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Anthropology

UCLA Cuneiform Digital Library
(cdli.ucla.edu/)
The University of California- LosAngeles digital library of Middle Eastern tablets dating from the 3rd millenium BC includes images and additional information for more than 3,500 cuneiform tablets from museums in Berlin and Paris and from the University of California at Berkeley's Hearst Museum of Anthropology. Each image of a tablet is accompanied by a transliteration of its cuneiform text to the Roman alphabet.


Economics

ATHENA Authors and Texts
(un2sg4.unige.ch/athena/html/authors.html)
Includes nearly 10,000 multilingual links to books on philosophy, science, classics, literature, history, economics, etc. The collection is searchable by author, title, language, and keywords.

Working Women, 1870-1930
(ocp.hul.harvard.edu/ww/)
"Women Working, 1870 - 1930 provides access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard's library and museum collections. This collection explores women's roles in the US economy between the Civil War and the Great Depression. Working conditions, conditions in the home, costs of living, recreation, health and hygiene, conduct of life, policies and regulations governing the workplace, and social issues are all well documented. The collection currently contains 2,396 books and pamphlets, 1,075 photographs, and 5,000 pages from manuscript collections." [Source: Website]


Political science

Cornell University Collection of Political Americana
(cidc.library.cornell.edu/political/)
The Susan H. Douglas Collection of Political Americana was acquired from an individual collector in 1957 for Cornell University Library (CUL). The range and variety of content includes: buttons, badges, posters and prints, songbooks and sheet music, cartoons, parade equipment, and souvenirs such as plates, cups, and games. There are approximately 5,500 objects of political memorabilia dating from 1789 to 1960.

Working Women, 1870-1930
(ocp.hul.harvard.edu/ww/)
"Women Working, 1870 - 1930 provides access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard's library and museum collections. This collection explores women's roles in the US economy between the Civil War and the Great Depression. Working conditions, conditions in the home, costs of living, recreation, health and hygiene, conduct of life, policies and regulations governing the workplace, and social issues are all well documented. The collection currently contains 2,396 books and pamphlets, 1,075 photographs, and 5,000 pages from manuscript collections." [Source: Website]

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Sociology

ATHENA Authors and Texts
(un2sg4.unige.ch/athena/html/authors.html)
Includes nearly 10,000 multilingual links to books on philosophy, science, classics, literature, history, economics, etc. The collection is searchable by author, title, language, and keywords.

Working Women, 1870-1930
(ocp.hul.harvard.edu/ww/)
"Women Working, 1870 - 1930 provides access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard's library and museum collections. This collection explores women's roles in the US economy between the Civil War and the Great Depression. Working conditions, conditions in the home, costs of living, recreation, health and hygiene, conduct of life, policies and regulations governing the workplace, and social issues are all well documented. The collection currently contains 2,396 books and pamphlets, 1,075 photographs, and 5,000 pages from manuscript collections." [Source: Website]


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