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15 Sep 09

California, First Person Narratives: General Collections

"California as I Saw It:" First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900 consists of the full texts and illustrations of 190 works documenting the formative era of California's history through eyewitness accounts. The collection covers the dramatic decades between the Gold Rush and the turn of the twentieth century.

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26 Aug 09

Open Collections Program: Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930

Concentrating heavily on the 19th century, Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930, includes approximately 1,800 books and pamphlets as well as 9,000 photographs, 200 maps, and 13,000 pages from manuscript and archival collections.

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21 Aug 09

Harvard Daguerreotypes: Intro #2

Since the invention of photography in 1839, libraries, museums, research institutes, and academic departments at Harvard and Radcliffe have created and collected photographs for use in research and instruction.

Among these millions of images are more than 3,500 daguerreotypes, the first publicly-announced photographic process

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