Internet Resources
Decorative Arts
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.)
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.) Find more
newspapers.
Ancestry.com
Search selected titles including census records, passenger lists, and the American
Genealogical-Biographical Index. Browse by geographic location. (Available
only on computers on the CWF network; contact Reference Desk, 565-8510, for
assistance)
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.
Art Index & Art Index
Retrospective
These indexes list 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.)
Artcyclopedia,
"Guide to Great Art on the Internet"
Images, articles, news, and links to museums around the world.
ArtFact Online
The world's largest complete and independent 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.)
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.)
Art Institute
of Chicago Auction Catalog Collection
Ryerson and Burnham Libraries offer a searchable catalog to their extensive
collecton of auction catalogs.
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.
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.
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.)
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. (InfoTrac, available only on computers on the CWF network; contact
Reference Desk, 565-8510, for assistance.)
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.
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.
Country
Life Index (1978-January 2007)
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.
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.
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
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. (InfoTrac, 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.)
HeritageQuest
Online
Search selected U.S. census records. (Available only on computers on the CWF
network; contact Reference Desk, 565-8510, for assistance)
Imago
Mundi: The International Journal for the History of Cartography
1935-2002. Browse or search the full text of the journal. (Available only on
computers on the CWF network; contact Reference Desk, 565-8510, for assistance.)
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.)
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.
New England Ancestors
The New England Historic Genealogical Society, founded in 1845, is the country's
oldest genealogical organization. Search primary and secondary sources by personal
name. (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.
PotWeb
The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology database provides images and information
on their extensive ceramics collections.
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 Quilt Index
Images and information on American quilts, past and present.
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.
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.
Winterthur Portfolio
from
Vol. 1, 1964 to 2005 (JSTOR)
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