Wikisource:WikiProject Biographical dictionaries

Scope
The idea behind this project is to enable the plethora of available biographical dictionaries to be listed, and to find an audience to transcribe the works of interest.

The information in such works is often related to notable people in their field at that time, though non-famous people. These works often form the original reference point for later major works. As such these works support the building of articles at Wikipedia, and the populating of data fields at Wikidata, as well as supporting the building of Wikisource's reference data of works and authors.

Works
List below are biographical works which are at Wikisource. Those needing prooreading are at less than 100% in their status bricks.

The arts

 * , to migrate to scans
 * Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings - volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, volume 4
 * /A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/ project page
 * , 1 vol.,
 * The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753)
 * The Poets and Poetry of the West: With Biographical and Critical Notices (frontier USA, Coggeshall 1860)
 * The Poets and Poetry of the West: With Biographical and Critical Notices (frontier USA, Coggeshall 1860)

Education

 * /Alumni Oxoniensis/

Medicine

 * American Medical Biographies
 * A cyclopedia of American medical biography - volume 1, volume 2

Military

 * Confederate Portraits
 * A Naval Biographical Dictionary

Religion

 * Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae - volume 1 body of work, volume 1 index of names, vol. 2 body of work part 1, volume 2 body of work part 2, volume 2 index of names
 * Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century
 * Index:Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature (1911).djvu
 * DCBL link
 * DCBL lkpl

Trades

 * A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667
 * A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667

Australia

 * , 1 volume

China

 * Who's Who in China (3rd edition)
 * Who's Who in China (3rd edition)

Greco-Roman

 * Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

India

 * , 1 volume,
 * , 1 volume,
 * Who's Who in India Supplement 1 (1912)
 * A General Biography of Bengal Celebrities
 * Vol. 1
 * A General Biography of Bengal Celebrities
 * Vol. 1

Ireland

 * , 1 volume;
 * , 1 volume;
 * (1923), 1 volume;

United Kingdom

 * /A biographical dictionary of eminent Scotsmen/, 9 volumes
 * WikiProject DNB for the Dictionary of National Biography, 69 volumes — 1885-1900, 63; 1st Supplement, 3; 2nd Supplement, 3.
 * , 1 volume
 * /The Complete Peerage/

North America

 * /A cyclopedia of American medical biography/, 2 volumes
 * American Medical Biographies (1920 edition)
 * Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography
 * Woman's who's who of America, 1914-15

USA

 * /The Biographical Dictionary of America/, 10 volumes
 * Confederate Portraits
 * /Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography/, 5 volumes Indexes only
 * Famous Living Americans, with Portraits
 * Historical and Biographical Annals of Columbia and Montour Counties, Pennsylvania, Containing a Concise History of the Two Counties and a Genealogical and Biographical Record of Representative Families
 * Historical and biographical sketches
 * One Of A Thousand: A series of biographical sketches of one thousand representative men resident in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, A.D. 1888-'89
 * The Afro-American Press and Its Editors (Penn, 1891)

Oregon:
 * Portland, Oregon: Its History and Builders (Gaston, 1911) (volumes 2-3 are biographical)
 * The Centennial History of Oregon, 1811–1912 (Gaston, 1912) (volumes 2-4 are biographical)

By historical context

 * Cartoon portraits and biographical sketches of men of the day
 * Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century


 * Great Men and Famous Women - volumes 1 through 8
 * Men of the Time, eleventh edition

Women

 * Daughters of Genius
 * Woman's who's who of America, 1914-15
 * A Woman of the Century