Humanities

Full text, searchable version of Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman by Sarah H. Bradford, published W.J. Moses, Printer, Auburn, New York. 1869.

Coverage in relation to the Civil War is both informative and eclectic. In-depth articles discuss trade with foreign countries, and how their governments viewed the United States in light of the Civil War. There is information on specific industries of the time, such as the oyster trade in New York. Slavery is an important topic, and countless editorials discuss pre- and post-war attitudes from both sides, as well as troop movements during the war.

There is coverage of the Copperheads, Northerners sympathetic to the South, who advocated the violent overthrow of the governments of Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, and Missouri in 1864. Events occurring in other states, such as Texas, are included. There is analysis of the trans-continental railroad and its effect on the region, and page after page of general news articles from around the world (the most humorous being the in-depth description of a 7 foot long, 3.5 ton piece of cheese on display at the Toronto Agricultural Fair in 1866). Letters from correspondents travelling with the Indiana troops (and all of the troops) describe their daily activities in detail. One issue is titled “Abraham Lincoln Death” issue, with the type in bold black.

The Liberator was a weekly newspaper published by William Lloyd Garrison in Boston, Massachusetts. William Lloyd Garrison was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts in December, 1805. At thirteen years of age he began his newspaper career with the Newburyport Herald, where he acquired great skills in both accuracy and speed in the art of setting type. He also wrote anonymous articles, and at the age of twenty-one began publishing his own newspaper.

The Virginia Gazette was the first newspaper published in Virginia and the first to be published in the area south of the Potomac River in the colonial period of the United States. Issues have the following subtitle: “Containing the freshest advices, foreign and domestick”.

The Pennsylvania Gazette provides the reader with a first-hand view of colonial America, the American Revolution and the New Republic, and offers important social, political and cultural perspectives of each of the periods. Thousands of articles, editorials, letters, news items and advertisements cover the Western Hemisphere, from the Canadian Maritime Provinces through the West Indies and North and South America, presenting a detailed glimpse of issues and lifestyles of the times.

Also included is the full-text of such important writings as the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, Letters from a Farmer, Thomas Payne’s Common Sense, The Federalist Papers and much more. It is claimed that the publication later reemerged as The Saturday Evening Post.

• Folio I: “Benjamin Franklin’s Newspaper” (1728–1750)
• Folio II: “The French & Indian War” (1751–1765)
• Folio III: “The American Revolution” (1766–1783)
• Folio IV: “The New Republic” (1784–1800)

Digital archive comprising over 3,250 works by more than 1,250 different authors from the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. This collection contains over 2 million printed pages of English-language works, many of them comprising multiple volumes. The Corvey Collection includes a considerable number of exceedingly rare publications—and even numerous previously unknown works—by British writers (and women writers in particular, whose works comprise over 1,000 of the titles) who were active during the Romantic period. In addition the collection also includes 3,658 works in French (including more than 500 by women) and 2,653 works in German, all of them dating primarily from the period 1790–1840.

Collections in this Archive

• European Literature, 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection

British Theatre, Music, and Literature: High and Popular Culture features a wide range of primary sources related to the arts in the Victorian era, from playbills and scripts to operas and complete scores. These rare documents were sourced from the British Library and other renowned institutions, and curated by experts in British arts history.

This unparalleled collection provides a detailed look at the state of the British art world with, for example, not only manuscripts and compositions, but also documents such as personal letters, annotated programs, meeting minutes, and financial records, offering scholars an unmatched glimpse into the inner workings of the arts world and life in Victorian Britain.

Collections in this Archive

• Archives of the Royal Literary Fund
• Drury Lane under Sheridan, 1776-1812: Manuscript Plays and Correspondence
• English Stage after the Restoration, 1733-1822
• Popular Literature in 18th and 19th Century Britain, Parts Three-Ten: The Barry Ono Collection of Bloods and Penny Dreadfuls
• Popular Literature in 18th and 19th Century Britain, Part Two: The Sabine Baring-Gould and Thomas Crampton Collections

The British Politics and Society archive of Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO) contains primary source documentation that enhances a greater understanding and analysis of the development of urban centers and of the major restructuring of society that took place during the Industrial Revolution. The archive is composed of a number of individual collections, drawn together from a variety of sources.

Collections in this Archive

• British Cabinet Papers, 1880-1916
• British Labour History Ephemera
• British Trade Union History Collection
• Civil Disturbance, Chartism and Riots in Nineteenth Century England
• Colonial Defence Commission under Lord Carnarvon
• Diaries of Sir Frederic Madden
• Discontent and Authority, 1820-1840
• Economic and Social Investigations in England since 1833: Transactions of the Manchester Statistical Society, Parts One and Two
• Home Office: Disturbances Entry Books
• Home Office: Domestic Correspondence from 1773 to 1861
• Home Office: Domestic Entry Books
• Home Office Papers and Records
• Home Office: Post Office Correspondence
• Hue and Cry and Police Gazette
• Ordnance Surveyors' Drawings, 1789-1840
• The Oxford Movement: Tractarian Pamphlets at Pusey House: The Halifax and Church Sub-Collections
• 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
• Public Order, Discontent, and Protest in Nineteenth Century England, 1820–1850
• Radicalism, Anti-Radicalism and Reform in England, 1769-1861: Original Papers and Minute Books
• Radical Politics and the Working Man in England
• 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
• The Whitechapel Murders Papers: Letters Relating to the "Jack the Ripper" Killings
• Working Class Movement Card Catalogue

Digital archive of records documenting U.S. and British relations with a variety of Asian Nations. The collection contains U.S. State Department consular and diplomatic records; British Foreign Office political correspondance; missionary correspondance and journals; and socio-economic journals. Collections in the archive include: 

• 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
• Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Amoy, China, 1844-1906
• Despatches from US 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 Canton, China, 1790-1906
• 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 Hakodate, Japan, 1856-1878
• 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 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 Saigon, Vietnam, 1889-1906
• 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 Singapore, Straits Settlements, 1833-1906
• Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Swatow, China, 1860-1881
• Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Tientsin, China, 1868-1906
• Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Yokohama, Japan, 1897-1906
• 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
• 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
• Minutes of Treaty Conferences between U.S. and Japanese Representatives, and Treaty Drafts, 1872
• Missionary and Socio-Economic Journals
• Missionary Files: Methodist Episcopal Church Missionary Correspondence, 1846-1912 (China, Japan, Korea)
• Missionary Files: Methodist Episcopal Church Missionary Correspondence, 1912-1949 (China, Japan, Korea)
• 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
• Records Relating to the United States Surveying Expedition to the North Pacific Ocean, 1852-1863.
• 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

Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO) is a multi-year global digitization and publishing program focusing on primary source collections of the long nineteenth century. The program includes a variety of content types--monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, statistics, and more--and unites them in one central, cross-searchable location. Content is being sourced from around the world: from national libraries; from academic and public libraries; and from a variety of special collections, archives, and repositories.

NCCO currently contains 4 collections: 

• Asia and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange
• British Politics and Society
• British Theatre, Music and Literature: High and Popular Culture
• European Literature, 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection