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The Artemis Primary Sources program combines major archives of eighteenth and nineteenth century monographs, manuscripts, newspapers, maps, and early photographs.
NOTE: Access is provided through the Boston Public Library with a Boston Public Library card. Get a Boston Public Library eCard
The Artstor Digital Library provides over 1.6 million digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences with an accessible suite of software tools for teaching and research. You need to register (free for MHC community members) if you wish to download ArtStor images.
Resource for researching every aspect of 17th and 18th-century America. Digital collection contains virtually every book, pamphlet and broadside published in America over a 160-year period.
Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700.
Books, pamphlets and periodicals reflecting the women's rights movement. Coverage ranges from 1543-1945. Publications are from Europe, the U.S., the United Kingdom, Canada, and New Zealand. The anti-feminist case is presented as well as the pro-feminist.
Full text of the complete set of the nineteenth and twentieth century British Parliamentary Papers collection including Hansard Parliamentary Debates. A major source of primary source materials on all aspects of British society and the British Empire.
A Collection of Digital Archives and Editions including THE CARLYLE LETTERS ONLINE, THE JOHN RUSKIN DIARY NOTEBOOKS, THE W.E GLADSTONE PAPERS and THE MICHAEL FIELD DIARIES.
more than 350 U.S. newspapers chronicling a century and a half of the African American experience. This unique collection, which includes historically significant papers from more than 35 states, features many rare 19th-century titles. Part of the America’s Historical Newspapers collection, African American Newspapers was created from the most extensive African American newspaper archives in the world.
British Library Newspapers contains full runs of influential national and regional newspapers representing different political and cultural segments of British society.
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Spanning the Early Republic’s Open Door Era to the Era of Liberalization in the mid-1960s, Ethnic American Newspapers from the Balch Collection covers two centuries of immigrant life in the United States
The single largest compilation of Spanish-language newspapers printed in the U.S. during the 19th and 20th centuries. The distinctive collection features hundreds of Hispanic American newspapers, including many long scattered and forgotten titles published in the 19th century
A collection of periodical indexes created in the nineteenth century. Includes: Index to the New York Times (1863-1905); Index to Harper's Magazine (1880-1905); Poole's Index to Periodical Literature (1802-1906); Stead's Index to Periodical Literature (the "British Poole's") (1890-1902); Index to the New York Daily Tribune 1875-1906; Descriptive catalog of the government publications of the U. S. (1774-1881).
The newspapers and news pamphlets gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757 - 1817) represent the largest single collection of 17th and 18th century English news media. The 700 or so bound volumes of newspapers and news pamphlets were published mostly in London, however there are also some English provincial, Irish and Scottish papers, and a few examples from the American colonies, Europe and India.
NOTE: Access is provided through the Boston Public Library with a Boston Public Library card. Get a Boston Public Library eCard
Contemporary and historical news images. The AP Image Archive is an electronic library containing the AP's photo reports and a selection of photos from their 50 million image print and negative library--updated daily.
Provides indexing to older popular magazines published in the United States and Canada.
Primary Sources in the Library Catalog
Search by keyword for primary sources in the 5 College catalog You can search the catalog to find direct references to primary source material. Here are some words to include as keywords that would identify a source as primary:
