Primary Sources for Further Reading

The following is a list of related primary sources available through Primary Source Microfilm, the leading provider of archival research materials.

GENERAL

African-American Religious Serials, 1850–1950. This collection includes the AME Zion Quarterly, a publicaton of the AME Zion church, as well as other religious periodicals that are vital to fully understanding the growth of African American churches within various religious traditions. Also included are church annuals and reports and reports for social service agencies.

American Fiction, 1774–1910. Based on Lyle H. Wright's American Fiction: A Contribution Towards a Bibliography and the "Library of Congress Shelf List of American Adult Fiction" and includes 10,800 novels, romances, tales, short stories, fictitious biographies, travels and sketches, allegories and tract-like tales typifying the development of American literature in a changing culture. Volume 1: 1774–1850; volume 2: 1851–1875; volume 3: 1876–1900; volume 4: 1901–1905; volume 5: 1906–1910.

American Literary Annuals and Gift Books, 1825–1865. Based on Ralph Thompson's definitive bibliography of the same name, American Literary Annuals and Gift Books, 1825–1865, contains some of the best literature and art from the pre–Civil War period. This collection contains 469 titles, focusing on The Atlantic Souvenir: A Christmas and New Year's Offering—a lavishly decorated, fully illustrated anthology of prose and poetry.

American Literary Manuscripts, 1650–1850. A varied collection including verse, short stories, prose fiction, satirical plays, and humorous writings by native or naturalized American authors from the period 1650 to 1850. Also included are a number of sermons, speeches, belles lettres, and journals deemed to be of considerable literary interest (e.g., the sermons of Cotton Mather, the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, etc.).

American Poetry, 1609–1870. Based on the Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays, Brown University. Nearly 300 years of American verse is incorporated in this collection to bring your library a complete history of America's finest poetry. American Poetry, 1609–1870 includes works by all the major American poets, and many minor writers, as they appear in individual and collected works.

The Anti-Slavery Collection. Consisting of approximately 2,252 items, the Anti-Slavery Collection from Oberlin College Library comprises the contents of the Catalogue of the Collection of Anti-Slavery Propaganda compiled in 1931–1932 by Geraldine Hopkins Hubbard, plus materials acquired since 1932. The entire collection is now available on microfiche cards with U.S. MARC records.

The Baldwin Library Collection of Historical Children's

Literature. This vast and comprehensive collection contains historic children's titles that were published in Great Britain and the United States from 1850 to 1869. The result of Ruth Baldwin's efforts, this collection provides a window into mid-nineteenth-century society and culture with works such as Aesop's Fables, Pilgrim's Progress, Robinson Crusoe, and Gulliver's Travels.

Nineteenth-Century American Literature and History. A comprehensive study of the geographic area known as the Trans-Mississippi West, including the "Old Southwest" and Texas. It includes selected titles from Dr. J. Christian Bay's bibliography Three Handfuls of Western Books and other material with an emphasis on late-nineteenth-century imprints. It is an invaluable resource for the study of nineteenth-century Americana.

The Sabin Collection: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of Books Relating to America. From Joseph Sabin's Bibliotheca Americana: A Dictionary of Books Relating to America from Its Discovery to the Present Time, which has been heralded as a cornerstone in the study of the history of the western hemisphere. The Sabin Collection aims to locate and film as many of the most significant works in the bibliography as possible, as well as a variety of others that provide the greater depth of research material necessary for intensive studies of the history of the New World. To support targeted collection needs, The Sabin Collection is also offered in ten special subject collections: American Women; Campaign Literature; Cities and States; The Civil War; Constitution; Discovery and Exploration of the Americas; Immigration; Indians of North America; Reconstruction; and Slavery.

PERIODICALS

Southern Literary Messenger. Southern Literary Messenger was the leading belletristic journal of the Old South for three decades (1834–1864). Under the editorship of Edgar Allan Poe from 1835 to 1837, circulation increased from 500 to 3,500. Poe also contributed many of his works, including eighty-three reviews, six poems, four essays, and three stories. Other editors included J. R. Thompson (1847–1860), G. W. Bagby (1860–1864), and Frank H. Alfriend (1864).

MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS

Earl Conrad/Harriet Tubman Collection. Reproduced here are the letters, clippings, manuscripts, and other materials accumulated by the historian and journalist Earl Conrad while preparing various writings on Harriet Tubman, especially his 1943 biography of the famous abolitionist. This collection will be a valuable tool for anyone studying Tubman, slavery, the Underground Railroad, the Civil War, and the black experience in nineteenth-century America.

Horace Greeley Papers, 1831–1873. As editor of the New York Tribune and presidential candidate in 1872, Horace Greeley was an important nineteenth-century political and literary figure. Greeley launched the New York Tribune in 1841 and expressed his political views freely in the newspaper. In addition, he cofounded The New Yorker, a literary and news weekly in 1834, and he wrote for several influential Whig newspapers. An egalitarian, Greeley opposed monopoly and supported Fourerism, the agrarian movement, cooperative shops and labor unions. He was a staunch supporter of the antislavery movement and the Union in the Civil War years.

The John Pendleton Kennedy Papers. John Pendleton Kennedy (1795–1870) figured significantly in nineteenth-century literary, intellectual, and political life. His writings included novels, political treatises, and pamphlets. These papers, including manuscripts, journals, letters, and notebooks, are a valuable source of information on nineteenth-century America.

The Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. These papers of suffrage proponents Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony span the years 1831 through 1906 and consist of more than 14,000 documents. Included are such items as legislative testimony, correspondence, diaries, speeches, accounts of meetings, and financial papers.

The Slavery and Abolition Collections. This publication reproduces an assortment of letters, bills of sale, manu-mission papers, and other documents relating to slavery and its abolition, primarily in the Anglo-American colonies and the United States.

Slavery Miscellaneous Manuscripts, 1780–[1860]. This collection contains seven scrapbooks, "Tracts on Slavery in the United States"; a book of punishments administered to slaves in a South American mining camp, 1836–1847; slave deeds; newspaper clippings; and a book containing a census of slaves in Chester Country, Pennsylvania, 1780–1815.

The Washington Irving Papers, 1759–1898. From the Rare Books and Manuscripts Division, Center for the Humanities, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. This collection of Washington Irving's papers covers the years 1759–1898 and includes private and official correspondence; manuscripts and notes for many of Irving's works; journals, 1804–1842, on his travels; personal and literary notebooks, 1807–1844; Irving family papers.

In addition, Primary Source Microfilm is the authorized distributor of the following manuscript collections at the Library of Congress: Papers of Frederick Douglass, Papers of Daniel Webster, Papers of William Tecumseh Sherman, Papers of Walt Whitman, Scrapbooks of Susan B. Anthony, Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and the Collection of Anna Elizabeth Dickinson.

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