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.