Internet resources for History

Formosa is a digital library hosted by Reed College of
Portland, Oregon that specializes in gathering early images,
maps, and texts on the island of Taiwan, which was called
\Formosa\ by foreign visitors in the 19th Century. Scholars
can even find a small sampling of primary linguistic data on
various aboriginal languages collected by early explorers.
Primary source data like this were originally published in
European and North American books and journals during the
19th Century, but have since become hard to access with the
passage of time.

VIA is a growing online union catalogue at Harvard
University Library, documenting the arts, material
culture,
and social history. It contains descriptive records and
images representing paintings, sculpture, photography,
drawings, prints, architecture, decorative arts, trade
cards, rubbings, theater designs, maps and plans from
participating archives, museums, libraries, and other
collections throughout Harvard University. Included are
thousands of digital images on China, Japan, and Korea.

The Harvard-Yenching Library holds some 5,000 photographs
and 10,000 negatives taken by Hedda Hammer Morrison (1908-
1991) while resident in Beijing from 1933 to 1946. All of
the photographs contained in the 28 albums assembled by
Hedda Morrison have been cataloged and digitized and can be
viewed in VIA (Visual Information Access), the union catalog
of visual resources at Harvard. This site provides
information about the collection and strategies for
effectively searching for Hedda Morrison photographs in VIA.

This database project studies the first wave of postcards
with a Chinese subject. Users not only find images of the
postcards, but also their historical context information
about what they are, who produced them and where, how they
were used, and what's their significance. The growing
collection focuses on early (1896-1920) postcards of China
with the bulk back to the time of the late imprial (before
1911). It has stopped updating in 2004 and the 462 images
the site hosts are available to view and download.

Historical Laws of Hong Kong Online is a full-text image
database providing access to past revised editions of Hong
Kong laws. The database comprises a total of six
consolidations of the laws of Hong Kong: 1890, 1901, 1912,
1923, 1937, 1950, and 1964 (last updated to 1989).

Historical Laws of Hong Kong Online is a full-text image
database providing access to past revised editions of Hong
Kong Laws. The database comprises a total of seven
consolidations of the laws of Hong Kong: 1890, 1901, 1912,
1923, 1937, 1950, and 1964 (last updated to 1989). The
Historical Laws of Hong Kong Online database is a valuable
source for legal research on the historical development of
the law of Hong Kong.

This project results from a collaboration between scholars
at the University of Bristol, University of Lincoln, the
Institut d'Asie Orientale and TGE-Adonis. It aims to locate,
archive, and disseminate photographs from the substantial
holdings of images of modern China held mostly in private
hands overseas.

This website includes digitized rare books, statistics, and
the archive catalog about the Hong Kong catholic diocesan.

Hong Kong Government Reports Online (HKGRO) is a full-text
image database providing online access to pre-World War II
issues of four major government publications, namely,
Administrative Report, Hong Kong Sessional Papers, Hong Kong
Hansard and Hong Kong Government Gazette. It contains a wide
range of information, such as official notifications,
proceedings of the Legislative Council, statistics, and
reports of government departments and special committees,
which are essential to students and scholars in conducting
research on Hong Kong.

The HKWCT Collection provides details of, and access to, the
case files of 46 trials involving 123 persons who were tried
in Hong Kong for war crimes committed during the Second
World War. Due to restrictions imposed by the copyright
holder, The National Archives, it is only possible for
persons based at one of the universities in Hong Kong to
have full access to the case files. However, other
documents are available to everyone.

The Hopkins Archive was begun in 1968 with reel-to-reel
magnetic tape on an Uher portable recorder. Since then the
media has changed but the archive is still maintained. It
now consists of over three thousand hours of authentic
oral transmission on many scholarly and cultural aspects
of Tibetan Buddhism, including many traditional Buddhist
philosophical topics, Tibetan medicine, Tibetan history,
and so forth. The archive includes four hundred hours of
teachings by the Fourteenth Dalai Lama and thousands of
hours of teachings by numerous lamas of the last
generation of Buddhist scholars to be thoroughly trained
in Tibet.

Images from the History of Medicine (IHM) is a database of
over 70,000 images in the U.S. National Library of
Medicine's historical collections. The collections include
portraits, photographs, fine prints, caricatures, genre
scenes, posters, and other graphic art, which illustrate
the social and historical aspects of medicine from the
Middle Ages to the present. Subjects range from medieval
medical practice and 19th-century slum conditions to World
War I hospitals and the international fight against drug
abuse and AIDS. That said, the majority of the images date
back to earlier time periods from before World War II. The
geographical coverage of the database is international,
but the majority of the images is sourced from Europe and
the United States.

Constituting a visual record of early European contacts
with Asia and Africa, Images of Colonialism Collection is
a primary visual resource for historical and socio-
cultural studies. Made up largely of late-19th and early-
20th century trade cards and illustrated European
newspapers, this collection of more than 700 images offers
insight into European perspectives on varying aspects of
colonial experience by documenting how popular perceptions
of Asia and Africa were created and disseminated. The
collection can also be used to draw contrasts between
colonial attitudes among the French, British, German, and
Dutch colonizers and the realities in the colonies.

Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930, is a web-
based collection of historical materials from Harvard's
libraries, archives, and museums that documents voluntary
immigration to the United States from the signing of the
Constitution to the onset of the Great Depression.
Concentrating heavily on the 19th century, Immigration to
the US includes over 400,000 pages from more than 2,200
books, pamphlets, and serials, over 9,600 pages from
manuscript and archival collections, and more than 7,800
photographs. By incorporating diaries, biographies, and
other writings capturing diverse experiences, the
collected material provides a window into the lives of
ordinary immigrants.

This searchable Flickr database contains over 12 million
historical copyright-free images (photos and drawings) that
are sourced from more than 600 million library book pages
scanned by the Internet Archive. Streaching half a
millennium (1500-1922), the vast range of images shows how
the portrayals of things have changed over. The database is
created by Kalev Leetaru, an American academic.

Modeled after the Library of Congress Classification
Schedules, this guide categorizes 1700+ entries of
databases, websites and archives in an order that's
convenient for research.It includes contemporary, modern and
premodern time periods. Unfortunately, the guide has stopped
updating itself since 2009.

The Internet resources guide at the Hong Kong University of
Science and Technology includes 450+ entries that cover art,
history, politics and other aspects of traditional and
contemporary China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong. It
is keyword searchable and annotated.

Lat Pau, the longest running Chinese daily during pre-War
Singapore, was started by Mr See Ewe Lay in December 1881
and lasted 52 years before it finally ceased in March 1932.
Lat Pau is an invaluable historical source for research into
pre-war Singapore as well as Chinese overseas during that
period. Unfortunately the earliest issues of the newspaper
were lost and now the issues extant at the system cover only
the period August 19 1887 to March 31 1932.

「先秦甲骨金文简牍词彙库」分为词彙检索与全文检索，收录甲骨文、金
文、简牍三种文字材料，依词类、材质做为搜寻条件，展示词彙的词性、时
代、书目来源、释文段落。 特色在于打破材质作为前提的预设，以词彙本
身为焦点，横跨不同时代观察词彙的流变。本资料库所收语料忠实记录了殷
周到春秋、战国时期曆法、官制、地理、战争、法律、土地买卖、赏赐、渔
猎、祭祀、嫁娶、亲属称谓、氏族标志、国际关係等诸多问题，这些丰富的
语文材料正能补充传统文献之不足。

The London Missionary Society's collection of
Chinese books has been digitized and made
available online by the National Library of
Australia. This special collection comprises over
500 printed books gathered by LMS missionaries
during the late Qing period. These include
missionary publications such as Christian tracts,
as well as non-missionary books, manuscript items,
books related to the Taiping Rebellion and so on.
These materials are interesting primary sources
for Chinese history and religion studies.