HIST 101: America to World War I

Guides to over 20,000 collections housed in 200 libraries, archives, historical societies, special collections and museums across California are searchable at the  Online Archive of California (OAC). Analogous to catalog records for books, collection guides (also known as finding aids) are the descriptive records used to find, understand, and locate archival resources and unique materials. They help users learn more about the scope of a collection so they know if it is likely to meet their research needs.

Digitized versions of photographs, documents, newspapers, political cartoons, works of art, diaries, transcribed oral histories, and other cultural artifacts that are contributed by these California institutions to the OAC make up the content included in Calisphere.

These two websites exist because they serve two very different user needs. For research-oriented users who want to go beyond what is available online and locate the actual, physical item, the OAC is the best starting point. For users whose primary interest is to view digitized images and documents, Calisphere is a place to explore online content. In addition, Calisphere provides K-12 educators with a subset of content organized and aligned with California Content Standards.

[Content adapted from CDL's Digital Special Collections.]

This is a small sampling of digital collections available from the Library. For a complete list, go to Archival Collections and Primary Source Databases.

• 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire Digital Collection
  A compilation of selected holdings form collections housed in the archives and special collections of The Bancroft Library and five other California institutions. Includes approximately 14,000 images and 7,000 pages of text. A finding aid to the collection is also available through an Online Archive of California guide.
  
• Chinese in California, 1850-1925
  Illustrates nineteenth and early twentieth century Chinese immigration to California through about 8,000 images and pages of primary source materials.
  
• 19th Century U.S. Newspapers
  Images of both full pages and clipped articles for hundreds of 19th century U.S. newspapers. For each issue, the newspaper is captured from cover-to-cover, providing access to every article, advertisement and illustration.
  
• Accessible Archives
  Provides access to the Pennsylvania Gazette (1728-1800), the paper called 'The New York Times of the 18th Century', Godey's Lady's Book (1830-1898), the Philadelphia magazine intended to entertain, inform and educate the women of America, and a collection of Philadephia papers. Offers social, political and cultural perspectives of colonial America, the American Revolution, and the New Republic.
  
• North American Women's Letters and Diaries
  Include approximately 150,000 pages of published letters and diaries by more than 1000 women. Represented are all age groups and life stages, all ethnicities, many geographical regions. Also includes biographies and an extensive annotated bibliography.
  
• American Civil War: Letters & Diaries
  100,000 pages of published memoirs, letters and diaries on almost every aspect of the war by approximately 1,920 authors. Includes writings by politicians, generals, slaves, landowners, farmers, seamen, wives and spies. Descriptions of historical characters and events, glimpses of daily life in the army, anecdotes about key events and personages. Provides both the Northern and Southern perspective. Materials originate from all regions of the country.
  
• American Memory Motion Pictures Collections (Library of Congress)
  A gateway to primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The site offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections. Includes a sampling of early American films, including works by the Edison Company, recordings of vaudeville and other popular entertainments, early animated films; recordings of early 20th Century presidents, and scenes of American work and leisure, 1894-1915.
  
• Voting America: United States Politics, 1840-2008
  Provides cinematic and interactive maps, and analysis, of the Presidential elections in the US from 1840-2004. Focuses on election data to the county level (rather than state). Allows users to compare elections as well as recognize the significance of individual elections by geographic region, political party, voter turnout, voter demographics, and more.
  
• American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library
  Consists of more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical Library of Congress collections. The primary source and archival materials relating in the project cover topics from art and architecture to performing arts to technology and applied sciences.
  
• American State Papers
  A collection of more than 6,000 government publications including congressional and Executive Department materials. These papers cover the following broad subject areas: foreign relations, Indian affairs, commerce and navigation, military and naval affairs, the post-office department, and more. (Archive of Americana allows cross-searching of several databases: Early American Imprints , Series I and II; Early American Newspapers; American State Papers; US Congressional Serial Set.)
  

Want to find scanned articles from major U.S. newspapers, going back to the mid-19th century?  You can do this through an easy-to-use online database: ProQuest Historical Newspapers.  This database includes articles from the Chicago Defender (1905-1975), the Chicago Tribune (1849-1987), Los Angeles Times (1881-1987), the New York Times (1851-2007), the San Francisco Chronicle (1865-1922), the Wall Street Journal (1889-1993), and the Washington Post (1877-1994).

Trying to use Historical Newspapers from off-campus? Be sure to set up off-campus access. Use of this resource is restricted to UC Berkeley students, faculty and staff.

Before digital storage became easy and cheap, microfilm was a way for libraries to maintain large collections of newspapers, government documents, and historical documents while saving physical storage space. The UC Berkeley Libraries still have extensive microform (microfilm and microfiche) collections, containing valuable information for researchers.

Since each roll of microfilm contains thousands of tiny images of the original pages of a document, you'll need a microfilm reader to magnify the images enough to read them. The UC Berkeley Newspapers and Microforms Department (40 Doe Library) has machines that read, print, and scan images from microfilm and microfiche.

Microfilm and microfiche owned by the UC Berkeley Libraries can be found through OskiCat; use Advanced Keyword Search to limit your search to "All Microforms." In the News/Micro collection, microfilm rolls and microfiche cards are shelved with their own numbering system; click here for a PDF of the collection's floorplan.

Abolition and Emancipation. Marlborough, Eng.: Adam Matthew Publications, 1996.
MICROFILM 77764
Guide: MICROFILM 77764.guide

Part 1: Papers of Thomas Clarkson, William Lloyd Garrison, Zachary Macaulay, Harriet Martineau, Harriet Beecher Stowe & William Wilberforce from the Huntington Library; Part 4: The Granville Sharp Papers from Gloucestershire Record Office.

Advice Literature in America. Marlborough, Eng.: Adam Matthew Publications, 2001.
MICROFILM 78513
Guide: MICROFILM 78513.guide

Part I: The Schlesinger Collection of Etiquette and Advice Books;
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University.

America, 1935-1946: The photographs of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, Farm Security Administration, and the U.S. Office of War Information.
Cambridge, England : Chadwyck-Healey ; Teaneck, N.J: Somerset House, 1980.
MICROFICHE 28570
Guide: MICROFICHE 28570.guide

American Immigrant Autobiographies: Manuscript Autobiographies from the Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota. Frederick, MD: UPA, c1989.
MICROFILM 71258
Guide: MICROFILM 71258 guide

American Women's Diaries: Southern Women 19th Century .
New Canaan, CT : Readex, [1988-1990].
MICROFILM.77628
Guide: MICROFILM.77628.guide

American Women's Diaries: Western Women. New Canaan, CT: Readex, [1991].
BANC FILM 1976
Guide: BANC FILM 707

500 published and unpublished works by and about women in the Western United States during the 18th and 19th centuries, including diaries, autobiographies, biographies, personal histories, transcripts of oral interviews, and pioneer histories.

Anti-Slavery Collection, 18th-19th Centuries: From the Society of Friends.
London : World Microfilms, c1978.
MICROFILM 78507
Guide: MICROFILM 78507.guide

Archives of the Settlement Movement. Woodbridge, CT: Research Publications, 1989-1990.
MICROFILM.78000
Guide: MICROFILM.78000.guide

Parts I-IV

Audience Research Reports, 1940-1953. Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, Inc., c1979.
MICROFILM.77736

Audience Research Inc., a Gallup Poll affiliate directed by David Ogilvy, was commissioned by David O. Selznick and other Hollywood producers to furnish data that would objectively record what the public wanted to see in the movies.

Bayard Rustin Papers. Frederick, MD: UPA, c1988.
MICROFILM.77707
Guide: MICROFILM.77707.guide

The collection reproduces the complete holdings of Bayard Rustin's personal papers on deposit at the A. Philip Randolph Institute.

Bush-Conant file relating to the development of the atomic bomb, 1940-1945. Washington: [National Archives and Records Administration], [1990?].
MICROFILM 78655
Guide: MICROFILM 78655.guide

Butler Plantation Papers, 1744-1822. Marlborough, Eng.: Adam Matthew, 1996.
MICROFILM 77814
Guide: MICROFILM 77814.guide

The papers of Pierce Butler and successors, from the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

China Through Western Eyes: Manuscript Records of Traders, Travelers, Missionaries and Diplomats, 1792-1942. Marlborough, Eng.: Adam Matthew, [1996].
MICROFILM.77751
Guide on reel 1

Sources from the William R. Perkins Library, Duke University.
Part I-III

Harrison Bundy files. Washington: The National Archives, National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration, 1980.
MICROFILM 78656

History of Science, Health, and Women. Woodbridge, CT: Primary Source, [2000].
MICROFILM 78378
Guide: MICROFILM 78378.guide

From the Smith Collection at Smith College, the Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe College, and other collections. Monographs and primary sources devoted to the history of women involved in medicine and science.

Immigrant in America. Woodbridge. CT: Research Publications, 1983-1988.
MICROFILM 78024
Guide: MICROFILM 78024.guide

The collection is based on the holdings of The New York Public Library, Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies, Philadelphia, and The Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota.

Japan Through Western Eyes: Manuscript Records of Traders, Travelers, Missionaries and Diplomats, 1853-1941. Marlborough, Eng.: Adam Matthew, 2000.
MICROFILM 77770
Guide: MICROFILM 77770.guide

Part I: Sources from the William R. Perkins Library, Duke University.
Part 2: William Elliot Griffis Collection, from the Rutgers University Library, Journals and Essays.

Japanese Relocation Camp & Assembly Center Newspapers. Wilmington, Del.: Distributed by Scholarly Resources Inc., [19--?].
MICROFILM.77649
Guide: MICROFILM.77649.guide

Manhattan engineer district history correspondence "top secret" of the Manhattan engineer district, 1942-1946. Washington: National Archives, 1980.
MICROFILM 78654

Margaret Sanger Papers: The Smith Collection. Bethesda, MD: University Publications of America, c1994.
MICROFILM.77685
Guide MICROFILM.77685.guide

Mary McLeod Bethune Papers: The Bethune-Cookman College Collection, 1928-1948. Bethesda, MD: University Publications of America, c1995.
MICROFILM.77708
Guide MICROFILM.77708 .guide

Native Americans and the New Deal: The Office Files of John Collier 1933-1945. Bethesda, MD: UPA, c1993.
MICROFILM.71259
Guide MICROFILM 71259.guide

Native Americans Reference Collection: Documents Collected by the Office of Indian Affairs. Bethesda, MD: UPA, c1991.
MICROFILM.71275
Guide: MICROFILM.71275.guide

Part I- 1840-1900
Part II- 1901-1940

Papers of the NAACP. Frederick, Md: University Publications of America, [c1982].
MICROFILM.71198
Guide: MICROFILM.71198.guide

Papers of A. Philip Randolph. Bethesda, MD: UPA, c1990.
MICROFILM.77712
Guide: MICROFILM.77712.guide

From the holdings of the Library of Congress.

Papers of the Association against the Prohibition Amendment and the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform. Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly
Resources, 1981.
MICROFILM.77734
Guide. MICROFILM.77734 guide

Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs; Central Classified files, 1907-1939. Bethesda, MD: UPA, c1995.
MICROFILM 78658

Series C Part 1 and 2.

Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Bethesda, MD: University Publications of America, c1992.
MICROFILM.71194
Guide: MICROFILM.71194.guide

Research collections in American immigration.
Series A: Subject Correspondence Files
Part I: Asian Immigration and Exclusion, 1906-1913.
Supplement to Part 1: Asian Immigration and Exclusion, 1898-1941.
Part II: Mexican Immigration 1906-1930.
Part III: Ellis Island, 1900-1933.
Part IV: European Investigations, 1898-1936.
Part V: Prostitution & "White Slavery," 1902-1933.

Records of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, 1895-1992. Bethesda, MD: UPA, c1993-c1994.
MICROFILM.71276
Guide: MICROFILM.71276. guide

Part I: Minutes of National Conventions, Publications, and President's office correspondence.
Part II: President's Office Files 1958-1968

Records of the National Negro Business League. Bethesda, MD: UPA, c1994.
MICROFILM.77713
MICROFILM.77713.guide

Part I: From the Archives of Tuskegee University collection: Annual Conference Proceedings and Organizational Records 1900-1919.
Part II: From the Papers of Booker T. Washington papers at Library of Congress Correspondence and business records 1900-23.

Slavery and Abolition Collections, 1700-1890. Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, [1971?].
MICROFILM.77735

From the holdings of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division: The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations.

Slavery in Ante-Bellum Southern Industries. Bethesda, MD: UPA, 1991-c1993.
MICROFILM.71277
Guide: MICROFILM.71277. guide

Series B: Selections from the Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Slavery, Source Materials & Critical Literature. Louisville, [Ky.] : Lost Cause Press, 1971.
MICROFICHE 27132
Guide: MICROFICHE 27132.guide

The collection includes titles from A Bibliography of Anti- Slavery Literature in America, Bibliotheca Americana: A Dictionary of Books Relating to America From its Discovery to the Present Time, and the holdings of the Library of Congress.

Social and Cultural Construction of Girls. Woodbridge, CT : Primary Source Gale [2000].
MICROFILM 78379
Guide: MICROFILM 78379 guide

From the Smith Collection at Smith College, the Schleinger Library at Radcliff College and other collections.

Stetson Kennedy Collection, 1916-1950. Schomburg Center collections.
MICROFILM.77737
Guide MICROFILM.77737.guide

From the holdings of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division: The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations.
Ku Klux Klan Research File & General Research File

U.S. Hispanic Heritage: newspapers, literature, personal papers, correspondence. Leiden, The Netherlands: IDC Publishers, [1999].
MICROFILM 78404
Guide: MICROFILM 78404.guide

Voices from Ellis Island. Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, c1987.
MICROFICHE.24312
Guide: MICROFICHE.24312 guide

An Oral History of American Immigration: A Project of the Statue of Liberty/Ellis Island Foundation, 1988.

Women's Periodicals; 18th Century to the Great Depression. Woodbridge, CT: Research Publications, 1991-1992.
MICROFILM.77997
Guide MICROFILM.77997.guide

Over 350 periodicals from US and European libraries. Among the journals included are The Birth Control Review, Independent Suffragette, The Mother's Companion, Temperance Education Quarterly, and The War Worker.