LibGuides: History 200B: History of Luxury: Other Source Collections

Digital Collections: Newspapers

America's Historical Newspapers
Hundreds of titles, with especially strong coverage of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-centuries, but also strong coverage of the early twentieth-century. Includes the following sub-collections: Early American Newspapers, Series I through VII, X, XIII, and IV (1690-1922); Hispanic American Newspapers (1808-1980); African American Newspapers, Series I-II (1827-1998); Ethnic American Newspapers from the Balch Collection (1799-1977); and Caribbean Newspapers (1718-1876). Newspapers were primarily sourced from the American Antiquarian Society and the Center for Research Libraries. Part of the Archive of Americana.
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection
Digitized from the largest collection of English language, seventeenth and eighteenth century newspapers in the world. Newspapers mostly from British Isles, but includes titles from mainland Europe, India, North, and Caribbean. Part of Gale Primary Sources: Newspaper and Periodical Databases (formerly Gale NewsVault).
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Formerly called Burney Collection: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Newspapers.
Caribbean Newspapers, 1718-1876
Part of America's Historical Newspapers, currently includes 81 newspapers from 22 countries: Antigua, Bahamas, Barbados, Cuba, Curaçao, Dominica, Grenada, Guadaloupe, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Nevis, Puerto Rico, St. Bartholomew, St. Christopher, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Tobago, Trinidad, the Virgin Islands, and also Bermuda. All newspapers are in Western European languages: English, Spanish, French, and Danish.
Gallica: Presse et revues
The Irish Newspaper Archive
Subscription CANCELED. Currently comprises 33 newspapers covering 1763-present.
The Times Historical Archive, 1785-2011
The Times of London. The Sunday Times available on a separate platform. Part of Gale Primary Sources: Newspaper and Periodical Databases (formerly Gale NewsVault).

Digital Collections: Social Groups

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Over 230 manuscripts, authored by women, that document life in Early Modern England.

Black Thought and Culture
Colonial times to the present. Non-fiction works, including interviews, journal articles, speeches, essays, books, pamphlets, and letters, with brief, biographical entries for all authors. Some of the documents were previously-unpublished. Supports browsing by date, event, and other subjects.
British And Irish Women's Letters and Diaries, 1500-1950
Diaries and letters of approximately 500 women. Like the material included in "Early Encounters" and "North American Women’s Letters and Diaries", which are produced by the same publishers, the texts in this database are deeply indexed and fully searchable. All letters have been re-keyed, rather than reproduced as page images.
Defining Gender, 1450-1910
Ephemera, pamphlets, college records, exam papers, commonplace books, diaries, periodicals, letters, ledgers, account books, pedagogical treatises, government documents, anatomy books, midwifery texts, manuscript journals, poetry, novels, ballads, drama, receipt books, literary manuscripts, travel writing, and conduct and advice literature.Comprises five sections: Conduct and Politeness, Domesticity and Family, Consumption and Leisure, Education and Sensibility, and The Body.
The Gerritsen Collection of Women's History, 1543-1945
Roughly 4,500 monographs and pamphlets, and more than 400 periodicals documenting women's history around the world. Books have both Library of Congress Subject Headings, and Gerritsen Subject Terms. Somewhat more than half of the material in the collection is in English, and the remainder is in German, French, and other European languages.
Jewish Life in America, 1654-1954
Letters, scrapbooks, autobiographies, notebooks and other materials from 28 digitized archival collections from the American Jewish Historical Society in New York.
North American Women's Letters and Diaries
Colonial period to 1950. Letters from 1,325 women. Letters have been transcribed, rather than reproduced as digital facsimiles, and they are extensively indexed, as well as searchable by keyword. Biographical information is provided for each author, as well as synopses of many of the source documents, reprinted from Joyce Goodfriend’s 1987 bibliography, The Published Diaries and Letters of American Women. Based on six additional bibliographies: The Published Diaries and Letters of American Women by Joyce Goodfriend; American Diaries: An Annotated Bibliography of Published American Diaries and Journals by Laura Arksey, Nancy Pries, and Marcia Reed; Women's Diaries, Journals, and Letters by Cheryl Cline; American Diaries in Manuscript, 1580-1954; Canadian Diaries and Autobiographies by William Matthews; And So to Bed: A Bibliography of Diaries Published in English; and New England Diaries, 1602-1800: A Descriptive Catalogue of Diaries, Orderly Books and Sea Journals.
Slavery, Abolition, and Social Justice, 1490-2007
Manuscripts, pamphlets, books, paintings, and maps. Emphasis on the Atlantic world, but includes coverage of Middle East, Asia, and the Pacific. Documents all aspects of slave trade and the slave experience.
Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Trans-National Archive
Books, periodicals, manuscripts, court records, and reference works documenting world slavery and the slave trade from the 16th century through the 19th.
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
Shipping manifests from nearly 35,000 individual slaving expeditions between 1514 and 1866.
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000
Books, brochures, audio recordings, cartoons, diaries, court reports, interviews, letters, speeches, videos, and more. Produced by historians Kathryn Kish Sklar and Thomas Dublin. It includes an online journal and more than 1,600 primary source documents and several hundred images. Also included are a dictionary of social movements and organizations, a chronology of U.S. women's history, and a series of subject-based teaching strategies. The database is searchable by movements, authors, sources, a controlled vocabulary of subject terms, and other parameters.

Digital Collections: Political & Economic Systems

American State Papers
U.S. congressional materials, 1789 through 1838. Generally regarded as the unofficial predecessor to the United States Congressional Serial Set, though the two overlap chronologically somewhat.
China, America, and the Pacific: Trade and Cultural Exchange
18th to early 20th centuries. Ship logs, manuscripts, business records, newspapers, books, maps, realia, ephemera, paintings, photographs, and other illustrative documents, organized around 18 research themes: Cultural Exchange; Arts and Artifacts; Religion, Faith, and Philosophy; Social Life; Education; Crime; Employment and Labor; Health and Welfare; Race Relations; Travel and Tourism; Exploration and Discovery; The Natural World; Migration and Immigration; Politics, War, and Diplomacy; Trade and Commerce; Regulation and Legislation; Transport and Communication; and Advertising and Consumption.
Colonial State Papers
The Privy Council and Related Bodies: America and West Indies, Colonial Papers, a collection of papers presented to the Privy Council and the Board of Trade between 1574-1757, and The Calendar of State Papers, Colonial: North America and the West Indies 1574-1739, an essential guide to those papers.
Empire Online
15th century to the present. Emphasis on the British Empire. Collection tilts heavily toward the 18th century, 19th century, and early 20th centuries.
Executive Branch Documents, 1789-1939
Issued in two modules, the first module covers United States Executive Branch publications from 1789 to 1932 (not already printed in the U.S. Serial Set). The second module extends coverage to 1939. Part of ProQuest Congressional. Navigate to "Advanced Search" and select file "Executive Branch".
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Module 1 includes publications issued by the following Executive Branch departments: Agriculture Department; American Republics Bureau; Civil Service Commission; District of Columbia; Fish Commission; Freedman's Savings and Trust Company; Geographic Board; Government Printing Office; General Supply Committee; Navy Department; War Department; Interior Department; Justice Department; Labor Department; Interstate Commerce Commission; Library of Congress; State Department; National Academy of Sciences; National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers; Post Office Department; President of United States; Smithsonian Institution; Treasury Department; Commerce and Labor Department; and Labor Department. Module 2 includes publications from Treasury Department; Smithsonian Institution; Tariff Commission; Veterans Administration; Veterans Bureau; Vocational Education Board; Commerce Department; War Department; War Trade Board; Interior Department; Justice Department; Labor Department; General Accounting Office; Government Printing Office; Interstate Commerce Commission; Agriculture Department; American Republics Bureau; Civil Service Commission; Navy Department; Library of Congress; Mediation Board; National Academy of Sciences; National Capital Park and Planning Commission; National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers; Post Office Department; State Department; Pan American Union; Pan American Sanitary Bureau; Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital; Personnel Classification Board; Philippine Government; President of United States; Postal Savings System; Reserve Bank Organization Committee; Radio Commission; Railroad Labor Board; and Shipping Board. All documents are indexed and are searchable by publication title, issuing agency, subject heading, and SuDoc classification code. A PDF facsimile of each document accompanies its index record, and users can also search these PDFs, though search precision and recall are lower for the PDFs than for the index records. Access the database through the ProQuest Congressional Advanced Search.
Executive Orders and Presidential Proclamations, 1789-present
Executive orders and proclamations are legal instruments, and as such carry the force of law. Part of ProQuest Congressional. Navigate to "Advanced Search" and select file "Presidential Materials".
Global Commodities: Trade, Exploration, and Cultural Exchange
1500-present. Business records, shipping manifests, correspondence, government reports, pamphlets, statistical records, maps, photographs, paintings, prints, advertising, and other artifacts, thematically arranged by the following commodities: chocolate, coffee, cotton, fur, opium, oil, porcelain, silver, spices, sugar, tea, timber, wheat, wine, and spirits.
India, Raj, and Empire
1710-1937. Diaries, journals, official papers, letters, sketches, paintings, histories and literary works documenting the British presence in India. Emphasis on the role of the Scottish in India as traders, generals, missionaries, viceroys, governor-generals. Documents drawn from the manuscript collections of the National Library of Scotland
LLMC (Law Library Microfilm Consortium) Digital Library
Historical record of statutory, administrative, and case law for U.S. federal government, states, and territories.
Making of Modern Law: Foreign, Comparative, and International Law, 1600-1926
Treatises and monographs, from the collections of Yale, George Washington University, and Columbia. Covers international law, comparative law, foreign law, Roman law, Islamic law, Jewish law, and ancient law.
Making of Modern Law: Foreign Primary Sources, 1600-1970
Legal codes, statutes, regulations, and commentaries on codes from the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and other European countries.
Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources, 1620-1926
Published records of the American colonies, documents published by state constitutional conventions, state codes, city charters, law dictionaries, digests and more.
Making of Modern Law: Trials, 1600-1926
Unofficially published accounts of trials; official trial documents, briefs and arguments; and official records of legislative proceedings, administrative proceedings and arbitrations that document Anglo-American trials, with coverage of the British Empire. Digitized from the collections at Harvard University, Yale University, and the Bar of the City of New York.
Making of the Modern World, 1450-1914
Books, pamphlets, periodicals documenting the economic history of the West, very broadly defined, including political writings, works on international relations, international trade and commerce, and slavery, travel narratives, legal cases, and government publications. Based on the Goldsmiths’ Library of Economic Literature at the University of London and the Kress Collection of Business and Economics at Harvard University, The Making of the Modern World includes more than 60,000 books and 450 journals.
State Papers Online, 1509-1800
British State Papers Domestic, Foreign, Scotland, Ireland and Registers of the Privy Council. Each document is keyed to its entry in the Calendar of State Papers.
UK Parliamentary Papers
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Over 200,000 UK Parliamentary papers from 1715 to the present, with supplementary material back to 1688. Includes: House of Commons papers, 1715-2010; Bills and Acts, 1695-2010; Command Papers, 1833-2010; House of Lords papers, 1714-1805; Debates (pre-Hansard), 1774-1805; Hansard (debates), 1803-2005; Journals, 1688-1834; and Histories and Proceedings, 1660-1743.
United States Congressional Hearings Digital Collection, 1824-present
Both the published and unpublished hearings, which includes transcripts of spoken testimony, written statements of witnesses, reports, exhibits, correspondence, or other material submitted by interested parties. Hearings are held by Congressional committees as a way of collecting the information needed to inform decision making. Part of ProQuest Congressional. Navigate to "Advanced Search" and select the file "Hearings".
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Hearings are held by Congressional committees as a way of collecting the information needed to inform decision making. In addition to transcripts of verbal testimony, hearings may contain written statements of witnesses, reports, exhibits, correspondence, or other material submitted by interested parties. In this collection, you can search full text, by witness name, or by subject headings (e.g. "Radical Politics", "Students for a Democratic Society", "Public Demonstrations", "Communist Parties"
United States Congressional Record and Its Predecessors Permanent Digital Collection, 1789-present
In ProQuest Congressional (for best results, choose the "Congressional Record Only" search tab). The Congressional Record, which began publication in 1873, is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. Its predecessors were the Annals of Congress (1789-1824), the Register of Debates (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873). The Hein Online Congressional Documents Library has a slightly more-extensive collection: the Journals of the Continental Congress (1774-1789), the Annals of the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1825-1837), the Congressional Globe (1833-1873), the Congressional Record (1873-present), and the Congressional Record Daily (1980-present, updated daily). Part of ProQuest Congressional: navigate to "Advanced Search" and select the file "Congressional Record".
Virginia Company Archives
The Ferrar Papers (Magdalene College, Cambridge), along with transcripts of select documents. Also includes the four volumes of The Records of the Virginia Company of London. Does not include items that were once part of the collection but are so no longer; nor does it record any of those volumes from the Ferrars' library which are to be found in the Old Library at Magdalene.

Digital Collections: Time Periods

Patrologia Latina This link opens in a new window
Works of the Church Fathers from Tertullian in 200 AD to the death of Pope Innocent III in 1216.

ARTFL-FRANTEXT
12th century through the 20th. Over 3,500 French language texts.
Electronic Enlightenment
Correspondence between "Enlightenment" figures from Europe, Asia, and the Americas, covering the 17th to the early 19th centuries.
The Grand Tour, 1550-1850
Letters, diaries, journals, account books, printed guidebooks, published travel writing, paintings, sketches, and maps that document the experiences of Englishmen and Englishwomen who took the Grand Tour in the Early Modern period.
Library of Latin Texts
Latin texts from 240 B.C.E. to 1965 C.E., with emphasis on ancient and medieval Latin texts.
Medieval and Early Modern Sources Online (MEMSO)
Manuscripts, state papers, chronicles, accounts and correspondence from the archives of Britain, Ireland and continental Europe. Covers Britain, 1100-1800.
Medieval Family Life
Five major letter collections from 15th century England.
Medieval Travel Writing
Manuscripts that document journeys by European travelers to the Holy Land, India, and China during the 13th through the 16th centuries.
Patrologia Latina (Chadwyck-Healey)
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Works of the Church Fathers from Tertullian in 200 AD to the death of Pope Innocent III in 1216, based on Jacques-Paul Migne's edition, published between 1844 and 1855.
Perdita Manuscripts
Over 230 manuscripts, authored by women, that document life in Early Modern England.
Perseus Digital Library
Ancient Greek and Roman texts, with some English translations.

Digital Collections: Places

American History, 1493-1945
Documents from the Gilder Lehrman Collection at the Gilder Lehrman Institute for American History. Record series digitized include the Henry Knox Papers; the Livingston Family Papers; hundreds of record series documenting the years 1493-1859; hundreds more documenting the years 1860-1945; a collection titled "Papers and Images of the American Civil War"; and a selection of Civil War era newspapers and periodicals. Inludes subject indexes. Note: the Henry Knox papers in this collection do not duplicate the papers in the microfilm collection, which was created from the papers at the Massachusetts Historical Society, not the Gilder Lehrman Institute. Being released in modules. Modules now available: Module I Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859; and Module II Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945.
American Indian Histories and Cultures
Digitized from the Newberry Library's Edward E. Ayer Collection, American Indian Histories and Cultures contains both published and unpublished primary sources that document the American Indian experience from first contact with Europeans through the mid-20th century.
The American West: Sources from the Graff Collection at the Newberry Library
Tavel narratives, manuscripts, personal papers, printed books, maps, city directories, store catalogs, newspapers, company records, and ephemera (e.g. trade cards, posters, photos, claim certificates, city prospectuses, and more) that document the American west in its frontier period.
Readex AllSearch
Search multiple sub-collections from a single interface: Early American Imprints, series I (1639-1800) and Series II (1801-1819), Afro-American Imprints, the U.S. Congressional Serial Set (1817-1980), and the American State Papers (1789-1838). Also includes America's Historical Newspapers and African American Periodicals. Search by keyword or subject term.
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Formerly called Archive of Americana, the collection now includes non-Americana as well.
ARTFL-FRANTEXT
12th century through the 20th. Over 3,500 French language texts.
British And Irish Women's Letters and Diaries, 1500-1950
Diaries and letters of approximately 500 women. Like the material included in "Early Encounters" and "North American Women’s Letters and Diaries", which are produced by the same publishers, the texts in this database are deeply indexed and fully searchable. All letters have been re-keyed, rather than reproduced as page images.
British Literary Manuscripts, 1120-1900
In addition to strictly literary works, contains letters, chronicles, and religious writings.
China: Culture and Society
Collection of pamphlets from the Charles W. Wason Collection at Cornell University Library. Covers the period 1750-1929.
China: Trade, Politics, and Culture, 1793-1980
English-language documents from London University's School of Oriental and African Studies, and from the British Library. Includes diaries, journals, correspondence, atlases, travel narratives, missionary periodicals, government documents, scrapbooks, and more.
Early Encounters in North America, 1543-1850: Peoples, Cultures, and the Environment
Personal accounts from traders, slaves, missionaries, explorers, soldiers, native peoples, and officials, both men and women. Includes multiple indexes for exploring the collection in different ways. Includes a complete, transcribed edition of the Jesuit Relations.
Gallica: Livres.
Gallica: Manuscrits.
Gallica: Presse et revues.
India, Raj, and Empire
1710-1937. Diaries, journals, official papers, letters, sketches, paintings, histories and literary works documenting the British presence in India. Emphasis on the role of the Scottish in India as traders, generals, missionaries, viceroys, governor-generals. Documents drawn from the manuscript collections of the National Library of Scotland
Jewish Life in America, 1654-1954
Letters, scrapbooks, autobiographies, notebooks and other materials from 28 digitized archival collections from the American Jewish Historical Society in New York.
John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera
Selections from the John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera. Documents Britain in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Medieval and Early Modern Sources Online (MEMSO)
Manuscripts, state papers, chronicles, accounts and correspondence from the archives of Britain, Ireland and continental Europe. Covers Britain, 1100-1800.
Medieval Family Life
Five major letter collections from 15th century England.
Monumenta Germaniae Historica
Over 1,400 edited texts originally published in 33 series that document the history of Germany from the end of the Roman Empire to 1500 CE.
North American Women's Letters and Diaries
Colonial period to 1950. Letters from 1,325 women. Letters have been transcribed, rather than reproduced as digital facsimiles, and they are extensively indexed, as well as searchable by keyword. Biographical information is provided for each author, as well as synopses of many of the source documents, reprinted from Joyce Goodfriend’s 1987 bibliography, The Published Diaries and Letters of American Women. Based on six additional bibliographies: The Published Diaries and Letters of American Women by Joyce Goodfriend; American Diaries: An Annotated Bibliography of Published American Diaries and Journals by Laura Arksey, Nancy Pries, and Marcia Reed; Women's Diaries, Journals, and Letters by Cheryl Cline; American Diaries in Manuscript, 1580-1954; Canadian Diaries and Autobiographies by William Matthews; And So to Bed: A Bibliography of Diaries Published in English; and New England Diaries, 1602-1800: A Descriptive Catalogue of Diaries, Orderly Books and Sea Journals.
Perdita Manuscripts
Over 230 manuscripts, authored by women, that document life in Early Modern England.
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000
Books, brochures, audio recordings, cartoons, diaries, court reports, interviews, letters, speeches, videos, and more. Produced by historians Kathryn Kish Sklar and Thomas Dublin. It includes an online journal and more than 1,600 primary source documents and several hundred images. Also included are a dictionary of social movements and organizations, a chronology of U.S. women's history, and a series of subject-based teaching strategies. The database is searchable by movements, authors, sources, a controlled vocabulary of subject terms, and other parameters.

Statistics

International Historical Statistics: Europe, 1750-2000.
International Historical Statistics: Africa, Asia & Oceania, 1750-2000.
International Historical Statistics: The Americas, 1750-2000. For United States historical statistics, prefer Historical Statistics of the United States (below).
European Political Facts, 1648-1789.
The Routledge Companion to Britain in the Eighteenth Century, 1688-1820.
United States Census of Population and Housing, 1790-Present: Compiled statistics derived from the Decennial Census long forms and short forms.
The Value of a Dollar: Colonial Era to the Civil War, 1600-1865: Very useful in interpreting historical, American statistical data. Also includes prices on typical consumer goods for each period, including luxury goods.

Historical Statistics of the United States, Earliest Times to the Present
Compiled from the U.S. Decennial Census returns, and other published sources. Includes excellent, explanatory essays by expert demographers. Also includes a detailed subject index.
Social Explorer
Data on over 20,000 socio-economic indicators from 1790-present. Capable of using these statistical data to generate custom, interactive maps. Data drawn from the United States Census, 1790 to 2010; the American Community Survey, 2005 to 2012; the Religious Congregations and Membership Study, 1980 to 2010 (the most complete census available on religion in the US); and InfoGroup data on religious congregations in the US for 2009 and 2010.
HeritageQuest
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A subset of the record collections in Ancestry.com. Includes: U.S. Decennial Census enumeration forms (1790-1940); city directories (1821-1989); 1850 and 1860 slave schedules (from the Seventh and Eighth U.S. Decennial Censuses); Indian census rolls (1885-1940); U.S. Decennial Census Mortality Schedules, 1850-1885 (availability of records varies by state); and U.S. Decennial Census Non-Population Schedules, 1850-1880 (emphasis on agriculture schedules and manufacturing/industry schedules).