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Primary Sources: Original Documents in Electronic Format
American Journeys: Eyewitness Accounts of Early American Exploration and Settlement, produced by the Wisconsin Historical Society, provides full text for over 150 books, manuscripts and travel narratives dating from 1000 to 1844.
American
Memory compiled by the Library of Congress National Digital Library,
is a gateway to primary source materials regarding the history of the
United States. Over nine million items are available through this project,
and the ability to keyword search across all collections is available.
Examples of specific collections follow. For broadsides and printed ephemera,
see An
American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and other Printed
Ephemera. For 19th century periodicals, see The
Nineteenth Century in Print: The Making of America in Books and Periodicals.
For over 100 pamphlets and books concerning the experiences of slaves
in the American Colonies and the United States, see Slaves
and the Courts: 1740-1860. The Library of Congress also has a number
of online exhibitions.
Colonial Connecticut
Records (1636-1776) provides access by date and volume to the public
records of the Colony of Connecticut. Full text and keyword searching
is not currently available. Use the Colonial Pathways link for access
to some selected materials by type.
Curtis Botanical Magazine (1787-1807) is an online version of the first 26 volumes of this journal, presented by the National Agricultural Library, ARS, USDA. This searchable site provides 1,048 plates and 1,456 pages of text.
Digital
Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture Electronic Facsimiles
is a collection of digitized texts from the University of Wisconsin Libraries
and the Chipstone Foundation. [BROWSE] [SEARCH] [ABOUT] [SUBJECT GUIDES]
Documenting
the American South from the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill is a collection of digitized primary source materials focusing on Southern history and culture.
Although not specifically concerned with the decorative arts, this site
is useful for the history and literature of the area.
Eighteenth-Century E-Texts is a listing of publicly available electronic texts, maintained by Prof. Jack Lynch of Rutgers University.
Encyclopédie
ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers
of Diderot and d'Alembert (1751-1772), the massive reference work of French
Enlightenment knowledge in 17 volumes of text and 11 volumes of plates,
is available in a searchable online version under the auspices of the
ARTFL Project. Twenty illustrations related to furniture, for example,
can be retrieved by setting the "type of entry" field to plate_legend
and searching for the "head word" MEUBLES. A companion project
in process hosts a collaborative
translation website.
Le
Garde-meuble, ancien et moderne (Furniture Repository, Ancient and
Modern) was a 19th-early 20th century French periodical consisting entirely of illustrations
of designs for furniture, window treatments and room settings. This online
document presents the Smithsonian Institution Libraries' nearly complete
set of the early (1841-1851) issues.
Godey's
Lady's Book Online provides access to five issues of this journal
from 1850; a University of Vermont site for Godey's
Lady's Book provides access to complete and partial issues from later
years. UW-Madison researchers have access to a licensed version (Godey's
Lady's Book 1830-55).
A
Grammar of Ornament by Owen Jones, London, 1856. This web page by
James Rowan, Boston College, provides excerpts from the 1856 text and
images of selected colorplates. See the online full text version we've created at http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/DLDecArts.GramOrnJones. A second text by Owen Jones, "Examples of Chinese Ornament," is at http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/DLDecArts.JonesChinOrn.
Historical Maps of Pennsylvania
presents maps of Pennsylvania from the 16th through the 20th centuries.
The quality of the digital images varies.
Internet Library
of Early Journals provides full text for large runs of 18th and 19th
century British journals including the Annual Register, The
Builder, Gentleman's Magazine and others.
Internet
Modern History Sourcebook, edited by Paul Halsall of Fordham University,
is a metasite for history documents. The site provides links to publicly available historical texts. The texts are not specifically
concerned with decorative arts but are useful for historical perspective
and context. The site is large and may be slow to load. Information on the Internet History Sourcebook Project is available at http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/.
Library
of Virginia has digitized more than 2 million
original documents, photographs and maps. The documents are accessible
through a variety of databases. One useful chronological summary is their "Best Sources for Virginia Research by Time Period."
Making of America
is a collaborative effort of the University of Michigan and Cornell University.
Included are over 50,000 articles from 19th century journals and over
10,000 books.
Plymouth
Colony Archive Project provides access to court records, colony laws,
17th century journals and memoirs, probate inventories, wills, town plans,
maps, and more.
Probate
Inventory Database, Gunston Hall Plantation provides transcriptions
of over 300 Virginia and Maryland probate inventories between 1740-1810.
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Secondary Sources: Journals and More
African-American
Archaeology Newsletter provides full text online articles for 1994-2000
issues.
American Art from the Smithsonian American Art Museum includes full text or
abstracts of the current issue, as well as indexes to past issues.
American
Antiquity is the principal journal for the Society of American Archaeology.
Tables of contents from 1995, with abstracts from 1999 to present, are
available.
American
Furniture, published by the Chipstone Foundation, provides full text
of articles for the years 1993-2000, and one article from each of the
2002-04 issues. Additional online access is planned.
American
Historical Review is the journal of the American Historical Association. Tables of contents and most recent issue are publicly available. Full text of back issues are available in JSTOR and/or to members of the History Cooperative.
Antiques
and the Arts Online is a newsletter for the arts and antiques market,
primarily concerned with American art and decorative art. Articles, book reviews, a
calendar of events and an on-line discussion forum are available through
the site.
Journal
of American History provides tables of contents and some articles abstracts for issues from 1999, with full text available to History Cooperative members.
Journal
of Material Culture contains the tables of contents and abstracts from 1996 to current issue.
Maine
Antique Digest is a print publication for the art and antiques market
with an online supplement. Access to some information may require registration
and/or a print subscription.
Pennsylvania Magazine of
History and Biography is a scholarly journal published quarterly by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Recent issues display tables of contents (or full text for society and History Cooperative members). Issues from 1907-2003 are publicly available in full text through the Penn State University Libraries' digital collections.
Resource Library is an online publication devoted to American representational
art and contains a section on American decorative arts.
Silver
Magazine provides browsable/searchable tables of contents for issues from 1968-present.
Studies
in the Decorative Arts from Bard
Graduate Center has tables of contents from 1993 to present.
William and Mary
Quarterly includes tables of contents from 1999-present. Full text book
reviews are available from January 2000 to present. Full text is available to History Cooperative members.
Winterthur
Portfolio: A Journal of American Material Culture
provides full text beginning with Volume 37 (2002). Tables
of contents from 1964 are also available (with links to full text content in JSTOR from UW-Madison library workstations).
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