Archives
The German National Archives. A large number of finding aids are online with lots of accessible digitized material.
Provides access to information on archival material from different European countries and information on archival institutions.
German archive portal with searchable directory from the German Digital Library.
A resource for finding archives in Germany.
Repository of documents for the Austrian federal government and the former Habsburg Empire.
Source of government information from the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries.
Newspapers
Repository of historic newspapers from 1671 to 1978.
From the Staatsbibliotek Berlin, the ZEFYS Newspaper Information System offers 88 digitized historical newspapers published in Germany or elsewhere in German.
Historic newspapers are available through two important cultural heritage websites - Europeana and The European Library.
F&M Archives and Special Collections
The Archives and Special Collections Library has a rich collection of materials which document Pennsylvania-German culture.
- German-American Imprint Collection
- Pennsylvania German Broadside Collection
- Pennsylvania German Fraktur Collection
- Zorach Collection of East German Literature
This collection consists of literature from the former Democratic Republic of Germany (East Germany) collected by Franklin and Marshall College Professor of German, Cecile Zorach during travels to East Germany.
