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Early English Books Online (EEBO)
Provides full text, digital images of every book printed in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and every book in the English language printed abroad, from 1475 to 1700. more info
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture;
Science, Industry and Business Library;
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building;
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
Provides full text, digital images of English-language books, pamphlets, broadsides and other materials published in the United Kingdom between 1701-1800.
more info
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture;
Science, Industry and Business Library;
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building;
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Early American Imprints, Series I. Evans (1639-1800)
Provides full text, digital images of books, pamphlets, broadsides and periodicals published in America from 1639-1800. more info
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Branch Libraries;
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture;
Science, Industry and Business Library;
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building;
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Early American Imprints, Series II, Shaw-Shoemaker (1801-1819)
Provides full-text, digital images of books, pamphlets, broadsides, state papers and government publications published in America from 1801-1819. more info
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Branch Libraries;
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture;
Science, Industry and Business Library;
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building;
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
American Broadsides and Ephemera
Digital collection of broadsides printed between 1820-1900 and ephemera, such as invitations, menus and programs, printed between 1760-1900. more info
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Branch Libraries;
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture;
Science, Industry and Business Library;
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building;
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Bibliography of the Hebrew Book
Complete bibliography of Hebrew, Yiddish, and Ladino printed books, 1469-1960. more info
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Branch Libraries;
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture;
Science, Industry and Business Library;
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building;
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Early English books Online Text Creation Partnership
The University of Michigan, the University of Oxford, the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), and ProQuest Information and Learning are engaged in an exceptional partnership to create structured SGML/XML text editions for a significant portion of the Short Title Catalog of Early English books published between 1473 and 1700. ProQuest has already created digital images for nearly 125,000 works, distributed under the title Early English Books Online. more info
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Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
English Short Title Catalogue
Descriptions of English printing from 1473 to 1800. more info
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Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
Evans Digital Edition
see Early American Imprints, Series I. Evans (1639-1800)
Google Book Search
Google Books enables you to search the full-text of scanned books (contributed by The New York Public Library, other libraries and publishers) via the Web, and to read selections of the full-text of these digitized texts. more info
Illustrated Incunable Short-title Catalogue (Illustrated ISTC), 2nd Ed.
Illustrated descriptions for every recorded edition published from movable type from 1450 to 1500. more info
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General Research Division (Room 315 at Stephen A. Schwarzman Building)
Rarebooks.info
Bibliography of rare books available for consultation on the internet. more info
Availability:
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture;
Science, Industry and Business Library;
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building;
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Spanish and Portuguese printing in the Northern Netherlands 1584-1825 -- Only available in HSSL Room 111
A descriptive bibliography of 816 printed works compiled by Harm den Boer, University of Amsterdam. more info
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Dorot Jewish Division (Room 111 at Stephen A. Schwarzman Building)
