American Autobiographies Series 1-5
- Location: McKeldin Library
Call Number: Microfiche CT101.A43 1974 - c.6000 Fiche
Description
This collection of American autobiographies is drawn from and based upon the Bibliography of American Autobiographies compiled by Louis Kaplan (Ref Z 1224.K3). Items listed in the original bibliography which were no longer available at the time of filming were omitted from this collection.
Items are arranged alphabetically by author in the filing cabinets.
Because these titles are not separately listed in the card catalog, it is necessary to use the index for access to the collection.
A subject index to the collection is included at the end of volume one of the index. It is "designed to reveal the occupations of the autobiographers, where they lived, and the important historical events in which they played a part."
Among the types of autobiographies excluded by Kaplan are most episodic accounts (overland narratives, escapes from slavery, Indian captivities), genealogies, journals and diaries, epistolary collections, spurious works and fictionalized accounts.
Index/Guide
The following source provides more detailed information about the contents of each microfilm reel in the collection:
- REF CT101.A43 1974 INDEX FOLIO
- Index to the Microfiche Edition of American Autobiographies. (Series l: 1676-1850; Series 2-5: 1851-1900.) Louis Kaplan, ed. 2 vols.
