Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection: Link.
May was an American abolitionist who in 1870 donated his collection of anti-slavery materials to Cornell University
Library. The collection now consists of over 10,000 pamphlets, leaflets, broadsides, newsletters of local and
regional anti-slavery societies, sermons, essays, and arguments for and against slavery. The pamphlets have been
digitized (small, medium and lage size, text, .pdf or thumnail presentation) and are searchable by keyword.
Literature for Children: Link.
A collection of the treasures of children's literature published largely in the United States and Great Britain
from before 1850 to beyond 1950. At the core of this Collection are books from the Baldwin Library of Historical
Children's Literature, housed in the Department of Special Collections and Area Studies at the University of Florida.
Option to view text as .PDF.
Historic Government Publications from WWII: Link.
Nearly 300 items. Southern Methodist University, Dallas.
Google Book Search: Link.
Typically offers .pdf versions of non-copyright texts.
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers (Beta): Link.
"This site allows you to search and read newspaper pages from 1900-1910 and find information about American newspapers
published between 1690-present." Full-text searching; sophisticated presentation; offers pdf and JPEG2000 output.
American Libraries: Link.
More than 140,000 items; University of California and other institutions, with support from Microsoft, Yahoo! etc.
under the Open Content Alliance. Note variety of presentations: PDF, TXT, DjVu (plug-in required), Flip Book
(page-by-page presentation typical of Open Content Alliance).
See details here.
University of California has contributed more than 120,000 items.
University of Michigan: Making of America: Link.
Primary source materials for nineteenth century American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction:
10,000 books and 50,000 journal articles; offers a choice of image, text, or .pdf files in normal, large, and small size.
