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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)
- Digital library of the Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt, offering online access to a number of different collections including books, journals, manuscripts, newspapers and maps.
- (17th - early 20th centuries; 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)
- 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).
- Digital linguistic atlas of German lands, searchable.
- Installation of plug-ins may be required
- (Facsimiles, transcriptions & commentary).
- Highlights from the University of Utrecht's collection of maps and atlases in digital format.
- Search digitized maps or browse by title, atlas/map series, geographical area, or collection.
- (16th - 19th centuries; facsimile maps with annotations, from Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom)
- A set of historical maps from Dr. Ronnie Ellenblum's Historic Cities
- (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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