Nineteenth Century
Access: Publicly available resource
Description: Searchable database of more than 25,000 separate titles of English-language works on microfiche first published between 1801-1900 and available at the Library of Congress. The collection includes English-language books and pamphlets of research value originally published in all parts of the world except North America. Focus is on: English literature (including imaginative literature by women); linguistics; architecture, design, and the aesthetics of buildings, sculpture and monumental art, graphic design and the decorative arts, perspective proportion and other aesthetic qualities, and photography; texts on every aspect of the manufacture and distribution of books, magazines, newspapers and maps, and also on the rapid growth of libraries of every kind; and British history and civilization during the 19th century (with developments in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Burma and Malaysia). Holdings of the British Library form the basis for the titles selected.
Library of Congress Call Number: Microfiche 88/162
Request in: Microform Reading Room and use the microfiche collection number and the title number found either online or in GUIDE: 136 - The Nineteenth Century: General Collection: A Guide to the Contents of Units 1-49, with supplements, located in the Main Reading Room.
Coverage: 1801-1900
Subject(s):
Art & Architecture
History, Genealogy & Archives
Literature & Language
Publicly Available Resources
Related Databases
Early American Imprints, Series I Evans 1639-1800
Early American Imprints, Series II Shaw-Shoemaker 1801-1819
Early English Books Online
Eighteenth Century Collections Online
Nineteenth Century Masterfile
Sabin Americana 1500-1926
Other Related Links:
Bibliography of Nineteenth-Century Irish Literature
