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African History and Culture 1540-1921

African History and Culture, 1540-1921, features over 1,300 fully cataloged and searchable books, pamphlets, almanacs, broadsides, and ephemera that exploration the history, peoples, and socio-economic development of the African continent from the 16th century to the early 20th century.
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Afro-Americana Imprints, 1535-1922: From the Library Company of Philadelphia

Encompassing nearly 400 years, the Afro-American Imprints Collection offers over 12,000 searchable books, pamphlets, and broadsides related to the history of Black life in the Americas from 1535-1922.
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America’s Historical Imprints

America’s Historical Imprints contains 3 collections and 2 supplements of books, pamphlets, broadsides and other scarce printed material.
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Ancestry Library Edition

Ancestry Library Edition provides access to documents recording the lineage of individuals from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Europe, Australia, and more.
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Black Authors 1556-1922

Black Authors, 1556-1922, encompasses over 550 works written by black authors from various regions, including the Americas, Europe, and Africa. The collection covers an extensive range of genres, including personal narratives, autobiographies, histories, novels, essays, poems, and musical compositions.
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Caribbean History and Culture

Caribbean History and Culture, 1535-1920, is an extensive collection of over 1,200 cataloged and searchable items such as books, pamphlets, almanacs, broadsides, and ephemera related to the Caribbean region.
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Digital Paxton

Digital Paxton is a digital collection, critical edition, teaching platform devoted to the 1764 pamphlet war.
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Early Canadiana Online

ECO is a digital library containing collections of monographs, serials, and goverment publications related to Canadian history and evolution.
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Early Caribbean Digital Archive

The Early Caribbean Digital Archive (ECDA) is a publicly available archive platform for accessing, researching, and contributing pre-twentieth-century Caribbean archival materials.
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Global Commodities: Trade, Exploration and Cultural Exchange

Global Commodities includes a wide range of manuscript, printed and visual primary-source materials exploring the history of key commodities that changed the world.
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Greater Philadelphia GeoHistory Network

GPGN contains maps, atlases, city directories, site surveys, and more dating from the 17th century through the present day.
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Historic American Buildings Survey and Historic American Engineering Record (HABS/HAER)

The HABS/HAER surveys document achievements in architecture, engineering, and design in the United States and its territories.
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Philadelphia Architects and Buildings

Historical data, digital images, and links to resources documenting buildings and structures within the city of Philadelphia or designed by Philadelphia architects.
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The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record

This educational resource is a digital archive for hundreds of historical images, paintings, lithographs, and photographs illustrating enslaved Africans and their descendants before c. 1900.
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The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia

The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia centers Philadelphia as a city and community in historical and future contexts.

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