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Email: microfms@princeton.edu
Phone: (609) 258-3252
Fax: (609) 258-4105

The microforms collection contains titles in many disciplines in the following formats: microfilm, microfiche, microprint and CD-ROM. The collection parallels the general collection of print materials and consists of books, newspapers, manuscripts, government publications, dissertations and other materials. It includes retrospective and current publications, in English and other languages, with a wide geographic representation. In addition it contains printed guides and indexes.

Circulation Policy: Microforms and CDs do not circulate

Major Collections and Titles of Interest:  

American periodical series: MICROFILM S01434
Online access:
APS ONLINE
Series 1: 18th Century. This series includes all issues of American periodicals which could be located for the years 1741-1800.
Series 2: 1800-1850. This series includes approximately 900 titles published in America between 1800 and 1850. The subjects include literature, the arts, slavery, agriculture, science, technology, and medicine, as well as ethnic juvenile publications. 
Series 3: 1850-1900. This series includes approximately 120 selected American periodicals dealing with literature, the arts, and the sciences.  Main Catalog

Bibliotheca Palatina: MICROFICHE 1685
Druckschriften - Stampati Palatini - Printed Books: 
For accompanying index  see (FilmB) Z2373.B524 1999q. Main Catalog
For more descriptive information see: http://www.ub.uni- heidelberg.de/helios/fachinfo/www/kunst/digi/welcome.html

Early American Imprints:  MICROFICHE 802
Online access: Early American Imprints, Series One and Early American Imprints, Series Two
This collection is divided into two series: Evans and Shaw-Shoemaker.  It  includes the full text of non-serial items (books, pamphlets and broadsides) printed between 1639 and 1819 in the United States. Series I: The Evans Bibliography, 1639-1800, is on microfiche.  Series II: The Shaw-Shoemaker Bibliography, 1801-1819 is on micro-opaque. Main Catalog

Early English Books: 0930.922, 0419.922
Online access: EEB Online
(Pollard and Redgrave, STC I), 1475-1640, (Wing, STC II), 1641-1700, Thomason tracts; includes pamphlets, books, newspapers, and manuscripts, collected by George Thomason, 1640-1661.  For accompanying index  see (FilmB) Z2002.U5862. Main Catalog  

Early English newspapers: MICROFILM S00509  
English newspaper titles originally published between 1603 and 1860. A comprehensive collection of more than 800 early newspapers representing metropolitan London, areas outside London, and colonial possessions, excluding America. Most are from the eighteenth century, but seventeenth-century corantos, diurnals, and newsbooks are also included.  Main Catalog

French Revolutionary Pamphlets on MICROCARDS
The collection covers the period 1787-1800, and examines the French Revolution, more specifically, the period of the National Constituent Assembly. These pamphlets form a composite picture of this period of French politics, religion, economy, and culture. Main Catalog
For descriptive information see: http://www.library.utoronto.ca/robarts/microtext/collection/pages/frrevpmc.html,  also http://www.nla.gov.au/libraries/resource/alctf/nla7.doc

Goldsmith-Kress Library of Economic Literature: MICROFILM S00656
Online access: Making of the Modern World Online
The Goldsmiths' Kress Library of Economic Literature alone represents the text of more than 60,000 economic and business primary sources from the last half of the 15th to the end of the 19th century.


Great Britain. House of Commons. Parliamentary Papers: MICROFICHE 838
Online access: HCPP Online
This collection contains British Sessional Papers from the 18th to 20th centuries.  It is one of the most valuable collections of government papers in the world. It contains important primary source materials for the study of nearly three centuries of British history, politics and society.  The Sessional Papers are part of the British Parliamentary Papers.

Incunabula: The Printing Revolution in Europe, 1455-1500: MICROFICHE 1545
This collection is  based on the Incunabula Short Title Catalogue (ISTC) at the British Library, which contains the earliest examples of printed books, pamphlets and documents printed before 1500, many of which are extremely rare. The collection is provided in units. For accompanying guides see (FilmB) Z240.A1I528q.  Main Catalog  
For online guide see: http://www.galegroup.com/servlet/BrowseSeriesServlet?region=9&imprint=000&titleCode=PSM7&edition=

Landmarks of Sciences I & II:  MICROPRINT

Landmarks of Science II consists of two separate parts: monographs and scientific journals. 

Nineteenth Century Legal Treatises: MICROFICHE 806

Online access: Making of Modern Law Online

Set contains monographs on all aspects of American and British law published in the 19th century. 
Excluded from the set are reference works and primary sources. Main Catalog

Slavery, source material and critical literature: MICROFICHE 199

Includes anti-slavery society papers, speeches, histories, censuses of slaves, plays, songs and hymns about slaves, and letters of travelers. Main Catalog

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November 14, 2007