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American Newspapers and Microforms

Pre-Revolutionary America: Before 1768

Microform Collections

Please note that this list is intended to serve only as a guide to research collections available in the Newspapers and Microforms Department. As such, it includes no individual works on or from the period described. A listing of relevant newspapers is provided for those titles on film with runs of three years or more.

Adams Papers

Call Number: N253
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: Adams, John: 1735-1826
                  Adams, John Quincy: 1767-1848
                  Adams, Charles Francis: 1807-1886
                  (+ guide)

American Biographical Archive

Call Number: M6445
Format: Microfiche

A one-alphabet cumulation of almost 400 of the most important English-language biographical reference works of the United States and Canada, originally published between the 18th and early 20th centuries.

American Periodical Series: eighteenth century (APS I)

Call Number: various N400's
Format: Microfilm

This set consists of a collection of rare 18th and 19th century American periodicals including the earliest published works of many outstanding American writers.

Backus, Isaac

Call Number: N640-642
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: Isaac Backus papers, 1724-1806, from the holdings of the Historical Commission, Southern Baptist Convention

Baxter, Richard

Call Number: N738
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: Richard Baxter papers, 17th century, from a private collection

City Directories of the United States

Call Number: various
Format: Microfilm, Microfiche

Congregational Churches in Massachusetts

Call Number: N1131
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: Conventions, records, 1758-1789, from the holdings of the Congregational Library, Boston.

Early American Imprints, 1639-1800

Call Number: M5554
Format: Microfiche

This collection includes the full text of non-serial items (Books, pamphlets, and broadsides) printed between 1639 and 1800 in the United States.

Early English Books, Series I: 1475-1640

Call Number: N2375
Format: Microfilm

Early English Books, Series II: 1641-1700

Call Number: N2377
Format: Microfilm

First Baptist Church (Boston, Mass.)

Call Number: N1398
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: Minutes, 1665-1797

Garrettson, Freeborn

Call Number: N1477
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: Papers, journals, 1752-1826, from the holdings of the Rose Memorial Library, Drew University.

Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature: Segment I: Printed books through 1800.

Call Number: N4387, N4388
Format: Microfilm

Includes the combined titles from the Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature at the University of London, and the Kress Library of Business and Economics at the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration in Boston.

Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons.

Call Number: N4582
Format: Microprint
Holdings: Journals, 1547-1900

Index to Early American Periodicals to 1850

Call Number: N2303
Format: Micro-opaque

Isaac Hobhouse and Company

Call Number: N1667
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: The Hobhouse Letters, 1722-1755

Jefferson, Thomas

Call Number: N1834
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: Thomas Jefferson papers, 1651-1826. (Index on the first 4 reels)

Landmarks of Science

Call Number: N4492
Format: Microfilm, Microfiche, MicroPrint

This edition covers micro-reproductions of scientific monographs and journals from the 15th to the early 20th centuries.

Lee Family papers, 1742-1795

Call Number: N1993
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: Lee, Arthur, 1740-1792
                  Lee, Richard Henry, 1732-1794
                  Lee, William, 1739-1795
                  (+ guide)

Manuscripta

Call Number: N2212-N2287
Format: Microfilm

This collection includes "microfilms of rare and out-of-print books" in the fields of religion, philosophy, history, and related areas. Many primary and secondary sources are included in these titles, dating mostly from the 16th to 18th centuries.

The Negro in the military service of the United States, 1639-1886

Call Number: N4368
Format: Microfilm

Pinckney Family Papers, 1703-1847

Call Number: M5849
Format: Microfiche

Puritan literature from the Chicago Theological Seminary

Call Number: N2711
Format: Microfilm

Shaker Collection, 1723-1952

Call Number: N4999
Format: Microfilm

Spanish Archives of New Mexico

Call Number: N2504
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: 1621-1821, in the Archives Division of the State of New Mexico Records Center

Welsh Neck Baptist Church

Call Number: N3743
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: Papers, 1737-1779

Newspaper Listing

The following newspaper titles are available in the Newspapers and Microforms Department, located on the first floor of Bostock Library, in micro-format. These titles have runs of three years or more. Dates in brackets [ ] indicate scattered issues and the card catalog, located at the rear of the first floor of Bostock Library, should be consulted for exact holdings.

CONNECTICUT

Connecticut Courant and Weekly Intelligencer (Hartford, Conn.)

Call Number: N4196
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: [1764-1816]

MARYLAND

Maryland Gazette (Annapolis, MD)

Call Number: N4793
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: [1745-1839] Holdings are scattered and many issues are incomplete.

MASSACHUSETTS

Boston Evening Post (Boston, MA)

Call Number: N270
Format: Microprint
Holdings: 1735-1775

Boston Gazette (Boston, MA)

Call Number: N3594
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: [1719-1742]
Note: Title varies: ... and Country Journal; ... or, New England Weekly Journal

New England Courant (Boston, MA)