New York Times Index.

                        H Magill Ref Rm  Shelved out of sequence next to the Microforms Room.

                        B Canaday Index  fAI 21 N44

            Haverford has the New York Times from 1851 to the present on film in the Microforms Room.

            Swarthmore has an online index for the New York Times, 1851-1923, in Historical Newspapers Online.

            Falk, Byron A.  Personal Name Index to the New York Times Index, 1851-1974.  Roxbury Data Interface, 1976 to the present.  22 vols. and suppls. currently covering through 1996.

                        H Magill Ref Rm  Shelved out of sequence next to the Microforms Room.

                        B Canaday Index  Z 5301 F28 1976

            Morse, Grant W.  Guide to the Incomparable New York Times Index.  Fleet Academic Editions, 1980.

                        H Magill Ref Rm  Shelved out of sequence at the beginning of the New York Times Index.

London Times Index

            Note:  The Times Index (London) has undergone a number of title changes from 1785 to date, including:  Palmer's Index to the Times Newspaper, 1790-1905; Annual Index to the Times (London), 1905-1913; and Official Index to the Times (London), 1913-1957.

                        S McCabe Online  [Historical Newspapers Online includes indexing for the Times, 1790-1980]

                        B Canaday Index  AI 21 T34 1785-1786

                        B Canaday Index  AI 21 T35 1790-1905

                        B Canaday Index  AI 21 T351           1906-1913

                        B Canaday Index  AI 21 T46 1914-date

                        Bryn Mawr has the Times from 1876-1891, 1899, and 1914 to the present on film in the Microfilm Room.  Swarthmore has the Times from 1788 to the present on microfilm.

Congressional Serial Set. (1817 to the present)

                        H Magill Docs  - Basement Tier, East Wall [missing volumes throughout the 19th century]

            A real bonanza for historians.  Collects an amazing treasure trove of Congressional publications, ranging from investigative and background studies to reports of governmental and private agencies.  Access provided by the:

                         CIS U.S. Serial Set Index.  Congressional Information Service, 1975-1979.  36 vols

                                    B Canaday Ref  fZ 1223 Z9 C65

Catalog of the Public Documents of the Congress and of All Departments of the Government of the United States.  (Title on book spine:  Document Catalog.)  U.S. Government Printing Office, 1893-1940.  25 vols.

                        H Magill Docs Ref  Z 1233 A13

                        B Canaday  fZ 1223 A179

For documents published prior to 1893, see:

1774-1881  Poore, Ben Perley, comp.  A Descriptive Catalogue of the Government Publications of the United States, Sept. 5, 1774-March 4, 1881.  U.S. Government Printing Office, 1885

            H Magill Docs Ref  Z 1223 A 1885

                        B Canaday Ref  Z 1223 A175

1881-1893  Ames, John G.  Comprehensive Index to the Publications of the United States Government, 1881-1893.  U.S. Government Printing Office, 1905.  2 vols.

                        B Canaday Ref  fZ 1223 A176

                        H Magill Docs Ref  Z 1223 A 1905

            Some specialized indexes exist for the Serial Set.  See, for example:  Guide to American Indian Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899.  Steven L. Johnson, ed.  Clearwater Publishing, 1977.

                                    H Magill Docs Ref  KF 8201 A1 J63

The American State Papers (B Canaday Rare Bk Rm  Uncat 8963; H Magill Philips Wing  J 33 ) predate the Serial Set and present documents from the early congresses, covering material published up to 1838.  They too are indexed in the CIS U.S. Serial Set Index.