07/11)

Sandoval, William with Rita Rodriguez (1992/06/11)

Sepkowitz, Douglas (1992/10/23)

Terson, Alice (1992/09/26)

Weinstein, Ivan Keith (1992/04/14)

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AIDS/Brooklyn Oral History Project collection Archives - Oral History

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This collection includes oral histories collected for the AIDS/Brooklyn exhibition, undertaken by the Brooklyn Historical Society in the early 1990s. The project attempted to document the impact of the AIDS epidemic on Brooklyn communities. This collection was processed and described as part of the…

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Women of Protest: Photographs of the National Women's Party

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Women of Protest: Photographs of the National Women's Party

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This collection includes 448 digitized photographs selected from approximately 2,650 print photographs in the Records of the National Woman's Party. The images span from 1875 to 1938 but largely were created in the years between 1913 and 1922.

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This collection includes 448 digitized photographs selected from approximately 2,650 print photographs in the Records of the National Woman's Party, a collection of more than 438,000 items, housed in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress. The images span from 1875 to 1938 but largely were created in the years between 1913 and 1922. The images depict the tactics used by the militant wing of the suffrage movement in the United States-including picketing, petitioning, pageants, parades and demonstrations, hunger strikes and imprisonment---as well as individual portraits of organization leaders and members. The photographs document the National Woman's Party's push for ratification of the 19th Amendment as well as its later efforts for passage of the Equal Rights Amendment.

Founded in 1913 as the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage (CU), the National Woman's Party (NWP) introduced tactics and strategies to the American women's suffrage campaign that were inspired by its leaders' experiences with the militant wing of the British suffrage movement ( see Historical Overview). The NWP sought to attract publicity, generate public interest, and pressure government officials to support women's suffrage in order to win passage of a federal amendment to the U.S. Constitution guaranteeing women the right to vote. Its tactics included holding open-air demonstrations; distributing pamphlets; organizing elaborate parades and pageants; circulating suffrage petitions; mounting billboards on public highways; orchestrating nationwide automobile and train tours of suffrage speakers; picketing the White House and congressional office buildings; burning watch fires; conducting hunger strikes; and facing arrest, imprisonment, and force-feedings. After suffrage was achieved, the NWP launched a campaign for the Equal Rights Amendment and dedicated itself to achieving social, political, and economic equality for women throughout the world.

Because so many of the NWP's activities were designed to attract attention to its campaigns for suffrage and equal rights, there is a rich photographic archive within the NWP records, which was used by the organization for publicity purposes. In some cases, the NWP published the images in its weekly journals- The Suffragist (November 1913- January 1921) and Equal Rights (February 1923-November 1954)-or in its annual reports, postcards, and other illustrated publications. In other instances, the NWP distributed copies of the images across the country to various local newspapers to publicize the activities of area women, to promote an upcoming lecture by a visiting speaker, or to accompany a news story about a regional suffrage or post-suffrage event. In still other cases, the NWP received file copies of images taken by independent news services featured in contemporary news accounts of NWP protests, demonstrations, and other activities in Washington and nationwide. Since these images were part of a working photo morgue, they sometimes have crop markings or other notations on the front or verso and occasionally exhibit signs of repeated handling and use.

Throughout its history, the NWP frequently requested that its members submit photographs of themselves. The party also collected portraits of 19th-century suffrage pioneers, international feminists, and women active in related reform movements or profiled in an NWP publication. Collectively, these portraits form a significant part of the overall collection. Of the 2,650 images in the NWP records, approximately 60 percent-or 1,590 images, are formal or informal portraits, representing more than 1,015 individual women. A list of portraits (PDF) identifies the number of images per woman and the container numbers where they are located in the NWP records. The digitized portraits are hyperlinked.

NWP correspondence indicates that the organization frequently alerted the media or hired its own photographers to cover events and activities with the likely intention of distributing images to news agencies. The collection often contains multiple copies of the same photograph, each affixed with an identical caption, as if "ready" to be mailed out for distribution or publication. Caption information is recorded in the bibliographic records, but the captions themselves are not included in the digital images.

Also noted in the bibliographic records are citations to published versions of the images in The Suffragist and Equal Rights, and in two books published by NWP members shortly after ratification of the 19th Amendment in August 1920: Doris Stevens, Jailed For Freedom (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920) and Inez Haynes Irwin, The Story of the Woman's Party (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1921).

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About this Collection | Women of Protest: Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party | Digital Collections | Library of Congress

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This collection includes 448 digitized photographs selected from approximately 2,650 print photographs in the Records of the National Woman's Party, a collection of more than 438,000 items, housed in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress. The images span from 1875 to 1938 but largely were created in the years between 1913 and 1922.

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These are large-scale maps (made for fire insurance purposes) dating from 1867 to the present, depicting the commercial, industrial, and residential sections of ~12,000 cities and towns in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. They are incredibly detailed and are an excellent way to study buildings, space, and geography.

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The Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps Online Checklist provides a searchable database of the fire insurance maps published by the Sanborn Map Company housed in the collections of the Geography and Map Division. The online checklist is based upon the Library's 1981 publication Fire Insurance Maps in the Library of Congress and will be continually updated to reflect new acquisitions.

Fire Insurance Maps
in the Library of
Congress. 1981

The online checklist also contains links to existing digital images from our collection and will be updated as new images are added. If you have any questions, comments, or are interested in obtaining reproductions from the collection, please Ask A Librarian.

The Sanborn maps are arranged by state, then city and release data. Currently there are over 25,000 sheets from over 3000 city sets online in the following states: AK, AL, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, GA, ID, IL, IN, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MO, MS, NC, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NV, OH, OK, PA, SD, TX, VA, VT, WY and Canada, Mexico, Cuba sugar warehouses, and U.S. whiskey warehouses.

Sanborn Keys & Colors

Fire insurance maps are distinctive because of the sophisticated set of symbols that allows complex information to be conveyed clearly. In working with insurance maps, it is important to remember that they were made for a very specific use, and that although they are now valuable for a variety of purposes, the insurance industry dictated the selection of information to be mapped and the way that information was portrayed. Knowledge of the keys and colors is essential to proper interpretation of the information found in fire insurance maps.

Color

Example 1

Color plays an important role in Sanborn map reading. In Example 1, we see that brick and tile are represented with a reddish/pink color. Several advantages demonstrate themselves when using color: a) the mapmaker can easily and quickly convey information; b) space formerly used to convey this information can now be used to convey more detailed information; and c) uniformity across all the maps is achieved and maintained.

Example 2

The use of yellow indicates frame, or wood, structures. Example 2 shows the use of framing on the inside as well as outside of buildings. Along with the color indicators, the map uses basic abbreviations to convey other information. S = store, D = dwelling, and ASB. CL. = asbestos clapboards.

Example 3

Other colors employed by Sanborn mapmakers included an olive green to demark fire resistive construction and gray for adobe construction material. Blue denotes concrete and cinder block construction. Gray is also used to indicate metal or iron building materials. The tenant indicator "loft" is shown in color to indicate that it can be seen in any of the construction color indicators.

Example 4

To print an image with many of the colors and symbols, click here.

Sanborn Keys, Legends, and Symbol Sheets

Fire insurance maps are distinctive because of the sophisticated set of symbols that allows complex information to be conveyed clearly. In working with insurance maps, it is important to remember that they were made for a very specific use, and that although they are now valuable for a variety of purposes, the initial selection of information to be mapped and the way that information was portrayed was dictated by the needs of the insurance industry.

Key for interpreting Sanborn fire insurance maps

The prefatory material found at the beginning of atlases and on the first sheet of smaller editions usually included a legend or " key" to symbols. Knowledge of these is essential to proper interpretation of the information found in fire insurance maps. The use of these symbols on fire insurance maps, especially those done by the Sanborn Map Company, was prescribed by company manuals and can usually be interpreted with a considerable degree of confidence. However, the symbols, abbreviations, and annotations are not always easily interpreted. Therefore, it is important for researchers to consult the keys to symbols. It is also important to remember that over time new symbols were added and that there were variations in the way in which symbols were applied.

Title Pages

Most editions of fire insurance maps contained prefatory material that is useful or necessary for interpreting the maps and which now has historic value in its own right. In particular, the map indexes and the descriptions of a city's fire protection services of a city provide insights into various aspects of the development of urban America. The amount and nature of such introductory material varies widely from city to city and over time, reflecting changes in mapping policies of the Sanborn Map Company, the size of the city, and the rate of change within the city. The following discussion highlights major features of the prefatory material, but not all elements will necessarily be found in the fire insurance maps for a given city or town.

Small-town maps that comprised only a few map sheets were generally issued in loose-leaf format and did not have separate title pages. The first page of such editions, however, would include the names of the city, county, and state. The county name was important for differentiating towns of the same name within a state. It is important to note that because of divisions of counties or changes in county boundaries, a city may now be part of a county different from that in which it was originally mapped.

For large-city maps issued in one or more volumes, the title page often presents a visual delight of ornate typography and design. As cities became denser and larger over time, the Sanborn Map Company occasionally altered the presentation of the coverage of a city. A single volume could be divided: for instance, volume 1 from an edition in the late 1800s might become volume 1, North and volume 1, South in the 1920s. Also, the coverage of the suburban portions of a city could be shifted from volume to volume. Researchers need to be aware of such changes reflected in the titles to insure that they are using the volume that covers the portion of the city in which they are interested.

An important component of title pages for large city atlases is the listing of incorporated and unincorporated places covered in the volume. This is particularly common on the fringe areas of towns from the 1920s onward, where suburban developments and new additions to the territory of a city were frequently given their own names in local usage. Such place names have been listed in the index of Fire Insurance Maps in the Library of Congress. These names can also be searched through the search engine available on the Library of Congress Web site.

Reports on Fire Protection, Services and Infrastructure

Example of a fire report from Honolulu

To the insurance industry, a valuable component of the prefatory material was a description of the fire-fighting equipment and water system of a city or town. The description could be a simple statement of a line or two in the coverage of a small town, or an elaborate report of many paragraphs for the larger cities. Reports would address such issues as the number and types of fire-fighting equipment and the number and training background of firefighters. The size, extent, and pressure of water mains was a critical factor that was often addressed in such reports. The predominant wind patterns were usually noted as well.

Interpreting Scale

The vast majority of fire insurance maps were drawn at a scale of one inch to fifty feet (1:600) when expressed as a representative fraction. A smaller or less detailed scale of mapping was employed for suburban areas or large industrial sites. For these areas, scales of one inch to one hundred feet (1:1,200) or one inch to two hundred feet (1:4,800) were used. In rare instances, even smaller scales were used. Most map sheets contain a bar scale that facilitates the measurement of features or distances, and the scale is usually given in the title of the map as well.

Interpreting Sheet Numbers

Considering that there were more than fifty thousand editions of fire insurance maps of more than ten thousand communities, it is not surprising to find inconsistencies in the way sheets in a given edition were numbered. In early atlases, numbering was often sequential across coverage for the whole city. In other cases, especially in later editions, numbering was sequential within each volume. In some early editions also, double-page plates were given a single number, but the most common pattern was to have a separate number for each page. Prefatory material was not given page numbers, however.

In the list of maps, Fire Insurance Maps in the Library of Congress, the figure in the column that indicates the number of pages does not reflect the page numbering. The figure that is given includes any unpaginated prefatory material, even the inside of atlas covers to which indexes have been pasted. Where applicable, the comments column in Fire Insurance Maps in the Library of Congress indicates special numbering sequences, such as double-page plates.

Interpreting Sanborn Indexes

Graphic Index (or Key Map)

For researchers, an important part of the prefatory material is the graphic index that portrays the areas of the city covered by each sheet in the edition. In the case of multi-volume editions, there is often a "Graphic Map of Volumes" that shows the portions of the city covered by each volume.

The graphic index is frequently referred to as a "key map." When a researcher wishes to examine the coverage for a portion of a city, the graphic index is more useful than the street or other indexes. Key maps serve two purposes: they show the areas encompassed by individual sheets and indicate the portions of a city or town that were mapped. Coloring was generally used on key maps to indicate the area covered by an individual sheet in the edition or atlas. There are usually compass roses, often highly decorative, to orient the user, but not always scales.

Street Indexes

A street index from a small town

One important component of a fire insurance map or atlas is the street index. In theory, street indexes are rather simple. Street names are listed alphabetically, including numbered streets and avenues, which are spelled out in full. Subheadings under the name of a street frequently indicate address ranges covered by individual sheets in the edition or volume. For some large editions and atlases, however, this index may also contain a separate listing for a special component of the city, such as wharves and piers. In using these indexes, it must be remembered that street names and building numbering systems could change several times in a given city during the century and a half in which these maps were prepared. Trying to find the historical equivalent of a current address can be rather difficult if researchers try to rely strictly on the street indexes. In many cases, it will be necessary to relate an address on a current map to the key map described in the previous section. On the other hand, when working only with a written record of an address, street indexes are essential for locating buildings for which the street or number has changed.

Special Indexes

Example of a Special Index

An interesting look at the life of a city can be found in an index of specific properties that sometimes appears separately but may also be a continuation of the street index. The name of this index usually includes the word "Specials." It identified major businesses, public buildings, factories, or other large structures. Such indexes were prepared to facilitate quick location of these major features. For current researchers, however, the list of "specials" is the equivalent of an abridged city directory that provides insight into the economic and social landscape of a community. From one edition of a city to another, entries in these indexes will come and go, and a particular business or institution will change its name to reflect new owners, a new function, or a modernized sense of propriety.

Line Style, Abbreviations & Modern Symbols

Line Style

Much information could be conveyed through line types. A solid line indicated a solid wall. A break in a line showed doorways and other passages. Additionally, dashed lines could indicate some aspect of wall construction or the presence of a mansard roof. Extending solid lines beyond the edge of a building was a technique for indicating how high above the roof fire walls were built. When interpreting any fire insurance map, researchers should take care to consult the legend for that particular edition to ensure the correct interpretation of line symbology.

Abbreviations

Fire insurance maps often relied on abbreviations to convey the type of activity that took place in a structure, since that information had some bearing on the likelihood of fires. The most common abbreviations are as follows: "D" or "Dwg" for a dwelling, "F" for a flat or apartment, "S" for a store, "Sal" for a saloon. Other abbreviations added more information about a structure: numerals were used to indicate the number of stories in a building, and the letter "B" indicated the presence of a basement. These could be combined, so that "2B," for instance, indicates that a building has two stories and a basement. Multiple symbols for a single structure could reflect the use or nature of different parts of a building; hence a two-story building with a basement might be marked "2B" for the main portion of the structure while an addition on the front had the number "1" by itself to indicate a single story.

In some instances, symbols and abbreviations were combined with text to describe a specific use. These can be frequently difficult to interpret because they are run together; the symbols for store and basement, for instance, can be combined in the form SinB, representing the phrase "store in basement."

Modern Symbols for Fire Insurance Maps

The symbolization used on fire insurance maps evolved over time as a result of such factors as the consolidation of the industry under the control of the Sanborn Map Company, the development and improvements of building codes, the development of larger and taller buildings that required notation of special features, and the maturation of this form of cartographic endeavor. To aid researchers in using these maps, a series of keys or legends have been reproduced from reference manuals that the Sanborn Map Company produced for its employees. Researchers, should not rely solely on the extensive legends reproduced here, however, the legends published in the atlases and on the small editions issued as loose sheets represent the use of symbols at the time the map was made.

Interpreting Congested District or Business District Maps

A valuable feature in the prefatory material of editions for large cities is the map of the "congested" or "business" district. This kind of map was drawn at scales intermediate between the large scale of a single sheet and the small scale of the key map for a volume. A typical map of this type might cover an area twenty blocks by thirty blocks in size. Generally, such maps served as a frame of reference for understanding the relationship of buildings and places in the heavily developed portions of towns. In some cases, they were annotated to show the limits of coverage by fire departments (in the early years of fire protection, fire company service was not provided to all parts of a town or city) or some other salient feature of the city.

Interpreting Dates

Publication Dates

For the first half century of fire insurance mapping, the dating of editions is generally straightforward. For small-town maps issued in loose-leaf format, the first page and generally each subsequent page carried the month and year of publication quite prominently in an upper corner of the map. The year of publication was usually repeated as part of the copyright notice that appeared as part of or adjacent to the title.

The dating of multi-volume editions of large-city maps is somewhat more complicated. The date on the first volume may be valid only for that particular volume, as the subsequent volumes may have been issued over a period of years. In several cases, a single volume within a multi-volume set was revised and reissued with a new date even before the whole edition was completed. In Fire Insurance Maps in the Library of Congress, therefore, date ranges are given for the coverage of multi-volume editions.

Corrected Editions

Beginning around 1920, the dating of an edition becomes rather complicated. In response to various economic factors around that time, the Sanborn Map Company began updating maps for its customers by issuing paste-on correction slips. These were generally applied by a company employee, who then annotated a chart, usually entitled "Correction Record," attached to the title page, recording the dates on which corrections had been applied. Such correction slips were intended to keep the map coverages current. Over the years, however, more and more correction slips were added, and it is impossible to determine which correction slips were applied in which years. For many cities, as many as fifty or sixty series of correction slips were applied over the course of thirty or forty years. In Fire Insurance Maps in the Library of Congress, the dates for such editions are the date of the original printed edition of the map and the latest date for which corrections were applied.

The latest date, however, is not always found in the "Correction Record." In many cases, additions to indexes pasted into an atlas are later than the last correction slip annotation indicates. In Fire Insurance Maps in the Library of Congress, the latest date of an edition or volume reflects the latest date found on any material pasted into that volume or edition.

The vast majority of examples of paste-on correction sheets in the collections of the Library of Congress come from the maps produced by the Sanborn Map Company from the late 1920s. This technique, however, appeared very early in the history of fire insurance mapping. When significant changes took place in a city, it was important to update the fire insurance plans. In some cases, the amount of change did not warrant mapping the entire city again. In other cases, it may have been prudent to update certain key changes even before the whole city could be re-mapped. To accomplish this, fire insurance map producers printed a correction sheet that was pasted over the incorrect information. Charles Rascher, for example, in his 1891 atlas of Chicago, includes seven different updates printed on a single sheet. Where a map producer had inventory in stock, the corrections could be applied before the volume was sold. At least some companies offered the service of sending employees to customers' offices, where the correction sheets could be applied on site.

Interpreting Water System Maps

Example of a portion of a water system map

In many editions of fire insurance atlases of large towns or cities, there was a separate map, frequently an inset but sometimes rather substantial in size, showing the water distribution system. Such a map might be accompanied by a description of pumping station equipment, pressure, sizes of mains and water lines, the types and distribution of fire hydrants, and so forth.

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Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project

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Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project

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Feeding America is an online collection of some of the most important and influential American cookbooks from the late 18th to early 20th century. The digital archive includes 76 cookbooks from the MSU Libraries' collection as well as searchable full-text transcriptions.

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The Cornell University Library Making of America Collection is comprised of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.

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T his site is linked from

EuroDocs: Online Sources for European History,

from AmDocs: Documents for the Study of American History,

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This database contains leaflets and newspapers that were distributed on the University of Washington campus during the decades of the 1960s and 1970s. They reflect the social environment and political activities of the youth movement in Seattle during that period.

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In 1960 a small group of young people formed Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and adopted The Port Huron Statement, written by student leader Tom Hayden. The manifesto urged participatory democracy, or the idea that all Americans, not just a small elite, should decide major economic, political, and social issues that shaped the nation. It also criticized American society for its focus on career advancement, material possessions, military strength, and racism. By 1968 some 100,000 young people around the nation had joined SDS.

Student protesters denounced corporate bureaucracy and campus administrators. Universities and colleges, they believed, were dictatorial and exercised too much control over students. Students held rallies and sit-ins to protest restrictions of their rights. In 1964 a coalition of student groups at the University of California, Berkeley, claimed the right to conduct political activities on campus; the coalition became known as the Free Speech Movement. Political activism and protests spread to other campuses in the 1960s.

The youth movement's demonstrations soon merged with the protests of students who opposed the Vietnam War. By the spring of 1968, student protests had reached hundreds of campuses. At the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, antiwar demonstrators clashed with the police, and the images of police beating students shocked television audiences. Violence peaked at an antiwar protest at Ohio's Kent State University in May 1970, when National Guard troops gunned down four student protesters.

The political activities of the youth movement had enduring effects. Colleges became less authoritarian, ending dress codes and curfews and recruiting more minority students. Students also contributed mightily to the movement against the war in Vietnam. Both the counterculture and student activism, finally, fueled a backlash that blossomed in the 1970s and 1980s. The civil rights movement, the women's movement, the youth movement, and the environmental movement changed people's lives. They also created a climate of rebellion, confrontation, and upheaval. ("United States (History)," Microsoft® Encarta® Online Encyclopedia 2004 http://encarta.msn.com )

The chaotic events of the 60's, including war and social change, seemed destined to continue in the 70's. Major trends included a growing disillusionment of government, advances in civil rights, increased influence of the women's movement, a heightened concern for the environment, and increased space exploration. Many of the "radical" ideas of the 60's gained wider acceptance in the new decade, and were mainstreamed into American life and culture. Amid war, social realignment and presidential impeachment proceedings, American culture flourished. Indeed, the events of the times were reflected in and became the inspiration for much of the music, literature, entertainment, and even fashion of the decade. (Kingwood College Library. American Cultural History 1970-1979 http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decade70.html)

This database contains leaflets and newspapers that were distributed on the University of Washington campus during the decades of the 1960s and 1970s. They reflect the social environment and political activities of the youth movement in Seattle during that period.

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Selection, research and descriptive metadata for the Peoples Protest Database were completed by Kristin Kinsey and Abel Diaz in 2003-4. The text are selections from Vietnam War era ephemera collection of printed ephemera including pamphlets, posters, manifestos, newsletters, booklets, and open letters created by the various Seattle-area and University of Washington manifestations of American civil rights and protest movements of the late 1960's and 1970's. The material centers mainly around the Vietnam War, but includes much about feminism, racism, socialism, labor unions and the rights of farm workers, gay rights, environmental and economic boycotts of large corporations and agro-industry, prisoners' rights, and the Iranian revolution of 1979. Documents include the publications of groups such as the Seattle Liberation Front, the UW chapter of Students for a Democratic Society, the Student Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, WashPIRG, Young Socialist Alliance, UW Staff Rights Organizing Committee, Seattle Gay Liberation Front, Students Against Violent Expression, United Workers Union, and the Northwest Nihilist League. The majority of the materials dates from 1970-1973. The database also includes a selection from the Seattle underground newspaper The Helix edited by Paul Dorpat and illustrated in part by Walt Crowley.

The text was scanned in grayscale and color using a Microtek Scanmaker 9600L and saved in .jpg format. Some manipulation of the images was done to present the clearest possible digital image. The scanned images were then linked with descriptive data using CONTENTdm software. The original collections reside in the UW Libraries Special Collections Division as the Vietnam War Era Ephemera Collection.

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