The subject areas defined for the Special Collections in the Rockefeller Library's
Collection Development Policy include:
Virginia and the Chesapeake region to 1865
Anglo-Americans significant to Virginia history to 1800
African-Americans in colonial Virginia and America
Women and family in colonial Virginia and America
Native Americans in colonial Virginia
Anglo-American social, economic, and mercantile development to 1865
Anglo-American imperial administration, particularly as it relates to
Virginia
The American Revolution, particularly in Virginia
Early American law, medicine, science, agriculture, industrial
and domestic crafts; European works on these subjects
American theater to 1800
Conduct and manners; also instruction for servants
to 1800
Dress and fashion in colonial America
Music and dance, 1650-1800
Travel accounts of Virginia to 1865
Significant examples of early American printing
and binding, especially that of
Virginia
Books shown by documentary evidence
to have been sold in colonial
Williamsburg or of
known significance
to colonial
Virginians
Books with bookplates or inscriptions
of colonial residents which
provide evidence of eighteenth-century
reading
patterns
Books, playbills, broadsides,
legal documents, etc. printed
in eighteenth-century
Williamsburg
Books bound in eighteenth-century
Williamsburg
Genealogical records
relating to eighteenth-century
Williamsburg
residents
Architectural and
landscape drawings
and photographs
relating to the
restoration of
Colonial Williamsburg and
to eighteenth-century
Virginia architecture
and gardens
Photographs, field
notes, and
research notes compiled
by Colonial
Williamsburg
architectural
historians
during the
process of
reconstructing
Colonial Williamsburg
buildings
Twentieth-century
research
materials relating
to historical,
archaeological,
and architectural
research
conducted
by Colonial Williamsburg
employees
Twentieth-century
research
relating
to American
history,
particularly
theses
and dissertations,
in microformat
