Internet Resources
Alphabetical Listing of All Internet Resources
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A2A
Access to catalogs describing archives in England and Wales dating from the 8th
century to present day.
AATA
Online, Abstracts of International Conservation Literature
A comprehensive database of over 100,000 abstracts of literature related to
the preservation and conservation of material cultural heritage. Years of coverage
vary by periodical title.
Adams
Family Papers
Digital images and transcriptions of the correspondence of John and Abigail
Adams, 1762-1801, and the diary of John Adams, 1753-1804, are offered by the
Massachusetts Historical Society.
The
(John) Adams Papers Digital Edition (Massachusetts Historical
Society and University of Virginia)
A searchable online version of all 30 volumes of The Adams Papers from the founding
generation that have so far appeared in print.
AddALL.com
AddALL is a free service that compares the prices and services among 41 on-line
bookstores for new, used and out-of-print books.
Guide
to African American Manuscripts in the Collection of the Virginia
Historical Society
The Society's holdings of African American materials consist largely of the
records of slaves and slavery in the Old Dominion, the great bulk of which is
concentrated on the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Collections are
listed with brief descriptions and can be browsed or searched by keyword.
African
American Newspapers, 1827-1998
Explore African American history, culture and daily life in the 19th and 20th
centuries. (Available only on computers on the CWF network; contact Reference
Desk, 565-8510, for assistance).
African
American Studies Center
The Oxford African American Studies Center combines the authority of carefully
edited reference works with sophisticated technology to create an impressive
database focusing on the lives and events that have shaped African American
history and culture. (Available only on computers on the CWF network; contact
Reference Desk, 565-8510, for assistance.)
The
African Diaspora Archaeology Network [ADAN]
The ADAN provides a focal point for achaeological and interdisciplinary
studies of African diasporas, with news, current reserch, information and
links to other web resources related to the archaeology and history of descendants
of African peoples.
Africans
in America
This PBS site offers narrative, historical documents, and scholarly commentary
on the beginnings and ending of slavery in the United States, 1460-1865.
Afro-American
Sources in Virginia
A Guide to Manuscripts, edited by Michael Plunkett. Also included is Guide
to African American Documentary Resources in North Carolina edited by Timothy
D. Pyatt. These are lists of manuscript resources which list the library where
one can find the original document.
The
Age of George III
The later Eighteenth Century was a time of change and conflict in Britain.
This web presents some of the major themes of the period 1760-1830.
Alexandria
Archaeology
Perhaps the finest public archaeology program on the East Coast.
All
About Coffee by William Ukers
Digitized version of this outstanding reference work, still unsuperseded. Ukers
covers every aspect of the subject, provides a well-researched and readable
account with excellent illustrations.
America:
History and Life
Indexes over 2,000 historical journals published worldwide. Approximately 16,000
new entries are added each year. (Available only on computers on the CWF network;
contact Reference Desk, 565-8510, for assistance)
American Ancestors
The New England Historic Genealogical Society, founded in 1845, offers primary
and secondary sources, including the Virginia Genealogist (vols 1-45;
1957-2001). (Available only on computers on the CWF network; contact Reference
Desk, 565-8510, for assistance.)
American
Antiquarian Society
A national research library of American history, literature and culture through
1876.
American
Archives, Documents of the American Revolution
Printer Peter Force devoted sixteen years to collecting thousands of pamphlets,
booklets, and newspaper articles pertaining to the "Origin, Settlement, and
Progress of the Colonies in North America" from the Revolutionary Era in order
to preserve them for future generations. This set of nine large volumes entitled
American Archives (and now digitized) contains the only surviving
copies of many important documents.
American
Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals, 1490-1920.
This collection of over two hundred social dance manuals at the Library of Congress
includes Playford's 1698 edition of "The Dancing Master" and the 1798
"Gentleman and Lady's Companion" which includes etiquette as well
as dancing instructions. Read the essay
on eighteenth-century dance.
American
Cabinetmakers Database
Indexes over 36,000 records and is searchable by maker name, maker's state,
and form of cabinetry or Trade. (Available only on computers on the CWF network;
contact Reference Desk, 565-8510, for assistance)
The
American Founding Era Collection is made available by the
University of Virginia and cooperating institutions and offers digital editions
of the papers of major figures of the early republic, and presents all material
from the published volumes, including editorial annotations and careful transcriptions
of hundreds of thousands of documents, in a fully searchable online environment.
Included in this collection are:
American
Historical Association
Offers professional development opportunities, alerts to new publications, grants,
etc.
American
Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC)
Useful information--caring for your treasures (houses, textiles, pictures, etc),
a directory of conservators and how to choose one--is available here
American
Journeys
This digital library and learning center contains more than 18,000 pages of
eyewitness accounts of North American exploration, from the sagas of Vikings
in Canada in AD1000 to the diaries of mountain men in the Rockies 800 years
later.
American Notes: Travels in America, 1750-1920
253 published narratives by Americans and foreign visitors recounting their
travels in the colonies and the United States and their observations and opinions
about American peoples, places, and society from about 1750 to 1920. Includes
journals by Philip Fithian, Nicholas Cresswell, Andrew Bumaby and Newton Mereness,
visitors to Colonial Virginia.
The
American Revolution
The British Library tells the story of the American Revolution and the loss
of Britain's North American colonies during the eighteenth century using images
from their collection.
The American
Revolution from Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Read, listen and see images about the war, the philosophy, the material culture,
and the people who lived through the Revolution in America.
American
Slavery: A Composite Autobiography
Between 1936 and 1938, the WPA Federal Writers' Project hired field workers
to collect the life histories of former slaves. The full-text of the transcripts
for 2,000 interviews, from seventeen states, are now available and searchable.
(Available only on computers on the CWF network; contact Reference Desk, 565-8510,
for assistance)
American
State Papers, 1789-1817
Legislative and executive documents, many originating from the important period
between 1789 and the beginning of the U.S. Congressional Serial Set in 1817.
(Available only on computers on the CWF network; contact Reference Desk, 565-8510,
for assistance)
American
Women's History: A Research Guide
Provides citations to print and Internet reference sources, as well as to selected
large primary source collections. The guide also provides information about
the tools researchers can use to find additional books, articles, dissertations,
and primary sources.
America's
Historical Imprints
Search simultaneously: Early American Imprints Series I: Evans, 1639-1800 and
Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819. (Available only
on computers on the CWF network; contact Reference Desk, 565-8510, for assistance.)
America's
Historical Newspapers, Series I&II, 1690-1900
Hundreds of historic newspapers listed in Clarence Brigham's authoritative bibliography
and in additional subsequent bibliographies. (Available only on computers on
the CWF network; contact Reference Desk, 565-8510, for assistance.)
Ancestry.com
Search over 24,000 genealogy titles including titles including census records,
passenger lists, and the American Genealogical-Biographical Index. Browse by
geographic location. (Password required. CWF users only; Contact Reference Desk,
565-8510, for assistance.)
William
Ancrum Papers, 1757-1789: Letter Book and Account Book
Wealthy Charleston merchant William Ancrum's letter book, 1776-1780, and financial
accounts, 1757-1789, reflect the financial impact of the American Revolution
on this South Carolina businessman and planter. View the records by date or
search by keyword.
Antique
Spectacles & Other Vision Aids
Images, articles, timelines, glossaries about eyeglasses through the ages.
Anvilfire.com
Dedicated to advancing modern blacksmithing while retaining traditional standards
of craftsmanship. Includes book reviews, images, and calendar of blacksmithing
events.
APT
Bulletin: The Journal of Preservation Technology. INDEX.
This index facilitates access to nuts-and-bolts information for people who
are each day making decisions about the historic fabric of buildings and landscapes.
The index includes articles dating back to 1969 and is updated on the Web site
as soon as each issue is published.
Architecture
of Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson Architecture Electronic Archive Center (JAEAC) is an "in process"
archive that brings together materials related to the architecture of Thomas
Jefferson (1743-1826).
Architecture
Visual Resources Library, University of California, Berkeley.
SPIRO (Slide & Photograph Image Retrieval Online), a visual online public access
catalog, is available on the World Wide Web, and currently represents 57,000 images
in the Architecture Visual Resources Library collection. AVRL's subject indexing in
SPIRO provides in depth access to critical pictorial materials in the history of architecture,
urbanism, design, and art. Instructions on the use of SPIRO, and information about SPIRO are included at the site.
Archives
of American Gardens, Smithsonian Institution Research Information System
The AAG Catalog describes the item level records of thousands of photographic
images in the collections of the Archives of American Gardens that relate to
the history of landscape architecture and gardening in the United States.
Archives
of Appalachia, East Tennessee State University
The Archives of Appalachia is a keeper of memories—the written words,
images and sounds that document life in Appalachia. Collections span from
the 1700s to the present and offer insights into the past from the perspectives
of people from all walks of life.
Art
and Artists File in the Smithsonian Libraries Collection
describes over 100,000 files that contain exhibition announcements, newspaper
and magazine clippings, press releases, brochures, reviews, invitations, illustrations,
résumés, artists' statements, and exhibition catalogs and tells
you which library houses each file.
Artcyclopedia,
"Guide to Great Art on the Internet"
Images, articles, news, and links to museums around the world.
ArtFact Online
I ndependent online resource of art, antiques, collectibles and jewelry auction
sales records. (Available only on computers on the CWF network; contact Reference
Desk, 565-8510, for assistance.)
Art
Index & Art Index Retrospective
Art Index indexes articles from periodicals, 1984 to present, published throughout
the world, including English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins,
as well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Japanese, Spanish,
Dutch, and Swedish. In addition to articles, this database indexes reproductions
of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals. Art Index Retrospective
indexees international art periodicals published between 1929-1984. (Available
only on computers on the CWF network; contact Reference Desk, 565-8510, for
assistance.)
Art
Institute of Chicago Auction Catalog Collection
Ryerson and Burnham Libraries offer a searchable catalog to their extensive
collecton of auction catalogs.
Artprice.com
Search over 290,000 auction catalogs by keyword to get information about
art sales. (Available only on computers on the CWF network; contact Reference
Desk, 565-8510, for assistance.)
The ARTFL
Project from the University of Chicago offers nearly 2000 fulltext French
texts, thirteenth-twentieth centuries, and includes the Encyclopedia Diderot.
(Available only on computers on the CWF network; contact Reference Desk, 565-8510,
for assistance)
Association
for Living History, Farm and Agricultural Museums
Resources for those involved in living historical farms, agricultural museums
and outdoor museums of history and folklife.
The
Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual
Record
Hundreds of images have been selected, described and categorized. One can search
by keyword or browse by topic.
Atlas of Historical
County Boundaries, Newberry Library.
Designed to provide information about the creation and boundary changes of every
county in the United States, from the earliest county creation in the 1600s
to 2000. See the Virginia
map.
Audubon's
Birds of America
at the University of Pittsburgh
Browse or search the plates of the complete double elephant folio set of Audubon’s
Birds of America, accompanied by his Ornithological Biography.
The Avalon
Project : 18th-Century Documents
Yale University Law School, New Haven Connecticut, mounts digital documents
relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government.
Bath
Chronicle Georgian Newspaper Project
Search the Georgian Newspaper Project database on many subjects, punishment,
pets and politics, to find out about life in Georgian Bath for the years 1770-1800.
BCIN,
the Bibliographic Database of the Conservation Information Network
Available online since 1987, BCIN is a trusted resource for professionals, museums
and other heritage organizations. It now contains nearly 200,000 citations,
including the first 34 volumes of the Art and Archaeology Technical Abstracts
(AATA), published between 1955 and 1997.
Bibliographica
Textilia Historiae Database
A free, open-access, searchable database based on the research library and documentation
of the Center For Social Research on Old Textiles [CSROT], a project of the
Stichting Egress Foundation, Amsterdam. It consists of over 9,000 records containing
over 25,000 individual bibliographic references covering virtually all aspects
of the world history of textiles and related materials, including printed books
and pamphlets, serials, articles and offprints, dissertations, royal decrees
and laws, published in all languages, but mostly European, since the late fifteenth
century to date, treating all aspects of the history of handwoven textiles,
including woven and printed textiles, embroidery, lace, tapestry, dyeing, carpets,
weaving and fiber technology, pattern books, and costume, among many other subjects.
Biographical
Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present.
Search by name, state, or year for brief biographical information.
Black
Loyalists: Our History, Our People
This site explores an untold story of how Canada became the home of the first
settlements of free blacks outside Africa. Digital
documents offered by includes a transcript of the Book
of Negroes, a list of African-Americans evacuated from New York at
the end of the war. The Library also owns a searchable database on CDROM, as
well as a photocopy (Number 10427 of the set entitled, “Headquarters Papers
of the British Army in America”) and a microfilm copy (M154.29) of the
original Book of Negroes.
The Black
Past: Remembered and Reclaimed
Provides reference materials—primary documents, encyclopedia, links to
African American archives—on six centuries of African American history.
Bodleian
Library Broadside Ballads
Digitised copies from the Bodleian Library collections of over 30,000 ballads
from the 16th- to the 20th-Century. Click the Copyright agreement to enter the
database.
Book
of Common Prayer
Full-text editions from1662 are available from the Church of England.
Book Repair Manual
Created by members of Preservation Services, Dartmouth College Library, this
manual has been written to provide background on standard commercial book production,
give guidelines for selecting appropriate candidates for in-house book repair,
and introduce the elements of book repair.
Bookfinder.com
A one-stop search site that lets users view the collections of over 30,000 booksellers
and over 30 million new, used, rare, and out-of-print books.
Boston
University Department of Archaeology
Major historical archaeology program directed by Mary Beaudry and Ricardo Elia.
British
History Online
The digital library of text and information about people, places and topics
from the medieval and early modern period. Searchable full text works include
county, religious, and economic histories, parliamentary records, and the eleven
volume set, "Office-Holders in Modern Britain".
The British Library
The national library of Great Britain offers a catalog of over 13 million books,
periodicals, music and maps. The BL also offers the English Short Title Catalogue (pre-1801
publications) and British Library's Online Gallery.
British
Origins
Authentic British, Irish, and Scots genealogy collections currently online includes
marriage registers, census records, wills, court and apprentice records containing
nearly 20 million names covering 1442-1872 as well as authentic map images and
place name history from the England and Wales Gazetteer. (CWF users only; Contact
Reference Desk, 565-8510, for assistance.)
Brooklyn Botanic
Garden
BBG Record / Handbooks, See a listing of the issues
owned by the Rockefeller Library.
BBG Plant Research
Built
in America
The Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) and the Historic American Engineering
Record (HAER) collections are among the largest and most heavily used in the
Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress. This online presentation
of the HABS/HAER collections includes digitized images of measured drawings,
black-and-white photographs, color transparencies, photo captions, data pages
including written histories, and supplemental materials. Since the National
Park Service's HABS and HAER programs create new documentation each year, digital
images will continue to be added to the online collections.
Burney
Collection of 17th and 18th Century Newspapers
The Reverend Charles Burney (1757 - 1817) collected 17th and 18th century English
news media. The 700 or so bound volumes of newspapers and news pamphlets were
published mostly in London, however there are also some English provincial,
Irish and Scottish papers, and a few examples from the American colonies, Europe
and India. (InfoTrak, Available only on computers on the CWF network; contact
Reference Desk, 565-8510, for assistance).
CAMEO:
Conservation & Art Material Encyclopedia Online
The MATERIALS database contains chemical, physical, visual, and analytical
information on over 10,000 historic and contemporary materials used in the
production and conservation of artistic, architectural, archaeological, and
anthropological materials.
Canadian
Heritage Information Network
Often referred to as "CHIN," offers resources for museum professionals.
Diary,
Correspondence, and Papers of Robert "King" Carter
of Virginia, 1701-1732
The richest and most important Virginian of his day, Carter was active in government
and corresponded widely both within the colony and with merchants in England.
Read the transcriptions of his surviving papers in this ongoing project.
A Catalogue
of 18th-Century British Mezzotint Satires in North American Collections
The Catalog includes over 600 mezzotint print satires or drolls from London
printsellers, 1760-1800, that survive in North American collections.
A
Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional
documents and Debates, 1774-1875.
The records of the Continental Congress, the Constitutional Convention, and
the United States Congress make up a rich documentary history of the construction
of the nation and the development of the federal government and its role in
the national life.
The Chace
Catalogue
Provides access to information about the American Textile History Museum's artifact
collections and the Osborne Library's extensive holdings. The Museum has over
15,000 artifacts including textiles, sample books, costumes, spinning wheels,
tools, machinery, and decorative arts. The Osborne Library contains over 90,000
items including books, manuscripts, postcards, trade literature, images, and
periodicals.
Chawton
House Library & Study Centre
Located in the village of Chawton in Hampshire, Chawton House Library is an
independent research library and study centre which focuses on women's writing
in English from 1600 to 1830 and offers full-text transcripts of some of the
rarer books in their collection. These texts explore such broad-ranging themes
as satire, slavery, marriage, witchcraft and piracy.
Christian
Classics Ethereal Library
This digital library from Calvin College includes a hymn database and religious
writings of eighteenth century clerics such as John Wesley, George Whitefield,
Jonathan Edwards and John Newton.
Chronicling
America: Historic American Newspapers
The Library of Congress offers digital images of 19th-century newspapers. Among
the Virginia papers offered is the Virginia Gazette,1893 -1913.
Collage
An image database containing 20,000 works from the Guildhall Library and Guildhall
Art Gallery London. By the Corporation of London and iBase Image Systems.
Colonial
National Historical Park
National Park Service site for the park encompassing Jamestown, Yorktown, and
the Colonial Parkway.
Colonial
Williamsburg Journal Index (Database)
An author/title keyword index, 1978- Holiday 2006, to the colorfully illustrated
journal which features the culture, arts and political heritage of Virginia's
eighteenth-century colonial capital. Photocopies of articles can be requested through
interlibrary loan. Sample articles from the Colonial
Williamsburg Journal are available on the Internet.
The
Colonial Williamsburg Interpreter Index, 1980 - 2006 (PDF)
Published
by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation's Department of Interpretive Education
to index their publication,The Colonial Williamsburg Interpreter.
Colonial
Williamsburg Research Reports (Database)
Browse historical, architectural, and archaeological reports on eighteenth-century
Williamsburg by author, title, and date.
Commonplace
Common-place is a common place for exploring and exchanging ideas about early
American history and culture. A bit friendlier than a scholarly journal, a bit
more scholarly than a popular magazine, Common-place speaks—and listens—to
scholars, museum curators, teachers, hobbyists, and just about anyone interested
in American history before 1900.
Company
of Military Historians
An educational, scientific, and literary institution devoted to the study and
dissemination of "information on the uniforms, equipment, history, and traditions
of members of the Armed Forces of the United States worldwide and other nations
serving in the Western Hemisphere."
Comparative
Archaeological Study of Colonial Chesapeake Culture
This project explores the material conditions of culture contact, plantation
development and organization, the rise of slavery, and consumer behavior.
Connected
Histories, British History Sources, 1500-1900
Search 11 major digital resources that include news, crime, government, religion,and
images.
Conserve
O Grams
Short, focused leaflets about caring for museum objects from the Museum Management
Program of the National Park Service.
The
Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution
Trace the Constitution’s progress through each of the thirteen states’
conventions.
The
Costumer's Manifesto offers a page of links for eighteenth-century
costume.
Country
Life Index (1978-August 2009)
More than 25 years of this venerable British weekly have been indexed for eighteenth-century
architecture and decorative arts topics that would be of particular interest
to the curators and historians of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. (About
this Database)
Country
Life Picture Library
Images of the historic and modern day images of houses and gardens, specially
commissioned for the magazine, 1897 to present. The collection also features
historic buildings and churches; ever-changing landscapes photographed in all
seasons; a wide range of quintessential country pursuits and social events;
agriculture and animals.
Crow Canyon
Archaeological Center World-renowned archaeological training program.
The
Database of Houses
The Database currently contains records for more than 7,100 houses in Britain
and Ireland, with images for over 1,180 houses, and listings of over 570 houses
where movie and TV filming has taken place.
Dictionary
of American Regional English Index of Labels by Region, Usage, and Etymology
Index to the first four volumes of the ongoing publication on American regional
language. (REF PE 2843.D52)
Dictionary
of Canadian Biography Online from the Library and Archives of Canada
Search for persons who died between the years 1000 and 1930 or whose last known
date of activity falls within these years.
Dictionary
of Traded Goods and Commodities, 1550-1820
Author Nancy Cox and Karin Dannehl from the Dictionary Project at the University
of Wolverhampton have compiled a dictionary of nearly 4,000 terms found used
in documents relating to trade and retail in early modern Britain.
Diderot Translation
Project
The Collaborative Translation Website allows you to browse articles that have
been translated from the Encyclopédie edited by Denis Diderot
and Jean le Rond d'Alembert in the eighteenth century and to search the database
of translations in a variety of ways. There links to the original French versions
of translated articles.
Digital Archaeological
Archive of Comparative Slavery
The Digital Archaeological Archive of Chesapeake Slavery is a Web-based initiative
designed to foster inter-site, comparative archeological research on slavery
in the greater Chesapeake region.
Digital
and Multimedia Center, Michigan State University Libraries.
Includes digital images of the contents of eighteenth and nineteenth century
books, topics include fencing,
Some individual titles of interest are:
Osmer, William.
A Dissertation on Horses. London: 1756.
Randolph, Mary. The
Virginia Housewife, 1838.
Roberts, Robert The
House Servant's Directory. Boston, New York:1827.
Digital
Library for the Decorative Arts collects and creates electronic resources
for study and research of the decorative arts, with a particular focus on Early
America. Included are electronic texts and facsimiles, image databases, and
Web resources. Made possible by the Chipstone Foundation, the project is produced
at the University of Wisconsin Madison
Digital
Library on American Slavery
The Race and Slavery Petitions Project at The University of North Carolina Greensboro
have collected data on race and slavery from eighteenth and nineteenth-century
documents that contain detailed information on about 150,000 individuals, including
slaves, free people of color, and whites. The names and other data on roughly
80,000 individual slaves, 8,000 free people of color, and 62,000 whites, both
slave owners and non-slave owners have been extracted from 2,975 legislative
petitions and 14,512 county court petitions, and from a wide range of related
documents, including wills, inventories, deeds, bills of sale, depositions,
court proceedings, and amended petitions.
Do
History
An experimental, interactive case study based on the research that went into
the book and film A Midwife's Tale, which were both based upon the
remarkable 200 year old diary of midwife/healer Martha Ballard.
Documenting
the American South
This huge digital library includes documents pertaining to Virginia,
to African-Americans
in the Revolution and to colonial
North Carolina, including Christoph von Graffenried's
Account of the Founding of New Bern (translated into English).
Early
American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800
Full-text books, pamphlets, broadsides and other imprints listed in the renowned
bibliography by Charles Evans - the definitive resource for information about
every aspect of life in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century America, from agriculture and
auctions through foreign affairs, diplomacy, literature, music, religion, the
Revolutionary War, temperance, witchcraft, and just about any other topic imaginable.
(Available only on computers on the CWF network; contact Reference Desk, 565-8510,
for assistance.)
Early
American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819
Full-text books, pamphlets, broadsides and other imprints listed in the distinguished
bibliography by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker. (Available only on computers
on the CWF network; contact Reference Desk, 565-8510, for assistance.)
Early
American Libraries
This cooperative project from librarything.com offers catalogs of the libraries
of Virginians such as Thomas Jefferson, Dabney Carr, Lady Jean Skipwith, Henry
Lee, James Madison and Landon Carter.
Early
Americas Digital Archive
A a collection of electronic texts and links to texts originally written in
or about the Americas from 1492 to approximately 1820.
Early
Virginia Religious Petitions
Presents images of 423 petitions submitted to the Virginia legislature between
1774 and 1802 from more than eighty counties and cities.
ECCO,
Eighteenth-Century Collections Online
This library of 150,000 printed volumes and more than 26 million pages can be
searched by author, title and keyword. (InfoTrak, Available only on computers
on the CWF network; contact Reference Desk, 565-8510, for assistance).
Eighteenth-Century
Journals, Newspapers and Periodicals, 1699-1812.
British publications from the collections of the Harry Ransom Humanities Research
Center have been digitized and are searchable. Among the topics discussed in
these periodicals are politics, current events, business, theater and literature.
(Available only on computers on the CWF network; contact Reference Desk, 565-8510,
for assistance).
English
Short Title Catalogue
The English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) lists over 460,000 items published
between 1473 and 1800 mainly in Britain and North America mainly, but not exclusively,
in English from the collections of the British Library and over 2,000 other
libraries.
The Equiano Project
A celebration of the life and times of Olaudah Equiano, a former slave, seaman,
war veteran, writer and abolitionist, who lived in 18th century England.
The
European Library
Search for books, music, manuscripts and more in this database of over 40
national libraries.
The
Farber Gravestone Collection, American Antiquarian Society
Contains over 13,500 images documenting the sculpture on more than 9,000
gravestones, most of which were made prior to 1800, in the Northeastern part
of the United States.
The
First American West: The Ohio River Valley 1750-1820
15,000 pages of original historical material documenting the land, peoples,
exploration, and transformation of the trans-Appalachian West from the mid-eighteenth
to the early nineteenth century.
FirstSearch
Search WORLDCAT, a database of library holdings from research, academic and
public libraries of North America. (Available
only on computers on the CWF network; contact Reference
Desk, 565-8510, for assistance)
Fiske
Memorial Center for Archaeological Research, University of Massachusetts,
Boston
Fiske Memorial Center for Archaeological Research is a leader in environmental
archaeology studies, under the direction of Dr. Stephen Mrozowski.
Fold3
/ Footnote
A database of free and subscription primary source documents that can be searched
or browsed. Collections include Passport Applications, Naturalization Records
and Revolutionary War Pensions and Service Records.
Food
History
A guide to research using the collections of the Library of Congress. In addition
to books on cookery, scholarly treatises on the subject, and bibliographies,
sources of historical and cultural data include wartime food manuals, serials
of all types and eras, travelers’ memoirs, letters and diaries, advertising,
exposition guides, and manufacturers’ pamphlets.
Food
History News
offers a "Directory of Food and Beverage Museums and Collections".
Fourth
of July Celebrations Database
This database brings together in one source selected examples of Fourth of July
celebrations that have occurred throughout our nation's history from 1776 to
the present. The goal is to capture a slice of the American cultural tradition--its
pageantry, spectacle, music, and symbol in order to enhance our understanding
of the American character and heritage.
France
in America
Explores the history of the French presence in North America from the first
decades of the sixteenth century to the end of the nineteenth century and includes
maps from the Rochambeau collection.
Papers of
Benjamin Franklin
Browse by date or name in this database sponsored by The American Philosophical
Society and Yale University. The Rockefeller Library owns the volumes, as well.
Free
African Americans of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland and
Delaware.
The history of the free African American community as told through the family
history of most African Americans who were free in the Southeast during the
colonial period. Paul Heinegg offers online access to his books and adds more
transcribed records periodically.
Freedmens
Bureau Online
The Bureau was established in the War Department by an act of March 3, 1865.
The Bureau supervised all relief and educational activities relating to refugees
and freedmen, including issuing rations, clothing and medicine. Information
is being added on an ongoing basis.
From
Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1824-1909
offers complete page images of the 397 titles in the African American Pamphlet
Collection, as well as searchable electronic texts and bibliographic records.
Most pamphlets were written by African-American authors, though some were written
by others on topics of particular importance in African-American history.
Galaxy
of Images
Thousands of images from some of printed books and manuscripts in the collections
of Smithsonian Institution Libraries.
Galt-Pasteur
Apothecary Account Book, 1780.
From the Galt Family Papers at the College of William and Mary. [Page 59 contains
account for Patrick Henry]
Geography
of Slavery in Virginia
A digital collection of advertisements for runaway and captured slaves and servants
in Virginia newspapers, 1736-1790. Other documents including court records and
correspondence on slavery and indentured servitude are being collected as well.
Goldsmiths'-Kress
Library of Economic Literature
Choose "Goldsmiths' Kress Library" from Primary Sources Media's dropdown
menu. Search this microfilm collection by author/title/keyword for trades related
materials. Rockefeller Library owns selected reels. Swem Library (William and
Mary) offers the online version of this collection, "Making of the Modern
World". An alternative way to find items is to search the library
catalog, and choose "ALL" in the library drop-down menu. Full
text is only available at the W&M campus.
Google
Book Search
Search the full text of books to find ones that interest you and learn where
to buy or borrow them.
Guidelines
for the Conservation of Leather and Parchment Bookbindings
This publication is translated from the Dutch and made available by the National
Library of the Netherlands.
Guildhall
Library
Learn about some of the records available at the Guildhall Library in London.
Apprenticeship
records (184kb) London
directories (777kb) Occupational
listings (209kb) Trade
directories (184kb)
HathiTrust
Digital Library
A partnership of major research institutions (including UVA) brings together
the collections of partner institutions in digital form, preserving them securely
to be accessed and used today, and in future generations. A subject search for
"Virginia History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775" yielded 110 full
text titles.
Hagley
Research Reports
Produced by Hagley staff and scholars beginning in 1953 for the purpose of developing
its exhibits and interpretations, these 42 reports focus on the industrial development
of the Brandywine River Valley and surrounding area.
Hening's
Statutes at Large
In this continuing project, volumes 1-4, 1619-1736, are transcribed and indexed
by persons named in the text.
HeritageQuest
Online
Search selected U.S. census records. (Available only on computers on the CWF
network; contact Reference Desk, 565-8510, for assistance)
Historic
American Timber Joinery - A Graphic Guide
The Timber Framers Guild offers this guide written and illustrated by Jack
Sobon which discusses and illustrates joints in traditional American timber-framed
buildings.
Historic
Annapolis
Major center for "critical archaeology" studies, directed by Mark
Leone.
Historic
Food
Ivan Day, an expert on British and European culinary history, offers a beautiful
and informative website. Mr. Day, noted for his re-creations of meals and table
settings, has exhibited in many museums, including the Paul Getty Research Institute,
Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of London, Fairfax House, the Bowes Museum
and the Rothschild Collection.
Historic
Native American Vocabularies and Word Lists Database
Compiled from the ever-expanding catalog of our American Language Reprint (ALR)
series, The Interactive ALR offers a growing 12,000 word linguistic database
and powerful search capabilities and represents 400 years of linguistic data,
and over 40 languages scattered throughout more than 70 different documents.
History
Cooperative
A pioneering nonprofit humanities resource offering top-level online history
scholarship, the History Cooperative offers access to recent issues of history
periodicals such as the William and Mary Quarterly, Journal of
American History, and IA, the Journal of the Society for Industrial
Archeology.
History
E-Book Project
American Council of Learned Societies sponsors this database of over 3000 full-text
scholarly historical studies. (Available only on computers on the CWF network;
contact Reference Desk, 565-8510, for assistance)
History
of English Cookery: A Glossary of Cookery and Other Terms
An accumulation of the glossaries compiled for six Prospect Books facsimile
reprints or transcripts of English cookery texts of the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries.
History
of Medicine
Offerings from the National Library of Medicine include PubMed (the
index to medical journals for articles in medical history) and Images from
the History of Medicine.
Images
from the History of Medicine
Search or browse this database that provides access to nearly 60,000 images
in the collection of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) and includes
portraits, pictures of institutions, caricatures, genre scenes, and graphic
art in a variety of media, illustrating the social and historical aspects of
medicine.
Images
of African-American Slavery and Freedom
From the collections of the Library of Congress
International
Journal of Historical Archaeology
The International
Museum of the Horse
Exhibits on the history of the horse and information on 85 horse breeds.
International
Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World, 1500-1800
The Atlantic History Seminar, Harvard University, aims to advance the scholarship
of young historians not only through the annual seminars, but also through this
web site that includes abstracts of dissertations, brief information about research
in progress and fellowship information.
Internet
Library of Early Journals
A digital library of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British journals which include Annual
Register (1758-1778), Gentleman's Magazine (1731-1750), Philosophical
Transactions of the Royal Society (1757-1777), and The Builder
(1843-1842).
Jamestown
Rediscovery
Excavations at the site of 1607 James Fort, the first permanent English settlement
in North America. Note the list
of Jamestown colonists, 1607-1624.
Thomas
Jefferson, an Exhibit from the Library of Congress
The exhibit on Jefferson's extraordinary written legacy traces his intellectual
development from his earliest days in the Piedmont to an ever-expanding realm
of influence in republican Virginia, the American Revolutionary government,
the creation of the American nation, and the revolution in individual rights
in America and the world.
Thomas Jefferson
Digital Archive
The University of Virginia offers over 1,700 electronic texts by or to Jefferson
as well as writings about Jefferson. Included is the Jeffersonian Cyclopedia
with the added feature of searching for quotations by keyword.
The
Papers of Thomas Jefferson Digital Edition (Princeton University
and University of Virginia)
Since 1950, Jefferson's writings have been compiled in the ongoing project,
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson. Rotunda’s digital edition brings
together all thirty-three volumes published through 2006 into one searchable
online resource.
Thomas Jefferson
Papers: An Electronic Archive
The Massachusetts Historical Society presents manuscripts from their collection.
Among them are a draft of the Declaration of Independence, Notes
on the State of Virginia, Jefferson's Farm Book, 1774-1824, Garden
Book, 1766-1824, catalogs of books and architectural drawings. Searchable
transcriptions are available for the Farm Book, Garden Book and Declaration
of Independence.
Thomas
Jefferson Papers at the Library of Congress
Documents digitized include correspondence, commonplace books, financial account
books, and manuscript volumes ranging in date from 1606 to 1827.
Samuel Johnson
Sound Bite Page
Over 1,800 quotes from Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), one of the most quoted men
of the eighteenth century.
Journals
of the Continental Congress
The Journals of the Continental Congress are the records of the daily proceedings
of the Congress— the First Continental Congress met from September 5 to
October 26, 1774; the Second Continental Congress from May 10, 1775, to March
2, 1789.
JSTOR
A digital collection of over 650 academic periodicals in the arts and sciences.
Search by topic or browse by date. A complete
title list is available. (Available only on computers on the CWF network;
contact Reference Desk, 565-8510, for assistance).
The Kitchen
Musician Website
Offers information and sources for hammered dulcimer, living history, Scottish
fiddle and traditional music.
Marquis de Lafayette Collection
The microfilm collection of Lafayette is described in detail and selected documents
have been translated and transcribed, including his description of the battle
of Yorktown.
Letters
of Delegates to Congress, 1774-1789
The surviving correspondence of the 344 delegates who attended the Continental
Congresses during and after the American Revolution.
Libraries
of Early America Project
Part of the Legacy Libraries project on librarything.com, this project contains
lists of the books owned by persons who spent all or part of their lives in
America and collected primarily before 1825. Virginians whose libraries are
included in this project include George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, George
Wythe and Lady Jean Skipwith.
Library
of Southern Literature
Literary works of the American South published before 1924 are offered fulltext
and browsable by author, title or subject.
Library
of Virginia
Virginia
Memory Project offers digital text, databases and images. Databases include
the Virginia Historical Inventory, the Chancery Records Index, the Virginia
Colonial Records Project, and Virginia Land Office Patents.
The London
Gazette
Similar to the U.S. Federal Register the London Gazette began in the 17th century
(November 7, 1665) and remains active today.
London Lives
1690-1800 : Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis
A fully searchable edition of 240,000 manuscripts from eight archives and fifteen
datasets, giving access to 3.35 million names. Among the materials available
are the poor relief records from three major parishes: St. Botolph Aldgate,
St. Clement Danes, and St. Dionis Backchurch. Settlement and workhouse records
from the parishes of St. Martin in the Fields and St. Luke Chelsea are also
included. Records from the Carpenters Company represent information available
from guilds and association charities about their assistance to the poor. The
records of St. Thomas’s Hospital include detailed information from the
admissions and discharge registers. Other data includes an index to wills proved
at the Prerogative Court of Canterbury; Boys Recruited into the Marine Society,
1770–1804; British East India Company: Salary Paid to ‘Clerks,’
1760–1820; Fire Insurance Policy Registers, 1777–1786; The London
and Westminster Directory, 1774; and Old Bailey Associated Records.
Louisbourg
Institute / Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Site of Canada
This once thriving seaport and capital of Ile Royale (Cape Breton Island) was
one of France's key centres of trade and military strength in the eighteenth
century. The English / French website includes a technical forum on reconstructed
eighteenth century sites and searchable databases of their research library
holdings.
The
Dolley Madison Digital Edition (University of Virginia)
The first-ever complete edition of all of Madison's known correspondence is
currently complete through April 1837, with a total of 964 documents.
Maryland.
Early State Records Online.
The Early State Records Series, a microfilm edition filmed and edited by William
Sumner Jenkins and his staff for the Library of Congress, is the starting point
for images of the original legislative, executive, and judicial records through
ca. 1830.
Maryland
Gazette, 1728-1839
Images from the newspaper are arranged chronologically. Keyword searching is
not available.
Monticello
Archaeology
Major historical archaeology program directed by Dr. Fraser Neiman.
Monticello
Explorer
View the plantation grounds or navigate a 3-D recreation of Jefferson's home.
Monticello
Plantation Database
A database of information on over six hundred slaves --details of life span,
family structure, occupation, and transactions like purchases and sales.
Monumenta
Culinaria et Diaetetica Historica, Corpus of culinary & dietetic texts of
Europe from the Middle Ages to 1800.
Digitized books include some early texts on coffee, tea and chocolate.
Mount
Vernon
Explore George Washington's home and farm. Learn about the archaeology and preservation
projects in progress.
Mrs.
Gardiner's receipts from 1763
Anne Gibbons Gardiner, daughter of a prosperous Boston doctor married Silvester
Gardiner in the early 1730's. She bore eight children to her physician-merchant
husband before dying in1771. She left an annotated list of family recipes that
demonstrate her awareness of the latest trends in cookery.
Official
Museum Directory
Information on over 12,000 institutions of every size and type in all 50 states.
(Available only on computers on the CWF network; contact Reference Desk, 565-8510,
for assistance.)
Museum
of Early Southern Decorative Arts Craftsmen Database
The Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA) is dedicated to exhibiting
and researching the regional decorative arts of the early South and showcases
the furniture, paintings, textiles, ceramics, silver, and other metalwares made
and used in Maryland, Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia, Kentucky, and Tennessee
through 1820.
Museum
of London
Web site of the major archaeological unit in Britain.
Musical Instrument
Makers Forum
This information center offers resources for string, wind and keyboard instrument
makers.
Mutual
Assurance Society of Virginia
This is an index to the complete collection of fire insurance policies of the
Society from 1796 to 1867 (31,138 policies) are now in the possession of the
Library of Virginia. Rockefeller Library owns microfilm for the years, 1795-1825
(classification number, M-1942.1-12).
The National
Agricultural Library
Beltsville, Maryland. Search AGRICOLA, NAL's Online Public Access Catalog and
Journal Article Citation Index.
National Library
of Scotland
The Online Catalogues include lists of accounts of "Scots Abroad."
National
Music Museum
The National Music Museum (NMM) & Center for Study of the History of Musical
Instruments collections include more than 13,500 American, European, and non-Western
instruments from virtually all cultures and historical periods. The online checklists
represent only a portion of their holdings.
NativeTech:
Native American Technology and Art
This site focuses on the arts of Eastern Woodland Indian Peoples, and provides
historical & contemporary background with instructional how-to's & references.
Topics include beadwork, leather, porcupine quills, toys and foods.
A
New Nation : The Thomas Addis Emmet Collection of Illustrations
Relating to the American Revolution and Early United States History
Several thousand original prints, drawings, watercolors, and printed book illustrations
from the New York Public Library.
A
New Nation Votes: American Election Returns, 1787-1825
The American Antiquarian Society co-sponsors this database that includes all
25 states and territories that existed during the period and involves all offices
from the Federal to the local levels: This includes Presidential elections,
Town clerk elections and everything in between!
Newspapers
at the Library of Virginia
This list of newspaper resources includes indexes to Virginia marriages and
obituaries, a list of local indexes to city and county newspapers in Virginia,
and a database of newspapers available in Virginia libraries.
NICE
Paintings, The National Inventory of Continental European Paintings
T he first phase of a unique on-line inventory of all the 22,000 pre-1900 Continental
European oil paintings in the UK's public collections offers a database of detailed
records, and an increasing number of digital images, of nearly 8,000 paintings.
Nineteenth
Century U.S. Newspapers
Among the many newspapers offered are The Maryland Gazette, 1800-1839;
The Washington (DC) National Intelligencer, 1800-1884; and The
Raleigh (NC) Register (1800-1886).
North
Carolina Newspaper Digitization Project
Newspapers, 1751-1890s, from cities like Edenton (1787-1801), Fayetteville (1789-1795),
Hillsboro (1786), New Bern (1751-1804), Salisbury (1799-1898), and Wilmington
(1765-1816) - a total of 23,483 digital images that are keyword searchable.
University of North
Carolina Research Labs of Archaeology
Well-respected program in historical archaeology.
Oaister
Search or browse this union catalog of full-text digital documents from 900
institutions.Search or browse this union catalog of full-text digital documents
from 900 institutions. OAIster can be searched by Title, Author/Creator, Subject,
Language or Entire Record. Searches can also be limited by resource type (text,
image, audio, video, dataset) and sorted by title, author, date and hit frequency.
Omohundro
Institute of Early American History and Culture
Stay current on conferences, grants, awards and publications in the field of
early American history.
Online
Library of Liberty
Sponsored by the Liberty Fund, Inc., a private, educational foundation, this
online collection contains 440 authors and 1394 titles from ancient times to
the 20th century. Offerings from the writings of the founding fathers as well
as those philosophers who influenced them and some women's writing (for instance,
Mercy Otis Warren's 1805 publication, "History of the Rise, Progress and
Termination of the American Revolution") are included.
Oxford English
Dictionary
is the accepted authority on the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over
half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through
2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources.
(Available only on computers on the CWF network; contact Reference Desk, 565-8510,
for assistance.)
Palaeography:
reading old handwriting 1500 - 1800
Offered by the British National Archives, this web tutorial will help you learn
to read the handwriting found in documents written in English between 1500 and
1800.
Parks
Canada Resources
Research (pdf format) relating to objects found at archaeological sites including,
bottle glass, artillery, trade ornaments, tableware, and military buttons.
Parliament
and the British Slave Trade, 1600-1807
The Parliamentary Archives has digitised a wealth of archival material which
provides evidence of the issues, processes and people at the heart of Parliament's
relationship with the slave trade.
Parliamentary
Papers, 1688-1834
Search or browse bills, acts, sessional papers, journals, and history of the
House of Commons and the House of Lords. (Available only on computers on the
CWF network; contact Reference Desk, 565-8510, for assistance.)
Peacock-Harper
Culinary History Collection
Housed at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, this site offers a bibliography of Virginia
cookbooks, and over 100 digitized
cookbooks (large pdf files).
Pennsylvania
Gazette, 1728-1800
Accessible Archives offers historical events, vivid descriptions of daily life,
editorial observations, and commerce as seen through advertisements. (Available
only on computers on the CWF network; contact Reference Desk, 565-8510, for
assistance.)
Pewter
Collectors Club of America
This site offers an American pewter bibliography and a glossary of pewter terms.
Photoshelter
A growing gallery of high-quality images taken by Colonial Williamsburg’s
official photographers is available for viewing via the Photoshelter website.
Prints of the images may be ordered in a variety of sizes and finishes via this
online shopping site.
Pictorial
Americana. The Revolution.
Selected images from the collections of the Library of Congress.
Plant
Information Online: Welcome to the Arboretum
The University of Minnesota, Andersen Horticultural Library. Use this site to
discover which of 937 retail and wholesale firms ship the plants or seeds you’re
interested in - 101568 different kinds of plants. Access 11878 websites of illustrations
and information pertinent to particular North American growing regions. Find
350587 records detailing which pages in garden magazines, plant science journals,
and books show images of plants – up to 134400 different plants.
Plymouth
Colony Archive Project at the University of Virginia
A collection of fully searchable texts, including: court records, colony laws,
seventeenth century journals and memoirs, probate inventories, wills, town plans,
maps, and fort plans; research and seminar analyses of numerous topics; biographical
profiles of selected colonists; and architectural, archaeological and material
culture studies.
Port
Royal Archives
Historical records for Jamaica offered on this web site include transcriptions
of probate inventories (1674-1716), abstracts of research reports, and archaeological
research summaries. [Spanish records from the period prior to 1655 did not survive.]
PotWeb
The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology database provides images and information
on their extensive ceramics collections.
Preservation
Briefs
The National Park Service's Technical Preservation Services for Historic Buildings
publications, Issues 1-41 are available fulltext. The web version of the Briefs
differs somewhat from the printed version in appearance: many illustrations
and captions are new, and illustrations are typically in color.
Probing
the Past: Virginia and Maryland Probate Inventories, 1740-1810
A searchable version of information contained in the transcriptions of 325 probate
inventories. Users may browse by time period or city/county, or search the database
to find records that meet specific criteria, and then view the original written
text and a transcript of the inventories. Household furnishings appearing in
these inventories form the basis for an extensive database that reveals patterns
of household consumption, social class, and urban versus rural distinctions.
The Proceedings
of the Old Bailey London 1674-1834
A fully searchable online editon of the largest body of texts detailing the
lives of non-elite people, containing accounts of over 100,000 criminal trials.
Search by name, place, crime, punishment or browse by date.
The Public
Record Office
The national archive of England, Wales and the United Kingdom brings together
and preserves the records of central government and the courts of law, that
pan an unbroken period from the 11th century to the present day.
Real
Women's Clothing, 1750-1919 from "Demode"
A directory of photographs of extant women's clothing from the mid-eighteenth
c. through the edwardian era in museums around the world.
Richmond
Daily Dispatch, 1860-1865
Search or browse this newspaper from the capital of the Confederacy.
Royal Ontario
Museum
Major archaeological unit in eastern Canada.
Samplers,
Learning to Sew
An exhibit from the Maine Memory Network.
Scottish
Song Index
A pilot project to convert the National Library of Scotland's Scottish song
card index into an online database. This resources indexes significant eighteenth
and nineteenth century music collections.
Slave
Movement During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Raw data and documentation on records of slave ship movement, slave ships of
France, the Virginia slave trade in the 18th century, Enclish slave trade, Angola
slave trade and more.
Slavery,
Abolition & Social Justice
Primary sources collected from archives and libraries across the Atlantic world
including the Merseyside Maritime Museum, the Wilberforce House Museum and the
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library.
(Available only on computers on the CWF network; contact Reference Desk, 565-8510,
for assistance).
Slaves
and the Courts, 1740-1860
The Library of Congress has digitized and transcribed over a hundred pamphlets
and books (published between 1772 and 1889) concerning the difficult and troubling
experiences of African and African-American slaves in the American colonies
and the United States.
Smithsonian
Center for Materials Research and Education
Research and education in the conservation, preservation, technical study and
analysis of museum collection items and related materials.
Smithsonian
Institution Research Information System
Art
Inventories Catalog. The Inventories of American Painting & Sculpture
reference over 400,000 works in public and private collections nationwidedescribing
American paintings and sculptures.
Society for Historical
Archaeology
Web site of the major organization of American historical archaeologists.
Sonoma
State Archaeological Studies Center
Important CRM archaeological program in central California, directed by Adrian
and Mary Praetzellis.
Sources
in U.S. History Online: The American Revolution
This Gale/InfoTrac database of the American Revolution digital collection contains
official correspondence, personal letters, collected writings of key figures,
political speeches, memoirs and narratives of soldiers and civilians, histories,
and biographies. (Available only on computers on the CWF network; contact Reference
Desk, 565-8510, for assistance).
South
Carolina Gazette, 1732-1780
Accessible Archives offers historical events, vivid descriptions of daily life,
editorial observations, and commerce as seen through advertisements. (Available
only on computers on the CWF network; contact Reference Desk, 565-8510, for
assistance.)
Stratford
Hall
Innovative Web site which includes an interactive tour of the house and grounds.
Check out the archaeology section and the kid's page.
Swem Library,
College of William and Mary
Government
Information offers quick entry into federal and state documents.
W&M Digital Archive includes A
Provisional List of Alumni, 1693-1888.
Special Collections Search Tool List gives
suggestions for accessing manuscripts and university archives.
Timber Framers
Guild of North America
A nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting the benefits, beauty, and practicality
of a timber frame structure.
Tips
for Salvaging Water Damaged Valuables
The American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC)
and Heritage Preservation offer general recommendations for homeowners who have
had family heirlooms and other valuables damaged by flooding.
TransAtlantic
Slave Trade Database: Voyages
An expanded and continually growing online version of the Trans-Atlantic
Slave Trade: A Database on CD-ROM [Cambridge UP, 1999], the Voyages Database
contains records of nearly 35,000 separate slaving voyages between 1514 and
1866, gleaned from original documents and historical publications located in
archives, libraries, and other institutions throughout the world.
TwinLeaf
Online
Online journal from Monticello's Center for Historic Plants.
Vernacular
Architecture Forum Bibliography
Search by author and title for articles and books in this ongoing project to
catalog works which are important to the study of vernacular architecture.
Virginia
Colonial Records Project
Between 1955 and 1985, project agents visited more than one hundred libraries
and archives in Great Britain, Ireland, and France to survey their collections
for Virginia-related documents. The project has generated 14,704 Survey Reports
and Colonial Williamsburg acquired 963 reels of microfilmed documents. The Electronic
Index contains more than 500,000 personal-name and ship-name entries.
Virginia Company Archives
The Ferrar Papers, 1590-1790, from Magdalene College Cambridge, and The
Records of the Virginia Company make up the bulk of this searchable database
which offer sources for the study of trade between Britain and America and of
early relations betweent the colonists and Native Americans. (CWF users only;
Contact Reference Desk, 565-8510, for assistance.)
Virginia Gazette,
1736-1780
Read by date or search the Virginia Gazette Index by subject and link
to the full-text of the article. Offered also by Accessible
Archives and Readex America's
Historical Newspapers.
Virginia
Gazette or the American Advertiser Index, Richmond (PDF)
An index to issues of the Virginia Gazette, December 22, 1781 - December 28,
1782, that are available on microfilm (M1024) at the John D. Rockefeller Library.
Virginia
Heritage Project
Guides to archival and manuscript collections from 20 institutions in Virginia.
Virginia
Historical Society
Click on "Research" to search their extensive online catalog of books, journals
and manuscripts.
Virginia
Records, 1606-1737
Thomas Jefferson collected early Virginia Records, including the Records
of the Virginia Company.
Virginia
Transportation Research Council. Road History Projects
These projects, by gathering and publishing the early road orders of the vast
parent counties, also lay the foundation for additional research by local groups
over a broad area of Virginia. Eighteenth-century road orders now available
in transcription include New Kent, Hanover, Fairfax, Amelia, Albemarle, and
Goochland.
Virtual
Jamestown
Virtual Jamestown is a product of collaboration between Virginia Polytechic
Institute, Blacksburg, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, and the Virginia Center
for Digital History at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville.
Papers of the War
Department, 1784-1800
Fire destroyed the War Department office in 1800. For decades historians believed
that its files had been lost forever. This collection includes 55,000 documents
on Indian affairs, veteran affairs, naval affairs (until 1798), as well as militia
and army matters.
George
Washington Papers.
Search the entire text of the fifty-two volumes of the print edition published
by the University of Virginia Press through 2006, in six series: Diaries, Revolutionary
War, Colonial, Confederation, Presidential, and Retirement. (CWF users only;
Contact Reference Desk, 565-8510, for assistance.)
George Washington
Papers at the Library of Congress
Washington, D.C., approximately 147,000 images online.
The
Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript
Sources 1745-1799
All 38 volumes of John C. Fitzpatrick's 1931-44 edition are reproduced by the
University of Virginia.
Wellcome
Images: 2000 Years of Human Culture.
This searchable database offers historical, medicine-related images.
William
and Mary Center for Archaeological Research
Web site for the contract archaeology program at the College of William &
Mary.
William
Poole Designs
Home plans updated with modern conveniences - like kitchens and bathrooms -
for 18 Williamsburg houses are for sale at Williamsburg
Marketplace.
Williamsburg
Regional Library
The public library in Williamsburg, Virginia online catalog includes many Williamsburg
publications for children and adults. Databases are also offered for card-holders.
Wooden
Artifacts Group Postprints archive.
Searchable, full-text copies of most of the published papers from the WAG sessions
of the AIC Annual Meetings from 1986–2005.
WorldImages
The California State University Image Project offers almost 75,000 images.
George
Wythe's Library
A list of the books owned by Williamsburg lawyer and signer of the Declaration
of Independence.
Yale
Indian Papers Project
This scholarly critical edition of New England Native American primary source
materials explores 400 years of New England Native American history, community,
culture, sovereignty, land, gender, race, identity, migration, law, and politics.
Your
Old Books
Some frequently asked questions about rare and older books and
their values.
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