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Link to Material	Description	Specialist
American Consumer Culture. Market research and American Business 1935-1965	Provides insight into the American consumer boom of the mid-20th century through the market research reports of Ernest Dichter.
New York Times Digital Edition	Princeton faculty, students and staff can now access The New York Times Digital Edition through an Academic Site License provided by Princeton University Library. Register for an Academic Pass.
Joseph Moxon. Mechanick exercises: or, the doctrine of handy-works [applied to the art of printing] 1683-1700	1st edition; earliest English manual about printing. Reveals technical information considered trade secrets by printers. First book published in England as a serial.	Julie Mellby
Jacques Archadelt. Il quinto libro di madrigali a quatro voci. 1544	Fifth book of madrigals for 4 voices by Jacques Arcadelt (1507-1568), printed by Antonio Gardano in 1544. Incudes works by Arcadelt and others. Altus and Bassus parts.	Darwin Scott
Annibale Padovano. Il primo libro de madrigali a cinque voci. 1564	First book of madrigals for 5 voices by Annibale Padovano (1527-1575), printed by Antonio Gardano in 1564. 20 madrigals for 5 voices; 4, for 4 voices. Canto, alto and quinto parts.	Darwin Scott
Holzschnitte der Reyher'schen Buchdruckerey in Gotha	Gotha: Reyher Buckdruckerey, 1810. Printers sample book displaying woodcuts from the Reyher Printing House. This is the only copy in the U.S.	Julie Mellby
USSR in Construction; SSSR na stroike; СССР на стройкe	Russian-language, domestic edition of the illustrated monthly USSR in Construction published from 1930-1941 and then for one more year in 1949.	Thomas Keenan
Classical Scores Library (Alexander Street Press)	Primarily in-copyright classical scores from major composers and editions; includes full, study, piano, and vocal scores.	Darwin Scott
Dance in Video (Alexander Street Press)	20th and 21st century dance. Includes performances, documentaries, interviews, and instructional videos from performers and companies	Darwin Scott
UNESCO Collection of Traditional Music (Alexander Street Press)	This collection of new content was recently added to Smithsonian Global Sound. Out of print since 2005, the collection of 125 albums, includes previously unreleased recordings, is published by Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.	Darwin Scott
Images of the American Civil War (Alexander Street Press)	Contemporaneous photographs, posters, and ephemera presenting an historical account of the war—and a view of nineteenth-century America more broadly—from social, military, and political perspectives.
Independent voices [Reveal Digital]	Independent Voices is a four-year project to digitize over 1 million pages from the magazines, journals and newspapers of the alternative press archives of participating libraries. The inaugural product of Reveal Digital of Ann Arbor, Michigan.
The First World War [Adam Matthew Digital]	Primary source documents on the personal experiences of men and women, recruitment, the development and dissemination of various forms of propaganda, women's war work, the Home Front and a broad array of international perspectives.
World's Fairs and Expositions: Visions of Tomorrow (Smithsonian Collections Online) [Gale]	Materials published between 1834-1940. Includes Books of the Fairs: Smithsonian Libraries holdings; world's fairs titles in the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology and in the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Library.
Trade Literature and the Merchandizing of Industry (Smithsonian Collections Online) [Gale]	This collection covers 1820-1926 and includes National Museum of American History Library Trade Literature Collection.