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- Archives of Latin American and Caribbean History, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century
- Archives Unbound
- Eighteenth-Century Collections Online
- Nineteenth-Century Collections Online
- Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection
- Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive
- The Economist Historical Archive
- The Making of the Modern World
- The Times Digital Archive
- Women's Studies Archive
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Gale Primary Sources: Eighteenth Century Collections Online This link opens in a new window Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) offers a vast digital library with 180,000+ titles and 32 million searchable pages from 1701-1800. It encompasses a wide range of subjects and materials from Britain, Ireland, and British territories, including government documents, diverse genres, and writings across social classes, providing insights into eighteenth-century life and events.
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Collections
- "The Whitechapel Murders Papers: Letters Relating to the ""Jack the Ripper"" Killings"
- Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia: Minutes and Correspondence
- Action Sociale De La Femme Et Le Livre Francaise
- African Mail
- African World
- American Medical Periodicals
- Annales de l'Extreme Orient et de l'Afrique
- Archives of the Royal Literary Fund
- Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Britannia: Official Organ of the Women's Party
- British Admiralty Office Photographs
- British Birth Control Material at the British Library of Political and Economic Sciences: 1800-1947
- British Cabinet Papers, 1880-1916
- British Colonial Office: Photographic Collection
- British Foreign Office: Japan Correspondence, 1856-1905
- British Foreign Office: Japan Correspondence, 1906-1913: Dominance of the Genro
- British Foreign Office: Japan Correspondence, 1914-1923: Emergence of Japan as a Pacific Power
- British Journal of Photography and Annual, 1854-1914
- British Labour History Ephemera
- British Playbills, 1780-1861
- British Trade Union History Collection
- Bulletins du Comite de l'Afrique francaise
- Civil Disturbance, Chartism and Riots in Nineteenth Century England
- Civil Engineering
- Colonial Africa Newspapers from the British Library
- Colonial Defence Commission under Lord Carnarvon
- Color Theory and Practice
- Crystal Palace Handel Triennial
- Crystal Palace Saturday Concerts
- Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Amoy, China, 1844-1906
- Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Antung, Manchuria, China, 1904-1906
- Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Bangkok, Siam, 1856-1906
- Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Batavia, Java, Netherlands East Indies, 1818-1906
- Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Bathurst, Gambia, British Africa, 1857-1889
- Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Boma, Congo, 1888-1895
- Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Canton, China, 1790-1906
- Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Cape Town, Cape Colony, 1800-1906
- Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Chefoo, China, 1863-1906
- Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Chinkiang, China, 1864-1902
- Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Chunking, China, 1896-1906
- Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Foochow, China, 1849-1906
- Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Gaboon, 1856-1888
- Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Goree Dakar, French Africa, 1883-1906
- Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Grand Bassa, Liberia, 1868-1882
- Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Hakodate, Japan, 1856-1878
- Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Hangchow, China, 1904-1906
- Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Hangchow, China, 1904-1906
- Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Hankow, China, 1861-1906
- Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Hong Kong, 1844-1906
- Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Iloilo, Philippine Islands, 1876-1886
- Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Kanagawa, Japan, 1861-1897
- Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Lourenco Marques, Mozambique, Portuguese Africa, 1854-1906
- Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Macao, China, 1849-1869
- Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Manila, Philippine Islands, 1817-1899
- Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Mukden, Manchuria, China, 1904-1906
- Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Nagasaki, Japan, 1860-1906
- Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Nanking, China, 1902-1906
- Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Newchwang, Manchuria, China, 1865-1906
- Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Ningpo, China, 1853-1896
- Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Osaka and Hiogo (Kobe), Japan, 1868-1906
- Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Padang, Sumatra, Netherlands East Indies, 1853-1898
- Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Pretoria, The Transvaal, 1898-1906
- Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Saigon, Vietnam, 1889-1906
- Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Santiago, Cape Verde Islands, 1818-1898
- Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Seoul, Korea, 1886-1906
- Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Shanghai, China, 1847-1906
- Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Sierra Leone, British Africa, 1858-1906
- Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Singapore, Straits Settlements, 1833-1906
- Despatches from U.S. Consuls in St. Helena, British West Africa, 1831-1906
- Despatches from U.S. Consuls in St. Paul de Loanda, Portuguese Africa, 1854-1893
- Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Swatow, China, 1860-1881
- Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Tamatave, Madagascar, 1853-1906
- Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Tientsin, China, 1868-1906
- Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Yokohama, Japan, 1897-1906
- Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Zanzibar, British Africa, 1836-1906
- Despatches from U.S. Ministers to China, 1843-1906
- Despatches from U.S. Ministers to Japan, 1855-1906
- Despatches from U.S. Ministers to Korea, 1883-1905
- Despatches from U.S. Ministers to Siam, 1882-1906
- Deutsche Kolonialzeitung
- Diaries of Sir Frederic Madden
- Discontent and Authority, 1820-1840
- Drury Lane Receipts
- Drury Lane Theatre Archive
- Drury Lane under Sheridan, 1770-1812: Manuscript Plays and Correspondence
- Early Rare Photographic Books from the North Western Museum of Science and Industry Collection
- Early Rare Photographs from the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
- Economic and Social Investigations in England since 1833: Transactions of the Manchester Statistical Society, Parts One and Two
- Electricity and Electromagnetism
- English Stage after the Restoration, 1726–1849
- European Literature, 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection
- Evolution and the Origin of Species
- Exploration and Colonization of Africa
- German Colonialism in Africa: Selections from the Kolonialbibliothek (Colonial Library) Collection
- History of Photograpy
- History of Women
- History of the Philippine Insurrection Against the United States, 1899-1903, and Documents Relating to the War Department Project for Publishing of History, 1899-1903
- Home Office Papers and Records
- Home Office: Disturbances Entry Books
- Home Office: Domestic Correspondence from 1773 to 1861
- Home Office: Domestic Entry Books
- Home Office: Post Office Correspondence
- Home Office: Registered Papers
- Hue and Cry and Police Gazette
- International Population Census, Africa
- JW Davison Papers
- Japanese Old Photographs in Bakumatsu-Meiji Period
- Joseph Chamberlain Papers Relating to Africa
- King's Theatre Haymarket Archive
- Konzert Programm Austausch
- Lord Chamberlain's Plays
- Mary Braddon Archive
- Mathematics
- Methodist Episcopal Church Missionary Correspondence, 1846-1912: Africa
- Minutes of Treaty Conferences between U.S. and Japanese Representatives, and Treaty Drafts, 1872
- Missionary Files: Methodist Episcopal Church Missionary Correspondence, 1846-1912 (China, Japan, Korea)
- Missionary Files: Methodist Episcopal Church Missionary Correspondence, 1912-1949 (China, Japan, Korea)
- Missionary and Socio-Economic Journals
- Myrtilla Miner Papers
- Nineteenth-Century Photographs from the Royal Archives, Windsor
- Notes from the Chinese Legation in the United States to the Department of State, 1868-1906
- Notes from the Japanese Legation in the United States to the Department of State, 1858-1906
- Notes from the Korean Legation in the United States to the Department of State, 1883-1906
- Notes from the Siamese Legation in the United States to the Department of State, 1876-1906
- Oratorio Concert Programmes
- Ordnance Surveyors' Drawings, 1789-1840
- Our Corner
- Papers of Carrie Chapman Catt
- Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Papers of Great British Statesmen and Politicians, Series One: The Papers and Correspondence of Charles James Fox, 1749-1806
- Papers of the Prime Ministers of Great Britain, Series Two: Sir Robert Peel (Prime Minister, 1834-5, 1841-5 and 1845-6)
- People's History: Working Class Autobiographies
- Personal Narratives and Reminiscences of the Exploration of Africa
- Photographs from the India Collection at the British Library
- Photographs from the National Media Museum
- Photographs from the Royal Photographic Society Collection
- Photographs from the Science Museum
- Photographs from the Talbot Collection at the British Library
- Photographs from the Wellcome Library for the History of Medicine
- Popular Literature in 18th and 19th Century Britain, Part Two: The Sabine Baring-Gould and Thomas Crampton Collections
- Popular Literature in 18th and 19th Century Britain, Parts Three-Ten: The Barry Ono Collection of Bloods and Penny Dreadfuls
- Portraits of Modern Japanese Historical Figures
- Public Order, Discontent, and Protest in Nineteenth Century England, 1820-1850
- Publications of the Cape Colony
- Publications of the Natal Colony
- Quaker Women's Diaries: 18th-19th Centuries
- Queen's Hall Programmes
- Radical Politics and the Working Man in England
- Radicalism, Anti-Radicalism and Reform in England, 1769-1861: Original Papers and Minute Books
- Radicals and Reformers in Britain: The Papers of John Cam Hobhouse, 1809-1869
- Rare Freethought Militant 19th Century Books
- Rare Radical and Labour Periodicals of Great Britain
- Records Relating to the United States Surveying Expedition to the North Pacific Ocean, 1852-1863.
- Records of the Copyright Office of the Stationers' Company: Photographs
- Report of the Boundary Survey between British Bechuanaland and German Southwest Africa of 1898-1903
- Reports of Explorations Printed in the Documents of the United States Government
- Royal Albert Hall
- Royal Philharmonic Society Archive
- Royal Philharmonic Society Music Manuscripts
- Scientific and Technical Periodicals from the Royal Society of London's Catalogue of Scientific Papers, 1800-1900
- Selected Africa Collections from the Bodleian Library
- Selected Cabinet Papers on Africa
- Selected Colonial Office Files on Africa
- Selected Dominions Office Files on Africa
- Selected Foreign Office Files on Africa
- Selected India Office Records on Colonial Africa
- Selected Maps and Plans Files on Africa
- Selected Narratives and Reminiscences on Colonial Africa
- Selected Records of the U.S. Consulate in Bangkok, Siam, 1856-1912
- Selected Records of the U.S. Legation in China, 1849-1931
- Selected Records of the U.S. Legation in Japan, 1855-1912
- Selected War Office Files on Africa
- Sir George Smart Papers
- Sir George Smart Programmes
- St James Hall Monday/Saturday Popular Concerts
- Suffragist
- The Bauduin Collection of Photographs
- The Diaries of Elizabeth Fry, 1797-1845
- The Hill and Adamson Albums: photographs by David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, 1843-1848
- The Journal of the American National Women's Trade Union League
- The Meiji and Taisho Eras in Photographs
- The Oxford Movement: Tractarian Pamphlets at Pusey House: The Halifax and Church Sub-Collections
- The Photographic News, 1859-1908
- The Woman Worker 1908-1910
- Votes for Women
- Wandering Minstrels Archive
- Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly
- Working Class Movement Card Catalogue
- Yale Divinity School Periodicals on Africa
Gale Primary Sources: Making of the Modern World This link opens in a new window This database provides digital facsimiles of 61,000+ works on economics, business, and trade history (1450-1914), with full-text search across 11 million pages in multiple languages, offering insights into the development of the modern Western world.
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Gale Primary Sources: Slavery and Anti-Slavery A Transnational Archive This link opens in a new window Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive is a comprehensive collection spanning over five million cross-searchable pages from the 17th to 19th centuries, covering the history of slavery, the slave trade, abolitionism, and emancipation across America, Africa, Europe, and the Caribbean. Sourced from over 60 libraries worldwide, it provides unparalleled depth through books, periodicals, legal documents, manuscripts, and more.
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Collections
- Aaron Thomas papers, 1798-1799
- Africa Squadron, 1843-1861; Letters Received by the Secretary of the Navy from Commanding Officers of Squadrons
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens papers, 1784-1886
- American Colonization Society: A Register of its Records in the Library of Congress
- American Missionary Association Archives, 1839-1882
- Anna E. Dickinson papers, 1859-1951
- Anti-Slavery Collection, 1795-1880
- Anti-Slavery Collection, 18th-19th Centuries
- Anti-Slavery Materials: Regional Records and Other Pamphlets, 18th-19th Centuries
- Apellate Case File No. 3230, Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 US 393 (19 Howard 393), Decided March 6, 1857 and Related Records
- Appellate Case File No. 2161, United States v. The Amistad, 40 U.S. 518
- Benjamin Tappan Papers
- Blackwell Family Papers
- Blair family papers, 1755-1968
- British Library Collections
- British Library Collections II
- Caleb Cushing Papers
- Caribbean Documents collection, 1699-1959
- Charles Follen McKim Papers
- Company of Royal Adventurers of England Trading with Africa and Successors: Records
- Correspondence of the Office of Civil Affairs of the District of Texas, the 5th Military District of Texas, 1867-1870
- Court Cases and other documents from the Mississippi Department of Archives and History
- Edmund Ruffin diaries, 1856-1865
- Edward Dixon Papers
- Edwin McMasters Stanton Papers
- Exploration and Colonization of Africa
- Freedman's Aid Society Records, 1866-1932
- Habeas Corpus Case Records, 1820-1863, of the United States Circuit Court for the District of Columbia
- Heartman Manuscript Collection at Xavier University Library, New Orleans: Manuscripts on Slavery
- Indexes to Deposit Ledgers in Branches of the Freedman's Savings and Trust Company, 1865-1874
- J.F.H. Claiborne Papers, 1818-1885
- Jamaica Manuscripts Collection, 1774-1950
- James Henry Hammond Papers
- James R. Doolittle papers, 1859-1927
- John J. Crittenden Papers, 1783-1913
- Office of Registry of Colonial Slaves and Slave Compensation Commission: Records
- Office of the Adjutant General, Office of the Freedmen's Branch
- Oliver Pollock Papers, 1767-1788
- Papers of Lewis Tappan
- Papers of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (1786-1845)
- Papers of the Christian Faith Society, 17th-20th Centuries
- Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Missions for Freedmen Annual Reports, 1866-1923
- Records of East Florida
- Records of the Admiralty, Naval Forces, Royal Marines, Coastguard, and related bodies: Selected Records from the Bruce L. Mouser Collection
- Records of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands: Field Offices
- Records of the Clerk of the Court, 1746-1932, and of the U.S. Commissioners, 1837-1860, of the U.S. District Court for the South
- Records of the Education Division of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1871
- Records of the Office of the Secretary of the Interior Relating to the Suppression of the African Slave Trade and Negro Coloniza
- Records of the Senate Select Committee that Investigated John Brown's Raid at Harper's Ferry, 1859-1860
- Records of the Spanish Governors of Puerto Rico, Registro Central de Esclavos, 1872 (Slave Schedules)
- Records of the U.S. District and Circuit Courts for the District of Connecticut: Documents Relating to the Various Cases Involving the Spanish Schooner Amistad
- Records of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia Relating to Slaves, 1851-1863
- Records related to Slavery from the Colonial Office, Commonwealth and Foreign and Commonwealth Offices, Empire Marketing Board, and related bodies
- Records related to Slavery from the Court of King's Bench, Privy Council, and Treasury: Selected Records
- Records related to Slavery from the Exchequer, and its related bodies
- Registers and Letters Received by the Commissioner of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872
- Registers of Signatures of Depositors in Branches of the Freedman's Savings and Trust Company, 1865-1874
- Rice C. Ballard Papers
- Salmon P. Chase: A Register of His Papers in the Library of Congress
- Selected Colonial Office collections
- Selected Records of the Danish West Indies, 1672-1917: Essential Records Concerning Slavery and Emancipation
- Selected Series of Records Issued by the Commissioner of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872
- Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project
- Slavery Miscellaneous Manuscripts from Lillian Goldman Law Library, Yale
- The Slavery and Abolition Collections from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
- The William Smeal Collection
- The Yale University Collection of Latin American Manuscripts, Part V: The Caribbean
- U.S. Customs Service Records: Port of New Orleans, Louisiana Inward Slave Manifests, 1807- 1860
- U.S. Customs Service Records: Port of New Orleans, Louisiana Outward Slave Manifests, 1812- 1860
- Vernon-Wager Papers, 1654-1773
- Zachariah Chandler papers, 1854-1899

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