tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36912302044007657662024-03-14T09:07:45.721-07:00United States History at Stanford University LibraryAmerican and British History Curatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10548778354526812789noreply@blogger.comBlogger78125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3691230204400765766.post-35883001126681904842012-11-20T12:36:00.002-08:002012-11-20T12:36:16.579-08:00Americana; recent acquisitions--antiquarian and ephemera<br />
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<a href="http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/9750687">History of world's tour : Chicago White Sox, New York Giants / by Ted Sullivan. Chicago : M.A. Donahue, 1914.</a><br />
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<a href="http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/9708078"> World tour, National and American League Base ball teams, October 1913-March 1914. The triumph of organized base ball / photographs by Frank Farrell, M. Dick Bunnell and Lee Magee. Chicago : S. Blake Willsden & Co., 1914.</a><br />
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<a href="http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/9741419"> Bromley, Isaac. The Chinese massacre at Rock Springs, Wyoming Territory, September 2, 1885. Boston, Franklin Press, 1886.</a><br />
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<a href="http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/9740607">Dulles, John Foster. The Panama Canal controversy between Great Britain and the United States. New York : s.n., 1913.</a> <br />
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<a href="http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/9751713">Bulletin. State Law Enforcement and Protection League. San Francisco : State Law Enforcement and Protection League, 1917. </a><br />
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<a href="http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/9751725">Manila freedom : United States special edition. Manila, Island of Luzon: Freedom Pub. Co., June 25, 1899-July 2, 1899.</a><br />
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<a href="http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/9740612">Rules of practice and procedure of the United States District Court in and for the Canal Zone. Adopted April, 1920. Mount Hope, C.Z., Panama Canal Press, 1920.</a><br />
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<a href="http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/9706673">Carousel magazine, Volume 1, Number 1, December 15, 1949 (Tokyo)</a><br />
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<a href="http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/9706636">Ephemera collection, Order of the Eastern Star, International Chapter No.1, Peking, China. [Peking] : [Peking Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star], [1934-1941] <br />
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<a href="http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/9706722">Welcome to the Yamanaka Hotel, Lake Yamanaka, Honshu, Japan. Honshu : [The Hotel], [1947]</a><br />
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Benhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13388770049218911708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3691230204400765766.post-70654291454219197992012-09-13T14:58:00.001-07:002012-09-13T14:58:38.680-07:00Americana; recent acquisitions, antiquarian and ephemera<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWOLinOHejWO3q-yKc6UW6SXkm9GUPaQ_KKmDTbFTo8_0FHszSdBmmFXMVvCACsb3v6L8akV59ngw1ZS7ZTmdgqgzNEuiMtMdPvgI_v4KJbkCl1AiAG2beaifMCnjI60WVoZXE6RmxTlE/s1600/QueenofChinatown.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear:right; float:right; margin-left:1em; margin-bottom:1em"><img border="0" height="320" width="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWOLinOHejWO3q-yKc6UW6SXkm9GUPaQ_KKmDTbFTo8_0FHszSdBmmFXMVvCACsb3v6L8akV59ngw1ZS7ZTmdgqgzNEuiMtMdPvgI_v4KJbkCl1AiAG2beaifMCnjI60WVoZXE6RmxTlE/s320/QueenofChinatown.jpg" /></a></div><br />
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<a href="http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/9698099">William T. Keogh's Superbly Staged, Splendidly Cast, First Production of 'The Queen of Chinatown' by Joseph Jarrow. Academy of Music, February 26, Opium, Chinatown. [New York] : [s.l.], [1899] </a><br />
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<a href="http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/9685214">"Every day new and wonder." By Lorenzo Delos Reyes.[Los Angeles? 1930?] </a><br />
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<a href="http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/9698734">Vietnam- Who profits? Who pays? : Black people pay - twice !! ... Inferior medical care- the Black Panther Party wants people to be able to get good, free health care. Boston : Black Panther Party, Peoples Free Health Center, 1970. </a><br />
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<a href="http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/9698318">We "Belong" to the Brotherhood Youth and Race Question / Olivia P. Stokes and Winburn T. Thomas. New York : Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, 1946.</a> <br />
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<a href="http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/9698321">The case against Dillingham. Palo Alto, Calif. : Grass Roots, [197-?]</a><br />
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<a href="http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/9698324">International Seafarers' Federation. Minutes of the International Seafarers' Conference, Feb. 22nd to Mar. 3rd 1919 : together with minutes of an open Seafarers' Conference. London, [1919?]</a><br />
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<a href="http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/9698328">Sarabia, Elizabeth D.T. Mexico from the inside : another letter from Mme. Sarabia. Boston : Massachusetts Branch of the Womam's Peace Party, 1916. </a><br />
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<a href="http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/9698349">Shall the Chinese Exclusion Act be repealed ? / B.A. Garside and Burges Brown. New York : Citizen's Committee to Repeal Chinese Exclusion, 1943. </a><br />
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<a href="http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/9698080">Chinese drug stores in America. By Stewart Culin. [Philadelphia? 1887] "Reprinted from the Journal of Pharmacy, December, 1887." </a><br />
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<a href="http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/9698082">Lee, Chin. A Chinese art which tells : of monkey sun with his magic club ... of a sauce that takes eight years to age, of bird's nest and shark fins, of calories and vitamines, of ways of cooking scores of Chinese dishes and of a number of other things. [New York] : [Chin Lee], 1928. </a>Benhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13388770049218911708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3691230204400765766.post-75373912291073392782012-09-13T07:57:00.003-07:002012-09-13T08:17:24.774-07:00American Antiquarian Society databases<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7X_s6DCpl-mBNlvLLZO4apPkyocvfozH34q0riycwhD-xaZeIaV-QYaPlEcBJrWPaYwXisc3t81uq93yvc7LFKAia6gZMRHfm6BrYjkqGTw1gh3zU0E5FWJsFvHt-JcbEAuq6Nhjv5jU/s1600/CharlestonMercury.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear:right; float:right; margin-left:1em; margin-bottom:1em"><img border="0" height="320" width="195" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7X_s6DCpl-mBNlvLLZO4apPkyocvfozH34q0riycwhD-xaZeIaV-QYaPlEcBJrWPaYwXisc3t81uq93yvc7LFKAia6gZMRHfm6BrYjkqGTw1gh3zU0E5FWJsFvHt-JcbEAuq6Nhjv5jU/s320/CharlestonMercury.jpg" /></a></div><br />
In yesterday's New York Times, Edward Rothstein contributed an interesting <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/12/arts/design/in-pursuit-of-a-vision-at-the-grolier-club.html?ref=arts">review</a> of a new <a href="http://www.grolierclub.org/Default.aspx?p=DynamicModule&pageid=289912&ssid=169182&vnf=1">exhibit</a> at the Grolier Club highlighting the bicentennial of the <a href="http://www.americanantiquarian.org/">American Antiquarian Society</a>. As noted in the article, many of the Society's collections have been digitized and Stanford has acquired access to these rich databases, listed below. They offer rich insight into American history, literature, and culture from the Colonial period through Reconstruction. <br />
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<a href="http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/8543969">Early American Imprints, Series I, Evans (1639-1800)</a><br />
<a href="http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/5976547">Early American Imprints, Series II, Shaw-Shoemaker (1801-1819)</a><br />
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<a href="http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/6660999">America's<a href="http://www.americanantiquarian.org/media.htm"></a> historical newspapers: featuring Early American newspapers, 1690-1922<br />
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<a href="http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/5981854">American Broadsides and Ephemera</a><br />
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<a href="http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/9425259">American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collection (1691-1877)</a><br />
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The AAS has also published <a href="http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/9691517">The American Antiquarian Society, 1812-2012: A Bicentennial History</a> by Philip F. Gura, as well as a supplementary <a href="http://www.americanantiquarian.org/Exhibitions/View/index.htm">website</a>; as the site notes, "the Society digitized and made available in high-resolution the images and descriptions from the text. Not merely a list of illustrations, this site provides links to inventories and catalog records while also establishing additional contexts for viewing these important items." <br />
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The image of the Charleston Mercury accompanying this post is taken from the AAS website, which provides a detailed account of its provenance:<br />
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"Considered to be the first Confederate imprint, this broadside announced to the public the declaration, on December 20, 1860, that South Carolina would secede from the United States. This sheet was removed from a wall in Charleston by the popular Boston-born author Caroline Howard Gilman (1794-1888), who had moved permanently to Charleston following her marriage to the Rev. Samuel Gilman. Gilman mailed the broadside to her daughter Eliza in Salem, Massachusetts. Eliza in turn presented the document to American Antiquarian Society (AAS) member Nathaniel Paine who, heeding the Society’s call to preserve all printed material relating to the unsettling national events, passed the broadside along to AAS."<br />
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Stanford users can also access the <a href="http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/8132378">broadside</a> via the <a href="http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/5981854">American Broadsides and Ephemera database</a>. Benhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13388770049218911708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3691230204400765766.post-65367584957528499062012-08-28T14:36:00.000-07:002012-08-28T14:39:30.894-07:00Americana--recent acquistions, antiquarian and ephemera<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvzUa35MbFzLC9y9ex69QCWY7_hyphenhyphenXz4NQkOO555SSkyko6kROCWtvaXSVGUEPjpvlMB0bUcsFKqZ88cvtKHIXwZ1Sqjz-yyf2l0S1jZukTq86uFWgz_FM8E_v7bj2wt-K1nZhCsh4qW3k/s1600/GoldenGateJapan1939.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear:right; float:right; margin-left:1em; margin-bottom:1em"><img border="0" height="248" width="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvzUa35MbFzLC9y9ex69QCWY7_hyphenhyphenXz4NQkOO555SSkyko6kROCWtvaXSVGUEPjpvlMB0bUcsFKqZ88cvtKHIXwZ1Sqjz-yyf2l0S1jZukTq86uFWgz_FM8E_v7bj2wt-K1nZhCsh4qW3k/s320/GoldenGateJapan1939.jpg" /></a></div><br />
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<a href="http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/9672466">Golden Gate International Exposition [San Francisco, Calif.? : Japanese Committee for the Golden Gate International Exposition?, 1939] </a><br />
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<a href="http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/9666146">Come vigil now : One man, one truck, a thousand lives. [Walnut Creek, CA] : Contra Costa Citizens Against the War in Viet Nam, [1966]</a>. <br />
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<a href="http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/9654562">The Chinese junk "Keying", being a full account of that vessel, with extracts from the journal of Capt. Kellett. In order to furnish visitors with the information necessary to understand the nature ... of the exhibition at Castle Garden, the following remarks have been deemed necessary. New York, I. Sackett, 1847. </a><br />
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<a href="http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/9647124">Fuddlehead by Fuddlehead : an autobiography. Forbes, W. Cameron (William Cameron), 1870-1959. Peking : [s.n.], 1935. </a><br />
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<a href="http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/9638167">The politics of the Philippines : Aguinaldo a traitor to the Filipinos and a conspirator against the United States ; the record of his transformation from a beggar to a tyrant. Halstead, Murat, 1829-1908. Akron, Ohio: Allied Print Trades Council, [1899?]</a> <br />
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<a href="http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/9635011">Report by W. Calder on his investigation of road problems in Europe and America during 1924. Calder, W. Melbourne: Govt. Printer, [1924?] </a><br />
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<a href="http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/9617869">San Francisco : seeing San Francisco's Chinatown after dark. [San Francisco]: Pacific Sightseeing Co., c1914 </a><br />
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<a href="http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/9617890">Tourists' guide and handbook of Honolulu and the Hawaiian Islands. Honolulu: Mid-Pacific folder Distributing Co., [1917] </a><br />
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<a href="http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/9617809">20th anniversary celebration and conference : Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah.<br />
Federal Land Bank of Berkeley. [Berkeley, 1937] </a><br />
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<a href="http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/9598259">"Help the Anti-Fly Campaign by eliminating the breeding places of flies" [broadside]. Chapman, Alonzo. Redlands, CA : Board of Health, 1914. </a><br />
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Benhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13388770049218911708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3691230204400765766.post-81415009751491368852012-08-22T13:08:00.001-07:002012-08-23T11:22:29.816-07:00Lamont, A Lecture on the Civil War in America<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgkDLGM_pKqm-2ohbs12I5Vw1HSPzgc7rFlOwx-ZirU2sc4_uf2I3lagl2cq35TgybMpKW73QqBcmmqzyh9LubzoUyPVWbtYBb6e_CLQFNFSuoUAIyvG3T4CYKu-qxH6NMVQnr9jd1-uA/s1600/img023.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear:right; float:right; margin-left:1em; margin-bottom:1em"><img border="0" height="320" width="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgkDLGM_pKqm-2ohbs12I5Vw1HSPzgc7rFlOwx-ZirU2sc4_uf2I3lagl2cq35TgybMpKW73QqBcmmqzyh9LubzoUyPVWbtYBb6e_CLQFNFSuoUAIyvG3T4CYKu-qxH6NMVQnr9jd1-uA/s320/img023.jpg" /></a></div><br />
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I am always keen to acquire titles that offer foreign (chiefly European) views of the American Civil War. We recently acquired an interesting volume--James Lamont's <a href="http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/9638124">"A lecture on the civil war in America / delivered at the Rothesay Mechanics' Institute"</a> (Glasgow : Printed by W.A. Eadie, 1864.)<br />
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As evidenced by Lamont's armorial bookplate (J. Lamont of Knockdow), this was his personal copy, made even more interesting by the inclusion of a newspaper clipping mounted after page 30., advertising a "slave for sale" and also a reward for a runaway slave. <br />
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A search of a proper name in the text ("Martha Frazer") of the newspaper clipping (in <a href="http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/6660999">America's Historical Newspapers</a>, published by Readex) reveals that clipping was likely from the May 2, 1856 issue of the New Orleans Daily Picayune (p. 6; the same ads also appeared in issues of the same paper on May 8 and May 9, 1856)<br />
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In his lecture, Lamont noted his travels in the United States during 1856:<br />
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"When in the United States in 1856, I held a long conversation on the subject of slavery with a gentleman of Kentucky, a proprietor of many human chattels. He argued the question, unlike most slaveowners, in a temperate, gentlemanlike, and sensible manner, admitted that slavery was, in the abstract, a bad system and a great evil to the country, but could not see how it was to be done away with, without ruin and injury to many. I told him what I had seen in South America, and suggested that such a plan of gradual emancipation was the only way that I saw of meeting the difficulty. I regret to state that his reply was of such a nature that I cannot venture to repeat it, but it showed, as much as anything that ever came under my observation, the inveterate habit that even the refined and educated slaveowners invariably acquire, of regarding their slaves not as human beings, but as cattle, -- as beasts that perish."<br />
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One may surmise that Lamont saved the clipping from his 1856 travels and appended it to his copy. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVFAIFbh9b5MCfdDEwc84X5gHKNPfFFireK-i9eoVHzGZPnqHd-Of9-cpFh6byLPh_lIAlh42cAOfJehlxk_efbr7xRY3X27LE16QN7_oSX0i3UaCMQRU96taqpHvrp4_NBOX26qICDJs/s1600/img022.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear:right; float:right; margin-left:1em; margin-bottom:1em"><img border="0" height="222" width="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVFAIFbh9b5MCfdDEwc84X5gHKNPfFFireK-i9eoVHzGZPnqHd-Of9-cpFh6byLPh_lIAlh42cAOfJehlxk_efbr7xRY3X27LE16QN7_oSX0i3UaCMQRU96taqpHvrp4_NBOX26qICDJs/s320/img022.jpg" /></a></div><br />
Cornell University Library has digitized a copy of <a href="http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=mayantislavery;idno=19869009;view=image;seq=1">Lamont's lecture</a> as part of their magnificent <a href="http://digital.library.cornell.edu/m/mayantislavery/">Samuel J. May Antislavery Collection</a>. <br />
Benhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13388770049218911708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3691230204400765766.post-86750254531664581302012-08-22T09:27:00.000-07:002012-08-22T12:36:49.172-07:00Civil Rights interviewsThe Department of Special Collections and University Archives at Vanderbilt University has recently created a fascinating <a href="http://whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu/">digital archive</a> of primary sources compiled by Robert Penn Warren for his 1965 book "Who Speaks for the Negro?"<br />
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Closer to home, Stanford's Department of Special Collections, University Archives, and the Archive of Recorded Sound hold a similarly fascinating <a href="http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/4085340">collection</a> of interviews (known as the "KZSU Project South interviews") with Civil Rights workers, recorded in 1965 by Stanford students affiliated with campus radio station KZSU. <br />
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Benhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13388770049218911708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3691230204400765766.post-61148927933183497872010-11-15T12:45:00.001-08:002010-11-16T14:45:53.741-08:00New York Journal-American Photographic Morgue--HRC, UT-AustinThe Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin has recently launched a fabulous <a href="http://research.hrc.utexas.edu/nyjadc">website</a> designed to expose the holdings of the <span style="font-style:italic;">New York Journal-American</span> photographic morgue, acquired by the center in 1966. The site includes both an image <a href="http://research.hrc.utexas.edu/nyjadc/gallery.cfm?find=all#navtop">gallery</a> (containing over 900 images) and a <a href="http://research.hrc.utexas.edu/nyjadc/browse.cfm#navtop">database</a> which enables researchers to search the file headings of photo folders within the archive. As the HRC's site notes:<br /><br />"The photographic morgue consists of approximately two million prints and one million negatives created for publication in the New York Journal-American newspaper. The bulk of the material covers the years from 1937 to the paper's demise in 1966. Earlier decades are represented in the collection, but with decreasing frequency toward the beginning of the twentieth century. Roughly half of the prints are images taken by Journal-American staff. The backs of these prints usually bear the stamped date of publication and a pasted-down clipping from the newspaper. The majority of the other prints come from wire services such as the Associated Press, United Press International, and other syndication entities, and a small portion of the prints are publicity photos from sources such as airlines, public relations firms, movie studios, etc. Many of the prints in the morgue show crop marks and/or heavy retouching with either pencil or ink as evidence of their use in publication"<br /><br />"Until now, access to the photo morgue collection has been limited, resulting from its uncataloged status. In keeping with the Ransom Center's mission to advance the study of the arts and humanities by preserving and making accessible creations of our cultural heritage through the highest standards of cataloging, conservation, and collection management, the Center has now constructed this website as a portal to the prints in the New York Journal-American photo morgue. It is intended to serve as an introduction to the collection and its imagery and to provide a searchable database of more than 64,000 folder titles by which the prints were organized by the newspaper staff."Benhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13388770049218911708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3691230204400765766.post-58388048881304149312010-09-22T09:36:00.000-07:002010-11-04T08:55:02.981-07:00Americana--recent acquisitions, antiquarian and ephemera<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5x013vqx94ZBNuC1-dik6LgCjv7kcCuUBnv2aEEFnHwvJwbEgyr-iOUb914U4ODUU8MdmxzS8b58zVqBl5tbEvW4bS-Gp_ht0XAsq_7VCsVBY9VJXyeNqOy27VElTW91raO_atB8gXKU/s1600/img019.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 218px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5x013vqx94ZBNuC1-dik6LgCjv7kcCuUBnv2aEEFnHwvJwbEgyr-iOUb914U4ODUU8MdmxzS8b58zVqBl5tbEvW4bS-Gp_ht0XAsq_7VCsVBY9VJXyeNqOy27VElTW91raO_atB8gXKU/s320/img019.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5535722385852498722" /></a><br /><br />U.S.S. Boston Photograph album. 7 3/8 X 10 3/4 in. Black fabric over cardboard covers. 96 pp; 148 photographs affixed to all pages including inside back cover. 1888-1907. <br /><br />Herman, Frederick John, The Forty-second foot; a history of the Forty-second regiment of infantry, United States volunteers, organized for service in the Philippine insurrection. 1899-1900-1901. Arranged and compiled at the request of the survivors of the regiment, organized as the 42nd regt. of inf. U.S.V. association, by Colonel Frederick J. Herman. [Kansas City, Mo., 1942] <br /><br />Croffut's Trans-Continental Tourist's Guide, Containing a Full and Authentic Description of over Five Hundred Cities, Towns, Villages, Stations...From the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. Fourth Volume, Third Annual Revised. Crofutt, George, pub: New York. 1872.<br /><br />Souvenirs D'une Mission Aux États-Unis D'amerique. Malézieux, Emile: Paris: Dunod, 1874.<br /><br />Fooz, Jean Henri Nicolas de. Fundamental Principles of the Law of Mines. Translated from the French, with Introductory Remarks by H. W. Halleck. San Francisco: J. B. Painter, Printer, 1860.<br /><br />Darrow Bros. Our Encampment. A Humorous Account of the Indianapolis Military Encampment. Highly Illustrated by our own Artist, and rich in Flagrant Falsehood [cover title]. Indianapolis, ca. 1880.<br /><br />Breed, David T. The Great Trip. A Little Book for Railroad Men and Travellers. NY: American Tract Society, ca. 1850. <br /><br />Chicago, and North-Western Railway. Summer Resorts of the West, North and Northwest, Showing Routes, Rates of Fare, and Hotels and Boarding Houses. Chicago, 1890.<br /><br />U.S. Army Air Force. Air Power for Peace. AAF Day—1 August 1947. (Tokyo: Kyodo Printing, 1947.)<br /><br />Commercial Iron Works. Commemorating the Delivery to the U.S. Navy of Our 100th Vessel. Portland, 1944. <br /><br />City of Los Angeles. Home Recreation in Wartime. LA: Dept. of Playground and Recreation, ca. 1942? <br /><br />Sheridan, Sol N. (words) and A. Nelson Adams(music). Beside the Pasig River. Written and composed in the Palace of Malagañan, Manila, after the American Occupation. Manila: Camelo & Bauerman, (1898).<br /><br />Lunkley, Violet E. Hurray for the Heroes of the Sea. Dedicated to the Navy Boys. Words and Music by…. San Francisco: Gallur, (1914).<br /><br />Central California Veterans’ Reunion Association. Popular Patriotic Songs. San Jose: Frank M. Eley, 189-?.<br /><br />Watson, Pond & Riddle. California. A catalogue of country and land property for the investor and homeseeker. San Francisco [1909].<br /><br />Turlock Land Co. Turlock, California. Turlock Irrigation District. (San Francisco: Western Folder Co., ca. 1910.)<br /><br />Covina Chamber of Commerce. Covina, An Orchard Paradise in San Gabriel Valley, Los Angeles County, California. (Covina Argus Press, 1928?)<br /><br />Chamber of Commerce. Fresno County, California. Fresno: Evening Democrat Print, ca. 1905.<br /><br />Alan T. Tarbell Corp. The Building of an Empire: Crescent City, California. [Los Angeles, 1929.]<br /><br />North Western—Union Pacific.Introducing—The Streamliner, City of Los Angeles. Omaha:<br />Medlar, 1936.<br /><br />Jimmie Rodgers Memorial Celebration,National Country Music Day. Official Program. Meridian,MS, 1954.<br /><br />Southern Pacific. California Festival Year 1925. [San Francisco? 1925.]<br /><br />My Partner Souvenir. Boston: Forbes Co., [1880].Benhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13388770049218911708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3691230204400765766.post-81282056233724840212010-09-21T13:25:00.000-07:002010-09-23T14:16:49.869-07:00Great Migration primary source collectionsIsabel Wilkerson's excellent new book, <a href="http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/8708629">The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration</a>, has garnered a great deal of <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2010/09/06/100906crbo_books_lepore">press</a> in recent weeks. <br /><br />Researchers wishing to examine a wealth of primary source material on the living and working conditions of African-Americans in this era might want to take a look at a fascinating microfilm collection titled <a href="http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/1597928">"Black Workers in the Era of the Great Migration, 1916-1929,"</a> housed in Green Library's Media-Microtext. Edited by by <a href="http://www.newberry.org/media/JGrossmanBio.html">James Grossman</a>, the set compiles records from various Federal agencies and departments--ranging from the U.S. Coal Commission and Bureau of Employment Security to the U.S. Children's Bureau and Bureau of Agricultural Economics. A <a href="http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/1189488">guide</a> is also available, with a short introductory essay.<br /><br />Additionally, as David Oshinsky noted in the opening paragraph of his <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/05/books/review/Oshinsky-t.html">review</a> of Wilkerson's book, the <span style="font-style:italic;">Chicago Defender</span> is another invaluable primary source of the African-American migration out of the South. Stanford researchers can access the full-text archive of the <span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/35640">Chicago Defender</a></span>, a title in the ProQuest Historical Newspaper series.Benhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13388770049218911708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3691230204400765766.post-64926382307345113812010-08-16T14:09:00.000-07:002010-08-25T08:54:46.213-07:00Historical Census Browser and City and County Data Books--UVA LibrariesFollowing up on last month's post regarding the Newberry Library's Atlas of Historical County Boundaries, I wanted to blog about two exceptional resources provided by the UVA Libraries: Historical Census Browser and County and City Data Books. <br /><br />Sponsored by the Scholars' Lab at the UVA Library, the <a href="http://mapserver.lib.virginia.edu">Historical Census Browser</a> is one tool in a suite of offerings provided by Spatial and Statistical Data and Services. Drawn from historical volumes of the U.S. Census of Population and Housing, the census browser enables users to "examine state and county topics for individual census years, examine state and county topics over time," and "generate maps of selected data." <br /><br />Focusing on the mid-late 20th century (1944-2000), the <a href="http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/ccdb/">County and City Data Books database</a> provides a wealth of data on local governments, economies, and populations. As the site notes, "The data presented here for the 1944-1983 editions was obtained through ICPSR, the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research. The 1944-77 data for cities came from study #7735 and the 1947-77 data for counties and states came from study #7736. Data for all levels of the 1983 edition came from study #8256."Benhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13388770049218911708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3691230204400765766.post-30488178309024332362010-08-16T11:01:00.000-07:002010-08-25T08:50:59.990-07:00New African-American historical newspapersAdding to Stanford's holdings of African-American newspapers in the ProQuest Historical Newspaper series, the library has recently acquired two new titles: The Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2005) and the Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002, excludes 1913-1921). Both newspapers are full-text searchable, as well as cross-searchable with other titles in the ProQuest Historical Newspapers line. Both are available on the library's <a href="http://library.stanford.edu/sulapp/databases/index.jsp">databases and articles page</a>.Benhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13388770049218911708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3691230204400765766.post-40463264218715793592010-07-20T13:42:00.000-07:002010-07-20T13:45:00.882-07:00Digital Atlas of Historical County boundaries project--Newberry LibraryWith an increasing interest in spatial history, the Newberry Library's announcement of the completion of its <a href="http://publications.newberry.org/ahcbp">Digital Atlas of Historical County Boundaries</a> comes as welcome news. <br /><br />From the Newberry's press release: <br /><br />The Newberry Library is pleased to announce the completion and release of its Digital Atlas of Historical County Boundaries, a dataset that covers every day-to-day change in the size, shape, location, name, organization, and attachment of each U.S. county and state from the creation of the first county in 1634 through 2000.<br /><br />Nearly every aspect of American life can be described, analyzed, and illuminated through data gathered and organized by county or available in county records, and knowing how and when boundaries changed is often the key to finding and understanding great quantities of historical data. For example, a farm may have been in one family for many generations, but over the decades changes in county lines may have effectively moved that farm from one county to another. When looking for old family records, how does the modern genealogist know which county seat will hold great-grandmother’s marriage certificate? How does an attorney know which county seat recorded the deed to great-great-grandfather’s farm?<br /><br />In addition, population figures are commonly aggregated at the county level, but comparing statistics from one enumeration to the next may not accurately reveal actual change. Was a change in the figures from census to census due to population movement or to a change in the boundaries of the reporting counties, or to a combination of both?<br /><br />With the Newberry’s Atlas of Historical County Boundaries, genealogists, geographers, historians, political scientists, attorneys, demographers, and many more now can find accurate county data that will greatly assist them in their research.<br /><br />The data are organized by state and are available online in four versions:<br /><br />* Viewable, interactive maps (electronic analogues to printed maps) on which the historical lines have been plotted against a background of the modern county network<br /><br />* Downloadable shapefiles for use in geographic information systems (GIS)<br /><br />* Downloadable KMZ files for use with Google Earth<br /><br />* Downloadable and printable PDF files (each full-page frame shows a map of a different version of each county, with the historical boundaries displayed against a background of the modern county network)<br /><br />Supplementing the polygons and maps for each state are chronologies, commentary on historical problems, long and short metadata documents, and a bibliography.<br /><br />The project began in 1988, with principal funding provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities, an independent federal agency. Additional support came from the Newberry Library, which also served as headquarters, and from other foundations and individuals. The Newberry Library is the copyright holder; all files of the Digital Atlas of Historical County Boundaries are free for use under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 Creative Commons License. Queries should be addressed to scholl@newberry.org.Benhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13388770049218911708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3691230204400765766.post-79620824425858179802010-06-10T12:56:00.000-07:002010-07-20T13:36:19.707-07:00Database updatesThe <a href="http://library.stanford.edu/searchcat?ckey=6633881">Oxford African American Studies Center</a> and the <a href="http://library.stanford.edu/searchcat?ckey=4396239">American National Biography</a>, two databases useful to American historians, have both added new content in the last several months. <br /><br />From the publishers' releases: <br /><br />For the April 2010 update, the editors of Oxford African American Studies Center have added a group of 25 new primary source documents with accompanying commentary, highlighting the Harlem Renaissance. These fascinating documents include the first excerpt available online from social critic George Schuyler's Black No More, the first book-length satire by an African American. Among other exciting additions are an excerpt from the novel Infants of the Spring by Wallace Thurman, editor of the seminal Harlem literary journal <span style="font-style:italic;">Fire!</span> that published works by such Harlem Renaissance authors as Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes, as well as the Zora Neale Hurston short story Spunk. <br /><br />This month's update also includes 100 new online-only biographies from the African American National Biography. These brand new entries are only available through the Oxford African American Studies Center.<br /><br />American National Biography<br /><br />This latest online release adds 27 entries to American National Biography Online, covering a period of over 300 years. One of the earlier entries looks at the life of Jared Ingersoll, a signatory of the U.S. constitution, which sought to speak for "the People of the United States." Other subjects included in this update spoke on behalf of a different people, in a different way. Métis leader Gabriel Dumont sought redress for the grievances of his people with petitions, delegations and rebellion, while Native American Alex Posey later gave accounts of his own culture in his journalism and poetry. Ernest Hogan played a major role in bringing African American musical styles to Broadway in a career that spanned minstrelsy, vaudeville, and musical theater. Butterfly McQueen made a name for African American women in cinema with roles in such iconic films as <span style="font-style:italic;">Gone with the Wind</span> and <span style="font-style:italic;">Mildred Pierce</span>.<br /><br />In addition, many of the later lives in this release shaped, or were shaped by, the civil rights movement. Daisy Bates made a stand against segregated education when she guided the Little Rock Nine to their places in the classroom, but the issue of segregated education remained, and both educator Terrel H. Bell and federal judge W. Arthur Garrity became involved in controversial attempts to integrate school pupils through programs of "cross-busing." Support for the civil rights movement came from many quarters, from activists and speakers like Betty Shabazz, to academics like Robert Wiebe.Benhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13388770049218911708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3691230204400765766.post-61164225438108114492010-05-17T14:43:00.000-07:002010-05-17T14:59:29.552-07:00Americana--Recent acquisitions, antiquarian and ephemera<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd8ePXp7yrm_BhFSnc4tH1iH8d6HZYRvbRjW_6syBFi3_m_pXhTvSy0URo46IMlM_lDjEJjfT9jm06Fx1_O0wWZyToyeKqXWAz-MbFrOXg2UEJ-R0cOWivnfcro4onJUcpZZo08mnQeas/s1600/img013.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 226px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd8ePXp7yrm_BhFSnc4tH1iH8d6HZYRvbRjW_6syBFi3_m_pXhTvSy0URo46IMlM_lDjEJjfT9jm06Fx1_O0wWZyToyeKqXWAz-MbFrOXg2UEJ-R0cOWivnfcro4onJUcpZZo08mnQeas/s320/img013.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5472358218268315970" /></a><br /><br />Green, Ben. E. (Benjamin Edwards), 1822-1907. The irrepressible conflict between labor and capital : a brief summary of some of the chief causes and results of the late Civil War in the United States, as presented in the translator's preface to Adolphe Granier de Cassagnac's History of the working and burgher classes, in which the origin, nature and objects of the much calumniated French Commune are historically explained. Philadelphia : Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1872 (Philadelphia : J. Fagan & Son)<br /><br />French, L. H. (Leigh Hill), 1863- Seward's land of gold; five seasons experience with the gold seekers in northwestern Alaska, by L.H. French ... New York, Montross, Clarke & Emmons [1905?]<br /><br />Grinnell, Joseph, 1877-1939. Gold hunting in Alaska as told by Joseph Grinnell. Ed. by Elizabeth Grinnell. Elgin, Ill., Chicago, David C. Cook Pub. Co. [c1901] <br /><br />Howitt, William, 1792-1879. Land, labor and gold; or, Two years in Victoria : with visits to Sydney and Van Diemen's Land. By William Howitt. Boston, Ticknor and Fields, 1855. <br /><br />McDermott, Walter. Losses in gold amalgamation / by Walter McDermott and P.W. Duffield. London, 1890. <br /><br />Williams, Henry T. The Pacific Tourist...second edition. New York: Henry T. Williams, 1877<br /><br />Stearns, John M. (John Milton), 1810-1898. The rights of man, the true basis of reconstruction : an address delivered at North Springfield, Vermont, July the fourth, 1866 / by John M. Stearns. Williamsburgh, N.Y. : Printed by L. Darbee & Son, 1866. <br /><br />Collins, Mary C. (Mary Clementine), 1847-1920. Indian children of the prairie. New York : American Missionary Association, 19??<br /><br />Days of '76 : souvenir program, August 8-9-10, 1929, Deadwood, S.D. : it's wild, it's Western, it's real! / [staged under auspices of the Deadwood Chamber of Commerce]. Sixth Annual "Days of '76" [Deadwood, S.D.] : Deadwood Chamber of Commerce, [1929]Benhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13388770049218911708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3691230204400765766.post-72945929992401178302010-04-07T15:00:00.001-07:002010-04-15T10:09:56.944-07:00U.B. Phillips, David M. Potter, and Southern history in the Stanford Library<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjEZspzBZGicq5dvnLq2xZWuVVaEAu-w7FJLEgGf_gL0R46iF4zDKyBaXyyq-QenZ3lYRxlLL1bOnZvr7OUis7ATVT_7MyZkzz2ZbWJnrer64Bbr5tgdl_On4js2Te6L_uqX-U7ZcrOS8/s1600/img011.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 289px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjEZspzBZGicq5dvnLq2xZWuVVaEAu-w7FJLEgGf_gL0R46iF4zDKyBaXyyq-QenZ3lYRxlLL1bOnZvr7OUis7ATVT_7MyZkzz2ZbWJnrer64Bbr5tgdl_On4js2Te6L_uqX-U7ZcrOS8/s320/img011.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457519853085997170" /></a><br />In the process of reviewing titles in the library's American History collection, I've discovered a number of 19th century imprints which once belonged to Stanford historian <a href="http://tinyurl.com/y28f42f">David M. Potter</a>, and which he had acquired from his Yale dissertation advisor, <a href="http://tinyurl.com/yf9nvv9">Ulrich B. Phillips</a>. <br /><br />A wonderful example of these association copies is Frances Butler Leigh's 1883 memoir, Ten Years on a Georgia Plantation Since the War (London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1883), which Phillips cited at length in his classic 1929 study Life and Labor in the Old South. Additionally, it was inscribed by the author(daughter of memoirist and actress Fanny Kemble), and member of a prominent plantation owning <a href="http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-617">family</a> of Georgia and South Carolina.<br /><br />David Potter's <a href="http://library.stanford.edu/searchcat?ckey=4085205">papers</a> are housed in the Department of Special Collections in Green Library.Benhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13388770049218911708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3691230204400765766.post-5058343317928523482010-03-18T12:59:00.000-07:002010-03-18T13:35:59.838-07:00Americana--Recent Acquisitions; antiquarian and ephemera<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGdq7HnI-Pdc8_ibdKZfr6VzZKvVrx8-hd7_8YoRjAqVYiRYYpcFsFubxY-2Y-o921uNd_nrH_0L6o8ZClW8v3pkJLsGArhTUwdlVI4yV1mOHXmgM8JBvg5AxXa2AzEFLCDTJPLxHaWCE/s1600-h/img005.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 243px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGdq7HnI-Pdc8_ibdKZfr6VzZKvVrx8-hd7_8YoRjAqVYiRYYpcFsFubxY-2Y-o921uNd_nrH_0L6o8ZClW8v3pkJLsGArhTUwdlVI4yV1mOHXmgM8JBvg5AxXa2AzEFLCDTJPLxHaWCE/s320/img005.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450066948984240834" /></a><br /><br />The Tunnels and water system of Chicago: under the lake and under the river / illustrated by Wallis. Chicago: J.M. Wing, 1874. <br /><br />American Methodist Mission (India). Lucknow Station. First local report of the Lucknow Station of the American Methodist Mission in Rohilkund and Western ... Bareilly : Printed at the American Methodist Mission Press, 1861. <br /><br />American Methodist Mission (India). Lucknow Station. Second local report of the Lucknow Station of the American Methodist Mission in India. Bareilly: Printed at the American Methodist Mission Press, 1862. <br /><br />Tindley, E. T. The prince of colored preachers: the remarkable story of Charles Albert Tindley of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Flint, MI : Schultz Printing Co., c1942. <br /><br />Fisher, Samuel J. Adventuring in brotherhood among the Negroes. New York : Board of National Missions of the Presbyterian Church, [1930?] <br /><br />Butler, Jessie Allison. Humor in the dark; Coastal Carolina Negroes file applications with the F.E.R.A. [South Carolina]: J.A. Butler, c1935. <br /><br />Rudd, Dan. A. (Daniel Arthur), b. 1854. From slavery to wealth, the life of Scott Bond; the rewards of honesty, industry, economy and perseverance, by Dan A. Rudd and Theo. Bond; with preface by Hon. J. C. Napier ... Madison, Ark., The Journal printing company, 1917. <br /><br />Lapin, Eva. Mothers in overalls. [New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1943] <br /><br />Langdon, Emma F. (Emma Florence), b. 1874. The Cripple Creek strike : a history of industrial wars in Colorado, 1903-4-5 ; being a complete and concise history of the efforts of organized capital to crush unionism. Denver: Great Western Pub. Co., 1904-5. <br /><br />Kerr, May Walden. Socialism and the home. Chicago : Charles H. Kerr, [190-?] <br /><br />Harford, Robert L. An itinerant's portfolio: sermons, lectures, and miscellany / by Rev. R.L. Harford. San Francisco: H.G. Parsons, 1885. <br /><br />Pepper, George W. Personal Recollections of Sherman's Campaigns in Georgia and the Carolinas. Zanesville, OH, 1866. <br /><br />Pepper, George W[hitfield] Under Three Flags; or the story of my life as a Preacher....Cincinnati, OH: Printed for the Author by Curts and Jennings, 1899. <br /><br />Pollard, Edward A. Observations in the North: Eight Months in Prison and on Parole. Richmond: E.W. Ayres, 1865. <br /><br />Shaffner, Tal. P. (Taliaferro Preston). The war in America: being an historical and political account of the southern and northern states: showing the origin and cause of the present secession war. With a large map of the United States, engraved on steel. By Colonel Tal. P. Shaffner ... London, Hamilton, Adams [1862] <br /><br />Smith, George Washington, 1855-1945. When Lincoln came to Egypt. Herrin, Ill. : Trovillion Private Press, c1940. <br /><br />Spencer, Cornelia Phillips. The Last Ninety Days of the War in North Carolina. New York: Watchman Publishing, 1866. <br /><br />Tanner, W[illiam] R. Reminiscences of the War Between the States [Cowpens, SC], 2nd ed., 1931. <br /><br />[1893 Chicago] Curtis, William Eleroy. The Relics of Columbus. An Illustrated description of the Historical Collection in the Monastery of La Rabida. Washington, D.C.: Lowdermilk, 1893? <br /><br />[1893 Chicago] Markham, H.H. Resources of California. Sacramento: Johnston, 1893.<br /><br />[1893 Chicago] Van Deventer, Emma. Against All Odds: A Romance of the Midway Plaisance, by Lawrence L. Lynch, (pseudo.). Chicago and NY: Rand, McNally, [1894].<br /><br />[1909 Seattle] Northern Pacific Railway. Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition. Seattle June 1 to October 16, 1909 (Chicago, 1909). <br /><br />[1915 San Francisco] Taylor, Edward R. Being a Souvenir of the eleventh annual Convention of the National Association of Stationers and Manufacturers, held at the Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco, California. September 27-30, 1915. [SF: Crocker, 1915].<br /><br />[1915 San Francisco] Union Pacific. California and the Expositions. Yellowstone Park. How to Go and What to See Enroute Union Pacific. Omaha: 1914. <br /><br />[1933 Chicago] Farmers National Grain Corp. Co-operative grain marketing. Century of Progress Exhibit. Chicago: Neeling Printing Co, 1933.<br /><br />[1936 Dallas] Gulf Oil. The Voice of the Texas Centennial. The Behind the Scenes Story of the Gulf Centennial Network. (N.P., 1936)<br /><br />[1936 Dallas] Official Souvenir View Book. Texas Centennial Exposition, Dallas, 1936. Dallas: Lithograph-Arts, 1936.<br /><br />[1939 Golden Gate] Bardell, J.C. Bardell Panorama of Bridges and Exposition, San Francisco-Oakland California, 1939. (SF, 1939)Benhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13388770049218911708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3691230204400765766.post-73149287074440867822010-02-16T11:25:00.000-08:002010-02-16T11:30:04.061-08:00San Francisco Bay Area Television ArchiveThe J. Paul Leonard Library at San Francisco State University maintains an excellent moving image collection, the San Francisco Bay Area Television Archive. According to the collection's <a href="http://www.library.sfsu.edu/about/collections/sfbatv/index.php">website</a>:<br /><br />"Established in 1982 by curator Helene Whitson, this is a unique moving image collection that chronicles sixty landmark years of social history and cultural revolution in the San Francisco Bay Area. Over 4000 hours of local newsfilm, documentaries and other video programs have been donated to the J. Paul Leonard Library by broadcasting organizations, production companies and private individuals, to be preserved as an academic resource.<br /><br />A long-term, project has begun to digitally remaster and make available online all of the TV Archive's film & video material. The footage is being hosted on a searchable collections page within SF State's digital virtual information archive (DIVA)."<br /><br />Especially rich is the KQED collection, examples of which can be viewed online. It's well worth checking out.Benhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13388770049218911708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3691230204400765766.post-78696886318168553572010-02-09T11:06:00.001-08:002010-03-18T13:36:34.905-07:00Americana; recent acquisitions--antiquarian and ephemera<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglOdRyZnUY1rirjh5Bwrsxe0EySwim3Yf1AgL-T6BSbyCobELFcaYR53CZeoMBYZTzc54j47Ss2ayqMfsX4NhB9F2oXeIjUGDXyLkex0u29EcckTAdDdQHceszfUY1cP4EfYG-CkIa7K8/s1600-h/img003.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 238px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglOdRyZnUY1rirjh5Bwrsxe0EySwim3Yf1AgL-T6BSbyCobELFcaYR53CZeoMBYZTzc54j47Ss2ayqMfsX4NhB9F2oXeIjUGDXyLkex0u29EcckTAdDdQHceszfUY1cP4EfYG-CkIa7K8/s320/img003.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5436322282699105570" /></a><br /><br />Macdonald, James, 1852-1913. Food from the far West Or, American agriculture : with special reference to beef production and importation of dead meat from America to Great Britain. New York: Orange Judd, [1878].<br /><br />Coleman, J. Winston. The Beauchamp-Sharp tragedy; an episode of Kentucky history during the middle 1820's. Frankfort, Ky.: Roberts Print. Co., 1950. <br /><br />Tice, John H. Over the plains, on the mountains; or, Kansas, Colorado, and the Rocky mountains; agriculturally, mineralogically and aesthetically described / By John H. Tice ... St. Louis, Mo.: Printed by the "Industrial Age" Print. Co., 1872. <br /><br />Miller, Kelly, 1863-1939.The Negro in the new reconstruction. Washington, D.C.: Howard University, 1919.Benhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13388770049218911708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3691230204400765766.post-28231598006675745512010-01-04T12:49:00.000-08:002010-01-05T15:48:49.967-08:00Americana; recent acquisitions--antiquarian and ephemera<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUUNlZCAl69QBhDRFI7y1un6Amxa-B6Aas1r0L3frnnLkm0bZUbNP4jn0ElyZcMTVWuIYhsdwb7vP79qt_AkZUvKTvLpJLldi6xVoMWzUPo4oBiWX9Rac-UChPGMeotRzZ04XSyjLKspE/s1600-h/img002.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 220px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUUNlZCAl69QBhDRFI7y1un6Amxa-B6Aas1r0L3frnnLkm0bZUbNP4jn0ElyZcMTVWuIYhsdwb7vP79qt_AkZUvKTvLpJLldi6xVoMWzUPo4oBiWX9Rac-UChPGMeotRzZ04XSyjLKspE/s320/img002.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5422989934203570226" /></a><br /><br />Colton, J. H. (Joseph Hutchins), 1800-1893. Colton's traveler and tourist's guide-book through the western states and territories, containing brief descriptions of each, with the routes and distances on the great lines of travel. Accompanied by a map, exhibiting the township lines of the U.S. surveys, the boundaries of counties, position of cities, villages, settlements, etc. New York: J.H. Colton and Co., 1856. <br /><br />Russell, William Howard. Skedaddle. London: George Vickers,1865.<br /><br />Nichols, George Ward, 1837-1885. The sanctuary: a story of the civil war. New York, Harper & Bros., 1866.<br /><br />Mosby, John Singleton, 1833-1916. Mosby's war reminiscences and Stuart's cavalry campaigns. By John S. Mosby. Boston, G.A. Jones & Co., 1887. <br /><br />Claudet, F. G. (Francis George), 1837-1906. Gold: its properties, modes of extraction, value, &c., &c. / with an introduction by Neal Harlow. Vancouver : Robert Reid & Takao Tanabe, 1958. Note: Originally published New Westminster, B.C.: Office of the "Mainland Guardian", 1871. <br /><br />Hall, B. M. (Barnes M.), 1803-1886. The life of Rev. John Clark / by Rev. B.M. Hall; with an introduction by Bishop Morris. New York: Carlton & Porter, 1857. <br /><br />Oliver, James. A voice from the people. [Washington, D.C.? : s.n., not before 1877] <br /><br />Murray, W. H. H. (William Henry Harrison), 1840-1904. Continental unity: an address delivered in Music Hall, Boston, by invitation of prominent citizens, December 13, 1888. Boston: C.W. Calkins, 1888. <br /><br />O'Byrne, John. "Pikes Peak or bust", and historical sketches of the wild West. Colorado Springs, 1922. <br /><br />Peck, John Mason, 1789-1858. "Father Clark," or, The pioneer preacher : sketches and incidents of Rev. John Clark / by an old pioneer. New York: Sheldon, Lamport & Blakeman, 1855. <br /><br />Doggett, D. S. (David Seth), 1810-1880. bp., Memorial discourse, on occasion of the death of Bishop John Early, D.D. delivered before the Va. conference, December 2nd, 1873, during its session in the city of Norfolk, Va. Pub. by request of the Conference. Richmond, J.W. Fergusson & Son, 1875. <br /><br />Hunt, Samuel Furman, 1844-1907. Conscience in public life. An address delivered before the Washington and Jefferson Literary Societies of the University of Virginia, on commencement day, Thursday, July 3, 1879, by Samuel F. Hunt. Charlottesville, Chronicle Steam Book and Job Print. House, 1880.<br /><br />Lilley, Kader. My life and experience, [by] Kader Lilley. [Williamston, N.C., n.p., 1903] <br /><br />Stuart, Alexander H. H. (Alexander Hugh Holmes), 1807-1891. A narrative of the leading incidents of the organization of the first popular movement in Virginia in 1865 to re-establish peaceful relations between the northern and southern states, and the subsequent efforts of the "Committee of nine," in 1869, to secure the restoration of Virginia to the Union, by Alex. H.H. Stuart. Richmond, Va., W. E. Jones, printer, 1888. <br /><br />Keifer, Joseph Warren, 1836-1932. A forgotten battle: Sailor's Creek, April 6, 1865, by J. Warren Keifer. [Cincinnati, 1888]Benhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13388770049218911708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3691230204400765766.post-23386392938503933352009-12-17T10:11:00.000-08:002009-12-17T10:27:55.178-08:00Americana; recent acquisitions---antiquarian and ephemeraBuchwach, Buck. Hawaii, U.S.A.: communist beachhead or showcase for Americanism? Honolulu: Hawaii Statehood Commission, 1957. <br /><br />Hall, Edward Henry. An Indignity to our Citizen Soldiers. A Sermon Preached in the First Parish Church, Cambridge, June 1, 1890. Cambridge: John Wilson and Son, 1890.<br /><br />Livermore, Leonard Jarvis. Perseverance in the War, the Interest and Duty of the Nation. A Sermon, Preached in the Church of the First Parish, Lexington, Sunday, September 11, 1864. Boston: Press of T.R. Marvin and Son, 1864. <br /><br />[Sweetser, Seth]. The Strength of the Battle. A Discourse Delivered in the Central Church, Worcester, on the Occasion of the National Fast, Thursday, Sept. 26, 1861. By the Pastor of the Church. Worcester: Printed at the Transcript Office, 1861.<br /><br />Hoitt, Ira G. Pacific Coast Guide and Programme of the Knights Templar Triennial Conclave at San Francisco, August, 1883. San Francisco: [The Author]: 1883.<br /><br />Hooper, Edward James. Hooper's Western Fruit Book: A Compendious Collection of Facts, from the Notes and Experience of Successful Fruit Culturists Arranged for Practical Use in the Orchard and Garden. Cincinnati: Moore, Wilstach, Keys, & Co., 1857.<br /><br />Southern Pacific Sunset Route. Ten Texas Topics by Texas Tillers and Toilers. Houston: [The Company]; Passenger Department, ca. 1900s.<br /><br />Official Guide to the Tennessee Centennial and City of Nashville. Nashville: Marshall and Bruce, 1897.<br /><br />Blair, Lewis H. The Prosperity of the South Dependent on the Negro. Richmond: E Waddey, 1889.<br /><br />Papers relating to the Garrison mob / edited by Theodore Lyman, 3d. Cambridge [Mass.]: Welch, Bigelow, and Co., printers to the university, 1870. <br /><br />Stuart, Charles, 1783?-1865. A memoir of Granville Sharp, to which is added Sharp's Law of passive obedience, and an extract from his Law of retribution. New York, American Anti-Slavery Society, 1836. <br /><br />Moffat, James. R. Memoirs of an Old-Timer: Rhyolite, Nevada, 1906-1907. N.P. 1966.<br /><br />Drake, St. Clair. The Negro veteran and the church. Washington, United Negro and Allied Veterans of America, 1946. <br /><br />Clayton, Ed, ed. The SCLC story. Atlanta, The Southern Christian Leadership Conference, 1964.Benhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13388770049218911708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3691230204400765766.post-19445488905458252642009-12-16T11:02:00.000-08:002009-12-16T11:17:25.204-08:00McGeorge Bundy MemosEarlier this fall, before President Obama's announcement of a new strategy in Afghanistan, NYT op-ed columnist Frank Rich discussed Gordon Goldstein's 2008 book <a href="http://library.stanford.edu/searchcat?ckey=7765401">Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam</a> in a piece titled <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/27/opinion/27rich.html">"Obama at the Precipice"</a><br /><br />Researchers looking to further analyze McGeorge Bundy's role as Special Assistant for National Security Affaris (a post now known as national security adviser) during the early years of Johnson's presidency can turn to a <a href="http://library.stanford.edu/searchcat?ckey=524943">microform set</a> in Green Library--Memos of the Special Assistant for National Security Affairs: McGeorge Bundy to President Johnson, 1963-1966. Microfilmed from holdings at the Lyndon B. Johnson Library, the set has also has a printed <a href="http://library.stanford.edu/searchcat?ckey=592953">guide</a>, available in Media-Microtext and the SSRC.Benhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13388770049218911708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3691230204400765766.post-19830484082310963432009-12-16T10:10:00.001-08:002009-12-16T10:17:12.623-08:00The Documentary History of the Ratification Constitution online; Rotunda PressIn partnership with Crown Law Library, SULAIR has recently acquired the online version of <a href="http://library.stanford.edu/searchcat?ckey=1460753">The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Consitution</a>. <br /><br />Published by Rotunda Press, the digital publishing division of the University of Virginia Press, "this landmark work in historical and legal scholarship draws upon thousands of sources to trace the Constitution’s progress through each of the thirteen states’ conventions. The digital edition allows users to search the complete contents by date, title, author, recipient, or state affiliation and preserves the copious annotations of the print edition."Benhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13388770049218911708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3691230204400765766.post-14152454646112445952009-12-14T13:47:00.000-08:002009-12-14T13:51:18.542-08:00Library of Congress--State Digital Resources: Memory Projects, Online Encyclopedias, Historical & Cultural Materials CollectionsThe Library of Congress has posted a helpful <a href="http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/statememory">webpage</a> listing a variety of digital history resources produced by States, including multi-state collaborations. <br /><br />Compiled by Christine A. Pruzin, it's well worth bookmarking.Benhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13388770049218911708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3691230204400765766.post-88748454027144324442009-12-10T08:57:00.000-08:002009-12-10T09:10:25.397-08:00Papers of Dwight D. Eisenhower, digital editionScholars of World War II and the Cold War have often made use of the exemplary <a href="http://library.stanford.edu/searchcat?ckey=315057">print edition</a> of Dwight D. Eisenhower's Papers, published by Johns Hopkins University Press. JHU Press has also created an <a href="http://library.stanford.edu/searchcat?ckey=8376327">electronic edition</a> of the Eisenhower Papers, which the Stanford Libraries have recently purchased. <br /><br />The online edition contains the entire 21-volumes of The Papers of Dwight D. Eisenhower including significant letters, memoranda, cables, and directives written or dictated by Eisenhower from the years prior to World War II through the full term of his presidency. This massive collection includes documents—many of them previously classified—from private collections and public archives in the U.S. and U.K., as well as papers from the Eisenhower Presidential Library.Benhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13388770049218911708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3691230204400765766.post-40680625663144992052009-12-10T08:51:00.000-08:002009-12-10T08:56:14.454-08:00The Lazy Scholar; A Not-Quite-Daily Guide to the Digital ArchiveStephen Vider, a graduate student in the History of American Civilization at Harvard, has created an excellent blog called <a href="http://thelazyscholar.com">The Lazy Scholar</a>; a "not-quite-daily guide to digital archives in American history, literature, and culture."<br /><br />As Vider notes, "every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, The Lazy<br />Scholar provides a lively description of a single online<br />resource--ranging from art and music to film and literature, 18th<br />century to the present. Some recent posts have covered topics like<br />Disability Studies, the Gay Liberation Movement, Lincoln memorabilia, and much more." It's well-written and well worth checking out.Benhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13388770049218911708noreply@blogger.com