UW Libraries - History - Microfilm Collections

Selected list of major (generally at least 10 reels) microfiche and microfilm sets of primary sources. Most of these sets are collections of unpublished manuscript material. Large sets that have been individually cataloged (e.g., Early English Books, German Baroque Literature) have not been included. All material can be found in the Microform and Newspaper Collections on the ground floor of Suzzallo Library unless noted otherwise.

LABOR

Title	Reels	Call No.	Guide
American Federation of Labor and the Unions: National and International Union Records from the Samuel Gompers Era, 1877-1937	149 reels	A6683	printed guide
American Labor Unions Constitutions and Proceedings: Part I, 1836-1974	197 reels	A5081	printed guide
The Green Rising, 1910-1977: A supplement to the Southern Tenant Farmers Union Papers	17 reels	A6612	printed guide
Guide to the Alaska Packers Association Records, 1891-1970	microfiche	M1327	printed guide
Records of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, 1895-1992 Part 1: Records of the BSCP, 1925-1969 Part 2: Records of the Ladies Auxiliary of the BSCP, 1931-1968 Part 3: Records of the BSCP relations with the Pullman Company, 1925-1968	50 reels	A9702	printed guides
Southern Tenant Farmers Union Papers, 1934-1970	17 reels	A6612	printed guide

NATIVE AMERICANS & THE WEST

Title	Reels	Call No.	Guide
John Collier Papers, 1922-1968	59 reels	A6833	printed guide
Papers of John Peabody Harrington in the Smithsonian Institution, 1907-1957 v. 1: Native American History, Language, and Culture of Alaska/Northwest Coast v. 9: A Guide to the Correspondence	47 reels	A6952	printed guide
Papers of the St. Louis fur trade pt. 1. The Chouteau collection, 1752-1925 pt. 3. Robert Campbell Family collection	70 reels	A8549	printed guide
Papers of the Society of American Indians, 1906-1946	10 reels	A8210	printed guide
Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Central Classified Files, 1907-1939 Series A. Indian delegations to Washington Series B. Indian customs and social relations Series C. Indian health and medical affairs, pt. 1	77 reels	A9601	Ser A guide Ser B guide
Moravian mission records among the North American Indians	40 reels	A8387	printed guide
Iroquois Indians: A Documentary History of the Diplomacy of the Six Nations and Their League	50 reels	A7384	guide
American Indian Correspondence. The Presbyterian Historical Society Collection of Missionaries' Letters, 1833-1893.	35 reels	A8384	printed guide
American Fur Company. Papers	37 reels	A203	printed guide
The American West: overland journeys, 1841-1880	microfiche	M3244	printed guide
Letters received by the Office of Indian Affairs, 1824-1881	86 reels	A1783	printed guide
The Oregon Province archives of the Society of Jesus: Alaska Mission Collection	42 reels	A7034	printed guide
The Oregon Province archives of the Society of Jesus Indian language collection: the Pacific Northwest tribes	21 reels	A8141	printed guide
The Oregon Province archives of the Society of Jesus Indian language collection: The Alaska native languages	28 reels	A8140	printed guide
George Bird Grinnell papers	47 reels	A9929	printed guide
The Sheldon Jackson collection, 1835-1909	41 reels	A9845	printed guide
Records of the Washington Superintendency of Indian Affairs, 1853-74	63 reels	A171	printed guide

WOMEN

Title	Reels	Call No.	Guide
Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching papers, 1930-1942	8 reels	A10382	printed guide
Committee of Fifteen	17 reels	A9760	printed guide
Campaign for Women's Suffrage, 1895-1920	31 reels	A9598	printed guide
Margaret Sanger Papers, 1879-1966	101 reels	A9492	printed guide
The papers of Margaret Sanger	145 reels	A9572	printed guide
Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony	45 reels	A8589	printed guide
Papers of the League of Women Voters	64 reels	A9667	printed guide
Records of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, 1895-1992	41 reels	A9701	Pt 1 guide Pt 2 guide
American Association of University Women archives, 1881-1976	158 reels	A7234	printed guide
Women and Health Collection	14 reels	A6004	printed guide
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, 1919-1959	97 reels	A8464	printed guide
Women's Studies Manuscript Collections from the Schlesinger Libraries, Radcliffe College. Series 1: Women's Suffrage	141 reels	A8637	printed guide
British birth control material at the British Library of Political and Economic Sciences	10 reels	A7029	printed guide
National American Woman Suffrage Association Records	73 reels	A8635	printed guide
Colonial discourses. Series one, Women, travel, and empire, 1660-1914. Part 1, Early travel accounts by women and women's experiences in India, Africa, Australasia, and Canada	25 reels	A9921	printed guide
Women advising women pt. 1. Early women's journals, c1700-1832, from the Bodleian Library, Oxford pt. 2. Advice books, manuals, almancas, and journals , c1625-1837 from the Bodleian Library, Oxford pt. 3-4. The Lady's Magazine, 1770-1832 pt. 5. Women's writing and advice, c1450-1720	91 reels	A8451	printed guide
The Women at work collection, from the Imperial War Museum, Lambeth, London: pt. 1. The army, Belgium, and benevolent organizations pt. 2. The British Red Cross, colonies, decorations and honours, and education pt. 3 Employment pt. 4. Food files, France, India, Italy, Roumania, Switzerland, and local records files pt. 5. Munitions I-VII files; prisoners I-IV; relief funds I-II; Russia files; Serbia files; suffrage & politics I-III; U.S.A. files; volunteer corps; welfare files; W.R.A.F. files; W.R.N.S. files	91 reels	A9740	printed guide

AFRICAN AMERICANS

Title	Reels	Call No.	Guide
Papers of the NAACP (incomplete set)	383 reels	A8473	printed guide
The East St. Louis race riot of 1917	8 reels	A9922	guide
Microfilm edition of the papers of the Maryland State Colonization	31 reels	A4868	printed guide
Records of ante-bellum southern plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War ser. A. Selections from the South Caroliniana Library, University of South Carolina ser. C Selections from holdings of the Library of Congress ser. F. Selections from the Manuscript Department, Duke University Library	148 reels	A9699	Ser A guide Ser C guide Ser F, pts. 1-2 guide Ser F, pt. 3 guide Ser F, pt. 4 guide
Paul Robeson Collection	9 reels	A8411	printed guide

CIVIL & HUMAN RIGHTS

Title	Reels	Call No.	Guide
Gay Rights Movement: Gay Activists Alliance, 1969-1981	21 reels	A9675	printed guide and online
Gay Rights Movement: Mattachine Society of New York, Inc. 1955-1987	24 reels	A9664	printed guide and online
Human rights documents	microfiche	M-1885	printed guide
J.Edgar Hoover Official and Confidential File	17 reels	A8569	guide
U.S. Military Intelligence Reports: Surveillance of Radicals in the U.S., 1917-1941	34 reels	A8286	printed guide

AMERICAN POLITICS, POLITICIANS & PRESIDENTS

Title	Reels	Call No.	Guide
Diaries of Henry Lewis Stimson	9 reels	A7814	printed guide
Adams papers	608 reels	A1404	printed guide
Grover Cleveland papers	164 reels	A1141	printed guide
Papers of Eugene Debs, 1834-1945	21 reels	A7132	printed guide
Papers of the Nixon White House	microfiche	M2771	printed guide
Calvin Coolidge Papers	190 reels	A5187	printed guide
William McKinley papers	98 reels	A5118	printed guide
Theodore Roosevelt Papers	486 reels	A5086	printed guide
William Howard Taft Papers	658 reels	A5049	printed guide
Woodrow Wilson Papers	540 reels	A5209	printed guide
The Wallace Papers	67 reels	A5875	printed guide
U.S. executive branch documents, 1910-1932	microfiche	M-3218	printed guide

US NATIONAL SECURITY

Title	Reels	Call No.	Guide
Documents of the National Security Council	reels	A6617	guide
The U.S. intelligence community: organization, operations, and management, 1947-1989	microfiche	M-3027	printed guide and CD-ROM
Military uses of space, 1946 [i.e. 1945]-1991	microfiche	M-3036	printed guide and CD-ROM
Nuclear non-proliferation, 1945-1991	microfiche	M-3030	printed guide and CD-ROM
Presidential directives on national security from Truman to Clinton	microfiche	M-3037	printed guide

US INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS - VIETNAM

Title	Reels	Call No.	Guide
Confidential U.S. State Department Central Files. Indochina: Internal Affairs, 1950-1954	44 reels	A8454	printed guide
Confidential U.S. State Department Central Files. Indochina: Internal Affairs, 1945-1949	10 reels	A8455	printed guide
Confidential U.S. State Department Central Files. Indochina: Internal and Foreign Affairs, 1955-1959	54 reels	A8456	printed guide
Echols Collection: selections on the Vietnam War	microfiche	M-3130	printed guide
The Peers inquiry of the massacre at My Lai	12 reels	A9612	guide
Transcripts and files of the Paris peace talks on Vietnam, 1968-1973	12 reels	A8270	printed guide

US INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS - ASIA

Title	Reels	Call No.	Guide
Records of the Department of State relating to internal affairs of China, 1910-1929	227 reels	A1241	printed guide
Despatches from United States consuls in Amoy, 1844-1906	15 reels	A957	printed guide
Despatches from United States consuls in Canton, 1790-1906	20 reels	A958	printed guide
Despatches from United States consuls in Foochow, 1849-1906	10 reels	A960	printed guide
Despatches from United States consuls in Hong Kong, 1844-1906	21 reels	A963	printed guide
Despatches from United States consuls in Kanagawa, 1861-1897	21 reels	A972	printed guide
Despatches from United States ministers to Korea, 1883-1905	21 reels	A966	printed guide
Despatches from United States ministers to Japan	82 reels	A951	printed guide
Despatches from United States consuls in Shanghai, 1847-1906	53 reels	A969	printed guide
Despatches from United States ministers to China, 1843-1906	130 reels	A950	printed guide
Confidential U.S. diplomatic post records: Japan pt. 1. Japan, 1914-1918 pt. 2. Japan, 1919-1929 pt. 3, sec. A. Japan, 1930-1935. pt. 3. sec. B. Japan, 1936-1941.	142 reels	East Asia G1260	printed guide
Confidential U.S. State Department central files. India: internal affairs, 1945-1949	23 reels	A8182	printed guide
The Philippines: U.S. policy during the Marcos years, 1965-1986	microfiche	M-3034	printed guide and CD-ROM
Records of the Department of State relating to political relations between the United States and Siam, 1910-1929	18 reels	A9548	printed guide

US INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS - EASTERN EUROPE

Title	Reels	Call No.	Guide
Confidential U.S. diplomatic post records: Russia and the Soviet Union	145 reels	A6989	printed guide
The Soviet estimate: U.S. analysis of the Soviet Union, 1947-1991	microfiche	M-3039	printed guide
Records of the U.S. Department of State relating to the internal affairs of Bulgaria, 1945-1949	9 reels	A8560	printed guide
Records of the U.S. Department of State relating to the internal affairs of Hungary, 1945-1949	20 reels	A8567	printed guide
Records of the U.S. Department of State relating to the internal affairs of Czechoslovakia, 1945-1949	17 reels	A8565	printed guide
Records of the U.S. Department of State relating to the internal affairs of Poland, 1945-1949	23 reels	A8552	printed guide
Records of the U.S. Department of State relating to the internal affairs of Romania, 1945-1949	14 reels	A8568	printed guide
Records of the U.S. Department of State relating to the internal affairs of Yugoslavia, 1945-1949	18 reels	A8564	printed guide

US INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS - WESTERN EUROPE

Title	Reels	Call No.	Guide
Records of the U.S. Department of State relating to the internal affairs of Austria, 1945-1949	16 reels	A8563	printed guide
Records of the U.S. Department of State relating to the internal affairs of Finland, 1945-1949	8 reels	A8561	printed guide
Despatches from United States ministers to France 1789-1869	67 reels	A1784	printed guide
Confidential U.S. State Department central files. France, 1945-1949: internal affairs	68 reels	A10015	printed guide
Confidential U.S. State Department central files. France, internal affairs, 1950-1954	25 reels	A10019	printed guide
Despatches from United States Ministers to Great Britain, 1791-1906	200 reels	A1786	printed guide
Despatches from United States ministers to the German states and Germany, 1799-1906	106 reels	A1785	printed guide
The Berlin crisis, 1958-1962	microfiche	M-3028	printed guide
Records of the U.S. Department of State relating to the internal affairs of Greece, 1945-1949	53 reels	A8566	printed guide
Confidential U.S. State Department central files: Spain, internal affairs, 1930-1939	88 reels	A10016	printed guide
The John F. Kennedy national security files. Western Europe: national security files, 1961-1963	10 reels	A10013	printed guide
The Lyndon B. Johnson national security files. Western Europe: national security files, 1963-1969	10 reels	A10014	printed guide

US INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS - MIDDLE EAST

Title	Reels	Call No.	Guide
Afghanistan: the making of U.S. policy, 1973-1990	microfiche	M-3035	printed guide and CD-ROM
Iraqgate: Saddam Hussein, U.S. policy and the prelude to the Persian Gulf War (1980-1994)	microfiche	M-3038	printed guide
Iran: the making of U.S. policy, 1977-1980	microfiche	M-3031	printed guide and CD-ROM
The Iran-Contra affair: the making of a scandal, 1983-1988	microfiche	M-3029	printed guide and CD-ROM

US INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS - LATIN AMERICA & AFRICA

Title	Reels	Call No.	Guide
The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962	microfiche	M-3032	printed guide and CD-ROM
El Salvador: the making of U.S. policy, 1977-1984	microfiche	M-3025	printed guide and CD-ROM
Nicaragua: the making of U.S. policy, 1978-1990	microfiche	M-3026	printed guide and CD-ROM
El Salvador: war, peace, and human rights, 1980-1994	microfiche	M-3273	printed guide
South Africa: the making of U.S. policy, 1962-1989	microfiche	M-3033	printed guide and CD-ROM

BRITISH POLITICS, GOVERNMENT & FOREIGN AFFAIRS

Title	Reels	Call No.	Guide
American papers in the House of Lords Records Office: a microfilm edition with printed calendar and index	39 reels	A7345	printed guide
Confidential British Foreign Office political correspondence: Palestine, 1947-1948	46 reels	A8533	printed guide
Confidential British Foreign Office political correspondence: Palestine and Transjordan, 1940-1946	35 reels	A8532	printed guide
British Foreign Office-United States correspondence, [1930-1948]	382	A7351	printed guide
The Archives of the British Labour Party	microfiche	M-531 M-892	printed guide
British foreign office, Russia correspondence	986 reels	A7369	printed guide

WORLD WAR II

Title	Reels	Call No.	Guide
Records of Headquarters, German Army High Command: Oberkommando des Heeres	26 reels	A1779	printed guide
Records of the Reich Leader of the SS and Chief of the German Police (Reichsfuhrer SS und Chef der Deutschen Polizei)	10 reels	A3596	printed guide
Records of the Reich Ministry of Economics (Reichswirtschaftsministerium)	15 reels	A1780	printed guide
German Foreign Ministry archives, 1867-1920	23 reels	A3743	printed guide
Records of Headquarters, German Armed Forces High Command [microform] : Oberkommando der Wehrmacht/OKW)	117 reels	A1757	printed guide
Records of the National Socialist-German Labor Party (NSDAP)	25 reels	A1781	printed guide
Japanese American evacuation and resettlement records, 1930-1974	150 reels	A10096	printed guide and online
Papers of the U.S. Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians	35 reels	A7378	printed guide
Records of the War Relocation Authority, 1942-1946: Field Documentation	115 reels	A9912	printed guide and online

SOVIET UNION

Title	Reels	Call No.	Guide
Records of the All-Union Communist Party, Smolensk District, 1917-41	68 reels	A8421	printed guide
Archives of the Soviet Communist Party and Soviet State	25 reels	A9640	printed guide
The GULAG press, 1920-1937	microfiche	M-3347	printed guide
Department for Relations with Foreign Communist Parties (International Department of the Central Committee), 1953-1957	126 reels	A10092	printed guide
The General Department of the Central Committee, 1953-1966 = Obshchii otdel TSK KPSS, 1953-1966 gody	117 reels	A10062	printed guide
Plenums of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 1941-1990	181 reels and microfiche	A10093 and M-3396	printed guide

MISSIONS & MISSIONARIES

Title	Reels	Call No.	Guide
Archival records from the United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel	27 reels	A8212	printed guide
Church Missionary Society archive. Section II, Missions to women. pt. 1. Society for Promoting Female Education (FES) in China, India and the East, 1834-1899 pt. 2. India's women and China's daughters, 1880-1939 and Looking east at India's women and China's daughters, 1940-1957 pt. 3. Homes of the east, 1910-1948 (including Torchbearer from 1914), Daybreak, 1889, 1893-1894 and 1906-1909, and The Indian female evangelist, 1872-1880. 1896; Preaching and healing, 1900-1906 pt. 4. The Indian female evangelist, 1881-1893, continued as The Zenana: or, Woman's work in India, 1893-1935, continued as The Zenana: Women's work in India and Pakistan, 1936-1956 from Interserve, London pt. 5. Minutes of the Zenana, Bible and Medical Mission, 1865-1937 and the Annual reports of the Indian Female Normal School and Instruction Society, 1863-1879 from Interserve, London	58 reels	A9924	printed guide
Church Missionary Society archive. Section IV, Africa Missions pt. 3. Nigeria - Yoruba mission, 1880-1934 pt. 9. Nigeria - Yoruba mission, 1880-1934 pt. 12. West Africa (Sierra Leone) mission, 1881-1934 pt. 13. West Africa (Sierra Leone) mission, 1935-1949 and Nigeria missions, 1935-1949	139 reels	A9892	printed guide
Africa through western eyes: manuscript records of traders, travellers, soldiers, missionaries and diplomats in Africa	15 reels	A9834	printed guide
Papers of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions Unit 1, Letters to domestic and foreign correspondents, 1834-1919 Unit 2, Letters from Missionaries to Africa, 1834-1919 Unit 4, Missions to Asia, 1812-1919	261 reels	A7028	printed guide & online
The Alaskan Russian Church archives: records, 1733-1938	376 reels	A8220	printed guide

HISTORY OF SCIENCE

Title	Reels	Call No.	Guide
The history of science and technology. Series 2, The papers of Sir Joseph Banks, 1743-1820	51 reels	A8641	printed guide
Letters and papers of Robert Boyle: from the archives of the Royal Society	16 reels	A8422	printed guide
Collections from the Royal Society: Journal Books of Scientific Meetings, 1660-1800	18 reels	A8665	reel index

CINEMA

Title	Reels	Call No.	Guide
D.W. Griffith Papers, 1897-1954	36 reels	A9794	printed guide
The Will Hays Papers, 1879-1954	78 reels	A9793	printed guide
Moskovskaia kinostudiia "Mosfilm" (1938-1945)	12 reels	A9949	printed guide
Assotsiatsiia rabotnikov revoliutsionnoi kinematografii (ARRK) (1923-1932)	14 reels	A9948	printed guide

MISCELLANEOUS - EUROPE

Title	Reels	Call No.	Guide
Austrian Habsburg history: printed sources 16th-19th centuries	microfiche	M-2826	printed guide
Documents relating to Bosnia-Hercegovina	24 reels	A2232	printed guide
The British Archives of the International Brigade to Spain in the Civil War, 1936-1939	microfiche	M-3175	printed guide
Anglo-Saxon manuscripts in microfiche facsimile	microfiche	M-3416	printed guide

MISCELLANEOUS - ASIA

Title	Reels	Call No.	Guide
China through western eyes: manuscript records of traders, travellers, missionaries and diplomats, 1792-1942	47 reels	A9723	printed guide
Shanghai municipal police file	67 reels	East Asia G1305	printed guide
East meets West: original records of Western traders, travellers, missionaries, and diplomats to 1852	22 reels	A9783	printed guide
Indian political intelligence files	microfiche	M-3276	printed guide
Political pamphlets from the Indian subcontinent	microfiche	M-2280	printed guide
Publications Proscribed by the Government of India	35 reels	A7820	printed guide
Communist Party of Indonesia: P.K.I. documents and serials, 1952-1965	microfiche	M-2835	printed guide
Indonesian nationalist movement: manuscripts and printed sources	microfiche	M-2836	printed guide
Javanese language manuscripts of Surakarta, Central Java	278 reels	A8671	printed guide

MISCELLANEOUS - AMERICAS

Title	Reels	Call No.	Guide
American Radicalism Collection	236 reels	Tacoma TAC-459	printed guide available in Microform Newspapers
The Tudway of Wells Antiguan estate papers, 1689-1907	30 reels	A10060	printed guide
Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Series A, Subject correspondence files pt. 1. Asian immigration and exclusion, 1906-1913 pt. 2. Mexican immigration, 1906-1930 pt. 3. Ellis Island, 1900-1933 pt. 5. Prostitution and "white slavery," 1902-1933	72 reels	A8555	Pt 1 guide Pt 2 guide Pt 3 guide Pt 5 guide
The immigrant in America Unit 1. Norwegians: reels 1-28. Danes: reels 29-37 Unit 2. Finns: reels 38-56. Irish: reels 57-71. Scotch-Irish: reels 72-73. Scots: reels 74-75, Unit 6. Italians: reels 184-197. Swedes: reels 198-207	77 reels	A9697	printed guide and online
The Ferrar papers, 1590-1790, in Magdalene College, Cambridge	14 reels	A8408	printed guide
The James Jerome Hill Papers	54 reels	A8025	printed guide