Library Guides: Historical Primary Sources: United States: Mid-Atlantic

Regional Sources

New Jersey

Documents relating to the colonial, revolutionary and post-revolutionary history of the State of New Jersey
Call Number: J87 .N5 v. 1-42 Main (Gardner) Stacks
Printed collection of colonial documents

New Jersey State Library Digital Collection
Selection of digitized resources from the State Library
New Jersey Digital Highway
Portal for digital collections from New Jersey libraries, museums, archives, and historical societies
New Jersey State Archives Imaged Collections
7,100 images from State Archives photograph and manuscript collections
Pinelands Folklife Project
The culmination of a three-year effort to identify and record the cultural traditions in and around the Pinelands National Reserve in the Pine Barrens region of southern New Jersey in the mid-1980s.
Working in Paterson: Occupational Heritage in an Urban Setting
This collection presents 470 interview excerpts and 3882 photographs from the Working in Paterson Folklife Project of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. The four-month study of occupational culture in Paterson, New Jersey, was conducted in 1994.

New York

Brooklyn Public Library Digital Collections
Includes historical photographs, maps, documents, and audio and video recordings. Digitized newspapers can be found at the Brooklyn Newstand.
Carnegie Corporation of New York Digital Archive
This website provides a portal into the Corporation’s philanthropy from the 1870s to the 21st century.
Columbia Historical Corporate Reports Online Collection
Corporate annual reports from New York-based companies dating from 1850s to 1960s
Digital Harlem
Project depicts everyday life in Harlem between 1915 and 1930 using legal records and mapping
Hudson River Valley Heritage
Collections from libraries and heritage institutions that document the history and culture of the Hudson River Valley.
Moving Beyond "Rags to Riches"
Provides access to original documents chronicling the lives of New York’s pre-Civil War immigrant community, focusing on the "Famine Irish" who immigrated in the late 1840s and early 1850s.
New York City Municipal Archives Online Gallery
More than 800,000 photographs, maps, and motion picture and audio recordings
New York Heritage Digital Collections
Collections represent a broad range of historical, scholarly, and cultural materials held in libraries, museums, and archives throughout the state. Collection items include photographs, letters, diaries, directories, maps, newspapers, books, and more.
New York Public Library Digital Collections
Includes illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints, photographs and more.
New York Real Estate Brochure Collection
Over 3000 images that document real estate development in the five boroughs of New York from the 1920s to the 1970s
New York State Historical Literature
More than 600 books and pamphlets on New York State history
New York State Library Digital Collections
Various collections documenting the history of New York State
NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project
Maps and records present and possible future lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (lgbt) historic sites in New York City.

Pennsylvania

Bethlehem Digital History Project
Collection of primary sources dealing with the history of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, from 1741 through 1844

Colonial Records of Pennsylvania
Call Number: J87 .P39 v. 1-16 Main (Gardner) Stacks
Sixteen volumes containing the minutes of the Provincial Council, 1683-1775, in Volumes I-X; those of the Council of Safety (and of the Committee of Safety), 1775-1777, in X and XI; and those of the Supreme Executive Council, 1777-1790, in XI-XVI. Digitized at HathiTrust: http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000540855

General index to the Colonial records, in 16 volumes, and to the Pennsylvania archives [1st series] in 12 volumes
Greater Philadelphia GeoHistory Network
Maps, property atlases, city directories, industrial site surveys, and other materials documenting the history and development of Philadelphia from 1600s to the present.
Historic Pittsburg
Collection of local resources that supports personal and scholarly research of the western Pennsylvania area
Historical Society of Pennsylvania Digital Library
A growing online repository of images from the Historical Society of Pennsylvania's collection. There are more than 60,000 images in the database, including photographs, artwork, maps, manuscripts, as well as archived video and audio records.
Life in Western Pennsylvania
Contains over 800 photographs and 12 films from collections held at the Senator John Heinz History Center in Pittsburgh.
National Council of Jewish Women Oral History Project
500 oral history interviews focused on the Jewish community of Pittsburgh

The Papers of William Penn
Call Number: F152.2 .P3956 1981 v. 1-5 Main (Gardner) Stacks
Printed collection of Penn's papers.

Penn State University Library Digital Collections
Variety of collections include Sanborn fire insurance maps for the state, images, and books

Pennsylvania Archives
Call Number: J87 .P4 Main (Gardner) Stacks
Continues Colonial Records, in 9 series. Many of the volumes are available full text through HathiTrust. Search the catalog for the title Pennsylvania Archives

Philadelphia Neighborhoods
A web presentation of the full content of almost 90 neighborhood planning surveys prepared and published by the Philadelphia City Planning Commission between 1946 and 1990.
PhillyHistory.org
Historic photos of the Philadelphia area
State Library of Pennsylvania Digital Collections
Collection includes newspapers, images, government reports, and more
University of Pittsburgh Library Digital Collections
The ULS has digitized over 200,000 unique objects from several special collecting units, including the Archives & Special Collections and Center for American Music as well as several Pitt Faculty members and regional partner institutions.

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