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Primary sources for historical research: Africa
This guide lists important collections of primary sources on the history of Africa held by the Princeton University Library. It covers microform, print and digital collections. Microforms listed in this guide are housed in Firestone Library Microforms Service on C floor. Printed guides to these collections are usually also housed in Microforms Service and have call numbers beginning "FilmB." A few collections held by Princeton Theological Seminary or by the Center for Research Libraries are also listed in this guide. Please consult a librarian for help if you would like to use these collections. For further information, please see Guides to primary sources for historical research: introduction.
Table of Contents
| Correspondence of the Secretary of the Navy relating to African colonization, 1819-1844 [microform] |
| Microfilm 09664 |
2 reels |
Printed guide: Firestone Microforms CD3026.A52 |
| Consists mainly of copies of letters sent by the Secretary of the Navy to agents of the United States stationed on the northwest coast of Africa for the purpose of receiving blacks freed by the capture of slave ships, and letters and reports received by the Secretary of the Navy from these agents.
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| Records of the Office of the Secretary of the Interior relating to the suppression of the African slave trade and Negro colonization, 1854-1872 [microform] |
| Microfilm 09663 |
10 reels |
Printed guide: none |
M160; From record group 48, General records of the Dept. of the Interior., National Archives. See
http://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/048.html |
| Records of the Department of State relating to internal affairs of Liberia, 1910-29 |
| Firestone Microforms 1838.922 |
34 reels |
Printed guide: Firestone Microforms CD3026.A52 |
Originals held by National Archives as part of Record Group 59, General Records of the Dept. of State. See
http://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/059.html |
| Records of the Department of State relating to political relations between Liberia and other states, including the United States, 1919-1929 [microform] |
| 1838.922.2 |
1 reel |
Printed guide: Firestone Microforms CD3026.A52 |
Originals held by National Archives as part of Record Group 59, General Records of the Dept. of State. See
http://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/059.html |
| O.S.S./State Department intelligence and research reports [microform] |
| Microfilm 05132 |
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Printed guide: Firestone Microforms D839.3.G84 |
Pt. 13. Africa, 1941-1961 (11 reels). Comprises reports prepared by the Office of Strategic Services and the Dept. of State to inform U.S. policy. See http://www.lexisnexis.com/documents/academic/upa_cis/
11279_OSSStateRptsAfrica19411961.pdf
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| Confidential U.S. State Department central files. British Africa , 1955-1959 [microform]: internal affairs |
| Microfilm 08034 |
39 reels |
Printed guide: Firestone Microforms DT30 .C664 1991 |
Records from the U.S. Dept. of State, Record Group 59, decimal numbers 745, 745B-X, 845, 845B-X, 945 and 945B-X and foreign affairs, decimal numbers 645, 645B-X, 611.45 and 611.45B-X, which comprise correspondence and reports relating to South Africa, Rhodesia, Nigeria, Kenya, and other countries of British Africa. See http://www.lexisnexis.com/documents/academic/upa_cis/
3352_BrAfricaIntForAffs19551959.pdf |
| Confidential U.S. State Department central files. South Africa . Internal affairs and foreign affairs [microform] |
| Microfilm 05590 |
37 reels |
Printed guide: Firestone Microforms DT770 .L47 |
Records from the U.S. Dept. of State, Record Group 59, [pt.1] 1945-1949, internal affairs, decimal number 848A and foreign affairs, decimal numbers 748A and 711.48A (14 reels) -- [pt.2] 1950-1954, internal affairs, decimal numbers 745A, 845A and 945A, and foreign affairs, decimal numbers 645A and 611.45A (23 reels). These records comprise correspondence and reports. See http://www.lexisnexis.com/documents/academic/upa_cis/
11278_CFSouthAficaIntForAffs1950-1954.pdf |
| Confidential U.S. State Department central files. South Africa, 1955-1959 [microform] : internal affairs |
| MICROFILM 10579 |
14 reels |
Printed guide: Firestone Microforms
DT1938 .C664 |
Records from the U.S. Dept. of State, Record Group 59, decimal numbers 745A, 845A, and 945A, which comprise correspondence and reports. See http://www.lexisnexis.com/documents/academic/upa_cis/
3357_SouthAfricaIntForAffs1955-1959.pdf |
| Confidential U.S. State Department central files. South Africa, 1960-January 1963 [microform]: internal affairs |
| Microfilm 11685 |
17 reels |
Printed guide: Firestone Microforms DT1938 .C663 2000 |
| Decimal numbers 745A, 770X, 845A, 870X, 945A, and 970X, and foreign affairs decimal numbers 645A, 670X, 611.45A, and 611.70X. See http://www.lexisnexis.com/documents/academic/upa_cis/3361_CFSoAfr60-63IntFor.pdf |
| John F. Kennedy national security files. Africa [microform]: national security files, 1961-1963 |
| Microfilm 06408 |
12 reels |
Printed guide: Firestone Microforms E841 .J634 |
| This collection comprises documents on U.S. foreign policy and international relations from the John F. Kennedy Library, including correspondence and reports. |
| John F. Kennedy national security files, 1961-1963. Africa, First supplement [microform] |
| Microfilm 11967 |
18 reels |
Printed guide: Firestone Microforms DT38.7 .J63 2004 |
| See above. |
| Lyndon B. Johnson national security files. Africa [microform]: national security files, 1963-1969 |
| Microfilm 06394 |
11 reels |
Printed guide:
Firestone Microforms
E846 .L967 |
| This collection comprises documents on U.S. foreign policy and international relations from the Lyndon B. Johnson Library, including correspondence and reports. |
| South Africa [microform]: the making of U.S. policy, 1962-1989 |
| Microfiche 1818 |
439 microfiches |
Printed guide: Firestone Microforms E183.8.S6 S687 |
| This collection documents U.S. policy related to South Africa, using declassified documents from the Dept. of State and other U.S. government agencies. See http://nsarchive.chadwyck.com/collections/SAintro.jsp for an introduction to the digital edition of this collection, which is a part of the Digital National Security Archive. |
| Africa, special studies, 1962-1980 [microform] |
| Microfilm 05574 |
7 reels |
Printed guide:
Firestone Microforms DT30.5.K47. |
| This collection comprises studies prepared by a variety of government and non-governmental organizations to inform U.S. policy making. See http://www.lexisnexis.com/academic/upa_cis/group.asp?g=751 |
| Africa, special studies, 1980-1985 supplement [microform] |
| Microfilm 06409 |
11 reels |
Printed guide: Firestone Microforms
DT30.5 .K47 Suppl.1 |
| See above. |
| Africa, special studies, 1985-1988, supplement [microform] |
| Microfilm 10223 |
10 reels |
Printed guide: Firestone Microforms
DT30.5 .K472 |
| See above. |
| Africa, special studies, 1989-1991, supplement [microform] |
| Microfilm 10224 |
10 reels |
Printed guide: Firestone Microforms
DT30.5 .K473 |
| See above. |
| Africa, special studies, 1992-1994, supplement [microform] |
| Microfilm 10533 |
10 reels |
Printed guide: Firestone Microforms
DT30.5 .K474 |
| See above. |
| Confidential print: Africa. [microform] |
| 1456.114.41 14 |
101 reels |
Printed guide: none |
| Material from the British Colonial Office (CO 879). Covers Africa 1642-1916. |
| Africa [microform] : [Confidential print. 1834-1912] |
| 1457.114.41.2 |
58 reels |
Printed guide: none |
| Material from the British Foreign Office (FO 403). Covers Africa 1834-1912. Note that our holdings of this collection are incomplete.
As described by the National Archives, "this series contains confidential print relating to Africa. It comprises selected correspondence and papers relating to various African countries, including Liberia; Madagascar; Morocco, 1919 to 1920 and 1942 to 1946; Algeria and Tunisia, to 1951; Suez Canal and Egypt, 1942 to 1946; Abyssinia, 1911 to 1913, 1919 to 1923 and 1942 to 1946." |
| Africa [microform] : [General correspondence before 1906] |
| 1457.114.41 |
8 reels |
Printed guide: none |
| Material from the British Foreign Office (FO 2). As described by the National Archives, "
this series contains general correspondence relating to Africa. Includes papers relating to various expeditions and missions. From 1893 it contains the correspondence, etc., of the African Departments." Note the the complete set comprises 84 reels, of which we own only a few. |
| African documents [microform] |
| Microfilm S00886 |
86 reels |
Printed guide:
Firestone Microforms
DT1.G64 |
| This collection comprises miscellaneous documents relating to Africa and selected by Lawrence Thompson. The documents were prepared by a variety of government and non-governmental organizations. Most date from the 1960's, but there is some earlier material. |
| British documents on foreign affairs--reports and papers from the Foreign Office confidential print. Part I, From the mid-nineteenth century to the First World War. Series G, Africa , 1848-1914 |
| Pitney Collection (PITN). Firestone Oversize JX632 .B769 1995q |
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| British documents on foreign affairs is a multivolume printed edition of records from the British Foreign Office Confidential Print. These records are diplomatic papers and reports originally published for the British government. See the Main Catalog record for this title for a list of countries and dates of coverage in each volume. |
| British documents on foreign affairs--reports and papers from the Foreign Office confidential print. Part II, From the First to the Second World War. Series G, Africa , 1914-1939 |
| Pitney Collection (PITN). Firestone Oversize JX632 .B769 1994q |
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| See above. |
| British documents on foreign affairs--reports and papers from the Foreign Office confidential print. Part III. From 1940 through 1945. Series G. Africa |
| Pitney Collection (PITN). Firestone JZ632 .B767 1998q |
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| See above. |
| British documents on foreign affairs--reports and papers from the Foreign Office confidential print. Part IV, From 1945 through 1950. Series G, Africa, 1946 |
| Pitney Collection (PITN). FirestoneOversize JZ632 .B777 1999q |
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| See above. |
| British documents on foreign affairs: reports and papers from the Foreign Office confidential print. Part V, From 1951 through 1956. Series G, Africa, 1951 |
Pitney Collection (PITN). Firestone
Oversize JZ632 .B77967 2005q |
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| See above. |
| Annual departmental reports relating to Kenya and the East Africa High Commission, 1903/4-1963 |
| Microfilm 10597 |
121 reels |
Printed guide: Firestone Microforms
DT433.57 .A668
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| This collection comprises reports of departments of the British administration in East Africa and Kenya, and annual reports of the East Africa High Commission post-1947. The originals are held in several British libraries, including the Royal Commonwealth Society and the Public Record Office. See http://www.microform.co.uk/guides/R97282.pdf |
| Annual departmental reports relating to Nigeria and British Cameroons [microform] |
| Microfilm 10573 |
173 reels |
Printed guide: none |
| This collection comprises reports of departments of the British administration in Nigeria and the British Cameroons. See http://www.microform.co.uk/guides/R97002.pdf. |
| Records of the Cape Colony [microform] |
| Microfilm 06826 |
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Printed guide: none |
| Copied for the Cape government, from the manuscript documents in the Public Record Office, London. Records from Feb. 1793 [v. 1] to Apr. 1831 [v. 35].
Vol. 36 comprises a cumulative index. |
| South African press digests, 1949-1972 [microform] |
| Microfiche 1728 |
140 fiches |
Printed guide:
Firestone Microforms Oversize DT1757 .S687q |
| This collection comprises weekly English-language summaries of South African newspaper articles, prepared by the South African Jewish Board of Deputies. |
| Africa through western eyes [microform] |
| Microfilm 11953 |
25 reels |
Printed guide: Firestone Microforms DT32.5 .A36 1999 |
A collection of manuscript records of western travellers -- missionaries, explorers, traders, diplomats -- in Africa. Parts 1-2 includes original manuscripts from the Royal Commonwealth Society Library at Cambridge University Library (reels 1-15); part 3 includes the papers of Cameron, Cruikshank, Livingstone, Moffatt, Park and Stanley from the National Library of Scotland (reels 1-10).
Online guide:
http://www.adam-matthew-publications.co.uk/collections_az/ATWE-1/description.aspx. |
| Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, 1833-1911 [microform] |
| Microfilm 10566 |
87 reels |
Printed guide: uncataloged (shelved at end of FilmB) |
| This collection comprises correspondence, reports and miscellanea to and from the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S. A. Princeton holds only selected reels from this collection, including the material on Africa. |
| Records of the American Committee on Africa [microform] |
| Microfilm 08552 |
6 reels |
Printed guide: Firestone Microforms DT38.7 .A437 |
| The American Committee on Africa was formed in the 1950's to address the decolonization of Africa, and to give a voice in the United States to black Africans. Part 1, ACOA Executive Committee minutes and National Office memoranda, 1952-1975, covers the founding of the organization and its activities up through the mid-1970's, including research and advocacy. Note: the complete set of 51 reels is available through Interlibrary Loan from CRL. |
| South Africa, a collection of miscellaneous documents, 1902-1963 |
| 1860.8675 |
15 reels |
Printed guide: none |
Microfilm of originals in Stanford University, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace.
Index, 1902-1963. 1 reel. |
| Wingate papers [microform] |
| Microfilm 09143 |
2 reels |
Printed guide: Firestone Microforms DT156.5 .W563 |
| Papers of Sir F. R. Wingate, 1861-1953, army officer and colonial governor of the Sudan. See Wingate, Sir Francis Reginald in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. |
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