A public establishment under the supervision of the Ministry of Culture and Communication, the National Library of France's mission is to collect, conserve, enrich and communicate the national documentary heritage, as stipulated in its creation decree. The BnF contributes through its international action to France's foreign cultural policy. The national collections constitute the base of cooperation based on the idea of ​​solidarity and sharing of an exceptional documentary heritage. The enhancement and increase of the institution's expertise and innovation capacities is the second axis around which a long-term international action is built, which is part of both a multilateral framework and bilateral partnerships. Find out more: https://www.bnf.fr/fr/les-missions-de-la-bnf

Slavery and Anti-Slavery: Slave Trade in the Atlantic World

Slavery and Anti-Slavery: Institution of Slavery

Slavery and Anti-Slavery: Age of Emancipation

Established in 1848, the Boston Public Library is a pioneer of public library service in America. It was the first large free municipal library in the United States, the first public library to lend books, the first to have a branch library, and the first to have a children’s room. As a City of Boston historic cultural institution, Boston Public Library today features a central library and twenty-five neighborhood branches, serving nearly 4 million visitors per year and millions more online. Boston Public Library is a department of the City of Boston, under the leadership of Mayor Martin J. Walsh.

The mission of the Library is focused on four core areas: reading and literacy, spaces and programs, reference and instruction, and special collections and cultural heritage. Our commitment to be ‘Free to All’ is carved into the façade of the Central Library in Copley Square, and we are proud to welcome everyone equally regardless of gender, race, national origin, sexual orientation, faith, or economic status. Find out more: https://www.bpl.org/about-us/

Eighteenth Century Collections Online (Part II)

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Photography

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Women and Transnational Networks

Nineteenth Century U.K. Periodicals: New Readerships 

Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers

The Buffalo & Erie County Public Library (B&ECPL) consists of a Central Library, 8 branches in the City of Buffalo and 22 contract member libraries which operate 28 facilities outside the City of Buffalo.  The libraries serve as centers of information, education, culture and entertainment for the residents of Erie County. Find out more: https://www.buffalolib.org/becpl-system/about-becpl

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Photography

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Women and Transnational Networks

Since first opening our doors in 1873, we've served all Chicagoans with free and open places to gather, learn, connect, read and be transformed. Although Chicago Public Library has changed dramatically since our beginnings in an abandoned water tower after the Great Chicago Fire, our mission has remained constant: We welcome and support all people in their enjoyment of reading and pursuit of lifelong learning. Working together, we strive to provide equal access to information, ideas and knowledge through books, programs and other resources. We believe in the freedom to read, to learn, to discover.

Find out more: https://www.chipublib.org/about-us/

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Women and Transnational Networks

The mission of the Connecticut State Library is to preserve and make accessible Connecticut’s history and heritage and to advance the development of library services statewide. The Connecticut State Library is an Executive Branch agency of the State of Connecticut. The State Library provides a variety of library, information, archival, public records, museum, and administrative services for citizens of Connecticut, as well as for the employees and officials of all three branches of State government. The State Library also serves students, researchers, public libraries and town governments throughout the state. In addition, the State Library directs a program of statewide library development and administers the Library Services and Technology Act state grant. Find out more: https://ctstatelibrary.org/about/

The Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Women and Transnational Networks

As the most visited museum in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and a top-five tourist destination in the City of Philadelphia, The Franklin Institute is one of the leading science centers in the country, and serves as both a prominent educational and cultural resource, and as an anchor of the local economy. Science and technology have the potential to solve some of the most critical issues of our time, to improve our lives, and to inspire our curiosity about the world around us. Every day The Franklin Institute provides resources that help people to connect with science and technology in creative ways that resonate with learners of all ages and backgrounds. The Institute directly reaches more than 1 million people each year with informal learning experiences that engage students, adults, and families. Though its historic museum is a central learning space, the Institute has evolved to provide people with educational resources in their own neighborhoods through hands-on activities in classrooms, workshops in libraries, community centers, and other settings, and through ways to interact online. Since 1824, The Franklin Institute has pursued its commitment to making these resources available to as many people as possible throughout the mid-Atlantic region. Find out more: https://www.fi.edu/about-us/mission-history

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Photography

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Women and Transnational Networks

Slavery and Anti-Slavery: Debates Over Slavery and Abolition

The William Smeal Collection

The Kansas City Public Library system consists of a central library, nine physical branches, a digital branch, and an outreach services program serving a constituency of over 250,000 in Kansas City, Missouri. In addition to providing library services to residents, the Library also serves as a resource for the 1.7 million metropolitan residents of greater Kansas City. Find out more: https://kclibrary.org/library-history

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Women and Transnational Networks

The Library of Congress occupies three buildings on Capitol Hill. The Thomas Jefferson Building (1897) is the original separate Library of Congress building. (The Library began in 1800 inside the U.S. Capitol.) The John Adams Building was built in 1938 and the James Madison Memorial Building was completed in 1981. Other facilities include the High Density Storage Facility (2002) at Fort Meade, Md., and the Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation (2007) in Culpeper, Va.

Today's Library of Congress is an unparalleled world resource. The collection of more than 170 million items includes more than 39 million cataloged books and other print materials in 470 languages; more than 73 million manuscripts; the largest rare book collection in North America; and the world's largest collection of legal materials, films, maps, sheet music and sound recordings. Find out more: https://www.loc.gov/about/general-information/

Associated Press Collections Online: Washington D.C. Bureau Collection, Part II

Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920

Nineteenth-Century Crime and Policing: Monographs and Newspapers from the Library of Congress 

Pinkerton's National Detective Agency Records, 1853-1999, Letterpress Books and Miscellaneous Reports

Eighteenth Century Collections Online (Parts I and II)

Gale World Scholar: Latin America and the Caribbean

Brazil's Popular Groups, 1966–1986

Correspondence and Record Cards of the Military Intelligence Division Relating to General, Political, and Military Conditions in Central America, 1918–1941

Latin American and Iberian Biographies

Mexican and Central American Political and Social Ephemera

Papers of Agustín de iturbide, 1799–1880

Indigenous Peoples of North America

Indian Rights Association

Indigenous Peoples Newspapers

Lake Mohonk Conference on the Indians Reports

Papers of Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

The Native American: Devoted to Indian Education

Making of the Modern World

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Europe and Africa

African Mail

African World

Annales de l'Extrême Orient et de l'Afrique

Bulletins du Comité de l'Afrique

Deutsche Kolonialzeitung  

Personal Narratives and Reminiscences of the Exploration of Africa

Publications of the Cape Colony

Publications of the Natal Colony

Report of the Boundary Survey between British Bechuanaland and German Southwest Africa of 1898-1903

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Photography

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology and Medicine

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Women and Transnational Networks

Action Sociale De La Femme Et Le Livre Francaise

Britannia: Official Organ of the Women's Party

Myrtilla Miner Papers

Papers of Carrie Chapman Catt

Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Suffragist

Votes for Women

Woodull & Claflin's Weekly

Nineteeth Century U.S. Newspapers

Religions of America

The Shaker Collection

Sabin Americana: History of the Americas, 1500-1926

Slavery and Anti-Slavery: Debates Over Slavery and Abolition

American Colonization Society: A Register of its Records in the Library of Congress

Papers of Lewis Tappan

Salmon P. Chase: A Register of His Papers in the Library of Congress

Slavery and Anti-Slavery: Slave Trade in the Atlantic World

A Century of Law Making for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774 to 1873

Oliver Pollock Papers, 1767-1788

Vernon-Wager Papers, 1654-1773

Slavery and Anti-Slavery: Institution of Slavery

Benjamin Tappan Papers

Blair family papers, 1755-1968

Caleb Cushing Papers

Edmund Ruffin diaries, 1856-1865

Edward Dixon Papers

J.F.H. Claiborne Papers, 1818-1885

James Henry Hammond PapersJames Henry Hammond Papers

John J. Crittenden Papers, 1783-1913

Records of East Florida

Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers’ Project

Slavery and Anti-Slavery: Age of Emancipation

Alexander Hamilton Stephens papers, 1784-1886

Anna E. Dickinson papers, 1859-1951

Blackwell Family Papers

Charles Follen McKim Papers

Edwin McMasters Stanton Papers

James R. Doolittle papers, 1859-1927

Zachariah Chandler papers, 1854-1899

Since 1828, during Michigan's territorial days, the Library of Michigan has served state government and the people of Michigan much as the Library of Congress works at the federal level. The Library's early task was to collect, compile and store Michigan territorial laws and other important documents that formed the basis for Michigan government today. The library's responsibility has expanded to include a fine collection of Michigan state government publications as well as important journals, books and other materials. Find out more: https://www.michigan.gov/libraryofmichigan/0,9264,7-381-88857_89599---,00.html

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Photography

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Women and Transnational Networks

The State Archives serves as the central depository for government records of permanent value. Its holdings date from Maryland's founding in 1634, and include colonial and state executive, legislative, and judicial records; county probate, land, and court records; church records; business records; state publications and reports; and special collections of private papers, maps, photographs, and newspapers. Find out more: https://msa.maryland.gov/msa/homepage/html/visitor.html

Gale World Scholar: Latin America and the Caribbean

Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers

The Mississippi Department of Archives and History was founded in 1902 to collect, preserve, and provide access to the archival resources of the state. Our commitment to preservation continues today through the work of the department’s five divisions. Whether you are interested in researching Mississippi history, visiting historic places, preserving history, attending or sponsoring history-themed events, engaging students with history, properly managing government records or finding opportunities for volunteering, internships and careers, MDAH can connect you with the experiences and information you seek. By preserving Mississippi’s diverse historic resources, and sharing them with people around the world, MDAH inspires discovery of stories that connect our lives and shape our future. Find out more: https://www.mdah.ms.gov/about-mdah

Gale World Scholar: Latin America and the Caribbean

Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers

Slavery and Anti-Slavery: Institution of Slavery

Court Cases and other documents

The Science and Industry Museum is devoted to inspiring our visitors through ideas that change the world, from the Industrial Revolution to today and beyond. We care for a globally important heritage site comprising five listed buildings, two of them listed Grade 1. This site was the original terminus of the world’s first inter-city railway and our characteristic 1830 Warehouse epitomises Manchester’s 19th-century reputation as the "warehouse of the western world". We combine the distinctive appeal of our historic site with a vibrant contemporary science programme, making connections between the past and the present, between scientific theory and real-world applications. Find out more: https://www.scienceandindustrymuseum.org.uk/about-us

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Photography

Early Rare Photographic Books from the Northwestern Museum of Science and Industry Collection

Our Archives Department supports the Museum's mission and assists scholars and researchers by acquiring, preserving, organizing, and describing the documentary evidence of aerospace history.

The Archives' collections span the history of flight from ancient times to the present day and include a wide range of visual and textual materials, including documents, photographs, motion picture film and video, and more than 2 million technical drawings. Find out more: https://airandspace.si.edu/archives

Smithsonian Collections Online: Evolution of Flight, 1784-1991

African Americans in Aviation

Collections related to Aeronautical Exhibitions and Races

Collections related to Aeronautics

Collections related to Aircraft

Collections related to Balloons and Airships

Collections related to Commercial Aeronautics

Collections related to Military Aeronautics

National Aeronautical Association Archives

Women in Aviation

World War I Collections

World War II Collections

Between 2003 and 2006, four government bodies – each specialising in particular aspects of managing information – joined together to form a single organisation in The National Archives. We bring together the skills and specialisms needed in today’s digital world for managing and preserving government information, building on over 170 years of pioneering work in managing official public records. Our expertise in effective records and information management, and use and re-use of information makes us a valuable resource for over 200 government and public sector bodies; and many other organisations. Since 2011, we have a leadership role for archives across England that were transferred from the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council. We work with and support a diverse network of archives, and are an accredited archive service. Find out more: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/our-role/what-we-do/our-history/

Archives Unbound

Aden: Records of the U.S. Department of State, 1880-1906

Alexander III and the Policy of "Russification," 1883-1886

Allied Propaganda in World War II and the British Political Warfare Executive

British Foreign Office: United States Correspondence, 1930-1934

British Foreign Office: United States Correspondence, 1935-1937

British Foreign Office: United States Correspondence, 1938-1940

British Foreign Office: United States Correspondence, 1941-1943

British Foreign Office: United States Correspondence, 1944-1945

British Foreign Office: United States Correspondence, 1946-1948

Conditions & Politics in Occupied Western Europe, 1940-1945

Dublin Castle Records 1798-1926

Industrial Mobilization in Britain and the Ministry of Munitions, 1915-1918

Middle East Online: Arab-Israeli Relations, 1917-1970

Middle East Online: Iraq, 1914-1974

Papers of British Consulates and Legation in China (1722-1951)

Papers of Sir Ernest Mason Satow

Post-War Europe: Refugees, Exile and Resettlement, 1945-1950

World War I and Revolution in Russia, 1914-1918

Archives of Sexuality and Gender, Part 2

The Wolfenden Report: Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution, 1954-1957

China and the Modern World

War and Colonial Department and Colonial Office: Hong Kong, Original Correspondence

Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920

Crime and the Criminal Justice System: Records from The U.K. National Archives 

The Making of Modern Law: Foreign Primary Sources

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Asia and the West

British Foreign Office: Japan Correspondence, 1856-1905

British Foreign Office: Japan Correspondence, 1906-1913: Dominance of the Genro 

British Foreign Office: Japan Correspondence, 1914-1923: Emergence of Japan as a Pacific Power

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: British Politics and Society

British Cabinet Papers, 1880-1916

Civil Disturbance, Chartism and Riots in Nineteenth Century England

Discontent and Authority, 1820-1840

Home Office Papers and Records

Home Office: Disturbances Entry Books

Home Office: Domestic Correspondence from 1773 to 1861

Home Office: Domestic Entry Books

Home Office: Judges' Reports on Criminals 

Home Office: Post Office Correspondence

Home Office: Registered Papers

Hue and Cry and Police Gazette 

Public Order, Discontent, and Protest in Nineteenth Century England, 1820-1850

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood

Child Welfare and Reform: Records from the Ministry of Health and Department of Health and Social Security

Childhood in the Nineteenth Century: Records from the Home Office

Education in the Nineteenth Century: Records from the Department of Education and Science

Juvenile Crime and Detention: Records from the Home Office and Prison Commission

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Europe and Africa

Exploration and Colonization of Africa

Selected Cabinet Papers on Africa  

Selected Colonial Office Files on Africa

Selected Dominions Office Files on Africa

Selected Foreign Office Files on Africa

Selected Maps and Plans Files on Africa

Selected War Office Files on Africa

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Maps and Travel Literature

The National Archives: Selected Maps Representing the Long 19th Century

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Photography

British Admiralty Office Photographs

British Colonial Office: Photographic Collection

Records of the Copyright Office of the Stationers' Company: Photographs

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine Part II

The Rise of Public Health in England and Wales

Political Extremism and Radicalism in the Twentieth Century

British Home Office Defence Regulation 18B Advisory Committee Papers Regarding the Detainment of Oswald Mosley, Leader of the British Union of Fascists

British Home Office Registered Papers Regarding British Fascists and Suspected Nazi Sympathisers

British Security Service Personal Files.  Subseries on Right Wing-Extremists, Communists and Suspected Communists, and Soviet and Other Communist

Front Organisations

Refugees, Relief, and Resettlement: Forced Migration

Refugee Files from the Records of the Foreign Office, 1938-1950

Refugee Records from the General Correspondence Files of the Political Departments of the Foreign Office, Record Group 371, 1938-1950

Refugee Records from the War Cabinet, the Colonial Office, the Defence Office, the Home Office and the War Office, 1935-1949

Slavery and Anti-Slavery: Slave Trade in the Atlantic World

Company of Royal Adventurers of England Trading with Africa and Successors: Records

Exploration and Colonization of Africa

The Slave Trade, 1858-1892: British Foreign Office, Collection 541, Confidential Print Series

Slavery and Anti-Slavery: Institution of Slavery

Office of Registry of Colonial Slaves and Slave Compensation Commission: Records

Records related to Slavery from the Colonial Office, Commonwealth and Foreign and Commonwealth Offices, Empire Marketing Board, and related bodies

Records related to Slavery from the Court of King's Bench, Privy Council, and Treasury: Selected Records

Records related to Slavery from the Exchequer, and its related bodies

Slavery and Anti-Slavery Part: Age of Emancipation

Records of the Admiralty, Naval Forces, Royal Marines, Coastguard, and related bodies: Selected Records from the Bruce L. Mouser Collection

Selected Colonial Office collections

State Papers Online

Women’s Studies Archive: Voice and Vision

Records of the Equal Opportunities Commission

Records of the Women's National Commission

The National Archives was established in 1934 by President Franklin Roosevelt, but its major holdings date back to 1775. They capture the sweep of the past: slave ship manifests and the Emancipation Proclamation; captured German records and the Japanese surrender documents from World War II; journals of polar expeditions and photographs of Dust Bowl farmers; Indian treaties making transitory promises; and a richly bound document bearing the bold signature "Bonaparte"—the Louisiana Purchase Treaty that doubled the territory of the young republic.

NARA keeps only those Federal records that are judged to have continuing value—about 2 to 5 percent of those generated in any given year. By now, they add up to a formidable number, diverse in form as well as in content. There are approximately 10 billion pages of textual records; 12 million maps, charts, and architectural and engineering drawings; 25 million still photographs and graphics; 24 million aerial photographs; 300,000 reels of motion picture film; 400,000 video and sound recordings; and 133 terabytes of electronic data. All of these materials are preserved because they are important to the workings of Government, have long-term research worth, or provide information of value to citizens. Find out more: https://www.archives.gov/publications/general-info-leaflets/1-about-archives.html

Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920

Criminal Case Files of the U.S. Circuit Court

Files of the Department of Justice: Judge Isaac C. Parker

Letters Received by the Department of Justice from the Territory of Dakota

Gale World Scholar: Latin America and the Caribbean

Despatches From U.S. Consuls in Havana, Cuba, 1783–1906

Despatches From U.S. Ministers to Cuba, 1902–1906

Records of the Department of State Relating to Internal Affairs of Argentina, 1940–1944

Records of the Department of State Relating to Internal Affairs of Mexico, 1930–1939

Records of the Department of State Relating to Political Affairs, U.S. and Bolivia, 1945–1959

Records of the Department of State Relating to Political Relations Between the U.S. and Brazil, 1945–1959

Records of the Department of State Relating to Political Relations Between the U.S. and Central America, 1911–1929

Records of the Department of State Relating to Political Relations Between the U.S. and Central America, 1911–1929 and Between Central America and Other States, 1910–1929

Records of the Department of State Relating to Political Relations Between the U.S. and Cuba, 1910–1929

Records of the Department of State Relating to Political Relations Between the U.S. and Guatemala, 1945–1959

Records of the Department of State Relating to Political Relations Between the U.S. and Haiti, 1910–1929

Records of the Department of State Relating to Political Relations Between the U.S. and Haiti, 1945–1959

Records of the Department of State Relating to Political Relations Between the U.S. and Other American States (Monroe Doctrine), 1910–1949

Records of the Department of State Relating to Political Relations Between the U.S. and Panama, 1910–1929

Records of the Department of State Relating to Political Relations Between the U.S. and the Dominican Republic, 1945–1959

Records of the Department of State Relating to Political Relations Between the United States and Nicaragua, 1910–1929

Records of the Department of State Relating to the First Panama Congress, 1825–1827

Records of the Department of State Relating to the Internal Affairs of Central America, 1930–1949

Records of the Department of State Relating to the Internal Affairs of Guatemala, 1950–1963

Records of the Department of State Relating to the Internal Affairs of the Dominican Republic, 1960–1963

Indigenous Peoples of North America

Census of Creek Indians Taken by Parsons and Abbott in 1832

Census Roll of the Cherokee Indians East of the Mississippi and Index to the Roll, 1835

Chemawa Indian School: Register of Students Admitted, 1880-1928; Descriptive Statements of Students, 1890-1914; and Graduating Class Rolls, 1885-1921

Citizenship Case Files of the U.S. Court in Indian Territory, 1896-1897

Correspondence of the Eastern Division Pertaining to Cherokee Removal, April-December 1838

Correspondence of the Secretary of the Treasury Relating to the Administration of Trust Funds for the Chickasaw and Other Indian Tribes ("S" Series), 1834-1872

Documents Relating to the Negotiation of Ratified and Unratified Treaties With Various Indian Tribes, 1801-1869

Historical Album of Bureau of Education-Bureau of Indian Affairs Schools in Alaska, ca. 1925-35

Letter Book of the Creek Trading House, 1795-1816

Letters Received by the Office of Education, Alaska Division, Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1878-1916

Letters Sent by the Indian Division of the Office of the Secretary of the Interior, 1849-1903

Letters Sent by the Office of Education, Alaska Division, Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1877-1908

Letters Sent by the Superintendent of Indian Trade, 1807-1823

Miscellaneous Indian Removal Muster Rolls, 1832-1846

Ratified Indian Treaties, 1722-1869

Records of the Alaska Division of the Bureau of Indian Affairs Concerning Metlakatla, 1887-1933

Records of the Choctaw Trading House, 1803-1824

Records of the Creek Factory of the Office of Indian Trade of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1795-1821

Register of Letters Received by the Office of Indian Affairs, 1824-1880

Report Books of the Office of Indian Affairs, 1838-1885

Reports and Correspondence Relating to the Army Investigations of the Battle of Wounded Knee and to the Sioux Campaign of 1890-1891

Schedules of a Special Census of Indians, 1880

Statistical Records and Reports of the Alaska Division of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1912-1941

The Indian School Journal (Chilocco Indian School) 

Making of Modern Law: Landmark Records and Briefs of the U.S. Courts of Appeals, 1950-1980 

United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Asia and the West

Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Amoy, China, 1844-1906

Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Bangkok, Siam, 1856-1906

Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Batavia, Java, Netherlands East Indies, 1818-1906

Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Canton, China, 1790-1906

Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Chefoo, China, 1863-1906

Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Chinkiang, China, 1864-1902

Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Chunking, China, 1896-1906

Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Foochow, China, 1849-1906

Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Hakodate, Japan, 1856-1878

Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Hangchow, China, 1904-1906

Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Hankow, China, 1861-1906

Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Hong Kong, 1844-1906

Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Iloilo, Philippine Islands, 1876-1886

Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Kanagawa, Japan, 1861-1897

Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Macao, China, 1849-1869

Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Manila, Philippine Islands, 1817-1899

Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Mukden, Manchuria, China, 1904-1906

Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Nagasaki, Japan, 1860-1906

Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Nanking, China, 1902-1906

Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Newchwang, Manchuria, China, 1865-1906

Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Ningpo, China, 1853-1896

Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Osaka and Hiogo (Kobe), Japan, 1868-1906

Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Padang, Sumatra, Netherlands East Indies, 1853-1898

Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Saigon, Vietnam, 1889-1906

Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Seoul, Korea, 1886-1906

Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Shanghai, China, 1847-1906

Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Singapore, Straits Settlements, 1833-1906

Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Swatow, China, 1860-1881

Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Tientsin, China, 1868-1906

Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Yokohama, Japan, 1897-1906

Despatches from U.S. Ministers to China, 1843-1906

Despatches from U.S. Ministers to Japan, 1855-1906

Despatches from U.S. Ministers to Korea, 1883-1905

Despatches from U.S. Ministers to Siam, 1882-1906

Despatches from US Consuls in Antung, Manchuria, China, 1904-1906

History of the Philippine Insurrection against the United States, 1899-1903, and Documents Relating to the War Department Project for Publishing of History, 1899-1903

Minutes of Treaty Conferences between U.S. and Japanese Representatives, and Treaty Drafts, 1872

Notes from the Chinese Legation in the United States to the Department of State, 1868-1906. 

Notes from the Japanese Legation in the United States to the Department of State, 1858-1906

Notes from the Korean Legation in the United States to the Department of State, 1883-1906

Notes from the Siamese Legation in the United States to the Department of State, 1876-1906

Records Relating to the United States Surveying Expedition to the North Pacific Ocean, 1852-1863. 

Selected Records of the U.S. Consulate in Bangkok, Siam, 1856-1912

Selected Records of the U.S. Legation in China, 1849-1931

Selected Records of the U.S. Legation in Japan, 1855-1912

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Europe and Africa

Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Bathurst, Gambia, British Africa, 1857-1889

Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Boma, Congo, 1888-1895

Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Cape Town, Cape Colony, 1800-1906

Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Gaboon, 1856-1888

Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Goree Dakar, French Africa, 1883-1906

Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Grand Bassa, Liberia, 1868-1882

Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Lourenco Marques, Mozambique, Portuguese Africa, 1854-1906

Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Pretoria, The Transvaal, 1898-1906

Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Santiago, Cape Verde Islands, 1818-1898

Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Sierra Leone, British Africa, 1858-1906

Despatches from U.S. Consuls in St. Helena, British West Africa, 1831-1906

Despatches from U.S. Consuls in St. Paul de Loanda, Portuguese Africa, 1854-1893

Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Tamatave, Madagascar, 1853-1906

Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Zanzibar, British Africa, 1836-1906

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Maps and Travel Literature

Pacific Railway Surveys, 1853–1855: Reports of Explorations and Surveys to Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean

Public Health Archives: Public Health in Modern America, 1890-1970

Records of the Children's Bureau, 1912-1969

Refugees, Relief, and Resettlement: Forced Migration

Record of the Department of State Relating to the Problems of Relief and Refugees in Europe Arising from World War II and Its Aftermath, 1938-1949

Slavery and Anti-Slavery: Debates Over Slavery and Abolition

Habeas Corpus Case Records, 1820-1863, of the United States Circuit Court for the District of Columbia

Records of the Clerk of the Court, 1746-1932, and of the U.S. Commissioners, 1837-1860, of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Records of the Office of the Secretary of the Interior Relating to the Suppression of the African Slave Trade and Negro Colonization, 1854-72

Records of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia Relating to Slaves, 1851-1863

Slavery and Anti-Slavery: Slave Trade in the Atlantic World

Appellate Case File No. 2161, United States v. The Amistad, 40 U.S. 518

Records of the U.S. District and Circuit Courts for the District of Connecticut: Documents Relating to the Various Cases Involving the Spanish Schooner Amistad

U.S. Customs Service Records: Port of New Orleans, Louisiana Inward Slave Manifests, 1807-1860

U.S. Customs Service Records: Port of New Orleans, Louisiana Outward Slave Manifests, 1812-1860

Slavery and Anti-Slavery: Institution of Slavery

Apellate Case File No. 3230, Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 US 393 (19 Howard 393), Decided March 6, 1857 and Related Records

Records of the Senate Select Committee that Investigated John Brown's Raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia

Slavery and Anti-Slavery Part: Age of Emancipation

Correspondence of the Office of Civil Affairs of the District of Texas, the 5th Military District, and the Department of Texas, 1867-1870 

Indexes to Deposit Ledgers in Branches of the Freedman's Savings and Trust Company, 1865-1874

Office of the Adjutant General, Office of the Freedmen’s Branch

Records of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands: Field Offices

Records of the Education Division of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1871

Registers and Letters Received by the Commissioner of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872

Registers of Signatures of Depositors in Branches of the Freedman's Savings and Trust Company, 1865-1874

Selected Series of Records Issued by the Commissioner of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872

Archives Unbound

Afghanistan and the U.S., 1945-1963: Records of the U.S. State Department Central Classified Files

Albania: Records of the U.S. Department of State, 1945-1963

Argentina: Records of the U.S. Department of State, 1960-1963

Bolivia: Records of the U.S. Department of State, 1960-1963

Brazil: Records of the U.S. Department of State, 1960-1963

British Mandate in Palestine, Arab-Jewish Relations, and the U.S.  Consulate at Jerusalem, 1920-1944

Bulgaria: Records of the U.S. Department of State Relating to Internal Affairs, 1945-1949

Bulgaria: Records of the U.S. Department of State Relating to Internal Affairs, 1950-1954

Cambodia: Records of the U.S. Department of State, 1960-1963

Chile: Records of the U.S. Department of State, 1930-1963

China: Records of the U.S. Department of State, 1930-1939: Part 1

China: Records of the U.S. Department of State, 1930-1939: Part 2

China: Records of the U.S. Department of State, 1940-1944

China: Records of the U.S. Department of State, 1945-1949

Chinese Civil War and U.S.-China Relations: Records of the U.S. State Department’s Office of Chinese Affairs, 1945-1955

Civil War Service Reports of Union Army Generals

Colombia: Records of the U.S. Department of State, 1960-1963

Commercial and Trade Relations Between Tsarist Russia, the Soviet Union and the U.S., 1910-1963

Country Intelligence Reports on China

Country Intelligence Reports on Japan

Country Intelligence Reports on Korea

Country Intelligence Reports on Russia

Crisis in the Dominican Republic: Records of the U.S. State Department Central Files, February 1963-1966

Cyprus Crisis in 1967

Czechoslovakia from Liberation to Communist State, 1945-63: Records of the U.S. State Department Classified Files

Democracy in Turkey, 1950-1959: Records of the U.S. State Department Classified Files

East Germany from Stalinization to the New Economic Policy, 1950-1963 

Economic Cooperation Administration’s Relief Mission in Post-War China, 1946-1948

Ecuador: Records of the U.S. Department of State, 1960-1963

Egypt: Records of the U.S. Department of State, 1853-1962

European Colonialism in the Early 20th Century: Colonialism and Nationalism in the Dutch East Indies, 1910-1930

European Colonialism in the Early 20th Century: French Colonialism in Africa: From Algeria to Madagascar, 1910-1930

European Colonialism in the Early 20th Century: German Colonies in Asia and the Pacific: From Colonialism to Japanese Mandates, 1910-1929

European Colonialism in the Early 20th Century: German Colonies to League of Nations Mandates in Africa 1910-1929

European Colonialism in the Early 20th Century: Italian Colonies in North Africa and Aggression in East Africa, 1930-1939

European Colonialism in the Early 20th Century: Political and Economic Consolidation of Portuguese Colonies in Africa, 1910-1929

Final Accountability Rosters of Japanese-American Relocation Centers, 1944-1946

Finland: Records of the U.S. Department of State Relating to Internal Affairs, 1945-1949

Finland: Records of the U.S. Department of State Relating to Internal Affairs, 1950-1954

Finland: Records of the U.S. Department of State Relating to Internal Affairs, 1955-1959

Finland: Records of the U.S. Department of State Relating to Internal Affairs, 1960-Jan. 1963

Foreign Relations between Latin America and the Caribbean States, 1930-1944

Foreign Relations Between the U.S. and Latin America and the Caribbean States, 1930-1944

French Mandate in The Lebanon, Christian-Muslim Relations, and the U.S. Consulate at Beirut, 1919-1935
General George C. Marshall's Mission to China, 1945-1947

German Foreign Relations and Military Activities in China, 1919-1935

Greece: Records of the U.S. Department of State, 1950-1963

Hindu Conspiracy Cases: Activities of the Indian Independence Movement in the U.S., 1908-1933

Holocaust and  the Concentration Camp Trials: Prosecution of Nazi War Crimes

Hungary: Records of the U.S. Department of State, 1945-1963

India from Crown Rule to Republic, 1945-1949: Records of the U.S. State Department

India-Pakistan Conflict: Records of the U.S. State Department, February 1963-1966

Indochina, France, and the Viet Minh War, 1945-1954: Records of the U.S. State Department, Part 1: 1945-1949

Integration of Alabama Schools and the U.S. Military, 1963

Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees: The West's Response to Jewish Emigration

International Climatic Changes and Global Warming

Iran (Persia): Records of the U.S. Department of State, 1883-1959

Iraq: Records of the U.S. Department of State, 1888-1944

Japan and Korea: Summation of Nonmilitary Activities, 1945-1948

Japan at War and Peace, 1930-1949: U.S. State Department Records on the Internal Affairs of Japan

Japan: Records of the U.S. Department of State Relating to Commercial Relations, 1910-1949

Japan: Records of the U.S. Department of State Relating to Commercial Relations, 1950-1963

Japan: Records of the U.S. Department of State Relating to Internal Affairs, 1950-1954

Japan: Records of the U.S. Department of State Relating to Internal Affairs, 1955-1959

Japan: Records of the U.S. Department of State Relating to Political Relations, 1930-1939

Japan: Records of the U.S. Department of State Relating to Political Relations, 1940-1944

Japan: Records of the U.S. Department of State Relating to Political Relations, 1945-1949

Japan: Records of the U.S. Department of State, 1950-1959

Japan: U.S. Naval Technical Mission, 1945-1946

Japan-U.S. Economic Relations Group Records, 1979-1981

King and People in Morocco, 1950-1959: U.S. State Department Records on the Internal Affairs of Morocco

Korea: Records of the U.S. Department of State, 1930-1963

Laos: Records of the U.S. Department of State, 1963-1966

Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Trans-Jordan: Records of the U.S. Department of State, 1836-1944

Liberia and the U.S.: Nation-Building in Africa, 1864-1918

Liberia and the U.S.: Nation-Building in Africa, 1918-1935

Libya: Records of the U.S. Department of State, 1796-1885

Lincoln at the Bar: Extant Case Files from the U.S. District and Circuit Courts, Southern District of Illinois 1855-1861

Military Leaders of World War I: Official and Private Papers of Generaloberst Hans von Seeckt

Morocco: Records of the U.S. Department of State, 1797-1929

Nazi Bank and Financial Institutions: U.S. Military Government Investigation Reports and Interrogations of Nazi Financiers, 1945-1949

Nazism in Poland: The Diary of Governor-General Hans Frank

Nicaragua: Political Instability and U.S. Intervention, 1910-1933

Nicaragua: Records of the U.S. Department of State, 1960-1963

Nuremberg Laws and Nazi Annulment of German Jewish Nationality

Occupation and Independence: The Austrian Second Republic, 1945-1963

Origins of the Cold War

Pakistan from Crown Rule to Republic: Records of the U.S. Department of State, 1945-1949

Palestine and Israel: Records of the U.S. Department of State, 1945-1959

Panama: Records of the U.S. Department of State, 1950-1963

Persian Gulf States and Yemen, 1950-1959

Personal Justice Denied: Public Hearings of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment, 1981

Peru: Records of the U.S. Department of State, 1960-1963

Poland: Records of the U.S. Department of State, 1945-1963

Policing the Shanghai International Settlement, 1894-1945

Political Relations and Conflict between Republican China and Imperial Japan, 1930-1939: Records of the U.S. State Department

Political Relations Between China, the U.S. and Other Countries, 1910-1929

Political, Economic, and Military Conditions in China: Reports and Correspondence of the U.S. Military Intelligence Division, 1918-1941

Press Conferences of the U.S. Secretaries of State, 1922-1974

Public Housing, Racial Policies, and Civil Rights: The Intergroup Relations Branch of the Federal Public Housing Administration, 1936-1963

Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and the Enforcement of Federal Law in the South, 1871-1884

Records of the Deutsche Ausland-Institut, Stuttgart: Records on Resettlement

Records of the Far Eastern Commission, 1945–1952

Records of the Office of the Reich Commissioner for the Strengthening of Germandom

Records of US State Department's Division of Chinese Affairs

Revolution in Honduras and American Business: The Quintessential "Banana Republic"

Revolution in Mexico, the 1917 Constitution, and Its Aftermath: Records of the U.S. State Department

Rise and Fall of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy

Romania: Records of the U.S. Department of State, 1945-1963

Russian Civil War and American Expeditionary Forces in Siberia, 1918-20

SAFEHAVEN Reports on Nazi Looting of Occupied Countries and Assets in Neutral Countries

Saudi Arabia: Records of the U.S. Department of State, 1930-1959

Socialism and National Unity in Yugoslavia, 1945-63: Records of the U.S. State Department Classified Files

South Vietnam: Records of the Office of the Defense Attaché, 1973-1975

Subject Files of US State Department's Office of the Republic of China Affairs (1951-1978)

Sukarno and the Army-PKI Rivalry in the Years of Living Dangerously, 1960-1963

Thailand: Records of the U.S. Department of State Relating to Internal Affairs, 1945-1954

Thailand: Records of the U.S. Department of State Relating to Internal Affairs, 1955-1963

The Global Financial and Economic Crisis

The Global War on Terrorism

The International War on Drugs

The Jewish Question: Records from the Berlin Document Center

The Scopes Case

The War on Poverty and the Office of Economic Opportunity: Administration of Antipoverty Programs and Civil Rights, 1964-1967

Turkey, Greece, and the Balkan States: Records of the U.S. Department of State, 1930-1944

Turkey: Records of the U.S. Department of State, 1802-1949

U.S. and Iraqi Relations: U.S. Technical Aid, 1950-1958

U.S. Civilian Advisory Effort in Vietnam: U.S. Operations Mission, 1950-1954

U.S. Civilian Advisory Effort in Vietnam: U.S. Operations Mission, 1954-1957 – Classified & Subject Files of the Executive Office

U.S. Military Activities and Civil Rights: Integration of the University of Mississippi and the Use of Military Force, 1961-1963

U.S. Military Activities and Civil Rights: The Little Rock Integration Crisis, 1957-1958

U.S. Military Activities and Civil Rights: The Military Response to the March on Washington, 1963

U.S. Military Advisory Effort in Vietnam: Military Assistance Advisory Group, Vietnam, 1950-1964

U.S. Operations Mission in Iran, 1950-1961

U.S. Operations Mission to Saudi Arabia, 1950–1955: Correspondence and Subject Files of the Office of the Director

U.S. Relations and Policies in Southeast Asia, 1944-1958: Records of the Office of Southeast Asian Affairs

U.S. Relations with the Vatican and the Holocaust, 1940-1950

Venezuela: Records of the U.S. Department of State, 1960-1963

War Department and Indian Affairs, 1800-1824

War of 1812: Diplomacy on the High Seas

War on Poverty: Office of Civil Rights, 1965-1968

Weapons of Mass Destruction and Nonproliferation

World War II, Occupation, and the Civil War in Greece, 1940-1949: Records of the U.S. State Department Classified Files

The National Art Library (NAL) is located in beautiful and historic reading rooms overlooking the John Madejski Garden at the V&A. We hold the UK's most comprehensive public reference collection of literature on the fine and decorative arts, including books, journals, exhibition catalogues, auction house sales catalogues, comics, e-resources and much more. Some material, including archives, children's books and Theatre & Performance research collections, is held at our Archive & Library Study Room at Blythe House, near Olympia, London.

The Library holds around one million books on subjects central to the V&A collections including prints, drawings, paintings, photographs, ceramics and glass, textiles and fashion, furniture, design, metalwork and sculpture. Our rich collections range from medieval manuscripts to contemporary artists' books and armorial bindings to comics and graphic novels. Find out more: https://www.vam.ac.uk/info/national-art-library/

British Literary Manuscripts Online: c. 1660-1900

British Literary Manuscripts Online: Medieval and Renaissance

Nineteenth Century Collections Online

Christliches Kunstblatt, 1859-1905

Organ fur Christlichen Kunst, 1857-1914

Revue de l'art Chretien, 1857-1914

Zeitschrift fur Christliches Kunst, 1888-1921

The NDL has two origins: one is the libraries of the House of Peers and the House of Representatives in the former Imperial Diet established in 1890; and the other is the Imperial Library established in 1872 under the Ministry of Education. Most of these collections were transferred to the present NDL.

In June 1948, the NDL was opened to the public using the Akasaka Detached Palace (now the State Guest House). In August 1961, upon completion of Phase 1 of the library construction at the current Nagata-cho site, the NDL started its full service as Japan's foremost library with a stock of some two million books including collections transferred from the former Ueno Library, Branch of the NDL (former Imperial Library), and others. Find out more: https://www.ndl.go.jp/en/aboutus/outline/history/index.html

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Photography

Portraits of Modern Japanese Historical Figures

The Meiji and Taisho Eras in Photographs

The National Library is one of several agencies within the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications portfolio. The Library’s role, as defined by the National Library Act 1960, is to ensure that documentary resources of national significance relating to Australia and the Australian people, as well as significant non-Australian library materials, are collected, preserved and made accessible either through the Library itself or through collaborative arrangements with other libraries and information providers. By offering a strong national focus in all that we do, and cooperating with others who share our goals, we support learning, creative and intellectual endeavour, and contribute to the continuing vitality of Australia’s diverse culture and heritage. Find out more: https://www.nla.gov.au/about-us/who-we-are

Nineteenth Century U.K. Periodicals: Empire

The National Library of China (NLC) serves as the repository of the nation's publications, a national bibliographic center, a national center for preservation and conservation of ancient books, as well as the national museum of ancient books. The major responsibility of the NLC includes: the collection and preservation of domestic and foreign publications; national coordination of document preservation and conservation work; provision of information and reference services to the central government, national authorities, social organizations, and the general public; research in the theory of library sciences and development of librarianship, and guidance to other libraries in China; the fulfillment of its function in international cultural exchanges through participation in the activities of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) and other related international organizations, as well as the promotion of exchanges and cooperation with other libraries in China and abroad. Find out more: http://www.nlc.cn/newen/newVisitUs/nlcIntroduction/

Archives Unbound

19^th Century English-Language Journals from the Far East

China and the Modern World: Missionary, Sinology and Literary Periodicals 1817-1949

Founded in the early 1680s, the Advocates Library in Edinburgh was formally opened in 1689. Under the 1710 Copyright Act it was given the legal right to claim a copy of every book published in Britain. In the following centuries, the Library added books and manuscripts to the collections by purchase as well as legal deposit. This created a national library in all but name.  By the 1920s, the upkeep of such a major collection was too much for a private body. With an endowment of £100,000 provided by Sir Alexander Grant of Forres, the library's contents were presented to the nation. The National Library of Scotland was formally constituted by an Act of Parliament in 1925.

Since 1999, the Library has been answerable to the Scottish Parliament and funded by the Scottish Government. It remains one of only six legal deposit libraries in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Find out more: https://www.nls.uk/about-us/what-we-are/history

British Literary Manuscripts Online: c. 1660-1900

British Literary Manuscripts Online: Medieval and Renaissance

Eighteenth Century Collections Online (both parts)

Nineteenth Century U.K. Periodicals: Empire

Nineteenth Century U.K. Periodicals: New Readerships

The National Library of South Africa (NLSA) is the custodian of South Africa’s collective national heritage materials and the national depository of published output materials in the country. The NLSA is mandated by the National Library of South Africa Act to collect and preserve published documents and make them accessible to all and to ensure that knowledge is not lost to posterity. The National Library of South Africa, as we know it today, was formed on 1 November 1999 as a result of the amalgamation of the two former national libraries: the South African Library in Cape Town and the State Library in Pretoria. The collections of the NLSA contain a wealth of information, including rare manuscripts, books published in South Africa, periodicals, government publications, official foreign publications, maps, technical reports, Africana and newspapers. Find out more: https://www.nlsa.ac.za/?page_id=25

Nineteenth Century U.K. Periodicals: Empire

The Archives Center was created in the early 1980s to serve as a repository for archival collections from throughout the National Museum of American History and to acquire additional collections in support of the museum's research, exhibition, and collecting programs. The Archives Center currently has more than 1,400 collections stored in the American History building and at off-site storage locations. In addition to paper-based textual records, many of the collections contain photographs, motion picture films, videotapes, and sound recordings. Increasingly, the collections include born digital documents in a wide variety of formats.

With few exceptions, Archives Center collections are acquired by donation, often in conjunction with the acquisition of related artifacts and in collaboration with the Museum's curatorial staff.  Documentation projects -- including oral and video histories -- actively create new research collections.  The Museum's ability to acquire and care for artifacts and archival materials in all physical formats and to generate contemporary documentation gives it a unique capacity to record the complexity and richness of the American experience. Find out more: https://americanhistory.si.edu/archives/about

Smithsonian Collections Online: Trade Literature and the Merchandizing of Industry

Smithsonian Collections Online: World's Fairs and Expositions

Founded in 1856, the aim of the National Portrait Gallery, London is ‘to promote through the medium of portraits the appreciation and understanding of the men and women who have made and are making British history and culture, and ... to promote the appreciation and understanding of portraiture in all media’. Like other national museums, the Gallery is supported both by government and increasingly by a large number of individuals, companies, trusts and foundations, as well as by the receipts from ticketed exhibitions, shops, catering and events.

The Gallery aims to bring history to life through its extensive display, exhibition, research, learning, outreach, publishing and digital programmes. These allow us to stimulate debate and to address questions of biography, diversity and fame which lie at the heart of issues of identity and achievement. Find out more: https://www.npg.org.uk/about/organisation/

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Photography

The New York Public Library has been an essential provider of free books, information, ideas, and education for all New Yorkers for more than 100 years. Founded in 1895, NYPL is the nation’s largest public library system, featuring a unique combination of 88 neighborhood branches and four scholarly research centers, bringing together an extraordinary richness of resources and opportunities available to all.

In the always expanding digital realm, The New York Public Library provides patrons worldwide with powerful online tools to help them discover its extensive resources and services. On nypl.org visitors can browse the Library’s immense collections, download e-books, and view more than 700,000 items from our award-winning Digital Collections. Find out more: https://www.nypl.org/help/about-nypl

Archives Unbound

Actes royaux français, 1256-1794 (French Royal Acts, 1256-1794)

African America, Communists, and the National Negro Congress, 1933-1947

Fight for Racial Justice and the Civil Rights Congress

Grassroots Civil Rights & Social Activism: FBI Files on Benjamin J. Davis, Jr.
 

Archives of Sexuality and Gender, Part I

ACT UP: The AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power

Gay Activists Alliance, 1970-1983

The Mattachine Society of New York Records, 1951-1976

Making of the Modern World

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Photography

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Women and Transnational Networks

Nineteenth Century U.K. Periodicals: New Readerships

Women's Studies: Issues and Identities

Committee of Fifteen Records, 1900-1901

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

For 95 years, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture has preserved, protected, and fostered a greater understanding of the Black experience through its collections, exhibitions, programs, and scholarship. In response to the uprisings across the globe demanding justice for Black lives, the Schomburg Center has created a Black Liberation Reading List. The titles on the list represent books we and the public turn to regularly as activists, students, archivists, and curators, with a particular focus on books by Black authors and those whose papers we steward. Find out more: https://www.nypl.org/locations/schomburg

Slavery and Anti-Slavery: Debates Over Slavery and Abolition

The New York State Library is part of the Office of Cultural Education, within the New York State Education Department. The New York State Library was created in 1818. Assemblyman Thomas Oakley introduced the idea in the New York Assembly on March 9, 1818 with a motion that "a committee be appointed to inquire into the expediency of providing by law for the establishment of a public library, for the use of the government." Find out more: http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/history.htm

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Women and Transnational Networks

Our Mission

North Carolina has a long legacy of public history. Our state's historical program, founded in 1903, has evolved into what is now our Office of Archives and History (OAH). The agencies of the North Carolina Office of Archives and History celebrate history from pre-colonial times to the present. They collectively safeguard documentary and material evidence of earlier generations and provide leadership and assistance to government agencies, individuals, businesses and organizations to further the stewardship of the state's historic resources. Find out more: https://www.ncdcr.gov/about/office-archives-and-history

Gale World Scholar: Latin America and the Caribbean

Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers

People’s History Museum is the national museum of democracy, telling the story of its development in Britain: past, present, and future. We will make sure people care about the world they live in, get involved in their communities, engage with the democratic process and use their right to vote.  We will provide information, inspiration and ideas for people who ask: Why should I get involved? Why should I care? Why should I vote? Who are we?  We are a museum of ideas – ideas that are powerful, radical, innovative and world-changing – ideas that unite and bring people together – today’s ideas worth fighting for, as well as yesterday’s.  Walking through the museum brings you face to face with these world-changing ideas – election by ballot, votes for women, workers rights to fair pay, equality for all regardless of gender, race, sexuality, age or disability – and many more.  We are the only place where these ideas are brought to life through our collections, exhibitions and programmes.  Every object in our collection has played its part in the fight for democracy and equality. Each placard, banner, badge and poster has been held by different hands fighting for different causes – but all working together to make a difference.  We share inspiring stories that need to be told – of the people who fought for ideas – people who dared to be different and who made a change. We are keeping the people’s history alive and will continue to do so. Find out more: https://phm.org.uk/phm-story/

Women's Studies: Issues and Identities

The Royal Archives preserves the personal and official correspondence of monarchs from George III (1760-1820) onwards, as well as administrative records of the departments of the Royal Household. From diaries and personal letters to account books and speeches, the collections held by the Royal Archives record and reflect some of the most significant moments in British history and provide a fascinating insight into the life and work of past monarchs, their families, households and residences. Find out more: https://www.royal.uk/archives

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Photography

Nineteenth-Century Photographs from the Royal Archives, Windsor

State Papers Online: The Stuart and Cumberland Papers from the Royal Archives, Windsor Castle

The National Collections Centre is home to the Science Museum’s world-class Library and Archive collection of over half a million items. Find out more: https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/researchers/library-and-archives-national-collections-centre

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Photography

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Women and Transnational Networks
 

The network of 21 specialized research libraries that make up the Smithsonian Libraries provide the Institution’s museums and research centers with resources and services that are as diverse and deep as the collections, exhibits, and scholarship they support. They truly span the range of scientific and cultural pursuits of humanity from aerospace, anthropology, and art history to business history and botany, cultural history, design, philately, zoology, and much, much more.

Individually each of these libraries is among the world’s greatest repositories of knowledge for the specialized fields they support. Collectively they are among America’s greatest scientific and cultural treasures. They belong to the nation, and through their expanding on-line presence and digitization initiatives more and more people from across the country and around the world are able to access their vast resources. Find out more: https://library.si.edu/about-us

Smithsonian Collections Online: Air & Space and Smithsonian Magazine

Smithsonian Collections Online: Evolution of Flight, 1784-1991

Air Commerce Bulletins, 1929-1939

Bulletin of Information

Correspondence of Octave Chanute

Official Guide of the Airways

Reports and Papers of the Civil Aeronautics Board/Civil Aeronautics Board Authority

Reports and Papers of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics

Samuel P. Langley Papers

Selected National Air and Space Museum Library  Periodicals

The Bella C. Landauer Collection of Aeronautical Sheet Music

U.S. Air Services

Smithsonian Collections Online: Trade Literature and the Merchandizing of Industry

National Museum of American History Library Trade Literature Collection

Smithsonian Collections Online: World's Fairs and Expositions

Books of the Fairs: From the Holdings of the Smithsonian Libraries

Exposition Records of the Smithsonian Institution and the United States National Museum, 1867-1940

World's Fairs titles in the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Library

World's Fairs titles in the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology