The Library has two new new digital collections supporting the study of American popular culture. The first, titled The Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive, will, when complete, include complete runs of 26 American and British consumer and trade magazines, from their inception to the year 2000. Influential trade titles include Variety and Billboard. The second collection, titled American Popular Entertainment, is a project of the History, Philosophy, and Newspaper Library, and will include entertainment industry newspapers and trade journals published between 1853 and 1929. The collection currently contains the Vaudeville News, the Player, and the New York Clipper, with the Dramatic Mirror soon-to-be-added.
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4 New Digitized Historical Newspapers
Now available: New York Tribune, 1923-1962 (supplementing the already existing file covering 1841-1922); Newsday, 1940-1984; the Louisville Courier-Journal, 1830-1922; the Nashville Tennessean, 1812-1922; and the Arizona Republican, 1890-1922.
Rock and Roll, Counterculture, Peace and Protest: Popular Culture in Britain and America, 1950-1975
Digitized collection of archival material from the Browne Popular Culture Library (Bowling Green State University), the Bancroft Library (University of California, Berkeley), the British National Archives, the University of Sussex Library, and the Rock Source Archive.
TRIAL: Arte Público Hispanic Historical Collection: Series 1
The Arte Público Hispanic Historical Collection comprises books, newspapers, periodicals, pamphlets, broadsides, and other historical records that document the Latino/Latina experience in the United States from colonial times to 1960. More information. Please send feedback to Professor Lisa Romero, subject specialist for Latino/Latina studies.
TRIAL OVER.
The American West: Sources from the Graff Collection at the Newberry Library
Digital collection of travel narratives, manuscripts, personal papers, printed books, maps, city directories, store catalogs, newspapers, company records, and ephemera (e.g. trade cards, posters, photos, claim certificates, city prospectuses, and more) that document the American west in its frontier period.
Everyday Life and Women in America, 1800-1920
Digital collection of books, periodicals, pamphlets, and broadsides.
Jewish Life in America, 1654-1954
Letters, scrapbooks, autobiographies, notebooks and other materials from the American Jewish Historical Society in New York City.
American Periodicals from the Center for Research Libraries
A new digital collection of 338 nineteenth and early twentieth century periodicals, reproduced in full color, keyword searchable facsimiles. The collection is especially strong in labor and trade publications. Complements American Periodicals Series Online, with which it is cross-searchable.
Baltimore Afro-American
Fully searchable, facsimile edition of the Baltimore Afro-American (1893-1988). The Afro-American was a historically influential black newspaper, with large readerships in Washington, D.C., New York City, and Philadelphia, in addition to Baltimore. Read more about the Baltimore Afro-American in the Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present.
Congressional Hearings Digital Collection
Search and access the full text of published and unpublished Congressional hearings from 1824-1979. Uses the same interface as Lexis-Nexis Congressional Universe.
Go to Congressional Hearings Digital Collection now.