Digital Collections

American Revolutionary Geographies Online is a new project led by the Leventhal Map and Education Center at the Boston Public Library and the George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon. Leveraging new technology and the recent drive by many museums, libraries, and archives to digitize their collections, the portal collates digitized maps of North America made between 1750 and 1800 into a single user-friendly portal.

5,000 accurately keyed and fully searchable SGML/XML text editions from among the 40,000 titles available in the online Evans Early American Imprints which is based on Charles Evans' comprehensive <i>American Bibliography</i>.

Broadsides, playbills, posters, music programs, menus, and ephemera.

This is a collaborative project between the Center for Popular Music and the American Antiquarian Society to inventory, catalog, digitize, and provide web-based public access to their extensive music manuscripts collections. It concerns manuscripts inscribed before 1910 that are mainly American in provenance, with contents that are preponderantly vernacular in style.

A digital project of the Congregational Library & Archives that digitizes and provides access to early New England Congregational church records from approximately 1620 to 1850 including letters, sermons, diaries, conversion narratives, church disciplinary cases, and account books.

Issues of Harper’s Weekly, America's leading 19th century illustrated newspaper, from 1857 to 1912.

DTA virtually merges disparate archival collections, digital materials, and independent projects with a single search engine. 

Scholarly transcriptions of African American literature, with basic editing and apparatus.