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Historic Indexes

U.S. Government Documents Reference: Indexes & Catalogs
LibGuide from Bowdoin College Library
Brunswick, ME
--historic timeline of coverage for indexes to government information

HISTORICAL INDEXES -- Listed by year of coverage

[Poore] A Descriptive Catalogue of the Government Publications of the United States, September 5, 1774-March 4, 1881 by Benjamin Perley Poore
Call Number: DOCS WKRM Z 1223 .A 1885 pt. 1-2

Publication Date: 1885 (1962 reprint)

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[Greely] Public Documents of the First Fourteen Congresses, 1789-1817: Papers Relating to Early Congressional Documents by Adolphus Washington Greely
Call Number: DOCS WKRM Z 1223 .A 1900

Publication Date: 1900 (1963 reprint)

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Checklist of United States Public Documents 1789-1909, Congressional: to Close of Sixtieth Congress; Departmental: to End of Calender Year 1909. by U.S. Superintendent of Documents (GPO)
Call Number: DOCS WKRM Z 1223 .A113

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Website is provided by Carlos Diaz.
CIS U.S. Serial Set Index, 1789-1969 by Congressional Information Service
Call Number: DOCS REF Z 1223 .Z9 C65 1975 [36 vols.]
[Ames] Comprehensive Index to the Publications of the United States Government, 1881-1893 by John G. Ames
Call Number: DOCS WKRM Z 1223 .A5 1970 v. 1-2

Publication Date: 1905 (1970 reprint)

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[Boyd & Rips] United States Government Publications by Anne M. Boyd and Rae E. Rips
Call Number: DOCS WKRM Z 1223 .Z7 B7 1950

Publication Date: 1949 (3rd ed.)

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[Poole] Documents Office Classification by Mary Elizabeth Poole
Call Number: DOCS WKRM Z 697 .G7 P63 1974 v.1-3

Publication Date: 1973 (4th ed.)

---Entries by SuDoc stem. Includes an explanation of the Superintendent of Documents classification system.
[Poole & Smith] Documents Office Classification Numbers for Cuttered Documents, 1910-1924 by Mary Elizabeth Poole and Ella Frances Smith
Call Number: DOCS WKRM Z 697 .G7 P6 1960 v.1-2

Publication Date: 1960 (reprint)

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[Documents Index] Index to the Reports and Documents of the ... Congress ... with Numerical Lists and Schedule of Volumes (1897-1932/33) by U.S. Superintendent of Documents (GPO)
Call Number: DOCS WKRM Y 1.1/2:Serial Set Number (no. 3-43)
Guide to U.S. Government Publications by Gale Publishing
Call Number: DOCS WKRM Z 1223 .Z7 A575 2018 v.1-3

---Provides an agency class chronology which gives the complete history of current Class number assignments and traces them back historically to previous number assignments.

MONTHLY CATALOG -- Listed by year of coverage

Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications by U.S. Superintendent of Documents (GPO)
Call Number: DOCS WKRM GP 3.8:1940-2004

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[Hickcox] United States Government Publications: A Monthly Catalogue (1885-1894) by John H. Hickcox
Call Number: DOCS WKRM Z 1223 .A18 v.1-10

Publication Date: 1978 reprint
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications: Cumulative Personal Author Index by Edward Przebienda (editor)
Call Number: DOCS WKRM Z 1223 .A18 INDEX

Decennial: 1941/1950-1951/1960
Quinquennial: 1961/1965-1971/1975
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Cumulative Index to Hickcox’s Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications, 1885-1894 by Edna A. Kanely (compiler)
Call Number: DOCS WKRM Z 1223 .A18 INDEX 1981 v.1-3

Publication Date: 1981

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Cumulative Subject Index to the Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications, 1900-1971 by William W. Buchanan and Edna M. Kanely (compiled by)
Call Number: DOCS WKRM Z 1223 .A18 INDEX 1973 v.1-15

Publication Date: 1973-1975

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[Documents Catalog : (1893-1940)] Catalog of the Public Documents of the Congress and of All Departments of the Government of the United States : Being the "Comprehensive Index" Provided for by the Act of Jan. 12, 1895 by U.S. Superintendent of Documents (GPO)
Call Number: DOCS WKRM GP 3.8:1893/95-1939/40

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Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications. Cumulative Index. by U.S. Superintendent of Documents (GPO)
Call Number: DOCS WKRM GP 3.8/3:1961/1965-1971/1975

Publication Date: 1961-1976

---Reference to catalog year & entry number.
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications. Decennial Cumulative Index by U.S. Superintendent of Documents (GPO)
Call Number: DOCS WKRM GP 3.8/3:1951/1960

Publication Date: 1968

---Reference to catalog year & entry number

Gov Docs: Training Resources: Historic Indexes

FEDERAL DEPOSITORY LIBRARY

Historic Indexes

HISTORICAL INDEXES -- Listed by year of coverage

MONTHLY CATALOG -- Listed by year of coverage

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