Digital Collections: Specific Historical Eras

Ancient History

• Duke Papyrus Archive from Duke University
  "The Duke Papyrus Archive provides electronic access to texts about and images of 1,373 papyri from ancient Egypt. You can browse the papyri by subject or search by keyword, and images of each papyrus are available in various magnifications. Background material about papyri and papyrology introduces the archive." (from web site)

Western Costume History

• Costume History at The Costumer's Manifesto
  Western Costume History by Period from Pre-Historic & Babylonian to 2000's.

19th Century Americana

• Harpweek: Explore History
  This commercial site put up by the current publishers of Harper´s Weekly has several thematic units taken from the historical press of the day, including: The Presidential Elections 1860-1884, American Political Prints 1766-1876, Toward Racial Equality 1857-1874, and the American West.
  ** Students should also take note although we do not subscribe to Harpweek´s electronic Harper´s Weekly, we have well over 100 volumes of Harper´s Weekly going back to the first volume in 1850. For more information on this resource lookup Harper´s ... in our Giovale Library Catalog or check the H´s in the Periodical stacks.

Japanese History

• Japanese Historical Maps
  This is a collection of 2,298 maps which had been assembled by Mitsui Takakata (1882-1950). The most unusual part of the collection is the 697 woodblock-print maps (and a few dozen manuscript maps) dating from the Tokugawa period (1600-1867). Especially rare is the collection of Tokugawa city maps: 252 maps of the city of Edo (modern Tokyo), 79 maps of Kyoto, 40 of Osaka, and 30 maps of other cities such as Kanazawa, Nagoya, Nagasaki, and Yokohama, all from the Tokugawa period. Among the earliest maps are those of Osaka (1656), Kyoto (1654-68), and Edo (1676).