DOCUMENT EESUME ED. 114 115 IE'002 749 AUTHOR Nevin, David G. TITLE: Sights. and Sounds Circa 1776; Early American Materials in Non-Book Formats. INSTITUTION Waihington Univ., Stl, Louis, Mo. 'Univ. Libraries. PUB DATE Oct 75 NOTE. , 21p. EDRS ;TICE' ME-$0.,76 -HC-$1.58 Plug Postage DESCRIPTORS American Histdry; Bibliographies; *Colonial History (United States); *Fiims;.*Music; *Newspapers; PeriodiCali; *RevCitioniry War (United 'States) - IDENTIFIERS *John M Olin Library;'Hashington University .ABSTRACT Early'merican materials in non-book formats available at Washington University's John M.Olin Library are listed. Microform tatprialt-th-did&e: -bodkt# pariOhlett-atff broadsides printed 'C between 1636 through 1800; 700 rare'volumes'from the colonial, revolutionary, an& federal periods from the University of Virginia; American plays from 1714-1830 and all available'peribdicals published-between 1728-1860.- Early American newspaper's' are" listed (1), alphabetically by state and then by city and (2) alphabetically by title. A One page bibliography of:certain official British documents from 1547-1900 is included. Phonorecords cover chamber, vocal, keyboard and folk music of the. _period. There is a three_page listing of appropriate 16mm films for rental with the name.of the-source from which they can be ordered.(NR) 4 0 4 *********************************************************************** * Documents acquired by.ERTC incldde many infnraal unpublished * materials not available from other sources. ERIC makes every effort '* .1, to obtain the best copy available. Nevertheless, items of marginal * * reproducibility are often encountered aild this affects the quality * *.of the microfiche and hardcopy reproductions ERIC makei.aVailable * * via the ERIC Document Reproduction Service (EDRS). EDRS it not * responsible for the quality of the original document. Reproductions. * * supplied"by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original. **********************************************************************4! 4' 3.776 SI itif.ITS,ANDi SOUNDS Cf RCA 1776-- U S. DEPARTMENT OPHEALTH, EOUCATION L14ELPARE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF EOUCATION 'THISDOCUMENT HAS PEENREPRO, OUCEO EXACTLY ASRECEIVED FROM THE PERSON OR ORGANIZATIONORIGIN. ATING IT POINTS OF VIEWOR OPINIONS .$TATEO.D0 NOT NECESSARILYAMIE EARLY-AMERICAN MATERIALS INSTITUTE OF SENT OFFICIAL NATIONAL IN NON-BOOK FOIMATS ,EOUCATION POSITION OR POLICYt 1976- Audio/Visual-Department - John M.Olin Library Washington Udiversity ^ r. "44 ti ooNer VP' "Irumma. a H PREFApE This publication was rrepared to accompany an exhibit by the same . namemounted on Level 3 of; Washington University's John M. Olin Library. October 20 Decembe? 20, 1q75. Immediately preceding the celebration of the Americah Revolution, Bicentennial, the purpose of both the exhibit'and . this 'mediography' is to alert faculty and students to the "many excellent resources for the stuObf this neriod available in or through the Library's. _Audio7Visual Department. The list of newspapers-in microform and the.alphabetical index were compiled from several existing lists by Donald E. Long, a graduate student with--the--Departatent---of -Chinese-10--Japarres-eie-whq--works-as- apA-/V---student assistant. ' . With Long's assistance, Mrs. Bernice T. Dain, A/V Junior Catalog.4r, compiled the listing of long-p1/*.inR phonorecord's. __Mts. Danielle Phillips.. A/V Assistant, prepared the list of 16mar 'motion pictures in anticipation of,reouests from faculty during the Bi- centennial year through-the A/V DepaNtment4s soon-to=be initiated Film Rental Booking- Service-: .Other sections and editorial supervision were the responsibility of the Chief of the Department, who is respbrisible for any errors or omissions. - Sinple copies of this nliblication are available to members og the Washington Universitycampus, commUnt-cy. upon presentation of a currently validated i.d. card, Additional copies and copies for, non -WU patrons at the A/V,Dent. front. service 'desk are 75i each.,The publication has also been submitted for distribution in both microfiche and hatd:opy through' O the ERIC system: until available through.the ERIC Document Reproduction Service (EDRS),.however; copies wiAl be mailed at $1. each, inpluding . postage. David G. Nevin, Chief ..Audio /Visual Department October, 1975 & Photodup-Service'Lab Washington University libTaries Saint 'Louis, Missourq ff :v4 C 0 N.TENTS G PREFACE CONTENTS MICROFORMS: Early American book, clays, and journals in microform 1 Early American newsraOrs in microform (by city and state) . Farly American newsparers in microform: alphabetical index to non-distinctive titles 3' The British viewi,oirt 11 d PHONORECORDS: , , Spoken word ***** ,. * 12 Chamber, vocal, 4,keyboard music 13, -Folk music 114 Soundtracks & musicals 114 FILMS: Examples of some lFmm motion pictures available for rental from off-campus sources 15 V mICROFORMS tEARLY AMERICAN BKS. PLAYS, AND JOURNALS IN MICROFORY. i - \ EARLY AMERICAN TrPRINTS, 1439-1800.-(EVANS) --I This collection is a Microprint edition of the complete .iext,Of every existent book, pamphlet, and broadside printed in the United States in the years 1639 through 18nn, over 42,000 titles. Undertaken by the_Ameriban Antiauarian Society beginning/in January, 1955 and subseauently endorAed by the Committee- on Documentary Reproduction of the American Historidal A'Ssocia- tion, the project is based on Charles Evans' American Bibliography (BiA1.- 7.1215-E92) with all inaccuracies in that work carefully corrected in th'e light ofIthe most recent bibliographical scholarship. Serial publications are not included (see%American-Periodical Series and American Pefiodical. index, below,. and the separate section bn EarlcAmericanIlewSnaPers-). The' Microprints are arranged by Evans number and are indexed by Shipton and Mooney's National'Index of American Imprints through 1800; the Short Title Evans (Bibl.-71218-Sh85). A particularly interesting 'index to musicalnotation in the set (by composer, compiler, editor, title, apd 7,Vans- number) is, contained in Donald Hixon's Music in Early America: A Bibliography Musicin Evans (Music..:Ref..LML120-Un3-H55. JEEFERSONTAN AMERICANA. (JA) A series on Microcards consistingof 706 rare volumes for research in the colonial, revolutionary, and federalperiods of American history from the Uniyeraity of Virginia. Authors and titles are interfiled in'the main card catalog on Level 3 of Olin Library. but not in the /V Depte.'s (-main entry] microforms catalog. A/Vs-does hale a lu st, provided by the publisher, in their "Miscellaneous- microform Guides" notebook. , THREE CENTURIES OF DRAMA: AMERICAN. (TcD) Fponsored by the Theatre Library Association aspart of a project to collect and reproduce all available British and American plays published before the nineteenth century, the American portion of this collection spans the years 1714 through 1810 and is based on Frank Pierce Hill's American Plays 1714 - 1830, A Bibliopraphical Record. The project was. edited by Henry W. Wells, Curator of Columbia University's Brander Matthews Dramatic Library, and C. Alliam liergauist's Three Centuriet ofl EnglishandAmericarPlaysj Checklist !Pei..7.7,20l4-D7-Bh5) serves as an index and finding guide-to the collection. AMERICAN PERIODICAL SERTFS: EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. (APS 1) An early (1019-4]) micropubiishinp nroject of University Microfilms, sronsored by the University of Michigan there are 91 titles on 33 reels of 3Rmm rollmicrofilm in this collection of "all known, extant, andavailable periodicals nublished in the United States between 174] and 1709." -1- MICROFORMS) AMERICAN PERIODICAL SFPIFS (cont'd.) . Titles are fully catalog ed in the main card catalog and checklists, issued by the micronublisher, may be found in both A/V and Reference (Cc'ell.1- 760514)400,.,), (Responding to the demand by users, the project has been expanded, to include American periodicals through 1850 and beyond, and Olin Library continues to receive annual shipments in this major nrggram.) AMERICAN PERIODICAL INDEX, 1728 -.185n. (EAPT) -Aclose analysis of 340 American magazines.publishedroughli from 1730 to 1860, the original WPA-nroduced 650,000 cards at New York University have .been made available in Microprint. The file is, in fact, several separate indexes divided as follows: A. General prose, B. Fiction, C. Poetry, D. Book reviews, F. 5ongs, and F. Subjects. It is espgciaily useful in cohjunction with the microfilm edition of,the American Periodical Series, noted above; A list of the periodicals indexed is contained in the AtIr Dept.'s "miscellaneous Microform Guides- Midfonrints" notebook. 4 0 EARLY AMERICAN-NEWSPAPERS IN MICROFORM, s EARLY AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS. .(FAN) This Microprint series, still in process, includes colonial, revolu- tionary, and federal neriods and spans the years 1704 - 1820. It attempts to incorporate all the available newspapers in Clarence. Brigham's History and Bibliography of AmeriCan Newspapers, 1690 - 1820 (Bibl.-Z6951-B86&B861) and, when complete, will include all obtainable-issues Of more than two thousand newspapers covering t30 years of historical source materials. All titles are listed in Olin Library's main.card. catalog and have been given an "EAN"-number to-indicate-in which Microprint box they are to be found. ' The following, 5-1/2 pages (nn,3-8). are a list by state and City of . titles thus far received in the Microprint collection plus a fpwother titles for this same period in Philadelphia (PRIM and 1Massachusetts (Mass. Historical