20th Century America - Primary Sources on Microform   General Materials and Finding Aids   Immigration   Labor   Native American   Politics   Popular Culture   Race   War   Women

The Microform & Newspaper Collection, Suzzallo Library, holds many specialized sets of primary source documents pertaining to U.S. History in the 20th Century. The following list is only a selection of our holdings.

GENERAL MATERIALS AND FINDING AIDS

California Primary Sources
The following finding aids can be of great help on topics concerning 20th century California.

Users' Guide to the California State Library's California Art and Artists File, 1904-1982, M2811, microfiche.

Users' Guide to the San Francisco Chronicle Index, 1950-1980 M2809, microfiche

Users' Guide to the San Francisco Newspaper Index, [1904-1980], M2810, microfiche

Dubuar Scrapbooks

Newspaper articles clipped from local Seattle and Northwest papers during the 1920's-1930's; many of the articles are retrospective.

A2646, indexed in PNW Regional Newspaper and Periodical Index, 7 reels

Government Documents

This library section holds A wide range of U.S. documents, covering all aspects of the federal government (Congressional hearings, Declassified Documents, U.S. Executive Branch Documents, Superintendent of Documents files, and many more)

Call numbers, guides and set sizes vary.

Microforms Sets Guide

A database containing descriptions of over 100 microfilm sets held by the Microform and Newspaper Collection.

Newspapers

Microforms and Newspapers has a large U.S. newspaper collection, including complete backfiles of major general newspapers (New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, etc.) and regional newspapers (Seattle Times, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, etc.). We also have many special audience papers, including ethnic, labor and community publications.

Periodicals

Most periodicals are kept in bound volumes on the 3rd floor of Suzzallo Library. The Microform and Newspaper Collection has complete backfiles of most major U.S. periodicals, including Life, Newsweek, Time and U.S. News and World Report.

Searchable Guide to Newspaper Indexes

Search this database by newspaper title, place of publication or index title in order to see which indexes, paper or electronic, you would use to find articles in particular newspapers.

IMMIGRATION

The Immigrant in America

Unit 1: Norwegians: reels 1-28, Danes: reels 29-37

Unit 2: Finns: reels 38-56

Unit 6: Swedes: reels 198-207

Very large collection of published diaries, autobiographies, first generation immigrant stories, etc. Much of this material is not in English.

A9697, 3 printed guides

Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service:

Part 1: Asian Immigration and Exclusion, 1906-1913

Part 2: Mexican Immigration, 1906-1930

Part 3: Ellis Island, 1900-1933

A8555, 3 printed guides, 65 reels microfilm

History Universe provides electronic versions of these printed guides. Note that our microfilm set does not include Parts 4 and 5 that are listed in History Universe.

LABOR

American Federation of Labor and the Unions: National and International Union Records from the Samuel Gompers Era, 1877-1937

A6683, printed guide, 149 reels microfilm

American Labor Unions Constitutions and Proceedings: Part I, 1836-1974

A5081, printed guide, 197 reels microfilm

The Green Rising, 1910-1977

A supplement to the Southern Tenant Farmers Union Papers

A6612, printed guide, 17 reels microfilm

Guide to the Alaska Packers Association Records, 1891-1970

M1327, printed guide, microfiche

Records of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, 1895-1992

Part 1: Records of the BSCP, 1925-1969 (30 reels)

Part 2: Records of the Ladies Auxiliary of the BSCP, 1931-1968 (10 reels)

Part 3: Records of the BSCP relations with the Pullman Company, 1925-1968 (10 reels)

A9702, 3 printed guides

History Universe provides electronic versions of the printed guides that accompany this set.

Southern Tenant Farmers Union Papers, 1934-1970

A6612, printed guide, 17 reels microfilm

See also: POLITICS: Eugene Debs

NATIVE AMERICAN

John Collier Papers, 1922-1968

Executive Secretary of the American Indian Defense Association, Commissioner of Indian Affairs under Roosevelt.

A6833, printed guide, 59 reels microfilm

Papers of John Peabody Harrington in the Smithsonian Institution, 1907-1957

v. 1: Native American History, Language, and Culture of Alaska/Northwest Coast, 30 reels microfilm

v. 9: A Guide to the Correspondence, 17 reels microfilm

A6952, printed guide

Papers of the Society of American Indians, 1906-1946

The nation's earliest pan-Indian reform organization (the idea for this group first took shape in a graduate student's 1904 dissertation).

A8210, printed guide, 10 reels microfilm

Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Central Classified Files, 1907-1939

Series A. Indian delegations to Washington (25 reels)

Series B. Indian customs and social relations (23 reels)

Series C. Indian health and medical affairs, pt. 1 (29 reels)

A9601, printed guide, 29 reels microfilm

History Universe provides an electronic version of this printed guide.

Records of the Indian Shaker Church of Washington and the Northwest, 1892-1945

A4547, no guide, one microfilm reel

POLITICS

Committee of Fifteen

The first of New York City's anti-vice committees in the early 20th century, the Committee and its papers are key sources in the history of prostitution in the U.S.

A9760, printed guide, 17 microfilm reels

Diaries of Henry Lewis Stimson

Secretary of War under three U.S. presidents, 1909-1945.

A7814, printed guide, 9 reels microfilm

Gay Rights Movement: Gay Activists Alliance, 1969-1981

A9675, printed guide, 21 reels microfilm

Gay Rights Movement: Mattachine Society of New York, Inc. 1955-1987

A9664, printed guide, 24 reels microfilm

J.Edgar Hoover Official and Confidential File

17,000 pages from one of Hoover's private office files, covering policies and authorizations pertaining to break-ins, buggings, wiretappings, Hoover's relationships with U.S. presidents, etc.

A8569, printed guide, 17 reels microfilm

History Universe provides this printed guide in electronic form.

Marxist - Humanism: 1941 to today, its origins and development in the U.S.

A7021, printed guide, 3 reels microfilm

The Militant (Newspaper), [1928-1934; 1941- ]

Electronic site at gopher://gopher.igc.apc.org/11/pubs/militant

The Militant Index, 1971-1976

The paper of the Socialist Workers Party, it "published in the interests of the working people."

A4129

Papers of Eugene Debs, 1834-1945

Important labor figure in the late 19th century and an anti-war activist. He became the president of the Socialist Party of America in 1900.

A7132, printed guide, 21 reels microfilm

Papers of the Nixon White House

M2771, printed guides, 1947 microfiche

Presidential Papers

Calvin Coolidge Papers A5187, printed guide

Theodore Roosevelt Papers A5086, printed guide

William Howard Taft Papers A5049, printed guide

Woodrow Wilson Papers A5209, printed guide

U.S. Military Intelligence Reports: Surveillance of Radicals in the U.S., 1917-1941

A8286, printed guide, 34 reels microfilm

The Wallace Papers

Henry A. Wallace served as Secretary of Agriculture1933-1940, Vice President, 1941-45, and Secretary of Commerce, 1945-1946.

A5875, printed guides, 67 reels microfilm

POPULAR CULTURE

D.W. Griffith Papers, 1897-1954

One of the most significant filmmakers in American Cinema.

A9794, printed guide, 36 reels microfilm

Photographic Views of New York City 1870's - 1970's

Over 50,000 images from the historical photography collections of the New York Public Library

M1418, printed guides, microfiche

Playboy, 1953-1998

A7683, printed index/index on microfilm

Rolling Stone, 1967 to date

A7025, printed index, microfilm

The Will Hays Papers, 1879-1954

Will Hays ran the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (the "Hays Office"), wielding great influence on the development of the film industry, 1920s-1940s.

A9793 , printed guides, 78 microfilm reels

RACE

Black Literature 1827-1940

Full text of fiction, poetry, book reviews and literary notices which appeared in a wide range of black periodicals published in the U.S. between 1827 and 1940.

M2296, printed index, microfiche

Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) Papers

Part 1: Western Regional Office, 1962-1965

A8104, printed guide, 80 reels microfilm

FBI Files on:

Philip Randolph
A8262, printed guide, 1 reel microfilm

Atlanta Child Murders
A8279, printed guide, 3 reels microfilm
The FBI's Freedom of Information Act Electronic Reading Room provides the Atlanta Child Murders files in full-text.

Marcus Garvey
A7287, 1 reel microfilm

Malcolm X
A7225, 2 reels microfilm
See also below: RACE: Transcripts of the Malcolm X Assassination Trial

Martin Luther King
A8281, printed guide, 9 reels microfilm

NAACP
A8259, printed guide, 4 reels microfilm

National Negro Congress
A8260, printed guide, 2 reels microfilm

Paul Robeson
A8209, printed guide, 2 reels microfilm
See also below: RACE: Paul Robeson Collection

Reverend Jesse Jackson
A8169, printed guide, 2 reels microfilm

Roy Wilkins
A8261, printed guide, 1 reel microfilm

Student Nonviolent Coordination Committee
A8434, printed guide, 2 reels microfilm

Japanese Camp Papers

The Camp Harmony Papers are available online, while the rest are on the microfilm.

A6973, guide on microfilm, 22 reels microfilm

See also: WAR: Papers of the U.S> Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians

See also: WAR: War Relocation

Papers of the NAACP

One of the most significant African American organizations in the U.S.

A8473, printed guides, 383 reels microfilm, incomplete set

History Universe provides electronic versions of many, but not all of the Papers of the NAACP printed guides that accompany this microfilm set. Note that we do not have all of the NAACP papers on microfilm. The items that are not in our set can be borrowed from other libraries.

Paul Robeson Collection

A8411, printed guide, 9 reels microfilm

See also above: RACE: FBI Files, Paul Robeson

Transcripts, Depositions, Consultants Reports, and Selected Documents of the Governor's Commission on the Los Angeles Riots, 1965

The Watts Riot, Los Angeles California

A2921, no guide, 5 reels microfilm

Transcripts of the Malcolm X Assassination Trial

A8435, printed guide, 3 reels microfilm

See also above: RACE: FBI Files, Malcolm X

See also: WAR: Papers of the U.S. Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians

See also: WAR: War Relocation

See also: WOMEN: Records of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs

WAR

John F. Kennedy National Security Files: USSR and Eastern Europe, 1961-1963

A8229, printed guide, 3 reels microfilm

Minutes and Meetings of the National Security Council, with special advisory reports

A8132, 3 printed guides, 5 reels microfilm

History Universe provides an electronic version of the Second Supplement printed guide, while the other two guides are only available in print.

Papers of the U.S. Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians

Part 1: Numerical File Archive

A7378, printed guide, 35 reels microfilm

The Peers Inquiry of the Massacre at My Lai

A9612, printed guide, 12 reels microfilm

History Universe provides and electronic version of this printed guide.

War in Vietnam: National Security Council Histories

A8269, printed guide, 8 reels microfilm

War Relocation

A6945, printed guide, 3 reels microfilm

See also: RACE: Japanese Camp Papers

WOMEN

Campaign for Women's Suffrage, 1895-1920

A9598, printed guide, 31 reels microfilm

Guide and Index to Women's Diaries

v. 1: New England Women

v. 2: Southern Women

v. 3: Western Women

This collection emphasizes 19th century materials, but does contain some early 20th century works.

A8137, 3 printed guides

Herstory

A4701, 2 printed guides, 90 reels microfilm

History of Women

Massive collection of primary and secondary materials and women's periodicals.

Each item in this microform set is listed in the UW Libraries Catalog.

A8266, printed guide, 1248 reels microfilm (monographs, pamphlets, photographs, manuscripts)

A9677, printed guide (filed under A8266), 253 reels microfilm (periodical titles)

Margaret Sanger Papers, 1879-1966

Subseries 1. Correspondence

Subseries 2. Organizations and conferences

Subseries 3. Legal/government

Subseries 4. Writings

Subseries 5. Miscellany

A9492, printed guide, 101 reels microfilm

Margaret Sanger and The Woman Rebel

Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony

A8589, printed guide, 45 reels microfilm

Papers of the League of Women Voters

Part 1: Meetings of the board of directors and the executive committees, 1918-1974 (14 reels)

Part 2: Series A - Transcripts & records of national conventions, 1919-44 and of general councils, 1927-43 (20 reels)

Part 2: Series B - Transcripts & records of national conventions, 1946-74 and of general councils, 1945-73 (30 reels)

Part 3: Series A - National office subject files, 1920-32 (34 reels)

A9667, 3 printed guides

Records of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, 1895-1992

This set reveals the social and political roles played at local and national levels by black women activists, working through the NACW, oldest Black secular group still in existence.

A9701, 2 printed guides, 41 reels microfilm

History Universe provides electronic versions of these printed guides.

Women and Health Collection

A6004, printed guide, 14 reels microfilm

Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, 1919-1959

A8464, printed guide, 97 reels microfilm

Women's Studies Manuscript Collections from the Schlesinger Libraries, Radcliffe College

Series 1: Women's Suffrage --

pt. A. National leaders (18 reels)

pt. B. New York (15 reels)

pt. C. The South (8 reels)

pt. D. New England (65 reels)

pt. E. The Midwest and Far West (35 reels)

A8637, 5 printed guides

See also: LABOR: Records of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters

Updated: 6 October 1999
Contact: Glenda Pearson - pearson@u.washington.edu
Jessica Albano - jalbano@u.washington.edu