Finding Aids and Indexes

In addition to building a library catalog, library staff have developed aids to using the various collections or favorite reference sources. They have been developed in a number of formats - databases, pdf, and html. As part of an on-going effort by the Foundation to complete digitization of all research work, these documents are being gradually converted into XML (Extensible Markup Language) and will be available for full-text searching in Colonial Williamsburg's Digital Library.

Indexes

• Colonial Homes Index (PDF)
• The Colonial Williamsburg Interpreter Index, 1980-2009 (PDF)
• Colonial Williamsburg Journal Index (1978- present)
• Country Life (1978- present)
• F.S. Lincoln Collection
• Trades Index to Auction Catalogs
• Virginia Cavalcade Index
• Virginia Gazette Index, 1736-1780 (Williamsburg)
• Virginia Gazette or the American Advertiser Index, 1782, Richmond (PDF)
• Williamsburg Postcard Collection

Bibliographies/Webographies

• The American Revolution: A Selective Guide to Military Organization, Engagements, and Provisioning (PDF)
• Buying Respectability
• Civil War Williamsburg
• Foodways
• Freeing Religion
• Historic Area (Colonial Williamsburg)
• Revolution (especially in Virginia)
• Settlement of British America
• Slavery
• Seventeenth-Century Virginians (PDF)
• Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg Area Virginians (PDF)
• Revolutionary War Virginians (PDF)
• Women in Colonial Virginia

Finding Aids to Special and Image Collections

These finding aids are in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) unless otherwise noted. They will open in a separate window. You may save, print, or simply read the document at this point.

• Guide to Selected Photographic Collections
• Manuscripts Collections Web Guide (web site)
• Manuscript Collections Guide
• Photocopied Manuscript Collections Guide
• Photoshelter (web site)
• Transcript Collections Guide
• Microforms Short Title/Subject Guide
• The Robert Anderson Papers
• The Major-Marable Papers
• The John Norton and Sons Papers
• The Robinson Papers, 1684-1915
• The Shirley Plantation Collection
• Subject Headings in the Vertical File (Public Services Lektreiver)
Historic Houses and Sites in Great Britain and Ireland
Historic Houses and Sites in Virginia