Kroch Rare & Manuscripts
Students are welcome to use the unique collections in Kroch Rare and Manuscripts by appointment. Learn more through Tools & Techniques for Archival Research
Olin Library Map Collection
The Map Collection includes historical maps, nternational topographic maps, city plans, nautical charts, geological maps, reproductions of rare or historic maps, aerial photographs, globes, and more.
Scanners and specialize software available for patron use. Staff are available to help scan larger items and digitizing in many instances. For further information and to make an appointment to use the collection, please contact us.
Kroch Asia Library
The Kroch Asia Library holds print and digital sources which are organized under three areas:
For assistance, contact asiaref@cornell.edu
Finding Images
Guide to Finding and Using Images Online - ArtSTOR
ARTstor contains nearly 1.4 million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences, including lots of primary source materials.
Digital Archives
Cornell Resources
- Digital National Security Archive
The National Security Archive is a non-profit research institute and library in Washington, D.C., which provides unprecedented public access to declassified documents obtained through extensive use of the US Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). - Visual history archive
Contains more than 53,000 audiovisual testimonies of survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust and other acts of genocide, recorded in 63 countries and in 40 languages since 1994.
Non-Cornell Resources
In addition to Cornell resources, there are lots of digital archives that have lots of great primary sources in them.
- Calisphere
California Digital Archives. Includes photographs, letters, artwork, oral histories, films, advertisements, and more. - Digital Library of the Caribbean
"Types of collections include but are not limited to: newspapers, archives of Caribbean leaders and governments, official documents, documentation and numeric data for ecosystems, scientific scholarship, historic and contemporary maps, oral and popular histories, travel accounts, literature and poetry, musical expressions, and artifacts." - Latin American & Caribbean Digital Primary Resources
"This site hosts a database of listings that provide links to open access digitized collections of primary sources that relate to Latin America and the Caribbean." - South Asian American Digital Archive
Community archive committed to providing digital access to and preserving materials related to South Asian Americans. - Southeast Asian Archive (UC Irvine)
"Collects, preserves, and makes accessible primary and secondary source materials documenting the history of the Cambodian, Hmong, Laotian, and Vietnamese diaspora." Includes the Vietnamese-American oral history project. - University of Southern California: Digital Archives - Asian-American and Pacific Islander Studies
Materials related to Asian-American and Pacific Islander Studies in the USC digital archives, includes an especially strong collection of materials related to Korean-American studies.
Pre-1980 International News
- Keesing's World News ArchiveCoverage from 1931 until about six years before the present. An authoritative monthly digest of worldwide political, diplomatic and economic affairs with balanced geographical coverage of events.
- ProQuest Historical NewspapersIncludes some international newspapers.
- The Economist Historical Archive.Includes new full-color images, multiple search indexes, exportable financial tables and a gallery of front covers highlighting a key topic of each week.
- The Financial Times Historical ArchiveEvery item ever printed in the paper, from 1888-2010, can be searched and browsed.
- Times [London] Digital ArchiveOffers online, full-text access to the weekday Times from 1785 through 2014.
- ICON: International Coalition on NewspapersBibliographic information only. List of international newspapers preserved on microfilm.
- Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily ReportsCreated by the U.S. intelligence community to benefit policy makers and analysts, FBIS Daily Reports offer foreign views and perspectives on historical events from thousands of monitored broadcasts and publications. Translated into English from more than 50 languages, these comprehensive media reports from around the globe include news, interviews, speeches and editorial commentary. This comprehensive, fully searchable edition of the FBIS Daily Reports covers such topics as political, military and social issues, economics, science and technology for eight world regions from 1941-1996.