Premodern

The Chinese Rubbings Collection results from a project to
catalog and digitize the entire collection of East Asian
rubbings (the majority of which are from China) at the Fine
Arts Library of Harvard University. The rubbings were made
from ancient stone stelae, tomb tablets, Buddhist and Daoist
scriptures on stelae and rocks, as well as inscriptions and
designs copied from bronze vessels, jade objects, ceramics,
tomb bricks, and roof tiles, objects dating from the Qin
Dynasty (221-207 BCE) to the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644 CE).

In the 19th and 20th centuries, Harvard University played
a significant role-as underwriter, participant, collector,
and repository-for pace-setting expeditions around the
world. For Internet users, Expeditions and Discoveries
provides selective access to Harvard's multidisciplinary
records of those expeditions. Expeditions and Discoveries
delivers maps, photographs, and published materials, as
well as field notes, letters, and a unique range of
manuscript materials on selected expeditions between 1626

The Open Collections Program (OCP) is the \online window\
that showcase the scope and the breadth of the extraordinary
collections of Harvard University. OCP has created six
subject-specific, web-accessible collections that focus on
making available unique historical materials of Harvard.

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

Contagion: Historical Views of Diseases and Epidemics is a digital library collection created under the Harward University Library Open Collections Program. It brings together a unique set of resources from Harvard University libraries -- over 500,000 pages of digitized copies of books, serials, pamphlets, incunabula, and manuscripts -- to offer valuable insights into the historical context for current epidemiology and contribute to the understanding of the global, social-hisotry, and public-policy implications of disease.

The website is the virtual home for the digitized collection
of historical Chinese medical texts of the Princeton East
Asian Library. Sixty-five full-text e-books are freely
available in the PDF format.

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

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.

Chinese Memory is a digital project undertaken by the
National Library of China (PRC) to showcase its digitized
collections and exhibit selected highlights of the NLC's
collections of Chinese rare books and historical resources.
The website also publishes research papers about the studies
of Chinese rare books.

The U.S. Newspaper Directory, 1690-Present, has information
of newspapers published in the United States since 1690 and
can help identify what titles exist for a specific place and
time, and how to access them.