Archives

We dig through archives and directories to find our titles. We have found many gems there. More than we could ever hope to re-issue in a lifetime. We will list some of the best archives we have found here.

  • The Library of Congress (https://www.loc.gov/): A huge array of books and images and films. Especially good for American content and anything pre-1900.

  • Google Books (https://books.google.com/): Likewise an endless plethora of books, newspapers and periodicals. They have a fairly well-indexed archive of newspapers and periodicals, as well as a huge array of books.

  • The Internet Archive (https://archive.org/): Has an immense database of music, films, news footage, newspapers, and books. Many newer items have been walled off because of that recent court case, Hachette v. Internet Archive, and so just in the past year or so it’s offerings and functionality have gotten a little bit worse. However, it also archives web pages as well, which lets you get around paywalls.

  • The Rijksmuseum (https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en): The national museum of the Netherlands; an extremely well organized and high quality archive of prints and arts.

  • The Tufts Perseus Digital Library (https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/): A great resource for Greek and Latin works. It is a little clunky, and you need a bit of time to fiddle with it to make it work for you, but we have used it frequently to source or corroborate Greek and Latin quotations and allusions.

  • The open content Getty Collection (https://www.getty.edu/projects/open-content-program/): is another very well maintained archive of images and paintings.

  • The Marxists Internet Archive (https://www.marxists.org/): is a volunteer run and free library of many books and texts and articles. It obviously has lots of Marxist writings, but also hosts anarchists, syndicalists, and a variety of other material that predates Marxism.

  • The University of Bingham archive of printer’s ornaments (https://compositor.bham.ac.uk/): this is a niche treasure trove for people who want to include printer’s ornaments in their works. We have made a little use of it but plan to make fuller use of it in due time.

  • Ball State University Media Repository (https://dmr.bsu.edu/digital/collection/WWIPosters): we have linked to their WW1 poster database, but they have several other collections as well.

  • The Library Company of Philadelphia (https://librarycompany.org/about-lcp/): The Library Company of Philadelphia is an independent research library concentrating on American society and culture from the 17th through the 19th centuries.

  • We must also mention the obvious, the Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page): Huge opensource archive of photos and links to other wikis, and often if you dig into things you can find original source databases and other hosting sites.

We will probably add more to this list as we come across them. We can recommend all of these for your use.