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This database focuses on newspapers first published before the Civil War, but includes the Philadelphia Inquirer (1860-1900), Philadelphia Public Ledger (1836-1876) and Philadelphia North American (1839-1879), the New York Herald (-1874), Macon Telegraph (-1900), and a wide range of other mid- to late-nineteenth century newspapers.
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Penn has access to Early American Newspapers sections 1 and 2. Sections 3-7 as well as Hispanic American Newspapers are available onsite at Temple University's Paley Library. Note that it sections 4-7 many newspapers are still forthcoming and so can't be viewed yet.
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List of newspaper digitization projects available freely online. Extensive newspaper collections available for Colorado, Utah and Wyoming. Good coverage also available for Georgia, New York, Pennsylvania, and other states.
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Multi-database search interface that allows for simultaneous searching of the New York Times (1851-) and Los Angeles Times (1881-). The Washington Post (1877-) is available onsite at Temple's Paley Library.
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African American Newspapers: the Nineteenth Century, which includes The National Era, Washington, D.C. (January 7, 1847 - March 12, 1860), and the Philadelphia Christian Recorder (1861-1902).
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Documents on the arguments for and against slavery during the 17th-19th centuries, the worldwide Abolitionist movement and its internal debates, perspectives on colonization, slavery and the US Constitution, the changing world of African Americans in the American South.
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Includes digitized images of the pages of 1,100 American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century. Use the keyword search of the "Search for Periodicals" option to look for periodicals aligned with or against particular parties.
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Harper's Weekly from 1857-1912. An enormously important and influential political magazine with national circulation. Excellent interface for searching and retrieval.
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Contains hearings and reports of the Elections Committee as well as other hearings and congressional records from 1800-1900.
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The Congressional Record and preceeding publications that provide transcripts of discussions in Congress covering the period from 1789-1943 and 1971-present. Includes the Daily Record from 1994-2008.
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More than 17,000 digitized items. While the broadside format represents the bulk of the collection, there are a significant number of leaflets and some pamphlets. Rich in variety, the collection includes proclamations, advertisements, blank forms, programs, election tickets, catalogs, clippings, timetables, and menus. They capture the everyday activities of ordinary people who participated in the events of nation-building and experienced the growth of the nation from the American Revolution through the Industrial Revolution up to present day.
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Pop up blockers must be disabled to use database. "The collection consists of published material, ephemera, and artifacts dating to between 1800 and 1976, including ballots and slates of candidates; promotional broadsides, handbills, and posters; political cartoons (primarily from Harper's Weekly, Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, and Puck); lithographs and prints (primarily by Kellogg, N. Currier, and Currier & Ives); pamphlets, leaflets, and brochures; songbooks and sheet music; badges, pins, ferrotypes and celluloid buttons; campaign ribbons; parade equipment such as lanterns, torches, banners, and walking sticks; bandanas and other textiles; and souvenirs of all kinds including plates, cups, vases, trays, bottles, sewing boxes, and games."
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Treatises on American and British law, 1800-1926
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19th century session laws are available for the United States, California, New York and Pennsylvania.
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Republican stronghold in Philadelphia since the 1860s.
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Call#: Van Pelt Library PN4855 .M63 1950
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Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection
Numbering over 10,000 titles, May's pamphlets and leaflets document the anti-slavery struggle at the local, regional, and national levels. Much of the May Anti-Slavery Collection was considered ephemeral or fugitive, and today many of these pamphlets are scarce. Sermons, position papers, offprints, local Anti-Slavery Society newsletters, poetry anthologies, freedmen's testimonies, broadsides, and Anti-Slavery Fair keepsakes all document the social and political implications of the abolitionist movement.
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