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Dr. H. Grotefend,

Standard and comprehensive source for questions of chronology, time reckonings and calendars.
Extends beyond the German border; includes calendars of saints by city, diocese and order.
Digitized by Dr. Horst Ruth.
(Annotated Latin and German transcriptions)

This is a monumental collection of medieval documents (even the title proclaims it).
Consisting of published volumes in facsimile form of the sub-series:
Scriptores (Historiographers),
Leges (Legal Texts),
Diplomata (Political Documents),
Epistolae (Correspondence),
Antiquitates (Poetry and History of Thought),
along with other sub-series.
Full-text searchable transcriptions to follow soon.
(Middle Ages; Latin and German facsimiles)

(Transcriptions)

Sixteenth- through early eighteenth-century pamphlets digitized by the University of Augsburg.
From the collections of the Oettingen-Wallerstein'sche Bibliothek, in cooperation with Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
Most anonymous, but some written by famous authors such as Johann Fischart.
(1577-1739; facsimiles)

Including online albums, legal documents, maps, books, oral histories, posters and finding aids.
Combining resources of a number of Jewish societies and institutes.
(17th-20th centuries; German, English and other facsimiles)

A large classified archive of German-language documents assembled by Kai Riedel.
(1800 - present; transcriptions)

Economic Encyclopedia, one of the most comprehensive in German-speaking lands with its 242 volumes.
One of the most important German scholarly sources for the time leading into the industrial revolution.
A digital project of the University of Trier.
(1773 - 1858; transcriptions)

A digitization project of the Seminar für Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichteat the University of Cologne.
(19th century... plus; facsimiles)

Searchable German encyclopedia as a digital copy of the 1888 edition.
(Facsimiles)

Including posters, speeches, etc.
(Facsimiles, translations and transcriptions)

Compiled by Richard Weikert, California State University, Stanislaus.
(mostly 19th - 20th centuries; English translations)

Compiled by the German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C.
(eventually to include 1500 to the present; images, maps,German transcriptions and English translations)

Online photo images taken from 12 million negatives, enlargements and slides of the archive in Berlin.
Categories are history and politics, portraits, geography, art and cultural history (by keyword search).
(Facsimile images)
Growing collection of digitized images from among the 11 million images in the Federal Archive.
Searchable by multiple access points or browsable by subject.
(19th-20th centuries; image database)

Samples from the document holdings
(Facsimiles )

Including essays of important economic thinkers from Austria, England, France, Germany, Italy, and other countries.
(English transcriptions and translations)

(1996: German transcriptions)

Bielefeld [u.a.]: Velhagen & Klasing 1886.
Historical atlas digitized by Monumenta Germaniae Historica.
(Facsimile maps with commentary, mainly of Germany and Europe)Städte im Spiegel der Kartografie
Historical Maps of Barth, Rostock, and Stralsund.
(17th century-present; facsimiles)
Includes maps on the political, economic, administrative and transportation developments in Germany.
From the Institut für europäische Geschichte (Mainz, Germany).
A project of the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI).
(Facsimiles and textual commentaries).
(2nd century C.E. - 1949; facsimiles)
Digital linguistic atlas of German lands, searchable.
Installation of plug-ins may be required
(Facsimiles, transcriptions & commentary).
A set of historical maps from Dr. Ronnie Ellenblum's Historic Cities
(Facsimiles).

Historical Maps of Mecklenburg and (Upper) Pomerania
(17th-19th centuries; facsimiles)

History of German Cities, Nobility and Regions,
with both primary and secondary materials.
(German transcriptions)

Mostly History of German-Speaking Countries (P = Primary, S = Secondary, M = [Instructional] Materials)
Click on "P" within a given chronology for primary source documents.
(German transcriptions with German and English translations)

Includes primary and secondary documents, provided by Don Mabry.
(Transcriptions, facsimiles and commentaries, mostly in English)

Very thorough links of the Federal Statistical Office of Germany
(German data and commentary)

(Facsimiles).

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