MicroFinder Titles
American Federation of Labor. Report of Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention of the American Federation of Labor. Cincinnati [etc.], 1882-1955. Washington, D.C., NCR Microcard Editions, 1971-1972
Call number: Micro 4 AFLGuide: No guide available
Note: 320 microfiche
Description: The American Federation of Labor was founded by Samuel Gompers in 1886 as a national organization of trade unions. The AFL became a leader in the push for unionization of craft industries and fair employment policies. In the 1930s, John Lewis led those in the AFL who were in favor of industrial as well as craft unionization, and upon their expulsion from the AFL, he organized the Congress of Industrial Unions. In 1955, the AFL and CIO were merged and formed the world's largest labor federation.
This collection contains reproductions of the annual reports of the AFL from 1881 until 1955. The reports prior to 1886 are from the annual proceedings of the Federation of Organized Trade and Labor Unions of the U.S. and Canada, which Gompers reorganized in 1886 to form the AFL.
No guide is available for the collection. The fiche are organized in chronological order.
Subjects: American Federation of Labor; Labor and Laboring Classes (19th Century); Labor and Laboring Classes (20th Century); Labor Unions (19th Century); Labor Unions (20th Century)
Apovests' pra Tryshchana. 1580. Pochinaet' sia povest' o viteziakh s knih serb'skikh : a zvlashcha o slavnom rytsery Tryschane ... [S.l., s.n., ca. 1580]
Call number: Microfilm A346Guide: No guide available
Note: 1 reel 35 mm. microfilm. Microfilm of a 16th Century Manuscript from Roczynski Public Library in Poznan.
Description: This collection is a reproduction of a sixteenth century Byelorussian version of the romance of the legendary character Tristan. The manuscript is handwritten in a Cyrillic hand. Several other pieces follow the tale that are in Byelorussian and Polish.
No guide is available for the collection.
Subjects: Tristan (Legendary Character); Romances; Literary Manuscripts
Communist Vietnamese Publications : Selected from the Vietnamese Collection of the Library of Congress. Washington, D.C., Library of Congress Orientalia Division, 1971
Call number: Microfilm D194Guide: Communist Vietnamese Publications : A Reel Guide and Author Index
Call number: Z7164.S67C64
Note: 3 reels 35 mm. microfilm. Originals in the Library of Congress.
Description: This collection reproduces pamphlets of the Vietnamese Communist party and its fight for recognition and Vietnamese independence. The documents in the collection range in date from 1932 to 1965.
A guide is available which contains a reel guide and alphabetical index.
Subjects: Viet Cong; Communism; Vietnam
Company for Propagation of the Gospel in New England and the Parts Adjacent in America. A Booke for the Copying of Leters & Other Things Relating to ye Compa [sic] for Propagation of the Gospell in New England &c., 1688, Charlottesville, Va., University of Virginia, 1969
Call number: Microfilm A324Guide: Guide to the Microfilm Edition of the Letter Book, 1688-1761 of the Company for Propagation of the Gospel in New England
Call number: E78.N5 C64 1969
Note: 1 reel 35 mm. microfilm. Microfilm of the manuscripts is in the University of Virginia Library.
Description: The "Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in New England" was chartered in 1649 and re-chartered in 1661/62 as the "Company for the Propagation of the Gospel in New England and parts adjacent to America". The company sponsored missionaries in America to convert the Native Americans until the time of the American Revolution when its efforts were refocused into Canada.
This collection contains a reproduction of the Letter Book, 1688 - 1761 which holds the correspondence of the company's governors, secretaries or clerks and treasurers with the commissioners in America. The topics of the letters are the official business of the company.
A guide to the collection is available and contains a brief history of the company with a bibliography and an index of correspondents.
Subjects: Missions Societies; Native Americans
Congress of Industrial Organizations. Proceedings of the Constitutional Convention of the Congress of Industrial Organizations. Indianapolis [etc.], 1938-1955. Washington, D.C., NCR Microcard Editions, 1972
Call number: Micro 4 CIOGuide: No guide available
Note: 76 microfiche
Description: Aggressive unionization drives in such industries as steel, textile, automobile and coal resulted in the expulsion of unions and their members from the AFL in 1937. This led to the formation, under John Lewis, of the Congress of Industrial Organizations. Unlike the AFL, the CIO also allowed the unionization of semi and unskilled labor. In 1955, the CIO merged with the AFL to form the world's largest federation of labor.
This collection contains reproductions of the reports of the annual proceedings of the CIO from its organization in 1938 until its merger with the AFL in 1955.
No guide is available for the collection. The fiche are organized in chronological order.
Subjects: Congress of Industrial Organization; Labor and Laboring Classes (20th Century); Labor Unions (20th Century)
Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962. Alexandria, Va., Chadwyck-Healey, 1990
Call number: Micro 4 CubaGuide: Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
Call number: E841.C844 1990
Note: 586 microfiche
Description: In October of 1962, United States spy photos revealed that Russian IRBM's (Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile) were being housed at bases on the island of Cuba. The standoff that followed the discovery has been acknowledged by many as the most dangerous US-Soviet crisis of the Cold War.
This collection presents an integrated and comprehensive documentary record of the decision making process of the United States during the crisis.
A guide to the collection is available which includes an introduction to the documents; maps and illustrations; an extensive explanation of the cataloging of the fiche; a glossary of document types; a detailed chronology; glossaries of acronyms, military and technical terms, names, organizations, legal terms and events; and name and subject indexes. The guide contains extensive information in and of itself and should be consulted prior to examining the documents on the fiche.
Subjects: National Security Archives; Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962; Cuba
Democratic Campaign [text] Book. Wilton, Conn. : Micro 8 Publications, 1972
Call number: Micro 4 DCBGuide: No guide available
Note: ??? microfiche
Description: This collection reproduces the handbooks of the Democratic party from 1876 until 1940. The fiche contain the handbooks, printed by the Democratic Party every four years, in chronological order. The documents reproduced contain the platform of the party for the Presidential election years and also documentation that was to be used for the purpose of campaigning.
Subjects: Democratic Party
Eighteenth Century French Literature. Cambridge, Mass. : General Microfilm Co., 1969 -
Call number: Microfilm D141 and Microfilm D142Guide: No guide available
Note: 179 reels 35 mm. microfilm
Description: This collection contains reproductions of a large number of eighteenth century French literature (fiction and poetry). Originally, the collection was divided into 2 series, "Eighteenth Century French Fiction", call number Microfilm D141 and "Eighteenth Century French Poetry", call number D142. However, at reels 78 and 31 respectively, the collection was combined into one series, "Eighteenth Century French Literature", even though the call numbers remained divided.
There is, unfortunately, no guide or index to the collection so access to authors and titles within the collection can only be obtained through the CAT, The Pennsylvania State University Libraries' online catalog. The first 78 reels of the Fiction segment of the collection may be accessed by entering "Eighteenth Century French Fiction" into the CAT (the Penn State Libraries' online catalog). This will provide an alphabetical list of titles for this portion of the collection.
The first 30 reels of the poetry section may be obtained by entering "Eighteenth Century French Poetry" into the CAT. Again, this will provide an alphabetical list by title of this portion of the collection.
For the remainder of the collection, both fiction and poetry entries may be accessed by entering "Eighteenth Century French Literature" into the CAT.
Subjects: France (18th Century); French Literature
Holyoake, George Jacob, 1817-1906. Papers of G. J. Holyoake : From the Collections in the Possession of the Bishopsgate Institute, London, and the Co-operative Union Library, Holyoake House, Manchester. East Ardsley, Wakefield, York [England] : Micro Methods Ltd, 1966-1969
Call number: Microfilm A65Guide: No guide available
Note: 28 reels 35 mm. microfilm. Originals in the collections of Bishopsgate Institute and Co-operative Union Library, Holyoake House.
Description: George Jacob Holyoake was born in 1817 in Birmingham, West Midlands. He was a teacher of mathematics and a lecturer on Robert Owen's socialist system. He has the dubious distinction of being the last man imprisoned in England under a charge of Atheism.
This collection reproduces the papers of Holyoake. The collection is divided into three sections. Sections I and Ia contain the correspondence of Holyoake found in the Co-operative Union Library. Part IIb contains reproductions of those papers housed at the Holyoake House at the Bishopgate Institute, consisting of diaries and other materials.
There is no printed guide available, but each section contains an index at the start of the reels.
Subjects: Holyoake, George Jacob
Joyce, James, 1882-1941. Finnegans Wake. London : Microfilmed by the British Museum Photographic Service, [1959]
Call number: Microfilm A40Note: 9 reels 35 mm. microfilm. Originals in the British Museum.
Description: James Joyce was born in 1882 in Dublin, Ireland. He studied medicine in Paris, but decided while in Paris to take up voice training. He returned to Dublin, intending to write, but could not sell his works. He moved to Trieste to tutor English and from there, to Zurich where he formed a theater group. He eventually settled in Paris (1920 - 1940) and took up a career as a writer, and finally returning to Zurich in 1941 where he died.
His works include: The Dubliners(1914), Ulysses(1922 - banned in the UK and US until 1936) and Work in Progress which appeared first in 1927 and emerged, finally, as Finnegan's Wake(1939). He was responsible for a revolution in novel style through his use of "stream of consciousness" writing.
This collection is a reproduction of a manuscript of Finnegan's Wake.
Subjects: Joyce, James; Finnegan's Wake; English Literature; English Fiction; Manuscripts
Memorial Collection of Newspapers on Microfilm Chronicling Events of the Assassination of John F. Kennedy, November 22-26, 1963. Cleveland : Micro Photo Division, Bell & Howell Company, 1964
Call number: Microfilm D137Guide: No guide available
Note: 10 reels 35 mm. microfilm
Description: This collection contains reproductions of clippings from newspapers across the United States. The articles selected deal with the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the events that followed in the few days afterward.
The papers are arranged on the reels alphabetically by state. Each reel container lists, on the outside of the box, the state and papers that are reproduced on that reel.
Subjects: Kennedy, John F.; Presidents; Assassinations; American Newspapers (20th Century)
Microbook Library of English Literature. Chicago : Library Resources, 1970-1976
Call number: Micro 3 LELGuide: The Microbook Library of English Literature : Author and Title Catalog
Call number: Z2011.L73
Note: ???? microfiche
Description: The Microbook Library of English Literature provides a source for English literature from Beowulf until the present. The collection is divided into three parts based on roughly chronological eras. It should be noted that part one may be found at Penn State's Behrend College while only part two is available at Pattee Library at the University Park campus. Part 2 covers the period roughly from 1660 until 1784. It includes all major and minor works from this period.
A guide to the collection is available which includes both author and title indexes.
Subjects: English Literature; Great Britain (16th Century); Great Britain (17th Century); Great Britain (18th Century)
Patteson, John Coleridge, 1827-1871. A Collection of Papers Relating to the Bishop J.C. Patteson. London: Young & Sweetman, [1972?]
Call number: Microfilm A64Note: 1 reel 35 mm. microfilm. Originals from the Selwyn Papers in the Library of Selwyn College, Cambridge.
Description: John Coleridge Patteson was born in London in 1827. Starting in 1855, he served as a missionary in New Hebrides. In 1861, he was consecrated as the bishop of Melanesia. In 1871, he was murdered by natives of the Santa Cruz Island group near New Zealand. There actions were believed to be in retaliation for the removal of young natives for labor on English plantations and farms.
This collection contains reproductions of a few of the articles that survive dealing with the work and death of Patteson. There are twenty-one items on the reel:
- Item 1 : Diary for 1866
- Item 2 : Diary for 1870
- Item 3 : Record of Consecration
- Items 4 - 10 : Correspondence
- Items 11 - 18 : Letters and reports about the death of J.C. Patteson
- Items 19 - 21 : Other items
Subjects: Patteson, John Coleridge
Peirce, Charles Sanders (1839-1914). Charles Sanders Peirce : Complete Published Works, Including Selected Secondary Materials : Microfiche Collection. Greenwich, Conn. : Johnson Associates, 1977
Call number: Micro 4 PeirceGuide: No guide available
Note: 149 microfiche
Description: Charles Sanders Peirce was born in 1839 in Cambridge Massachusetts. He studied at Harvard and worked for US Coast and Geodetic Survey from 1861. In 1879, he became a lecturer in logic at Johns Hopkins University, but left in 1894 to devote the rest of his life to private study. He was a pioneer in the development of modern formal logic, best known as the founder of pragmatism which he later renamed as "pragmaticism".
This collection contains the complete published works of Charles Peirce and also a few selected secondary pieces. The collection also includes a supplement (twelve microfiche) of further works. The supplement is identified as call number: Micro 4 Peirce suppl.
There is no guide available for the collection.
Subjects: Peirce, Charles Sanders; Philosophy
Philippine Culture Series. Washington, D.C., Microcard Editions, [n.d.]
Call number: Micro 3 PCSGuide: No guide available
Note: 485 micro-opaques
Description: This collection contains assorted texts on the culture and history of the Philippine Islands. The texts are predominantly in English and Spanish.
No printed guide is available for the collection. However, an alphabetical list of the titles in the collection may be obtained through the CAT, the Pennsylvania State University Libraries' online catalog, by entering "Philippine Culture Series".
Subjects: Philippines
Records of the Department of State Relating to Internal Affairs of the Free City of Danzig, 1919-1939. Washington, D.C., National Archives, National Archives and Records Administration, 1985
Call number: Microfilm A224Note: 11 reels 35 mm. microfilm. National Archives Microfilm Publication, M1378.
Description: As laid out by the Treaty of Versailles, the city of Danzig was established as a free city in 1919. Under the supervision of the League of Nations, the city was given a free path to the ocean and remained nominally tied to the economy of Poland. It remained as a free city until it was annexed by Nazi Germany in 1939.
This collection reproduces the documents of the State Department of the United States that relate to the internal affairs of the free city.
No guide is available for the collection.
Subjects: Gdansk, Poland
Republican Campaign Text Book. Wilton, Conn. : Micro 8 Publications, 1972 -
Call number: Micro 4 RCTGuide: No guide available
Note: ???? microfiche
Description: This collection reproduces the handbooks of the Republican party from 1880 until 1940. The fiche contain the handbooks, printed by the Democratic Party every four years, in chronological order. The documents reproduced contain the platform of the party for the Presidential election years and also documentation that was to be used for the purpose of campaigning.
Subjects: Republican Party; Politics
Rhoda Kellogg Child Art Collection. Washington, D.C., Microcard Editions, 1967
Call number: Micro 3 KELLOGGGuide: Handbook of the Microfiche Child Art Collection
Call number: N352.K44
Note: 255 microfiche
Description: The material reproduced in this collection contains the artwork collected by Rhoda Kellogg for a study to show the developmental stages through which children proceed when they scribble and teach themselves to draw between the ages of two and six.
A guide to the collection is available with introductory remarks by Rhoda Kellogg describing the focus of the study. The guide also includes descriptions and definitions of terms as well as an index to the artwork in the collection.
Subjects: Children as Artists; Children; Drawings
Sanchez, Luis Alberto, 1900- . The Luis Alberto Sanchez Correspondence, 1919-1980. [University Park, PA : Pennsylvania State University Libraries, Photoduplication Service, 1985?]
Call number: Microfilm A221Guides: Literature and Politics in Latin America : An Annotated Calendar of the Luis Alberto Sánchez Correspondence, 1919-1980. A Reel Guide to the Microfilm Collection. Also see, Literature and Politics in Latin America : An Annotated Calendar of the Luis Alberto Sánchez Correspondence, 1919-1980
Call number: Z6616.S155H463, Z6616.S155H46
Note: 3 reels 35 mm. microfilm. Originals are in the Special Collections Library, 1st Floor Paterno Library.
Description: This collection contains the correspondence of Luis Alberto Sánchez reproduced from the same located in the Special Collections Library.
The work Literature and Politics in Latin America : An Annotated Calendar of the Luis Alberto Sánchez Correspondence, 1919-1980, translated and compiled by Donald Henderson and Grace Perez, is based on these same correspondence and designed to be used in conjunction with the documents. The text contains abstracts, in English, of the documents as well as prefatory material on the documents and on Dr. Sanchez. A reel guide is also available in the Microforms collection.
Subjects: Sanchez, Luis Alberto; Peru; Latin America (20th Century); Correspondence (20th Century)
Smith College. Library. Department of Music. Madrigals of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Northampton, Mass. : Graphic Microfilm, n.d.
Call number: Microfilm D146Guide: Reel Guide to the Microfilm Edition of the Einstein Music Collection at Smith College
Call number: ML138.R43
Note: 10 reels 35 mm. microfilm
Description: Madrigals are poems set to music usually for five to six voices. This style of song was extremely popular in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
This collection contains reproductions of the madrigals copied by Dr. Alfred Einstein and housed in the Music Department of Smith College.
A guide to the collection is available and contains an index of the contents of each volume. The volume numbers are listed on the outside of each reel container.
Subjects: Music; Part-Songs; Madrigals
United States. Post Office Department. Records of Appointments of Postmasters: 1789-1832. Washington, D.C., National Archives and Records Service, 1960-61
Call number: Microfilm D68Note: 3 reels 35 mm. microfilm
Description: This collection reproduces the records of appointments of postmasters in the United States between 1789 and 1832. The volumes record, alphabetically by town/parish and state, the appointed postmaster and the date of the appointment.
No guide is available for this collection.
Subjects: United States Post Office Department; Postal Service
Victorian Fiction and Other Nineteenth Century Fiction. Cambridge, Mass. : General Microfilm, 1967 -
Call number: Microfilm D163Note: 529 reels 35 mm. microfilm
Description: This collection reproduces works of Victorian fiction partially based on the English author and publisher, Michael Sadlier's, XIX Century Fiction.
No guide for the collection is available, however a list of titles is cataloged in the CAT (Penn State Libraries' online catalog). A list, alphabetical by title, may be found by entering "Victorian fiction and other nineteenth century fiction" and then choosing the entry "series".
Subjects: English Fiction; Great Britain (19th Century)
Women and the Law. Berkeley : Women's History Research Center, 1975
Call number: Microfilm D269Guide: Women and the Law: Guide to the Microfilm Edition of the Women's Law Library of the Women's History Research Center
Call number: HQ1253.B38
Note: 40 reels 35 mm. microfilm
Description: This collection contains clippings from newspapers, newsletters, speeches, flyers, research papers, etc. which document the Women's Rights movement.
The collection is divided into seven sections:
- Law/General
- Politics
- Employment
- Education
- Special Films
- Rape/Prison/Prostitution
- Black and Third World Women and Law
The guides to the collection contain an introduction describing the focus of the collection and the filing system, a reel guide and indexes of file titles, groups and papers.
Subjects: Women (20th Century); Laws
Women and/in Health. Berkeley : Women's History Research Center, 1974
Call number: Microfilm D268Guide: Guide to the Microfilm Edition of the Women and Health Collection
Call number: HQ1111.W64
Note: 13 reels 35 mm. microfilm
Description: This collection contains clippings from newspapers, newsletters, speeches, flyers, research papers, etc. relevant to health issues and deemed by the publisher, Women's History Research Center, to be relevant to a women's history collection.
The material is presented in seven sections: Physical and mental health of women; Physical and mental illness of women; Biology, women and the life cycle; Birth control/Population control; Sex and sexuality; Blacks and Third World women and health; and Addenda. The material within each section has been grouped by subject and classified according to a collection specific system, a description of which may be found in the guide.
The guide to the collection contains an introduction describing the focus of the collection and the filing system, an index (annotated) to the reels and a reel guide to each section.
Subjects: Women (20th Century); Health Conditions; Social Conditions (20th Century)
Naval Library Microfilm Project. Bucks, England : University Microfilms Ltd, [1974 -
Call number: Microfilm D260Guide: No guide available
Note: ??? reels 35 mm. microfilm
Description: No description available. Ask in Microforms for additional information.
Subjects: Naval Arts and Sciences; Navigation; Voyages and Travels
Raymond G. McCarthy Memorial Collection of the Alcohol Literature. Greenwich, Conn. : Johnson Associates, 1976? -
Call number: Micro 4 RMCGuide: Raymond G. McCarthy Memorial Collection of the Alcohol Literature, Inventory/Contents
Call number: Z6664.N5R87
Note: ??? microfiche
Description: No description available. Ask in Microforms for additional information.
Subjects: Alcohol; Alcoholism; Drinking
Royal Society of London. Mathematical Tables Committee. Royal Society Depository of Unpublished Mathematical Tables. London, 1951 - ?
Call number: Microfilm D134Note: 8 reels 35 mm. microfilm
Description: No description available. Ask in Microforms for additional information.
Subjects: Mathematics; History of Science
Trades Union Congress. Parliamentary Committee. Minutes of the Parliamentary Committee. London [etc.]
Call number: Microfilm D270Note: ??? reels 35 mm. microfilm
Description: No description available. Ask in Microforms for additional information.
Subjects: Labor Unions (19th Century); Labor Unions (20th Century); Great Britain (19th Century); Great Britain (20th Century)
Trades Union Congress. Report of the Proceedings. London [etc.]
Call number: Microfilm D271Note: ??? reels 35 mm. microfilm
Description: No description available. Ask in Microforms for additional information.
Subjects: Labor Unions (20th Century); Great Britain (20th Century)
FBI File on the American Churchwomen Killed in El Salvador, December 2, 1980. Wilmington, Del., Scholarly Resources Inc., 1990
Call number: Microfilm A348Guide: No guide available
Note: 2 reels 35 microfilm
Description: Three American nuns and a lay missionary worker were killed on December 2, 1980 by members of the El Salvador National Guard. Technical experts from the FBI were asked to help in the investigation by the government of El Salvador. The file contains memorandums, correspondence, specimen analyses, photographs, newspaper clippings, witness statements, requests for information from the families of the victims, and polygraph examination reports.
Subjects: Women (20th Century); El Salvador; Religious Life (20th Century); United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation; Murder; Foreign Relations (20th Century)
United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation. J. Robert Oppenheimer, FBI Security File, Wilmington, Del., Scholarly Resources Inc., 1978
Call number: Microfilm A357Guide: No guide available
Note: 4 reels 35 mm. microfiche
Description: J. Robert Oppenheimer while chairman of the general advisory board of the Atomic Energy Commission opposed developing the hydrogen bomb and supported international civilian control of nuclear weapons. These beliefs led to the investigation of him by the FBI. He was removed from the AEC in 1953 as a security risk. The files contains covertly recorded telephone conversations, opened mail, and interviews with colleagues, and acquaintances. The file provides insight into the American intellectual and scientific community in the 1950s.
Subjects: Oppenheimer, J. Robert; United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation; National Security; Atomic Bomb; Civil Rights (20th Century)
Confidential U.S. State Department Central Files, Egypt, 1945-1949, Internal Affairs and Foreign Affairs. Frederick, Md., University Publications of America, 1987
Call number: Microfilm A354Guide: Confidential U.S. State Department Central Files, Egypt, 1945-1949, Internal Affairs and Foreign Affairs
Call number: DT82.C64 1987
Note: 19 reels 35 mm. microfilm
Description: No description available. Ask in Microforms for additional information.
Subjects: Egypt; Foreign Relations (20th Century)
FBI File on Albert Einstein. Wilmington, Del., Scholarly Resources Inc., 1985
Call number: Microfilm A356Guide: No guide available
Note: 1 reel 35 mm microfilm
Description: The FBI monitored Albert Einstein from the time he moved to the United States in 1953. Einstein advocated peace and world government and supported Zionism. The file chronicles Einstein's daily activities.
Subjects: Einstein, Albert; Civil Rights
FBI File on Robert F. Kennedy. Wilmington, Del., Scholarly Resources Inc., 198?
Call number: Microfilm A355Guide: FBI File on Robert F. Kennedy
Call number: E840.8.K4F35
Note: 1 reel 35 mm. microfilm
Description: Robert Kennedy was the brother of President John F. Kennedy and the United States Attorney General from 1960 to 1964. He was a presidential candidate in 1968 when he was assassinated. J. Edgar Hoover, the director of the FBI, considered Kennedy to be a political enemy. The file covers both Kennedy's public and private life, including his alleged affair with Marilyn Monroe. Part of the file concerns the feud over wiretapping after Hoover released statements suggesting that Kennedy had authorized wiretaps as early as 1961. Hoover's dislike for Kennedy is shown in the unusual number of annotations by Hoover on FBI memorandums.
Subjects: Kennedy, Robert F.
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