Digital Collections at Dickinson

Archives and Special Collections

• Dickinson College Chronicles. The annals of Dickinson College. Contains the Encyclopedia Dickinsonia.
• James Buchanan Resource Center. Includes several books on the life of James Buchanan, contemporary reviews of those books, Buchanan's published writings, and a selection of unpublished letters held by Dickinson College. An extensive bibliography and a detailed timeline of Buchanan's life is also available.
• Their Own Words. A collection of books, pamphlets, letters, and diaries, containing more than 23,500 pages of text, dating from the latter eighteenth through the early twentieth century.
• 19th Century American Newspapers. Provides access to approximately 1.7 million pages of primary source newspaper content from the 19th century, featuring full-text content and images from numerous newspapers from a range of urban and rural regions throughout the U.S.
• American Civil War: Letters and Diaries. The American Civil War: Letters and Diaries contains more than 400 sources of diaries, letters, and memoirs, to provide fast access to thousands of views on almost every aspect of the war. This electronic collection includes 100,000 pages of re-keyed and indexed text, including 4,000 facsimile pages of previously unpublished manuscript material.
• American Periodicals Series Online 1740-1900. Over 1,100 periodicals that first began publishing between 1740 and 1900, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines, and many other historically-significant periodicals.
• Archives of American Art. Spanning the centuries since the founding of America to the present day, the collections of the Archives of American Art comprise the largest source in the world of primary source documentation on the visual arts in America.
• ARTSTOR. Database consisting of approximately 500,000 images covering art, architecture and archeology. Made up of 10 distinct image collections: The Image Gallery; The Art History Survey Collection; The Illustrated Bartsch, The Carnegie Arts of the United States Collection, The Huntington Archive of Asian Art; The Mellon International Dunhuang Archive; The Museum of Modern Art Architecture and Design Collection; Native American Art and Culture, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution; and Schlesinger History of Women in America Collection. Collections can be searched as a whole or individually. To connect to the ARTstor image collections, click on the orange Launch button in the lower right-hand corner of the ARTstor homepage. It is necessary to turn off your browser's pop-up blocker for ARTstor to work properly.