American Biographical Index. New York: K.G. Saur, 1993. Call Number: Ref CT 211 .A45. Shelved on Index Table 4.
American National Biography. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Call Number: Ref CT 213 .A68 1999 and Suppl.
American Women: Fifteen Hundred Biographies With Over 1400 Portraits: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of the Lives and Achievements of American Women During the Nineteenth Century. Detroit: Gale Research, 1973. Call Number: Ref CT 3260 .A44 1973.
Biography and Genealogy Master Index: A Consolidated Index to More Than 3,200,000 Biographical Sketches in Over 350 Current and Retrospective Biographical Dictionaries. Detroit: Gale Research Group, 1980. Call Number: Ref Z 5305 .U5 B57 1980 and Supplements. Shelved on Index Table 4. Also available online on Newberry computers through http://www.ancestry.com/ .
Biography Index. New York: H.W. Wilson, 1946-. Call Number: Ref Z 5301 .B5. Shelved on Index Table 4.
Black Biography, 1790-1950: A Cumulative Index. Alexandria, VA: Chadwych-Healy, 1991. Call Number: Ref Z 1361 .N39 B52 1990. Shelved on Index Table 4. May be used as an index to the 297 titles included in the microfilm set entitled: Black Biographical Dictionaries, 1790-1950 (Microfiche 5428).
British Biographical Index. London: K.G. Saur, 1990. Call Number: Ref CT 773 .B75 1990. Shelved on Index Table 4.
Dictionary of American Biography: Under the Auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1928-1958. Call Number: Ref E 176 .D56 and D563, plus Index and Supplements. This reference work of individual biographies is limited to Americans no longer living who have made some significant contribution to American life. The fourth supplement brings the data up to 1950.
Directory of American Scholars. Detroit: Gale Group, 1999. Call Number: Ref LA 2311 .D57 1999. Shelved in Ready Reference.
Falk, Bryon A. Personal Name Index to "The New York Times Index", 1851-1974. Succasunna, NJ: Roxbury Data Interface, 1976. Call Number: Ref Z 5301 .F28 1976. Shelved on Index Table 4.
Goodfriend, Joyce D. The Published Diaries and Letters of American Women: An Annotated Bibliography. Boston, MA: G.K. Hall, 1987. Call Number: Ref Z 5305 .U5 G66 1987.
Index Biographique Francais. London: K.G. Saur, 1993. Call Number: Ref CT 1003 .I53 1993. Shelved on Index Table 4.
Indice Biografico Italiano. München: K. G. Saur, 1993. Call Number: Ref CT 1123 .I53 1993. Shelved on Index Table 4.
Indice Biográfico De España, Portugal, e Iberoamérica = Indice Biográfico De España, Portugal e Ibero-América = Spanish Portuguese and Latin-American Biographical Index. München: K. G. Saur, 1990. Call Number: Ref CT 1345 .I53 1990. Notes: Shelved on Index Table 4.
The National Cyclopedia of American Biography: Being the History of the United States As Illustrated in the Lives of the Founders, Builders, and Defenders of the Republic, and of the Men and Women Who Are Doing the Work and Moulding the Thought of the Present Time. Clifton, NJ: J.T. White, 1893-. Call Number: Ref E 176 .N27.Notable American Women, 1607-1950: A Biographical Dictionary. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1971. Call Number: Ref CT 3260 .N57.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Call Number: Ref DA 28 .O95 2004. The major reference work for British biography, including inhabitants of the British Isles and the colonies, as well as Americans of the colonial period. It does not include persons alive as of 31 December 2000. The previous edition (Ref DA 28 .D47) and its many supplements are useful for a Victorian perspective on figures before 1900.
Research Guide to American Historical Biography. Washington, DC: Beacham, 1988-1991. Call Number: Ref CT 214 .R47 1988.
Research Guide to European Historical Biography, 1450 - Present. Washington, DC: Beacham, 1992-. Call Number: Ref Z 5304 .C44 R47 1992.
Webster's New Biographical Dictionary. Springfield, MA: Merriam-Webster, 1983. Call Number: Ref CT 103 .W4 1983.
Autobiography
Arksey, Laura. American Diaries: An Annotated Bibliography of Published American Diaries and Journals. Detroit: Gale Research, 1983-1987. Call Number: Ref Z 5305 .U5 A74 1983.
Brumble, H. David. An Annotated Bibliography of American Indian and Eskimo Autobiographies. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1981. Call Number: Ayer Z 1209 .B78.
Burnett, John. The Autobiography of the Working Class: An Annotated Critical Bibliography. New York: New York University Press, 1984-1987. Call Number: Ref Z 7164 .L1 B95 1984.
Havlice, Patricia Pate. And So To Bed: A Bibliography of Diaries Published in English. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1987. Call Number: Ref Z 5301 .H38 1987.
Kanner, Barbara. Women in Context: Two Hundred Years of British Women Autobiographers, A Reference Guide and Reader. New York: G.K. Hall, 1997. Call Number: Ref Z 7963 .B6 K35 1997.
Kaplan, Louis. A Bibliography of American Autobiographies. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1961. Call Number: Ref Z 1224 .K3 1961a.
Matthews, William. American Diaries in Manuscript, 1580-1954: A Descriptive Bibliography. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1974. Call Number: Ref Z 5305 .U5 M32.
———. British Autobiographies: An Annotated Bibliography of British Autobiographies Published or Written Before 1951. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1955. Call Number: Ref Z 2027 .A9 M3.
———. British Diaries: An Annotated Bibliography of British Diaries Written Between 1442 and 1942. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1950. Call Number: Ref Z 2014 .D5 M3.
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