United States History: Primary Sources by Century: Primary Sources: 19th c.

Major database: Historic photographs, film and other materials from the Library of Congress

Genealogical records such as census, immigration & military records

Diverse collection of documents dealing with US, international and diplomatic history

DPLA is a major portal to digitized collections ranging "from the written word, to works of art and culture, to records of America’s heritage, to the efforts and data of science" that illustrate America’s history & culture

Includes a database of digitized material as well as exhibits

Full-text database of letters and diaries of women who lived in North America before 1950. Browsing and searching of both the bibliographic and full-text elements provided by PhiloLogic software

Primary sources dealing with women's history from 1600 to 2000

Eclectic collection of pamphlets most of which were published after the Civil War

Correspondence, scientific notebooks, journals, blueprints, articles, and photographs documenting the life of Bell

Digitized version of the 14 volume collection of writings and correspondence dating from 1860 to 1915

Images, texts, and other artifacts related to disability history primarily in the 19th and 20th centuries

Over 9,000 images" of early advertising

Digitized collection of books, pamphlets, government documents, manuscripts, photographs and other material

Letters, pamphlets, newspapers and other material from the American branch of the nationalist Irish Republican Brotherhood

Collection of manuscripts, artifacts, broadsides, photographs, and prints dealing with the 1886 strike

Includes 1,800 books and pamphlets as well as 6,000 photographs, 200 maps, and 13,000 pages from manuscript and archival collections

Immigration & Naturalization Service records covering Asian, Mexican & European immigration

Correspondence and other papers

Standard edition of the expedition journals supplemented by images and maps

Digitized collection includes correspondence, writings by Kelley and other material

Digitized collection of almost 10,000 19th c. books and journals

Transcriptions of English language newspaper articles, images and documents dealing with the Mexican American War

Major database: Digitized version from 1851-2009

Over 420 published trial narratives printed in the United States or the United Kingdom from 1815 to 1914

Correspondence and other material dealing with the inventor from 1847 to 1897

Collection of 186 books and pamphlets dealing with women's suffrage

Collection of manuscripts, books, and photographs

Major collection: more than 2,300 first person accounts of slavery plus 500 photographs

117 documents including letters, warrants, bills of sale and antislavery material

Information on 100,000 slaves in Louisiana during the 18th and 19th centuries

100 digitized pamphlets dating from 1775 to 1871

Hundreds of images depicting slavery and the slave trade, includes maps, illustrations and photographs

Digital archive of newspapers, manuscripts and other material documenting the experiences of African American slaves in California

Database of detailed personal information about slaves, slaveholders, and free people of color

396 pamphlets written by African-American authors and others who wrote about slavery, African colonization, Emancipation, Reconstruction, and related topics

Digital collection of advertisements for runaway and captured slaves and servants in 18th- and 19th-century Virginia newspapers

Microfilm collection; 31 reels; A4868

Major collection: Books, memoirs and articles providing autobiographical accounts of slavery

Microfilm collection; 148 reels; A9699

Digitized collection of thousands of anti-slavery and abolitionist material

Over 100 pamphlets and books (published between 1772 and 1889) dealing with the legal status of slavery

Data on almost 35,000 slaving voyages supplemented with images, a names database and other material

Historical materials from Abraham Lincoln's Illinois years (1830-1861), including Lincoln's writings and speeches

Major collection: Correspondence and other papers

Collection of 650 unpublished drawings created by artists for Frank Leslie's Illustrated Weekly Newspaper

Selection of hundreds of articles from the magazine published between 1861 and 1863

Collection of photographs, drawings, posters and letters

Digitized version of the printed set of Lincoln's correspondence, speeches, and other writings

Digitized collection of 250 Confederate broadside poems

Archive of documents about the causes, conduct and consequences of the war

Full text of 57 sermons published on the occasion of Abraham Lincoln's assassination

Collection of digitized Pennsylvania papers from the Civil War era including the Erie Observer and Tioga County Agitator

Collection of editorials dealing with the Nebraska Bill (1854), the Charles Sumner incident (1856), Dred Scott (1857) and Harper's Ferry (1859)

More than 1,000 photographs by Mathew Brady and others

Documents and images related to all aspects of Southern life during the Civil War

Major website: Military records, census data, diaries, photographs and newspapers illustrating the impact of the Civil War on two towns

Major collection: Digitized version of the multi-volume official records of the war