Online Biographical Indexes
- African American Biographical Database: AABD. Chadwyck Healey.Includes all entries from the print index, Black Biography, 1790-1950: A Cumulative Index, described below.
Includes content not covered on our microfiche sets (Microfiche 6 and Microfiche 11). Searchable biographical information on African Americans. Covers Chadwyck-Healey's microform collection, Black Biographical Dictionaries, 1790-1950, and obituary files, slave narrative collections, photographs, and illustrations. Biographical portraits from newly uncovered dictionaries as well as from other published reference sources, obituary files, slave narrative collections, internet sites, are added as the database expands.
Print Biographical Indexes
- Black Biography, 1790-1950: A Cumulative Index.Call Number: Olin Reference E 185.96 .B616; Africana Reference E 185.96 .B533 and E 185.96 .B533 Suppl.Alexandria, VA: Chadwyck-Healey, 1991. 3 volumes plus supplement.
Ann Arbor: Bell & Howell, 2000.
Use African American Biographical Database: AABD.
The print volumes index the full text of the biographies on microfiche published by Chadwyck-Healey and available from the Library Annex: Microfiche 6 consists of 297 fiche. Microfiche 11 consists of 50 fiche of supplemental content. - IBN: Index Bio-bibliographicus Notorum HominumCall Number: Uris Library Stacks Z 5301 .L79 +Publication Date: 1972-2018. Subscription cancelled after 2018.Osnabruk: Feliz Detrich Verlag
201 volumes in part C, section 1. Entries through Petit, Jean.
Part C: Corpus alphabeticum, section 1: Sectio generalis consists of brief entries that list famous people from all countries and all historical time periods, including birth and death dates and places, a brief statement of occupation and a list of biographical sources in which information on or portraits of a person are published. Part B (1973) lists the biographical publications cited in this work used to that date; it is shelved in Olin Reference Z 5301 .L79 (List of the Evaluated Works) - Index to Spanish American Collective BiographyCall Number: Library Annex Z 1609 .B6 M96Boston: G.K. Hall, 1981. 4 volumes.
Series: Reference Publications in Latin American Studies.
Index to collective biographies of Spanish America, including general and specialized biographical dictionaries; Who's Who (and Quién es Quién) volumes; and general and subject encyclopedias. Also includes some literary anthologies and histories as sources of biography.