Research Guides

Early Imprints and Records - Microform sets and online

NOTE: All sets and print indexes at Mugar Memorial Library unless otherwise indicated.

American Periodical Series: Eighteenth Century
SET CALL NO: Microfilm Z 6951 F42
ACCESS: by reel number
INDIVIDUAL TITLES IN CATALOG? No

American Periodical Series: 1800-1850
SET CALL NO: Microfilm Z 6951 F46
ACCESS: by reel number
INDIVIDUAL TITLES IN CATALOG? No

American Periodical Series: 1850-1900
SET CALL NO: Microfilm Z 6951 F641
ACCESS: by reel number
INDIVIDUAL TITLES IN CATALOG? No

PRINT GUIDE:
XZ 6951 H65.( also Current Periodicals) Hoornstra, Jean, and Heath, Trudy. American periodicals, 1741-1900 : an index to the microfilm collections--American periodicals 18th century, American periodicals, 1800-1850, American periodicals, 1850-1900, Civil War and Reconstruction.

The first two series of this set include virtually all significant periodicals published in colonial America and in the United States through 1850. The third series is very selective, containing only a representative selection of the thousands of periodicals published in the last half of the nineteenth century.

 Early American Periodicals Index to 1850
SET CALL NO: Microprint AI 3 E3M
INDIVIDUAL TITLES IN CATALOG? No

This is an index - or more precisely, 6 indexes - of about 340 American magazines published roughtly from 1730 to 1860. The index categories include a) general prose;  b) fiction;  c) poetry;  d) book reviews;  e) songs and
f) subject file. This is not a full-text source, but the indexes should prove valuable for finding information in the American Periodical Series, above.

Early American Imprints, first series, 1639-1800 (Evans)
SET CALL NO: Microfiche (set arranged by title in Current Periodicals cabinets)
ACCESS: by bibliography number (see print guide below).
INDIVIDUAL TITLES IN CATALOG? No

PRINT GUIDES:
XZ 1215 F03R. Evans, Charles. American Bibliography. A Chronological Dictionary...

XZ 1215 F03R Suppl. Bristol, Roger, Pattrell. Supplement to Charles Evans' American Bibliography.

XZ 1215 F03R Suppl. Index. _____. Index to Supplement to Charles Evans' American Bibliography.

XZ 1215 F69. Shipton, Clifford, K., ed. National Index of American Imprints Through 1800. The Short Title Evans.

This collection, based on Evans' American Bibliography, contains the full text of all known existing boooks, pamphlets and broadsides printed in the United States or British American colonies from 1639 through 1800. It reproduces every non-serial item listed in Evans and additional titles from Bristol's supplement to Evans. Fiche, arranged by 'Evans number', is stored in the Current Periodicals Room cabinets under 'Evans'.
Note regarding Bristol: Only those items with an m.p. number can be found in the microfiche set.

Early American Imprints, second series, 1801-1819 (Shaw)
SET CALL NO: Microprint Z 1215 F56 2nd series
ACCESS: by bibliography number (see print guide below).
INDIVIDUAL TITLES IN CATALOG? No

PRINT GUIDE:
XZ 1215 F58. Shaw, Ralph Robert. American Bibliography: A Preliminary Checklist for 1801-1819.

Early American Newspapers, 1704-1820
SET CALL NO: varies with individual item
ACCESS: by call number and classification number
INDIVIDUAL TITLES IN CATALOG? Yes

PRINT GUIDES:
XZ 6951 F47. Brigham, Clarence. History and Bibliography of American Newspapers 1690-1820.

XZ 6951 F47 Suppl. _____. Additions and Corrections.

The guides are not essential for finding newspapers in the set, but may be useful in tracking title changes.

Pamphlets in American History
SET CALL NO: Mfiche
ACCESS: by item number (see print guide below).
INDIVIDUAL TITLES IN CATALOG?

PRINT GUIDE:
Mugar Micro Ref X Z1236 .P27 v. 1 Pamphlets in American history. edited by Henry Barnard.

5288 pamphlets ranging in date from the mid-eighteenth century through 1964 (mostly 19th century), divided into 5 categories: Revolutionary War, Revolutionary War Biography, Biography (general), Women, and Indians.

The Eighteenth Century (ESTC)
SET CALL NO: Mfilm AC 4 F62
ACCESS: reel number
INDIVIDUAL TITLES IN CATALOG? No

PRINT GUIDE:
Mugar Micro Ref XAC 4 .F62 Index The Eighteenth Century: Guide to the Microfilm Collection.

Microfilm collection based on the British Library's Eighteenth century short title catalogue. The collection consists of approximately 200,000 items selected from the 500,000 titles printed in Great Britain and its colonies or printed in English anywhere else in the world from 1701-1800.

Early English Books, 1475-1640 (Pollard & Redgrave short-title catalogue)
SET CALL NO: Mfilm AC 4 F60
ACCESS: Reel number/ STC number
INDIVIDUAL TITLES IN CATALOG? No
ONLINE ACCESS: English Short Title Catalog or Early English Books Online

PRINT GUIDES:
XZ 2002 p77 1976 3 vols. (Also in Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center) Pollard, Alfred. A short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, and Ireland : and of English books printed abroad 1475-1640. 2nd. ed.

Mugar Reference X Z2002 .W521 1976 v.1 and v.2 Allison, Antony Francis. Titles of English books (and of foreign books printed in England) : an alphabetical finding-list by title of books published under the author's name, pseudonym or initials.

Mugar Reference X AC4 .F60 Cross Index; also in Current Periodicals. Early English books, 1475-1640, selected from Pollard and Redgrave's short-title catalogue; cross index to reels.

English Books, 1641-1700 (Wing)
SET CALL NO: Microfilm AC 4 F61
ACCESS: reel and Wing number
INDIVIDUAL TITLES IN CATALOG? Some, not all
ONLINE ACCESS: English Short Title Catalog or Early English Books Online

PRINT GUIDES:
English books. 1641-1700. Partial list by Wing numbers

Micro AC 4 F61. Cross-index Early English books, 1641-1700, a cross index to the microfilm collection.

X Z2002 .E22 1990. Early English books, 1641-1700 : a cumulative index to units 1-60 of the microfilm collection. 9 vols. Author, title, subject, and wing-number and reel position indexes.

X Z2002 .W52. Wing, Donald Goddard. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700.

This microform set selectively reproduces works listed in Wing's short-title catalog, above.  Many of the titles included are listed individually in the catalog, with reel and wing number provided.

Thomason tracts : [the pamphlets, books, newspapers, and manuscripts relating to the civil war, the commonwealth, and restoration / collected by George Thomason, 1640-1661]
SET CALL NO: Microfilm DA 400 T5M
ACCESS: reel and tract number
INDIVIDUAL TITLES IN CATALOG? No
ONLINE ACCESS: Early English Books Online

PRINT GUIDES:
X Z2018 .T5M . The Thomason tracts, 1640-1661 : an index to the microfilm edition of the Thomason collection of the British Library.

23,926 tracts. Much of this set is duplicated in English Books, 1641-1700.

The trans-Atlantic slave trade [electronic resource] : a database on CD-ROM.

SET CALL NO: workstation 17 in the Mugar Memorial Library Reference area
ACCESS: see description below
INDIVIDUAL TITLES IN CATALOG? No

PRINT GUIDES:
Mugar Reference Desk X HT1322 .T74 1999. The trans-Atlantic slave trade: a database on CD-ROM. Manual.

Chiefly textual data with some image data. Contains records of 27,233 trans-Atlantic slave ship voyages made between 1595 and 1866. Format allows users to track information by time period and geographic region, and includes interactive maps that allow viewers to chart the trans-Atlantic connections. The accompanying data contains materials about people on board, owners and captains, ships' characteristics, and the geographic trajectory of each voyage.

Early Imprints and Records - Microform sets and online