Microform Collection at American University Library

African American

Art

Austria

Business

Caribbean

Communism

Cuba

Education

France

Germany

Great Britain

India

International Relations

Library

Literature

Music

Religion

Science

Slavery & Anti-slavery

Social Sciences

South Africa

United States - History

Women Studies

Many titles appear under more than one category.

African American

• Black literature, 1827-1940. 993 microfiches.
  Contains over 70,000 poems, literary reviews and pieces of fiction published in 110 black periodicals and newspapers between 1827-1940. Use the free online index, Black Literature Index, to search for the individual works, noting the "microfiche number."
• Black newspapers, sample issues, 1846-1966. The Bernice Johnson Reagon Collection. 4 reels.
• Blacks in the United States Armed Forces: basic documents.  The Bernice Johnson Reagon Collection . 13 vols. 5 reels.
• Crummell, Alexander. Scholarly Resources microfilm edition of the Alexander Crummell collection. Manuscript collections from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. 10 reels.
  • Title Page; Publisher's Notes; Table of Contents; Introduction; Scope and Content; Roll Contents (PDF)
• Douglass, Frederick. Papers of Frederick Douglass. The Bernice Johnson Reagon Collection. 34 reels.
  This collection is free online from the Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress.
• Dunbar, Paul. Paul L. Dunbar papers: at the Ohio Historical Society. Sara S. Fuller.  The Bernice Johnson Reagon Collection. 9 reels.
• Hughes, Langston. Langston Hughes: material from the vertical files of the Schomburg Collection, 1926-1967. 4 reels.
  A little more information on microfilm set from the New York Public Library.
• Tubman, Harriet. Conrad/Tubman collection. Schomburg Center collections. 2 reels.
  • Online guide

Art

• American University Fines Arts Department, Washington, D.C. 10 reels.

Austria

• Archiv für Kunde österreichischer Geschichts-Quellen. 1.Bd. (1848)-33.Bd. (1865).

Business

• Daily stock price record. American Stock Exchange. Jan-March 1980-July-Sept.,2002.
• Daily stock price record. New York Stock Exchange. 1980-2002.

Caribbean (excluding Cuba)

• Cornwall Chronicle (Jamaica) 1776-1794. 3 reels.
• Eugene Maximilien Haitian collection. The Bernice Johnson Reagon Collection. 240 vols. 40 reels.
  • Online guide (PDF)

Communism

• Cahiers du Bolchévisme. 1924-1939. 12 reels.
  Cahiers du Communisme. 1939-1966. 20 reels.
  Journal of the Central Committee of the French Communist Party.
  Cahiers du Bolchévisme is free online from Gallica digital library (1924-1939).
• Communist International. 1919-1940. 18 reels.
  Official magazine of the Executive Committee of the Communist International (Comintern). An online version is available at the Library of Congress.
• Cuba Socialista. v.1 (1961)-v.7 (1967). 6 reels.
  Magazine founded by Fidel Castro in 1961.
• [Ephemeral Socialist and Communist publications of Brazil]. 1 reel. 
• Imprensa popular. v.4 (1950)-v.11 (1958). 15 reels.
  The first page of the publication is at the end of film, not the beginning.
• Kommunist
  "Theoretical and Political Journal of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union"

Cuba

 

Education

• ERIC reports. 1966- .
  Unpublished material (reports, speeches, proceedings, etc.) related to education. Many of these reports are available free online from ERIC (Education Resources Information Center). While ERIC has electronically archived the complete microfiche collection, 1966 – 2004, only about  65% of these documents are available online due to the lack of copyright owner permission.
• Kraus curriculum development library: KCDL. 1986-2000.

France

• La Croix. Aug. 1914-March 1919. 10 reels.
  This title is free online from Gallica digital library (1880-1944).

Germany

 

Great Britain

 

India

• Census of India, 1931. v.1-v.30. 
  These fiches are filed in boxes and shelved with the microfilms.
  The Report on the Census of India, 1931 provides some of the data.

International Relations

• American foreign policy index (1993-1995)
  American foreign policy and treaty index (1996-1999)
  This work is composed of two parts: nonclassified foreign policy and foreign relations documents of the U.S. Government reproduced in microfiche; and two print indexes for finding these documents.  The documents cover agricultural exports, arms control, disaster relief, environmental cooperation, human rights, humanitarian assistance, international agreements, security, trade regulation, and starting with American Foreign Policy and Treaty Index in 1996, documents pertaining to treaty ratification. 

Confidential Prints (U.K.)
Communications between members of the British Foreign Office. The documents are organized so as to relate to the affairs of a particular country or a group of countries, not the location of the official.

• Confidential prints: France. 1919-1945. 3 reels.
• Confidential prints: Germany. 1890-1939. 33 reels.
• Confidential prints: North America. 1920-1939. 6 reels.
• Confidential prints: Northern & Western Europe. June 1919-June 1922. 1 reel.

U.S. State Department Central Files
Formerly confidential correspondence, typescript and holograph of the U.S. State Department. Includes newspaper clippings, despatches, and telegrams. It is an important source of American diplomatic reporting on political, military, social, and economic developments. The original documents are housed in the U.S. National Archives.

• Confidential U.S. State Department central files. Palestine and Israel, internal affairs, 1945-1949. 29 reels.
• Confidential U.S. State Department central files. Palestine-Israel, internal affairs, 1950-1954. 21 reels.
• Confidential U.S. State Department central files. Palestine-Israel, foreign affairs, 1950-1954. 6 reels.
• Confidential U.S. State Department central files. Palestine-Israel, foreign affairs, 1955-1959: Decimal numbers 684, 684A, 611.84, and 611.84A. 17 reels.
• Confidential U.S. State Department central files. Palestine-Israel, internal affairs, 1955-1959:Decimal numbers 784, 784A, 884, 884A, 984, and 984A. 19 reels. 
• Confidential U.S. State Department central files. Palestine-Israel, internal and foreign affairs, 1960-January 1963. 17 reels.

• Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962. 586 microfiches.
  This collection of documents is available in database: Digital National Security Archive (AU Community only)
  • Print Index: Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962.

Library

• Card catalogues [complete] of the Toyo Bunko [Oriental Library]. no.1-no.71. 75 reels.

Literature

• Black literature, 1827-1940. 993 microfiches.
  Contains over 70,000 poems, literary reviews and pieces of fiction published in 110 black periodicals and newspapers between 1827-1940. Use the free online index, Black Literature Index, to search for the individual works, noting the "microfiche number."
• Dunbar, Paul. Paul L. Dunbar papers: at the Ohio Historical Society. Sara S. Fuller.  The Bernice Johnson Reagon Collection. 9 reels.
• Hughes, Langston. Langston Hughes: material from the vertical files of the Schomburg Collection, 1926-1967. 4 reels.
  A little more information on microfilm set from the New York Public Library.

Middle East

U.S. State Department Central Files
Formerly confidential correspondence, typescript and holograph of the U.S. State Department. Includes newspaper clippings, despatches, and telegrams. It is an important source of American diplomatic reporting on political, military, social, and economic developments. The original documents are housed in the U.S. National Archives.

• Confidential U.S. State Department central files. Palestine and Israel, internal affairs, 1945-1949. 29 reels.
• Confidential U.S. State Department central files. Palestine-Israel, internal affairs, 1950-1954. 21 reels.
• Confidential U.S. State Department central files. Palestine-Israel, foreign affairs, 1950-1954. 6 reels.
• Confidential U.S. State Department central files. Palestine-Israel, foreign affairs, 1955-1959: Decimal numbers 684, 684A, 611.84, and 611.84A. 17 reels.
• Confidential U.S. State Department central files. Palestine-Israel, internal affairs, 1955-1959:Decimal numbers 784, 784A, 884, 884A, 984, and 984A. 19 reels. 
• Confidential U.S. State Department central files. Palestine-Israel, internal and foreign affairs, 1960-January 1963. 17 reels.

• Journal officiel du Gouvernement Égyptien. 1922-1938.
  This title is located at WRLC Center; is available to be delivered to AU Library.

Music

• Arte musicale in Italia: Pubblicazione nazionale delle più importanti opere musicali italiane dal secolo XIV al XVIII, tratte da codici, antichi manoscritti ed edizioni primitive, scelte, trascritte in notazione moderna, messe in partitura, armonizzate ed annotate da Luigi Torchi . 7 vols. 2 reels.
• Das Chorwerk. Hft.1 (1929)-Hft.41 (1936). 1 reel.
• Denkmäler der Tonkunst in Bayern / hrsg. von Adolf Sandberger. 36 vols. Jahrg.1-Jahrg.29/30 (1900-1931). 7 reels.
• Denkmäler der Tonkunst in Österreich. 83 vols. (Jahrgang I-XLV). 10 reels.
• Denkmaler deutscher Tonkunst 1. Folge. Herausgegeben von der Musikgeschichtlichen Kommission. 65 vols. 9 reels.
• Jazz, blues, soul, and rock: contemporary music journals. 1946-1986. 36 reels.
  Includes the two publications:
  • New Musical Express and Predecessors 1946-1971. 20 reels.  
  • Blues and Soul, 1966-1986. 16 reels.
• Lasso, Orlando di. Sammtliche werke. 20 vols. 4 reels.

Religion

• Adyar Library, Institute for Vaisnava Studies, & the American University microfilm collection of Vaisnava literature. Charles S. J. White with S. Jaysree and S. A Lokesh. 69 reels. 
• La Croix. Aug. 1914-March 1919. 10 reels.
  This title is free online from Gallica digital library (1880-1944).

Russia and Soviet Union

 

Science

• Brigham Young University research studies. Geology series. v.1 (1954)-v.7 (1960). 6 reels.

Slavery & Anti-slavery

• Black literature, 1827-1940. 993 microfiches.
  Contains over 70,000 poems, literary reviews and pieces of fiction published in 110 black periodicals and newspapers between 1827-1940. Use the free online index, Black Literature Index, to search for the individual works, noting the "microfiche number."
• Black newspapers, sample issues, 1846-1966. The Bernice Johnson Reagon Collection. 4 reels.
• Buxton, Thomas. Papers of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, 1786-1845. 17 reels.
• Cornwall Chronicle (Jamaica) 1776-1794. 3 reels.
• Crummell, Alexander. Scholarly Resources microfilm edition of the Alexander Crummell collection. Manuscript collections from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. 10 reels.
  • Title Page; Publisher's Notes; Table of Contents; Introduction; Scope and Content; Roll Contents (PDF)
• Douglass, Frederick. Papers of Frederick Douglass. The Bernice Johnson Reagon Collection. 34 reels.
  This collection is free online from the Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress.
• Tubman, Harriet. Conrad/Tubman collection. Schomburg Center collections. 2 reels.
  • Online guide

Social Sciences

 

South Africa

• Inkundla ya Bantu / Bantu forum. 1944-1949, 1951. 6 reels.
• International [South African newspaper]. Sept.10, 1915-Sept. 5, 1924. 2 reels.

United States - History

• American Periodical Series. 43 reels.
  American magazines and journals that began publication between 1740 and 1900. This is an incomplete microfilm set (43 of 2770 reels). The complete set is available in the database: American Periodicals Series Online (AU Community only).
• American Public Opinion Data. 1985-1999.
  Public opinion polls originally released in newspaper articles, special reports, etc.  The print index points to the actual poll data reproduced in microfiche.
  The online version of this work is Polling the Nations (1986 to present) (AU Community only). For polls from 1985 one must still use the print index and microfiche.
  • Print index: American Public Opinion Index. 1981-1999.
• Kennedy, John F. John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th President of the United States; John F. Kennedy in public press, a collection of newspaper articles, 1892-1964, researched and compiled by James J. Fahey. 16 reels.
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Women Studies

• Goldman, Emma. Emma Goldman papers: a microfilm edition. Edited by Candace Falk, Ronald J. Zboray and Daniel Cornford. 69 reels.
  • Online guide
• Tubman, Harriet. Conrad/Tubman collection. Schomburg Center collections. 2 reels.
  • Online guide

 

 

• Bibliography and reel index: a guide to the microfilm edition of United States decennial census publications, 1790-1970 . What is this???

• Congressional Globe. 1833-1873.
  Available online in many sources. See U.S. Government Documents guide.