Historical Resources
Core Historical Literature of Agriculture (CHLA)
A companion compilation to the Making of America database, CHLA is a core electronic collection of agricultural texts published between the early nineteenth century and middle to late twentieth century. Full-text materials cover agricultural economics, agricultural engineering, animal science, crops and their protection, food science, forestry, rural sociology, and soil science.
Historical Census Browser
This site from the Geospatial and Statistical Data Center at the University of Virginia Library offers state and county data from historical volumes of the U.S. Census of Population and Housing, from 1790 to 1960.
Historical Monographs
Contains 441 monographs originally scanned in the 1990s as part of a joint digital preservation research project with Cornell University Library and Xerox. These books are part of a group of materials that included the Historical Monographs in Mathematics, Cornell Dissertations, New York State Historical Literature, and Core Historical Literature of Agriculture.
The Hive And The Honeybee
The Phillips Beekeeping Collection at Mann Library is one of the largest and most complete apiculture libraries in the world. The Hive and the Honey Bee grew out of a presentation on the Phillips collection at the 2002 Eastern Apiculture Society conference and is something of a digital child of that print collection. At present, it consists of the full text of ten rare books from the Phillips Collection, and each book is fully searchable.
Home Economics Archive: Research, Tradition, and History (HEARTH)
Funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, HEARTH is a core electronic collection of home economics texts published between the early nineteenth century and mid-twentieth century. The digital library covers home economics in its broadest sense, including applied arts and design, childcare, clothing and textiles, food and nutrition, home management, housekeeping and etiquette, and more.
Cornell Human Ecology Historical Photographs
This collection contains over fourteen hundred photographs of students and faculty, buildings and scenes that portray the College from its founding through 1969.
JSTOR
JSTOR is a fully-searchable database containing the back issues of several hundred scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, mathematics, music, ecology and botany, business and other fields. It includes the following collections: Arts & sciences I, II and III, General science, Ecology and botany, Business, Language and literature.
Making of America (MOA)
The MOA project is a multi-institutional initiative to create and make accessible over the Internet a distributed digital library of important materials on the history of the United States. Cornell University Library and the University of Michigan libraries cooperated in the initial phase of MOA.. This site provides access to 267 monographs and over 100,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints.
New York State Historical Literature
This site contains 691 monographs and pamphlets originally scanned in the early 1990s as part of a joint digital preservation research project with Cornell University Library and Xerox. These books are part of a group of materials that included the Historical Monographs in Mathematics, Cornell Dissertations, New York State Historical Literature, and Core Historical Literature of Agriculture.
