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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.
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This collection covers 250 years of German literature, poetry and other disciplines such as philosophy, theology, musicology, and dramaturgy. The collection includes approximately 15,000 works in 27,000 volumes published between 1650 and 1900 by almost 2,500 authors. It contains all works listed in Der Taschengoedeke, an authoritative source compiled in 1924 by Leopold Hirschberg. Complete original texts, always first editions, as well as the first German translations of foreign works, particularly from France, Italy, Great Britain, and America, are reproduced. Index in A/V.
Libraries Service Center: Microfiche C no. 2761
The Harvard collection of 18th century German drama.113 reels of microfilm, containing 3074 dramatic texts (plays and libretti) published in Austria, Germany and Switzerland, in German, French and Italian. Guide in A/V.
Libraries Service Center: Film no. 2669
Harold Jantz collection. (611 reels). This collection comprises works and editions which have not been republished since the Baroque period (17th century). The strength of this collection lies in the lesser-known works of famous authors and the important works of lesser-known writers. Included is a large collection of Baroque Americana, among them early German translations of works by New England authors and early American publications of German Baroque works. Index in A/V.
Libraries Service Center: Film no. A .G42
The collection represents the Baroque period from about 1575 to 1740. It includes all of the titles listed in the two volume Von Faber bibliography. A valuable source for scholars interested in the literature and culture of 17th century Germany. It includes works by Abraham à Sancta Clara, Gottfried Arnold, Traiano Boccalini, Franz Callenbach, Hans Jocob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, Johann Michael Moscherosch Johannes Praetorius, Daniel Stoppe, and Christian Wolff.
Index in A/V.
Libraries Service Center: Film no. A .G4
From the Wittengenstein estate, the collection of Nachlass mostly owned by Trinity College in Cambridge. Includes notebooks, typescripts, dictations, and other writings. Guide in A/V.
Libraries Service Center: Film no. 2592
German plays published prior to the 20th century. Continued by the next title.
Libraries Service Center: Micro-card (ask in A/V)
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Another archive of German plays. Continues the above title. German plays published from the 16th century to the 20th. Title list in A/V.
Libraries Service Center: Micro-fiche C no. 10
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Biographical archive. Index in A/V.
Libraries Service Center: Micro-fiche C no.300
Index to 100,000 articles in 200 German-language periodicals from the period 1750 to 1815. Index by authors names and keywords. Guide, title list and fiche in A/V.
Libraries Service Center: Micro- fiche C no. 2374
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
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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
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
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Libraries Service Center: Film no. 3616
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
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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