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Special Collections, Subject Areas
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
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