Bulkington Booksthe archives · where we dig
More gems than a lifetime can re-issue.
We dig through archives and directories to find our titles. We have found many gems there — more than we could ever hope to re-issue in a lifetime. We list the best archives we have found here, and commend them for your use.
- The Library of Congress
- A huge array of books, images, and films. Especially good for American content and anything pre-1900.
- Google Books
- An endless plethora of books, newspapers, and periodicals. Fairly well-indexed archive of newspapers and periodicals, as well as a huge array of books.
- The Internet Archive
- An immense database of music, films, news footage, newspapers, and books. Also archives web pages, which lets you get around paywalls.
- The Rijksmuseum
- The national museum of the Netherlands — an extremely well organized and high quality archive of prints and arts.
- Tufts Perseus Digital Library
- A great resource for Greek and Latin works. A little clunky, but we have used it frequently to source or corroborate Greek and Latin quotations and allusions.
- The Getty Open Content Collection
- Another very well maintained archive of images and paintings.
- The Marxists Internet Archive
- A volunteer-run free library of many books, texts, and articles. Obviously has lots of Marxist writings, but also hosts anarchists, syndicalists, and a variety of material that predates Marxism.
- University of Birmingham — Printer's Ornaments
- A niche treasure trove for people who want to include printer's ornaments in their works.
- Ball State University — WWI Posters
- Their WW1 poster database, plus several other collections.
- Bentley Historical Library — Polar Bear Expedition
- Many resources — we must note the Polar Bear Expedition archives in particular.
- The Library Company of Philadelphia
- An independent research library concentrating on American society and culture from the 17th through the 19th centuries.
- Milton Reading Room (Dartmouth)
- Hosts all of John Milton's works and makes them searchable.
- Wikimedia Commons
- Huge open-source archive of photos and links to other wikis. Dig in and you can find original source databases and other hosting sites.
a note on dante
The Divine Comedy, many ways in.
We must mention several different sites that have done great work on Dante Alighieri and his masterpiece.
- Dartmouth Dante Project
- Many commentaries and multiple translations.
- Princeton Dante Project
- Older in its workings, but covers the minor works as well.
- Danteworlds (UT Austin)
- Lots of footnotes and multimedia.
- Digital Dante (Columbia)
- Easy to use with a useful commentary.