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    Name of Collection: Cornell University Library, Making of America
    URL of Collection: http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa

    Name of Institution: Cornell University Library
    Institution URL: MOA-L@cornell.edu

    Description: Materials accessible here are Cornell University's contributions to Making of America (MOA), a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. This site provides access to 267 monographs and over 100,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints. The project represents a major collaborative endeavor in preservation and electronic access to historical texts. The Making of America collection is comprised of the digitized pages of books and journals. This system allows you to view scanned images of the actual pages of the 19th century texts. Optical Character Recognition (OCR) has been performed on the images to enhance searching and accessing the texts. Making of America is made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Making of America is best viewed with a frames-capable browser

    Main language of the collection: English
    Type of Material: Printed Documents, Photographs

 

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