The University of Iowa Libraries

Featured Collections from the Iowa Digital Library

• diyhistory.lib.uiowa.edu

  DIY History

  Help contribute to scholarship by transcribing digitized manuscripts and tagging historic photographs

• digital.lib.uiowa.edu/byington

  Iowa Byington Reed Diaries

  Fifty years of diaries, ca. 1870s-1930s, from the Iowa Women’s Archives

• digital.lib.uiowa.edu/cookbooks

  Szathmary Culinary Manuscripts and Cookbooks

  Handwritten cookbooks, ca. 1600s-1960s, documenting culinary history in America and Europe

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  Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO)

  NCCO provides literally millions of pages of primary resource material, as well as a collection of European literature, from the "long" 19th century, roughly 1790-1918.
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  Confidential Print: Middle East, 1839-1969

  Confidential Print: Middle East, 1839-1969 covers the whole of modern British involvement in North Africa and the Middle East.
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  Confidential Print: Africa, 1834-1966

  Confidential Print: Africa, 1834-1966 covers the whole of the modern period of European colonization of Africa. Documents range from single-page letters or telegrams to comprehensive dispatches, investigative reports and texts of treaties.
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