Digital Collections
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American Revolutionary Geographies Online | American Revolutionary Geographies Online is a new project led by the Leventhal Map and Education Center at the Boston Public Library and the George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon. Leveraging new technology and the recent drive by many museums, libraries, and archives to digitize their collections, the portal collates digitized maps of North America made between 1750 and 1800 into a single user-friendly portal. |
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Evans Early American Imprint Collection | 5,000 fully searchable SGML/XML text editions from among the 40,000 titles available in the online Evans Early American Imprints which is based on Charles Evans' comprehensive American Bibliography. |
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American Vernacular Music Manuscripts, ca. 1730-1910 | This is a collaborative project between the Center for Popular Music and the American Antiquarian Society to inventory, catalog, digitize, and provide web-based public access to their extensive music manuscripts collections. It concerns manuscripts inscribed before 1910 that are mainly American in provenance, with contents that are preponderantly vernacular in style. The digital collection includes 345 music manuscripts and is available on the Internet Archive. |
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New England's Hidden Histories: Colonial-Era Church Records | A digital project of the Congregational Library & Archives that digitizes and provides access to early New England Congregational church records from approximately 1620 to 1850 including letters, sermons, diaries, conversion narratives, church disciplinary cases, and account books. |
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HarpWeek | Issues of Harper’s Weekly, America's leading 19th century illustrated newspaper, from 1857 to 1912. |
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Children's Literature and Culture | |
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American Ancestors | Online repository for more than 1.4 billion searchable names from America and beyond. |
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Abigail Adams Letters | Over 200 digitized letters written by Abigail Adams (1744-1818) , the wife of John Adams (1735-1826), the second president of the United States. |
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Isaiah Thomas Broadside Ballads Project | Digital library of over 800 broadside ballads. Supplemented with 300 mini-essays, offering a unique and comprehensive view of the broadsides that Isaiah Thomas (1749-1831) collected in early nineteenth-century Boston. |
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Books for Cooks: Highlights from the AAS Cookbook Collection | Cookbooks in this collection provide historians and researchers with a close-up view of domestic life in America. Some resemble cookbooks as we know them today, with recipes (then called “receipts”) that include ingredients and instructions. |