Collections containing material about Early 19th Century (1801-1833)

Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project

Presents materials from Lincoln's Illinois years (1830-1861), supplemented by resources from Illinois' early years of statehood (1818-1829). Thus Lincoln/Net provides a record of Lincoln's career, but ...

The Abraham Lincoln Quarterly

Between 1940 and 1952, the Abraham Lincoln Association published fifty-two issues of The Abraham Lincoln Quarterly, a journal with original articles regarding all facets of Abraham Lincoln's life and ...

AdHoc Image and Text Database on the History of Christianity

A faculty-library initiative at Yale Divinity School to support and coordinate resources relating to the history of Christianity at Yale University. Ad Hoc contains almost 2600 items and includes both ...

African American Women Writers of the 19th Century

A digital collection of some 52 published works by 19th-century black women writers. A part of the Digital Schomburg, this collection provides access to the thought, perspectives and creative ...

African-American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907

351 pamphlets presenting a panoramic and eclectic review of African American history and culture, spanning almost one hundred years. Works include sermons on racial pride and political activism; ...

Allison Delarue Collection

Ballet in the nineteenth century was an ideal medium for the manifestation of the Romantic movement. The Delarue Collection offers not only vignettes of this extraordinary time of artistry and grace, ...

America Singing: Nineteenth-Century Song Sheets

Collection of 4,291 song sheets for popular music from the Rare Book and Special Collections Division of the Library of Congress. Consisting of lyrics produced between the turn of the nineteenth ...

An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals, ca. 1490-1920

A collection of over two hundred social dance manuals beginning with a rare late fifteenth-century source, "Les basses danses de Marguerite d'Autriche" (c.1490) and ending with Ella Gardner's 1929 " ...

American Notes: Travels in America, 1750-1920

American Notes: Travels in America, 1750-1920 comprises 253 published narratives by Americans and foreign visitors recounting their travels in the colonies and the United States and their observations ...

American Originals

"American Originals" is a changing exhibit that has presented the nation's greatest documentary treasures in the Rotunda of the National Archives Building since December 1995. Over the years, the ...

American Originals Part II

American Originals presents a tiny sampling of records from the National Archives. It represents the larger historical record that documents our national life in all its complexity. While offering ...

American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera

The library of Peter Force, acquired by the Library of Congress in 1867, furnished the basis of the Printed Ephemera Collection. Force himself had secured many of the pieces assembled by an earlier ...

The American Verse Project

An electronic archive of volumes of American poetry. Most of the archive is made up of 19th century poetry, although a few 18th century and early 20th century texts are included. The full text of each ...

Andrew D. White Architectural Photographs Collection

The Andrew Dickson White Architectural Photographs document a wide range of 19th- and early 20th-century architecture of Europe, the Middle East and the Americas, including structures, panoramas and ...

The Avalon Project at Yale Law School: Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy

The Avalon Project, a collaboration between the Yale Law School and Yale Law Library, makes historical and present day legal documents available online. This international collection focuses ...

Beautiful Birds: Masterpieces from the Hill Ornithology Collection, Cornell University Library

Beautiful Birds traces the development of ornithological illustration in the 18th and 19th centuries and highlights the changing techniques — from metal and wood engraving to chromolithography — ...

The Biddle Edition Archive

A searchable electronic collection of selected Lewis and Clark letters, images, and press coverage surrounding the publication of the Biddle edition of the Lewis and Clark Journals in 1814. The ...

Birket Foster, Victorian Illustrator: A Memorial Exhibit in Honor of Charles W. Mann, Jr. (1929-1998)

Birket Foster was part of one of the great periods of book illustration in England. A former apprentice of Thomas Bewick, he worked for the London News early in his career, and soon after he began to ...

The Burney Collection of Newspapers

The 700 or so bound volumes of newspapers and news pamphlets gathered by the Revd Charles Burney (1757-1817) represent the largest single collection of 17th and 18th century English news media ...

Button Pin and Ribbon Collection

The button, pin and ribbon collection currently contains over 1,700 items and continues to expand. These items have been donated over many years to the Peace Collection (SCPC) by individual peace ...

The Capital and the Bay: Narratives of Washington and the Chesapeake Bay Region, ca. 1600-1925

The Capital and the Bay: Narratives of Washington and the Chesapeake Bay Region, ca. 1600-1925 comprises 139 books selected from the Library of Congress's General Collections and two books from its ...

Cartoon Prints, American

The prints illustrate the rise and decline of allegorical expression and the evolution of important symbols such as Uncle Sam, Liberty, and Justice. Because of the testimony they provide to earlier ...

A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875

Brings together online the records and acts of Congress from the Journals of the Continental Congress through The Congressional Globe, which ceased publication with the Forty-second Congress in 1873. ...

Collect Britain: Putting History in its Place

Collect Britain is the British Library's largest digitisation project to date. The site goes live on May 21st 2003. By summer 2004 you can view and hear a staggering 100,000 images and sounds from our ...

The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln

In 1953, the Abraham Lincoln Association published The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, a multi-volume set of Lincoln's correspondence, speeches, and other writings. Roy P. Basler and his editorial ...

The Core Historical Literature of Agriculture

The Core Historical Literature of Agriculture (CHLA) is a core electronic collection of agricultural texts published between the early nineteenth century and the middle to late twentieth century. Full ...

Cultural Readings: Colonization & Print in the Americas

"Cultural Readings" attempts to use the internet to review this complex history. The web site originates from two exhibitions of rare printed and manuscript materials held in Philadelphia, ...

Database of Bookbindings

This database is a finding aid to the British Library's bookbinding collections. It includes information and images for selected items from the Library's rich collection of fine bindings of books ...

Death of the Father: An Anthropology of Ends in Political Authority

Discusses the effects of the death of a leader on a nation, such as the deaths of German politician and leader Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and Soviet political leader Joseph Stalin (1879-1953). Traces ...

Degas at Harvard

A searchable web site, offered as an introduction to the holdings of works of art by Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas in the collections of Harvard University. Although most of the Degas works at Harvard ...

Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention 1774-1789

Selections from the Continental Congress Broadside Collection (253 titles) and the Constitutional Convention Broadside Collection (21 titles) contain 274 documents relating to the work of Congress and ...

Early 19th-Century Russian Readership & Culture: A Hypertext Archive

A collection on early 19th-century Russian readership, culture and the press. It consists of: a) texts drawn from fiction, journals, memoirs and travel accounts; and b) supplementary materials -- ...

Early American Fiction Collection (1789-1875)

The Early American Fiction collection includes 886 volumes, totaling 230,016 pages. 136 authors are represented. In addition, 199 manuscript items (525 pages of drafts, letters, and miscellaneous ...

Early Virginia Religious Petitions

Images of 423 petitions submitted to the Virginia legislature between 1774 and 1802 from more than eighty counties and cities. Drawn from the Library of Virginia's Legislative Petitions collection, ...

The Emancipator Newsletter

The Emancipator Newsletter, published monthly in Jonesborough, Tennessee in 1820 by Elihu Embree, advocated the abolition of slavery. Embree, a Quaker, had established what is probably the country's ...

Emory Women Writers Resource Project

Working with faculty and graduate students for Emory's English Department, the Beck Center is creating both HTML and SGML versions of selected works by American and British women. Spanning the 17th - ...

The Fantastic in Art and Fiction

Graphic material from the Cornell witchcraft collections provides an unusual and rarely seen counterpoint to a comparative literature course analyzing German, Anglo-American, French, and Latin- ...

The First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820

This was a joint project between the University of Chicago Library and the Filson Historical Society of Louisville, Kentucky, to digitize 745 rare books, pamphlets, newspapers, maps, prints, and ...

France in America

From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1822-1909

Presents 397 pamphlets published from 1824 through 1909, by African-American authors and others who wrote about slavery, African colonization, Emancipation, Reconstruction, and related topics. The ...

A Grand Legacy: Arts of the Ottoman Empire

Highlights and excerpts from a 1999-2000 exhibition on display at the Arthur M Sackler Museum, Harvard University Art Museums.

Historic Sheet Music, 1800-1922

Approximately 9,000 pieces of Sheet Music published from 1800 to 1922, although the majority is from 1850 to 1920. The bulk was published in many different cities in the United States, but some of the ...

Historical Archaeology in Loudoun Valley and Harpers Ferry

Archaeological and historical research concerning 18th and 19th century sites in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, and nearby Loudoun Valley, Virginia, as well as the broader region of the upper Potomac ...

Historical Maps Online

Includes digital images of approximately 85 maps dating back over 350 years. The maps depict North America, the Northwest Territory, the state of Illinois, and counties and townships within the state ...

The Illustrated Book, 1780-1830: Selected from the Collection of Harris N. Hollin

An online exhibit of surrogates for items in the collection of Harris N. Hollin. Including images of more than 40 plates and excerpts from the texts, the exhibit is thematically organized and focuses ...

Images of African Americans from the 19th Century

The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of The New York Public Library is pleased to offer this selection of images of 19th-century African Americans. They are presented in the hope that ...

Immigration to the United States (1789-1930)

Concentrating heavily on the 19th century, Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930, includes approximately 1,800 books and pamphlets as well as 9,000 photographs, 200 maps, and 13,000 pages from ...

Judging a Book by Its Cover

The advent of gold-stamped decoration, circa 1832, was the most important factor in the acceptance of publishers' bindings. Gold stamping brought to the mass-produced book some of the prestige ...

Keffer Collection of Sheet Music, ca. 1790-1895

The Keffer Collection of Sheet Music at the University of Pennsylvania contains 2,531 scores ranging in date from ca. 1790 to 1895. The great majority of the items were published in the United States ...

King County Snapshots

King County Snapshots presents King County, Washington, through 12,000 historical images carefully chosen from the twelve organizations' collections. These cataloged 19th and 20th century images ...

Latin Americanist Research Resources Project

Bibliographic information of a cross-section of over 500 journals published in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, ...

The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music

Highlights include: Images of the covers and each page of music published before 1923 and in the public domain Search capability Digital workflow management system is currently under development ...

Mackenzie Collection

The earliest recorded excavations of a Buddhist monument in India happened at Amaravati between 1798 and 1817. The drawings that documented these excavations were collected by Colonel Colin Mackenzie ...

Making of America (MoA): Cornell University

The MOA project is a multi-institutional initiative to create and make accessible over the Internet a distributed digital library of important materials on the history of the United States. The ...

Making of America (MoA): University of Michigan

Making of America (MoA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas ...

The Making of Ann Arbor

Online pictorial history of Ann Arbor, Michigan resulting from a collaboration between the University of Michigan Library, the Ann Arbor District Library, and the University of Michigan Bentley ...

Map Collections, 1500-1999

The focus of Map Collections is Americana and Cartographic Treasures of the Library of Congress. These images were created from maps and atlases and, in general, are restricted to items that are not ...

Mapping the National Parks

Documents the history, cultural aspects and geological formations of areas that eventually became four US National Parks (Yellowstone, Acadia, Grand Canyon, and Great Smoky Mountains). The collection ...

Maps of Africa

Maps of Africa features antiquarian maps from the collections of the late Dr. Oscar I. Norwich and the Stanford University Libraries, dating from the late 15th to the early 20th century. They are a ...

Newspapers Digitisation Project: British Newspapers 1800-1900

The aim is to select and to digitise complete runs of UK newspaper titles that are published between 1800 and 1900. It is proposed to select a mixture of UK national, regional and local newspaper ...

Pacific Northwest Historical Documents Database

A collection of writings, diaries, letters, and reminiscences drawn from various sources within the Manuscripts, Special Collections, University Archives collections that recount the early settlement ...

The Papers of John Jay

The Papers of John Jay is an image database and indexing tool comprising some 13,000 documents (more than 30,000 page images) scanned chiefly from photocopies of original documents. Most of the source ...

Parallel Histories: Spain, the United States, and the American Frontier

Parallel Histories: Spain, the United States, and the American Frontier is a bilingual, multi-format English-Spanish digital library site that explores the interactions between Spain and the United ...

Patients' Voices in Early 19th Century Virginia: Letters to Doct. James Carmichael & Son

In 1998 the University of Virginia Libraries purchased a 700-piece collection of the correspondence and daybook of Dr. James Carmichael and his son, Dr. Edward Carmichael, of Fredericksburg, Virginia ...

Peter Parker Collection

Peter Parker was a medical missionary and diplomat to China in the early 19th Century. Parker specialized in treating diseases of the eye, particularly cataracts, but also performed general surgical ...

Pioneering the Upper Midwest: Books from Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, ca. 1820-1910

Portrays the states of Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin from the seventeenth to the early twentieth century through first-person accounts, biographies, promotional literature, local histories, ...

Portrait Engravings Collection

In the era before photography, portrait engravings were the only means of distributing images of famous individuals, including noted physicians and scientists. Many of these portraits were engraved ...

Railroad Maps 1828-1900

Represents an important historical record, illustrating the growth of travel and settlement as well as the development of industry and agriculture in the United States. They depict the development of ...

Samuel Putnam Avery Print Collection and Related Works

Nearly 1,100 etchings, lithographs, and some drawings, by prominent 19th-century printmakers. Most of these works are part of the S. P. Avery Collection, complemented by holdings found in the general ...

Starr Sheet Music Collection

The Starr Sheet Music Collection, containing over 100,000 separate items, is a rich resource for musicians, historians and students of American culture. It is primarily a collection of American ...

Studies in Scarlet

Studies in Scarlet presents the images of over 420 separately published trial narratives from the Harvard Law School Library's extensive trial collections. Included are a number of trials of the ...

The Swinburne Project: A Digital Archive of the Life and Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne

Algernon Charles Swinburne is a major Victorian writer and cultural figure. The vast majority of his writings, however, are out of print. The Swinburne Project provides a searchable electronic edition ...

The Thomas Jefferson Papers, 1606-1827

The complete Thomas Jefferson Papers from the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress consists of approximately 27,000 documents. This is the largest collection of original Jefferson documents ...

Transportation History Collection: Railroads

The collection of railroad material consists of over 14,000 items relating to American, Canadian, Mexican, British, French, German, and Russian railroad companies and their rolling stock. There are ...

Treasures of Congress

Few institutions have been as central to the course of American history as the U.S. Congress. Most of the great issues in our national life have been played out there, and many of our most memorable ...

United States and Brazil: Expanding Frontiers, Comparing Cultures

Victorian Women Writers Project

The goal of the Victorian Women Writers Project is to produce highly accurate transcriptions of works by British women writers of the 19th century, encoded using the Standard Generalized Markup ...

The Virginia Elections and State Elected Officials Database Project, 1776-2008

Update (2005): Election data for Virginia candidates running for U.S. Congress back to the 1960s, election and service data for candidates in 2004 elections, and campaign finance data for candidates ...

William Blake: Illustrated Books

Three original books in "relief etching" by William Blake, who composed the texts, designed the texts and decorations, and printed the pages: America: A Prophecy (1793 [1794?]), Europe: A Prophecy ( ...

William Morris and His Circle

This web exhibition of "William Morris and His Circle" incorporates selected images derived from the 1996 Ransom Center exhibition which contained over seventy-five items, including manuscripts of ...

Women Working, 1800-1930

Provides access to digitized books (over 3,500), manuscripts (7,500 pages) and images (1,200) from the collections of Harvard University Libraries and Museums on the topic of women in the U.S. economy ...

Words and Deeds in American History: Selected Documents Celebrating the Manuscript Division's First 100 Years

In honor of the Manuscript Division's centennial, its staff has selected for online display approximately ninety representative documents spanning from the fifteenth century to the mid-twentieth ...

Yale Medicine Thesis Digital Library

Starting with the School of Medicine graduating class of 2002, the Medical Library and Office of Student Research have begun a collaboration to electronically publish the full text of student theses ...