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The Audio/Visual Center houses microform material, such as microfilm, and fiche. The A/V Center also has microfilm and fiche readers, including a digital Canon reader. These resources are valuable and unique for research, and are not to be overlooked in any field of study.
A collection of rare, ephemeral literary and artistic revues of the late 19th century. Poetry; essays; literary criticism; theater, art, music reviews; political, sociolopgical, and philosophical articles. A total of 30 titles, including:
Le Chat Noir Les Ibis L'Art Littéraire Le Boulevard La Plume Le Scapin Mercure de France Le Parnasse Contemporain
Libraries Service Center: Call Numbers are individual by title. Guide in A/V.
A collection of over 25,000 printed items, collected during and immediately after the Revolution. Includes commercial and economic materials, official and unofficial government publications, judicial and administrative writings, colonial, educational and military material. Indexed by name and committee. Libraries Service Center: Film No. 3325 Guide: B Level Stacks: DC147.9 P4 Quarto
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Collection of over 6,500 pamphlets published during the French Revolution. Original pamphlets make up the Usteri Collection of the Zentralbibliothek Zürich.
Libraries Service Center: Micro- Fiche C no. 3016 Guide in A/V.
Nearly 80 periodicals published by the Resistance and other clandestine groups during the German Occupation.
Libraries Service Center: Film No. 3547
Over 40 periodicals printed between 1790 and 1985, covering all aspects of women's studies (literary, political, domestic, fashion, etc.)
Newly acquired
. (Enquêtes sur la condition ouvrière en France au 19e siècle)
140 rare works on the situation, history, condition of the French working class. Includes child labor, immigrant labor, worker legislation, insurrections, the Commune, communism, chômage, worker mortality, reading habits, etc. Guide is arranged by subjects.
Libraries Service Center: Fiche C no. 31 Guide in A/V.
Texts of 42 rare 18th century literary works from France on Utopia. They are cataloged individually by title and author in the online catalog.
Libraries Service Center: Fiche C no. 236-288 Guide in A/V.
Reprints of printed and manuscript catalogs and indexes issued between ca. 1700 and 1970 to access the Library's Greek, Latin, French and Western modern languages manuscript holdings, as well as its special, regional, early and miscellaneous manuscript collections in these languages. Includes (on first 35 microfiches): Le cabinet des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque impériale by Léopold Delisle.
Libraries Service Center: Fiche C no. 2774 Guide in A/V.
From the collection of archival Port-Royal materials in the Utrecht Archives (Fonds d'Amersfoort). Documents relating to the history of Jansenism from the 17th to the 19th century.
Libraries Service Center: Fiche C no. 2983 Guide in A/V.
Finding aids of material in the Archives Nationales; the largest published source for information on the collections of the French national archives. Includes Subject and Name index. Libraries Service Center: Fiche C no. 2883 Guide in A/V.
Exhibition of the works of industry of all nations. Prospectuses of the exhibits from the influential London exhibition of 1851, providing insight into the design, technological innovation, and business activities of the Victorian era. Essential source for study of material culture.
Libraries Service Center: Film No. 3319 Guide in A/V
Primarily focuses on British studies, but useful for Continental research as well. Based on the British Library's Eighteenth Century Short Title Catalogue (ESTC), consists of approximately 200,000 items selected from the 500,000 titles printed in Great Britain and its colonies or printed in English anywhere else in the world from 1701-1800. Contains reproductions of books, broadsides, pamphlets, etc.
Libraries Service Center: Film no. E 204 Guide in A/V (loose leaf notebook), Author, Title, and Subject access.
Rare and important titles: Political, professional and popular periodicals written for and by women across Europe. List of titles included. Libraries Service Center: Film no. 3619
Again, primarily British in scope. Material by women for women, primarily 18th century in scope. Part 1: Early women's journals, c1700-1832. -- Part 2: Advice books, manuals, almanacs and journals, c1625-1837. -- Parts 3-4: The Lady's Magazine, 1770-1832. -- Part 5: Women's writing and advice, c1450-1720. Libraries Service Center: Film No. E 162 Printed guides in A/V
Primary source materials, selected from the world’s most important library holdings through 1920. The most comprehensive microfilm collection ever assembled on the subject. Includes one section on "The social and cultural construction of girls." Libraries Service Center: Film no. A .H57
Sources concerning the European Plague, 1470-1822, from Germany, France, Italy, England, Switzerland, and Central Europe. Rare printed sources from the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel; including treatises giving suggestions, instructions, and advice; short accounts of the sufferings of individual cities, towns, or villages; recipes for treatment; notes on experiments; and historical observations looking at the origins, causes, and effects of The Plague. Libraries Service Center: Film No. E 308 Guide in A/V.
Planned to be a 30 year publishing program to reproduce on microfiche "a significant proportion of English-language works first published between 1801 and 1900." Consists of the General Collection, and five special collections: Women writers; Children's literature; Publishing, the book trade and the diffusion of knowledge; Linguistics; and Visual arts and architecture.
Libraries Service Center: Micro-fiche C no. 2799 User manual and index on CD-ROM (Comp File 83) provides for searching the bibliographic records contained in the microfiche collection by keywords - author, title, etc.
Includes 1,253 books and pamphlets on the cinema, published 1895-1940 in English and European languages. From the Museum of Modern Art, NY. Libraries Service Center: Micro-fiche C no. 2913 Handlist of titles in A/V
The intellectual basis of the revolutionary movement can be studied in the writings of the major figures - Bakunin, Chernyshevskii, Tkachev, Plekhanov, Kropotkin, Chernov, Martov, Trotsky, Lenin and others. The collection also abounds in the anonymous and ephemeral pieces distributed among the workers and peasants. All the various groups and intellectual persuasions are represented, from the early anarchists and populists on up to the Socialist Revolutionary Party and Lenin’s Russian Social Democratic Labor Party. Most of the material was published abroad or on underground presses within Russia, but a few legally-issued publications of major authors are also in the collection. Libraries Service Center: Film no. 3182
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Early literature of political economics, encompassing a complete world-view. Includes the well-known works used in studying the history of economics and business, as well as unusual and exceedingly rare items. Sections on: Colonies, Commerce, Social Conditions, Trades & Manufacturers. Libraries Service Center: Each part has a separate call number. Catalog on CD-ROM. Comp File 2833
The most comprehensive pictorial record available of the atrocities of the Holocaust. Provides excellent background material as well as visual corroboration for those studying the historical roots of Nazi anti-Semitism and Jewish resistance during this period. Libraries Service Center: Micro- fiche C no. 2902
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