This guide is a list of the major microfilm
collections in Sprague Library. All are housed in the Multimedia
Resources Department.
Faculty members who want to use a microfiche
collection are strongly encouraged to contact Chung Lone, Head of
the Multimedia Resources Department (x7153).
American Colonial
Reports (Microfilm no. 98)
These reports
include the Acts of the General Assembly of the Province of New Jersey, from
the Surrender of the Government to Queen Anne, on the 17th day of
April, in the year of our Lord 1702, to the 14th day of January
1776.
Annals of Congress, v.
1-10 (Microfilm no.53)
A compilation of
House and Senate debates and proceedings in Congresses, 1789-1824 that is
continued by the Register of Debates in Congress (microfilm no. 53).
The Carter Family
Papers, 1659-1797 (Microfilm no. 78)
This is a
collection of land documents and correspondence of the Carter family; and
diaries of Landon Carter and Wormely Carter that are in the Sabine Hall
Collection at the University of Virginia Library.
Checklist of U.S.
Public Documents, 1789-1970: Indexes (Microfilm no.76)
A multi-volume set
of the Superintendent of Documents public documents shelflists and
accompanying indexes.
Cobbett’s Parliamentary
History of England: 1066-1803, volumes 1-36 (Microfilm no. 75)
"Proceedings in the
Parliament of Scotland, from the meeting of the new parliament on the 6th
of May, 1706, to the union with England, in the year 1707."
Congressional
Globe (Microfilm no. 53)
Congressional reports from the period 1833 to
1873. Preceded by the Register of Debates in Congress (microfilm no. 53) and
continued by the Congressional Record (filed with periodicals on microfilm).
Dissertation Abstracts
(Microfilm no. 112, 266/6, 270/4, 270/21)
A collection of abstracts of doctoral
dissertations and monographs for volumes 1-32B, 1938-June 1972.
Dunbar Collection
(Microfilm no. 278)
A collection of the Paul Laurence Dunbar and
Alice Dunbar Nelson papers, 1873 to 1942, comprising approximately 10,000
items.
Editorial Research
Reports (Microfilm no.136)
Each Editorial Research Report treats a
subject that is in the news or likely to be in the news in the near future.
The importance of the subject and major issues, an examination of
background, and possible future developments are discussed. The microfilm
covers the period from January 1955 to December 1972.
(Newer reports available online -- now known as
CQ Researcher)
Fact-finding Commission
on Columbia Disturbances/ Proceedings (Microfilm no. 55)
22 volumes proceedings of the Cox Commission
testimony for the Columbia University disturbances in 1968.
FBI Files (Microfilm
279-281, 309)
Documents declassified from the FBI's
surveillance of the following people and groups.
Malcolm X (Microfilm no. 309)
Paul Robeson (Microfilm no. 279)
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (Microfilm no.
280)
Reverend Jesse Jackson (Microfilm no. 281)
Great Britain. Colonial
Office. Reports
Iraq, 1920-1932 (Microfilm no. 94)
Cameroons, 1920-38 (Microfilm no. 67)
Palestine and Trans-Jordan, 1920-1938 (Microfilm no. 62)Tanganyka,
(Microfilm no. 95)
Tongoland, 1920-1938 (Microfilm no.68)
Union of South Africa Report on Southwest Africa, 1918-1938 (Microfilm no.
63)
Herstory (Microfilm no.
74)
More than 400 titles assembled from the
holdings of the International Women's History (Periodical) Archive at the
Women's History Research Center, the collection comprises 821 newsletters,
journals and newspapers published by and about women's liberation, civic,
professional, religious and peace groups. Most of the material included was
published between 1968 and 1974; some titles, however, date back as far as
1956.
Italian Books Before
1601 (Microfilm no. 100)
This collection is based on, but not
restricted to, titles in the British Museum's Short-Title Cataglous,
and includes important fifteenth and sixteenth century printed books in all
fields that were printed or written in Italian before 1601. (reels 1-201)
Italian Books, 1601-1700
(Microfilm no. 101)
This collection includes material in all
fields but focuses on significant source books, basic editions for textual
studies, and other cornerstone titles.
Journals
of the Continental Congress 1774-1789, volumes 1-14 (Microfilm no. 69)
The Journals and Records of the Continental
Congress supplemented by information gathered from the endorsements made
upon papers and reports put before Congress.
New York Philharmonic
Program Notes (Microfilm no.108)
This multi-volume set covers Season 1-132,
1842-1974 and includes a composer, conductor, and artist index.
Newark Academy
(Microfilm no. 274)
Minutes of the Board of Trustees for the
Newark Academy dating back to 1792.
Papers
of Albert Gallatin (Microfilm no. 57)
The papers of Albert Gallatin (1761-1849),
Secretary of the Treasury for Presidents Jefferson and Madison.
Papers
of the American Association for Labor Legislation, 1905-1943 (Microfilm
no.97)
This collection of 71 microfilm reels is part
of the manuscript collections of the Labor Management Documentation Center,
New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University.
The
Parliamentary History of England from the Earliest Period to the Year 1803
by William Cobbett, volumes 1-36 (Microfilm no.75)
This is a retrospective compilation of
debates in the House of Commons and Lords. This collection is continued by
Parliamentary Debates (Microfiche no. 21).
Paul Laurence Dunbar Collection SEE Dunbar Collection
(Microfilm no. 278)
Proceedings / Democratic
Party National Convention (Microfilm no. 70)
Proceedings for 1832-1956 of the Democratic
National Conventions, providing gavel to gavel coverage, including speeches,
debates, votes, and party platforms. Also included are lists of names and
addresses of convention delegates and alternates. The records of earliest
proceedings are based in part on contemporary newspaper accounts.
Proceedings of the Fact
Finding Commission (Microfilm no.55)Transcript
of the testimony set before the commission (May 7, 1968) charged with
investigating the events leading up and the underlying causes of the
disturbances on the campus of Columbia University, New York that occurred in
the 1960s.
Proceedings of the
Republican National Convention (Microfilm no.71)
Proceedings for 1856-1960 of the Republican
National Conventions, providing gavel to gavel coverage of the conventions,
including speeches, debates, votes, and party platforms. Also included are
lists of names and addresses of convention delegates and alternates. The
records of the earliest proceedings are based in part on contemporary
newspaper accounts.
Register of Debates in
Congress, volumes 1-14 (Microfilm no. 53)
A compilation of
summaries of congressional debates from 1825-1837. Preceded by the Annals
of Congress (microfilm no. 53) and continued by the Congressional
Globe (microfilm no. 53).
Reports of the League of
Nations
Pacific Basin & New Guinea, 1914/21-1938
(Microfilm no. 103)New Zealand: Mandated Territory of Western Samoa,
1920/21-1925 (Microfilm no. 104)
Second Annual Report on Japan’s Mandated Territory, 1921 (Microfilm no. 105)
Report on the Administration of Nauru 1920/21 (Microfilm no. 106)
Syria and Libya , 1922/3-1938 (Microfilm no. 96)
Tanganyika Territory (Microfilm no. 95)
Schomburg Collection of
Negro Literature and History: A Selection of Titles (Microfilm no.80-83,
109, 281-308)
New York Public Library’s library and archive
of materials on all aspects of Black history, arts, and civilization
International in scope, it includes books by authors of African descent,
regardless of subject matter or language and all significant materials about
people of African descent. Approximately 60 periodicals and 125 works and
collections of works relating to Black culture are included in the first
series. Some of the titles include:
Calendar of the Manuscripts in the Schomburg Collection of
Negro Literature (Microfilm no. 83)
Liberator (Microfilm no. 283 and 299)
Messenger (Microfilm no. 286)
Muhammed Speaks (Microfilm no. 295)
New Nigerian (Microfilm no. 294)
Rebellion Record (Microfilm no. 80)
A Selection of Titles, Series II (Microfilm no. 109)
Workers Voice (Microfilm no. 285)
Works by Charles Waddell Chesnutt, 1899-1905, volumes 1-7 (Microfilm no. 81)
The Writings of William Wells Brown, 1815-1884 (Microfilm no. 82)
The Soviet Union,
1946-1976 (Microfilm no. 275)
CIA Research Reports on the military activity
of the Soviet Union published in 1982.
Third Party Presidential
Nominating Conventions, Proceedings, Records, Etc.(Microfilm no. 73)
Includes proceedings from the American Party,
1856, 1888; the Anti-Masonic Party, 1830-1836; the Constitutional Union
Party, 1860, 1869; Free Soil Party, 1848-1852; Greenback Party, 1876-1884,
Liberty Party, 1840-1852.
United States Decennial
Census Publications, 1790-1970 (Microfilm no.77)
U.S. Census reports conducted every ten years
by the Federal Government.
US Military Intelligence
Reports: Surveillance of Radicals in the United States, 1917-1941 (Microfilm
no. 272)
The selections for this publication are drawn
from two series of National Archives and Records Service Record Group 165:
primarily from file series 10110 and, to a lesser extent, from file series
10058. Taken together, these two file series contain the most significant
reports on American radicals between 1917 and 1941 in the records of the
Military Intelligence Division.
Wright American Fiction
Collection, 1774 - 1900 (Microfilm no. 112)
The Wright Collection, based on Lyle Wright's
bibliography of American fiction, is a microfilm collection of American
editions of prose fiction written by Americans (or who claim the United
States as their home) and published between 1774 and 1900. The collection
contains over 10,827 titles and the volumes in the collection have been
filmed in their entirety. The type of prose included are novels, romances,
tales, short stories, fictitious biographies, travels, sketches, allegories,
and tract-like tales. The indexes provide author, title and chronological
access to the collection.
Last updated: Sept. 11,
2006
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