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Updated June 2009
What's New at the Rockefeller Library?
June 2009
The Libraries
of Early America Project is part of the Legacy Libraries project on
librarything.com and contains lists of the books owned by persons who spent
all or part of their lives in America and collected primarily before 1825.
George Wythe (1726-1806) bequeathed his library to Thomas Jefferson. In 2008
an inventory of those books was identified at the Massachusetts Historical Society.
View digital
images of this list. More bibliographic information on each title is available
on the newly posted George
Wythe page on LibraryThing.com.
The Colonial
Williamsburg Interpreter Index has been updated to include the Spring
2009 issue.
January 2009
Special Collections offers new New
Acquisitions, samples of recently acquired manuscripts are An Abstract
of a cargoe for the Windward Coast, Africa, 1756 and
Fourth of July orations, 1803-1804.
The Visual Resources Collection has been transferred to the Special Collections
Department. Contact information
remains the same, and services will be provided in the Special Collections Department.
Recently added to the Newspaper
Internet Resources page is the Maryland
Gazette, 1728-1832.
November 2008
Artprice.com
Search over 290,000 auction catalogs by keyword to get information about
art sales. Find this new database as well as other decorative
arts Internet resources on our website.
October 2008
Now available free on the Internet:
TransAtlantic
Slave Trade Database: Voyages is an expanded online version of the Trans-Atlantic
Slave Trade: A Database on CD-ROM [Cambridge UP, 1999] and 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. Links from our website can be found
on Internet
Resources, History or the Slavery
Webography.
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