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Modern European Resources
- French Revolution
- France - 18th c. / Revolution
French Revolution
- Prominent among the Department's modern European
historical specialties, the Maclure Collection (also available on the
commercially-produced microfilm) contains some 20,000 pamphlets published
in France, by and large between 1788 and 1802. This collection documents
French Revolutionary political and economic concerns, and political
processes during the Revolution, in great depth.
See the printed guide for detailed descriptions:
The Maclure Collections of French Revolutionary Materials. 1966
H Magill Ref Room Z2179 P4
Contact: University of Pennsylvania,
Van Pelt Library, Special Collections, 3420 Walnut St., Philadelphia.
(215) 898-7088.
- Pamphlets from the French Revolutionary War
(BMC Collection)
France - 18th c. and French Revolution
- This collection of French writings at Bryn
Mawr is divided up into four sections by topic: The French Revolution,
Napoleonic Wars, Descriptions of Paris, and Political and Literary Works.
Click here for complete listing!
Contact: Bryn Mawr College, Canaday
Library, Special Collections - (610) 526-5289.
Hungary
- The American Friends Service Committee has material on Hungarian refugees
in Austria following the 1956 Revolution.
Contact: American Friends Service
Committee, Archives, 15th and Cherry Sts, Philadelphia. 215-241-7044
Russia
- The American Friends Service Committee has a sizable collection of
papers documenting relief efforts in Russia from 1917 through the early
1920s. Work concentrated on feeding children and then later branched
into medical relief.
Contact: American Friends Service
Committee, Archives, 15th and Cherry Sts, Philadelphia. 215-241-7044
Serbia
- The American Friends Service Committee has a small collection of papers
concerning relief efforts, primarily medical work, in Serbia following
World War I. One of the volunteers whose papers are included in the
collection is Drew Pearson who later became a prominent political journalist.
Contact: American Friends Service
Committee, Archives, 15th and Cherry Sts, Philadelphia. 215-241-7044
Spanish Civil War
- The American Friends Service Committee has a sizable collection of
papers documenting British and American relief efforts in Spain from
1936 through1939. Areas particularly well covered include fundraising
and the efforts required to work with both the at the same time.
Contact: American Friends Service
Committee, Archives, 15th and Cherry Sts, Philadelphia. 215-241-7044
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