Major Collections
China, America, and the Pacific: Trade and Cultural Exchange
18th to early 20th centuries. Ship logs, manuscripts, business records, newspapers, books, maps, realia, ephemera, paintings, photographs, and other illustrative documents, organized around 18 research themes: Cultural Exchange; Arts and Artifacts; Religion, Faith, and Philosophy; Social Life; Education; Crime; Employment and Labor; Health and Welfare; Race Relations; Travel and Tourism; Exploration and Discovery; The Natural World; Migration and Immigration; Politics, War, and Diplomacy; Trade and Commerce; Regulation and Legislation; Transport and Communication; and Advertising and Consumption.- Collection of pamphlets from the Charles W. Wason Collection at Cornell University Library. Covers the period 1750-1929.
China: Trade, Politics, and Culture, 1793-1980
English-language documents from London University’s School of Oriental and African Studies, and from the British Library. Includes diaries, journals, correspondence, atlases, travel narratives, missionary periodicals, government documents, scrapbooks, and more.- Documents from the collection of India Office records, held by the British Library. In addition to the records of the East India Company, this collection includes records of other agencies charged with administering India, especially after the British Crown took over direct administration of India in 1858 (the Company’s charter officially expired in 1874). The collection at the British Library is organized into record series based on the agencies from which the records originated, and the digital collection is based on this classification scheme. Because most of the India Office Records primarily comprise manuscript material, the documents are not keyword searchable, so the interface provides many different ways of interacting with the collection, including by record series, by date, by theme, by index terms (where available), and a hierarchical index of government. Some documents are keyword searchable.
- 15th century to the present. Emphasis on the British Empire. Collection tilts heavily toward the 18th century, 19th century, and early 20th centuries.
Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports
Covering the period September 4, 1941 through March 29, 1974, this digital collection is the first of three modules that form Readex’s Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS). The FBIS is a branch of the United States government that has operated variously under the Federal Communications Commission, the War Department, and the Central Intelligence Agency. Its purpose is to produce “open source intelligence” reports for the U.S. government. The agency monitors radio broadcasts, newspapers, and other publicly available news sources from around the world, and then transcribes and translates this news so that it may be used to inform American foreign policy. Sometimes news is translated in its entirety; sometimes it is summarized. In addition to news, the FBIS staff translate speeches, interviews, and other types of information sources. n addition to keyword searching, the collection also supports browsing by major historical events.Afghan Serials Collection: Partisan Publications from the Wahdat Library
46 periodicals, ca. 1968-2001. Part of EastView.
Smaller Collections
Annales de l’Extrême Orient et de l’Afrique
1878-1891. Official bulletin of the Société Académique Indo-Chinoise. Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.Asia and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange
British and American diplomatic records, missionary correspondence records; and Western language periodicals dealing with the Far East. Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.- Collection of over 170 maps that document how the West’s image of East Asia evolved over the course of the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries.
Despatches from United States Consuls in Saigon, Vietnam, 1889-1906
Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.Despatches from United States Consuls in Seoul, Korea, 1886-1906
Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.Despatches from United States Consuls in Singapore, Straits Settlements, 1833-1906
Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.Despatches from United States Ministers to Korea, 1883-1905
Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.Despatches from United States Ministers to Siam, 1882-1906
Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.- Rare source collections for the study of Asian history, with English-language interface.
- Multiple sub-collections, including Japanese Empire Postcard Collection, Truku-Japanese War Commemorative Postcard Collection, Japanese Imperial House Postcard Album, Stereoviews of the Siege of Port Arthur, Imperial Postcards, Tsubokura Russo-Japanese War Postcard Album, Sino-Japanese War Postcard Album, Lin Chia-Feng Family Postcards, Japanese History Study Cards, Pacific War Postcards, Dutch East Indies Negatives, Manchuria Negatives, Taiwan Negatives, Japan Slides, Souvenirs of Beijing and Tokyo, and more.
- TRIAL. Digitized from NARA Record Group 59, Records of the U.S. State Department, Central Classified Files, Class 800, Germany, 1910-1929: 62a, 62c, 62d, 62e, 62f, 62g, 62h, 621, 62k, 62L, 62m. Part of Archives Unbound.
- TRIAL. Part of Archives Unbound.
International Dunhuang Project: The Silk Road Online
Manuscripts, paintings, textiles and artefacts from Dunhuang and archaeological sites of the Eastern Silk Road.Journeys to the East Indies and Asia: Selected Journals and Papers
1800-1906. From the manuscript collections of the British Library. Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.- Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.
- Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.
Notes from the Korean Legation in the United States to the Department of State, 1883-1906
Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.Notes from the Siamese Legation in the United States to the Department of State, 1876-1906
Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.Selected Records of the U.S. Consulate in Bangkok, Siam, 1856-1912
Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.Tibet – From the Collections of the American Geographical Society Library
Historical maps and images of Tibet from the holdings of the American Geographical Society Library.
China
China, America, and the Pacific: Trade and Cultural Exchange
18th to early 20th centuries. Ship logs, manuscripts, business records, newspapers, books, maps, realia, ephemera, paintings, photographs, and other illustrative documents, organized around 18 research themes: Cultural Exchange; Arts and Artifacts; Religion, Faith, and Philosophy; Social Life; Education; Crime; Employment and Labor; Health and Welfare; Race Relations; Travel and Tourism; Exploration and Discovery; The Natural World; Migration and Immigration; Politics, War, and Diplomacy; Trade and Commerce; Regulation and Legislation; Transport and Communication; and Advertising and Consumption.- Collection of pamphlets from the Charles W. Wason Collection at Cornell University Library. Covers the period 1750-1929.
China: Trade, Politics, and Culture, 1793-1980
English-language documents from London University’s School of Oriental and African Studies, and from the British Library. Includes diaries, journals, correspondence, atlases, travel narratives, missionary periodicals, government documents, scrapbooks, and more.China and Southeast Asia Collections (Adam Matthew Research Source)
Digitized from the following microfilm sets: China through Western Eyes: Manuscript Records of Traders, Travelers, Missionaries and Diplomats, 1792-1942 (Parts 1-3: Sources from the William R. Perkins Library, Duke University, including the Papers of J. A. Thomas, c. 1905-1923; Parts 4-5: Manuscript Diaries and Papers from the China Records Project at Yale Divinity Library; Part 7: The Diaries of G. E. Morrison , 1862-1920, Peking correspondent of the Times from 1897, and political adviser to the president of China, 1912-1920, from the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales; Part 8: Diaries, Notebooks and Writings of Rewi Alley, 1897-1987, from the Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand; and Part 9: The Addis and Geller Collections from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London); China Inland Mission, 1865-1951: From the School of Oriental and African Studies, London (Parts 1-2: James Hudson Taylor Papers: Correspondence, Journals and Subject Files; Part 3: Minutes and Papers of the China Inland Mission; Part 4: Additional CIM Papers and Chefoo Mission Papers; and Part 5: CIM Missionaries: Personal Papers); Asian Economic History: Series One: The Opium Trade and the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs, 1945-48 (Public Record Office class FO 371/50647-50654, 57020-57024, 67641-67644, 72907-72915); and Asian Economic History: Series Two: Economic Development in Brunei, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan, 1950-1980 (Part 1: Files for 1950-1954; Part 2: Files for 1955-1958; Part 3: Files for 1959-1962; and Part 4: Files for 1963-1966). Part of Adam Matthew Research Source.China and the Modern World: Diplomacy and Political Secrets
China-related records from the archive series India Office Records (IOR) held by the British Library. The collection reflects British security interests, particularly with regard to India. Document types include reports, memoranda, correspondence, pamphlets and official publications, intelligence diaries, accounts of political and scientific expeditions, travel diaries, handbooks and maps.China and the Modern World: Hong Kong, Britain, and China, 1841-1951
Correspondence from British National Archives record series CO 129 (War and Colonial Department and Colonial Office: Hong Kong, Original Correspondence).China Comprehensive Gazetteers
Gazetteers from across China, ca.1229-1949. Collection also includes dictionaries and travel guides.- TRIAL. Digitized from the microfilm set Records of the Office of Chinese Affairs, 1945-1949. Part of Archives Unbound.
- Mass education materials published in Hong Kong and in Mainland China, particularly Shanghai, in the years 1947-1954.
Chinese Periodical Full-Text Database
Thousands of periodicals from the period 1911 to 1949.Chinese Rubbings Virtual Collection
Rubbings made from stone stelae, tomb tablets, rocks, bronze vessels, jade objects, ceramics, tomb bricks, and roof tiles. Source objects date from the Qin Dynasty (221-207 BCE) to the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644 CE).Despatches from United States Consuls in Amoy, China, 1844-1906
Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.Despatches from United States Consuls in Antung, Manchuria, China, 1904-1906
Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.Despatches from United States Consuls in Canton, China, 1790-1906
Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.Despatches from United States Consuls in Chefoo, China, 1863-1906
Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.Despatches from United States Consuls in Chinkiang, China, 1864-1902
Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.Despatches from United States Consuls in Chunking, China, 1896-1906
Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.Despatches from United States Consuls in Foochow, China, 1849-1906
Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.Despatches from United States Consuls in Hangchow, China, 1904-1906
Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.Despatches from United States Consuls in Hankow, China, 1861-1906
Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.Despatches from United States Consuls in Hong Kong, 1844-1906
Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.Despatches from United States Consuls in Mukden, Manchuria, China, 1904-1906
Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.Despatches from United States Consuls in Nanking, China, 1902-1906
Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.Despatches from United States Consuls in Newchwang, Manchuria, China, 1865-1906
Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.Despatches from United States Consuls in Ningpo, China, 1853-1896
Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.Despatches from United States Consuls in Shanghai, China, 1847-1906
Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.Despatches from United States Consuls in Swatow, China, 1860-1881
Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.Despatches from United States Consuls in Tientsin, China, 1868-1906
Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.Despatches from United States Ministers to China, 1843-1906
Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.Family Court of Hong Kong Judgments
Contains judgments of the Family Court of Hong Kong Judgments from 1973 to 2002. Laws, ordinances, and some government reports are also included. Click on “Search Judgments” in the upper right and type a keyword (e.g., divorce) in the search box.Foreign Office Files for China, 1919-1980
Complete British Foreign Office Files dealing with China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, from 1919-1980. Part of Archives Direct.Foreign Office Files for China, 1919-1980
Complete British Foreign Office Files dealing with China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, from 1919-1980. Part of Archives Direct.General George C. Marshall’s Mission to China, 1945-1947
TRIAL. Digitized from the microfilm set The Complete Records of the Mission of General George C. Marshall to China, December 1945 -January 1947, selected from Record Group 59, Records relating to the U.S. Department of State. Part of Archives Unbound.German Foreign Relations and Military Activities in China, 1919-1935
TRIAL. Digitized from NARA Record Group 242: National Archives Collection of Foreign Records Seized, T-1141: Records of the German Foreign Ministry Pertaining to China, 1919-1935. Part of Archives Unbound.Hedda Morrison Photographs of China
Over 5,000 photographs taken by Hedda Hammer Morrison (1908–1991) while resident in Beijing from 1933 to 1946.Missionary and Socio-Economic Journals
The Bangkok Calendar, 1848-1873; the Chinese Social and Political Science Review, 1916-1941; the Far-Eastern Review, 1904-1941; the Journal of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1845-1870; the Journal of the China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1847-1912; the Journal of the North-China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1858-1948; Mélanges Asiatiques, 1849-1894; and shorter runs of other periodicals: Chinas Millionen; the World’s Chinese Students’ Journal; the Chinese Missionary Gleaner; China’s Young Men: Nanking University Magazine; Chine et Ceylond; and more. Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.Nineteenth Century English-Language Journals from the Far East
TRIAL. Three sub-collections: A Compilation of Rare English Journals Published inside and outside China before 1911; The China Review: or Notes and Queries on the Far East (1872-1901); and Indo-Chinese Gleaner (1817-1822). Part of Archives Unbound.Notes from the Chinese Legation in the United States to the Department of State, 1868-1906
Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.Peter Parker’s Lam Qua Paintings Collection
Collection of portraits of patients at the Canton Hospital, China, ca. 1830s.ProQuest Historical Chinese Newspapers
12 English language, Chinese newspapers and periodicals: the Canton Times (1919-1920); the China Critic (1939-1940, 1946); the China Press (1925-1938); the Chinese Repository (1832-1851); Millard’s Review of the Far East (1917-1953); the Missionary Recorder (1868-1940); the North-China Herald (1850-1941); the Peking Daily News (1914-1917); the Peking Gazette (1915-1917); the Peking Leader (1918-1919); the Shanghai Gazette (1919-1920); and the Shanghai Times (1914-1921).ProQuest Historical South China Morning Post
The ProQuest Historical South China Morning Post comprises the following Hong Kong newspaper files: the South China Morning Post (1903-1941); the South China Morning Post and the Hongkong Telegraph (1945-1946); and the South China Morning Post (1946-2001) with Sunday edition files for 1950-1974, and 1985-2001. Part of ProQuest Historical Newspapers.Robert Henry Chandless Photographs
Images from China, 1898-1908, including images of the Boxer Rebellion.Selected Records of the U.S. Legation in China, 1849-1931
Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.U.S. Military Intelligence Reports: China, 1911-1941
NARA RG 165, Records of the War Department General and Special Staffs: Military Intelligence Division Files, China. Part of ProQuest History Vault: U.S. Military Intelligence Reports, 1911-1944.Western Medicine in China, 1850-1950
1937-1979; Burke Chinese Medical Lantern Slides; Chinese Medical Directories; and a run (1919-1923) of the National Medical Journal of China. Also includes a portal to additional document collections.
Japan
American Occupation of Japan, Voices of the Key Participants
Oral histories.The Barbara Curtis Adachi Bunraku Collection
Documents the post-World War II revival of interest in bunraku. More that 12,500 slides and nearly 7,000 black-and-white photographs, as well as theater programs, texts, and audio and video recordings of interviews. Most of the collection has yet to be digitized.The Bauduin Collection of Photographs
1862-1870. 527 photographs of places in Japan, taken or collected by Anthonius Franciscus Bauduin. From the collections of Nagasaki University. Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.British Foreign Office: Japan Correspondence, 1856-1905
Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.British Foreign Office: Japan Correspondence, 1906-1913: Dominance of the Genro
Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.British Foreign Office: Japan Correspondence, 1914-1923: Emergence of Japan as a Pacific Power
Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.Center for Japanese Studies Publications
Collection of monographs issued by the Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan.Chikanobu and Yoshitoshi Woodblock Prints
Examples of late 17th century to early 20th century Japanese woodblock prints by the artists Chikanobu (1838-1912) and Yoshitoshi (1839-1892).Confidential U.S. Diplomatic Post Records, Japan: Part 1, 1914-1918
NARA RG 84: Records of the Department of State Diplomatic Post Files: Japan. From ProQuest History Vault: U.S. Diplomatic Post Records, 1914-1945.Confidential U.S. Diplomatic Post Records, Japan: Part 2, 1919-1929
NARA RG 84: Records of the Department of State Diplomatic Post Files: Legation, Tokyo, Japan. From ProQuest History Vault: U.S. Diplomatic Post Records, 1914-1945.Confidential U.S. Diplomatic Post Records, Japan: Part 3, Section A, 1930-1935
NARA RG 84: Records of the Department of State Diplomatic Post Files: Embassy, Tokyo, Japan. Part of ProQuest History Vault: U.S. Diplomatic Post Records, 1914-1945.David Plath Japanese Fieldwork Collection
Photographs, illustrations, and field notes from anthropologist David Plath’s 1965 research trip to Japan, where he studied four utopian communities: Ittoen, Atarashiki Mura, Shinkyo, and Yamagishi Kai.Despatches from United States Consuls in Hakodate, Japan, 1856-1878
Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.Despatches from United States Consuls in Nagasaki, Japan, 1860-1906
Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.Despatches from United States Consuls in Osaka and Hiogo (Kobe), Japan, 1868-1906
Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.Despatches from United States Consuls in Yokohama, Japan, 1897-1906
Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.Despatches from United States Ministers to Japan, 1855-1906
Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.- TRIAL. Digitized from NARA Record Group 59, Records of the U.S. State Department, Central Classified Files, Class 800, Germany, 1910-1929: 62a, 62c, 62d, 62e, 62f, 62g, 62h, 621, 62k, 62L, 62m. Part of Archives Unbound.
Foreign Office Files for Japan, 1919-1952
Drawn from the British National Archives record series FO 262 and FO 371. Part of Archives Direct.- Collection of print publications (newspapers, magazines, books, and pamphlets) issued in Japan during the immediate post-World War II years, 1945-1949. Includes guides to collections that haven’t yet been digitized, and a section of English-language sources.
Japan at War and Peace, 1930-1949: U.S. State Department Records on the Internal Affairs of Japan
TRIAL. Digitized from the microfilm sets Records of the Department of State Relating to Internal Affairs, Japan, 1930-1939; Records of the Department of State Relating to Internal Affairs, Japan, 1940-1944; and Records of the Department of State Relating to Internal Affairs, Japan, 1945-1949. Part of Archives Unbound.Japan Collections (Adam Matthew Research Source)
Digitized from the following microfilm collections: Japan through Western Eyes: Manuscript Records of Traders, Travellers, Missionaries and Diplomats, 1853-1941 (Part 1: Sources from the William R. Perkins Library, Duke University; Parts 2 to 5: The William Elliot Griffis Collection from Rutgers University Library; Parts 7 and 8: The Harold S. Williams Collection from the National Library of Australia; Part 9: Siebold manuscripts from the Asian and African Studies Collection at the British Library; and Part 10: Japanese manuscripts from the Asian and African Studies Collection at the British Library); East Meets West: Parts 1 to 3: Original Records of Western Traders, Travelers, Missionaries and Diplomats to 1852 (Part 1: The logbook of W. Adams and other manuscript and rare printed material from the Bodleian Library, Oxford; Part 2: Papers of E. Kaempfer and related sources from the British Library; and Part 3: Papers of J. Scattergood, I. Titsingh, H. J. Klaproth and other early materials from the British Library, London); Asian Journals: The Anglo-Japanese Gazette, 1902-1909; and Asian Journals: The Eastern World: A Weekly Journal for Law, Commerce, Politics, Literature and Useful Information, 1899-1908. Part of Adam Matthew Research Source.Japanese Historical Text Initiative
Important Japanese historical documents with English-language translations.Japanese Old Photographs in Bakumatsu-Meiji Period
1858 -1897. 6,239 photographs from the collections of Nagasaki University. Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.The Meiji and Taisho Eras in Photographs
1868-1926. From the collections of the National Diet Library in Tokyo, Japan. Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.- Documents (diaries, correspondence, research files, drawings, lecture notes, publications, scrapbooks and manuscripts) from the Edward Sylvester Morse Collection in the Peabody Essex Museum’s Phillips Library.
Minutes of Treaty Conferences between U.S. and Japanese Representatives, and Treaty Drafts, 1872
Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.Notes from the Japanese Legation in the United States to the Department of State, 1858-1906
Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.Portraits of Modern Japanese Historical Figures
1860-1914. From the collections of the National Diet Library in Tokyo, Japan. Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.Selected Records of the U.S. Legation in Japan, 1855-1912
Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.U.S. Military Intelligence Reports: Japan, 1918-1941
NARA RG 165, Records of the War Department General and Special Staffs: Military Intelligence Division Files, Japan. Part of ProQuest History Vault: U.S. Military Intelligence Reports, 1911-1944.- Digitized Japanese newspapers, ca. 1874-present. Includes the Daily Yomiuri, an English language Japanese newspaepr, 1989-1992.
South Asia
Afghanistan and the U.S., 1945-1963: Records of the U.S. State Department Central Classified Files
TRIAL. Digitized from three microfilm sets: Records of the Department of State Relating to Internal Affairs, Afghanistan, 1945-1949; Records of the Department of State Relating to Internal Affairs, Afghanistan, 1960-1963; and Records of the Department of State Relating to Political Relations, U.S. and Afghanistan, 1930-1959. Part of Archives Unbound.Afghanistan in 1919: The Third Anglo-Afghan War
TRIAL. Documents from the Records of the Military Department held by the British Library. Part of Archives Unbound.British Library: India Office Records Atlases and Gazetteers
1830-1934. Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.Central Asia, Persia and Afghanistan: 1834-1922
Documents from British National Archives record series FO 65 (188 volumes), FO 106 (complete 11 volumes), FO 371 (30 volumes of correspondence), FO 539 (118 files of “Confidential Print”). Focus of the collection is on the the geopolitical rivalry between the British and Russian empires in Central Asia, especially in Afghanistan. Document types include correspondence, intelligence reports (including open source intelligence such as translations of Russian newspaper articles), telegrams, agents’ diaries, newspaper clippings, maps, government reports, treaties, photographs, and sketches. Part of Archives Direct.China and Southeast Asia Collections (Adam Matthew Research Source)
Digitized from the following microfilm sets: China through Western Eyes: Manuscript Records of Traders, Travelers, Missionaries and Diplomats, 1792-1942 (Parts 1-3: Sources from the William R. Perkins Library, Duke University, including the Papers of J. A. Thomas, c. 1905-1923; Parts 4-5: Manuscript Diaries and Papers from the China Records Project at Yale Divinity Library; Part 7: The Diaries of G. E. Morrison , 1862-1920, Peking correspondent of the Times from 1897, and political adviser to the president of China, 1912-1920, from the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales; Part 8: Diaries, Notebooks and Writings of Rewi Alley, 1897-1987, from the Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand; and Part 9: The Addis and Geller Collections from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London); China Inland Mission, 1865-1951: From the School of Oriental and African Studies, London (Parts 1-2: James Hudson Taylor Papers: Correspondence, Journals and Subject Files; Part 3: Minutes and Papers of the China Inland Mission; Part 4: Additional CIM Papers and Chefoo Mission Papers; and Part 5: CIM Missionaries: Personal Papers); Asian Economic History: Series One: The Opium Trade and the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs, 1945-48 (Public Record Office class FO 371/50647-50654, 57020-57024, 67641-67644, 72907-72915); and Asian Economic History: Series Two: Economic Development in Brunei, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan, 1950-1980 (Part 1: Files for 1950-1954; Part 2: Files for 1955-1958; Part 3: Files for 1959-1962; and Part 4: Files for 1963-1966). Part of Adam Matthew Research Source.Despatches from United States Consuls in Bangkok, Siam, 1856-1906
Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.- Images and maps, as well as reference sources, newspapers, scholarly monographs, statistics, and more.
- Documents from the collection of India Office records, held by the British Library. In addition to the records of the East India Company, this collection includes records of other agencies charged with administering India, especially after the British Crown took over direct administration of India in 1858 (the Company’s charter officially expired in 1874). The collection at the British Library is organized into record series based on the agencies from which the records originated, and the digital collection is based on this classification scheme. Because most of the India Office Records primarily comprise manuscript material, the documents are not keyword searchable, so the interface provides many different ways of interacting with the collection, including by record series, by date, by theme, by index terms (where available), and a hierarchical index of government. Some documents are keyword searchable.
- 15th century to the present. Emphasis on the British Empire. Collection tilts heavily toward the 18th century, 19th century, and early 20th centuries.
Evangelism in India: Correspondence of the Board of Foreign Missions, 1833-1910
TRIAL. Digitized from the records of the Presbyterian Historical Society in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Part of Archives Unbound.Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, 1947-1980
Record series DO (Dominions Office) 133, DO 134, FO (Foreign Office) 371, and FCO (Foreign and Commonwealth Office) 37 from the British National Archives. Part of Archives Direct.Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, 1947-1980
Record series DO (Dominions Office) 133, DO 134, FO (Foreign Office) 371, and FCO (Foreign and Commonwealth Office) 37 from the British National Archives. Part of Archives Direct.Hindu Conspiracy Cases: Activities of the Indian Independence Movement in the U.S., 1908-1933
Records from the United States National Archives and Records Administration documenting efforts to revoke the citizenship of Indians naturalized as U.S. citizens, and to exclude Indians from admission to the United States. Digitized from NARA microfilm publication M1868: “Department of Justice and U.S. Attorney General records produced herein primarily concern the United States government’s prosecution of [Indian] nationalists in the “Hindu Conspiracy Case” for violations of the Espionage Act (40 Stat. 217-231).” Part of Archives Unbound.- 1710-1937. Diaries, journals, official papers, letters, sketches, paintings, histories and literary works documenting the British presence in India. Emphasis on the role of the Scottish in India as traders, generals, missionaries, viceroys, governor-generals. Documents drawn from the manuscript collections of the National Library of Scotland
India-Pakistan Conflict: Records of the U.S. State Department, February 1963-1966
Selections from the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration Record Groups 59. Digitized from the 16 reel microfilm set, Records of the U.S. State Department: India and Pakistan: Political and Governmental Affairs, February 1963-1966: Subject-Numeric File POL. Part of Archives Unbound.India Collections (Adam Matthew Research Source)
Digitized from the following microfilm sets: Colonial Discourses, Series 3: Colonial fiction, 1650-1914, Parts 1-3; Curzon, India and Empire: The Papers of Lord Curzon from the British Library, London; The Empire Writes Back: Parts 1-3: Indian Views on Britain and Empire, 1810-1915, from the British Library, London; India During the Raj: Eyewitness Accounts: Diaries and Related Records Describing Life in India, 1712-1925; India in the Age of Empire
The Journals of Michael Pakenham Edgeworth (1812-1881) from the Bodleian Library, Oxford; and Indian Newspaper Reports, c. 1868-1942 (Part 1: Bengal, 1874-1903; Part 2: Bengal, 1904-1916; Part 3: Punjab, Agra, Oudh, Rajputana and Central Provinces, c. 1868-1896; Part 4: United Provinces, 1897-1937; Part 5: Madras, 1876-1921; Part 6: Bombay, 1874-1898; Part 7: Bombay, 1901-1921; and Part 8: Punjab 1896-1924, Sind 1936-1939, Burma 1938-1942, Bihar and Orissa 1920). Part of Adam Matthew Research Source.India from Crown Rule to Republic, 1945-1949: Records of the U.S. State Department
Digitized from the 2 reel microfilm set, Confidential U.S. State Department Central Files. India: Internal Affairs, 1945-1949. Documents selected from National Archives and Records Administration Record Group 59, decimal numbers 645, 745, 845 and 711.45. Part of Archives Unbound.Indian Army and Colonial Warfare on the Frontiers of India, 1914-1920
Official Army war diaries for the North-West Indian Frontier. Diaries selected from British Library record series IOR/L/MIL/17/5/4066-4121. War diaries are an official category of British government document, and provide information on the activities of the Army for which each diary reports. These are not personal diaries of soldiers, officers, or other military personnel. Part of Archives Unbound.Photographs from the India Collection at the British Library
1850-1914. 11,655 photographs. Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.ProQuest Historical Times of India
1838-2008. Part of ProQuest Historical Newspapers.South Asian Newspapers (World Newspaper Archive)
Currently includes nine newspapers from south Asia, covering late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Click here to view a complete title list for South Asian Newspapers (World Newspaper Archive). Part of the World Newspaper Archive.
Pacific Islands
Despatches from United States Consuls in Batavia, Java, Netherlands East Indies, 1818-1906
Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.Despatches from United States Consuls in Iloilo, Philippine Islands, 1876-1886
Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.Despatches from United States Consuls in Padang, Sumatra, Netherlands East Indies, 1853-1898
Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.- TRIAL. Digitized from NARA Record Group 59, Records of the U.S. State Department, Central Classified Files, Class 800, Netherlands, 1910-1929: 856d, 856e, 856f, 856g, 856h, and 856i. Part of Archives Unbound.
- TRIAL. Digitized from NARA Record Group 59, Records of the U.S. State Department, Central Classified Files, Class 800, Germany, 1910-1929: 62a, 62c, 62d, 62e, 62f, 62g, 62h, 621, 62k, 62L, 62m. Part of Archives Unbound.
Foreign Office Files for South East Asia, 1963-1980
Documents drawn from British National Archives record series FO 371, DO 169, DO 187, FCO 15 and FCO 24. Emphasis on Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, and Philippines. Documents digitized in full color. Part of Archives Direct.- John R.M. Taylor’s The Philippine Insurrection Against the United States: A Compilation of Documents with Notes and Introduction, (Washington, D.C.: Bureau of Insular Affairs, War Department, 1906.) along with 1,430 supporting documents. Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.
- TRIAL. Records from the Pan Pacific Women’s Association of the U.S.A. Part of Archives Unbound.
Records Relating to the United States Surveying Expedition to the North Pacific Ocean, 1852-1863
Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.South Seas: Voyaging and Cross-Cultural Encounters in the Pacific, 1760-1800
Travel narratives; memoirs; contemporary publications on the South Seas; an interactive map tracking the voyage of H.M.S. Endeavour (August, 1768-July, 1771); an extensive reference library; and more.- Almost fifty Singaporean and Malaysian newspapers, majority in English. Coverage is primarily late nineteenth century and early-to-mid twentieth century. Some issues (especially post-1989) are embargoed. Click here to view a complete list of titles in NewspaperSG.more…