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French Literature:

Microform Collections


The Audio/Visual Center houses microform material, such as microfilm, and fiche. The A/V Center also has microfilm and fiche readers, including a digital Canon reader. These resources are valuable and unique for research, and are not to be overlooked  in any field of study.


Collections of particular interest to French Studies

 Fin-de-siècle Symbolist and Avant-garde Periodicals

 A collection of rare, ephemeral literary and artistic revues of the late 19th century. Poetry; essays;
 literary criticism; theater, art, music reviews; political, sociolopgical, and philosophical
 articles. A total of 30 titles, including:

 Le Chat Noir Les Ibis
 L'Art Littéraire Le Boulevard
 La Plume Le Scapin
 Mercure de France Le Parnasse
 Contemporain

Libraries Service Center: Call Numbers are individual by title. Guide in A/V.


The Maclure collection of French revolutionary materials

A collection of over 25,000 printed items, collected during and immediately after the Revolution.
Includes commercial and economic materials, official and unofficial government publications, judicial and
administrative writings, colonial, educational and military material. Indexed by name and committee.
 
Libraries Service Center: Film No. 3325   Guide: B Level Stacks: DC147.9 P4 Quarto
 

Französische Revolutionsflugschriften, 1789-1795 (French Revolutionary Pamphlets)

Collection of over 6,500 pamphlets published during the French Revolution. Original pamphlets make up
the Usteri Collection of the Zentralbibliothek Zürich.

Libraries Service Center: Micro- Fiche C no. 3016   Guide in A/V.


Périodiques clandestins, 1939-1945

Nearly 80 periodicals published by the Resistance and other clandestine groups during the German Occupation.

Libraries Service Center: Film No. 3547


Women's Periodicals from France

Over 40 periodicals printed between 1790 and 1985, covering all aspects of women's studies (literary, political,
domestic, fashion, etc.)

Newly acquired


Condition of the French working class in the 19th century. (Enquêtes sur la condition ouvrière en France au 19e siècle)

140 rare works on the situation, history, condition of the French working class. Includes child labor, immigrant labor, worker legislation,
insurrections, the Commune, communism, chômage, worker mortality, reading habits, etc. Guide is arranged by subjects.

Libraries Service Center: Fiche C no. 31   Guide in A/V.


Utopies au siècle des Lumières

Texts of 42 rare 18th century literary works from France on Utopia. They are cataloged individually by title and author in the online catalog.

Libraries Service Center: Fiche C no. 236-288   Guide in A/V.


Bibliothèque Nationale, Département des Manuscrits: inventaire des instruments de recherche, manuscrits occidentaux

Reprints of printed and manuscript catalogs and indexes issued between ca. 1700 and 1970 to access the Library's Greek, Latin, French and
Western modern languages manuscript holdings, as well as its special, regional, early and miscellaneous manuscript collections in these
languages. Includes (on first 35 microfiches): Le cabinet des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque impériale by Léopold Delisle.

Libraries Service Center: Fiche C no. 2774   Guide in A/V.


The World of Port Royal - "Port Royal et ses adhérents"

From the collection of archival Port-Royal materials in the Utrecht Archives (Fonds d'Amersfoort). Documents relating to the history of
Jansenism from the 17th to the 19th century.

Libraries Service Center: Fiche C no. 2983   Guide in A/V.


Index to Les Inventaires des Archives Nationales

Finding aids of material in the Archives Nationales; the largest published source for information on the collections of the French national archives. Includes Subject and Name index.
 
Libraries Service Center: Fiche C no. 2883   Guide in A/V.

 

Interdisciplinary Collections
 
The Great Exhibition of 1851

Exhibition of the works of industry of all nations. Prospectuses of the exhibits from the influential London exhibition of 1851, providing insight into the design,
technological innovation, and business activities of the Victorian era. Essential source for study of material culture.

Libraries Service Center: Film No. 3319 Guide in A/V


The Eighteenth Century

Primarily focuses on British studies, but useful for Continental research as well. Based on the British Library's Eighteenth Century Short Title Catalogue (ESTC), consists of approximately 200,000 items selected from the 500,000 titles printed in Great Britain and its colonies or printed in English anywhere else in the world from 1701-1800. Contains reproductions of books, broadsides, pamphlets, etc.

Libraries Service Center: Film no. E 204  Guide in A/V (loose leaf notebook), Author, Title, and Subject access.
 

European women's periodicals
Rare and important titles: Political, professional and popular periodicals written for and by women across Europe. List of titles included.
 
Libraries Service Center: Film no. 3619

 
Women advising women

Again, primarily British in scope. Material by women for women, primarily 18th century in scope. Part 1: Early women's journals, c1700-1832. -- Part
2: Advice books, manuals, almanacs and journals, c1625-1837. -- Parts 3-4: The Lady's Magazine, 1770-1832. -- Part 5: Women's writing and advice,
c1450-1720.
 
Libraries Service Center: Film No. E 162  Printed guides in A/V

 
History of Women

Primary source materials, selected from the world’s most important library holdings through 1920. The most comprehensive microfilm collection ever assembled on the subject. Includes one section on "The social and cultural construction of girls."
 
Libraries Service Center: Film no. A .H57

 
Black Death

Sources concerning the European Plague, 1470-1822, from Germany, France, Italy, England, Switzerland, and Central Europe. Rare printed sources from the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel; including treatises giving suggestions, instructions, and advice; short accounts of the sufferings of individual cities, towns, or villages; recipes for treatment; notes on experiments; and historical observations looking at the origins, causes, and effects of The Plague.
 
Libraries Service Center: Film No. E 308  Guide in A/V.


The Nineteenth Century

Planned to be a 30 year publishing program to reproduce on microfiche "a significant proportion of English-language works first published between 1801 and 1900." Consists of the General Collection, and five special collections: Women writers; Children's literature; Publishing, the book trade and the diffusion of  knowledge; Linguistics; and Visual arts and architecture.

Libraries Service Center: Micro-fiche C no. 2799   User manual and index on CD-ROM  (Comp File 83) provides for searching the bibliographic records contained in the microfiche collection by keywords - author, title, etc.


The History of the Cinema, 1895-1940

Includes 1,253 books and pamphlets on the cinema, published 1895-1940 in English and European languages. From the Museum of Modern Art, NY. 
Libraries Service Center: Micro-fiche C no. 2913  Handlist of titles in A/V

 
Russian Revolutionary Literature

The intellectual basis of the revolutionary movement can be studied in the writings of the major figures - Bakunin, Chernyshevskii, Tkachev, Plekhanov, Kropotkin, Chernov, Martov, Trotsky, Lenin and others. The collection also abounds in the anonymous and ephemeral pieces distributed among the workers and
peasants. All the various groups and intellectual persuasions are represented, from the early anarchists and populists on up to the Socialist Revolutionary Party and Lenin’s Russian Social Democratic Labor Party. Most of the material was published abroad or on underground presses within Russia, but a few
legally-issued publications of major authors are also in the collection.
 
Libraries Service Center: Film no. 3182

 
The Inquisitions : manuscripts of the Spanish, Portuguese and French Inquisitions.
 
Libraries Service Center: Film no. 3616 


Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature

Early literature of political economics, encompassing a complete world-view. Includes the well-known works used in studying the history of economics and business, as well as unusual and exceedingly rare items. Sections on: Colonies, Commerce, Social Conditions, Trades & Manufacturers.
 
Libraries Service Center: Each part has a separate call number. Catalog on CD-ROM. Comp File 2833
 

Archives of the Destruction: A Photographic Record of the Holocaust

The most comprehensive pictorial record available of the atrocities of the Holocaust. Provides excellent background material as well as visual
corroboration for those studying the historical roots of Nazi anti-Semitism and Jewish resistance during this period.
 
Libraries Service Center: Micro- fiche C no. 2902
 



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