This collection drawn from the National Library of Scotland consists of documents relating to Indian history from the foundation of the East India Company in 1615 to the granting of independence for India and Pakistan in 1947.

Includes streaming video of documentaries, archival footage, Universal Newsreels, broadcast media, more.

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This resource includes three sections:

• Independence, Partition and the Nehru Era, 1947-64
• South Asian Conflicts and Independence for Bangladesh, 1964-71
• Afghanistan and the Cold War, Emergency Rule in India, and the Resumption of Civilian Rule in Pakistan, 1972-80.

A digital repository of many of the United States' largest libraries, including those of the University of California system, Libraries of Big Ten Universities, and the University of Chicago.

British Periodicals tracks the development and growth of the periodical press in Britain from its origins in the seventeenth century through to the Victorian 'age of periodicals' and into the 20th century. On completion this digital archive will consist of more than 460 periodical runs published from the 1680s to the 1930s, comprising six million keyword-searchable pages and forming an unrivalled record of more than two centuries of British history and culture.

Bristol Selected Pamphlets, Cowen Tracts, Earl Grey Pamphlet Collection, Foreign and Commonwealth Office Tracts, Hume Tracts, Knowsley Pamphlet Collection, LSE Selected Pamphlets, Manchester Selected Pamphlets, Wilson Anti-Slavery Collection.

Includes major public documents relating to the foreign affairs of Britain, other countries and international organizations. Searchable digitized versions for 1812-1968 volumes are available on Hein Online.
Call#: Van Pelt Library JX103 .A3

House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (1715-present).

Online edition of Documentary History of the First Federal Congress (Johns Hopkins Press). Primary material documenting the actions, debates, and thoughts of the First Federal Congress and its members have been collected by the First Federal Congress Project.

This work in historical and legal scholarship draws upon thousands of sources to trace the Constitution's progress through each of the thirteen state conventions.

More than 10,000 digitized items. While the broadside format represents the bulk of the collection, there are a significant number of leaflets and some pamphlets.

Documents relating to the work of Congress and the drafting and ratification of the Constitution. Items include extracts of the journals of Congress, resolutions, proclamations, committee reports, treaties, and early printed versions of the United States Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.

"Peter Force, printer and document collector, intended to publish rare pamphlets, correspondence, and proceedings relating to the "Origin, Settlement, and Progress of the Colonies in North America" that covered the time period1763-1789. After years of work, the final (but unfinished) result was 9 volumes of material covering the years 1774-1776."

Includes digitized British/U.K. periodicals published from the 1680s to the 1930s.  It has significant coverage of literature, art, drama. and religious and social life.  On completion this unique digital archive will consist of more than 460 periodical runs published from the 1680s to the 1930s, comprising six million keyword-searchable pages and forming an unrivalled record of more than two centuries of British history and culture.

Famous series of comprehensive histories of a wide range of regions, eras and themes.

This publication is prepared by the Council of Economic Advisers to supply monthly updates related to the economic conditions in the United States. Economic Indicators provides statistical data both in tabular and graphic form and includes information on consumer and producer prices, employment, production, and money and banking. Tables typically display 10 years of annual data with the most recent 12 to 15 months broken out in detail.

"A2A allows you to search and browse for information about collections of records (archives) in England and Wales, dating from the eighth century to the present day. The archives described on A2A are cared for in local record offices and libraries, universities, museums and national and specialist institutions across England and Wales, where they are made available to the public."

The NRA is a central point for the collection and dissemination of information about the nature and location of manuscripts relating to British history. It currently consists of over 44,000 unpublished lists and catalogues that describe archival holdings in the United Kingdom and overseas. It contains information about the location and nature of historical records that have been created by some 52,000 individuals, 9,000 families, 32,000 businesses and 108,000 organisations.

The Archives Hub provides a single point of access to over 24,000 descriptions of archives held in over 180 UK repositories. At present most descriptions are at the  collection-level.

Choose the title of the newspaper as the source to limit your search to this paper.

• Baltimore Afro-American, 1940s-
• Richmond Afro-American, 1947
• Washington Afro-American, 1949-1989
• Washington National Era, 1847-1861

Directories attempting to provide comprehensive listing of newspapers published in the United States along with circulation, price and publication statistics.

"Nearly 150,000 English-language titles and editions published between 1701 and 1800 will be made available online over the course of the next two years. When complete, the product will allow full-text searching of more than 33 million pages of material, in essence, every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of important works from the Americas."

More an encyclopedia of relevant authors, subjects and works than an index.  Useful bibliographies.
Van Pelt Library Reference Stacks: REF PS374.S35 W63 2009

Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection
Numbering over 10,000 titles, May's pamphlets and leaflets document the anti-slavery struggle at the local, regional, and national levels. Much of the May Anti-Slavery Collection was considered ephemeral or fugitive, and today many of these pamphlets are scarce. Sermons, position papers, offprints, local Anti-Slavery Society newsletters, poetry anthologies, freedmen's testimonies, broadsides, and Anti-Slavery Fair keepsakes all document the social and political implications of the abolitionist movement.

Call#: Van Pelt Library PN4855 .M63 1950

Republican stronghold in Philadelphia since the 1860s.

Penn has access to Early American Newspapers sections 1 and 2.  Sections 3-7 as well as Hispanic American Newspapers are available onsite at Temple University's Paley Library.  Note that it sections 4-7 many newspapers are still forthcoming and so can't be viewed yet.

This set of 27 microfilm reels reproduces the collection in the Newberry Library and is available through interlibrary loan from the Center for Research Libraries. The set includes ephemeral materials that reflect the politics of a period of religious wars and the establishment of the absolute monarchy. The set is arranged chronologically by pamphlet publication date. An Index to the reels is also available from CRL through interlibrary loan.
Microfilm set and guide available from CRL through ILL. Also see French political pamphlets, 1547-1648; a catalog of major collections in American libraries at Van Pelt Library Stacks: Z2177.5 .L54

This set of 27 microfilm reels reproduces the collection in the Newberry Library and is available through interlibrary loan from the Center for Research Libraries. The set includes ephemeral materials that reflect the politics of a period of religious wars and the establishment of the absolute monarchy. The set is arranged chronologically by pamphlet publication date. An Index to the reels is also available from CRL through interlibrary loan.
Microfilm set and guide available from CRL through ILL. Also see French political pamphlets, 1547-1648; a catalog of major collections in American libraries at Van Pelt Library Stacks: Z2177.5 .L54

Books and other materials held by OCLC Member Libraries.

Provides comprehensive indexing of the popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States, such as Time, Newsweek, New Republic, National Review, and many others. Covers 1900-1982. Contents reflect the history of 20th century America.

JSTOR specializes in making available the back issues of journals in a wide variety of humanities and social science disciplines. Issues are available both as images and as text, making searching possible both within each title and across the whole database.

History of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.

Includes late 19th and early 20th century newspapers from Hawaii, California and New York.

Full-text of LA Times from 1881-1986.

Full-text of the New York Times. News, editorials, letters to the editor, obituaries, birth and marriage announcements, historical photos, stock photos, and advertisements are all searchable and available for viewing and printing.

Series II (1801-1819) provides full-text access to the 36,000 American books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the first nineteen years of the nineteenth century.

American publications from 1639 to 1800. Browsable by subject, genre, author, etc.

Collection with over 900 newspapers, including the Philadelphia Inquirer (1860-1900), Philadelphia Public Ledger (1836-1876) and Philadelphia North American (1839-1879).

Includes a selection of complete trial transcripts from cases involving slavery, mainly covering the late 18th and 19th centuries.

Pre-1923 items and government documents in our collections are in the public domain.  Search Franklin to identify relevant material.

Images of pre-1923 item are probably safe to put on the Internet.  Photographs taken with a camera without a tripod or a flash are permitted.

Consult with the librarian to determine what can be reproduced and whether reproductions can be published.  Pre-1923 items are probably in the public domain, but restrictions might apply.

You will need to consult with someone in the collection to determine whether photocopies can be made, photographs are allowed, and whether restrictions apply.

You will need to consult with someone in the museum to determine whether photocopies can be made or photographs are allowed and whether restrictions apply. Here is a brief description of standard rules for camera use in museums.

The Geohistory Network includes scanned images of historic fire insurance atlases and directories for Philadelphia. It is a pilot project of the Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries (PACSCL) to develop a web-based repository of geographically organized historical information about Philadelphia, its geography, its buildings, and its people.  Pre-1923 items are probably safe to use.

Material relating to Philadelphia that has been digitized from Penn's collection. Includes the Journal of the Common Council, the Ordinances and assorted 19th century books about the city.

Similar to Google Books.  Smaller but with higher quality images and some items not available elsewhere online.

Digital copies of books digitized from major libraries around the world.  Books published before 1923 are in the public domain.

Limit your search to the Advertising Cards collection and search for Philadelphia to see almost 400 mostly late 19th century advertising cards from Philadelphia. For information on reproducing the images in this collection, please contact SpecColl@brynmawr.edu.

Images from Penn's University Archives. Includes pictures of West Philadelphia, the Penn Campus, student groups, and similar subects.  Permission for digital publication must be requested using the information provided here.

Harper's Weekly from 1857-1912. Excellent interface for searching and retrieval.  Accept the conditions of use, click on search, click on Harper's Weekly Indexes, make sure that only the "illustrations" index is checked, and run a search for "Philadelphia."  Harpers Weekly was one of the earliest periodicals to include illustrations, and many of them achieved iconic status.  Harpers also had a national distribution.

Large collection of images.  Limit your search by using "Philadelphia" as a term.

Making of America (MOA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.  The collection currently contains approximately 8,500 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints.

Making of America (MOA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection currently contains approximately 270 books and 100,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints.

Digitization project focusing on mid-19th century books and magazines.  You may need to experiment with your searches before you find useful results.

"Historical Collections for the National Digital Library." A project of the Library of Congress.  Pre-1923 material is probably in the public domain.  Post-1923 material is probably under copyright.

Pre-1923 material is probably in the public domain; post-1923 material is probably protected by copyright.

Pre-1923 maps are probably in the public domain.  Post-1923 maps probably are not.

Includes the full text of the Common Council of Philadelphia and of the Ordinances of Philadelphia. You can use the search interface by appending AND and your search term after collection:"Philadelphia municipal documents." For example:
collection:"Philadelphia municipal documents" and fairmount park.

Photographic images of Philadelphia from the Philadelphia City Archives, which holds approximately 2 million photos dating from the late 1800s, as well as the Athenaeum of Philadelphia.

Aerial photos of the mid-Atlantic region's towns, factories, and other sites prior to World War II. This digital collection reproduces approximately 7500 of 12,000 Dallin aerial photos held at the Hagley Museum.  Permission of the Hagley Museum must be obtained before reproduction.

"Ongoing programs of the National Park Service have recorded America's built environment in multiformat surveys comprising more than 350,000 measured drawings, large-format photographs, and written histories for more than 35,000 historic structures and sites dating from Pre-Columbian times to the twentieth century." Search by place to limit results to Philadelphia.

Guide Includes: Image sets: - Commercial Panoramas; Paintings, Watercolors, and Sketches; Engraved and Lithographed Views; Photographs; Measured drawings; Illustrations in Architectural Publications; Real Estate Atlases ; Holdings by Repository ; Integrated Prototypes; Textual Documents: - Full texts ; Research Tools ; Databases and other Searching Tools

Historic ground plans and birds-eye perspective drawings of Philadelphia industrial sites.

Includes digitized images of the pages of 1,100 American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century. Includes 269 Philadelphia magazines published between 1771 and 1906.

Philadelphia Neighborhoods: Histories, Plans and Futures is a free, searchable database of neighborhood-based reports issued by the Philadelphia City Planning Commission between 1946 and 1990. The database was created by the University of Pennsylvania Libraries.

America's foremost weekly magazine in the early 20th century, with a circulation of over 2 million by the 1920s. In the 1960s the Post began to loose money and circulation and never recovered.

Includes the Philadelphia Press (1857-1865), the American Presbyterian (1860-1869), and the Daily Evening Bulletin (1864-1870).

Includes Philadelphia's Christian Recorder (1861-1901), "Published by the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States, for the Dissemination of Religion, Morality, Literature and Science."

The most important African American newspaper of the 20th century.

International index to scholarly and popular articles published in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Includes link to a number of German digital newspapers covering the late 19th century to the present.

Access to the full text of several important French newspapers from the mid 19th-early 20th centuries.  Notable titles currently include Le Figaro (1830-1942), Le Temps (1861-1935), La Croix (1883-1944), L'Humanité (1904-1944), La Presse (1836-1858), and Le Journal des débats (1814-1912), among others.

Index to scholarly articles published about world history (not including the United States and Canada).

Created in France, Francis covers a wide range of multilingual, multidisciplinary journals in the humanities and social sciences.

Index of domestic and foreign scholarly journals dealing with political science and related subjects.

Index to the Penn Rare Books and Manuscripts Library's collection of materials about the Dreyfus Affair.

Mostly 19th century trade cards digitized and made available from Harvard University. Do a search for 'trade cards' and limit the search to records that have digital images.

Includes the Salem Witch Trials.

Call#: Lippincott Library LIPP HF5823 .W42

Library of digited slides from the collection of an advertising historian.

Searchable Database of Thousands of Collectible Magazine Advertisements, 1960s-21st century.

More than 55,000 color images of tobacco advertisements, dating back to 1909.

"A digital collection of advertisements for runaway and captured slaves and servants in 18th- and 19th-century Virginia newspapers. Building on the rich descriptions of individual slaves and servants in the ads, the project offers a personal, geographical and documentary context for the study of slavery in Virginia, from colonial times to the Civil War."

Fifty Years of Coca-Cola Television Advertisements: Highlights from the Motion Picture Archives at the Library of Congress.

A number of fascinating collections of historic visual material. Includes thousands of "ephemeral" (advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur) films, vintage cartoons, newsreels, and similar resources.

Digitized collection of American menus from the New York Public Library. Search the entire collection or browse by date. Information about date and physical description is provided for each image. Search by typing in Buttolph and information to which you want to limit your search.

Digitized advertisements from American comic books.

Blue Books are annual reports of the British colonies. Colonial regulations issued in 1843 state:"The Annual Blue Book containing accounts of the Civil Establishment, of the Colonial Revenue and Expenditure and of various statistical particulars, etc. ... must be filled up with the greatest possible accuracy and the Statistical Tables must be full and complete." This list includes blue books for Africa.  Many blue books for non-African colonies can be identified by doing a title search for blue book in Franklin.

"The Cabinet is the main body that controls policy and coordinates activities of governmental departments. It is chaired by the Prime Minister and consists of most of the ministerial heads of departments, as well as some additional members. During peacetime it typically consists of 20 members." To use this resource one needs to add documents to the cart as if to purchase them, but there is no charge and the items can be downloaded for free after they are processed.

Call#: Van Pelt Library DA566.7 .A18

Based overwhelmingly on previously unpublished material from official British archives in the Public Record Office, the British Documents on the End of Empire Project (BDEEP) presents, for the first time, an extended documentary record of the final stages of Britain's association with the colonies of the formal empire and the countries within an informal empire." A list of published volumes with descriptions is available. The volumes of Series A provide documents relating to general government policies of relevance to the empire as a whole. Series B provides coverage of individual countries. Series C provides archival guides to official sources.

"The Confidential Print comprises diplomatic dispatches and other papers that, with dates varying from country to country but in general beginning in the 1850s, were printed for limited circulation within the British government. They went to the queen or king, were sent to important embassies abroad, or were circulated to other major departments of government. As its name indicates, the Confidential Print was not available to the public because it included sensitive information."A list of series with brief descriptions is available, but run a title search in Franklin for: British Documents on Foreign Affairs: Reports and Papers from the Foreign Office Confidential Print to identify locations.

This is a digital repository

Collection of over 20 19th century magazines available online, many of which are not included in the American Periodical Series.  Includes Putnam's Monthly and Scribner's.

Collection of over 20 19th century magazines available online, many of which are not included in the American Periodical Series.  Includes Appleton's, Ladies Repository, Southern Literary Messenger, and others.

List of resources available for searching UK archives.

"The Archives Hub provides a single point of access to 23,358 descriptions of archives held in 174 UK repositories. At present these are primarily at collection-level, although complete catalogue descriptions are provided where they are available."

Important African-American newspaper based in New York.

Important African-American newspaper based in New York.

Union catalog of books held by libraries in France.

Center for Research Libraries guide to holding pertaining to French Literature.

Special collections at the Center for Research Libraries pertaining to 17th and 18th century France.