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In addition to descriptive (bibliographic) information, most text collections provide a transcription of the full text of the document. In these collections, InQuery permits searching of either the descriptive information or the full text. These search types are mutually exclusive and results will be different.

Collections that provide descriptive and full-text searching are:

African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907

Browse Author or Subject indexes, or search by keywords. Search on the words African American, Afro-American, black, colored, Negro, and slavery for information about African Americans.

An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals, ca. 1490-1920

Browse Author, Title, or Subject indexes of the descriptive information of the over 200 volumes, or search by keyword. Social dance has many variations of its terms. Use as many variations of a given term or phrase as possible, such as contredance and contredanse, English country dance and country-dance, and minuet, menuet, and minuetto.

An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera

Search by keyword or browse Author, Title, or Genre indexes.

California As I Saw It: First Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900

Browse Author, Subject, or Title indexes of the 190 eyewitness accounts, or search by keyword. Use pull-down menus to refine the search request. Since there is no searchable index of the illustrations embedded in the texts, use the Book Navigator, the online table of contents for each book.

California Gold: Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties

Browse Subject, Ethnic Group, Performer, Musical Instrument, or Audio Title indexes, or search by keyword. This is a multi-format collection that includes sound recordings, still photographs, drawings, and written documents.

Documents of the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, 1774-1789

Browse a Subject index, or search by keyword.

• Searches for individuals with common first names (such as James, John, George, and Thomas) result in large hit lists. To narrow results, search on last name only or look for exact matches with an individual's first and last name.
• Generally, broadsides do not cite Authors. Searching for famous patriots will produce results if the name appears within the full-text of a document, if the individual was a signer of the document, or if the individual was cited in the descriptive record.

The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920

Browse Author or Subject indexes, or search by keyword. This collection is comprised of materials from five Library Divisions. To search for material in specific formats, go to the Archival Directory and choose a Library Division. For example, select the Prints and Photographs Division and browse a list of print and photograph titles that are in the Conservation collection.

First Person Narratives of the American South, 1860-1920

Search by keyword or browse Subject, Author, or Title indexes. The full-text search at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill includes texts not part of this collection.

Hispano Music & Culture of the Northern Rio Grande: The Joan B. Rael Collection

Browse Performer or Title indexes, or search by keyword. Transcriptions of songs are in the notes section of the descriptive information.

Pioneering the Upper Midwest: Books from Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, ca. 1820-1910

Browse Subject, Author, or Title indexes, or search by keyword in the 138 volumes.

Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929

Search by keyword or browse Subject or Title indexes. Full-text searching includes guide text of smaller documents and periodicals, plus transcriptions of larger documents.

Southern Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip

Search by keyword or browse Photo Subject, Audio Subject, Song Text, Audio Title, Performer, or Photo indexes.

Voices from the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection, 1940-1941

Browse Song Title, Audio Title, Photograph, or Performer/Interviewees indexes, or search by keyword.

Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921

Browse Subject or Author indexes, or search by keyword.

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