United States Government Information

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Government Document Indexes

Government Document Indexes
Since the 19th century, various finding aids or indexes for U.S. Government information have been compiled by the U.S. Government Printing Office (previous agency name of the U.S. Government Publishing Office), other Federal agencies, or at the direction of Congress. These indexes allowed users to locate publications primarily by title, author, and/or subject.
Digitized versions of the principle indexes published by the U.S. Government Printing Office and Congress

1774-1881 Descriptive Catalog of the Government Publications of the United States (Poore) (UT North Texas)
1789-1909 Checklist of United States Public Documents, 1789-1909 (UT North Texas ) or Internet Archive
1789-1970 Checklist of United States Public Documents, 1789-1970. Indexes.
1789-1976 Cumulative Title Index to United States Public Documents 1789-1976 (print) (Many titles not listed in the Monthly Catalog)
1881-1893 Comprehensive Index to the Publications of the United States Government, 1881-1893 (Ames) (UTSA users only) / Free via HathiTrust
1885-1894 United States Government Publications (Hickcox) (HathiTrust) or print
1893-1940 Catalogue of the Public Documents of the Congress and of All Departments of the Government of the United States (25 volumes) HathiTrust
1895-2004 Monthly Catalog of United States Publications 1895-1907 (microfilm); 1907-1933 (microfilm); 1933-1939
(microfilm); 1940-1950 (microfilm); 1951-1971 (microfilm); 1961-1976 (print); Z1223 .A18
LLMC Digital 1966-2003
1895-1917 Catalogue of the Public Documents ... Congress (HathiTrust - partial - vols. 1 2 10 11 12 13).
1895-1944 Catalog of the Public Documents ... Congress (ProQuest Congressional) (do title search)
1900-1971 Cumulative Subject Index to the Monthly Catalog (print)
1910-1987 Monthly Checklist of State Publications (HathiTrust)
(Publications received by the Library of Congress from state offices)