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Collection Information

Title:
First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820
Collection Home:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award99/icuhtml/fawhome.html;http://oai.lib.uchicago.edu/?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=mods&set=faw;http://oai.lib.uchicago.edu/?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&set=faw External Link
Items:
Browse 731 Items in Collection
Description:
The First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820 consists of 15,000 pages of original historical material documenting the land, peoples, exploration, and transformation of the trans-Appalachian West from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century. The collection is drawn from the holdings of the University of Chicago
Library of Congress Subject Headings:
History -- United States -- Ohio River -- 18th century
History
History -- United States -- Ohio River -- 19th century
Subjects:
States and Regions
American Culture
GEM Subjects:
Social Studies
United States history
Language Arts
Literature
Geographic Coverage:
North and Central America (continent)
United States (nation)
Midwest U.S. (general region)
Ohio River (river)
Ohio River Valley
Ohio (state)
Time Period:
1700-1799
1750-1820
1800-1849
Objects Represented:
Documents
Letters
Maps
Physical artifacts
Newspapers
Photographs / slides / negatives
Books and pamphlets
Format:
text/html
image/jpeg
Language:
eng
Audience:
K-12 students
Undergraduate Students
Staff at peer/partner organizations
K-12 teachers and administrators
Scholars/Researchers/Graduate Students
Genealogists/History Enthusiasts
General public
Interaction with Collection:
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Size:
731 items
Frequency of additions:
No longer adding
Alternative Access:
OAI Data Provider: http://oai.lib.uchicago.edu/ External Link set=faw;http://oai.lib.uchicago.edu/?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=mods&set=faw;http://oai.lib.uchicago.edu/?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&set=faw External Link
Supplementary Materials:
Teacher and student resources
Bibliography(s)
Related web sites
Hosting Institution:
University of Chicago. Library
Contributing Institution:
Filson Historical Society of Louisville, Kentucky

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Associated Projects

Title of Project:
Aquifer American Social History Online
IMLS Grant Type:
N/A
IMLS Grant Number:
N/A
Project URL:
http://www.diglib.org/aquifer/ External Link