175. Early American imprints, 1639-1800. Worcester, Mass.: American Antiquarian Society, [1955 -- ].
Collection comprises complete text of every available book, pamphlet, and broadside printed in the area now the United States in the years 1639 through 1800. (Serial titles are not included in the microprint edition.) Collection is based upon Charles Evans, American Bibliography: A chronological dictionary of all books, pamphlets, and periodical publications printed in the United States of America. . . (Z1215.E93 1903A RR). Library holds microprint for titles with Evans numbers 1 through 10649 [i.e., 1639-1767]; remaining numbers are held at the Center for Research Libraries.
Call no: microprint AC1 Mic.
Evans, Charles, 1850-1935. American bibliography/American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Mass.
176. The Eighteenth century. Woodbridge, Conn: Research Publications; [1982]-. 4556 reels.
Entire collection consists of approximately 200,000 titles printed in Great Britain and its colonies or printed elsewhere in English from 1701-1800, selected from approximately 500,000 titles included in the Eighteenth Century Short Title Catalogue [ESTC], an online database created by the British Library and ESTC/North America. (ESTC on CD-ROM [computer file] is available for searching in a variety of ways at a workstation in the General Reference Department.) University of Chicago Library holds the following segments of the collection: History and geography (1190 reels); Literature and language (1761 reels); and Religion and philosophy (1605 reels). Printed reel lists have call number CB411.E44 1982 Index RR.
Call no: microfm CB411.E44 1982 Mic.
Eighteenth century/English imprints/ESTC (Project)/ESTC/NA (Project).
177. The Library of American civilization. Chicago: Library Resources, Inc; 1971-72. 12,474 microfiches.
A collection of 19,000 volumes of American history, comprising 6.5 million pages in total. Set includes books, maps, historical documents, and runs of periodicals covering all aspects of American life and literature up to 1914. Titles to be included were selected by editors from "the best-known bibliographies in American studies." Set includes many rare and specialized works. The periodical runs are particularly valuable as complements to our paper holdings. The set is provided with elaborate author, titles, and subject book catalogs (at Z1236.L50 1971 RR, RR3, Harper, Law, and Sci), and a useful topical "Biblioguide."
Call no: microfc E169.1.L537 1971 Mic.
United States -- Civilization/United States -- History.
178. American culture series. [1593-1875]. Ser. 1 (1493-1806). Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms; 1941 -- . 26 reels.
Note: Printed guide: American Culture Series, 1493-1875: a cumulative guide of the microfilm collection....with author, title, subject, and reel number indexes, at call number Z1215.A51 RR.
Includes 250 titles selected by a committee of the American Studies Association, arranged in chronological order. Includes early travel narratives, accounts of Indians and Indian captivities, writings by Increase and Cotton Mather, pamphlets on witchcraft, colonial government, sermons and religious tracts, political and literary writings to 1806. (Series II, comprising an additional 5600 titles, is held by the Center for Research Libraries.).
Call no.: Mic.
United States -- Civilization/United States -- History.
179. American periodical series, eighteenth century. 1-33. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms; [1942?]. 33 reels.
Note: Printed guide: American periodical series, eighteenth century. List of titles. Indexed by American periodicals, 1741-1900, edited by Jean Hoornstra and Trudy Heath (Z6951.H78 RR).
Comprises runs of 89 18th century titles, starting with Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine, which began in 1741. Set includes examples of essay journalism and religious, musical, and scientific titles. One French-language and two German-language periodicals are included. Continued by American Periodical Series, 1800-1850 at call no: microfm AP2.A636 Mic.
Call no: microfm AP2.A635 Mic.
United States -- Civilization -- Periodicals/United States -- History -- Periodicals.
180. American periodical series, 1800-1850. 1-. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms; 1946 -- . 253 reels.
Note: Printed guide: American periodical series, 1800-1850. [List of titles.] Indexed by American periodicals, 1741-1900, edited by Jean Hoornstra and Trudy Heath (Z6951.H78 RR).
Continues American Periodical Series, eighteenth century, call no: microfm AP2.A635 Mic. Entire 1800-1850 series includes 923 titles in 1933 reels, of which the University of Chicago Library owns first 253 reels only; remainder are held at the Center for Research Libraries. (The CRL also holds Series III, which includes 118 periodicals from the period of the Civil War and Reconstruction.).
Call no: microfm AP2.A636 Mic.
United States -- Civilization -- Periodicals/United States -- History -- Periodicals.
181. Pamphlets in American history: Group III. Glen Rock, N.J: Microfilming Corp. of America; 1978-. 1644 microfiches.
Note: Accompanied by guides with call no. Z1236.P270 1979 RR3.
Filmed from collections at State Historical Society Wisconsin and other collections. Contents and typical topics: Cooperative Societies (390 titles, 411 fiches): Workers co-ops of late 19th and early 20th centuries. -- Finance (2011 titles, 2069 fiches): Bimetallism v. monometallism, banks and currency, state banks and national banks, Federal Reserve System, taxation, bankrupcy. -- Mexican War (139 titles, 139 fiches): Annexation of Texas, property losses in Mexican revolutions, American desire to acquire New Mexico and California, extention of slave-holding. -- Socialism (689 titles, 712 fiches): Publications of the Socialist Labor Party and the United States Socialist Party. -- War of 1812 (146 titles, 176 fiches): Embargo, morality of the war.
Call no: microfc E178.P24 1978 Mic.
United States -- History -- Sources/Cooperative societies -- United States -- History -- Sources/Socialism -- United States -- History -- Sources/Mexican War, 1846-1848 -- Sources/United States -- History -- War of 1812 -- Sources/Finance -- United States -- History -- Sources/War of 1812 -- Sources/Latin American studies.
182. Radical periodicals in the United States, 1881-1960. Bethesda, Md: University Publications of America.
Entire collection comprises 125 titles of Socialist, anarchist, Communist, nationalist, pacifist, and feminist periodicals. All titles in series I not held in original paper are held in microfilm. Individual titles are cataloged separately. See publisher's catalog for full listing of titles in set, and order record 94-181 115.
United States -- history/Socialism -- United States -- History/Anarchism -- United States -- History/Communism -- United States -- History/Women -- United States -- History/Women's studies.
183. U.S. Executive Branch documents, 1789-1909. Bethesda, MD: CIS; c1990-. 40,886 microfiches.
Note: Accompanied by printed guide with title: CIS index to U.S. Executive Branch documents, 1789-1909 : guide to documents listed in Checklist of U.S. public documents, 1789-1909, not printed in the U.S. serial set.
Set comprises titles listed in Checklist of United States Public Documents, 1789-1909, with certain exceptions, such as the U. S. Congressional Serial Set, Statutes at Large, reprints, etc. The collection, together with the Serial Set (which is held by the Library in an almost complete form), provides researchers with almost all federal documents issued prior to 1910, including many that are very rare and specialized. Contents: Part 1. Department of Commerce and Labor; Department of Treasury (7575 microfiches). -- Part 2. War Department (12,803 microfiches. -- Part 3. Interior Department; Labor Department; Library of Congress (6280 microfiches). -- Part 4. Agriculture Department; American Republics Bureau; Civil Service; District of Columbia; Fish Commission; Freedman's Savings and Trust Co.; Geographic Board; Government Printing Office; General Supply Committee (7213 microfiches). -- Part 5. Navy Department (7015 microfiches). (Part 6, covering National Academy of Sciences, President of the United States, State Department, and Smithsonian Institution, is scheduled for publication in fall of 1995.).
Call no.: microfc J83.U13 1990 Mic.
Executive departments -- United States -- Sources .
184. Gerritsen collection of women's history. Sanford, N.C.: Microfilming Corporation of America; Ann Arbor, Mich.: Distributed by University Microfilms International; 1975-1977. 242 reels + 17,555 microfiches.
Note: Two-volume printed bibliographic guide at HQ1121.G430 1983 Gen, RR presents detailed listings arranged by subject groupings, and indexes by main entry, titles, subjects, and dates.
The original Gerritsen Collection was begun by Aletta Jacobs Gerritsen, a Dutch physician, founder of the first birth control clinic, and early women's rights leader, and her husband, Carl V. Gerritsen, journalist and parliamentarian. The original collection was rich in Dutch, French, German, Italian, and English works relating to women. 15 languages are represented in all. Later additions mostly relate to the American women's movement. Collection consists of approximately 4,500 titles. Included are a very strong collection 265 serials, almost half in foreign languages; gaps in the original runs have been filled in. Much material relates to women's rights. Collection is strong in biography, education, and women's history, mostly from the 19th and early 20th century, but with extensive 18th century materials also. The printed materials (monographs, pamphlets, and serials) are located at the Kenneth Spencer Research Library of the University of Kansas, with some additional materials located at the Walter Clinton Jackson Library of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. A small number of the titles within the collection, primarily periodicals, are supplied on microfilm rather than microfiche due to the physical size of the original materials involved.
Call no: microfm HQ1121.G477 1975 Mic.
Feminism/Women -- History/Women -- Social conditions/Gerritsen, C. V., 1850-1905/Jacobs, Aletta H., 1850-1905/Women's studies.
185. History of women. New Haven, Conn: Research Publications; [1975-1979]. 1248 reels.
Note: Printed guide at HQ1420.W64 1975 Index RR provides main entry listings with subject, added entry indexes, and reel lists.
Microfilm of selected materials on women before 1920 from the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Sophia Smith Collection, Jane Addams Memorial Collection, the Galatea Collection, Miriam Y. Holden Collection, Ida Rust Macpherson Collection and others. Collection consists of some 2,000,000 pages in five types of materials: 1. Printed books (reels 1-934). Approximately 12,000 volumes. 2. Pamphlets (reels 935-962). Over 2000 pamphlets on such topics as birth control, sex reforms, education, professions, suffrage, women in industry, women's rights, women's organizations. 3. Periodicals (reels 237-250): 103 titles. General interest, home management, reformist and suffragist, fashion, literary. Editors claim to have avoided large files available in film elsewhere. 4. Manuscripts (reels 964-995). 100,000 pages, in 49 collections, nearly all personal, predominantly diaries, journals, commonplace books, selected from holdings of Schlesinger Library and the Sophia Smith Collections. 5. Photographs (reel 963). Ca. 1000 items. About 80 percent of the collection is in English.
Call no: microfm HQ1420.W64 1975 Mic.
Women -- History/Women -- United States -- History/Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America/Sophia Smith Collection/University of Illinois at Chicago Circle Library Hull House Library/Holden, Miriam Young/Ella Strong Denison Library/Boston Public Library Galatea Collection/Women's studies.
186. The Immigrant in America. Woodbridge, Conn: Research Publications; [1983- ]. 264 reels.
Note: Accompanying guide to the collection on microfilm has call no. JV6455.I56.
Collection covers fields of immigration history and ethnic studies up to 1929. Consists of more than 4000 books and pamphlets, government publications, serial publications, society publications, and lesser-known ethnic newspapers, selected from the holdings of institutions such as New York Public Library, Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota, and the Balch Institute. Materials are organized by subject, including individual groups such as Finns, Norwegians, Slovaks.
Call no: microfm JV22 Mic.
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Bio-bibliography/Aliens -- United States.
187. City and business directories of the United States through 1860. New Haven, Conn: Research Publications; [1966-].
Includes all of directories listed in Dorothea N. Spear's Bibliography of American directories through 1860 (Z5771.S68 RR). Originals of many of the titles are in the collection of the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Mass. Title supplied from publisher's announcement. Later set published in microfilm covering 1861-1901 cataloged by the University of Chicago Library as a serial at: United States city directories. Printed guide at Z5771.2.C58 RR3.
Call no: microfc HF1 Mic.
United States -- Directories.
188. United States city directories. 1861-81. New Haven, CT: Research Publications. 425 reels.
Note: Printed guide: City directories of the United States, 1860-1901 : guide to the microfilm collection (Z5771.2.C58 RR3).
Consists of directories for 78 selected localities from 1861 through 1881. This collection is described as Segment II. An earlier collection has title City and business directories of the United States through 1860 (described as Segment I), at call no: microfc HF1 Mic. Later collection covering 1882-1901 (described as Segment III) is held by the Center for Research Libraries.
Call no: microfm F397 Mic.
Cities and towns -- United States -- Directories/United States -- Directories.
189. South Carolinians through the 19th century: pre-1915 family histories, biographies, and related imprints from the collections of the South Carolina Historical Society and the South Caroliniana Library. Charleston, S.C: South Carolina Historical Society; 1989. 1289 microfiches.
Note: Accompanied by printed guide with call no. Z1333.S68 1989 Mic.
Call no: microfm F266.S68 1989 Mic.
South Carolina -- History/South Carolina -- Biography/South Carolina -- Genealogy/Southern States -- History/South Carolina Historical Society/South Caroliniana Library.
190. Facts on film. Nashville: Southern Education Reporting Service; [196? -- ]. 342 reels.
Note: Printed indexes at HT1501.F18.
A collection of published materials on the subject of civil rights and race relations assembled by the Southern Education Reporting Service from 1954. Service was founded by Southern newspaper editors and educators to provide accurate and unbiased information on developments in these areas. Includes editorials, articles, transcripts of Supreme Court hearings, reports, editorial cartoons, speeches, pamphlets, bibliographies, etc. Base collection covers May, 1954 to June 1958, with annual supplements through end of 1973.(#).
Call no: microfm HT15 Mic.
School integration -- Southern States/Afro-Americans -- Civil rights -- United States/African-American studies.
191. Memorial collection of newspapers on microfilm chronicling events of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, November 22-26, 1963. [Cleveland]: Microfilmed by Micro Photo Division, Bell Howell Co.; [1964]. 10 reels.
Call no: microfm E272 Mic.
Kennedy, John Fitzgerald, Pres. U.S., 1917-1963.