U.S. Civil War History Selected Primary and Secondary Sources - Research Guide

sources AND slavery
massachusetts AND 54th AND civil

Consult with the staff in Van Pelt Library's Special Collection Department (6th floor east) to find unpublished letters, diaries, journals, and other manuscript materials available here at Penn. Manuscripts are not listed in the card catalog, and only a few manuscripts are in Franklin at present.

B. Major Sets of Primary Sources at Penn

The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography

Full text slave narratives from Federal Writers' Project. See fuller description below.

The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography. Ed. by George P. Rawick, Jan Hillegas and Ken Lawrence. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1972-1979.

The main set (vols. 2-17) consists of transcriptions of narratives collected under the direction of the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1939, and initially published under the title "Slave Narratives: a folk history of slavery in the United States from interviews with former slaves." Supplements are texts of oral histories from other sources.

[Afro-American Studies Seminar: E444.A45 and suppls.]

Index to The American Slave. Edited by Donald M. Jacobs. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1981.

Lists all 3500 narrators by name with date, age, occupation, and state in which each was a slave. Also indexed by state and by occupation.

[Afro-American Studies Seminar: E444.A45 suppl. 3]

Accessible Archives.

Full text historical newspaper articles. One collection is titled "The Civil War: a Newspaper Perspective", and includes selected articles from The New York Herald, The Charleston Mercury, and the Richmond Enquirer

American Periodical Series.

Includes digitized images of the pages of 1,100 American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century.

American Women's Diaries. Southern Women. New Canaan: Readex Film Products, 1988-1990.

Thirty-two diaries written in the 19th century and usually spanning the Civil War have been microfilmed. The originals are held by major research universities, state archives, and historical societies in the South. The finding guide (ask at the Microforms Desk) provides succinct biographical information and summarizes the diaries' coverage.

[Van Pelt Library Microtext: Microfilm 3722]

AP Photo Archive.

Photos: 1840 to present.

Confederate States of America. Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Confederacy, including the Diplomatic Correspondence, 1861-1865. Nashville: U.S. Pub. Co. 2 vols.

[Van Pelt Library Stacks: 973.7D C762.3]

Confederate States of America. Congress. Journal of the Congress of the Confederate States of America. Reprinted in U.S. Congress. serials set Senate Document #234 / 58 Cong. 2nd Session 4610-4616. 7 vols. Washington: GPO, 1904-1905.

[Van Pelt Library Stacks: J 74 A22]

Confederate Imprints, 1861-1865. New Haven: Research Publications, 1974. 143 reels.

Reproduces text of most of the titles published in the Confederacy and listed in the Crandall/Harwell bibliographies. Reel index at Reference: E 484.R48 1974.

[Van Pelt Library Microtext: Microfilm 3517]

Crisis of the Union.

Major collection of primary resources available in digital format online. "comprised of pamphlets, books, broadsides, cartoons, clippings, paintings, maps, and other print memorabilia about America from circa 1830 to 1880."

Freedom, a Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867. NY: Cambridge University Press, 1982-

Reproduces source documents from the National Archives. Volumes published to date include: The Black Military Experience; The Wartime genesis of free labor; The Destruction of slavery. Slaves no more.

[Van Pelt Library Stacks: E 185.2 F88 ser 1. v.1-]

HarpWeek: The Civil War Era

Harper's Weekly was one of the leading American journal during the Civil War Period. This database contains the full text and all the images from 1857 through 1865. The journal was an influential shaper of public opinion and a major source for war reporting.

Making of America

Making of America (MOA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.

Cornell Site (particularly strong for journals)

University of Michigan Site (particularly strong for books)

Miller, Francis Trevelyan. The Photographic History of the Civil War. NY: T. Yoseloff, 1957. 10 v.

[Van Pelt Library Stacks: E 468.7 M64 1957]

Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War. [microform]. Frederick, MD.: University Publications of America, 1985-

A massive, ongoing project that has already reproduced 845 reels of diaries, letters, and accounts from libraries and archives across the South. Reel guides provide basic information on the activities of the plantation and the contents of the records. Kenneth Stampp is general editor. through the Civil War. [microform]. Frederick, MD.: University Publications of America, 1985-

[Van Pelt Library Microtext: Microfilm 3880]

Schwaab, Eugene L. Travels in the Old South, selected from periodicals of the times. Lexington: Univ. Press of Kentucky, 1973. 2 vols.

Supplements separately published travel accounts. Includes representative sampling of accounts published from 1783 to 1860, generally by professionals or businessmen, but also includes settler's letters to friends back home.

[Van Pelt Library Stacks: F 213.S38]

Southern Historical Society Papers. Richmond: Virginia Historical Society. v. 1-52; 1976-1959.

Accompanied by index.

[Van Pelt Library Stacks: E 483.7 S76]

United States. Congress. Serials Set.

The "Serials Set" is the sequentially numbered set of bound volumes of Congressional Reports and Documents. However, in the 19th century approximately 50% of the titles included in the Serials Set came from the Executive branch (e.g. the President, War Department, etc.) so in a sense it is a source for all types of government publications and is the official record of the United States Government.

[Van Pelt Library Stacks: J 74 A22]

The main index to the Serial Set is The Congressional Information Service Serial Set Index (C.I.S Index). It is arranged by groups of congresses which, in effect, means it is arranged by date (e.g.: Part II, 35th-45th Congresses, 1857-1879). Using the subject index to locate documents gives entries providing document title, publication series (e.g.: H. Rp. 577), congress and session (e.g.: 43-2) and serial volume number (e.g.: 477). If, as is frequently the case, only the Congress and Report or Document number are known, the Serial Set volume number can be located by using the Finding Lists volume of the CIS Index. A third volume list names of individuals and organizations.

United States. Surgeon General's Office. The Medical and Surgical History of the Civil War. Wilmington: Broadfoot Pub. Co., 1990-1992. 12 v.

Originally published by the U.S. Government Printing Office, 1870-1888.

[Van Pelt Library Stacks: RD 205.U5 1990]

United States. Navy Department. Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion. 30 vols. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1885-1922.

[Van Pelt Library Stacks: 973.74D Un34]

United States. War Department. The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. 130 vols. Washington: 1880-1901. and accompanying Atlas.

[Van Pelt Library Stacks: 973.74D Un3]

Usually referred to as the Official Records of the Rebellion or Official Records, [Army or Navy] and consists of a vast array of document texts and types. Memos, court proceedings, and other primary documents form the basis of the two sets. The documents are pulled together around specific topics (e.g. Texas surrender.) The documents were for the most part copied from originals but it must be remembered that late 19th century ideas about document reproduction were vastly different than today, so there are limitations. The Official Records, Army is broken down into four sets: I) military operations II) prisoners III) Union authorities IV) Confederate authorities. The atlas is a fifth section.

Indexes:
The indexes which are shelved at the end of the set are most detailed for names. They index the indexes of the text volumes which are included in each volume. References, then, are to another index not a specific page (i.e. North Carolina Troops, 9th Militia, I, 11 means to look in the index to series I, volume 1 )

[Van Pelt Library Stacks: Folio 973.74D Un3]

United States. National Archives and Record Service. Military Operations of the Civil War: a Guide-Index to the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, 1861-1865. 5 vols. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1968-1980.

Not really an index, but a guide to the Official Records, Army which gives a broad outline of the contents and tables of different kinds to facilitate use of the index discussed above.

[Van Pelt Library Stacks: 973.74D Un.3.1]

Dyer, Frederick Henry. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. NY: T. Yoseloff, 1959. 3 vols.

Companion to the Official Records. Vol. 1 covers number and organization of the armies. Vol. 2 is a chronological record of skirmishes and battles. Vol. 3 is a bibliography of regimental histories.

[Van Pelt Library Stacks: 973.7 D983]

Aimone, Alan. A User's Guide to the Official Records of the American Civil War. Shippensburg: White Mane Pub. Co., 1993.

[Van Pelt Library Reference Stacks: E 464.A35 1993]

C. Bibliographies of Additional Primary Source Collectionsa

Addis, Patricia K. Through a Woman's I: An Annotated Bibliography of American Women's Autobiographical Writings, 1946-1976. Metuchen: Scarecrow, 1983.

See "Civil War Experience" in the "Index of Narratives." (The period 1946-1976 in the title refers to the years of publication covered by this bibliography.)

[Van Pelt Library Reference Stacks: CT 3260 A32 1983]

The American Civil War: A Handbook of Literature and Research. Edited by Steven E. Woodworth. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996.

Short signed selective bibliographical essays on resources (e.g., memoirs, unpublished manuscript collections, maps) and topics (e.g., the home front, strategy of the war) that identify primary sources and compare recent secondary writings.

[Van Pelt Reference Stacks: E 458 .A47 1996]

American Autobiography, 1945-1980: A Bibliography. Ed. by Mary Louise Briscoe. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1982.

Includes autobiographies written in the nineteenth century but published after 1945. See "Civil War," "Reconstruction Era," and related headings in the index.

[Van Pelt Library Reference Stacks: CT 220 A44 1982]

American Diaries: An Annotated Bibliography of Published American Diaries and Journals Vol. 2: Diaries Written from 1845-1980. Ed. by Laura Arksey et al. Detroit: Gale, 1983.

[Van Pelt Library Reference Stacks: CT 214 A74 1983 v.2]

Includes many Civil War diaries. Chronological arrangement, with name, subject and geographic indexes.

 

Bartlett, John Russell. The Literature of the rebellion, a catalogue of books and pamphlets relating to the Civil War in the United States... Westport, CT: Negro Universities Press, 1970. Reprint of 1866 edition.

[Van Pelt Library Stacks: Z 1242 B2 1970]

 

Beers, Henry Putney. The Confederacy: A Guide to the Archives of the Government of the Confederate States of America. Washington: National Archives and Records Administration, 1986.

[Van Pelt Library Reference Stacks: CD 3047 B4 1986]

 

Bosse, David C. Civil War Newspaper Maps: A Cartobibliography of the Northern daily press. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1993.

[Van Pelt Library Stacks: GA 405.5 B68 1993]

 

Clark, Thomas D. Travels in the New South: A Bibliography Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1962. Vol 1: 1865-1900.

Over 500 annotated entries of travel accounts by American and European visitors to the South. Includes also guides, directories, surveys and promotional materials.

[Van Pelt Library Reference Stacks: Z 1251 S7 C38]

Clark, Thomas D. Travels in the Old South, a bibliography. Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1956-.

Lists travel accounts beginning with 1527. Vol. 3 covers ante-bellum South, 1825-1860.

[Van Pelt Library Reference Stacks: Z 1251 S7 C4]

 

Cline, Cheryl. Women's Diaries, Journals, and Letters: An Annotated Bibliography. NY: Garland, 1989.

[Van Pelt Library Reference Stacks: CT 3230 C55 1989]

 

Cole, Garold. Civil War Eyewitnesses: An Annotated Bibliography of Books and Articles, 1955-1986. Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1988.

Includes 1395 diaries, letters, autobiographies, etc., which were published in journals or as books. Annotated.

[Van Pelt Library Reference Stacks: E 601 C78 1988]

 

Coulter, E. Merton. Travels in the Confederate States: A Bibliography. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1948.

Almost 500 annotated entries, including memoirs, regimental histories, prison accounts and published diaries.

[Van Pelt Library Reference Stacks: Z 1251.S7 C68]

 

Dornbusch, Charles Emil. Regimental publications & personal narratives of the Civil War: a checklist. NY: New York Public Library, 1961-1972.

3 vols. v. 1. Northern States [in 7 pts.] v. 2. Regimental publications and personal narratives: Southern, Border, and Western States and Territories; Federal troops; Union and Confederate biographies v. 3. General references; Armed forces; and campaigns and battles.

[Van Pelt Library Reference Stacks: E470.D67 1961]

 

Dumond, Dwight Lowell. A Bibliography of antislavery in America . Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1961.

Comprehensive listing of printed antislavery literature written by those active in the movement. British antislavery titles included only if widely circulated in the US. Only selected speeches in Congress are included.

[Van Pelt Library Reference Stacks: Z1249 S6 D8]

 

Freeman, Frank R. Microbes and Minie Balls: an Annotated Bibliography of Civil War Medicine. Rutherford: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1993.

Half of this volume lists primary sources relating to medicine.

[Van Pelt Library Reference Stacks: E 621.F74 1993]

 

Guide to Civil War Maps in the National Archives. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1986.

[Van Pelt Library Stacks: E 468.G85 1986]

 

Havlice, Patricia. And So to Bed: A Bibliography of Diaries Published in English. Metuchen: Scarecrow Press, 1987.

Can be used to supplement American Diaries (above).

[Van Pelt Reference Stacks: CT 25 H38 1987]

 

Kaplan, Louis. A Bibliography of American Autobiographies. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1961.

A bibliography of autobiographies published before 1946. Includes subject index (e.g. Reconstruction).

[Van Pelt Reference Stacks: CT220 .K3 1962]

 

Library of Congress. Manuscript Division. Civil War manuscripts: a guide to collections in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1986.

[Van Pelt Reference Stacks: E 468 .L52 1986]

 

Munden, Kenneth W. and Henry Putney Beers. Guide to Federal Archives relating to the Civil War. Washington: National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration, 1962.

[Van Pelt Reference Stacks: CD3047 .M8 1986]

 

National union catalog of manuscript collections. Washington: Library of Congress.

Lists manuscript collections in libraries around the country. Indexes provide access by name (personal or corporate) and subject.

[Van Pelt Library Reference Stacks: Z 6620.U5 N3] 1959/1961-1986/1987,1988/1989-1993

 

Index to personal names in the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections, 1959-1984. Alexandria: Chadwyck-Healey, 1988. 2 vols. Indexes over 200,000 personal names.

[Van Pelt Reference Stacks: Z 6620 U5 I53 1988]

 

Index to subjects and corporate names in the National union catalog of manuscript collections, 1959-1984. Alexandria, Va.: Chadwyck-Healey, 1994. 3 vols.

[Van Pelt Library Reference Stacks Z6620.U5 N3 Suppl.]

 

Neagles, Janes C. Confederate Research Sources: a guide to Archive Collections. Salt Lake City: Ancestry Pub., 1986.

[Van Pelt Reference Stacks: E 487 N3 1986]

 

Parrish, T. Michael. Confederate Imprints: A Bibliography of Southern Publications from Secession to Surrender. Austin: Jenkins Publ. Co., 198-?.

" Listing of 9500 books, pamphlets, broadsides, maps, pictorial prints prints and sheet music produced throughout the South during the war..." Extensively indexed. Everything listed in this bibliography is available in Van Pelt on microfilm [Microfilm 3517].

[Van Pelt Reference Stacks: Z 1242.5 P37 1980z]]

D. Archive and Manuscript Catalogs

Becauses the University's library collections grew significantly during the nineteenth century they are especially strong in contemporary accounts from that period. The key sources for identifying periodical titles from the nineteenth century are:

Mott, Frank Luther. History of American Magazines. 5 vols. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1938-1968. Vol. 2: 1850-1965; vol. 3: 1865-1885. Chronological list at the end of vol. 3. Comprehensive history including detailed histories of individual magazines with notes on their editorial biases.
[Van Pelt Reference Stacks: PN 4877 M63]

19th Century Masterfile. Provides indexing to nineteenth century periodicals, books, newspapers, and government documents. The main index is Poole's Index to Periodical Literature (1802-1906).

American Periodical Series Online. Includes digitized images of the pages of 1,100 American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century.

Making of America. Making of America (MOA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.
Cornell Site (particularly strong for journals)
University of Michigan Site (particularly strong for books)

HarpWeek: The Civil War Era. Harper's Weekly was one of the leading American journal during the Civil War Period. This database contains the full text and all the images from 1857 through 1865. The journal was an influential shaper of public opinion and a major source for war reporting.

Accessible Archives. Full text historical newspaper articles. One collection is titled "The Civil War: a Newspaper Perspective", and includes selected articles from The New York Herald, The Charleston Mercury, and the Richmond Enquirer

New York Times. Full-text of the New York Times. News, editorials, letters to the editor, obituaries, birth and marriage announcements, historical photos, stock photos, and advertisements are all searchable and available for viewing and printing.

Van Pelt has a large collection of nineteenth century newspapers. The following list, arranged by state and city includes most of the mid-century ones.

A. Bibliographies and Listings of Papers

Bosse, David C. Civil War Newspaper Maps: A Historical Atlas. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993.
Describes Civil War mapmaking and reproduces 40 newspaper maps.
[Van Pelt Library Stacks: G 1201 .S5 B6 1993]

Anti-Slavery Newspapers and Periodicals. edited by John W. Blassingame and Mae G. Henderson. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1980- Indexes letters in ten major abolitionist periodicals and/or newspapers, including the Liberator, the National anti-slavery standard, and the Pennsylvania Freeman.
[Van Pelt Library Stacks: AI 3 A54]

The Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective. CD-ROM ed. Malvern, PA: Accessible Archives, Inc., 1994. Contains the full text of over 11,000 articles from over 2500 issues of both Northern (The New York Herald) and Southern (The Charleston Mercury and the Richmond Enquirer) newspapers published between Nov 1., 1860 and Apr. 30, 1865. Contains news articles, eye-witness and official reports of battles, editorials, advertisements, biographies and over 700 images of battlefield maps and illustrations.
[Reference Moelis: E464 C58 1994]

B. Newspapers at Penn

Boston Daily Advertiser (MA-Boston). Holdings:1821, 1832-1835(inc) [Van Pelt Library: Fol 71 B653 1835-1865 [Van Pelt Library Microtext: film news 125]

Liberator (MA-Boston) 1831-1865 - [film APS reel 391-399]; 1831-1841 -[Van Pelt Library Microtext: film news 112] 1849-1861 - [Special Collections: Fol 326.5 L61; 1831-32, 34-36]

Pittsfield Sun (MA-Pittsfield): 16 May 1833-1867 [Van Pelt Library Microtext: film news 259]

Springfield Republican (MA-Springfield): 1847-1865 [Van Pelt Library Microtext: film news 258]

New Jersey Journal (NJ-Elizabeth): 4 May 1830-25 Feb 1945 [Van Pelt Library Microtext: film news 118]

New York Herald (NY-New York): 31 Aug 1835-1851 film news 50; 1861-Jun1865 [Storage Fol 71 N484]

New York Times (NY-New York): 18 Sep 1851-present [Van Pelt Library Microforms: film news 52]

New York Tribune (NY-New York): 1860-May 1865(inc),Apr 1890-Mar 92, Jan-Mar94 [Storage Fol 71 N482]

World (NY-New York): 20 May 1861-2 Sep 1865(inc) [Storage Fol 71 W894]

Daily Journal (NC-Wilmington): 8 Sep 1851-18 Feb 1865, 28 Sep 1865-28 Sep 1876 [Van Pelt Library Microtext: film news 23]

Annals of Cleveland (OH-Cleveland): 1850-1875 71 An72

Harrisburg Daily Herald (PA-Harrisburg): 7 Oct 1856 - 26 May 1866 [Van Pelt Library Microtext: film news 107 reel 29-38]

Patriot & Union (PA-Harrisburg): 1859-1865 [Van Pelt Library Microtext: film news 107 reel 47-53]

Dollar Newspaper (PA-Phila): 21Jan1846-7Jan1852,54-65 [Storage Fol 71 D692]

Illustrated New Age (PA-Phila): 1863-2Mar1874 [Storage Fol 71 Ag34]

Inquirer (PA-Phila) Holdings: 7 Nov 1860 - . [Van Pelt Library Microtext: film news 61]

North American (PA-Phila): 1853-1882 [Van Pelt Library Microtext: film news 248]

Pennsylvanian (Weekly) (PA-Phila): 1846-Apr1861 [Storage Fol 71 P388]

Press (PA-Phila): Jul-Dec1861,Oct65-Jun70,74-1882 [Storage Fol 71 P926]

Sunday Dispatch (PA-Phila): 1867-1869 [Van Pelt Library: Fol 71 Su73]

Reading Gazette & Democrat (PA-Reading): 1855-1864 [Van Pelt Library: Fol 71 R223]

Southern Times and State Gazette (SC-Columbia): July 10,1835-1837 [Van Pelt Library Microtext: film news 150]

Galveston Tri-weekly News (TX-Galveston): Dec 1855 - Oct 1857, 1857, Nov 1860-1867, 31 May 1869-1873 [Van Pelt Library Microtext: film news 29]

Galveston Daily News (TX-Galveston): 21 Feb 1865-1900 [Van Pelt Library Microtext: film news 28]

Union Vedette (UT-Salt Lake City): 1863-1867 [Van Pelt Library Microtext: film cont 123 reels 42-47]

Use subject headings such as these to find historigraphical analyses and collections:

Afro-Americans--Historiography
Confederate States of America--Historiography
Reconstruction--Historiography
Sectionalism (United States)--Historiography
Southern States--Historiography
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Historiography
United States--Race relations--Historiography

Interpreting southern history : historiographical essays in honor of Sanford W. Higginbotham Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, c1987.
[Van Pelt Library & Reference Stacks: F208.2 .I57 1987]

Encyclopedia of historians and historical writing London ; Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1999. 2 vols.
[Van Pelt Library Reference Stacks: D14 .E539 1999]

Scanlon, Jennifer, 1958- American women historians, 1700s-1990s : a biographical dictionary Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996. xviii, 269 p.
[Van Pelt Library Reference Stacks: E175.45 .S27 1996]

Great historians of the modern age : an international dictionary New York: Greenwood Press, 1991.
[Van Pelt Library Reference Stacks: D14 .G75 1991]

The Blackwell dictionary of historians New York: Blackwell Reference, 1988. xiv, 480 p.
[Van Pelt Library Reference Stacks: D14 .B58 1988]

American Civil War: Resources on the Internet - Dakota State U. site with multiple links.
[URL: http://www.homepages.dsu.edu/jankej/civilwar/civilwar.htm]

U.S. Civil War Center (Louisiana State U)
[URL: http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/]

Selective sites that focus on particular aspects of Civil War history include:

Causes of the Civil War - AOL site with full-text of primary sources.
[URL: http://members.aol.com/jfepperson/causes.html]

Civil War Maps - from the American Memory Project at the Library of Congress
[URL: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/cwmhtml/]

Civil War Soldiers & Sailors System A database of over 230,000 names of the United States Colored Troops developed by the National Park Service
[URL: http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/]

Civil War Women - primary sources from Duke University Library
[URL: http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/women/cwdocs.html]

Confederate States of America - primary sources from Yale Law School's Avalon Project
[URL: http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/csa/csapage.htm]

Documenting the American South - The Southern Experience in 19th Century America, a collection of full-text documents from UNC, including diaries and slave narratives
[URL: http://sunsite.unc.edu/docsouth/]

Letters from an Iowa Soldier in the Civil War - letters home from 21-year old Newton Scott.
[URL: http://www.civilwarletters.com/home.html]

Making of America - University of Michigan/Cornell site provides fulltext of books and journals from 1850 to 1900 to support American social history. [URL: http://www.umdl.umich.edu/moa/

The Valley of the Shadow: Living the Civil War in Pennsylvania and Virginia (Edward L. Ayers, UVA) [URL: http://jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU/vshadow2/]

American Philosophical Society Library. 105 S. Fifth Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106-3386. 440-3400.

• Hours: 9-5, Monday-Friday. Access: students must show ID; call in advance.
• Photocopies: $.25.
• Collection focuses on the history of science and technology. Representative is the correspondence of leading figures in mid-19th century American science who were associated with the National Academy of Sciences. There is some material concerned with the history of Philadelphia, women, Afro-Americans, and the Civil War.
• Catalog: A New guide to the collections ...
  [Van Pelt Library Reference Stacks: Z 6621 A513 1987]

Atwater Kent Museum. 15 S. 7th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106. 922-3031.

• Hours: 9:30-5, Monday-Friday. Access: call in advance.
• Photocopies on request.
• Museum of Philadelphia history. Diverse manuscript materials, including ledgers, account books, and correspondence. Over 600 original annotated war sketches by Frank H. Shell. Strength of collection is in artifacts from the period.

• Some correspondence and diaries from the period, most notably the Valentine Reiman Collection. Reiman, a second generation German-American, kept a detailed diary throughout his life, including his years as a soldier in the Union Army.
• Catalog: A Guide to manuscript and microfilm collections...
  [Van Pelt Reference Stacks: Z 6621 B185 1992]

Leslie Pinckney Hill Library. Cheyney University of Pennsylvania, Cheyney, PA. 399-2063.

• Hours: 8:30-5, Monday-Friday. Access: call in advance.
• Photocopies available.
• Dorsey Collection (in microfilm): scrap books of local newspaper clippings, 1847-1906.

Civil War Library and Museum. 1805 Pine Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103. 735-8196.

• Hours: 11-4:30, Thursday-Saturday. Open to the public (call in advance).
• Photocopies: $.20
• 12,000 volumes. Contemporary and current periodicals. One of the most notable Civil War repositories; includes letter books, journals, diaries, orders, original correspondence. Focus is on material from the Union, but efforts are being made to augment Confederate materials.

College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Library. 19 S. 22nd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103. 563-3737 ext.297

• Hours: 10-4, Tuesday-Friday. No restrictions. Call in advance.
• Photocopies: $.50
• Civil War medicine: letters, hospital reports, instruments, photos, diaries, reports of surgeons, etc.
• Catalog: A Catalogue of the manuscripts and archives...
  [Van Pelt Library Reference Stacks: R 314.P5 C65 1983]

Haverford College. Quaker Collection. Lancaster Avenue, Haverford, PA 19041. 896-1161.

• Hours: 9-12:30, 1:30-4:30, Monday-Friday. No access restrictions.
• Photocopies: $.20
• Manuscript collection, including journals, letters, papers, archives, pictorial materials; records of Philadelphia and Baltimore meetings; first editions of books.

Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Library. 1300 Locust Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107. 732-6200.

• Hours: 9:30-4:45, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday; ,1:00-8:45, Wednesday, 10:00-8:45, Saturday
• Access: $6; $3 with student ID. Photocopies: $.50.
• Civil War military resources; strong Afro-American collection, including materials on slavery; speeches, diaries, correspondence.
• Catalog: Guide to the manuscript collections...
  [Ref CD 3479 P5 G85 1991]

Library Company of Philadelphia. 1314 Locust Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107. 546-2465.

• Hours: 9-4:45, Monday-Friday. Access: photo ID required.
• Closed stacks. Photocopies: $.25. Must use pencils. May use laptop computers.
• Strong in Americana from the colonial period to the Civil War, including literature, history, Philadelphia newspapers, periodicals, science and technology, publications of learned societies; exceptional Afro-American history collection.
• Catalog: Afro-Americana, 1553-1906: author catalog of the Library Company of Philadelphia and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
  [Van Pelt Library Reference Stacks: Z 1361 N39 P48 1973]

Lincoln University, Langston Hughes Memorial Library. Lincoln University, PA 19352. 932-8300 ext 266.

• Hours: 9-5, 7-10, Monday-Thursday; 9-5, Friday; 12-5, first Saturday of the month (call in advance).
• No access restrictions. Photocopies: $.10.
• American, Afro-American, and African collections, including some objects from the period; African collection based on Lincoln graduates who served as missionaries in Liberia.

Swarthmore College. Peace Collection. Swarthmore, PA 19081. 328-8557.

• Hours: 8:30-4:30, Monday-Friday; 9-12, Saturday when classes are in session.
• Open to public. Photocopies: $.05.
• Some 19th century material in the collection.

Swarthmore College. Friends Historical Library. Swarthmore, PA 19081. 328-8497.

• Hours: Same as above. Call regarding Saturdays. Open to the public.
• Photocopies: $.10; microfilm: $.30.
• Records of meetings, personal papers of reconstructionist, abolitionist and pacifist groups; records of the Friends Freedmen Association.
• Catalog: Guide to the manuscript collections...
  [Van Pelt Reference Stacks: BX 7731.2 F75 1982]

Temple University. Paley Library. Blockson Afro-American Historical Collection. 13th and Berks Streets, Philadelphia, PA 19122. 204-6632.

• Hours: 9-5, Monday-Friday. Access: photo ID required.
• Photocopies: $.25 (done by staff).
• Afro-American history, including underground railroad, slave narratives, original art from Civil War.
• Catalog: Catalogue of the Blockson Collection.
  [Van Pelt Reference Stacks: Z 1361 N39 T39 1990]

Union League of Philadelphia. Library. 140 S. Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102. 587-5594.

• Hours: 9-5, Monday-Friday. Open access; call in advance.
• Photocopies: $.10.
• Manuscripts and photos. Emphasis is on Civil War, American social and political history, Philadelphia and Pennsylvania history. The Civil War collection, viewed together with that of the Civil War Library and Museum (see above), constitutes one of the richest sources in the country. In addition to all Lincoln's writings and an extensive collection of regimental histories, there are the pamphlets issued by the Union League during the War.

United States National Archives Mid-Atlantic Region. 9th and Market Streets, Philadelphia, PA 19107. 597-3000.

• Hours: 8-5, Monday-Friday. No access restrictions.
• Photocopies: a small fee
• Regional military records and tax lists; court records, including Admiralty records of captured ship auctions and some fugitive slave records; records of the Frankford Arsenal and Philadelphia Naval Yard.
• Catalog: Guide to Records in the National Archives, Mid-Atlantic Region
  [Van Pelt Library: CD 3027 U533 1989]
• National Archives Microfilm Publications in the National Archives, Mid-Atlantic Region
  [Van Pelt Library: CD 3052 M38 1990]