We assemble a data set on historical anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases (CO2, CH4, N2O, PFC, SF6, HFC, and CFC) and other radiatively important substances (SO2, NOX, CO, VOC, BC, OC, and NH3) for the period from 1890 to 1995. The objective is to develop data series for emissions suitable to force the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Integrated Global System Model (IGSM). It is an earth system model of intermediate complexity that, for forward simulations, is driven by anthropogenic emissions as projected by the Emissions Prediction and Policy Analysis (EPPA) model. We develop spatially distributed emissions dataset for the historical period. For the most part, historic estimates of emissions of these substances are available in the literature and, hence, the contribution of this report is to assemble various data sets in a common format (matching the 16 country/regions in EPPA and 5-year resolution of the model), and to document the sources for these estimates. With this data resolution we can make calculations consistent with forward simulations of MIT IGSM, using a post-processor for the EPPA model to distribute emissions at the spatial and temporal resolutions required for the earth systems components of the model.