Cornell University Library Windows on the Past
The Cornell University Library Windows on the Past is a grouping of selected digital collections of historical significance.     These collections are open to the general public (unless otherwise noted).     The Cornell University Library offers a wide variety of digital repositories and collections. For a complete listing visit our Registry of Digital Collections. (NOTE:    = Cornell University Access Only  )

Cornell East Asia Series Online
The Core Historical Literature of Agriculture
Cornell Daily Sun Archives
Cornell Modern Indonesia Collection
Cornell University Archival Guides
Cornell University Digital Archives
Ezra Cornell Materials

Friend of Man		 The Cornell University Historic Math Collection consists of 512 titles. The original collection was scanned as a result of a research collaboration between Cornell University and Xerox Corporation, with the support of the Commission on Preservation and Access in the early 1990's.
Historic Math Book Collection
Historic Monographs Collection
History of the Left in Latin America
A History of Social Welfare		 The Hive and the Honeybee consists of the full text of ten books from the E. Franklin Phillips Beekeeping Collection, chosen by a team of scholars for their historical importance and usefulness to beekeepers today. The collection will grow as funding allows. The texts in this digital collection are fully searchable, and will also eventually become part of the Core Historical Literature of Agriculture (CHLA).
Hive and the Honeybee Collection		 Funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, HEARTH is a core electronic collection of home economics texts published between the early nineteenth century and mid-twentieth century. The digital library covers home economics in its broadest sense, including applied arts and design; childcare, s; clothing and textiles; food and nutrition; home management; housekeeping and etiquette and more.
The Home Economics Archives
Magazine and journal publications were an important form of communication during the mid 1800s through 1920s. Written primarily for women by both men and women, these periodicals offer a wide array of views about the roles of women in society and business. Suffrage and anti-suffrage writing, domesticity columns, and literary genres are included.
International Women's Periodicals 		 The Kinematic Models for Design Digital Library (K-MODDL) is an open access, multimedia resource for learning and teaching about kinematics - the geometry of pure motion - and the history and theory of machines. The core of K-MODDL is a collection of late 1th-century model machine elements designed for research and teaching by German engineering professor Franz Reuleaux (1829-1905), founder of modern kinematics and a forerunner of modern design theory of machines. This subset of the collection features electronic versions of 61 articles and monographs.
Kinematic Models for Design Digital Library (e-Books)		 Liberian Law contains documents dealing with the creation of the nation of Liberia and the laws enacted at its foundation. These materials include the Constitution and the Laws of the Commonwealth going back to the Colonization Society.
Liberian Law
The Making of America Collection
New York State Historical Collection
Preservation News		 Mahesh Chandra Regmi, Nepal's leading historian and archivist opened the Regmi Research Centre in 1959. Regmi was a world-class scholar and in 1977 became the first Nepali to receive the Ramon Magsaysay Award for creating the Research Series. The award was granted to him in recognition of his chronicling of Nepal's past and present, enabling his people to discover their origins and delineating national options.
Regmi Research Series

Samuel May Anti-Slavery Collection		 The Data Papers were published by the Cornell University Southeast Asia Program from 1950 through 1982 as a means to foster research and broadcast original scholarship related to an emerging academic field - Southeast Asian Studies. This series includes dictionaries, annotated translations of significant works, fieldwork reports, bibliographies, and historical analyses of important social and political developments in Southeast Asia.
Southeast Asia Program Data Papers		 Southeast Asia Visions is a collection of European travel accounts of pre-modern Southeast Asia from Cornell University Library's John M. Echols Collection. The site provides online access to more than 350 books and journal articles written in English and French. The works in the collection were selected for the quality of their first-hand observations and, together, provide a comprehensive representation of Southeast Asia. Along with their narratives, these accounts include some 10,000 images, drawings, photographs, prints and maps, many of them in color.
Southeast Asia Visions
Stevens Family Papers
Study of Greek Revival Architecture
Witchcraft Collection
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