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Addams, Jane. Jane Addams Papers 1860-1890

Includes correspondence from people such as Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Ida Tarbell and Emily Green Balch; personal documents(1873-1935) such as educational records, diaries, calendars, Addams' writings, and documents relating to her death; manuscripts and published versions of…

Afro-American History Series

Set of some 51 documents; includes sermons, orations, narratives, and other primary source materials published between 1792 and 1899. Most are pre-Civil War. Some are also available in paper copy and are listed in IRIS under this series.

Alabama. Census. 1838. 1840. 1844. (State Censuses)

Part of larger State Censuses collection

American Bureau of Industrial Research: Manuscript Collections on the Early American Labor Movement, 1862-1908 [Research collections in labor studies]

This collection has been reproduced from the holdings of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin.

American Culture Series, 1493-1875: titles in the field of history (Early American Books and Pamphlets in the Field of History)

Materials in the field of history, published before 1875. No unpublished manuscripts or serial publications are included. Provides a wealth of materials on colonization, exploration, frontier life, travel, customs, utopian and reform movements, historiography, the Revolution and the Civil War…

American Culture Series: titles in the field of economics

This set contains materials in the field of economics published before 1875. No unpublished manuscripts or serial publications are included.

American Culture Series: titles in the field of sciences

reels 1-6, sect.1. Science, General -- reel 7, sect.2. Astronomy -- reels 8-11, sect. 3. Botany -- reels 12-16, sect.4. Chemistry -- reels 17-18, sect.5. Geography -- reels 19-24, sect.6. Geology -- reels 25-27, sect.7. Mathematics -- reels 28-38, sect.8. Medicine -- reels 39-41, sect.9. Physics…

American Labor Unions' Constitutions and Proceedings, 1836-1982

Part 1 covers 1836-1974, and includes the available Constitutions and Proceedings of 33 active and 61 inactive unions. Part 2 includes 67 active and 93 inactive unions spanning the years 1864-1976. The parts are organized by industry, in 22 main categories. See Also: American Labor Unions…

American Literary Annuals and Gift Books, 1825-1865

Contents.- Reel 6. no.43-43 Autographs for freedom. -no. 44. Autumn leaves: a collection of miscellaneous poems from various authors. No. 45. Autumn leaves: original pieces in prose and verse. -no.46. The Baltimore book, a Christmas and New-Year's present, ed. by W. H. Carpenter and T. S.…

American Periodical Series, (APS I, II, III)

These three series reproduce over 1100 periodicals of the 18th and 19th century. Available full-text online via the Indexes and Database page. - Now available as American Periodicals Series Online 1740-1900 at

American Women's Diaries: New England Women

Ruth Henshaw Bascom 1789-1846, Abigail Gardner Drew 1799-1817, Hannah Davis Gale 1837-1838, Sally Ripley 1799-1801 & 1805-1809, Martha Patty Rogers 1785, Susan EPB Forbes 1841-1908, Caroline Barrett White 1849-1915

American Women's Diaries: Southern Women

1. Ada W. Bacot. 2. Zillah (Haynie) Brandon. 3. Mary Davis (Brown) Brown. 4. Dolly Summer (Lunt) Burge. 5. Louisiana D. Burge. 6. Kate S. Carney. 7. Carolyn Elizabeth (Burgwin) Clitherall. 8. Louisa (Maxwell) Holmes Cocke. 9. Martha E. (Foster) Crawford. 10. Sarah Anne (Gayle) Crawford. 11. Kate…

American Women's Diaries: Western Women

Collection of 427 published and unpublished works by and about women in the Western U.S. during the 18th and 19th centuries, including: diaries; autobiographies; biographies; personal histories; transcriptions of oral interviews; and transcriptions of Pioneer Personal History Questionnaires.

Archives biographiques francaises.

Alphabetical collection of more than 180 important french biographical works published from the 17th to the 20th century.

Archivio biographica italiano: cumulativo di 321 repertori biografici fra i piau importanti a partire dal sec. XVII sino all'inizio del sec. XX.

Not available.

Archivo biografico de Espana, Portugal e Iberoamerica: una compilacion de 300 obras biograficas, las mas importantes y representativas, editadas entre el siglo XVII y los inicios del siglo XX

Text of microfiche in Spanish and Portugese; text of manual in Spanish, Portugese, English and German.

Argentina. Comision Directive del Censo [Census]. 1895. - Censo argentino, año 1895 capital de la republica.

Includes handwritten census records with personal names.

Argentina. Direccion General de Estadistica. Anuario de la Direccion General de Estadistica. 1893-1907, 1909-1912. [Statistics]

1905 v. 2 missing

Arizona. Census. 1864. 1866. (State Censuses)

Part of larger State Censuses collection

Arkansas. Census. 1854. (State Censuses)

Part of larger State Censuses collection

Austria. Statistische Zentral-Kommission. Statistisches jahrbuch der osterreichischen monarchie 1863-1881. [Statistical yearbook]

Part of Foreign Statistical Yearbooks collection.

Austria. Statistische Zentral-Kommission. Tafeln zur Statistik der osterreichischen monarchie 1842-1859. [Statistics]

Part of Foreign Statistical Yearbooks collection. 1847-1848 not received

Austria. Statistische Zentralkommission. Osterreichisches statistisches handbuch 1882-1917. [Statistics]

Part of Foreign Statistical Yearbooks collection.

Austrian State Archives 1848-1918. Prussian files

Austria. Staatsarchiv

Belgium. Commission Centrale de Statistique. Statistique generale de la Belgique: Expose de la situation du royaume. 1841-1900 [Statistics]

Part of Foreign Statistical Yearbooks collection. 1900 not received.

Belgium. Institut National de Statistique. Annuaire statistique de la Belgique. 1870-1962 [Annual statistics]

Part of Foreign Statistical Yearbooks collection. 1880, 1893, 1894 not received.

Bentley, Richard 1854-1936: Lists of publications of Richard Bentley and son 1829-1898

Series: The archives of British publishers on microfilm.

Black Abolitionist papers, 1830-1865 compiled and edited by George E. Carter and C. Peter Ripley

Some 14,000 documents written by "nearly" 300 black men and women, dealing with the movement to end slavery. Included are letters, speeches, editorials, articles, sermons, and essays, copied from newspapers and manuscript collections held in the US, Canada and the UK. There is also a…

Black Literature, 1827-1940

The guide is an index to thousands of various fiction pieces, poems, book reviews, and literary notices, published in black periodicals between 1827 & 1940.

Bodleian Library. Calendar of charters and rolls preserved in the Bodleian library

Edited by William H. Turner under the direction of the Rev. H.O. Coxe, M.A., Bodley's librarian.
Formerly constituting the collections of Anthony à Wood, Roger Dodsworth, Ralph Thoresby, Thomas Martin of Palgrave, Thomas Tanner, bishop of St. Asaph, Dr. Richard Rawlinson, Richard…

Boyd-Bowman, Peter. Lexico Hispanoamericano del siglo XIX

Series: Spanish Series (Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies) no. 17.

Burr, Aaron. The papers of Aaron Burr, 1756-1836.

Series 1. Correspondence. Reels 1-11 -- Series 2. Orderly books & journals. Reel 12 -- Series 3. Legal papers. Reels 13-27.

California. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Biennial report. 1st-9th. 1883/84-1899/1900. [State Labor Reports]

Part of State Labor Reports series. 6th (1893-94) and 8th (1897/98) not published.

California. Census. 1852. (State Censuses)

Part of larger State Censuses collection

California. State Board of Arbitration. Biennial report: 1891-1894. [State Labor Reports]

Part of State Labor Reports series

California. State board of prison directors. Report. 1st-32nd. 1879-1928/30.

Part of State Corrections and Poverty Reports collection. Reports are annual 1879-1892, biennial 1892-1930. The 16th Report, 1896/98 was never published. Includes reports of the state prisons at Quentin and at Folsom.

California. State prison directors. Report. 1851-1877/79.

Part of State Corrections and Poverty Reports collection. Reports for the period are irregular. Includes reports of the state prison at San Quentin. A report for 1856 was not located and may never have been published.

Cambridge South Asian archive: records of the British period in South Asia relating to India, Pakistan, Ceylon, Burma, Nepal and Afghanistan held in the Centre of South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

Pre-1760 - 1970+

Campaign for Women's Suffrage, 1895-1920: Papers of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance, the National Union of Woman's Suffrage Societies, the Parliamentary Committee for Woman's Suffrage, and the Manchester Men's League for Woman's Suffrage

Not available.

Canada. Public Archives. Annual Reports 1872-1949

Not available.

Canada. Public Archives. Documents relating to the Constitutional History of Canada: 1759-1828. Selected and edited with notes by Adam Shortt, Arthur G. Doughty, D.A. McArthur, and Norah Story.

Constitutional documents.

Canada. Statistics Canada. Census of Canada 1871-1971

Census of Canada: 1871, 1881, 1890-91, 1893, 1901, 1906, 1911, 1921, 1931, 1941, 1951, 1961, 1966, 1971. Census of Manitoba 1885-86. Census of Newfoundland and Labrador 1945. Census of Prairie Provinces 1906(?), 1916, 1926, 1936. Census of the Three Provisional Districts of the North-West…

Canada. Statistics Canada. Personal Census of Canada. 1851-52, 1860-61.

Not available.

Church Missionary Society archive Section V, Missions to the Americas.

Reproduces papers of the Church Missionary Society held at the CMS Headquarters in London and the University of Birmingham Library; includes books of correspondence, reports, records, applications, journals, and minutes.

Church of Scotland missionary archive

Archive from the National Library of Scotland. Part 1. Missions to India and China, 1829-1933.

CIS U.S. Congressional Committee Prints on Microfiche

pt. 1. 1911-1969: Covers publications filmed from the holdings of the U.S. Senate Library and selected House and Senate Committees -- pt. 2. 1917-1969: Covers publications filmed from the holdings of the Library of Congress and the National Archives -- pt. 3. 1830-1969: Cover publications filmed…

City Directories Trenton, New Jersey. 1845-1971 Trenton Free Public Library

No directories included for 1846-1853, 1858, 1860-1864, 1866, 1937, 1939-45, 1949, 1951, 1953, 1959, 1961, 1964, 1968, 1969.

Civil War Letters 1861-1865, Copied from the Fredonia censor

Letters sent to the Fredonian describing army life during the civil war.

Colonial-Hispanic legal documents (18th-19th centuries)

Reel 1. [Introduction and contents], index cards for all jurisdictions -- Reel 2. Colombia : Laws & statues (Documents 1-97) -- Reel 3. Colombia : Law & statues (Documents 1-22) -- Reel 4. Colombia : Miscellaneous (Documents 1-4) -- Reel 5. Mexico : Laws & statues (Documents 1-230…

Colorado. Census. 1861. 1866. (State Censuses)

Part of larger State Censuses collection