Pre-Photography Resources

Web Sites

• American Memory Project
  memory.loc.gov: Search by collection or the entire group of 7 million digitized records.

• Getty Research Institute
  www.getty.edu/research/library: The institute developed The Art and Architecture Thesaurus and The Union List of Artists’ Names. You can search its databases through an online catalog.

• Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
  www.loc.gov/rr/print: About half of the division’s holdings are accessible through its online catalog.

• Making of America
  moa.umdl.umich.edu: Search online digitized books and journals from the antebellum period through Reconstruction.

• National Portrait Gallery
  www.npg.si.edu: Search by subject of the painting and then look for biographical data. You can specify the artistic medium you’re looking for&#151painting, engraving, caricature and others.

• Otherdays.com
  www.otherdays.com: Use this site’s online library of digitized photographs from the Lawrence Collection (1870 to 1910) or its prints and drawings galleries to find scenes of Ireland.

Organizations and Archives

• American Antiquarian Society
  185 Salisbury St.
  Worcester, MA 01609
  (508) 755-5221
  www.americanantiquarian.org: The society has strong collections of 18th- and 19th-century engravings, which you can search online. Researchers must apply to use the collections.

• The New York Public Library
  Print Collection
  Humanities and Social Sciences Library
  Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street
  New York, NY 10018
  (212) 930-0817
  www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/print/print.html: Learn about the history of printing and search the library’s collection.

• Allen County Public Library
  900 Webster St.
  Box 2270
  Fort Wayne, IN 46801
  (260) 421-1200
  www.acpl.lib.in.us: Like most large research libraries, Allen County Public Library has a special department devoted to art research.

• American Printing History Association
  Box 4922
  Grand Central Station
  New York, NY 10163
  www.printinghistory.org:The American Printing History Association promotes the study of the history of printing.