Research Guides: A Guide to Spanish, Portuguese & Catalan Literature: Primary Sources

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Sabin Americana This link opens in a new window
Works about the Americas published throughout the world from 1500 to the early 1900's. Included are books, pamphlets, serials and other documents that provide original accounts of exploration, trade, colonialism, slavery and abolition, the western movement, Native Americans, military actions and much more. Over 6 million pages from 29,000 works. Learn more about this database
Nineteenth Century Collections Online This link opens in a new window
A multi-year global digitization and publishing program focused on primary source collections of the long nineteenth century. Collections for this program are sourced through partnerships with major world libraries as well as specialist libraries, and content includes monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, statistics, and more. Includes 9,500 English, French and German literature titles of the Romantic era.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) This link opens in a new window
Use Eighteenth Century Collections Online to access the digital images of every page of books published during the 18th Century. With full-text searching of millions of pages, the product allows researchers new methods of access to critical information in the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more. Learn more about this database
Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive This link opens in a new window
Scholarly study and understanding of slavery from a multinational perspective. Slavery and Anti-Slavery Help

The Gerritsen Collection--Women's History Online, 1543-1945
Focusing on women's history and feminist movements, provides access to more than 4,700 publications from continental Europe, the U.S., the United Kingdom, Canada, and New Zealand, dating from 1543-1945. The broad scope of Gerritsen Online allows scholars to trace the evolution of feminism within a single country, as well as the impact on others. Includes periodicals and monographs in 15 languages.
Fondo Antiquo of the Universidad de Sevilla
Currently all the ancient books in the library, the Sevillian prints of 16th century and a selection of works from 16th to 18th centuries are scanned and available.
Bilbao, Provincial Library
Granada, University Library
Archivalia
Klaus Graf lists some 18 websites under Spain in his Large digital libraries page
Catálogo Colectivo do Patrimonio Bibliográfico Español
The union catalog of the Catálogo Colectivo do Patrimonio Bibliográfico Español

Latin American Newspapers (1822-1922) This link opens in a new window
Over 80 fully searchable newspapers published in the 19th and 20th centuries from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela, and elsewhere.

Historic Mexican & Mexican American Press
From the Digital Libraries of University of Arizona- The Historic Mexican and Mexican American Press collection documents and showcases historic Mexican and Mexican American publications published in Tucson, El Paso, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Sonora, Mexico from the mid-1800s to the 1970s.

Burney Collection Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Full-text. 'The newspapers, pamphlets, and books gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817) represent the largest and most comprehensive collection of early English news media. The present digital collection ...totals almost 1 million pages and contains approximately 1,270 titles
Chicago Tribune, Historical (1849-2011) This link opens in a new window
Full page and article images with searchable full text in publications from 1849 - 2011.
Early American Newspapers, 1690-1922 This link opens in a new window
Searchable American newspapers enable users to explore America's past. Over 1000 U.S. historical newspapers published between 1690 and 1922, including titles from all 50 states, have been digitized. The Libraries have subscribed to Early American Newspapers, Series 1, 1690-1876; and Series 3, 1829-1922, Series 10, 1730-1900, Series 12, 1821-1900, and Series 13, 1803-1916.
Eighteenth Century Journals This link opens in a new window
Brings together rare journals printed between 1685 and 1815, illuminating all aspects of eighteenth-century social, political and literary life. The Libraries have purchased Section I, Section II and Section IV.
New York Times, Historical (1851-3 year ago) This link opens in a new window
Full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. Learn more about this database
Wall Street Journal, Historical (1889-2003) This link opens in a new window
Full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. (Visit our Newspaper Research Guide for instructions on accessing current issues)
American Periodicals (1740 - 1940) This link opens in a new window
Full-text periodicals published between 1740 and 1940, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines and many other historically-significant periodicals. Learn more about this database
Times Digital Archive (1785-2013) This link opens in a new window
First published in 1785, The Times of London is widely considered to be the world's 'newspaper of record'. The Times Digital Archive Navigation Guide
Latin American Anarchist and Labour Periodicals This link opens in a new window
This collection contains the periodicals that have been accumulated by the Austrian anarchist, historian and collector Max Nettlau (1865-1944), together with a number of later additions, held at the International Institute of Social History (IISH) in Amsterdam. The collection provides a richness of documentation pertaining explicitly to the formative anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist episode (1890-1920) in the history of Latin American labor movements.

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