MicroFinder Titles
Adams family. Papers, 1639-1889. Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1954-1959
Call number: Microfilm A31Guide: Microfilms of the Adams Papers
Call number: Z6623.M2A3
Note:608 reels 35 mm. microfilm. Originals in the Massachusetts Historical Society Library.
Description: The Adams Papers consist of correspondence, letterbooks, diaries, literary manuscripts, speeches, legal and business papers, and other materials, largely of John Adams, John Quincy Adams, and Charles Francis Adams.
John Adams was a member of the Continental Congress, commissioner to France, the United Provinces, and Great Britain, member of the commission which negotiated the peace treaty to end the Revolutionary War, Vice President under Washington, and President from 1796 to 1800. His son, John Quincy Adams was a member of the House of Representatives and the Senate, minister to St. Petersburg and Great Britain, one of the negotiators for the peace to end the War of 1812, Secretary of State under Monroe, and President from 1825 to 1829. His son, Charles Francis Adams, was a member of the House of Representatives and minister to Great Britain (1861-68) during the Civil War.
The papers also include the papers of the lesser Adamses, Abigail Brooks Adams, Abigail Smith Adams, Brooks Adams, Charles Adams, Charles Francis Adams II, George Washington Adams, Henry Adams, John Adams II, John Quincy Adams II, Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, Thomas Boylston Adams, Abigail Adams Smith, and other members of the family. The non-Adams represented in the collection are Samuel Cooper Johonnot, Thomas Callender, Thomas Baker Johnson, Elise Charlotte Otte, Stephen Peabody, and Samuel Tucker. Also includes a large file of incoming correspondence from hundreds of major and minor figures in America and Europe. The collection dates from 1639 to 1889, with the majority of the material dated after 1755.
Subjects: Adams, John; Adams, John Quincy; Adams, Charles Francis; Adams, Abigail Brooks; Adams, Abigail Smith; Adams, Brooks; Adams, Charles; Adams, Charles Francis II; Adams, George Washington; Adams, Henry; Adams, John II; Adams, John Quincy II; Adams, Louisa Catherine Johnson; Adams, Thomas Boylston; Smith, Abigail Adams; Johonnot, Samuel Cooper; Callender, Thomas; Johnson, Thomas Baker; Otte, Elise Charlotte; Peabody, Stephen; Tucker, Samuel; Presidents (Personal Papers); Vice Presidents (Personal Papers); United States Congress House of Representatives (Personal Papers); United States Congress Senate (Personal Papers); United States Continental Congress; France; Great Britain; Foreign Relations (17th Century); Foreign Relations (18th Century); Foreign Relations (19th Century); United States History Revolutionary War (1775-1783); United States History War of 1812; United States History Civil War (1861-1865); United States Department of State; Russia
AFL-CIO Pamphlets, 1889-December 1955, Held in the AFL-CIO Library : A Collection of the Official Publications of the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations from 1889 to the AFL-CIO Merger in December 1955. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1977
Call number: Microfilm D293Guide: American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations Pamphlets, 1880-1955 : A Bibliography and Subject Index
Call number: Z7164.L1W66
Note: 19 reels 35 mm. microfilm. Originals in AFL-CIO Library.
Description: A collection consisting of 752 pamphlets published by the American Federation of Labor and 288 by the Congress of Industrial Organizations between 1889 and the AFL-CIO merger in December 1955. The pamphlets are arranged by union and then chronologically by date. This arrangement was chosen to help researchers identify issues of interest to the two unions during the years that they were of major concern.
Subjects: American Federation of Labor; Congress of Industrial Organizations; Labor and laboring classes (19th Century); Labor Unions (19th Century); Labor and laboring classes (20th Century); Labor Unions (20th Century); Pamphlets
Africa : Special Studies, 1962-1980. Frederick, Md. : University Publications of America, [1981?]
Call number: Microfilm A202Guide: Africa: Special Studies, 1962-1980
Call number: Z3507.A47
Note: 7 reels 35 mm. microfilm
Description: A collection of unclassified federally commissioned papers prepared by various government and private organizations on the political, economic, and social developments in Africa during the 1960's and 1970's.
Contents: Reel 1-4. Africa, Algeria -- Reel 5. Algeria, Angola, Congo (Zaire) -- Reel 6. Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya -- Reel 7. Kenya, Libya, Namibia, Nigeria, Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), South Africa.
Subjects: Africa (20th Century); Algeria (20th Century); Angola (20th Century); Congo (20th Century); Zaire (20th Century); Ethiopia (20th Century); Ghana (20th Century); Kenya (20th Century); Libya (20th Century); Namibia (20th Century); Nigeria (20th Century); Rhodesia (20th Century); Zimbabwe (20th Century); South Africa (20th Century); Politics and Government(20th Century)
African Studies Association. Annual Conference Papers. [Chicago] : University of Chicago Library
Call number: Microfilm D182Guide: No guide available
Note: ??? reels 35 mm. microfilm
Description: A microfilm collection of papers presented at annual meetings of the African Studies Association. Penn State has 1960 and 1965 to date.
Subjects: African Studies; Africa (20th Century)
American Architectural Books, Based on the Henry-Russell Hitchock Bibliography and Helen Park List of Architectural Books Available in America Before the Revolution. New Haven, Conn. : Research Publications, 1973
Call number: Microfilm D286 & Microfilm D286aGuide: Index to the Microfilm Edition of American Architectural Books
Call number: Z5941.E35
Note: 128 reels 35 mm. microfilm
Description: A microfilm collection containing over 900 works selected from Henry-Russell Hitchcock's bibliography, American architectural books : a list of books, portfolios, and pamphlets on architecture and related subjects published in America before 1895 and Helen Park's bibliography A list of architectural books available in America before the Revolution. Individual titles in the collection are listed in The CAT, the Penn State University Libraries' online catalog.
Subjects: Architecture
American Association for Labor Legislation. Papers 1905-1945. Glen Rock, N.J. : NYT Microfilming Corp. of America, 1973
Call number: Microfilm D190Guide: Guide to the Microfilm Edition of the Papers of the American Association for Labor Legislation, 1905-1943
Call number: Z7164.T7A5
Note:71 Reels 35 mm. microfilm. Originals in the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University.
Description: The American Association for Labor Legislation was founded in 1905 to study American labor conditions and legislation by economists attending the annual meeting of the American Economic Association. The Association became more active when John Andrews was appointed executive secretary in 1909. Under his direction, it began to promote and achieve major changes in workmen's compensation, occupational health and safety, and child labor laws. The Association also supported scholarship and research in its area of interest, published numerous pamphlets and broadsides, and issued the journal American Labor Legislation Review. The Association ceased its activities with the death of Andrews in 1943.
The correspondence section is arranged chronologically, with no personal name index available. Major correspondents included are Jane Addams, Elizabeth Brandeis, Louis D. Brandeis, John R. Commons, Felix Frankfurter, Samuel Gompers, Alice Hamilton, Morris Hillquit, Florence Kelley, Paul U. Kellogg, Robert M. La Follette, Fiorello La Guardia, Walter Lippman, Francis Perkins, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Ida Tarbell, Mary Van Kleeck, Robert F. Wagner, and Stephen Wise.
The Guide provides a history of the Association, a list of pamphlets, and a detailed guide to the correspondence.
Subjects: American Association for Labor Legislation; Addams, Jane; Brandeis, Elizabeth; Brandeis, Louis D; Commons, John R; Frankfurter, Felix; Gompers, Samuel; Hamilton, Alice; Hillquit, Morris; Kelley, Florence; Kellogg, Paul U; La Follette, Robert M; La Guardia, Fiorello; Lippman, Walter; Perkins, Francis; Roosevelt, Franklin D.; Tarbell, Ida; Van Kleeck, Mary; Wagner, Robert F; Wise, Stephen; Andrews, John; Labor Unions (20th Century); Labor laws and legislation; Labor policy
American Association of University Women. American Association of University Women Archives, 1881-1976. Sanford, N.C. : Microfilming Corporation of America, [1980]
Call number: Microfilm A122Guide: American Association of University Women Archives, 1881-1976. A Guide to the Microfilm Edition
Call number: LC1751.A4
Note: 158 Reels 35 mm. microfilm
Description: The American Association of University Women (AAUW) began in Boston, Massachusetts in 1881 when seventeen college-educated women met to discuss the possibility of forming an organization that would encourage higher-education opportunities for women and support intellectual growth after graduation. In 1882 sixty-five women representing eight institutions formally organized the Association of Collegiate Alumnae (ACA). The organization grew rapidly. National membership increased while local and regional chapters were formed. The various chapters merged in 1921, adopting the name American Association of University Women. A national office and structure was developed with emphasis placed on study-action programs. The AAUW has remained an active organization that is still dedicated to the intellectual growth of its members and the general advancement of the status of women.
The AAUW archives trace the development of the organization. The archives are comprised of reports, press releases, correspondence, proposals, convention proceedings, schedules, invitations, scholarly reports, and miscellaneous publications.
The collection is divided into ten series:
- Series I : history of the AAUW and its predecessors, the Western Association of Collegiate Alumnae and the Southern Association of College Women, 1883-1976
- Series II : records of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae, 1881-1921
- Series III : AAUW general records, 1921-1976
- Series IV : AAUW administrative records
- Series V : AAUW program committee and development records, 1921-1976
- Series VI : AAUW Educational Foundation records, 1921-1976
- Series VII : AAUW region, state, and division branch records, 1921-1976
- Series VII : AAUW relations with other organizations
- Series VIII : International Federation of University Women records, 1919-1976
- Series X : Ida Hyde papers, 1867-1947
Subjects: Hyde, Ida H.; American Association of University Women; Association of Collegiate Alumnae; Western Association of Collegiate Alumnae; Southern Association of College Women; International Federation of University Women; Women (19th Century); Women (20th Century); Societies and clubs; Women college graduates
American Bureau of Industrial Research : Manuscript Collections on the Early American Labor Movement, 1862-1908. Frederick, Md. : University Publications of America, 1985
Call number: Microfilm A241Guide: Guide to American Bureau of Industrial Research, Manuscript Collections on the Early American Labor Movement, 1862-1908
Call number: HD8072.S343
Note: 12 reels 35 mm. microfilm. Originals are located at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin.
Description: This collection contains records of labor leaders in the United States in the 19th century and records of the Knights of Labor and the Sovereigns of Industry. The manuscript collections are from John Samuel, Joseph P. McDonnell, Albert R. Parsons, Edward H. Rogers, Ira Steward, and Thomas Phillips. Records from cooperative ventures sponsored by labor unions are in the collection. Also included in this collection are questionnaires and correspondence related to campus debates held in 1904 on the benefits of labor unions.
The guide contains a reel index and brief biographical descriptions of the individuals whose papers have been filmed.
Subjects: American Bureau of Industrial Research; Labor Movement; Industrial Research; Labor Unions (19th Century); Labor Unions (20th Century); Cooperatives
American Civil Liberties Union. American Civil Liberties Union Records and Publications, 1917-1975 and Updates, 1974-1978, 1976-1980. Glen Rock, N.J. : Microfilming Corp. of America, 1976
Call number: Microfilm D291Guide: American Civil Liberties Union Records and Publications, 1917-1975 and Updates
Call number: KF4741.A44 and KF4741.A4401
Note: 106 reels 35 mm microfilm
Description: For more than sixty years, the American Civil Liberties Union has been an important force in American history. The ACLU's involvement in civil liberties began in the 1920's with the Sacco and Vanzetti, Scopes, and Scottsboro cases and has continued with Brown vs. Board of Education, Miranda vs. Arizona, and Gideon vs. Wainright. Few civil liberties cases have reached the Supreme Court without the ACLU's involvement, usually with a legal brief before the Court itself.
The publications section includes the ACLU's annual reports from 1920-1977. The reports contain information on the contemporary judicial and legislative interests of the ACLU as well as providing financial and membership information on the organization. Among the journals is Civil Liberties (1931-1977), useful for a chronological review of the Union's activities. Also included are almost 700 pamphlets, leaflets, broadsides, and reports published by the ACLU.
Probably the most important part of the collection is the over 1600 legal briefs. The briefs are cross-indexed by appellant and appellee in the guide.
Subjects: American Civil Liberties Union; Civil Rights (20th Century); United States Supreme Court; Freedom of Speech; Equal Employment Opportunities; Race Relations
American Colonization Society. Records, 1792-1964. Wash. D.C., Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1971
Call number: Microfilm A66Guide: Records of the American Colonization Society
Call number: E448.A44
Note: 323 reels 35 mm. microfilm. Original located in the Library of Congress.
Description: The purpose of the American Colonization Society, founded in 1817, was to send freed slaves out of the United States, preferably to Liberia. Its membership was a mix of both pro- and anti-slavery individuals who believed colonization was the best way to deal with racial problems. The Society achieved limited success in its endeavors prior to the 1860's. After the Civil War and the end of slavery, the Society's activities centered primarily on helping people who wished to emigrate to Liberia and on providing funds for their support after arrival in Africa. In the twentieth century, the Society was concerned chiefly with the support of education in Liberia.
The Records consist of letterbooks, account books, minutes of proceedings, reports, financial records, and letters received. Correspondence, financial and business papers, reports, and miscellaneous material, chiefly 1823-1912, relate to administrative and financial matters, membership, problems of slavery and the status of slaves in the pre-Civil War period, emigration, colonization, and education in Liberia.
Included are William McLain's personal papers (1831-1850), letter books (1856-1875) of Josephy Tracy, secretary of the Massachusetts Colonization Society, and correspondence of Jehudi Ashmun, one of the Society's early colonial agents.
Subjects: Ashmun, Jehudi; McLain, William; American Colonization Society; African Americans; Colonization; Africa (18th Century); Africa (19th Century); Africa (20th Century); Slavery; Liberia; Massachusetts Colonization Society; Tracy, Josephy
American Culture Series, 1493-1875. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microforms, 1965
Call number: Microfilm D50Guide: American Culture Series, 1493-1875 : A Cumulative Guide to the Microfilm Collection
Call number: Z1215.A586
Note: 669 reels 35 mm. microfilm
Description: Some 5,750 books and pamphlets with imprints of 1875 or earlier are reproduced in this collection. Most are in English and are largely, but not exclusively, written by Americans and published in the United States. The works reflect all aspects of American history and culture. The guide has author, title, and subject indexes.
Individual works in the collection are listed in The CAT, the Penn State University Libraries' online catalog.
Subjects:United States History
American Federation of Labor. American Federation of Labor Records : The Samuel Gompers Era, 1877-1937. Sanford, N. C. : Microfilming Corporation of America, 1979
Call number: Microfilm A116Guide: American Federation of Labor Records : The Samuel Gompers Era, 1877-1937
Call number: HD8055.A5W57 1981
Note: 144 reels 35 mm. microfilm. Originals in AFL-CIO headquarters collection and the State Historical Society of Wisconsin Library.
Description: The AFL Records document the founding and growth of the AFL and of its member unions and provides insight into the influence the union and Gompers had in national affairs. The AFL was primarily a national federation of unions of skilled workers. As the president and guiding personality of the Union from its founding in 1886 until his death in 1924, Samuel Gompers worked to equalize the power of skilled workers and their employers by collective bargaining with recognized unions. Initially AFL membership grew slowly, but by 1920, there were 4,000,000 members. The activities of Gompers and of the AFL played an important role in the rise and development of the American Labor Movement.
The collection contains the following: early Federation records (1881-1890), including the records of the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions, the predecessor of the AFL; the papers of Gabriel Edmonston (18811-1918); AFL Executive Council records (1892-1924), including minutes, notebooks, and correspondence; Office of the President files (1886-1937), including letterbooks, scrapbooks, incoming correspondence, Gompers' speeches, writings, congressional hearing testimony, reference materials, and appointment books; AFL convention files (1909-1924); AFL national and international union files (1885-1937), including correspondence and other documents relating to affiliates of the Union; AFL jurisdiction file (1896-1924); Mining Department records (1911-1915).
Subjects: Gompers, Samuel; Edmonston, Gabriel; American Federation of Labor; Labor Unions (19th Century); Labor Unions (20th Century); Labor and laboring classes (19th Century); Labor and Laboring Classes (20th Century)
American Federation of Labor. Letterpress Copybooks of Samuel Gompers and William Green, Presidents, 1883-1925. Washington D.C., Library of Congress, Photoduplication Service, 1967
Call number: Microfilm A32Guide: No guide available
Note: 343 reels 35 mm. microfilm. Originals are in the Library of Congress.
Description: The Letterbooks of the AFL, housed in the Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, consist primarily of correspondence of Frank Keyes Foster and Gabriel Edmonston, Secretaries of the Federation; and of union presidents Samuel Gompers (1887-1924) and his successor William Green for 1925. The original 172,000 letters are bound in 355 volumes, each of which has a name index. Subjects discussed include the formation of local unions, political principals of the AFL, socialism, Marxism, the coal strikes of 1897 and 1902, the United Mine Workers, and the AFL-CIO American Federationist, the magazine of the AFL-CIO.
Subjects: Gompers, Samuel; Green, William; Foster, Frank Keyes; Edmonston, Gabriel; American Federation of Labor; United Mine Workers; Labor Unions (19th Century); Labor Unions (20th Century); American Federationist; Socialism; Marxism; Coal Strikes; Correspondence (19th Century); Correspondence (19th Century)
American Fiction, 1774-1900. Louisville, Ky. : Lost Cause Press, 1967-198?
Call number: Micro 3 & Micro 4Guide: American Fiction, [1774-1850/1851-1875/1876-1900], A Contribution Toward a Bibliography
Call number: Z1231.F4W9 1969; F1231.F4W92 1965; F1231.F4W93
Note: 19,000 microfiche
Description: A collection of prose fiction, written by Americans and published in the United States between 1774 and 1900. It includes novels, novelettes, tales, romances, short stories, and allegories. The collection is based on bibliographies published by Lyle Henry Wright. All titles and authors available in the collection are listed in The CAT, the Penn State University Libraries' online catalog.
Fiction published in annuals or gift books or in periodicals is not included. For fiction published in gift books see American Annuals and Gift Books.. American periodicals are available in the American Periodical Series.
Subjects: American Fiction (18th Century); American Fiction (19th Century); American Fiction (20th Century); Civilization
American Indian Oral History : The Duke Collection. Microform : [Greenwich, Conn.], Johnson Associates
Call number: Micro 4 DUKEGuide: Duke Indian Oral History Collection
Call number: Z1209.2.U52O45
Note: 310 microfiche
Description: This collection consists of oral history transcripts from members of the Indian Tribes in Oklahoma. The purpose of the collection is to allow American Indians to express their views as to their place in American history and culture.
The collection consists of transcripts of tape-recorded testimonies of Indians concerning their history, culture, and philosophy of life. Among the subjects covered are tribal histories, calendars, oral traditions, traditional stories and storytelling, place names and historical landmarks, acculturation and culture change, life history, warfare and warpath stories, descriptions of famous Indians, missionary activities, schools, ceremonies (Sun Dance, Ghost Dance, etc.), Peyote Religion, Native American Church, farming and ranching, Indian claim cases, medicine, Indian-white relations, death and mourning practices, modern arts and crafts, and traditional Indian foods and kinship behavior.
Indian tribes represented in the collection are: Apache, Arapaho, Caddo, Cayuga, Cherokee, Cheyenne, Cheyenne-Arapaho, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Comanche, Creek, Delaware, Iowa, Kaw, Kickapoo, Kiowa, Kiowa-Apache, Miami, Navajo, Omaha, Osage, Oto, Ottawa, Pawnee, Peoria, Ponca, Potawatomie, Pueblo, Quapaw, Sac & Fox, Seminole, Seneca, Shawnee, Shoshone, Tonkawa, Wichita, Wyandotte, Yuchi. Volume 55 includes numerical lists of tapes and manuscript materials without tapes and alphabetical lists of tribes, informants and field workers.
Subjects: Native Americans (19th Century); Native Americans (20th Century); Oklahoma (19th Century); Oklahoma (20th Century); Social Life and Customs (19th Century); Social Life and Customs (20th Century); Social Conditions (19th Century); Social Conditions (20th Century); Apache Indians; Arapho Indians; Caddo Indians; Cayuga Indians; Cherokee Indians; Cheyenne Indians; Cheyenne-Arapaho Indians; Chickasaw Indians; Choctaw Indians; Comanche Indians; Creek Indians; Delaware Indians; Iowa Indians; Kaw Indians; Kickapoo Indians; Kiowa Indians; Kiowa-Apache Indians; Miami Indians; Navajo Indians; Omaha Indians; Osage Indians; Oto Indians; Ottawa Indians; Pawnee Indians; Peoria Indians; Ponca Indians; Potawatomie Indians; Pueblo Indians; Quapaw Indians; Sac & Fox Indians; Seminole Indians; Seneca Indians; Shawnee Indians; Shoshone Indians; Tonkawa Indians; Wichita Indians; Wyandotte Indians; Yuchi Indians; Oral Histories
American Literary Annuals and Gift Books, 1825-1865. New Haven, Conn. : Research Publications, 1966
Call number: Microfilm D48Guide: Indices to American Literary Annuals and Gift Books, 1825-1865
Call number: AY10.T52K57
Note: 58 reels 35 mm. microfilm
Description: Over 1,000 literary annuals and gift books were published in the United States between 1825 and 1865. This period coincided with an increase in literacy and a growth in newspaper and magazine circulation. The 469 titles filmed in this collection were selected from Ralph Thompson's American Literary Annuals & Gift Books, 1825-1865, which contains historical background information. The guide contains author, title, editor, publisher and other indexes to the collection.
All titles available in the collection are listed in The CAT, the Penn State University Libraries' online catalog.
Subjects: Gift Books; American Literature (19th Century)
American Literature. New York, New York. : Readex Microcard, 1969-197?
Call number: Microprint .AM65Guide: Bibliography of American Literature
Call number: Z1225.B55
Note: 6,000 microprint cards
Description: An uncataloged collection covering the works of major American authors of belle-lettres from the beginning of the Federal Period (ca. 1780) up to and including writers who died before the end of 1930. Periodical and newspaper publications of an author are excluded, and the collection does not cover authors who were primarily historians, theologians, or scientists. The collection is based on Blanck's Bibliography of American Literature.
Subjects: American Fiction (18th Century); American Literature (18th Century); American Fiction (19th Century); American Literature (19th Century)
American Missionary Association. American Missionary Association Archives. New Orleans: Amistad Research Center, [1977]
Call number: Call Number variesGuide: Author and Added Entry Catalog of the American Missionary Association Archives.
Call number: Z7817.A45 Q
Note: 261 reels 35 mm. microfilm
Description: From its founding in 1846 to the outbreak of the Civil War, the American Missionary Association (AMA) worked for the abolition of slavery by peaceful means. Believing that slavery was against the word of God, the Association was involved in nondenominational work in Southern and Border states. Foreign missions were established in Canada, Latin America, Africa, Great Britain, and other countries to help former slaves.
In this country, the AMA worked not only for the end of slavery, but for full citizenship for Blacks. During and after the Civil War, the AMA concentrated on providing relief and education for freedmen. It established and provided teachers for more than five hundred schools in the Southern and Border states. While the first schools were elementary schools, later emphasis was on Black colleges. Higher education institutions at least partially established through the efforts of the AMA included Atlanta University, Berea College, Dillard University, Fisk University, Hampton Institute, Huston-Tillotson College, LeMoyne College Tougaloo College, and Talladega College.
The American Missionary Association manuscript collection, located in the Amistad Research Center, contains approximately 350,000 manuscript pieces, most of which were written during the 1839-1882 period. The majority of the collection consists of correspondence, with the largest number of letters (more than 100,000) being reports from foreign and home missionaries and teachers. Subjects covered include the Amistad Case; political, economic, and spiritual conditions in the South; opposition to the missionaries and to reconstruction policies; relations with the United States Army and the Freedmen's Bureau; conflicts among various philanthropic societies working in the South; education of Afro-Americans after the Civil War; and the Underground Railroad.
In addition to material on the early history of the Black colleges previously listed, considerable material will be found relating to Oberlin College because of the close relationship between the AMA and the faculty of Oberlin, which supplied more teachers and missionaries for the Association than any other college.
The correspondence section features extensive correspondence from and to Lewis Tappan, one of the founders and until his death dominant figures in the Association. The papers are arranged by the state or foreign country from which the letter was written. Call number varies; consult The CAT, the Penn State University Libraries' online catalog. For guide consult: Author and added entry catalog of the American Missionary Association archives/Amistad Research Center.
Subjects: American Missionary Association; Missions (19th Century); Africa (19th Century); Slavery; Anti-Slavery Movements; Religious Life (19th Century); African Americans (19th Century); Education; Higher Education (19th Century); Atlanta University; Berea College; Dillard University; Fisk University; Hampton Institute; Huston-Tillotson College; LeMoyne College; Tougaloo College; Talladega College; Tappan, Lewis; Oberlin College
American Periodical Series I & II. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms, 1942-1979
Call number: Microfilm D16 & D16aGuide:American Periodicals, 1741-1900 : An Index to the Microfilm Collections
Call number: Z6951.H65
Note: 1,999 reels 35 mm. microfilm
Description: Over 1,000 American journals of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries are microfilmed in this collection. Added entries for each title appear in The CAT, the Penn State University Libraries' online catalog. The guide gives background information on each title, tells which volumes are on each reel, and provides an editor and a general subject listing. The latter feature lists journals' titles under headings like education, theology, etc. Many of the journals are indexed in either the Early American Periodicals. Index to 1850 or in Poole's Index to Periodical Literature. Most of the titles available in Series III (1850-1900) of the American Periodicals Series are available in either paper or microform.
Subjects: American Periodicals (18th Century); American Periodicals (19th Century); American Periodicals (20th Century)
American Sunday School Union Papers, 1817-1915. Sanford, N.C. : Microfilming Corp. of America, [1980?]
Call number: Microfilm A138Guide:American Sunday School Union Papers, 1817-1915 : A Guide to the Microfilm Edition
Call number: BV1503.A75S64
Note: 234 reels 35 mm. microfilm
Description: The Sunday and Adult School Union was established in Philadelphia in 1817 as a union of local Protestant Sunday School groups. Its goals were to promote the establishment of Sunday Schools and provide libraries and supplies for religious instruction. The Union soon had members throughout the country, and in 1824, was renamed the American Sunday School Union.
Beginning in 1821, the Union sent missionaries to visit and establish Sunday Schools. The movement was non-denominational, and from the beginning both Afro-Americans and Indians were taught. In the first century of its existence, the Union claimed to have established 131,000 Sunday Schools and taught over 5 million students. In the 1830's major efforts to establish Sunday Schools on the American frontier and in the South were launched, although both efforts suffered from a lack of funds. Conflicts with the Massachusetts Sunday School Union, serious financial difficulties, and disagreement over the issue of slavery plagued the Union between 1840 and the Civil War.
Following the War, missionaries were again sent to the South, Sunday Schools were revived, and new schools particularly for Afro-Americans, established. The period from 1870 until 1915 was marked by increased missionary efforts and an improved financial condition. Throughout its history, the Union published many books and journals. Its first journal, the American Sunday School Magazine was published between 1824 and 1832 and is available in the American Periodical Series (Microfilm D16a, reel 305). The Union also published a number of journals aimed at youth, including the Youth's Penny Gazette which is available in this collection.
The Papers, filmed from materials in the holdings of the Presbyterian Historical Society, are in three parts. Making up the largest part of the collection are the correspondence and reports, 1817-1915, which consist of incoming correspondence and reports from the Union's missionaries, agents, and officers, and reports of Sunday School societies, auxiliary to the Union. Materials in this section frequently describe Sunday Schools started or visited by missionaries and describe local economic, political, and social conditions. The second part, Administrative Records, 1817-1915, includes committee minutes, financial accounts, constitutions, by-laws, and annual reports. The third part consists of the journal Youth's Penny Gazette and catalogs of Union publications from 1817 to 1910.
The Guide contains a history of the Union and an index to the correspondence and reports. There is also a geographical index to the names of missionaries.
Subjects: American Sunday School Union; Sunday and Adult School Union; Native Americans (19th Century); Education; Religious Life (19th Century); Religious Life (20th Century); Slavery; African Americans (19th Century)
Archbald, Mary Ann Woodrow, 1762-1841. Journals, 1785-1840; Letters, 1781-1825; Commonplace Books, 1821-1840. New Haven, Conn. : Research Publications, 1976
Call number: Microfilm D285 reel 964-966 M1Guide: No guide available
Note: 1 reel 35 mm. microfilm. Originals in the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College Library.
Description: This collection is comprised of the journals, letters, and commonplace books of Mary Ann Archbald, a Scottish pioneer immigrant. The journals describe her life as a lady of means on the island of Little Cumbray off the coast of Scotland, her marriage to James Archbald III, and her subsequent immigration to the Mohawk community in western New York. The letters to friends and family are useful in portraying everyday life of the period. The Commonplace Books include excerpts from poems, favorite readings, quotations, etc. Although no guide is available for the collection, the journals are accompanied by a typescript edited by Hugh Archbald.
Part of the History of Women collection.
Subjects: Archbald, Mary Ann Woodrow; Women (18th Century); Women (19th Century); New York State (18th Century); New York State (19th Century); Diaries (18th Century); Correspondence (18th Century); Diaries (19th Century); Correspondence (19th Century); Immigrants (Personal Papers); Scotland; Emigration and Immigration; New York State; Social Life and Customs (19th Century)
Arthur, Chester Alan, 1830-1886. Papers, 1843-1938. Washington D.C., Library of Congress, Photoduplication Service, 1960
Call number: Microfilm A17Guide: Index to the Chester A. Arthur Papers
Call number: E269.29.U55
Note: 3 reels 35 mm. microfilm. Originals in the Library of Congress.
Description: The majority of Arthur's papers were destroyed at his direction the day before he died. The surviving manuscripts include correspondence, receipted bills, and other papers and transcripts and photocopies of the original correspondence in the files of Dun and Bradstreet, Inc. The correspondence includes letters written to Arthur by Julia I. Sand and about 100 letters written by, to, or concerning Arthur's friendship with Robert G. Dun.
The guide contains a history of the collection and an index to correspondence.
Subjects: Arthur, Chester Alan; Sand, Julia I.; Dun, Robert G.; Presidents (Personal Papers); Dun and Bradstreet, Inc.
Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching. Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching Papers, 1930-1942. Sanford, N.C. : Microfilming Corp. of America, 1983
Call number: Microfilm A218Guide: The Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching : A Guide to the Microfilm Edition
Call number:E185.61.C7 1984
Note: 8 reels 35 mm. microfilm
Description: The papers of the Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching document efforts to stop the hanging of African Americans which occurred with increasing frequency in the 1930s. Founded by Jesse Daniel Ames, the Association grew out of and replaced the Woman's Work Committee of the Commission on Interracial Cooperation (CIC). The Association, while a small organization, achieved much during its twelve years of existence. It worked through an active and vocal public relations campaign. It published pamphlets against lynching and publicized its campaign through Southern newspapers. Largely through its efforts, lynching stopped being a regular occurence in the 1940s.
The Papers include correspondence, meeting minutes, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, reports, newsletters, press releases, congressional bills, speeches and writings, resolutions, petitions and questionnaires.
Subjects: Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching; Ames, Jesse Daniel; Lynching; Southern States (20th Century); African Americans (20th Century); Civil Rights (20th Century); Commission on Interracial Cooperation; Women (20th Century)
Bacon, Anthony 1558-1601. The Papers of Anthony Bacon at Lambeth Palace Library, 1567-1603 : v.p. 1567-1603. London : World Microfilms, 1974
Call number: Microfilm A113Guide:Index to the Papers of Anthony Bacon
Call number: Z6616.B234L34 1974
Note: 9 reels 35 mm. microfilm
Description: Consists of correspondence from and to Bacon, including some materials in the final volume that were added to the collection after his death. Extensive correspondence with Robert Devereux, the Earl of Essex, appears in the collection. A complete calendar of the volumes, which are part of the Codices Tenisoniani, Mss. 647-662, is contained in Henry John Todd's Catalogue of the archiepiscopal manuscripts in the library at Lambeth Palace (London, 1812).
Subjects: Bacon, Anthony; Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of; Great Britain (16th Century); Politics and Government (16th Century); Foreign relations (16th Century)
Bacot, Ada W., fl 1832. Diaries, 1860-1863. New Canaan, CT : Readex Film Products, [1988]
Call number: Microfilm A246 reel 1Guide: Guide to American Women's Diaries : Segment II : Southern Women
Call number: HQ1418.A441 1988
Note: 1 reel 35 mm. microfilm. Original is in the South Carolina Library of the University of South Carolina.
Description: Little is known about Ada Bacot's life. This diary is the only one to have survived of what was probably a series. It covers from September 11, 1860 to January 18, 1863. The first volume deals with daily life in Mars Bluff, South Carolina. Mrs. Bacot, a widow, inherited a cotton plantation, which she managed. Details of plantation business and problems with slaves are covered. After the outbreak of the Civil War, Bacot became a nurse at Monticello Hospital in Charlottesville, Virginia. Bacot writings provide a vivid record of the nursing of sick and wounded during the War. Nothing is known of her life after the War. The Guide provides additional information.
Part of the American Women's Diaries (Southern Women) collection.
Subjects: Bacot, Ada W.; Women (Personal Papers); Diaries (19th Century); South Carolina (19th Century); United States History Civil War (1861-1865) (Personal Narratives); Confederacy; Nurses; Plantations; Slavery; Nursing; Hospitals; Plantation Owners; Slaveowners; African Americans (19th Century)
Ballinger, Richard Achilles, 1858-1922. Papers, 1907-1920. Seattle, Wash., Superior Reprographics, 1965
Call number: Microfilm A23Guide: Pamphlet Guide to the Microfilm Edition
Call number: Z6616.B26U5
Note: 13 reels 35 mm. microfilm. Originals in the University of Washington Library.
Description: Ballinger served as Commissioner of the United States General Land Office from 1907 to 1909 and as a controversial Secretary of the Interior from 1909 to 1911 under Taft. In a dispute with Gifford Pinchot, chief of the Forest Service, Ballinger was accused of being anti-Roosevelt, anti-Conservation, and personally dishonest. The Ballinger-Pinchot Controversy added to the mounting bitterness between Roosevelt and Taft, which eventually split the Republican Party in 1912 and resulted in the election of Woodrow Wilson.
The collection includes Ballinger's correspondence as Commissioner and correspondence, scrapbooks, Forest Service Memoranda, and speeches and writings from the period he was Secretary of Interior. Much of the correspondence relates to patronage.
The Guide contains a description of the collection and a list of the correspondence.
Subjects: Ballinger, Richard Achilles; Traft, William Howard; Roosevelt, Theodore; Pinchot, Gifford; United States Secretary of the Interior (Personal Papers); United States General Land Office (Personal Papers); Politics and Government (20th Century); Republican Party; United States Forest Service;
Bardwell, Mrs. of Walpole, New Hampshire, 1800- . Diaries, 1858-1866. New Haven, Conn. : Research Publications, 1976
Call number: Microfilm D285 reel 966 M2Guide: No guide available
Note: 1 reel 35 mm. microfilm. Originals in the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe College.
Description: These diaries are useful in providing insight to everyday life during the years 1856-1866. Mrs. Bardwell recorded family life, personal items, and events of interest in Walpole. Included are comments on the Civil War, the work of the Soldiers Aid Society, and accounts of trips to Decorah, Iowa in 1862 and 1866 to visit her daughter Sara.
The diaries are part of the History of Women microfilm collection.
Subjects: Bardwell, Mrs.; New Hampshire (19th Century); United States History Civil War (1861-1865) (Personal Accounts); Women (19th Century); Iowa (19th Century); Social life and Customs (19th Century); Diaries (19th Century)
Bartlett, John Russell, 1805-1886. Bartlett Papers : Mexican Boundary Commission Correspondence. Providence, Rhode Island : Brown University Library, 1965
Call number: Microfilm A51Guide: The Mexican Boundary Commission Papers of John Russell Bartlett, 1850-1853
Call number:Z6616.B26U5
Note: 12 reels 35 mm. microfilm. Originals in the John Carter Brown Library of Brown University.
Description: Bartlett was appointed Commissioner of the Mexican Boundary Commission by President Taylor in 1850. Serving in this capacity until 1853, Bartlett traveled through Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, and Mexico. The results of his service were published in 1854 in Personal Narrative of Explorations and Incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora, and Chihuahua.
His papers contain correspondence, official dispatches, journals and records of the Commission, a personal journal, and newspaper clippings. Materials date from 1848 to 1877, with most of the correspondence falling in the 1850-1853 period.
The guide includes a description of the papers and a name index to the correspondence.
Subjects: Bartlett, John Russell; Mexico (19th Century); United States History War with Mexico (1845-1848); Taylor, Zachary; Texas (19th Century); New Mexico (19th Century); Arizona (19th Century); California (19th Century); Correspondence (19th Century); Foreign Relations (19th Century)
Bascom, Ruth Henshaw, 1772-1848. Diaries, 1789-1846. New Canaan, CT : Readex Film Products, [1983?]
Call number: Microfilm A239 reels 1-3Guide: Guide and Index to Women's Diaries. Segment 1. New England Women
Call number: HQ1418.A442 1984
Note: 3 reels 35 mm. microfilm. Originals in the American Antiquarian Society.
Description: The diaries cover fifty-seven years of the life of Bascom, an artist. Bascom was a member of the Henshaw family of Leicester, Massachusetts, and the wife of Ezekiel Lysander Bascom (1779?-1841), a minister in Phillipston and Ashby, Massachusetts. The main subjects covered are local events, sickness and death, visiting, Bascom's art work, and the weather. In the early diaries, Bascom is involved in classes and special programs at Leicester Academy, social activities, housework, and family occasions.
After her marriage, Bascom helped her husband with his ministerial functions, kept a record of his sermon topics, funerals, and marriage ceremonies. In addition she devoted herself to visiting the sick, serving on local library and temperance societies, and performing household tasks. In 1819, she made her first entry concerning her work with pastel portraits and silhouettes for which she became known. There is some information about the money she received for her work and the cost of art supplies. The diaries also are a record of the many trips Bascom and her husband made to such places as Virginia, Leicester, Boston, and Maine.
Part of the American Women's Diaries (New England Women) collection.
Subjects: Bascom, Ruth Henshaw; Women (18th Century); Women (19th Century); Massachusetts (18th Century); Massachusetts (19th Century); Women Artists; Travel Accounts; Diaries (18th Century); Diaries (19th Century)
Baynton, Wharton, and Morgan Papers, 1757-1787, in the Pennsylvania State Archives. (Manuscript Group 19). Harrisburg : Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 1967
Call number: Microfilm A67Guide: Baynton, Wharton, and Morgan Papers in the Pennsylvania State Archives
Call number: F152.P45
Note: 10 reels 35 mm. microfilm. Originals in the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.
Description: The collection contains correspondence, accounts, and legal papers of the Philadelphia firm of Baynton and Wharton (1757-1763) and of the successor firm of Baynton, Wharton, and Morgan (1763-1787). As the firm was involved in trade with other colonies, Europe, and the West Indies and particularly with Indians and settlers in the territories, the papers are rich in information on trade in the period between the French and Indian War and the Revolution. The Papers document the development of the Illinois country, the fur trade, supplying provisions for military posts, and the role of the Philadelphia business in westward expansion.
The guide contains a history of the collection and an annotated inventory of its contents.
Subjects: Baynton, John; Morgan, George; Wharton, Samuel; Baynton, Wharton, and Morgan; Native Americans (18th Century); Trade (18th Century); French and Indian War; United States History Revolutionary War (1775-1783); Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania (18th Century); United States History Colonial Period (1600-1775)
Bibliography of American Women. New Haven, Conn.: Research Publications, [1975- ]
Call number: Microfilm D292Guide: No guide available
Note: 47 reels 16 mm. microfilm
Description: A list of approximately 50,000 books by and about American women collected by H. Carleton Marlow from primary bibliographic sources such as Sabin's Dictionary of Books Relating to America, Evans' American Bibliography, etc. and card catalogs of American libraries.
Part 1 is arranged in three segments of alphabetical, chronological and topical listings and covers books published between 1600 and 1904.
Subjects: Women; Bibliography
Black Abolitionist Papers, 1830-1865. Sanford, N.C. : Microfilming Corporation of America, 1980
Call number: Microfilm A131Guide: Black Abolitionist Papers, 1830-1865 : A Guide to the Microfilm Edition
Call number: E446.B5
Note: 17 reels 35 mm. microfilm
Description: The collection includes over 14,000 documents (letters, speeches, editorials, articles, sermons, and essays), filmed from photocopies, and written by more than 300 Afro-American men and women who were active in the movement to end slavery in the United States. The documents date from 1830 to 1865, and were collected from newspapers, journals, pamphlets, and manuscript sources located in over 100 libraries in the United States, Great Britain, Scotland, and Ireland.
The guide describes the efforts required to collect the materials in the collection and provides a name index to the papers.
Subjects: Slavery; African Americans (19th Century); Abolitionists (Personal Papers); Anti-Slavery Movements
Black Literature, 1827-1940. Alexanderia, Va., Chadwyck-Healey Inc., 1987-
Call number: Micro 4 BLKLTGuide: Users Guide to Units 1-3
Call number: PS508.N3B63 1990 Microfiche
Note: Microfiche
Description: Consists of fiction, poetry, book review, and literary notices that were previously published in African American newspapers and journals.
Subjects: American Literature (19th Century); American Literature (20th Century); American Fiction (19th Century); American Fiction (20th Century); African Americans (19th Century); African Americans (20th Century); African American Authors; African American Literature; African American Newspapers; African American Periodicals
Black Workers in the Era of the Great Migration, 1916-1929. Frederick, MD : University Publications of America, 1985.
Call number: Microfilm A227Guide: Black Workers in the Era of the Great Migration, 1916-1929 : A Guide
Call number: E185.8.S35 1985
Note: 25 reels 35 mm. microfilm
Description: During World War I, approximately one-half million African Americans abandoned their Southern homes and streamed into Northern industrial centers, as the war economy, combined with the virtual cessation of foreign immigration and the mobilization of the armed forces, created new opportunities for Black workers in Northern industry. Known as the Great Migration, this exodus continued during the next decade, with the movement doubling in volume.
This collection of documents from federal agencies focuses on the first decade of that long-term transformation of Black America. It includes only those materials with explicit mention of Black workers. The records relate to agricultural labor, industrial work, unionism, housing, race relations, returning veterans and their search for employment, and the process of migration from the South to the North.
Subjects: African American Agricultural Laborers; African American Veterans; Employment; African Americans (20th Century); Economic Conditions; Labor and laboring classes (20th Century); Race Relations (20th Century); Southern States (20th Century); Migration; Rural-Urban Migration; Labor Unions (20th Century); Agricultural Laborers; Social Conditions (20th Century)
Black, Jeremiah Sullivan, 1810-1883. Papers, 1813-1904. Washington D.C., Library of Congress, Photoduplication Service, 1947
Call number: Microfilm A2Guide: No guide available
Note: 17 reels 35 mm. microfilm. Originals in the Library of Congress.
Description: Black was born in Somerset County, Pennsylvania. He was admitted to the bar in 1830, served as deputy attorney general for Somerset County, and was a judge of the Common Pleas Court and the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. A Supporter of James Buchanan, he was appointed United States Attorney General in 1857. He also served as Secretary of State from December 1860 until March 1861. As Secretary of State, he instructed United States diplomatic representatives in Europe to try to prevent the recognition of the Confederacy and tried to deal with the secession crisis.
The papers also cover the troubles in Kansas before the Civil War and John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry. The microfilm consists primarily of correspondence and is arranged chronologically. No index is available.
Subjects: Black, Jeremiah Sullivan; United States Attorney General (Personal Papers); United States History Civil War (1861-1865); United States Department of State (Personal Papers); Pennsylvania (19th Century); Brown, John
Book Collection on Microfilm Relating to the North American Indian. Glen Rock, N. J. : Microfilming Corporation of America, 1973
Call number: Microfilm D287Guide: Book Collection on Microfilm Relating to the North American Indian
Call number: Z1209.B65
Note: 62 reels 35 mm. microfilm
Description: The collection consists of 660 books and pamphlets on American Indians. A guide provides author and title (but not subject) access. All titles in this collection are listed in The CAT, the Penn State University Libraries' Online Catalog.
Subjects: Native Americans (19th Century); Native Americans (20th Century)
Brandeis, Louis Dembitz, 1856-1941. The Louis Dembitz Brandeis Papers. Frederick, Md. : University Publications of America, 1985
Call number: Microfilm A295Guide: The Louis Dembitz Brandeis Papers
Call number: KF8745.B67L67 1985
Note: 94 reels 35 mm. microfilm. Manuscripts from Harvard Law School Library
Description: The papers of Louis Dembitz Brandeis, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, cover the years 1881-1966, with the majority dating during his service on the Court, 1916-1939. The papers consist of drafts, correspondence, lists, memoranda, legal documents, research notes and bibliographies, notebooks, printed materials, and photographs. Included in the Papers are Brandeis's working papers for all cases in which he wrote, printed copies with corrections, final drafts with penciled comments by other Justices, law clerk's memos and research notes, some correspondence with other justices, especially Justice Holmes, and outsiders relating to specific cases.
Subjects: Brandeis, Louis Dembitz; United States Supreme Court (Personal Papers); Judicial Opinions; Judges (Personal Papers)
Brandon, Zillah Haynie, 1801-1871? Diaries, 1855-1871. New Canaan, CT : Readex Film Products, [1988]
Call number: Microfilm A246 reel 2Guide:Guide to American Women's Diaries : Segment II : Southern Women
Call number: HQ1418.A441 1988
Note: 1 reel 35 mm. microfilm. Original is in the Alabama Department of Archives and History.
Description: Zillah Haynie Brandon was born in Pendleton, South Carolina and orphaned in 1803. Raised by her father's cousin and treated like a servant, her memories of her early life were unhappy. After she was baptized at age seven, religion played a big role in her life. She was married in 1822 to Francis Lawson Brandon, and the couple lived in various locations in northwest Georgia and later moved to Cherokee County Alabama.
Her diaries contain interesting accounts of nearby Cherokee Indian settlements. Zillah raised nine children, and two of her sons fought in the Confederate Army and were killed. Brandon began her diary in 1855 as a memoir for her children. It became current in 1856. It is mostly a testament of her deep religious faith, but includes accounts of Cherokee Indians, foreigners who worked on the railroad near the Tennessee River, family moves and health concerns, and the slavery issue as it was addressed by the Northern Methodist General Conference. There is also a vivid description of Sherman's occupation of Gaylesville, postwar hardships, and thoughts on the role of women.
The Guide contains additional information. The diaries are part of the American Women's Diaries (Southern Women) collection.
Subjects: Brandon, Zillah Haynie; Brandon, Francis Lawson; Women (19th Century); Alabama (19th Century); Georgia (19th Century); Religious Life (19th Century); Cherokee Indians; Sherman's March to the Sea; Slavery; Anti-Slavery Movements; United States History Civil War (1861-1865) (Personal Narratives); United States History Reconstruction (Personal Narratives)
Brewster, Mary Kate, 1871-1957. Diaries, 1889-1927. New Haven, Conn. : Research Publications, 1976
Call number: Microfilm D285 reel 966 M3Guide: No guide available
Note: 1 reel 35 mm. microfilm. Originals are in the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College.
Description: A native of Northampton, Massachusetts, Mary Brewster was the author of The Municipal Theater in America and Theater in Northampton, as well as several newspaper stories, plays, and a book. Her diaries which span the years 1889 to 1927 include accounts of daily life in Northampton, personal expense records, correspondence records, reading lists, and travel journals from tours of England, Europe, and Australia. Neither a reel guide or a printed index are available.
The diaries are part of the History of Women Collection.
Subjects: Brewster, Mary Kate; Massachusetts (19th Century); Massachusetts (20th Century); Social Life and Customs (19th Century); Social Life and Customs (20th Century); Women Authors; Australia; Description and Travel (19th Century); Description and Travel (20th Century); Europe; Women (19th Century); Women (20th Century); Diaries (19th Century); Diaries (20th Century)
British and Continental Rhetoric and Elocution. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms, 1953
Call number: Microfilm D70Guide: No guide available
Note: 16 reels 35 mm. microfilm
Description: This collection contains 117 titles published between 1500-1900 on the subject of rhetoric, public speaking, and the theater. The interest during the Renaissance on a classical education led many authors to study and write about classical rhetorical texts. Approximately 2/3 of the titles in this collection were published in Britain and were written in English or Latin. The remainder of the texts were published in Europe, representing the Continental rhetorical tradition, and were written in French, Italian or Latin. The location of the original text is indicated on the film.
All titles and authors available in the collection are listed in The CAT, the Penn State University Libraries' online catalog.
Subjects: Public Speaking; Rhetoric; Classical Literature
British Periodicals in the Creative Arts. Ann Arbor, Mich. : Xerox University Microfilms, 1972-1978
Call number: Microfilm F538Guide: British Periodicals in the Creative Arts
Call number: Z5937.B75
Note: 224 reels 35 mm. microfilm
Description: A collection of 71 journals published in Great Britain between the 1770s and 1930s. The collection includes 34 journals on music, 15 on art, 9 on drama, 7 on archaeology, and 6 on architecture. The collection is not fully cataloged in The CAT, the Penn State University Libraries' online catalog. The CAT does have added entries for each title.
Subjects: Archaelogy; Arts; Drama; Architecture; Music; Great Britain (18th Century); Great Britain (19th Century); Great Britain (20th Century); British Periodicals
Browder, Earl Russell, 1891-1973. Earl Browder Papers 1891-1973. Glen Rock, N. J. : Microfilming Corporation of America, 1976
Call number: Microfilm A107
Guide: Earl Browder Papers, 1891-1975 : A Guide to the Microfilm Editon
Call number: Z6616.B8295E75
Note:36 reels 35 mm. microfilm. Original material in the Syracuse University Library.
Description: Earl Browder served as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the United States between 1930 and 1944, the years of its largest membership and greatest influence on American politics. Browder also was the Party's nominee for President in 1936 and 1940. When the Party was reconstituted in 1944 as the Communist Political Association, Browder was chosen president. He was removed from all party posts in 1945 and expelled from the Party in 1946 for his coexistence policies.
The Browder papers document the activities and programs of the Communist Party and of one of its leaders during the 1930's and early 1940's. Filmed from materials in the Syracuse University Library, the collection includes correspondence, manuscripts, speeches, photographs, and pamphlets relating to Browder. The printed materials also include Communist Party journals, pamphlets, press releases, and convention proceedings from 1921 to 1972.
See also: The Papers of the Communist Party of America. For a collection of speeches by Browder see Speeches and Pamplets.
Subjects: Browder, Earl Russell; Communism; American Civil Liberties Union; Transportation Workers Union of America; United Labor Council of America; Communist Party; Communist Political Association
Brown, Mary Davis, 1822-1903. Diaries, 1854-1859, 1867-1901. New Canaan, CT : Readex Film Products, [1988]
Call number: Microfilm A246 reel 3Guide: Guide to American Women's Diaries : Segment II : Southern Women
Call number: HQ1418.A441 1988
Note: 1 reel 35 mm. microfilm. Original is in the South Carolina Library of the University of South Carolina.
Description: Mary Davis Brown's diary begins with a family genealogy and an account of the death of her first son. She was married to her first cousin and had eleven children. Early entries are signed and include poetry, probably her own. Brown was very religious and her diaries are an examination of her conscience. She also writes about family life, health, attendance at Presbyterian church services, and records the purchase and death of slaves. Later entries cover the arrest of Ku Klux Klan members, Grange meetings, and earthquakes of 1866 and 1890.
For additional information see Guide and Index to American Women's Diaries : Segment II Southern Women. Part of the American Women's Diaries (Southern Women) collection, the original is in the Collection of the South Carolinian Library of the University of South Carolina.
Subjects: Brown, Mary Davis; Women (19th Century); South Carolina (19th Century); Diaries (19th Century); Diaries (20th Century); African Americans (19th Century); Slavery; Religious Life (19th Century); Women Poets; Ku Klux Klan; Slaveowners
Brundage, Avery. Avery Brundage Collection, 1908-1975. Urbana, Ill : Microfilmed by the University of Illinois Library for the Bundesinstitut fur Sportwissenschraft, Cologne, Federal Republic of Germany, 1978
Call number: Microfilm A266Guide: Avery Brundage Collection, 1908-1975
Call number: Z7511.B75 1977
Note: 149 reels 35 mm. microfilm
Description: Avery Brundage (1887-1975) was a member of the International Olympic Committee from 1936-1973, serving as President from 1952-1972. He participated in the 1912 Olympics, competing in the decathlon for the United States. He also served as the President of the United States Olympic Association and Committee from 1929-1933 and as President of the Pan-American Games Sporting Committee from 1940-1951.
This collection of papers contains correspondence, scrapbooks, periodicals and newsclippings, and Olympic programs. Files and meeting minutes of the International Olympic Committee are included. The main subjects addressed include Olympic athletics and amateurism. This collection is invaluable for research on the Olympic games and the history of sport in the 20th century.
A guide is available listing the contents of each reel and a subject index. The originals are located at the University of Illinois. Patrons must complete a form at the microforms service desk requesting permission to use this collection prior to viewing this collection.
Subjects: Brundage, Avery; Sports; Olympics; International Olympic Committee
Buchanan, James, 1791-1868. Buchanan Papers [1813-1862]. [S.l. : Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 19__]
Call number: Microfilm A222Guide: Guide to the Microfilm Edition of the James Buchanan Papers
Call number: Z6616.B865B8
Note: 8 reels 35 mm. microfilm
Description: Summary: Reel 1-4 : Correspondence, 1831-March 1838 -- reel 4 : Letters and drafts, 1813-1847 -- reel 5 : Letters from John Slidell to Buchanan, 1844-1861 -- reel 6 : Retakes of 9 letters to Buchanan, 1842-1848 -- reel 7 : Nine miscellaneous Buchanan letters, 1827-1862 -- reel 8 : Miscellaneous correspondence, 1823-1856. Reel 8 was filmed by the Wyoming Historical and Geological Society and is on 16 mm. negative microfilm.
Subjects: Buchanan, James; Slidell, John; Presidents (Personal Papers)
Bureau of Social Hygiene Project and Research Files [1913-1940] : A Collection of the Rockefeller Archive Center of Rockefeller University. Wilmington, Del. : Scholarly Resources, 1980, c1979
Call number: Microfilm A210Guide: Guide to the Scholarly Resources Microfilm Edition of the Bureau of Social Hygiene Project and Research Files, 1913-1940
Call number: HV99.N6B853
Note: 31 reels 35 mm. microfilm
Description: The Bureau of Social Hygiene was one of the earliest privately funded social science research institutes in the United States. The Bureau was incorporated in 1913 to study social problems and was supported primarily by gifts from John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Until 1928, the Bureau supported research to determine the causes of prostitution, drug addiction, and other social ills. After 1928, more emphasis was placed on applying existing knowledge in fields like criminology, delinquency, penology, and police and criminal justice administration. The Bureau stopped making appropriations in 1934 and was dissolved in 1940.
The Bureau's project files contain information on the approach of experts of the period on such subjects as population studies, eugenics, prostitution, venereal disease, vice control, sex education, birth control, homosexuality, criminology, American and European police systems, American and European prison systems, probation and parole, crime statistics, early ballistics and identification research, organized crime, narcotics manufacture and distribution, prohibition, alcohol and drug addiction, juvenile delinquency, maternal health, and mental illness.
Most of the files are for the years 1928-1935. Materials in foreign languages have been omitted. Where English translations of foreign materials were present, they have been included. Excerpts from newspapers and magazines have also been omitted.
Subjects: Bureau of Social Hygiene (New York, N.Y.); Hygiene, Sexual; Prostitution; Public health; Sexually transmitted diseases; Birth control; Homosexuality; Eugenics; Crime and criminals; Criminal statistics; Drug abuse; Vice control; Sex instruction; Probation; Parole; Organized crime; Narcotics; Prohibition; Mental illness; Maternal health services; Juvenile delinquency
Burge, Dolly Sumner Lunt, 1817-1891. Diaries, 1847-1879. New Canaan, CT : Readex Film Products, [1988]
Call number: Microfilm A246 reel 4Guide:Guide to American Women's Diaries : Segment II : Southern Women
Call number: HQ1418.A441 1988
Note: 1 reel 35 mm. microfilm. Original is in the collection of the Woodruff Library of Emory University.
Description: Dolly Sumner was born in Maine, the cousin of Charles Sumner, a famous abolitionist. After the birth of her first daughter in 1841, she moved to Zebulon, Georgia where she worked as a teacher to help with her husband's financial problems. She began her diary in 1847 after the deaths of her husband and daughter. She remarried in 1850 to a prosperous plantation owner with five children. She gradually assumed the responsibility for managing her husband's property. There are frequent references in her diary to crops and relations with slaves. In 1855, her only surviving child, Sarah Burge was born, and three years later, her second husband died.
Dolly Burge's cotton plantation was devastated during the War, particularly in November 1864 when Sherman's march went through nearby Covington, Georgia. Her diaries record her loneliness and the problems of managing a plantation during the Reconstruction years. She remarried at 47 to the Reverend William J. Parks, partly because of a concern for her daughter's education. After his death, she returned to the Burge Plantation where she lived until her death from tuberculosis in 1891.
Part of the American Women's Diaries (Southern Women) collection, the original is in the Collection of the Woodruff Library of Emory University
Subjects: Burge, Dolly Sumner Lunt; Women (19th Century); Georgia (19th Century); Diaries (19th Century); United States History Civil War (1861-1865) (Personal Narratives); Sherman's March to the Sea; Women Teachers; Plantation Owners' Wives; United States History Reconstruction (Personal Narratives); Slavery; Plantations; Slaveowners
Burge, Louisiana D., 1844-1863. Notebook and Journal, 1860-1861. New Canaan, CT : Readex Film Products, [1988]
Call number: Microfilm A246 reel 4Guide: Guide to American Women's Diaries : Segment II : Southern Women
Call number: HQ1418.A441 1988
Note: 1 reel 35 mm. microfilm. Original is in the collection of the Woodruff Library of Emory University.
Description: Lou Burge was the daughter of Thomas Burge and his first wife Mary Clark. She was six when her father married Dolly Sumner Lunt Lewis. Lou's diary records her student life at the Wesleyan Female College in Macon, Georgia. She graduated with her class even though she missed most of her last year because of poor health. In addition to her health and college experiences, her diary contains an account of an engagement and a postponed marriage. Her death from tuberculosis is recorded in the diary of her step-mother which is also included in this collection.
Part of the American Women's Diaries (Southern Women) collection, the original is in the Collection of the Woodruff Library of Emory University.
Subjects: Burge, Louisiana D.; Burge, Dolly Sumner Lunt; Women (19th Century); Georgia (19th Century); Diaries; Women College Students; Higher Education; Wesleyan College (Macon, Georgia)
Burgess, David S., 1917- . The David S. Burgess Papers. [Glen Rock, N.J.] : Microfilming Corp. of America, 1977
Call number: Microfilm A128 Reel 17Guide: The Green Rising, 1910-1977, A Supplement to the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union Papers : A Guide to the Collection
Call number: Z1251.S7G833
Note: 1 reel 35 mm. microfilm
Description: Series: The green rising, 1910-1977. [microform]. a supplement to the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union papers. After graduating from Union Theological Seminary, David Burgess served from 1944-1947 as a minister of the United Church of Christ with various Southern Tenant Farmers' Union groups. He is credited with saving the homes of 600 families in Missouri in 1945. He later worked as a Congress of Industrial Organizations organizer in North and South Carolina and Georgia, as labor attache for the United States Embassy in India, and with the Peace Corps and UNICEF.
The Burgess papers, 1939-1974 contain correspondence (1944-1975), articles by Burgess (1939-1968), and book reviews, sermons, oral histories, speeches, and a diary. The Burgess papers are part of the Green Rising collection and supplement the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union's papers.
For reel guide and index consult: The green rising, 1910-1977 : a supplement to the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union papers : a guide to the collection .
Subjects: Burgess, David S.; Southern Tenant Farmers' Union; Sharecropping; Southern States; Agriculture; Labor Unions (20th Century); Farm tenancy; Agricultural Laborers; African American Agricultural Laborers; United Church of Christ; Diaries; Church and Labor; Oral Histories
Bute Broadsides in the Houghton Library, Harvard University. Woodbridge, Conn. : Research Publications, Inc, [1981]
Call number: Microfilm A133Guide: Bute Broadsides in the Houghton Library, Harvard University, Guide and Index to the Microfilm Collection
Call number: Z1231.B7A46
Note: 1 reel 35 mm. microfilm. Originals in the Harvard University Library.
Description: Reproduction of about 500 broadsides and other ephemera listed in: A list of broadsides and satires, prose, poetical, political, religious, with verses of bellmen, etc., illustrative of English history and social life, 1560-1748 the property of the Marquess of Bute, K.T.
Subjects: Bute, John Patrick Crichton-Stuart, Marquess of, 1847-1900; Broadsides
Buxton, Thomas Fowell, 1786-1845. The Papers of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, 1786-1845, Abolitionist and Reformer, in Rhode House Library, Oxford. Brighton, England : Harvester Press Microform Publications, 1984
Call number: Microfilm A213Guide: Calendar of the Papers of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, 1786-1845
Call number: Z6615.B97U55
Note: 17 reels 35 mm. microfilm
Description: Thomas Fowell Buxton was born on April 1, 1786 in Essex, England. He graduated from Trinity College, Dublin. Buxton's interest in prison reform led him to publish a book entitled Inquiry into Prison Discipline, based on his inspection of London's Newgate Prison. In 1822 Buxton succeeded William Wilberforce as leader of the campaign in the House of Commons for the abolition of slavery in the British colonies. He joined Wilberforce and others in founding the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society in 1823. Buxton's ideas, expressed in another book The African Slave Trade and Its Remedy (1839), inspired the British government to send an expedition to the Niger River Delta in 1841. The expedition failed and was soon recalled. Buxton died on February 19, 1845 in Norfolk, England.
Microfilm of 46 volumes of manuscript material housed in the Rhodes House Library, Oxford, England (MSS Brit. Emp. s 444). The papers span Buxton's life and his student days at Trinity College to his death in 1845 and include his letters and other personal material for his two books. Accompanied by: Calendar of the papers of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, 1786-1845. Poor legibility of some items is due to condition of originals filmed. Filmed by the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Reels 4-9 (vols. 12-20A) were filmed at an earlier time for conservation purposes.
Subjects: Buxton, Thomas Fowell; Wilberforce, William; Clarkson, Thomas; Gurney, Joseph John; Macaulay; Slavery; Great Britain (19th Century); Abolitionists (Personal Papers); Anti-Slavery Movements; Africa (19th Century); Prisons; British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society; Social conditions (19th century); Politics and government (19th Century)
C. Abayomi Cassell Collection. Monrovia, Liberia. Bedford, N.Y. : African Imprint Library Services, 1974
Call number: Microfilm D282Guide: No guide available
Note: 10 reels 35 mm. microfilm
Description: A collection of miscellaneous Liberian government documents, including acts passed by the Liberian legislature, 1888-1908, and annual messages of the President, 1879-1916. Also included are samples of thirty-two Liberian newspapers published between 1898 and 1971.
Subjects: Cassell, Christian Abayomi; Liberian Newspapers; Africa (19th Century); Africa (20th Century); Liberia (19th Century); Liberia (20th Century)
California State University, Fullerton. Japanese-American Oral History Collection. Glen Rock, N.J. : Microfilming Corporation of America, 1978
Call number: Micro 4 NYTGuide:vOral History Guide
Call number: AI3.O7
Note: 69 microfiche
Description:The Japanese-American Oral History Collection contains sixty-nine interviews which provide a history of the Manzanar and Tule Lake War Relocation Centers. These internment camps held thousands of Japanese-Americans who were uprooted from their homes during World War II. The interviews were conducted with former internees and with camp employees and residents in communities close to Manzanar and Tule Lake. In addition to the war experiences, the collection contains much information about Japanese-American history and culture.
The sixty-nine interviews are arranged alphabetically by the name of the memoirist, with a short title giving the main topics covered. The interviews contain complete name and subject indexes, and in many cases, contain photographs of the camps during the war years. Brief information about the collection and a list of the interviews can be found on pages 85-88 of Oral History Guide, v. 2.
Subjects: World War II (1939-1945); Evacuation of Civilians; Japanese-Americans; Manzanar; Tule Lake; Civil Rights (20th Century); Oral Histories
Callender, Eunice, 1786- . Diaries, 1808-1824; Letters 1802-1832. New Haven, Conn. : Research Publications, 1976
Call number: Microfilm D285 reel 967-968 M4Guide: No guide available
Note:2 reels 35 mm. microfilm. Originals are in the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe College.
Description: Insight into everyday life in Boston during the first thirty years of the nineteenth century is provided by the writings of Eunice Callender. Her papers are comprised of Diaries (1808-1824) and 139 letters written to her cousin Sarah Ripley Stearns (sister of well-known reformer George Ripley). Included in both the letters and diaries are comments on books, social life in Boston, theater, current events, and local gossip. The later letters become more religious in nature focusing on illness and death.
The diaries and letters are part of the History of Women Collection.
Subjects: Callender, Eunice; Stearns, Sarah Ripley; Massachusetts (19th Century); Social Life and Customs (19th Century); Women (19th Century); Diaries (19th Century); Boston, Massachusetts; Correspondence (19th Century)
Cameron, Simon, 1799-1889. Correspondence and Papers, 1824-1892. Harrisburg : Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 1958
Call number: Microfilm A4Guide:See reel 1 for list of correspondents
Note:10 reels 35 mm. microfilm. Originals in the Historical Society of Dauphin County Collections.
Description: The collection contains correspondence (mostly 1852-1876) and documents of Simon Cameron, Pennsylvania politician, United States Senator, controversial Secretary of War (1860-1862) and United States Minister to Russia. The collection mainly consists of incoming correspondence to Cameron from major figures in Pennsylvania politics.
The papers are arranged chronologically with a list of correspondents at the beginning of reel 1.
Subjects: Cameron, Simon; Pennsylvania (19th Century); United States Congress Senate (Personal Papers); United States Department of War (Personal Papers); Foreign Relations (19th Century); Russia (19th Century); Correspondence (19th Century)
Camp, Walter Chauncey, 1859-1925. Walter Camp Papers : Manuscript Group No. 125. New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Photographic Services, 1982
Call number: Microfilm A205Guide: Walter Camp Papers
Call number: GV939.C34A5
Note: 48 reels 35 mm. microfilm. Originals in Yale University Library.
Description: Walter Camp (1859-1925), athlete, businessman, and journalist, helped to create the modern game of football by rewriting the game rules and organizing collegiate athletic programs. Camp graduated from Yale University in 1880 and remained closely connected with the development of athletics at Yale throughout his life. During World War I, Camp was appointed physical director for the Air Force and the Navy and worked to develop programs to increase the level of physical fitness both in the military and in schools.
This microfilm collection consists of correspondence, writings by Camp, news clippings, photographs, and family papers dealing primarily with athletics and physical fitness. Included together with the correspondence are supporting materials like contracts or committee reports. Noteworthy is the collection of letters to and from Theodore Roosevelt concerning the brutality of football and correspondence with football coaches. Rule and guide books for football are included. Records detailing the development of athletics at Yale University are found in the collection.
The guide to the collection contains a brief subject index and an index of correspondence listed by author. The originals are located at the Yale University Library.
Subjects: Camp, Walter Chauncey; Yale University; Football; Sports; Physical Fitness
Capen, Betsy Estey Talbot, 1807-1887. Journals, 1838-1884. New Haven, Conn. : Research Publications, 1976
Call number: Microfilm D285 reel 968 M5Guide: No guide available
Note: 1 reel 35 mm. microfilm. Originals are in the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe College.
Description: Betsy Estey Capen lived with and cared for her parents until their deaths (1848, 1851). The 1851 she married Adam Capen, a widower. Between the years 1838 and 1884 Betsy Capen maintained a journal which consisted primarily of religious meditations and accounts of illness and deaths. References are also made to contemporary events such as the return of a fugitive slave from Boston in 1853 and to some battles of the Civil War. The Journals are accompanied by typescript explanatory notes by her granddaughter Bertha C. Reynolds (1955).
A short biography of Capen's step-daughter, Bessie Talbot Capen, educator, written by her nieces Mary Reynolds and Bessie Faunce is also included. The journals are part of the History of Women Collection.
Subjects: Capen, Betsy Estey Talbot; Capen, Bessie Tilson; Reynolds, Bertha Capen; Women (19th Century); Diaries; Massachusetts (19th Century); Social Life and Customs (19th Century); Religious Life (19th Century); Fugitive Slaves; United States History Civil War (1861-1865) (Personal Narratives)
Carney, Kate S., 1842- . Diaries, 1859-1862. New Canaan, CT : Readex Film Products, [1988]
Call number: Microfilm A246 reel 19Guide: Guide to American Women's Diaries : Segment II : Southern Women
Call number: HQ1418.A441 1988
Note: 1 reel 35 mm. microfilm. Original is in the Southern Historical Collection of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Description: Kate Carney evidently burned the other volumes of her diary when she married in 1875 because she considered them foolish. In the surviving volume, she recorded the daily life of a well-to-do family in Murfreesboro, Tennessee and her social life. She was a voluminous correspondent with, among others, Alice Ready (another diarist in this series). Her diary is important because of its description of a trip in 1860 to New York, Boston, Cleveland and Cincinnati and for her description of the occupation of Murfreesboro, Tennessee by Yankee troops in 1862. The diaries are part of the American Women's Diaries (Southern Women) collection.
Subjects: Carney, Kate S.; Women (19th Century); Tennessee (19th Century); Diaries; Description and Travel (19th Century); United States History Civil War (1861-1865) (Personal Narratives); Social Life and Customs (19th Century)
Carter family. The Carter Family Papers, 1659-1797, in the Sabine Hall Collection. [Charlottesville : University of Virginia Library], 1967
Call number: Microfilm A28Guide: Carter Family Papers, 1659-1797, in the Sabine Hall Collection. Guide to the Microfilm Editon
Call number: Z5315.C3H6
Note: 4 reels 35 mm. microfilm. Originals in the University of Virginia Libraries.
Description: The Carter Family Papers, 1659-1797 consist of land documents, correspondence and diaries of Landon Carter (1710-1778) and his son Robert Wormeley Carter (1734-1798). Landon Carter (son of Robert King Carter) was a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses, revolutionary, pamphleteer, and planter. Robert Wormeley Carter was also active in political as well as military affairs of Virginia. In addition to providing information about these two individuals, the papers offer insight into the daily lives of the gentry in eighteenth century Virginia.
The Microfilm edition, based on the Sabine Hall collection of the University of Virginia Library, is divided into two series and arranged chronologically according to physical types. Series 1 : Correspondence and land documents traces the evolution of the Sabine Hall estate (reel 1-2). Series 2 : Diaries include Landon's diary of the House of Burgesses, as well as his and Robert Wormeley Carters' personal diaries. Access to the Correspondence (but not the diaries) of Landon Carter is also provided by Walter Roy Wineman's The Landon Carter Papers in the University of Virginia Library : A Calendar and Biographical Sketch.
Subjects: Carter family; Carter, Landon; Carter, Robert Wormely; United States History Colonial Period (1600-1775); United States History Revolutionary War (1775-1783); Virginia (18th Century); Social Life and Customs (18th Century); Plantations; Diaries (18th Century)
Carver, George Washington, 1864?-1943. George Washington Carver Papers at Tuskegee Institute. Tuskegee Inst., Ala. : Carver Research Foundation, 1975
Call number: Microfilm A111Guide: Guide to the Microfilm Edition of the George Washington Carver Papers at Tuskegee Institute
Call number: Z8150.7.K5
Note: 67 reels 35 mm. microfilm. Originals in the collections of the Tuskegee Institute.
Description: A well-known chemurgist and Southern agricultural researcher, George Washington Carver was born in 1864, the son of a Missouri slave. He left his home in 1878 and subsequently worked his way through college. After receiving an M.S. degree in agriculture from Iowa State in 1896, Carver accepted the invitation of Booker T. Washington to join the faculty of Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. This began an affiliation with the Institute which lasted until Carver's death. Although he was a noted mycologist, Carver's major efforts focused on the improvement of Southern agriculture through soil conservation, crop diversification and the wider use of native plants and crops. He is, perhaps, best known for his experiments with the peanut and the sweet potato.
The microfilm edition of the Carver papers at Tuskegee Institute contains a variety of materials and is divided into five series:
- Series I : Memorabilia, 1897-1927, includes autobiographical sketches, photos and personal memorabilia
- Series II : Correspondence to and from Carver, 1896-1943, includes personal correspondence, letters requesting advice on agricultural problems, correspondence relating to his work with the YMCA and the Commission on Inter-Racial Cooperation and numerous letters from former students which indicate the influence of Carver and of Tuskegee Institute on the education of Blacks during the first third of the twentieth century
- Series III : Writings by Carver 1894-1942--primarily of applied scientificor practical nature
- Series IV : Writings about Carver, 1857-1975
- Series V : Miscellaneous materials
Subjects: Carver, George Washington; Washington, Booker T; Education; Commission on Interracial Cooperation; Agriculture; Southern States (20th Century); Southern States (19th Century); Scientists (Personal Papers); Tuskegee Institute; African Americans (Personal Papers); Higher Education
Cecil Sharp Autograph Notebook Collection: Folk Words, Folk Tunes, Folk Dance Notes and Index. Ann Arbor, Mich., University Microfilms International, 1990
Call number: Microfilm A289Guide: The Cecil Sharp Autograph Notebook Collection
Call number: ML128.F74C43 1990
Note: 9 reels 35 mm. microfilm. Filmed from collections at Clare College, Cambridge.
Description: Cecil Sharp (1859-1924) was responsible for the revival of interest in English and American folk songs during the early 1900s. In addition to collecting songs and dances (over 46 volumes), he lectured and published books on folk songs. From 1916 to 1918, he collected over 1,600 songs from the Southern Appalachian area of the United States. While many of the songs were English in origin, the square dances that accompanied them were unique to that area.
The collection contains musical scores and lyrics and consists of folk words (19 volumes), folk tunes (23 volumes), and folk dance notes (4 volumes). There is also a 4 volume index. It is estimated that of the almost 5,000 songs in the collection, less than 1,200 are published, and many of the previously published songs vary from the edition in the notebooks. About one third of the songs are from the Appalachians. The collection will useful for students in musicology, dance, ethnomusicology, and folklore.
Subjects: English Ballads; Great Britain (20th Century); Appalachian Region; English Folk Songs; Sharp, Cecil James; Folk Songs
Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400. Chaucer Manuscripts [of the] Manly Collection, University of Chicago Libraries. [Chicago] : Filmed by the University of Chicago Libraries, Department of Photographic Reproduction, [n.d.]
Call number: Microfilm A46Guide: No guide available
Note: 17 reels 35 mm. microfilm
Description: Microfilm of a collection of photostatic copies of manuscripts of the Cantebury Tales.
Subjects: Chaucer, Geoffrey; Canterbury Tales; English Literature; Manuscripts; Great Britain (14th Century)
Child, Lydia Maria Francis, 1802-1880. The Collected Correspondence of Lydia Maria Child, 1817-1880. Millwood, N. Y. : KTO Microform, 1979
Call number: Micro 4 CHILDGuide: The Collected Correspondence of Lydia Maria Child, 1818-1880: A Guide and Index to the Microfiche Collection.
Call number: E449.C534152H64
Note: 97 microfiche
Description: Lydia Maria Child was a prominent nineteenth century author, editor, abolitionist and feminist. She is represented in the microforms collection by The Juvenile Miscellany, the first American monthly magazine for children; The National Anti-Slavery Standard, which she edited from 1841-1849; numerous books and pamphlets; and this collection of correspondence.
The microfiche edition of Child's correspondence contains 2,604 letters (2,228 written by Child) dating from 1817 to her death in 1880, although most of the correspondence dates after 1833 when her involvement with the anti-slavery movement began. The letters have been gathered from over 100 libraries and private collections, and if the original letter has not survived, copies of published correspondence (e.g. letters in periodicals) are included.
The Child correspondence provides insight into the major political and social developments of the nineteenth century--the anti-slavery struggle, religious debates, the Civil War and Reconstruction periods and the feminist movement. In addition to correspondence on political issues, copies of correspondence with figures in the literary and artistic world are also included.
The correspondence is arranged chronologically. Each letter is annotated with the date, an abbreviation describing the letter and its condition, names of writer and recipient of the letter, number of pages and source. Letters from printed sources indicate the source. When it was impossible to obtain clear photocopies of letters, a typed transcript is filmed after the original.
The guide contains an index to the correspondence and a biography of Child and a bibliography of works by and about her. Sheets 96 and 97 are supplemental fiche, containing 40 additional letters received after filming was underway.
Subjects: Child, Lydia Maria Francis; Abolitionists (Personal Papers); Feminists; Women Authors; Journalists (Personal Papers); Anti-Slavery Movements; African Americans (19th Century); African Americans (19th Century); Women (Personal Papers); Massachusetts (19th Century); Correspondence (19th Century)
China Missionaries Oral History Collection. Glen Rock, N.J. : Microfilming Corp. of America, 1973
Call number: Micro 4 NYTGuide: Oral History Guide
Call number: AI3.O7
Note: 39 microfiche
Description: Interviews of forty-four Christian missionaries are included in the Claremont College China Missionaries Oral History Collection of which this collection is a reproduction. The interviews were selected to reflect the work of several Christian denominations, the various career paths in missionary work, and the geographical spread of missions in China during the missionary period from the early 1900's until 1949. The interviews reveal the missionaries' reasons for going to China; their education and linguistic qualifications; personal experiences in China; attitudes toward the Chinese people and their culture and toward other missionaries; descriptions of life in mission compounds; problems caused by bandits and communists; dealings with the national and local government authorities; and their evaluation of their work and the prospects for Christianity in China in the future.
Fiche #1 and #2 contain biographical sketches, summary of contents, and index for each interview. Fiche #3 contains an overview of the collection in which project goals, staff, procedure and evaluation of the findings are discussed by the interviewers. The biographical sketches and summary of contents are repeated before each interview. Pages 55-60 of Oral history guide contain a brief history of the project.
Subjects: China (20th Century); Missions; Foreign Relations (20th Century); Oral Histories
Chinese Communist Biographical Files. Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution of War, Revolution and Peace, [1974]
Call number: Microfilm D192
Guide: Communist Biographical Files: Guide to the Microform Collection
Call number: DS778.A1C55
Note: 87 reels 35 mm. microfilm
Description: This collection is an alphabetical compilation of biographical cards listing information about Chinese Communists. The cards were prepared in the 1950s and 1960s on both Chinese and non-Chinese individuals living in Beijing. The cards are written in English with the Chinese name written both in Chinese characters and Romanized. Information written on each card came from newspapers and the name of the newspaper and date published are cited on each card. The information listed on the cards includes political activities, meetings attended, and social engagements.
The guide contains a reel guide listing the names of the individuals included in this collection. The guide does not contain a subject index. This source is valuable for scholars researching 20th century China because it provides background information on political activists and the relevant newspaper citations.
Subjects: China; Communism
Chinese Oral History Project
Call number: Micro 4 NYT
Guide: Oral History Guide
Call number: AI3.O7
Note: 32 microfiche
Description: A project of the East Asian Institute of Columbia University to record the oral recollections of prominent Chinese leaders of the Republican era (1911-1949). The memoirs represent the lives of men who played major roles in Republican China in such capacities as ambassador, professor, scholar, military officer, government official, and vice-president. They clarify many aspects of political, intellectual and military life during the period.
For an index see Oral History Guide.
Subjects: China (20th Century); Oral Histories
CIA Research Reports. Africa, 1946-1976. Frederick, Md. : University Publications of America, c1982
Call number: Microfilm A201
Guide: CIA Research Reports, Africa, 1946-1976. Guide
Call number: DT29.C22
Note: 3 reels 35 mm. microfilm
Description: The Central Intelligence Agency is responsible for gathering foreign intelligence information on foreign countries. This collection contains 206 titles prepared by the CIA between 1946 and 1980. One third of the reports concern international questions. The others are about individual countries or biographical reports for African political leaders. Eighty-five reports are available for the Congo.
For a hardcopy reel guide consult: CIA research reports : Africa, 1946-1976 [guide] / edited by Paul Kesaris.
Subjects: United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA); Congo (20th Century); Africa (20th Century); Foreign Relations (20th Century)
CIO Files of John L. Lewis. Part 1. Correspondence with CIO Unions, 1929-1962. Frederick, MD : University Publications of America, c1988
Call number: Microfilm A262
Guide: A Guide to the Microfilm Edition of The CIO Files of John L. Lewis
Call number: HD6515.M616U553 1988
Note: 25 reels 35 mm. microfilm
Description: John L. Lewis was the head of the United Mine Workers of America and was central in the creation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) in the 1930s. This collection contains the correspondence files of Lewis with international and local unions. The collection is divided into three time periods: 1929-1939, 1940-1949, and 1950-1962. Correspondence files are arranged alphabetically by union within each of these time periods. Most of the material dates from the years 1935-1942.
These files document the creation of the CIO, federal labor legislation, and industrial unionism. Files on major strikes are included. This collection would be of value to individuals studying the development of unions in the 20th century.
The guide contains a reel, correspondent, and subject index. The originals are located in the Archives of the United Mine Workers of America in Washington, D.C.
See also: Microfilm A316, The CIO Files of John L. Lewis Part II: General Files on the CIO and AFL, 1929-1955 and Papers of John L. Lewis, 1879-1969.
Subjects: Lewis, John Llewellyn; United Mine Workers of America; American Federation of Labor; Congress of Industrial Organizations; Labor Unions (20th Century); Coal Miners; Correspondence (20th Century)
CIO Files of John L. Lewis. Part 2. General Files on the CIO and AFL, 1929-1955. Frederick, Md., University Publications of America, c1988
Call number: Microfilm A316
Guide: A Guide to the Microfilm Edition of the CIO Files of John L. Lewis, Part II : General Files on the CIO and AFL, 1929-1955
Call number: HD6515.M616U553 1988 pt. 2
Note: 20 reels 35 mm. microfilm
Description: This collection consists of files from the United Mine Workers of America that relate to the development of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). Information on staffing and funding are included. Files from the United Steelworkers of America for the time period 1949-1962 are included.
The collection documents the growth of the CIO and industrial unionism, federal labor legislation and factional divisions within the CIO. The guide contains information on the scope and content of the collection and a reel, correspondent, and subject index. The originals are in the archives of the United Mine Workers in Washington, D.C. The files filmed for this collection were filmed in their entirety.
See also: Microfilm A262, The CIO Files of John L. Lewis Part I : Correspondence with CIO Unions, 1929-1962 and Papers of John L. Lewis, 1879-1969.
Subjects: Lewis, John L.; United Mine Workers of America; AFL-CIO; Labor Unions (20th Century); Coal Miners; United States History New Deal (1933-1939); Labor Laws and Legislation
Civil Rights During the Johnson Administration, 1963-1969 : A Collection from the Holdings of The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, Austin, Texas. Frederick, Md. : University Publications of America, 1984
Call number: Microfilm A216
Guide: A Guide to Civil Rights During the Johnson Administration, 1963-1969
Call number: KF4749.C68
Note: 41 reels 35 mm. microfilm. Originals are in the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library in Austin, Texas
Description: The papers include subject, name, chronological, and confidential files from the central files of the White house, material from the administrative histories files of the Johnson Presidential Library, and transcripts of oral histories, also from the Library. The material focuses on the civil rights movement of the 1960s, and details the activities of the federal government, the executive branch, and prominent individuals.
The collection is divided into four parts as follows:
- Part 1 : The White House central files. (reels 1-15)
- Part 2 : Equal Employment Opportunity Commission: administrative history. (reels 16-18)
- Part 3 : Oral histories. (reels 19-21)
- Part 4 : Records of the White House Conference on Civil Rights, 1965-1966. (reels 22-41).
The library does not have Part 5 : Records of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (Kerner Commission).
Subjects: Johnson, Lyndon B.; Civil rights (20th Century); African Americans (20th Century); Presidents (Personal Papers); Politics and Government (20th Century); Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; White House Conference on Civil Rights
Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908. Papers, 1846-1945. Washington D.C., Library of Congress, Photoduplication Service, 1960
Call number: Microfilm A18
Guide: Index to the Grover Cleveland Papers
Call number: Z6616.C6U5
Note: 164 reels 35 mm. microfilm. Originals are in the Library of Congress
Description: The papers include diaries, correspondence, messages, speeches, and other papers, primarily from the period 1885-1908. Of special importance are thirty letter press copy books representing copies of outgoing correspondence during Cleveland's first administration. Unfortunately few papers survive for Cleveland's years as Sheriff of Erie County, New York, Mayor of Buffalo, or Governor of New York State. The Microfilm edition of the Cleveland papers includes the following Series:
- Series I : Diaries, 1898-1905
- Series II : General correspondence, 1846-1910
- Series III : Additional correspondence, 1828-1945
- Series IV : Letter press copy books, 1885-1889
- Series V : Speeches, 1883-1907
- Series VI : Messages to Congress, 1885-1897
- Series VII : Manuscripts of Cleveland's writings in his handwriting, 1884-1907
- Series VIII : Gilder notes, 1908-1909
- Series IX : Miscellany, 1884-1907
Subjects: Cleveland, Grover; Presidents (Personal Papers); New York State; Diaries (19th Century); Diaries (20th Century); Correspondence (19th Century); Correspondence (20th Century); Speeches (19th Century); Speeches (20th Century)
Clitherall, Carolyn Elizabeth Burgwin, 1784-1863. Diaries and Family Reminiscences, 1751-1860. New Canaan, CT : Readex Film Products, [1988]
Call number: Microfilm A246 reel 21-22
Guide: Guide to American Women's Diaries : Segment II : Southern Women
Call number: HQ1418.A441 1988
Note: 2 reels 35 mm. microfilm. Original is in the Southern Historical Collection of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Description: Carolyn Clitherall was born to an American father and an English mother. Her diary was initially started as a memoir for her daughter. After her mother's death, she was sent to England to live with relatives. In her diaries, she describes several boarding schools that she attended in England, her impressions upon returning to the United States to live on a plantation near Wilmington, North Carolina, and her courtship and marriage to Dr. George Campbell Clitherall. Her memoir continues with descriptions of early married life, her husband's medical practice near Charleston, South Carolina, the birth of her children, and her husband's failed attempt to manage a rice plantation and a school.
Following her husband's illness and death, Carolyn Clitherall started another school in South Carolina, and later in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Carolyn Clitherall catches up with her memoir in 1851, and afterwards it contains daily entries. She raised many children, including her own, her grandchildren, and orphans; traveled considerably; taught school; kept a boarding house; and lived through the Yellow Fever epidemics of the 1850's.
The diaries are part of the American Women's Diaries (Southern Women) collection.
Subjects: Clitherall, Carolyn Elizabeth Burgwin; Clitherall, George Campbell; Women (18th Century); Women (19th Century); North Carolina (18th Century); North Carolina (19th Century); South Carolina (19th Century); Alabama (19th Century) Diaries (18th Century); Diaries (19th Century); Women Teachers; United States History Civil War (1861-1865) (Personal Narratives); Plantation Owners' Wives; Description and Travel (19th Century)
Cocke, Louisa Maxwell Holmes. Diaries, 1816-1843. New Canaan, CT : Readex Film Products, [1988]
Call number: Microfilm A246 reel 30-32
Guide: Guide to American Women's Diaries : Segment II : Southern Women
Call number: HQ1418.A441 1988
Note: 3 reels 35 mm. microfilm. Original is in the Special Collection of the University of Virginia.
Description: Louisa Cocke maintained a diary for over twenty-seven years (the earliest volume is missing). Entries in the early diaries are sporadic, and wasn't until 1831 that she began making daily entries. While Cocke was a very religious and charitable woman, she recorded in her diaries quarrels with her husband and problems with the isolation and loneliness of plantation life.
The early diaries predate her marriage in 1821 to General John Hartwell Cocke. The later diaries give details on day-to-day life on a large antebellum plantation and the raising of the General's six children by a previous marriage. Cocke kept her diary until a few weeks before her death. The diaries are part of the American Women's Diaries (Southern Women) collection.
Subjects: Cocke, Louisa Maxwell Holmes; Cocke, John Hartwell; Women (19th Century); Virginia (19th Century); Diaries; Plantations; Plantation Owners' Wives;
Columbia University Oral History Collection. Glen Rock, N.J. : Microfilming Corporation of America, [197_]
Call number: Micro 4 NYT
Guide: Oral History Guide
Call number: AI3.O7
Note: ??? microfiche
Description: The Penn State Libraries have 25 oral history interviews from this collection on microfiche. Penn State Harrisburg has the entire collection on microfilm. Only the interviews in Pattee are indexed on The CAT, the Penn State University Libraries' online catalog.
Subjects: Alexander, Will Winton; Baldwin, Roger Nash; Bledsoe, Samuel B.; Davis, William Hammatt; Du Bois, W. E. B.; Greenstein, S. Robert; Guion, Connie M.; Harriman, Florence Jaffray (Hurst); Hutson, John B.; Jackson, Gardner; Lahey, Edwin A.; McLaurin, Benjamin; O'Hare, John; Phillips, Kathryn (Sisson); Pollick, William; Schuyler, George Samuel; Shachtman, Max; Stewart, Isabel Maitland; Taber, Louis John; Thomas, Norman Matton; Valesh, Eva MacDonald; Wickens, Aryness Joy; Wilkins, Roy; Witherspoon, Frances; Mygatt, Tracy Dickinson; Oral Histories
Communist Infiltration of the SCLC : FBI Investigation File. Wilmington, Del. : Scholarly Resources, 1983
Call number: Microfilm A230
Guide: No guide available
Note:9 reels 35 mm. microfilm
Description: The records include correspondence, memoranda, reports, printed material and other items maintained by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in relation to its investigation of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). This material was released under the provision of the Freedom of Information Act. Also included in the records is J. Edgar Hoover's confidential file on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Some pages unclear due to very poor quality electrostatic reproduction of the original documents.
Subjects: King, Martin Luther Jr.; Hoover, J. Edgar; Southern Christian Leadership Conference; United States Federal Bureau of Investigation; Communism; African Americans (20th Century); Religious Life (20th Century); Civil Rights (20th Century); Race Relations (20th Century); Communist Party
Communist Party of the United States of America. [Reports, Platforms and Other Publications]. Madison, Wisconsin : The State historical society of Wisconsin.
Call number: Microfilm D76
Guide: No guide available
Note: 1 reel 35 mm. microfilm
Description: The collection contains: Communist Party platforms, programs, and resolutions at national party conventions (1919-1956); Reports of the Central Committee to national conventions (1924-1940); Constitutions (1938, 1942, 1957); Young Communist Party constitutions (1939/40); and miscellaneous pamphlets and speeches. This collection supplements similar types of materials available in the Earl Browder papers (