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.

Includes major public documents relating to the foreign affairs of Britain, other countries and international organizations.  Searchable digitized versions for most pre-1923 volumes are available on Google Books.
Call#: Van Pelt Library JX103 .A3

"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."

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.  Currently contains over 2.6 million books, including 400,000 in the public domain.

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.

Politically conservative magazine describing itself as ""America's most widely read and influential magazine and web site for Republican/Conservative news, commentary, and opinion." It is widely credited with playing a foundational role in organizing the conservative movement in the United States.  During the 1970s it became associated with the Neoconservative movement and influenced important politicians such as Ronald Reagan.

Magazine best known for its coverage of music, but also including coverage of political and cultural issues.  The 1970s features articles by luminaries such as Hunter S. Thompson.

Widely read men's magazine that includes social commentary as well as the famous Playboy interview.

Trade magazine dealing with advertising techniques, trends, and news.

Important African-American news and life style magazine.

Provides coverage of national and local events from a New York-centric perspective.  One of the first 'life-style' magazines, but it also played a more serious role in the development of the genre known as 'new journalism.'   Also available in Van Pelt Library (Van Pelt Microtext: Microfilm cont 348).

Black magazine with the highest ciruclation in America.  Features upbeat coverage and interviews of black celebrities as well as political and social coverage from an African American perspective.  Also available on microfilm for the 70s (Van Pelt Microtext: Microfilm cont 167).

Dominant national news magazine of the 70s.  Available in print for all of the 70s (Van Pelt Library: AP2 .T37).

"The approximately 1,235 images in this collection have been selected from a wide range of sources, most of them dating from the period of slavery."

"more than two hundred sheet-music compositions that represent Lincoln and the war as reflected in popular music. The collection spans the years from Lincoln's presidential campaign in 1859 through the centenary of Lincoln's birth in 1909."

an image database about the period in the history of the United States immediately following World War I. The dates are approximately from the Armistice in November of 1918 to the collapse of hyper-inflation in mid-1920. Within these two dates the country witnessed--not so much in rapid succession as concurrently--a deadly flu epidemic, a strike wave of unparalled proportions, harsh suppression in some cases of those strikes, race riots, hyper-inflation, mass round-ups and deportations of foreign born citizens, expulsion of duely-elected officials from various offices in government, an incapacitated president, espionage laws, sedition laws and, of course, the advent of Prohibition and women's suffrage.

It was a time then of great upheaval, of right-thinking men--in the words of Walter Lippmann--"scared out of their wits". It is this fear that Red Scare seeks to document, not only as it related to what variously were called "Reds", "Anarchists", "Outside Foreign-Born Radical Agitators" and the like (though of course they play an important role here), but rather the whole breadth of experiences from this period of which the anti-red hysteria was one symptom. Indeed, it is because the anti-red hysteria was so emblematic of the time, that we use it in the context of this database as a short-hand way of expressing the whole period.

Covers sociology, demographics, policy studies, political science, family studies, and social security programs.

The Tribune is the largest African-American newspaper in the Philadelphia metropolitan area and has historically served the black residents of this area by covering crime, social events and sports, organizational and political meetings, and church news, as well as by offering editorials. It has also included advertisements for help wanted, houses for sale and for such items as beauty aids, medicines, and services oriented to the African-American community. Note that the Tribune was founded in 1884 but issues up to 1912 were destroyed in an accident--they are not accessible in any format.

Graphically illustrating the evolution of vintage american paperbacks--1939-1959 (and beyond).  Nearly 30,000 scans of pulp books and magazines: mysteries, westerns, romances, borderline soft porn, etc.

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.

Full text access to selected scholarly journals.

Full text access to selected scholarly journals.

Extensive coverage of scholarly articles about the history of the U.S. and Canada.

JSTOR specializes in making available the back issues of journals in a wide variety of humanities and social science disciplines. It is not nearly as comprehensive as Historical abstracts but it has the benefit of supporing full text searching.

Collection of digitized images related to the history of eugenics.

List of links to primary resources relating to the history of eugenics.

JSTOR specializes in making available the back issues of journals in a wide variety of humanities and social science disciplines. It is not nearly as comprehensive as Historical abstracts but it has the benefit of supporing full text searching.

Extensive coverage of scholarly articles about the history of the U.S. and Canada.

• Go to the 'Occupations & Realms of Renown' area on the front page of American National Biography and click on 'complete list.'
• In the pop up box scroll to and click 'Health and Medicine.'
• You will be given another list of specific health and related professions; click on the one in which you are interested.
• The occupation you chose will be placed in the ANB search interfact. You can now run a search for everyone in the database that fits that profession or limit your search further with keywords or date ranges.

Gateway to European Union documents online. This site is not comprehensive; early publications may only be available in print.

Books and other materials held by OCLC Member Libraries.

Call#: Van Pelt Library D410 .K4

Guide to the FBIS reports.

The Center for Research Libraries maintains a significant collection of international newspapers.  They can be requested through Interlibrary Loan and be kept for extended periods of time.  Use Worldcat to determine whether newspapers that aren't available at CRL are available at other libraries.

World Bank time series statistical data covering 1970 to the present, with forecast data for up to seven years, for the 138 countries reporting public and publicly-guaranteed debt.

Semiannual public opinion surveys for European countries conducted for the European Commission, 1974 to present. CEEB subset covers "candidate" countries, 1990 to 1997.

Material available at the Center for Research Libraries can be requested through Interlibrary Loan.  Although the collection is not close to comprehensive, it does provide access to material that is otherwise very difficult to obtain.

A collection of texts of treaties, communications, protocols, and diplomatic correspondence. Each volume has a detailed index.
Call#: Van Pelt Library JX103 .A3

Includes collections such as U.S. National Security Files and Cabinet minutes.

The cannonical collection of foreign relations documents assembled by the Department of State. It is selective and does not include classified documents. For a more complete perspective one must look at declassified material as well as resources that are available on sets such as those in our microform collection.

Extremely comprehensive guide to American Foreign Relations from 1600 to the present. Includes substantial coverage of primary and secondary resources related to American foreign relations with Europe.

Primary sources, fulltext and image for declassified United States government documents from the second half of the twentieth century to the present. The collection provides coverage for domestic and international events.

Includes more than 63,000 of the most important declassified documents regarding critical U.S. policy decisions, including heavy coverage of the Berlin crisis, intelligence estimates of the Soviet Union, policy regarding terrorism, nuclear intelligence, the Cold War, and the U.S. espionage and intelligence community.

Abstracts of national labour, social security and related human rights legislation from more than 170 countries. Topics include: freedom of association, collective bargaining, elimination of child labour and forced labour, equal opportunity, employment policy, employment and work conditions, occupational safety, social security, and migrant workers.

Books and other materials held by OCLC Member Libraries.

Overview of United Nations Publications. Penn has a depository collection of U.N. documents on microfilm, and two valuable online indexes to indentifying particular documents are AccessUN and UN ODS

Call#: Van Pelt Library Reference Stacks REF JN36 .J33 1992

Call#: Van Pelt Library Reference Stacks REF HC241.2 .P379 1992

Call#: Van Pelt Library Reference Stacks REF JN30 .E52 1998

Call#: Van Pelt Library JN15 .T47 1989

Call#: Van Pelt Library Reference Stacks REF Z674.5.E85 D43 1996

Call#: Van Pelt Library Reference Stacks REF JN15 .B59 1999

Page-image fulltext of more than 14,000 World Bank documents, 1960-present.

Call#: Van Pelt Library JX1904 .A42

Call#: Storage: From RECORD page, use Place Request tab STORAGE JX1904 .A42

Including major German government document collections.

Call#: Van Pelt Library Reference Stacks REF CD1001 .T4 1975