Library Research Guides: FREN 319: Literary Voyages and Voyagers of the Global 19th Century: Home

Welcome!

Welcome to the research guide for FREN 319: Literary Voyages and Voyagers of the Global Nineteenth Century. This guide is aimed at helping you find sources useful to your research for this course.

Please contact Laura (details on this page) for research help for your paper and presentation, or general questions about how to access resources. Becca Darling, your instructional technologist, is also available for help with StoryMapsJS.

Finding Images

Gallica
The digital presence of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. It contains millions of digitized newspapers, magazines, images, and sound recordings relating to France and French history and culture.
Digital Library of the Caribbean
The Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) is a cooperative digital library for resources from and about the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean.
Île en île
"Île en île est un site web libre d’accès et sans but lucratif destiné à offrir une riche documentation des îles francophones et à valoriser les ressources informatives et non-commerciales sur le monde insulaire." Information on Francophone authors and their works, often with links to interviews and recorded materials.

Artstor This link opens in a new window
High-resolution digitized images of art, architecture, and other forms of visual culture from around the world, from museums, archaeology, photo archives, slide collections, and art reference works, dating from B.C.E. to present.

Requires creation of an Artstor account to download images.

Wikimedia Commons
All of the images you'll find here have clear information about permission for use. Many are in the public domain.

Finding Maps

Old Maps Online
Map- and timeline-based search for historic maps, drawing on the Rumsey and Perry-Castaneda collections.
David Rumsey Map Collection: Georeferenced Maps
Georeferenced maps ready for use in StorymapJS. Browse maps by location